"You're the what?" Yukari said the next day. The pair was sitting out on the school lawn eating their lunch as they chatted together about the upcoming play.

"I'm the one that tells the actors what their line is if they forget it during the performance, but of course I'm backstage," Hitomi responded.

"Oh. You should have told me that the first time around."

"Sorry."

"It's okay. Anyway you and I should have been switched."

"What do you mean?"

"Well I was in the drama room the other day and I sort of skimmed through the play. Turns out my character, Rosaline, falls for Thomas, who as you know, is played by Van."

"So why should we have switched?" Hitomi asked with confusion. Yukari looked at her with a half annoyed face.

"Don't play stupid with me Hitomi. This whole entire school knows that you two have feelings for each other."

"What?" Hitomi said with a surprised expression. Then she blushed madly and lowered her face in embarrassment.

"Don't tell me you didn't know that he likes you?"

"Well . . .," Hitomi began, "It's not that I . . . I already have a boyfriend. So I can't like Van."

"You what?" Yukari said with a look of utter disbelief, "Hitomi, don't tell me you did something really stupid."

"All right then, I won't tell you," she said turning away from her friend.

"Argh. Who is it? Who is the lucky guy?" Yukari asked with a slightly annoyed face.

"Alan. Alan Schezar."

"The senior? When did you two even meet? I could have sworn that he never met you."

"It was during dance class. He saw me dancing and then the next thing I knew I was . . . going out with him." Yukari looked at Hitomi as she her cheeks slightly colored with the idea that the most popular and most handsome boy in school would ask her out on a date.

"Yeah well, I wish you two the happiest relationship," Yukari said sarcastically taking a bite out of her sandwich, "Just be careful on your dates with him."

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean," Yukari said looking at her friend in confusion then realization, "Oh. Well, just . . . just go talk to his ex. After all she is your dance captain." Yukari got up from hearing the bell ring in the distance. She packed her stuff away and waved to Hitomi walking away before Hitomi even got up from the grass. Hitomi sat for a while not caring whether or not she was late to class. 'He likes me? No. Yukari must be joking. Yeah that's it, she was just kidding,' Hitomi said to herself. Getting up and packing her stuff, she suddenly stood up with a dawn of realization. 'The whole school knows?' Hitomi thought with a nervous look on her face. She snapped back into reality and headed for the auditorium.

When she reached the auditorium, she couldn't hear any loud noises or people chattering loudly. Wondering why there was no noise, she opened the door quietly and stepped inside. She looked around the empty auditorium and noticed a certain boy with messy raven black hair moving and talking to himself on stage while staring down at a few papers in his hands. She leaned against the wall closest to the door, where he couldn't see her, and watched him avidly.

"Rosaline. The oh so fair Rosaline. Will not thou accept the love I give unto thee?" Van said with feeling, "Would thou take my love even when another courts thee? Surely you must know that my heart, body, and soul will be laid upon your doorstep willingly if thou requests it." By the time he spoke that line, he looked up with a glimmer of hope in his dark penetrating eyes. Then he turned but then did a double-take and smiled a half-smile at Hitomi. Hitomi realizing that she had been caught began walking towards the stage towards Van.

"Hey," Van said as he sat down at the very edge of the stage.

"Hey yourself," Hitomi responded as she stood in front of where he sat.

"I haven't seen you in a while. Where've you been?"

"Oh, here and there."

"You never told me what part you play."

"I'm the one that tells people their lines if they forget it on stage."

"Oh. Hey that's a very important part. Are you sure you can handle that? I mean I'm having trouble just memorizing my lines."

"Haha. Very funny. You don't need to worry. You're a great actor."

"Really? I thought so. I mean I thought that I could be up at the top like Brad Pitt or something," he said with a laugh. His laugh was so intoxicating to Hitomi. She wanted to hear him laugh some more and yet she feared that she would never tire from hearing it. She looked down in indignity. How could she stand here and think about Van when she was already with Allen? Maybe she could break it off with Allen and tell him that it just wouldn't have worked out anyway. Van's laughter died away and he looked at her with curiosity. He couldn't help but notice how quiet and beautiful she was. Even if it was just a crush, he felt as though she was the one. It was driving him crazy to watch her and resist the temptation of holding her in his arms and never letting go. Just as Hitomi was about to look up Van leaned a little closer to her, and their faces met. Their eyes were so focused on one another that nothing seemed to bother them. Hitomi tried to break the gaze, but she realized that is was harder than it seemed. For Van, it was as if time itself had stopped just for them to look deeply into the other's eyes. Hitomi, on the other hand, was beginning to feel faint and not because of her sickness, but she felt like she had a thousand butterflies flying around within her.

"Hey Van? I want you to try this on for size," a girl said while coming out from backstage, looking from the garment she was holding to the pair staring at each other's eyes. She watched them for a moment and smiled a sly smile.

"What? Am I not that important that you have to stare at your girlfriend's eyes a little bit longer?" she commented. Suddenly Van turned and looked at the girl with a surprise and Hitomi looked down as her cheeks flushed red.

"What did you say?" Van asked still staring at her with disbelief.

"Don't look at me like that. As if you didn't hear me," the girl said with an annoyed expression.

"She's . . . not my girlfriend . . .," Van said with an awkward tone.

"Huh? You're not . . .," she began as she saw both Van and Hitomi shake their heads side to side in a very quick manner, "Oh. Sorry. You two just looked so . . . never mind." And with that she let out a long sigh. For a few moments, not one of the three spoke because they were all thinking about what had just happened.

"So . . you wanted me to try something on?" Van said breaking the uncomfortable atmosphere. The girl snapped back into reality, away from her thoughts, and nodded with a smile.

"Yeah," she said turning back around, "Oh and Van? Can you please be the least bit courteous and use my name. It's Angie. A-N-G-I-E. Angie."

"Okay Angie," he replied with a laugh, "Next time I'll try harder to use it." She disappeared backstage and once more, Van and Hitomi were left alone. After that little incident, Hitomi began to feel a little uncomfortable being alone with Van.

"So . . . I'm going to go try on my costume," Van said trying to think of something else to say.

"Yeah, okay," Hitomi replied not looking up once. Van got up from the edge of the stage and headed toward the back to try on his costume. Just as he was doing this, the doors to the theater opened and some familiar faces came in. Hitomi turned to put her stuff down when she noticed someone walking towards her.

"Hey Hitomi," Allen said with a smile. He walked towards her and embraced her into his arms. Letting go of her, Hitomi gave him a smile.

"Where were you?" she asked.

"I was helping your English teacher get things going. Where were you?" Allen asked in return.

"Here. Doing nothing."

"I wish that we could spend more time together, but I just have so many things to do for school and such that I just can't seem to make room for you. I feel like such a jerk when I say things like these."

"That's okay," Hitomi said with a smile. Hitomi looked back at the stage. For some odd reason her heart longed for that enchanted moment that she had spent staring into Van's eyes. She wanted him to hold her and kiss her and tell her that she was the only one in the world for him. She looked back at Allen, who was smiling down at her, and tried to picture him holding her and kissing her, but she could not. She could only think of Van. 'I'm mentally cheating on Allen. What a great person I am. But I just can't stop thinking about him. No Hitomi! You have to forget him. You only have six months to live anyway.'

"Hitomi. Look at me," Van said with a smile while walking onto front stage. Hitomi turned to look and saw Van in puffy pants and a big white collar with a very tight shirt on. Hitomi tried to be modest but she couldn't help but to laugh. She had laughed for the first time in long while and the person who managed to make her laugh was none other than Van. Allen looked at her with a certain curiosity and Van was laughing on stage. Hitomi's laughter was broken when her cell phone rang. She went to the back of the auditorium to talk in private when for the first time Van noticed that Allen was in the auditorium as well. Van jumped down from the stage and walked towards the blonde haired boy.

"You must be Van, right?" Allen asked.

"Yeah. You're Allen right?" Van asked in return. Allen gave him a nod and the two shook hands. "So, you're the one that I have to fight in order to win over the girl I love."

"What?" Allen asked with a sort of small shock. Then Allen realized that Van was talking about the play.

"Oh, you were talking about the play. At first I thought you were talking about reality and if you were then it would have gotten to be a serious problem."

"What do you mean serious problem? I highly doubt that you and I both have feelings for the same girl," Van said with a casual laugh.

"You're right, we probably don't have feelings for the same girl. All I know is that I already fell in love with one and our relationship is just starting to begin."

"Who's the girl?" Van asked as Hitomi walked towards them.

"It's . . .," Allen began.

A/N: omg . . . . I think that it's been like a thousand years since I updated on this story, but thank god that I finally stopped being a lazy ass and decided to get up and update the story. Yes I was procrastinating . . . no more excuses . . . I think I've already used so many of them up that I can't use anymore. Haha. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and I kind of left it with a sort of cliffy. I'm so evil. ( don't you just want to know how Van will react when he finally finds out that hitomi is actually allen's gf?? Truthfully my heart is being wrenched into a thousand tiny pieces because I'm writing about how allen and hitomi are together for the moment . . . V/H forever for me . . . so until next time laterz!!!