I'm In Love.

Written by: Kristi/Jennie

A/N: This is the edited version of chapter two. After realizing I had some of the chapters upload wrong, I figured, Why not make an edited version? I'm working on all these chapters, and I'm soon going to be writing chapter 5. If I have some time...Eeee...

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So, I'm in love.

Ha.

If that's what you wanna call it, really. To me, it's basically just "sexual harassment from Haruko that I really don't mind." The cat ears are gone. Nothing...wierd has happened. But Ninnamori has been acting strange. I mean, it's not like I was even going out with her, but they act like they own me. Both of them.

"TA-KUUUN!" Came the shrill cry of Haruko from outside.

I looked out my window. "YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO YELL FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO HEAR! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!"

Haruko took off her helmet and patted an extra space on the seat of the Vespa. "COME HAVE A RIDE WITH ME!"

I shook my head. "WHY?!"

Haruko smiled. "CAUSE IF YOU DON'T YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A REALLY CUTE HEAD!"

I felt my forhead quickly. No hands, no cones or funnels, no ears, no nothing. I sighed. "FINE!!" I yelled, and jumped out of the window and climbed down the paneling of my house.

I held on to her waist and closed my eyes tight as she sped through the streets. "We are we going?!" I yelled through the sounds of the moterbike.

"To that place you like!!!"

"Where's that?!"

"You'll know when we get there..." she said quietly, and snickered. We finally reached the place she was talking about.

We sat beneath the underpass. "I brought you something.." Haruko whispered, and handed me a guitar, the same as her's, only green. "I thought you might want to learn, I saw you playing with mine last night."

I looked up and smiled. "Thankyou." I said, and she gazed at me with her bright eyes again.

"And I'm gonna be your 'coach'." she said softly, and put her arms around my waist and took my hands in hers, guiding them along the smooth strings. I let her guide my hands to where they were supposed to be, and listened to everything she said. "Maybe soon we can start a group..if you'd like." I looked up.

"Maybe.." I said quietly. It was getting late.

"Do you...want to go?" Haruko asked quietly, sensing my worriment.

"Yeah. Let's go." I said, and stood up. "Thankyou." I said. smiling softly at her, and Haruko shrugged.

"No problem," she said, and brushed her soft lips against mine before we rode home.

We rode home a bit more carefully than before. Was she doing this for me? She never really gave a damn until now. Maybe that's what love gives you.

I lay in bed, listening to Haruko shifting in her sleep on the top bunk. I got up, I couldn't sleep, I went to get some water, or something. I can't remember. I saw something, something moving. A sillhouete.

"Hello Ninnamori." I said, and she walked closer.

"I thought you were asleep." she said, and smiled. "With that...alien woman."

"That's a snide way to describe her." I replied.

"Well, that's basically what she is..." she said, her eyes looking me up and down. "How do you know she isn't taking advantage of you like last time? I'm disgusted you would even want to be in the same room with that whore."

I blinked. Ninnamori was never like this before.

"She is a whore, you know. I bet she has a boyfriend already, and she's just using you..."

"Shut up! It's not like that!" I cried.

"Don't yell, Naota. You'll wake her." she whispered.

"Then we'll talk outside." I said, and we walked out the door quietly.

We sat down in the same spot Haruko brought me, the underpass. "She really is taking adva-"

"I said shut up! She wouldn't do that again!"

Ninnamori smiled. "What makes you so sure...?" she asked, and inched closer to me. I couldn't tell her. She would be heart-broken. But...she was accusing Haruko of using me again.

"She loves me." I said, and looked at the grass beneath my legs.

"W-what?" Ninnamori was pale.

"She loves me." I said again, and felt stupid for telling her.

"But you don't love her, right...?" Ninnamori asked hopefully.

"Maybe. I'm not sure. But I guess I do."

I turned to look at Ninnamori...she was crying. "I can't believe you...you traitor!" she screamed.

"I am NOT a traitor!" I had stood up, and so did she.

"Then why is it that you pretended to love me too?"

"I NEVER DID! I'VE BEEN SO DAMN STUCK ON YOU TWO FOR AS LONG AS I'VE KNOWN YOU!"

"Then make up your mind!" Ninnamori shouted, and I couldn't answer.

"Why?" I asked quietly.

"Because..." she paused. "Because I love you, Naota! I really do!" Jesus fucking Christ, what is with all these wacko girls liking me?

"What?"

"I love you! Didn't you hear me! I do!" Tears were falling down Ninnamori's eyes. She looked down. "...I've been wanting to tell you that for god know's how long, but that damn Haruko woman got in the way..." She whispered. I was paler than I've ever been.

But I'm in love with Haruko... "It's too late! You had your chance when she was gone!" I yelled, and walked quickly back to my house.

Haruko was sitting on the top bunk, wide awake. "Where have you been, my Ta- Kun?"

"I went on a walk." Which wasn't a complete lie. She probably knew anyway, we were yelling at the top of our lungs.

"What's wrong, Ta-Kun?"

"Ninnamori..."

"That glasses girl?" she asked.

"Yep." I replied.

"I heard you down my the underpass. She loves you?"

"Yeah." I said quietly.

"You love her?" she asked, sounding worried.

"No. I wouldn't do that to you, Haruko."

"Ah, but you would if you loved her..."

"But...I don't love her."

"Okay." she said, unbelieving.

"Goodnight Haruko."

"Goodnight my Ta-Kun."

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How is the new version? x3;; It's probably just as bad, but I tried to make it a bit better, and easier to read, than before.