DISCLAIMER: I do not own Marmalade Boy, but if any new characters pop up, they're mine. (AN)= AUTHOR'S NOTE

Together Forever

Chapter 2: Back Home

Miki sat at her desk and stared out the window. They had arrived back home yesterday and Miki couldn't get the trip to Hawaii out of her mind. She blushed at the memory of how Yuu had acted with her. He would use any excuse to touch her: touching her shoulder, playing in her hair, and at any available moment he would lean over and kiss her. Since that night in Kyoto they both agreed to wait for other things until after the wedding. Though in Hawaii they had wanted to-

"Miki! Miki," a hand waved in front of her face. She looked up at her best friend Ginta.

"What," she said, her face flushing.

"Class is over, everybody's gone but us." Ginta peered at her face closely and grinned, "You're blushing Koshikawa! You were daydreaming about Yuu and your romantic escapade last week." When Miki just got redder he continued, "During the whole classtime you were fantasizing about him."

Miki grabbed her stuff up, "I was not thinking about him."

"Then who were you thinking about? I thought Yuu was the only one for you." Ginta picked up her books and started for the door. "If I'm late for practice I'm gonna tell Yuu you were thinking about another man."

"I was thinking about Yuu," Miki exclaimed.

"I knew that, Miki. You're just so easy to tease," Ginta laughed.
Does everybody have to make fun of me, Miki thought warily. Then she smiled, "If you tell Yuu that, I'll tell Arimi you only want to practice with the women's tennis team because of the short skirts."

Ginta looked stunted, then he shrugged his shoulders confidently, "She'll never believe you. The girl team just plays better. She knows I only have eyes for her-"

His next words were cut off when the cheerleading team went by. He stood there in a daze until they went around the corner.

Miki giggled, "Does the cheerleading team count?"

Ginta blushed, "I wasn't staring I just noticed their uniform looks nicer than ours, besides their skirts are longer."

"I knew you came to see us practice in our skirts," Miki declared laughing.

After realizing what he said Ginta started laughing with her. Miki looked up at him and thought, 'I'm glad I'm only friends with Ginta. I can't believe I was in love with him once, because I could never break a friendship like this.'

Out loud she said, "Yuu's visiting me this weekend. How about me and Yuu double dating with you and Arimi."

Ginta looked embarrassed again. "I don't know. Arimi said she wanted to do something special this week." Everyone knew how bossy Arimi was.

"This is special. My Yuu's coming back." She hugged her books to his chest and she got starry eyed. "He got an A on his architectural model, and I'm so happy for him."

"You're always happy Miki, that's why everybody loves you. No matter what happens you're happy."

"Thank you Ginta," Miki beamed.

"I guess you have to be because you're so ugly." Ginta laughed and ran out of the way of Miki's books.

Once outside he grabbed her arm, "Come on, I don't want to be late. Let's run to the court."

"Okay." Then both of them took off.

Ginta smiled, ' I don't think Miki knows how much I appreciate her. If she didn't like Yuu, Arimi and I would never have gotten together. I will always be grateful for that.'

"I bet I can beat you to the locker room," Ginta shouted.

"Hmph," Miki replied. "Remember in high school I ran the boys marathon."

"But you passed out."

"That was different. I ran into a pole," Miki remembered that humiliating experience.

"That's even worse."

"I was thinking about Yuu."

"Everytime you think about him, you run into trouble."

As their banter continued Ginta and Miki thought again, 'I would never change this friendship for the world.'

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I am sooo sorry It took me so long to update. I just moved recently and finally got my internet back up. So now I'm updating all my due chapters. All my other chapters will be up soon. And thank you all for the reviews. I hope you enjoyed this chapter too.