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Title: Mizu no Hana
Author: EC-Chan
Disclaimer: See first chapter…
AN: AHH! I'm so sorry! I'm horrible at updating when I say I'm gonna to… fires self please forgive me ;;
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"Hey Sano!" Nakatsu said when he was returning to his room from his conference with the principal. He jogged to catch him just as he was walking through his door. It was kind of obvious that Sano didn't want to talk to him, but that had never stopped Nakatsu before. "Guess what! The most amazing thing happened!"
"What?" Sano asked when it was obvious he wouldn't get his arm back until he played along.
"I got a scholarship today," Nakatsu said with a large grin on his face. "You'll never guess where I'll be next year."
"Where?" Sano asked.
"Berekley!" Nakatsu said with a laugh. "Isn't that rich! I get to see your girlfriend any time I want to and you're going to be stuck back here in Japan all by your lonesome self..."
"I'll be there too," Sano said, breaking into his friend's gloat session. "I'm doing an exchange program."
Nakatsu's jaw dropped and his arm went slack. Sano was free to move now and he simply walked through the door, ignoring Nakatsu completely now. So they would be going to Berekley together it seemed.
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Mizuki let herself fall backwards on her bed. The talk with her parents had been rather short and simple. She had told them she wanted to be friends with Sano no matter what and felt it just wouldn't happen unless she went to the same school…and now she was dating him. Nothing happened when they were living in the same room. In fact, they just started dating because he just found out she was a girl.
That was all they had let her explain before sending her to her room. They were definitely not pleased, but reassured that she handled herself well. She wondered if they were mostly just worried about what to do now (that was all that she could hope for she guessed…).
Thankfully she had just finished taking her exams before she left so she wouldn't have to worry about the rest of this year… She would just have to worry about where she was going to go to school for her senior year and then what to do about college…she had made such a mess she didn't blame her parents for being so upset.
"Oh…!" She practically screamed. "I forgot to call Julia!"
Diving for the phone, she picked it up and began to dial her number only to be interrupted by a knock on her door. Hurrying over, she opened it to reveal Gilbert looking sheepish.
"Welcome home," He said and gave her a hug. "You were discovered I take it?"
"Yeah," Mizuki said, looking at the floor. "But it's all right…it had to happen sometime."
"Are you and Sano…together?" He asked.
"Yeah, we are," Mizuki replied, wondering about the quick change of subject.
"Oh," he said, looking a bit upset but Mizuki couldn't guess why. "I wish you both luck then… Sorry I didn't stop your brother from telling your parents about what was actually going on…"
"That's fine," Mizuki said. "I was going to tell them anyway…I heard you stood up for me. Thank you very much." She bowed, not thinking, and then realized what she did and laughed. "I guess I got very used to Japan…"
"Yeah…well…I'll see you tomorrow probably," Gilbert said and left.
Mizuki wondered at how awkward that conversation had been as she watched Gilbert walk away. Usually Gilbert was in so much control over everything it was strange… Maybe he was just stressed out about something?
She picked up the phone she had just discarded on the bed and dialed up Julia.
"Hello is this Julia?" Mizuki asked when someone picked up. "Hey! What are you up to?"
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AN: Yeah, sorry about another short chapter after a long wait . ;;; I hope I can get better at this…
On another note… Thanks for all of the reviews ;;
tsumesgirl05- I'm glad you're enjoying the story. I didn't know that about boarding schools, I guess I should have just assumed or remembered ;; But thanks for catching my mistake!
yui/alex- u deserve a cookie, because you def just thought of what I was going to do with the plot of this story ;p… I guess it was kind of obvious, hm? Especially since I said I don't want an uncomplicated plot for this story XDD… But I'll work on it. I'm sorry that these chapters are so short… since I'm not updating as much as I want I may make them longer, but I dunno…
Sakura A. Moon- I'm glad you're enjoying this story ;; Sorry about the late update . ; and I hope if continues to be up to your expectations ;p
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