This is my longest story ever! It beats "Back Home" by 1 chapter so far. 

Disclaimer- And I'm gonna skip this part. I have run out of creative ways to say that I don't own Hana-Kimi.

Mikey awoke seeing a blur of a person run right out the door. It took him a brief second to register his surroundings. It took him another second to register that it was not Ann sleeping on top of him on the couch.

He almost jumped when he realized it was Mizuki. 'We must have fallen asleep. No big deal.' He thought even as his cheeks filled with a bright red color. 'I mean it's not like we did anything wrong. We both still have out cloths on and I know I wasn't drunk last night…'

Mizuki awoke without him even noticing. She didn't seem a bit embarrassed about there positioning and didn't seem to even care. She smiled up at him. "Good morning." She quietly whispered.

"Oh. M-M-Morning." He managed to stutter. She didn't even notice. "You're really red Mikey. Is something wrong?" she asked oblivious. He shook his head, not trusting his voice at the moment.

She took his hands that were pinned to his side and wrapped them around her. She placed on hand around her waist and the other on her ass. She buried her head into his chest not looking at his even redder face.

"You have a great voice. How come I've never heard you sing before last night?" he moved his hands from where she had put them and back to his sides. She just sighed. "I used to want to be a singer. I went to audition to be in a band once. They liked my voice when I sang but not so much when I spoke. They said they needed someone who could talk like they could sing. I quit singing then."

'Ann was with me for the audition. She wanted to beat all of those guys for what they said. I remember holding her back and ten going home. I sang her to sleep that night for the last time. And now I just sang Mizuki to sleep. I feel like I've just cheated on Ann.'

It was the worst feeling in the pit of his stomach. He tried to push it away. "C-can you please get off of me?" he asked feeling a bit nervous again. (He only stutters when he is embarrassed or nervous just to let you know.)

She pouted looking him in the face again. "Do you like me Mikey?" her question caught him off guard. 'Like? No I don't like you. I think I love you.' "Of course, you're a great friend." She shook her head. "You know the way that I mean. Do you like me the way you like Ann? I'm talking about the way that makes that bulge in your pants."

'Never. I could never compare the two of you!' "Mizuki, please get off of me." He said sternly. He didn't like her questions. She obeyed. He stood up as she sat back down on the couch.

"Aren't you going to answer my question?" she asked getting a little bit annoyed. "You know what you just asked was way out of line. Mizuki, you have nor right to ask me things like that. Last night you were hurt so I tried to help you. If you think that acting like some dumb slut is a way to repay me, you can just forget that I ever tried to be nice to you in the first place."

She seemed a little shocked but then just nodded. "I have a problem with going too far or not going at all." She confessed. 'Ever since Sano raped me I've been doing this. It's not fair. I'm the one who always gets hurt because of it.'

"Look, I'm sorry but me and Ann, there's something between us that I could never have with anyone else. She's been hurt before, she's been hurt a lot and still she has taken care of me for the longest time. There's a love between us that doesn't exist anywhere else. We're the ones who were hurt and found comfort with each other."

Mizuki could only stare for a moment. She wasn't used to her friend being so serious. "I've been hurt too." She started almost crying again. "How come there's no one there for me?" she asked him almost pathetically.

"He's out there Mize. Don't worry." He sat down next to her. They both sat there for a few minuets in silence. "So, who was that guy from yesterday?" he finally asked breaking the silence.

A grim smile appeared on her face. "He used to be my friend. It was a long time ago. I guess that when I left that day and ended up here I must have hurt him. He ran away from me this time. I guess it's hard to get a taste of your own medicine."

Mikey still didn't understand something. "But I don't get it. Why did you leave in the first place?" 'You knew that someone was going o ask you this sooner or later.' she told herself. 'Maybe it's finally time to confess all the wrongs I have done and all the wrongs done against me.'

She sighed. "It's a long story." He smiled. "I have the time. Cho and Ann are running the bar today." "Well there are some things about me that you might find hard to believe." She told him warningly. "Try me." He teased. 'You're asking for it tough guy.' She thought smirking to herself.

"Well it all when high school began. That's when I came here from America. But I didn't come to Japan as the girl you see now. In order to be with the guy I had a major crush on I pretended to be a boy and go to his all boy school." She looked to see his response but he wasn't showing any emotions on his face. He was holding it all in until the very end.

"Well me and my crush turned out to be roommates if you can believe me luck. I soon fell in love with him because that's what I do. I fall in love. But I was so convinced we couldn't be together because he didn't know I was a girl. Well about a year ago he was in a high jumping competition and his biggest adversary was attacked in the parking lot.

"That was the guy from yesterday. My crush won the competition as my friend was in the hospital being treated. We were al supposed to go celebrate but I thought I should visit my friend first. To make sure he was okay, you know? Well I ended up sneaking him out of the hospital.

"We went our separate ways and I went to the bar where my crush was celebrating. He's not a good drinker. Just the tiniest sip of alcohol and he's drunk. Well he was really drunk by the time I got there. He had said some things to my other friend to make him want to go home early and it was only me and him."

Mikey could tell some thing bad was going to happen. But this was Mizuki's story he had to listen until she was done. No matter how horrible the story gets.

"He told me that he knew I was a girl and carried me back to the dorm. He was strong, I couldn't fight him. He raped me and then passed out." She shivered. The last time she had told her story was so long ago and she had never said it in such detail as she was now.

"A hell of a first time." she joked but her friend missed the humor. I ran to my friend who was here last night. He took care of me until the next morning while I ran away from him." "Is that while you came here?" Mikey asked speaking compassionately.

She shook her head. "No I actually ended up in some prostitute house." She read his face and laughed. "Don worry no one touched me. I was asleep most of the time until two of my friends came to get me. I still don't know how they found me. I was just too beat to care.

"They got me out of there and then I remember going back to my old school. My friend who my crush had hurt with his words led me into his dorm room. He told me I could stay with him while his roommate stayed with my crush. It was working out for me. My crush hadn't been there at all at first. Then I learned that he was into the hospital. I had to go visit him. I guess that's where I went wrong.

"I blamed the friend who was here last night for everything that happened. I asked my crush to make love to me the right way. He couldn't. I got mad and ran way. The rest I think you know." He nodded.

"You came here and Mia gave you a job and the apartment upstairs." She nodded. Talking about it had actually helped her unlike a year of trying to forget what had happened. "When I saw him last night I wanted him to know it was me and that I was here. When he finally recognized me he just left. I don't really blame him."

"You're too hard on yourself. Things happen for a reason. Everything that you do has a master plan behind it. Do you think you can imagine this past year try8ing to get through classes and keep away from your rapist?"

She shook her head. "I guess you guys are a good thing that happened from a bad thing." She sighed. "I think that it's time I go now. I need to shower and stuff." She nodded. "Yeah me too." They both said there goodbyes and parted at the door.

Cho greeted them both. Mikey went straight to leave but Mizuki stayed behind for a little. "So where's Mia and Ann?" she asked sitting on a stool. "Mia had other things to do and Ann just ran out of here for no reason. She said she was going to get the key to the bar but then she just ran out of here with no explanation. She did leave the key behind though."

'That's weird.' Mizuki thought. "I wonder why she ran away."

Someone suggested that Mizuki and Ann fight. It would be a funny concept but alas I think not. Please review! And for those two of you that did I thank you. But for the rest, if there are any others, I am angry with. Humph!