madoka-san: everyone! thanks for the reviews! i really appreciate it! üü
mikan: wow, you've gone a long way now!
madoka-san: yeah I did! but I'm kinda stuck in this chapter. i had a hard time writing it. i was concentrating on how this would end… and hotaru looked more of evil than sadistic. i think I overdid it this time…
mikan: Hotaru was always mean to me! But I still love her!
madoka-san: I thought you didn't understand what love was!
mikan: I don't, if it's the 'love' for boys thing. I can't understand why the others 'love' or like Natsume. I think it's because he's just a top student.
madoka-san: why only Natsume? There's Ruka. Oh, I get it. you think there are other qualities that make you like Natsume!
mikan: what? Of course not!
natsume: so you hate me little girl?
mikan: n-natsume? No I don't! no! I don't like you either! Ah! I'm getting confused! Stop it!
madoka-san: I do not own gakuen alice… üü…
Script
"Here," Hotaru said, handing Mikan the script for their movie. It already has the big heading Script on the top page, though Mikan didn't seem to notice. Hotaru was also giving their other two group mates the same thing when Mikan suddenly asked, "What's this Hotaru?" She was waving the two pieces of papers near Hotaru's face.
"Don't you know how to read little girl?" asked an annoyed Natsume.
"It's a script you idiot," Hotaru said, uncaringly.
"Oh," she said, finally seeing the top portion.
"Idiot," Natsume muttered under his breath.
"Pervert," Mikan mumbled to herself.
While skimming through the lines of their short script, he got rather attracted to a part that seemed to be rather intriguing.
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RUKA: (confess his love for MIKAN)
MIKAN: (adlib)
NATSUME: (enter the scene and adlib)
RUKA: (explains the situation to NATSUME)
NATSUME: (confess love for MIKAN adlib)
MIKAN: (adlib)
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'Adlib,' Natsume thought, 'She makes it look like she wants Polka-dots to choose between Ruka and I.'
"Hotaru… there must be some mistake," Mikan said after reading the script and sticking out her tongue to Natsume, proving that she can read. "It doesn't say what I will do or what my line is!"
"You're such an idiot. It's all there. Did you even read the note on the first page?" Hotaru asked. Mikan just flipped the page and read:
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TO THE IDIOT (THIS MEANS YOU MIKAN): ADLIB MEANS YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE YOUR OWN LINES.
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Having been offended, she apologized to Hotaru.
"Sorry for being an idiot! But that still doesn't help! And why am I the only one who's got to make up my lines?" Mikan inquires.
"Natsume also has to adlib his lines."
'Wait, what did she say?' Natsume asked himself. He glanced at Ruka who seemed to be rather interested in his bunnythan his script.
'Something's wrong here.' He looked back at his script, though trying to look uninterested, and realized what Mikan had just pointed out. 'So, the idiot's not that much of an idiot after all.'
'I sense a connivance here,' he thought, bringing out his manga and pretended to read.
'Could they have noticed that I like her or is her best friend helping Ruka to win Mikan?'
'Since when have you been in a competition with Ruka? You're jealous huh?'
'It's you again! Shut up! I'm trying to think here!'
'You're thinking? That's a first! You usually act before you think!'
'Shut up!'
'I can't! You're the one who's making yourself confused!' He placed his feet on his desk to relieve himself of his confusion.
"We'll all go to Central Town tomorrow for this shooting," Hotaru said. "Right now I'll explain to you the parts. I want it all to look real so didn't put any lines for you to memorize, but that it still a script. And besides, I'm sure Mikan will find it hard to memorize any line off that script—"
"Thanks for your help, Hotaru," Mikan said sarcastically, still eyeing the 'Script'.
"Thank you Mikan. Anyway, it will be like this. Ruka and Mikan will be at the scene first. Ruka, you will be confessing your love to Mikan, and if you don't—" Hotaru said immediately, before Ruka had the chance to complain, "—you'll be hearing your lovely singing voice while in the shower when we play the movie. Next, Mikan, I want you to choose whether you're going for Natsume or Ruka. Natsume, you're Ruka's rival so your actions should depend on Mikan's choice—"
'You make it sound so easy,' Natsume thought.
"—and it's that simple," said Hotaru, ending her speech.
"No it's not!"
"Mikan, what's your problem now?" Hotaru asks.
"Can't I choose no one instead?"
"Mikan, this is just a movie. It's all FAKE. If you like either one of them and you think that you're going to get yourself busted because of this movie then don't think like that," Hotaru said, taking her seat, "and yes, you CAN'T choose no one."
"No, it's not that I like either one of them," Mikan said, finally getting a hold of herself.
'So, she doesn't like either one of us, eh?" Natsume said to himself.
"It's just that… this movie… it's…"
"It's?" Hotaru asked coolly.
"Well, it think it's about love and… well…" she continued looking rather serious and all.
"And?"
"I… uh…" she closed her eyes and continued, "I don't really understand this love thing it's all confusing so I don't really know how to make my acting look real," Mikan finished, finally smiling and placed her hand at the back of her head.
"Idiot," whispered Hotaru, "If you don't, then who do you prefer?"
"Well, I…" she said, glancing at the two boys, "I like Ruka."
'She said what!' Ruka asked himself, immediately looking at Mikan in disbelief, flushing.
'Oh wait, did I just say that!' she thought, finally realizing what she had just said.
'She likes who!' Natsume's eyes shot wide open but thankfully to the manga, his face was hidden.
"No, wait!" Mikan instantly said after seeing Ruka's reaction. "You got it all wrong! I like Ruka better because Natsume always teases me! But I'm not saying I hate Natsume. No! Wait! That didn't come out right either! Ah! It's making me all confused!" she yelled, hitting her head.
"Idiot." Natsume stood up and walked away.
"Natsume, where are you going?" Ruka asked.
"Somewhere quiet. I can't think with all this noise."
"I'll—" Ruka stood up and motioned to follow his friend, but was cut off.
"Don't come with me," Natsume said closing the door behind him. Ruka sighed and thought, 'Hotaru, your plan might better work. You're costing me my friendship with Natsume…'
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Last night…
"We're not doing anything tomorrow," Hotaru told him. "I just need to see their reaction when they see my script."
"Hotaru, what are you planning now? I need to know coz I really don't want to lose my friendship with Natsume," Ruka replied, desperate to know what Hotaru's plan would be. He didn't want to be hated by Natsume. But Mikan would probably be the only one to make Natsume happy, so he went along with Hotaru's idea.
"You won't lose it, if you go along my plan. Trust me. I want to make Mikan as happy as I can because she's my friend and she's done a lot of things for me without asking for anything with return, and I know you want to do the same." To Ruka, that sounded weird, seeing as Hotaru always tortured her. But of course, Hotaru wasn't the type who shows her affection the same way as Mikan does.
"Phase two is my part. I've already explained phase three to you," Hotaru continued.
"But Hotaru, it won't be that easy…"
"If you don't—"
"I know, I know…" Ruka sighed. "You'll sell another set of those cards with pictures of me dancing with the Giant Piyo."
"I was going for Snow White since the people liked the performance, but I guess your plan is better anyway."
"What! No! I wasn't saying that—"
"Do Phase three on the day after tomorrow, and I won't do either of them."
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Ruka heaved another sigh and said, "Hotaru, you are a mad genius."
"Genius I can accept, but mad, that's something else," Hotaru said, hearing what Ruka had just uttered, "but I think I can accept that as a compliment."
madoka-san: it didn't turn out good. But I'll be updating this chapter… and I will also add the others… I hope you can understand me! Wah…I'm getting confused again… I need help… suggestions anyone?… I'm open for them… üü
oh no… I don't want to change the personalities of the characters! I want mikan to be still naïve mikan, hotaru to be ever so sadistic Hotaru, Ruka to be, well, the caring friend of Natsume and Natsume to be the same old stubborn Natsume. I think I should study the characters more… nyahahaha… I'm confused! Wahaha… the heat is getting into my brain… if I have any… nyahahaha… I'm going nuts again… I need to go to a psychiatrist…
for the reviews, again, thanks! üüü
oh yeah, thanks for Jessica for pointing the compliment-complement thing out.