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Together at last

A month had passed since Hikari had woken up, luckily, she was fully recovered, and her friends were helping her to catch up with things at school. Also, Takeru and Hikari had decided to make their relationship official by telling their friends and by not being afraid to show "the world" how much they care and loved each other. They'd hold hands walking form one classroom to another, during lunchtime, coming to school or getting back home. They would also give each other short loving hugs or sweet kisses.

This would make some people jealous, especially one.

"If I can't have him, then no one can." Catherine told her friend Nicole.

"Actually, someone already has him." Nicole answered.

"No, stupid, I mean I'm going to separate that ugly girl from my precious Takeru." Catherine said.

"Do what you want, but don't drag me into this." Nicole stated firmly.

"I'm sorry, but aren't you forgetting about something, if it wasn't for me, no one would actually talk to you, and you know that if I want to I can make everyone hate you sooner than you can imagine."

"But… I…"

"It's your decision, help me or not."

"Ok, I'll help you." Nicole answered with a sad face.

"Great, here's the plan."

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"Light angel, the strangest thing just happened to me, a girl I don't even know came to me and asked me to help her with some homework, and no to show up because someone wanted to hurt me and you or something like that." Takeru said confused.

"That's strange, if you want to, we can go and to talk to her so she can explain better what's happening." Hikari replied.

"Yes, I would like that, thanks." He answered. "But there's a problem, I don't know her name."

"If you see her, will you be able to recognize her?" Hikari asked

"I think so." Takeru answered.

And with that, they went to look for the mysterious girl.

After some minutes they finally found her.

"Hey, you." Takeru exclaimed.

The girl turned to face him.

"Yes?" She said.

"I need to talk to you, what's with the thing about your homework and someone wanting to hurt me and Hikari?" Takeru asked.

"It's Catherine, I mean she so jealous, she wants to separate you guys, I didn't want to help, her but she made me, she told me that if I didn't she would make everyone hate me, so I agreed, but now, I know that I don't want to help her. "

"I see, thank you." Takeru told her.

"And about the homework, here's what happened."

-Flashback Begins-

"What you'll do is go and tell Takeru that you need some help with X homework." Catherine told Nicole.

"But I don't have a class with him." Nicole said

"Doesn't matter! Duhhh, you wont show up, I will." Catherine answered.

-Flashback ends-

"That's why you can't show up." The girl said.

"Thanks for all your help" Takeru told her. "What's your name?"

"Nicole." The girl answered.

"That's a pretty name." Hikari said. "Nicky, you know what, if you want to, you can hang out with us; I think the guys will like you."

"Thanks." Nicole answered smiling.

"No, thank you; you helped us even though, you don't know us, that shows what a great person you are, I don't think we'll be able to find a way to thank you." Hikari told her.

"Your friendship will just be enough." Nicole answered.

"My name is Hikari by the way."

"Meet us at lunchtime, we sit on the table next to the tree." Takeru said.

"Thank you guys see you then." Nicole said with a smile as she head to her classroom

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It was lunchtime and Nicole was looking for her new friends.
She searched for a while but she couldn't find them.
When she was about to give up, Hikari spotted her and wave at her to let her know where they were.
Nicole saw Hikari, smiled and head to where she was.

Once she got to the table. Takeru moved aside to make her some space.
Hikari introduced Nicole to Miyako, Ken and Daisuke. Then, Takeru told them what Nicole had done for them earlier that day.
For them, it was hard to believe that there was one person good enough to sacrifice herself for people that weren't her friends or that she didn't even knew. And the fact that she was Catherine's friend made it harder. But when they looked at her eyes, they realized that she really was a great person.

Nicole told them about not wanting to be friends with Catherine anymore. They told her they would help her, that maybe Catherine's friends would "hate" her, but that they never would, since she was a great person.

They told her that she could always hang out with them, and that if she wanted to stop being friends with Catherine, she had to stop being near her and hang out with them or other people, they promised her they wouldn't let anyone, especially Catherine hurt her.

Nicole was really happy; she would never imagine making some great new friends in such a short time.
But she was worried about Catherine's reaction when she realizes that "her precious Takeru" wasn't going to show up.

The day was over and everybody went back home.

Nicole's House...

Nicole sat on her bed after finishing her homework, tired due to school work, but happy that she had new friends.

The phone rang; Nicole picked it up fearing that the person calling was Catherine.
"Yes?" Nicole exclaimed.

"May I please speak to Nicole." The voice answered

"It's me, who is this?"

"It's me you traitor." Catherine shouted.

"Oh...H...hi...Cath..."Nicole said nervously.

"Give me a good explanation of why my precious Takeru didn't show up." Catherine told Nicole really mad." And give it to me right now!" she shouted.

"Well, that's simple; I didn't want to help you." Nicole answered gathering courage.

"Then, you made it clear; you don't want friends, do you?"
Nicole was about to tell her about her new friends, but she wanted Catherine to be shocked when she saw her with Takeru and Hikari.

"I prefer not having friends than having bad ones, like you and all the people you call "friends", besides they haven't done anything bad to anybody, they don't deserve what you want to do to them, and they deserve to be happy together.r" She told her instead, and actually, that was what she really thought.

"OK, screw you, I don't need your help or anyone else's, I can make their lives impossible and have him on my own." Catherine answered as she hang the phone.

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A new school day had started; Takeru and Hikari entered their Child Development class, and sat together as usual.

They waited for the teacher to enter.

The teacher got to the class late and apologized to the students, then, she left them a group work.

She picked the group members.

"The first group is Takeru, Hikari and Catherine." She said. "You have to do a research on how the family affects the children's behavior, studies, relations with other people, reactions to problems and ways of expressing."

"Great, now it's going to be easier to start my plan." Catherine thought to herself as she smiled to the teacher.

TBC

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