The best things are unseen.
Chapter three
Authors note: It's been a while since I last updated anything, so I apologize gravely for not updating sooner! I've been having writers block lately, and the DSL cable in my neighborhood was stolen, so the supplier had to replace it. Resulting in no internet for an entire week! Ugh… Well I hope you enjoy this chapter… and again, sorry for updating late! –Bows continuously-
Disclaimer: If I were to own Gakuen Alice, I wouldn't be sitting in front of my computer writing fanfictions right? So there. (I don't own it, blah)
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Mikan's POV
After that unusual conversation with Natsume, I headed back to the dorms to do the homework I missed. Ugh… It makes me shiver thinking about the piles of homework I need to catch up on. I hope Hotaru can help me when she gets back!
I slowly went up the staircase; suddenly I bumped into Sumire. –Sigh- Just Great…
"Hey Mikan! Watch where you're going! Can't you even see me?" Sumire screamed at me, waving her clutched fist angrily in front of my face.
"Not for long…" I whispered quietly to myself.
"Hmm?" She raised her right eyebrow in confusion. Ugh! I should really think before I say anything!
"What was that?" She added in her suspicion.
"Oh nothing, Really!" I said, sweating a bit in nervousness. "Please, anybody but Sumire!" I thought. She'll pretty much tell everyone if I told her I was going to be blind! And what will happen to me by then? I'll be the center of pity… Mikan, the blind single-star student! I can't let that happen!
"What are you hiding Sakura?"
That question brought shivers up my spine. Sumire's pretty good at finding out secrets, and that was always a bad fact for me since I'm no good in hiding them. For once, why can't she stick her brown nose somewhere else and leave me alone!
"NOTHING!" I shouted, running away from her as fast as I can.
She looked back at me with her face still in that confused state. As I run to my dorm room, I could hear her say proudly:
"Mikan is definitely hiding something… I must find out what it is!"
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I slammed my door and breathed out a relieved sigh. I looked around for the piles of homework Hotaru said the teachers left for me. I spotted a yellow folder with a "homework" sign printed on it. I went closer and picked it up.
"Let's see what the teachers have in store for me!" I thought to myself, as I opened the folder slowly.
Ok, a few math problems, a few history quiz questions, an essay paper for science and a musical pattern for me to play on the flute. Hey! This actually looks accomplishable!
I dressed up in my night clothes and opened my cabinet's drawer to get my pens. Then suddenly, a thought popped up my head. "How will I know which drawers are which when I'm blind?" Since I had around 6 drawers: 2 for my clothes, 1 for my undies, 1 for my art supplies, 1 for all my letters and 1 for my knick-knacks… It would be hard differentiating each of them when I'm blind.
I looked in my art supplies drawer, and I found some tape and 6 different kinds of fabric. (I got the fabric from a play Mr.Narumi held before) …Hey! I have an idea!
I cut out small squares of each kind of fabric, and then I taped one square to one drawer, and did the same for the rest.
Hey… There are a lot of similar things her that I'd have trouble differentiating… Why not put squares in each of them as well!
Ok, let me see if I remember it correctly. Fuzzy for the undies drawer and switches, Rough for the clothes drawer and window handles, Silky for the art materials drawer and the shampoo bottles… no… The Fuzzy one's for the art materials drawer and the Smooth one's for the letters drawer… No! That's not right! UGGGH! I can't figure it out!
I rubbed my head vigorously out of confusion. This can't be right! Oh, what should I do!
Suddenly, Hotaru came in. Oh no! I haven't done my homework yet!
"What is all the racket about? Some girls were complaining about the noise coming from your room, even I heard it as well"
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Hotaru's POV
That idiot! Always making pointless noise in the middle of the night! Can't she learn to keep her mouth shut even this once?
"Sorry Hotaru! I was just upset about not remembering some things!"
Wait a minute, why is her entire room plastered with fabric cut outs? Has she gone off the deep end? Oh Mikan…
"What did you do to your room?" I said, as I looked around the area.
"It's… It's…" She nervously said, fiddling with her nightgown's frills.
-Sigh- I wish she'd just give me a straight answer. I went closer to her and helped her up from the floor. I suddenly recalled she had just been released from the clinic today… Maybe she was still sick…
It was pretty obvious that she couldn't think of anything at the moment.
Mikan… of all girls was for me, the easiest ever to figure out. One, because she's my best friend; and two, because she's very simple-minded and even a monkey could find out what she was thinking.
Sadly… Right now, she really made it hard for me to see why she had done this.
"I thought… They would look… Pretty?" She said, hiding the rolls of fabric under her bed with her feet, hoping I wouldn't see it.
"-sigh- You're not very good at lying…"
"I know…"
"Tell me what's going on, I have a right to know."
"I know…"
Hehehe… I love moments like this…
"You see Hotaru…"
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Mikan's POV
This was it… I HAD to tell her… She wanted to know…
My eyes were starting to fill up with tears… I swallowed the lump in my throat, forcing myself not to cry… It didn't work.
I thought hard in my head, how I could tell her in a soft way? ; A way that…I wouldn't make her pity me.
"I… I Have a…"
"Get on with it, Idiot"
I could sense, Hotaru getting ready to smack me with her baka-gun. Better make this quick!
"Di…Di…" ARGH! Why can't I just spit it out!
"I have a disease… it's going to make me blind in a week, so I had to put indicators on things I'd get confused over"
There. I said it. It was a straight, emotionless sentence. But those words pierced right into my heart like a cold hard knife stabbing bloody meat. I wonder if it had the same effect with Hotaru's heart as well.
"Mi…Mikan…" She uttered to me softly. She started to cry, to my surprise in fact. I've never seen her cry before…
"Why didn't you tell me sooner, idiot" She said to me, hugging my tightly.
"I was… too afraid… and I didn't know how to tell you…"
By then, we were both crying like sad babies. Whoa, I'd never thought I'd live to see Hotaru cry! It's a good thing I still have my sight!
Hotaru wiped her cheek, and then softly smiled at me. She lovingly caressed my cheek, then went closer to the door.
"Don't bother me at my lab from now on. I have something to do" She smiled at me and left my room.
How odd! One minute, Hotaru cried, and then she hugged me and acted all loving to me… Then the next, she asked me to leave her alone! Oh Hotaru… She's so hard to understand sometimes.
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What could Hotaru mean? What will happen to Mikan! She has around 6 days left before she goes blind. And 2 people already know her state… Well, find out in the next chapter! Hope you enjoyed this one and…
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