Touga Kiryouu absentmindedly draped his arm around his girlfriend's shoulders. Sitting in the school courtyard was always an enjoyable thing to do on saturday's, especially when you were with someone you cared about. He and Utena had been dating for almost two months now. True, being committed to one woman was not Touga's style, and he often missed his playboyish ways, but Utena was worth it.
Utena let a small smile graze her lips as she felt Touga's comforting arm around her. She had wanted this, a boyfriend who would make her feel safe and secure, like nothing could ever hurt her. True, Touga didn' t quite make her feel like that, but he was close, close enough. Utena's smile turned to a frown when she felt Touga's hand sliding onto her knee. "Can you stop thinking about things like that." Utena said, giving Touga a playful, yet firm shove, "for more than 10 minutes at a time?"Touga let out a weak laugh, "come now Utena, we've been together for two months now, we really should be taking our relationship to the next level. Don't you think that you've made me wait long enough..." his hand began to creep towards her leg again. Utena's frown progressed into a full scale scowl, "NO" she said annoyed, this time actually slapping his hand away. Now it was Touga's turn to scowl. "Utena..." he started, fortunatly, before he could say anything else, Miki walked up to the couple.
"Mr. President" Miki started meekly, "Miss Juri needs to talk to you. She's at the student's council's private meeting room waiting for you now." Touga sighed, he was annoyed as it was, "Tell Juri that whatever it is, it'll have to wait. It's saturday and I have no intention of doing any work." Miki bit his lip, " I would Touga, but, well, it's just that, um, you know, miss Juri can get rather...mean when people don't do what she says, and I'd rather..." Touga rolled his eyes, "fine" he said with another heavy sigh, secretly though, he knew Miki was right. He didn't know anyone brave enough to face Juri's wrath.
Once Touga had left, Miki sat down on the bench next to Utena. "So, how are things going between you and the President?" Miki asked with a friendly smile. Utena sighed, "I like him and all, I mean, he's a good boyfriend, it's just that..." Miki's eyes now held concern, he motioned for Utena to continue. "He's always pushing me to go further than I want to. I know he's older than me, but I'm just not ready to do some of the things he wants me to do." The concern left Miki's eyes, and instead he adopted a knowing smile. "Well then, maybe you are better suited for someone else"
Miki knew. He had known for a while now, about how Saionj felt about Utena. The signs had all been there, Saionji's recent lack of interest in Anthy (much to Miki's approval) his obsessive training to defeat Touga, and if those weren't signs enough, the looks of longing that Saionji kept sending to Utena when he was sure no one was looking were definate indicators.
So naturally Miki had put two and two together. Fortunatly, he was the only one who had, and he fully planned to use his new knowledge to play matchmaker. Utena knit her eyebrows in confusion, "someone else? who?" Miki was careful not to reveal too much, "oh, no one in particular, maybe you should just...explore your options a little more, thats all." Utena's eyes snapped open, "MIKI, I thought that you liked Anthy!" Miki's eyes shot open as well, " NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, miss Utena you have it all wrong!" Miki stammered, trying to find the right words, "I wasn't talking about me, what I was trying to say was" Miki ran fingers through his hair, "There may be another guy, someone you know, that may like you , and for whom you may be better suited." Miki stood up, "and that's all I'm saying. No if you excuse me I have some work to catch up on." with this excuse, he darted away as fast as possible, leaving Utena with her jaw hanging open. Who was it? Who, other than Touga, did she know who liked her? Miki couldn't be talking about her prince, they two of them had never met. If it wasn't her prince, then who was it...
A/N: Hi, it's me. I plan to attempt to update every day (no a promise, don't kill me if I skip a day or two) so long as I get a decent number of reviews, so please review! Note: what I said about flames last chapter still counts.