Author's Note

The end is extremely close. Anyway, thank you to the people who reviewed Chapter 20: iced princess 6063little doggy, Anime-tanaka, may520, cutegabrielle16, EzMouse, anime-fan-girl-o.0-vm, Sakura-chan0610, Xia-pyon, chammel, Royal Goddess, wingless-fairy25. Oh by the way, I've got 2 new fanfics I've published. They're: Fifteen Days to Love Me and When Darkness Falls – can you try to have the time to check it out? Thanks

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Someday You Will Be Loved by Death Cab for Cutie

Suggested by: Soul of the Rain

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Chapter 21

This is What You Call "Heart Break"

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"W-what? Leave Tokyo? Leave My Favorite Loser? You must be joking right?" I said, looking around the room. The knot in my throated wanted to break and become tears, but it was humiliating for me to cry like a baby. I'm a teenager for God's sake!! And it's not cool to cry.

Mr. Yamida shook his head. "But Mikan…it doesn't change the fact that we all like you…it's just that…"

"F-forget it" I smiled weakly. "It's okay. I don't care"

I once knew a girl
In the years of my youth
With eyes like the summer
All beauty and truth
In the morning I fled
Left a note and it read
Someday you will be loved

Mr. Yamida gave me a disappointed look and left the room along with the rest of the staff. Krissy and Yuuka left as well and it was just me, Ruka, Hotaru and Natsume.

"I guess we'll be leaving tomorrow, Hotaru-chan"

"Thank God. I'll be able to destroy my piggy bank and get all my two year savings to buy the new camera". She glanced at Ruka so that his guilt would thicken.

"I'm going to miss everybody. I'm going to miss Ruka and also…"

I turned to the raven-haired boy who was just engrossed in his manga.

"Natsume-kun"

"Hn" he grunted and raised his head from his manga. "What?"

"I'm glad I met everyone. I don't regret anything you know, Natsume-kun – even though…"

"Shut up" he said.

I cannot pretend that I felt any regret
Cause each broken heart will eventually mend
As the blood runs red down the needle and thread
Someday you will be loved

I lost my temper.

"Why don't you shut up, Natsume?"

He just looked at me.

"Haven't you had enough of your childish insults? It's sickening me!"

"You're leaving, anyway"

I stopped.

"Natsume-kun…don't you even care?"

He looked at me from his manga and shrugged.

"But…how about that…k-kiss the other day?"

"Oh…I don't know about that"

"BUT KISSES ARE SUPPOSED TO MEAN SOMETHING"

He just shrugged.

"It meant nothing, dummy"

That was when I started to cry. Tears streamed down my cheeks as my eyes watered. My cheeks felt that intense burning sensation as I rubbed my eyes hardly and collapsed on the sofa and cried. Ruka, Hotaru and Natsume just watched me cry.

"YOU LIAR, NATSUME"

You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

"You know, what – Natsume. I'm so glad to leave Tokyo" I said, removing my eyes from my hands.

"It's…it's the best thing that happened to me"

Natsume's face expression changed.

"We have one thing in common, Natsume-kun"

"What is that?" he asked.

"We both hate each other"

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TRAIN STATION

Whispers…murmurs...rumors…

I hate them all.

This was the first time I felt an intense jolt of hate for everyone. For CelebrityJaps magazine, for Mr. Yamida, for the cast and crew of MFL…for Natsume… I hate them all.

"Hotaru-chan?"

Hotaru looked at me.

"You were very stupid in the resort"

"…And you're against me as well"

"No. Because as your friend, I have to remind you when you're acting stupid"

"I was just defending myself"

"No. You were lying"

"Natsume's the one lying"

"You lied that you hated him"

"That is nothing but TRUE"

"You're more of a liar than Natsume is…Natsume is just stubborn"

"AND how do you know so much about Natsume all of a sudden?"

"Well…RUKA told me that…"

"Ah…you're new boyfriend"

"He's not…"

"NO. I'm in a bad mood right now. I'm pissed at everyone. So I'm just gonna shut up"

The whole trip I remained silent. I would glance at Hotaru every so often to see if she'll finally speak to me but she was reading this Shakespeare book with too many 'thys' and 'thous' in it that I got a headache just by peeking at the pages. I looked out the train window, the city was slowly vanishing and into the country it was.

Nagoya. I haven't seen you in a week. But still…

I can't wait to see you and forget about that bastard Natsume.

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School was over by the time I got there, so I went to the hospital to visit jii-chan.

He lay on his hospital bed, he looked malnourished and had dextrose attached to his hand.

"Jii-chan, are you feeling well?" I asked sitting beside him.

Jii-chan nodded. "Feeling better, Mikan-chan. Might be home next week"

"Jii-chan… I missed you so much" I said, starting to cry again.

"There's no time for tears now"

You may feel alone when you're falling asleep
And everytime tears roll down your cheeks
But I know your heart belongs to someone you've yet to meet
Someday you will be loved

I walked home – the hospital was super far from my house but I didn't want to ride the bus or anything. I thought walking home would be best for sorting out my thoughts that have become turmoil. This was so confusing.

I arrived at the house and went to the living room, I switched on the lights and found Kaito sitting down on one of the cushions, facing the television.

"Welcome home, Mikan-chan"

"Kaito…w-what are you doing here?"

Kaito stood up and pushed me to the wall. I was so shocked. What the hell…?

"Mikan-chan…you're my girlfriend…we haven't broken up yet, have we?"

You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved

"I…don't understand"

"You prove it to me… by kissing me" he said, and locked his hands with mine and attempted to crash his lips on mine. I watched as he shut his eyes and felt him getting closer. I wriggled to get out of his grasp but his hands held mine tight and I was trapped between him and my wall.

SLAP

Kaito backed off. He touched his cheek – his face having the cross between shocked and angry.

"Boyfriends and girlfriends kiss, you know" he said.

"YES. BUT NOT BY FORCE" I yelled.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

"I'm sorry…Kaito…I don't…feel anything for you…no sparks between the two of us"

"KISS ME, DAMMIT!!" Kaito said and grabbed me by the shoulders and forced me into a kiss. I pushed him to the ground and started crying.

"GET OUT OF HERE KAITO" I yelled.

He glared at me.

"And I thought we were a couple" he said and stood up.

"I'm going to make you love me"

"YOU CAN'T FORCE ME. BECAUSE I'M IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE ELSE" I blurted out. Then I immediately covered my mouth with my hand. Did I just say that out loud?

"Oh? Who is it?" Kaito said, walking towards me with an evil glint in his eyes.

"Is it Natsume?"

I pushed Kaito out of the living room.

"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS" I yelled and locked the door

Kaito banged several times on the door as I cried in the darkness of my living room.

"MIKAN!!!"

Oh God…

Is this what you call a broken heart?

It's more painful than anything I've ever experienced…

Natsume-kun…

I think…

I'm in love you.

You'll be loved you'll be loved
Like you never have known
The memories of me
Will seem more like bad dreams
Just a series of blurs
Like I never occurred
Someday you will be loved
Someday you will be loved

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END OF CHAPTER

The end is definitely SUPER DUPER DUPER DUPER NEAR!!!!