Disclaimer: I want them…sob… I really do…d'you think Naoko-sensei would let me have them for a day?

A/N : Boredom because of the holidays + nothing to do quick updates. Enjoy the chapter!

Be Mine Tonight

- Struggle -

Moonlight shone inside the dark room through the gaps between the curtain. It's a calm night, though the weather forecast said that it's going to rain. The alarm clock on the nightstand showed '11.54' PM. Michiru sigh as she turned to her right beneath the covers, head buzzing with thought. Today's been another hectic day. Not only because of her violin recital practice, but also because of Haruka and Yuka. Well, Haruka mainly. She turned up out of nowhere after dumping Yuka and said she want Michiru back.

Michiru's clear blue eyes stared at the cloudy night sky. And the problem didn't stop there. Yuka had come to Michiru's house and accidentally heard their conversation and ran away before Michiru can say anything. There's nothing the aqua-haired girl can do now but to tell the truth. But the telling the truth would hurt Yuka, Michiru can't bear to see the usually happy-go-lucky brunette in tears again.

'But what is the truth?' the violinist wondered silently to herself 'that I still love Haruka?'

Turning around to her back, she stared at the dark ceiling. Yes, she still love the blonde racer. After all this times, she cant get the flirtatious racer out of her head. But her pride wont let her say that out loud. Besides, if she ended up going out with the racer again, wouldn't that mean that she betrayed Yuka's trust? The brunette trust her so much and now her best friend had took her love away, no, cheated behind her back then took her love away.

A warm feeling always appeared in her heart when she thought about Haruka.

"if I had met you sooner…" she mumbled sleepily as her eyelids began to close "maybe everything would turn out differently, Haruka…."

The alarm clock turned to '00.00' AM as the aqua-haired girl finally drifted to sleep, head still buzzing with thoughts. Suddenly the words below the time in the alarm clock glowed brightly in the dark room 'Haruka's b'day Jan 27'.

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Michiru didn't get a glimpse of Yuka at all the next day. Her friends said that the brunette did come to school, but how come Michiru didn't see her at all? Guilt rose painfully inside Michiru. She knows she should've told her the truth sooner…before all of this happened. The aqua-haired girl prayed that Yuka would forgive her.

Lunch time came and she still didn't meet Yuka. She'd called her cell, left many voice messages and sent more than a dozen bunch of text messages, but the brunette didn't give any reply at all. Michiru's mind was so distracted that she could hardly concentrate at all in class, she wrote quite a lot of craps in her notebook, that's for sure. Her blue eyes was scanning the canteen, searching for Yuka when suddenly her phone vibrated.

She took it out and saw that it was a text message. The violinist's heart lurched when she saw who it from 'Haruka?'. She read the content seriously and completely unaware of a pair of angry hazel eyes staring hard at her.

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"What do you want?" she asks the blonde racer matter-of-factly.

Haruka looked quite taken aback "what, no happy birthday for me?" she said with a sly smirk

Michiru blushed "fine, happy birthday then"

Earlier this afternoon, the blonde had asked Michiru to come over and watch the last practice in the circuit for tomorrow's race. Giving up entirely to find Yuka, Michiru decided to come over, after some more nagging by the blonde by phone. The blonde had been waiting outside the circuit for the aqua-haired girl to come and look utterly delightful when her eyes met the lovely figure. The both of them went inside and Haruka tried her luck to charm Michiru back to her. Unfortunately, the aqua-haired girl had put up a hard front.

"I'm sorry I didn't get you anything" Michiru added shyly, truthfully, she only remembered this morning that today's Haruka's b'day. But the blonde didn't seem to mind.

Grinning slightly the racer replied "nah, that's alright. Having you to see you again is enough for me" she said huskily

Michiru tried hard not to blush at this comment. The blonde had turned on her usual charm again…

"Tenoh-kun!!" Haruka and Michiru turned at the call and saw that one of the mechanics was calling for the blonde "time to roll!" he called again with a smirk.

Haruka nodded and turned to her companion "well…" she began, reluctant to leave the aqua-haired girl alone "I gotta go now…"

"I guess…" Michiru gave a shrug, she didn't want the blonde to go, but she won't ever let Haruka know that..

"Well…." Haruka played for more time, she noticed that the violinist kept glancing at her watch 'does she have a violin practice?' the blonde wondered

"D'you have a plan after this?" she asks the distracted girl who looked up.

Michiru pondered for a second. She was planning to go to Yuka's house since she didn't get a glimpse of the brunette at all in school "umm…" she began, not sure if she should tell the blonde that Yuka had overheard their conversation yesterday.

" 'Umm' ?"

"I mean, yes. I - I've got some…business to take care of" well, it wasn't a complete lie, she did have an important thing to do.

Michiru saw Haruka's face fell, and with what look like a huge effort the blonde gave her a smile "run along then, I don't want you to be late" she said, trying to hide the disappointment in her voice. 15 minutes with the aqua-haired girl is enough, right?

Michiru gave her a smile and bowed before walking out of the garage "wait!" Haruka called out again and Michiru turned to look at the blonde who looked sheepish for some reason.

"I- well, do you mind coming over to my apartment later on?" the blonde stammered, blushing slightly "I mean, it's my birthday and- well-" dammit, why is it so hard just to ask Michiru to come over so she could kiss the violinist again?

Michiru understand the blonde's stammering as she pondered silently. Should she go? Haruka might try something funny like she'd done before again. Her blue eyes stared at the blonde who's getting redder by the minute still spluttering over her invitation for the aqua-haired girl. But then again, she felt guilty of not having anything to give to the blonde. Maybe she could make it up just by turning up at Haruka's apartment.

"Sure" she said, shutting up the spluttering blonde "you'll tell me the time and address, of course"

The racer smiled in relief "yeah, sure. I'll send it by text message later"

Michiru then tossed her another smile as a thank you and left without another word, leaving the blonde love struck, standing there gaping like an idiot.

"Oy, Tenoh-kun" the mechanic that had called out to her earlier came over to her and had been waving in front of her face for the last 3 minutes trying to catch her attention as the blonde was still staring after Michiru's back "Tenoh-kun! You still alive?"

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Michiru left the circuit feeling throughly depressed and guilty. She'd just remembered that she forgot to ask the blonde if Yuka would be coming to or not. A small voice at the back of her head told her that the brunette might not be coming, but she shrug it off, sticking to her original plan to go see the brunette in her house and apologize.

"I thought you said that you didn't love him anymore"

Michiru almost died of heart attack at the sudden harsh words being spoken to her. She turned to her right and saw Yuka standing just outside the circuit gate. Her usual warm hazel were cold and hard and full of anger towards the violinist.

Yuka's tone made it clear to Michiru that the brunette was indeed mad, no, very mad at her.

"So, it was all a lie then?" Yuka gave a cold smile "and you've been trying to get to him all this time too?"

"Look, Yuka-san, listen-" Michiru tried her best to explain but the brunette had cut her short

"Shut up!"

"Yuka-san?" the aqua-haired girl was shocked, Yuka had never raised her voice like that, especially to her.

"I've had it with you!" Yuka stormed at her, making several passing people to look at them "You lie to me! You cheated with my boyfriend behind me! And now you're trying to take him away from me! Haven't you done enough damage yet?" those last words stung like hell to the aqua-haired girl. She was at loss at words, she don't know what to do. Yuka's words were true and she felt ashamed admitting it. But the she didn't meant for them to broke up,. Michiru took a great quavering breath before speaking again.

"Yuka-san, I'm really sorry…" her voice came out as a croak as tears formed on her eyes "but I didn't meant for that to happen. I swear, I'm not trying to take Haruka away from you…"

But Yuka had covered both of her ears with her hands, completely shutting out the explanation "you're lying! Everything was fine until you came around! I shouldn't have trusted you in the first place…" she said softly, her eyes cold and piercing to Michiru's sapphire orbs "you're nothing more than a backstabber…" and with that she left the violinist alone. The sky had darken as grey clouds began to form above the stunned violinist. Thunder rumbled at the distant and droplets of water began to fall.

A/N: uh oh…more trouble…R/R please!! I really need to know what you guys think so far.