Author's note: Hooray! Here's the 3rd revised chapter of this story! Sorry for the long wait—just been busy with my life and all. Nyahahaha (I adopted Sakuragi's laughter)! Tell me if this chapter is better than the previous one, because I want to satisfy your cravings for this wonderful pairing (ReiXRan)! Oh yeah, criticisms are welcomed in my story. But I hope your flames are about my writing and not about the pairing! Nyahahaha! Well, whoever you are, have fun reading!

Disclaimer: I don't own Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran because Rei is too hot for this show (gets chased by fan girls). Plus, I would've made it ReiXRan all the way if I owned this wonderful show.

(Warning: foul language, sexual implications, suicidal attempts, and others are present in this story.)

This fanfic is written for entertainment purpose only and maybe watching GALS! again isn't necessary. And the story plot is mine, okay?

Previously….

"What's wrong, idiot?" Rei said with a sigh, sitting on the bench. "And it has to have some sense on it, too."

Ran blinked as she wiped away her tears, smiling at Rei after that.

At that moment, Ran knew what she would do. Even if he does not return her feelings because there was someone else involved, she would still love him forever, even if the people abandoned her. If there was a chance, she would fight for him.

Yuuya's best friend, Rei, meant everything to her.

Give Me a Chance, Chapter 3: I want to be honest for once

Ran shook her head slowly, indicating that nothing was wrong. She didn't want Rei to worry, because he had worries of his own. Plus, Aya would be involved if he knew her problem.

…and she's a terrible liar.

Rei clicked his tongue for a moment, getting annoyed with Ran's attitude. It was clearly shown on her face that something was wrong. He sighed in annoyance. "Baka."

Ran instantly flared up and she turned around to face Rei, waving her fist. "What did you say? No one calls me a—" She didn't finish what she was saying, for when she turned around she saw Rei smirking. She straightened up and raised her wonderfully shaved eyebrow. "…what?"

Rei chuckled for a moment. "You look so weird when you get angry. Your nostrils get big too." He commented.

Ran stomped her feet angrily. "What's that supposed to mean!" she exclaimed, grabbing Rei by the collar of his shirt.

"When you get angry or have a problem, you always look weird." Rei said, smirking further when he saw Ran grit her teeth. He looked at her straight in the eye. "Boys won't like you if your nostrils get big all the time."

This time Ran really fumed. She shook Rei vigorously, shouting at him that he was an idiot and a cold bastard all the way. The people passing around stopped walking to watch them, but when Ran glared at them, they walked away hurriedly as if they have seen a horrible monster.

Of course, Rei was only lying. He didn't mean all the things he said. He just wanted to get a reaction out of Ran.

"You would look good again if you tell me about your problem." Rei whispered, suddenly serious. "And as I've said a while ago, it has to have some sense in it."

Ran blinked and she slowly took her hands away from Rei's shirt. She forced herself to smile. "You're really a persistent person, are you?" she whispered, laughing lowly. She sat on the bench slowly and rested her hands on her knees. "No wonder Aya-chan gets annoyed at you." She muttered.

"You're lying." Rei said, chuckling once. He didn't say those things to Aya. Hey, he even rarely talks to her with those kinds of things.

Silence formed between the two.

"I always hurt somebody." Ran started, and this immediately caught Rei's attention and interest.

"When I was a baby, I kicked my father's face by accident. When I was a kid, I punched this bigger guy that tried to bully me. In my pre-teen, I tripped the teacher purposely because of a dare." Ran said, giggling because of the memories that flooded her mind.

Rei rolled his eyes to further annoy the bleached-blonde girl, but he was kind of surprised when Ran didn't even look at him. He also noticed that her laughter was turning bitter.

"In my teenage years," Ran paused for a moment. "I've hurt many people not physically, but emotionally. I always tend to hurt somebody if they get near, so…" she trailed off.

"…so?" Rei prompted.

"So…you deserve a punch!" Ran unexpectedly shouted, swinging her fist to punch Rei's face. But her fist was only 2 centimeters apart from the handsome shocked face.

Rei blinked confusedly. "What's wrong with you?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh, nothing." Ran happily chirped. "Haha…I've been waiting for the time to tell this to somebody. You're the first one to know about the hurt I've done to so many people." She exclaimed, seeming to be proud of it.

Rei "hmph-ed" at this, because he knew what she was saying was connected with the scene he saw with her and Yuuya. Surely, Ran must have been hiding something from him. "Is that all?"

Ran stopped from all her musings and she looked at him confusedly. "What…do you mean?" she asked.

"Is that all what you want to say to me?"

"Yeah! Oh—maybe not all." Ran contemplated. She looked at Rei's icy and cold expression that girls and guys swoon over. She smiled. "How are things with Aya-chan?"

Rei looked at Ran for a moment before looking at the view of the river. "It's okay." He muttered, seemingly uninterested.

"Hmm…" Ran whispered, thinking of something to say. "Well, have you…um…" she hesitated to continue her question.

Rei stared at Ran with an irritated expression. "Say it." He demanded rather than requested.

"Um…did you two…do it already?" Ran asked slowly, blushing. She shouldn't be asking this kind of question really, but she was too curious and too tactless sometimes. She waited for Rei's answer excitedly.

Rei closed his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest. "Baka."

Ran instantly flared and fumed up at this. "What the—" She paused suddenly when she saw Rei smirk at her.

"You shouldn't be asking these things." Rei said with his smirk. "Why are you asking anyway?"

"N-nothing…!" Ran's eyes twitched with the tone of Rei's voice and his smirk was getting on her nerves. She clenched her fists to try and taunt Rei, but he suddenly chuckled.

"We didn't do it." Rei whispered, followed with short chuckles. "I'm not interested."

Ran's eyebrows twitched. "You…not interested...in…?" she trailed off. He was the first one who said that he wasn't interested in love-making! Is he not interested making love with girls? What if he's—gay? Ran smiled a little.

You fan girls are going down.

"Besides," Rei suddenly said, interrupting Ran's trail of thoughts. "I don't want her to be pregnant. It's too troublesome." He looked at Ran, like he was reading her thoughts. "We're not ready. We're still young."

"What if Aya-chan asked for it?" Ran questioned further, super curious.

"I don't care. I just won't do it with her." Rei said, irritated. He crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked at the couples in the park.

"You are so mean! This means a lot to us girls, you know?" Ran exclaimed, waving a fist in front of Rei. "You won't do it with her even if you're married?"

"Who's going to get married?" Rei sneered. He waited for a heated retort but then he looked at Ran when he didn't hear anything from her.

Ran blinked and suddenly sat down beside Rei, hooking her arm up with him. "You mean you don't plan getting married with her?" she exclaimed, her voice very loud that many people looked at them. Some even recognized the kougal.

"H-hey!" Rei choked, blushing madly. Ran's arm felt so warm, and it was the first time a girl did that to him. All Aya did was to let their hands touch and kiss. He didn't want anyone to get close to him anyway. But why is he letting this girl, this Kotobuki Ran who is his girlfriend's friend, hold him this way? Heck, he doesn't even let Aya hold his hand.

Rei tried to struggle and free his arm from Ran's grip, but he stopped when Ran was staring at him. He blushed harder.

A wide grin formed from Ran's glossed lips and she started pinching Rei's cheeks. "Oh, you blushed!" she guffawed. "You're so cute—not!"

Rei's eyes widened slightly. He didn't expect her to say those words because he expected an insult. He couldn't help but to keep quiet and blush more.

"Haha! You're blushing even harder! Is it because you're thinking about your honeymoon with Aya-chan?" Ran exclaimed, patting Rei's back hard. "You don't need to lie, Otohata!"

Rei didn't say anything and he frowned suddenly. Good thing Ran didn't notice this, for she was too busy babbling about Rei being such a shy coward and all.

Don't forget to take care of yourself from your freaky fan girls, Rei!

He was kind of disappointed when Ran called him by his surname again. He recalled his reaction earlier when Ran said his name so simply without any sarcasm or insult. It felt real. He felt that it was worth it to have such name as Rei. Oh well, he can force her to call him Rei, but that would be too mean.

…and just why would he want Ran to call him by his first name?

Ran, as if reading Rei's thoughts, looked at him strangely. "What's with the weird face, Otohata?" she exclaimed, punching Rei's sleeved forearm lightly.

Rei touched his forearm. "Is that all you've got? I didn't know you were weak." He whispered, smirking slightly. "…and to think that you are strong because of being a kougal…"

A hand suddenly reached for Rei's collar and held it tightly. Rei and Ran were face to face, but Ran didn't seem to mind it. "What did you say…?" she said through her gritted teeth, equally pissed.

Instead of throwing a heated retort, Rei looked at the bleached-blonde girl straight in the eyes. He also noticed that Ran didn't look away, and it seemed that she was challenging him about something he didn't know.

Ran smiled—or if you prefer, she smirked boyishly. She noticed that Rei's eyes were so beautiful, his eyelashes long and elegant. She laughed at herself. At this distance, she could do something to him that they will regret later and ruin their lives. Her trail of thoughts was stopped when she saw at the corner of her eye that Rei's lips opened slightly to say something.

"What if I kiss you?"

Rei couldn't believe he had just said that. A powerful curiosity urged him to say so, and he didn't even notice he already had said it. He felt like he was being controlled, and he couldn't help but to follow-up on what he said. "…at this distance, I could lean a bit and could kiss you."

He observed Ran for a reaction. He saw a dangerous frown forming on her lips. He knew, at that very moment, that their lives would change.

"Don't play jokes with me, Otohata." Ran whispered seriously. Her grip on Rei's collar tightened further that he felt he was choking already. "A girl's feelings are not to be played with. With what you said, you already played your little game."

Rei's expression was blank, but he still listened.

"Excellent poker face. Would that be your facial expression if ever you and Aya broke up?" Ran asked in a whisper. She neared their faces once more, until their lips were just 1 inch apart. "Even if I had feelings for you, I'll kill you if you try to cheat on one of my best friends."

Ran released her grip from Rei's shirt, and he sat back panting slowly. He touched his sore neck and closed his eyes. He suddenly smirked, despite what Ran had just said to him. "What…"

She looked at him quickly.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Rei whispered, laughing bitterly. "…so you're saying that if you are with somebody but you don't love him, you would still stay with him?"

Ran's eyes widened. She stared at him for a long time before she said something. "I would!" she exclaimed, turning away. She knew that if she didn't give this up, Rei would ask very hard questions that she couldn't possibly answer intelligently.

You should've studied more, ahou

"Nn."

Ran looked at Rei again, and he she saw that he already stood up. She blinked when Rei looked at the sky suddenly, and it urged her to do the same. "I didn't know it was night already." she commented absently.

"That's because you're an idiot." It was the automatic response of Rei to Ran. And the automatic response of Ran was getting angry then—you know what will happen. It always happened whenever they were inside each other's territory. They don't even know why.

"Oh yeah!" Ran exclaimed with excitement after venting out her anger with Rei on a random person. "What gift will you buy for Aya? I still don't know what to buy, because I don't know what she'll like."

Rei just shrugged, not really interested.

Ran raised her eyebrows for a moment, but she got back on babbling. "As we discussed, we're going to throw a really big party for Aya! Make sure you don't tell her a thing about this. Oh, I don't need to remind you that. You don't say anything whenever you're around her. I didn't know you were that shy." she whispered teasingly, giggling. She even nudged Rei with her elbow.

"…"

"You know," Ran said, puffing her cheeks. She put her hands on her hips.

Uh-oh. Rei thought.

"You are so boring. I don't know why Aya likes you a lot. If I have a boyfriend, he'll definitely be a funny and talkative man!" she guffawed.

Rei kept quiet for a moment. "What happened between you and Tatsuki?" he asked out-of-the-blue suddenly.

Ran just smiled. "It didn't work out. We had a lot of things in common and we agreed on many things—but it just didn't work out. It seemed that we were too much the same, and it didn't give us a chance to get to know more about ourselves. We even both agreed in calling our relationship off." she explained. "I guess…it wasn't meant to be." she added.

"…"

"But hey," Ran exclaimed, patting Rei's back rather hard. "Don't worry about it. I'm sure everything will work out with you and Aya." she assured.

"Maybe." Rei murmured. "We better go home. It's getting rather late." he said, looking at his watch.

"Hey, it's just seven o' clock! It's still early! We can still go shopping or beat the crap out of the bad guy!" Ran exclaimed, gesturing wildly in the air with her arms.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Haven't you read the manga "Confidential Issues"? The story was that the girl was raped after her date with her boyfriend. It was seven o' clock then and there were even many people on the street." Rei explained patiently.

"Oh…? I haven't read that, but I certainly heard of it before." Ran whispered in wonder. "But you explaining it made me scared already."

"Scaredy-cat."

"What the—" Ran exclaimed, her eyebrows furrowing. She pointed out at Rei suddenly. "I am not afraid of anything or anyone!"

"Whatever." Rei sighed. "But it's normal to be scared of being raped, too. I'm getting freaked out just thinking of guys raping me all of a sudden." He explained followed by a twitching of his right eye.

"Hmm, really?" Ran whispered, like she was talking only to herself, observing Rei's quirk. "What if beautiful girls raped you?"

Rei coughed meaningfully. "Well…that's another story…" he whispered with his hand muffling words, and he looked away with a slight blush.

Ran poked Rei's head hardly. "As expected of perverted boys!" Ran exclaimed and she walked fast so that she was in front of Rei.

"I am not a pervert. It's just that it's different when it's all beautiful girls. I mean—that's every guy's fantasy." Rei said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Ran said, waving her hand at him.

Rei watched Ran—no, he watched her hips. He didn't know why his eyes focused on that part of her, but being a teenage boy does a lot of changes in his body and mind. "I better walk you home."

Ran giggled. "Why? Are you my boyfriend?" she scoffed.

"No. I just don't want Aya asking me troublesome questions if something happens to you." Rei said nonchalantly, stepping beside Ran.

Ran looked at Rei that was beside her then she looked away with a small smile. "It's for Aya, huh…?" she murmured so softly and lowly so Rei wouldn't hear it.

"Huh?" Rei looked at her confusedly.

"I said you're a jerk!" Ran exclaimed, crossing her arms at her chest, accompanied by a pout that was unlikely of her.

"Nn."

"What the hell does "Nn" mean!" Ran exclaimed, ready to yank Rei's hair that was near from her grasp.

"Nn."

"AAAARGGH! You annoy me big time!"

"You annoy me more. You attract people, so shut the hell up."

"Is that a way to talk to a girl—and to Kotobuki Ran?"

"Who's that?"

"AAAARGGGH!"

Unknown to Ran, Rei was smiling at the conversation they were having. It was not much, but it meant a lot.

The truth was that Rei heard what Ran had said. He was a bit confused, but he knew what she meant.

Maybe…Ran has feelings for him? Why would she say that if she doesn't feel anything? It was probably just his imagination….

Maybe.

Maybe not.

To be continued…

Author's notes: Okay, I admit it. I updated this for the sake of updating. I'll need to edit the next chapter, so just wait for it, guys! Again, I'm so sorry I left all of you hanging and waiting for the next chapter! I'll put all my effort in making this an ultimate ReiXRan fanfiction!

Koharu-chan (daisuki!)