Just letting everyone know that the Prologue just sets up the story line of this fanfic.

Love Me

Chapter One: 3 Months Later

This morning is like every other morning, with me waking up at 6:30, rushing around my room to put my uniform on and tying my just below the shoulder length brunette hair into a high pony with my bangs hanging down the side of my face. You must be wondering why I'm waking up so early when classes don't even start until 8:30. Well, the answer for that is I'm addicted to playing my guitar and I'm a closet singer. Yes, I'm a closet singer. I'm too nervous to sing in front of crowds, hell I'm too nervous to sing in front of my friends most of the time. When I actually think about it, I think I only sang for them twice if I remember correctly.

As time passes by, I look at the clock and it shows me that it's time to head to school, so I grab my backpack, phone, iPod, car keys and then I head out the door towards my little red putt putt.

It took me about 5 minutes to reach to Alice Academy High School, and I feel today is going to be a strange day but definitely in a good way.

I saw my friends chilling on the picnic table near the school entrance, so I ran over and decided to join them. I went and sat down between Sumire and Rei and said, "Hey guys!"

Rei looks up and smiles at me and scoots closer with a mischievous look in his eyes and says "Hey, I think Mikan should let us cheat off her calculus test today, what you guys think?"

"I say hell yeah," Ruka says enthusiastically while giving Rei a high-five.

Then I shove Rei's shoulder with my hands and jokingly say, "Do you want to die a terrible death."

"Only by your hands," Rei smiles and then winks at me before he returning back to his studies.

Then I turn and look over at Ruka and Hotaru giving each other a kiss and I couldn't help myself a state, "Awww, I want to be in love."

Sumire then scoffs at me saying "No you don't."

"Yeah, no I don't," I lied.

"Anyways, who was your last boyfriend?" Sumire asked.

"Koko Yome in like eighth grade, but you know what? I'm going to wait for the right guy. I want to be with someone and feel fireworks with them."

"Yeah, and she is saving herself for yours truly," Rei says with a smirk. I wrap my arm around his waist and give him a little squeeze because I know he is only joking, we already had the best friend talk where we are only best friends and nothing more.

"Your being delusional Rei and besides I thought you guys had the best friends talk?" shes says quite rudely.

"Sumire!" I look at her in disbelief.

"What I thought…."

"No, just stop talking."

"Okay," as she said and shrugged her shoulders.

"You know Mikan, I could always help you find someone but for a price of course. Oh and by the way I got shoe boxes for you, my mom went on another shoe shopping spree and I will be charging you money for those," Hotaru said with dollar signs in her eyes.

"Ugh, ha ha no thanks for the love finding part, but the shoe boxes I will definitely take," I tell her nervously. The reason why I asked Hotaru for shoe boxes because I need them to sort out my music notes/songs that were complete or incomplete and from good to bad songs. Only Hotaru would charge me money for shoe boxes and me actually buying them off of her. What I need them.

"Hn, whatever then, hey Rei how are you and comic girl doing?" said Hotaru.

"Comic girl?" I asked confusingly. Yeah, so my friend Rei works at a comic store. You may think he's lame but I don't he's my best guy friend. To me I think he is the best animation drawer and he is also very creative, plus he is working on he own comic book series.

"We were doing okay but we broke up a while ago, didn't think you guys needed to worry about that," said Rei with a sad smile.

"Aww, I'm sorry to hear that Rei," I said. I felt bad for him, he finally found someone he truly liked. I wonder what happen to them? Then I realized I forgot that I grabbed the newspaper before heading to school, so I decided to skim through it. I saw something that caught my eye. I turned to my friends and said "Hey, did you guys know that there opening the missing Nobara Ibaragi case?"

"She probably just ran away from home or something," said Hotaru.

"I agree with Hotaru," said Sumire.

"I don't know guys, she didn't seem like she had any problems for her to run away," I said.

"Yeah, but people can hide stuff pretty well though," Hotaru wisely said.

"I guess," with uncertainty in my voice. I kept rereading the article over and over again until I heard the warning bell signaling us to hurry to class before we are late. As we walk through the entrance doors, we went our separate ways. Ruka and Hotaru headed towards the science wing, while Sumire, Rei and I head towards our mathematics class. As we were walking down the hallway I couldn't help but say, "It's creepy because it could've been one of use, whatever the reason why she is missing."

"Well it's not one of us so don't think as if it were," says Rei.

"Yeah, your right…ooff," before I could complete my sentence, I didn't realized someone was sitting against the wall listening to music with their feet in the way.

"Hey, Mikan are you alright?" Rei says with concern in his eyes.

"Yeah, just hurt my knee."

"Are you sure? Do you need me to take a look at it?"

"No, it's okay" I say as I bring myself into a sitting position before looking over to see whose feet I supposedly tripped over. To say the least the vision before me shocked me a little, he was handsome, endearing, also mysterious looking but what really capture me the most was his crimson eyes.

"Watch where your taking up space, okay Natsume," snapped Sumire.

"Yeah, seriously," I added. After a few seconds I stood up and so did he.

With a smirk he said, "Why don't you trying looking where your walking, Polka-dots."

Huh? How? Damn him, he must have looked when I fell then I retorted, "Why don't you try walking with my foot up your ass, pervert."

"Ugh, that asshole should have stayed at his old school," Sumire said while fixing my bangs.

Natsume turned around and looked at me again while walking away and giving me another smirk before heading to his class. I stared at his disappearing figure and wonder who is he because I can tell you one thing he's got me intrigued by him. Okay, so he might have be more than intrigued by him because I have butterflies in my tummy.

Later that night, I was randomly strumming a few chords trying to figure an idea for a new song to write in my song book. My concentration broke when my mom came into my room, I looked up and notice that she was headed my way with her nurse scrubs on and that was a hint for me that she was heading to work.

"Okay, I'm heading to work now," my mom says while she is walking over to me and kisses the top of my head.

"Alright then, I love you," I replied back with a smile.

Then she grabs my left arm and takes a look at the sleeve of my shirt which has a small tear along the forearm and then she says, "Mikan you got to try and keep your good shirts presentable. No rips and holes in them remember, right now we can't afford new ones. When you're done playing with your guitar put your shirt in the laundry room. I will stitch it up tomorrow, okay? By the way your financial aid papers form school are on the kitchen table so don't forget to hand them in tomorrow at the secretary's office alright?"

"Okay, mom," I told her with a sheepish grin on my face.

"Alright then, I'm heading out now and leave my chocolate ice cream alone or else I'll kick your butt," she said with a mock scowl and then chuckle before she leaves and shut my bedroom door.

I shake my head and laugh to myself before continuing to strum a few chords on my guitar when an idea for a song struck through my and I open up my song book and write downs lyrics and music notes.

End of Chapter One

Most of this story will be in Mikans POV unless I state otherwise in the story.

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