A/N: Hey! Well, I got the idea for this fic while listening to the song "7 Things" by Miley Cyrus. I hate her, but I like some of her songs. Now, remember what I said about the songs: I may put in the whole song, or some parts of the song. Don't tell me the songs are incomplete, because I know. Anyway, here's the story. Hope you like it! :)

Songs and keys: "7 Things" by Miley Cyrus, "I Don't Love You" by My Chemical Romance and "Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt.
Pairing: Otani/Koizumi
Setting: After the series finale, while the couples are in different colleges.

Things To Like, Things To Hate
Koizumi POV

"I probably shouldn't say this
but at times I get so scared
when I think about the previous
relationship we shared
It was awesome, but we lost it
It's not possible for me not to care"

That was it. The past year had been awesome. I had finally been accepted as a girl on the eyes of the boy I loved. It had taken me more than two years to get him to finally accept my love for him, and to return it as well. It had been a long road, but it finally paid off at the end… only to end up like this. We had a perfect relationship… too perfect indeed. It was flawless –putting aside the nicknames, insults and constantly arguing over stupid stuff-, and it was just too good to be true. I mean, seriously, a perfect, flawless long distance relationship? Even I could see there was something weird about it.

I ran away. Like always, so stupid. I ran, falling occasionally and slipping some other times. I ran away from my sadness; my fears… instead of facing them. Of course, I never went unnoticed by my fears. They saw me the slight second I was getting away from them, and they yelled my name. "Koizumi!" they yelled, "Koizumi, stop!" I kept running away, not wanting to hear them anymore. Oh, how I wished I had courage and confidence to stop and face them in that moment.

Right now, I stood in a bus stop, breathing heavily. I was tired from running so much. I prayed that it had gotten lost. I had around 5 minutes left in here until the next bus to the airport. It was now that I noticed that I was soaking wet… and that it was still raining heavily. "Good thing I brought my limited edition Umibozu water-proof travelling bag" I thought to myself. "Note to self: I'll probably get a cold out of this… another note to self: change clothes in the airport bathroom"

"Finally…" I heard, and froze. "Do you have any idea of how hard it is to run after you in the pouring rain?" he asked. I turned around, and there he was, soaking wet as well, without a shirt… only some shorts and sneakers. "Is it even legal for men to run around in the rain, shirtless?"

I didn't reply. I didn't want to reply. Why should I, anyway? I wasn't even looking at him in the eye, but I wasn't looking at the ground either. I, even though you probably won't believe this, still had my dignity.

"And now we're standing in the rain
But nothing's ever gonna change
until you hear, my dear
The 7 things I hate about you!"

"Well, are you gonna reply?" he insisted, crossing his arms. I sighed and closed my eyes, letting him know I wasn't. He scoffed. "You're so annoying…" he said.

It hit me, but I stayed quiet. He has the nerve to call me annoying?

"Hey… amazon!" he yelled, seriously mad.

"Annoying?" I suddenly yelled, and obviously I startled him because he jumped a little, and let his arms down. "How am I annoying? Excuse me for interrupting you and that other girl in the middle of your make-out session!"

"Shut up! It wasn't-" Otani yelled, but then his face betrayed him and he blushed.

"Don't say that it wasn't what it looked like, because it was exactly what it looked like!" I replied.

"Everyone's staring at us…" he said with a hand behind his neck.

"Like I give a shit!" I replied, and he looked at me with a surprised face. "K-Koizumi…"

"When you go
would you have the guts to say
'I don't love you
like I loved you
yesterday'?"

"You know what makes me mad about this? It's that I was so stupid that I didn't figure it out earlier!" I yelled, and the bus I was waiting for arrived. I turned around and walked towards the bus.

"Koizumi!" Otani yelled, talking my hand. I pulled away with much more force than necessary, and didn't even bother to look back. "Goodbye, Otani"

"No!" he yelled and put his arms around my waist. "Don't go!" This surprised me, and I dropped my travelling bag. He had never done something like this before. He wasn't the kind of guy to express his feelings so openly. Besides, if I remember correctly, this had only happened in my mind when I was trying to get him to like me back in high school.

"Let go of me, Otani!"

"No!" I struggled to get off of his grip, but only managed to help him capture my hands with his. "You have to listen to me!" he yelled.

"I don't wanna hear it!" I yelled. "I don't wanna hear it!" I repeated, and broke free of his arms, taking my bag from the floor and running to the bus. "Ew! I sounded like Mimi-chan when she was going to get rejected by Otani…"

"Risa!" he yelled, and I stopped for a second, shocked by the sudden action. "He called me by my name… for the first time…" But I pushed that thought away and then entered the bus.

"Goodbye my lover,
goodbye my friend.
You have been the one;
you have been the one for me

I'm so hollow, baby
I'm so hollow
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow"

"It's awkward and silent
as I wait for you to say
what I need to hear now
your sincere apology
When you mean it, I'll believe it
if you text it, I'll delete it
let's be clear"

"To: Otani Atsushi
Subject: 7 Things I Hate About Otani

1) You're vain (I mean, seriously, you think you're the world's most best looking man!)
2) Your games (You're always playing mind games with me, since the minute we met)
3) You're insecure (Yeah, you are)
4) You love me, you like her (Need I explain this one?)
5) You make me laugh, you make me cry. (I don't know which side to buy)
6) You're friends? They're jerks (Except, of course, for Nakao-chi and Suzuki-kun). When you act like them, just you know, it hurts. (I wanna be with the one I know)

And the seventh thing I hate the most that you do… you make me love you…"

I pressed send. Why, I did not know. I guess I wanted to let him know that I hated him, but that was just a big lie. And I didn't know either why I had written 'I love you' at the end of the email. I regretted sending that email the second after I pressed send. But it was done, and I couldn't undo it. I mean, it was soppoused to be an email to vent my feelings, and then it was going to be deleted. I sighed, letting a few tears escape my eyes. I wanted an explanation so badly, but I knew I wasn't gonna get it because I told him I didn't. I put my phone on my bed, sighed, and lied down on it.

"You love him that much?" Saku, my roommate, asked me.

"I know, it's so obvious…" I replied. I heard her move on the top bed, and saw her climbing down the ladder, only to sit beside me.

"They why did you do it?" she asked me.

"Saku! He was making out with another girl!" I replied in between tears.

"But you should've at least given him a chance to explain himself!" she said, and I stayed quiet. "Whatever" I replied, when my cellphone made a 'whoosh!' sound, indicating that I had a new e-mail. I opened it.

"To: Koizumi Risa
Subject: 7 Things I Love About Koizumi"

"What?" I thought to myself, and kept reading.

"You know I could make an even bigger list that that, Koizumi?

…But compared to all the great things that would take me waaaaay too long to write, I probably should mention the 7 things that I like about you:

1) Your hair
2) Your eyes
3) Your old levi's
4) When we kiss, I'm hypnotized
5) You make me laugh, you make me cry (yeah, uncool ., but I guess that's both I'll have to buy)
6) Your hand in mine, when we're intertwined, everything's alright. I wanna be with the one I know too.

And the seventh thing I like the most that you do… you make me love you…"

"What….?"

"Oooh, the plot thickens…" Saku commented as she started climbing to her bed. I hadn't even noticed she read the email.

"Shut up…" I said, with no tone in my voice at all…

A/N: Now I know you might wanna do to me… but don't kill me! If you do, you'll never get the ending, right? And that's that. Anyway, it's funny, cause I wrote this on IMCRD (International My Chemical Romance Day… xD) and while writing a love fic (this one), I was listening to them… ANYWAY, I promise the second part of this drabble will be out soon!

I'm sorry that it took me a while for this chapter to be up, but now that school has started where I live, you'll get slightly slower updates… :(