Me: Two weeks till first day…

Ikuto: She's been like this for days…

Me: Finished one story…two more chapters to go…

Ikuto: Hana-chan doesn't own Shugo Chara

Me: Must…write…finish…school…BLARGENSDOODLE!!!


Recap:

"So my dear boy, would you mind telling me what made that little lady cry before we came here?" the exorcist asked. It took me a minute to realize he was talking about Rima, not Amu which saved me the potential difficult conversation where I would've had to tell him that he was just flat out creepy.

"Um, I'm trying to explain my love for her but nothing I do is working," I said, depression looming over me.

"I can help you there," the exorcist said. "I'm a bit of a love doctor myself."

Ikuto and I exchanged brief looks of disbelief.

"I dunno…" I said, unwilling to be rude. Just in case he called Tadase's ghost back into me of course.

"No really!" the exorcist said. "Here's what you do."

With the brief explanation and a few instructions I left the disgustingly bright house with Ikuto...and a new plan.

"Do you think it's worth a shot?" I asked Ikuto, hoping for a serious answer. Ikuto shrugged.

"Well, I think she despises you already so…" he said trailing off at the end.

"Thanks," I said darkly and went to tell Lulu and Amu the exorcist's idea.


Amu and Lulu hadn't been much into the plan, but we convinced them in the end. Out of all the plans though, this had to be the most ridiculous. Well…the whole knight costume one was pretty bad.

But seriously, getting Rima to ask spirits for guidance and have them tell her that I'd make her happy was pretty far fetched. The exorcist sent me some materials to call for the spirits and have them be on my side.

"This is ridiculous," I mumbled.

"Oh I know," Amu, Lulu and Ikuto all said together glaring at me. We'd set up a little place to work behind Rima's house so once we had the spirits in control, we could get Rima out here before we lost them.

We'd reasoned with our lack of experience, the spirits would be hard to handle.

"Do you think this is going to work?" I asked and Lulu and Ikuto both shook their heads while Amu cheered.

I sighed because after all this time, why did I bother? It's not like I was going to get much else.

"Alright then," I said miserably. "Let's do this."

"I'll be the one to contact the spirits," Ikuto offered.

"Really?" I asked hopefully.

"It's the least I can do for you," Ikuto said kindly. I should've known that "Ikuto" and "kindly" don't go in the same sentence unless Ikuto's planning something malicious…or he's doing something for Amu and even then he's still somewhat of a jerk. Anyway, I didn't think and simply agreed.

Ikuto closed his eyes and seemed to be concentrating hard. He opened his eyes wide and I registered shock in the deep blue irises.

"I have the connection," he said in a raspy voice.

"OK kid, time to go in," I told the little child we'd kidnapped and bribed with candy to go get Rima. The kid nodded and I then realized he was about Rima's height…OK then.

The kid ran up to the door and I heard him mumble something about missing his something and needing her help to find it. Rima refused so the kid dragged her to us.

"I got her," he said and I handed him a stick of pockey. The midget shook his head. I handed him another and the cycle continued like this until he had the whole box. Without another word, the kidnapped child ran off. I sincerely hoped we weren't going to get arrested for kidnap.

"Hey, Rima-chan," I said weakly.

"What do you want?" Rima asked rolling her eyes.

"We need some help with connecting the spirits," I explained.

"I feel…the ghosts…noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!" Ikuto began ranting suddenly.

"Quick! Quick! Get the ghosts out of him!" Amu cried.

"BLARGENSDOODLE!" Ikuto yelped and looked like he was in pain.

"You guys are like some sort of freaky cult!" Rima yelled. "And you kidnap little kids!"

Rima ran away as fast as she could and Ikuto stopped freaking out.

"Jeez…," he said. "I was just kidding."

Lulu, Amu and I stared with our jaws dropped.

"You can't be serious," I said weakly.

Ikuto shrugged.

"That exorcist was full of crap," Ikuto said. "I never had any ghosts in me."

I sighed.

"Well, I think I've officially given up," I said and left as Ikuto suffered physical and verbal abuse from the two girls. Joy.

Now, the would-be love of my life thought I was part of a cult who kidnapped children. That was when I heard the sirens.

"That's them Mommy," I heard a little boy say.

I ran.

Well, we ran.


"What can I do?" I mumbled as I hid in my house. I'd barely escaped the police and hoped the others had done the same. Well…I wasn't exactly concerned about Ikuto, but that's not the point.

"I've been following all these peoples' advice and none of it's actually worked!" I all but yelled at myself. Once you've hit all time low, it's OK to talk to yourself, no matter how much the maids stare.

"Wait…" My eyes widened as a realization hit me that I felt so stupid for not figuring out earlier. I now knew why my previous ten attempts had failed!

I'd been following advice. And my confession needed to be, well, my own!

"I KNOW WHAT TO DO!" I shouted like an idiot. Because now, I had a plan. I had my own confession and I knew that if I'd done this from the start I would've saved myself a lot of humiliation.

I'd failed ten confessions. I wouldn't fail the eleventh. If I did…I opted not to think about that.


Me: Very short…but I need to update so I can put up the next one!

Ikuto: You didn't make me say 'blargensdoodle'!

Me: Yeah I did.

Ikuto: You're….you're…

Me: A genius? Yeah, I already knew that.

Ikuto: …Review people!

Me: One more chapter!

Ikuto: They already knew that