Feb 7: "Its Chinese New Year"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh!! I have forgotten about this rule again!" Mikan said crying in front of the school gate. In front of her is a small blackboard written in it:
"Today is Chinese New Year so everybody should wear Chinese attire. If you're not wearing one then you can't go in the school."
Hotaru then came and saw Mikan. She looked at her for awhile then went in pretending not to see her.
"Hotaru, how mean of you! How could you not even help me?" Mikan thought, "I don't have any Chinese outfit at home so it's no use going home. Last year, I just borrowed from Yuuki-senpai but I don't think I can see her now, since…"
DENG DONG DING DONG (bell rungs)
Natsume came to school right after that bell wearing traditional Chinese attire for men. He stopped at the front gate to look at the girl sitting on the floor in front of the board; he thought that it could be Mikan. Mikan looked up the sky and didn't Natsume until Natsume walk to her.
"Oi, what are you doing here? The bell had rung." He said.
"Natsume? Hey you're late! You should hurry to class!" Mikan said as she stood up and tried to push Natsume in the gate.
"Oi! Stop pushing me!" he said then he grabs her hand and pulled her to the way home.
"Natsume, what are you doing? Where are we going? You should go to class!" Mikan shouted.
"We're going to my house. You couldn't go in because you're not wearing a Chinese outfit right?" Natsume said. "My house has one Chinese dress and its okay to be late in class; we're not going to do anything anyway."
Hyuuga Residence…
Mikan now all dressed-up and her hair now is loose, Natsume said it looks better.
"Uhm, could I know who own this dress?" Mikan asked.
"I don't know, maybe my mom. It's a good thing it fits you well." He said.
"Ah, ok. Uhm, thank you Natsume, again you had helped me." Mikan said blushing.
Free Period
School's Garden…
"Mikan, Natsume, did something happened? Why are you both late?" Ruka asked.
"Well, uh-uhm…" Mikan didn't know how to explain everything.
"I helped her this morning. She forgot to wear a Chinese dress so we went to my house and I let her borrowed one. No more questions, that's all that happened." Natsume said a little annoyed since everyone is repeatedly asking that question.
"Oh, so that's how you got in Mikan." Hotaru said.
"You're a mean girl Hotaru! You didn't even help me when you saw me!" Mikan said to Hotaru with a slight angry face.
"Well. I won't get any profit in helping you. And you ran away from me when you couldn't pay your debt so it's just payback." Hotaru said with a grin.
"Mikan, you should have told me so that I can let you borrow one." Yuuki said, since she has a lot of different dress or costumes.
"Well, I was if I hadn't forgotten. But I had totally forgotten about it so I wasn't able to talk to you." Mikan said with a silly smile.
"You usually remember this kind of events so why have you forgotten about it?" Tsubasa asked.
"Well…"
Flashback
Feb 6: late at night…
"7 days to go and the event will start. 4 days to take care of the roses and 3 days to pick them all up" Mikan thought while lying in her bed.
"Alright, tomorrow will be like today, going to the school garden and we'll start to design the stand…" with that in Mikan's mind she fell asleep.
End Flashback
"I see, you forgot because you were too busy thinking about the activity." Tsubasa said.
"Oh! The Rose Club is all here." Tono said walking to where the Rose Club is and at his back are the members of the Gardening Club carrying some paint and is pushing a cart.
"This will be the stand for our activity. We'll be designing it now." Tono said.
So everybody grab their brushes, discussed the design, what to write and the colors. Then, everybody wears their apron (luckily someone brought some) and started to paint the cart.
Written in the cart the title of the activity "Confessions of the Roses" and there are some roses drawn beside it.
"Hey guys, the Chinese New Year celebration is starting!" Anna said.
"Just in time, we're finish" Nonoko said.
"Well, then let's start cleaning up and go to the celebration" Tono said.
…DRUMS ROLLING…
"Hotaru look, the dragon dance!" Mikan said pointing happily to where the dragon is dancing to the beat of the drum.
After the dragon dance, every student was able to eat all the food that the school prepared. There were dumplings, candies, drinks and many more other food.
"Ah… This was a fun day!" Mikan said stretching her arms.
"Yeah, students enjoyed it more this year than last year." Ruka said.
"Natsume, it is all thanks to you that I was able to enjoy this day." Mikan said to him with a big smile on her face.
"Whatever" Natsume said coldly buth deep inside he was happy that she had a lot of fun.
"Mikan, when are you going to pay your debt?" Hotaru asked. "You see I'm getting a little short now with me helping the club and not being able to do my usual work I didn't have enough money."
"Uhm… uh… Hotaru, are you really getting short in money now?" Mikan asked with a worried look. Hotaru stared at her and didn't say anything while Ruka and Natsume looked at Mikan with a curious face. Usually, Mikan just make fun of it and try to get away but now she became serious about it.
"It was just a joke, you don't need to worry." Hotaru said with a smile.
"Really?"
"Uhm! Come on I'm your best friend, I wouldn't change our friendship for money."
"Hotaru, I'm sorry for being a burden sometimes. So, I will be going home now… uhm… bye!" Mikan said and walked away but she suddenly stops. "Natsume, I will return this dress tomorrow, I promise!"
There she walked away until she was out of sight, Ruka, Hotaru and Natsume looked at each other then Hotaru faced down and said
"She is hiding something."
"Yeah" Natsume said.
"Sakura-san…" Ruka said.
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