A/N: Special thanks to Irumi Kanzaki and firedragonheart for always reviewing. Thank you very much!!:) This is the longest chapter I've written so far. Hope you enjoy!!
Feb 13
"The First Day of the Festival"
Everyone holding an activity for the school festival went to school early and started preparing their stand and last minute conversation about their plan for the day.
"Mikan! Mikan! Look!" Sumire said holding a digital camera.
Mikan is with Anna, Nonoko and Koko, fixing the places of the roses in the stand and separating them by color.
"A camera! Sumire, are you going to take pictures of us?" asked Koko.
"No!" Sumire said then raised the camera "This camera is for us to take pictures of couples that will be together because of our beautiful roses! Don't you think that's great, Mikan?"
"Yes, that will be great! But, I'm kind of worried." Mikan said then pointed a sign in their stand saying: "Red rose 100 yen each, Yellow rose 95 yen each and White rose 95 yen each" and below it writes: "This is for CHARITY"
"Will people really buy our roses? Shouldn't this be free? After all there is no competition here, Hotaru." Mikan said.
"Don't worry students here will sympathize to it (especially the girls). They will buy our roses." Hotaru said calmly, calculating the money they could earn with an evil grin.
"Hotaru, you are going to give it to a charity, right?" Ruka asked sitting beside Natsume that is asleep.
"Of course! It will be given to an orphanage." Hotaru said as if she had planned everything out.
"Could we personally give it to the people in the orphanage?" Mikan asked excitedly. She had always loved children and helping them is the greatest thing she could do.
"Okay everybody, students will be here any minute." Tono-senpai said. Tsubasa and Yuuki were at the gate waiting for students to come then report it to the group.
After a few minutes…
"Hello! Do you have anyone you like now? Why don't you join our activity: 'The Confessions of the Roses'" Mikan said now in the front gate getting students to come to their stand and giving off some fliers. Together with Mikan was Natsume that was just throwing the fliers whenever people pass by him. Without saying anything to the people, they would catch the fliers and go to their stand.
"Natsume! You should at least smile and say something to them! You could be more convincing and you're wasting some of the fliers!" Mikan said.
"If I do that then it wouldn't be me. And it's okay to waste some fliers they we be thrown anyway." Natsume said continuing to give off fliers or throwing it to people.
"What wouldn't be you?" Mikan thought then an image of Natsume smiling and being friendly and all to the people pops in her mind.
"Yikes! That wouldn't be nice, it gives the creeps!!" Mkan whispered to herself.
Sumire together with Anna, Nonoko and Koko are stalking the people that bought their roses and trying to list their names. Tsubasa and Yuuki were the one in the stand selling their roses. Tono and Hotaru were the ones responsible for all the things related to the money. Ruka was accompanying people that are lost to their stand and also convincing people to join their activity.
"Are you lost? Why don't you try our stand and join our activity?" Ruka said with his kind and clam voice.
"Uhm, is this the activity of the Rose club where Natsume is part of?" the girl asked.
"Yes do you want to buy a red rose for Natsume?" Ruka asked holding out a red rose "You should give this to him then tomorrow at the lobby you can get your reply."
The girl didn't say anything and just paid the rose then grabbed it quickly then run away.
"Thank you!" Ruka said with a curious face, "I think I saw her before… She is familiar…"
The school festival is open to everyone, whether student from their school or not. It is where students can bring out their innovative mind to their activities and held it in the school ground. Letting students to enjoy themselves for two days and have fun! They can wear their casual clothing during these days join whatever activities they want to join. After this fun two days, there will be a week free as the school's way to celebrate their anniversary.
At the end of the day, surprisingly all the red roses were bought! Everyone is exhausted and tired. For a day they had earned a lot of money! It is just the first day of the festival and the only roses left are roses to answer the red rose. The group is now gathered at their stand and chatting.
"We were able to get some names of the people that bought our red rose and had agreed for us to take picture of them tomorrow no matter what the result is." Sumire said.
"We earned a lot of money, the kids will surely be happy!" Hotaru said smiling.
"Ah… good thing people didn't back out when people saw me!" Tsubasa said happily since now his title from a weirdo turned into the best comedian in their batch.
"Where's Tono and Yuuki-senpai?" Mikan asked looking around the area.
"They went home already. It's also getting late; I think we should all go home now." Tsubasa said.
Everyone agreed and started to walk off. Mikan didn't move from where she sits so Ruka went to her.
"Aren't you going home yet?" Ruka asked Mikan.
"No, I'm waiting for Natsume." Mikan answered.
"Natsume? Maybe he's on the rooftop sleeping. Why don't we go there?" Ruka suggested.
"I'll go, but, Ruka-pyon should go home now. You look very tired so you should go home." Mikan said.
"Oh, okay. Sakura-san, see you tomorrow then." Ruka said and shook his head. He didn't know what to do.
"Bye!" Mikan said then quickly run to a building where Natsume usually is.
At the rooftop…
"Hyuuga-kun, here's a rose for you. You know I had been looking all over for you." a girl said standing beside a lying Natsume and handling the red rose to him.
Natsume's eyes were closed and since a lot of girls had already given him a red rose, he thought she was one of them.
"Just leave the rose there. You won't receive any answer from me." Natsume said still eyes closed.
"Won't you even open your eyes and see who I am?" the kind voice became an irritated voice.
Natsume wondered who would speak to him like that so with curiosity he opened his eyes. The moment he saw the person his eyes grew big.
"Luna?" Natsume said as he sat up.
"Konnichiwa! How have you been, Hyuuga-kun." Luna said then she hugged him.
"You're alive?"
Luna was an old friend of Natsume. When he and Mikan weren't that close before Luna was the one his with. She had a car accident together with her family that accident was reported that all people involve were dead. She is a rich kid and is the princess of her family. Through all the years Natsume thought that she is dead.
"Of course I'm alive. That report of 'all people involved were dead' was a lie to keep me safe because…" She paused and let go Natsume "That accident wasn't an accident. It was intended to kill my family and me."
Natsume's grew bigger he stood up and looked at the sunset.
"Then why are you showing yourself to me now?"
"I wanted to offer you something..." She said then handed out the red rose "My offer is for you to come with me to California as my bodyguard."
"Huh?" Natsume's face confused on what she's saying.
"Well… I was thinking these for months. I need to go to California to fix my wealth but since someone found out that I'm alive, I'm sue he/she wanted to kill me. You are the most suitable person, you have skills and you're the same age as me so when I'm in school you could still protect me. So Hyuuga Natsume will you accept my offer?"
Just then Mikan came in the rooftop and saw the scene of Luna giving Natsume the red rose.
"Oops, sorry to disturb, you may continue, I'll just wait outside." Mikan said then quickly went out of the scene.
"Your answer will be tomorrow then, bye!" Luna said then went out. Upon seeing Mikan she smiled and went her way.
Mikan and Natsume went home together but Natsume was occupied with all the things that Luna said and wasn't being himself. Mikan noticed that and was worried about Natsume but she didn't dare ask since she knows he will not tell something about it.
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