If Only the Fairytale: Chapter Seven

"You seem happy today," the brunette said.

"Good morning, Kikukawa-san," Shizuru smiled warmly.

Yukino smiled back at the older girl. "I'll take that as a yes."

Shizuru simply smiled at her.

The secretary observed the president for a few minutes. Fujino had never seemed so relaxed before, so happy. "So what happened?"

Shizuru…she didn't grin, for she never grinned, but it was as close to a grin that Yukino had ever seen Fujino make.

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"Hey."

"What do you want?"

Sakuya sighed. "Did I do something wrong? Because it seems like I have. I mean, why else would you be so angry at me? So if I did something…or maybe I didn't do something…or…."

Nao stared at the girl as she continued babbling. She felt anger rise within her. The way the pink-haired wench spoke made it sound like she'd been a bad lover instead of a complete stranger. The girl had no right to do that!

"So…if I did….and if you tell me then I-"

"Enough!"

The brat stopped talking.

"I want you to stop."

Sakuya stared at her. "Stop what?"

Nao glared at the girl, "Stop acting like we're friends."

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She'd begun avoiding her. She knew it was wrong, knew that they should at least talk. Even Kuga had been able to talk, but then again, despite their similarities, there was one big difference in their situation. Kuga could love Fujino back….she did love her back, and from the way Fujino had been acting that morning, something probably happened between the two of them. But she…she couldn't love Yukino back, not the way Yukino wanted, not the way she wanted.

Yukino was her best friend, had been since they were children. She wanted her friend to be happy, and she had prevented that happiness all these years. She did, she did want to love Yukino. She wanted to look at the younger girl and feel her heart beat and she wanted to want to embrace her friend. She didn't want the feelings she had. She didn't want to want friendship.

It was laughable. Here she was wishing she could love a girl, thinking that it would make her life easier. All it would do would be to make Yukino happy and she wanted that. More than anything she wanted that.

It would be wrong to pretend. She knew it. She could try to love Yukino. But that wouldn't be fair to either of them. And it would be a lie.

And all lies did was hurt people.

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"You seem happy today." Mai grinned at the dark-haired girl.

"Of course I'm happy."

The redhead groaned, "And are you going to tell me why?"

"Dunno."

"Natsuki!"

The ice HiME laughed. "Shizuru."

"Shizuru what?"

Natsuki grinned, "I realized what a complete idiot I've been."

"You've always been an idiot Natsuki."

"Hey!"

"Continue," Mai couldn't help but giggle.

"I've been in love with Shizuru and I was too dumb to even accept it. I was too busy being afraid of love to do anything about it. So yesterday I told her."

Mai had known that eventually Natsuki would accept her feelings and then eventually overcome her fear; she just hadn't expected it to happen to quickly. "Wow. So…what happened?"

"What do you think?"

"Natsuki," the redhead growled.

"Not much…unfortunately."

That got Mai's interest. Not much…obviously whatever had happened hadn't been all that her friend had wanted. It couldn't be what she thought it was though; Natsuki would never move any relationship that quickly. "What's not much?"

"We kissed, a lot," Natsuki grinned. "Then we went back to her place and cuddled. Nothing else happened."

"But you wanted something else to happen."

"Of course."

Mai frowned. "Don't you think that it's a bit early for the two of you to have sex?"

"No."

"Well…then I wish you the best of luck. And I am happy for you Natsuki, just…don't rush into anything."

Natsuki shrugged, "I won't."

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The dark-haired girl wandered along the path beside her. "It's getting late you know." The girl said nothing, just smiled and continued walking. Frowning, she continued following the girl. "Do you at least have a name?" Still no response. At least she'd probably forget all this once she woke up.

"Can you see it?"

She frowned. "See what?"

"You can't." Disappointment was obvious in the girl's voice

"Maybe if you'd tell me what I was supposed to see!"

The girl backed away slowly. Her hand shot out to prevent the girl from getting away. "Tell me! Tell me something!"

"I can't. I'm sorry." She backed away. "I'm so sorry Mai."