Disclaimer: I had a choice between owning Gakuen Alice or chocolate chip cookies, I went for the cookies.

Chapter Two: Rubik's Cube

"To know exactly what you yearn for, you have to realize that what you think you desire; isn't really what you want."

- Bonjour Love, Unknown Desire

"Onii-chan! Wake up!" My bed was shaking. Earth quake? "Onii-chan!" The yelling increased.

I opened my eyes and saw my little sister and little brother jumping on my bed, "What... the hell... do you two think your doing?" I spoke with the scariest and deepest voice I could do. The two of them laughed and ran outside of my room. "Freaks." I spoke under my breath.

I went into the bathroom and stood in the shower for a while. I remembered having a dream but I just couldn't quite remember what the dream was.

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The day moved on. Today was the official day of summer vacation. What a boring summer. Ruka was with his family in some resort for a while and I don't really talk much to other people. I sat at home all day long simply reading mangas. The doorbell rang around 8PM and I yelled at someone to get it but it seemed like I was the only one home.

I left my room and opened the front door. Some girl with raven black hair and a poker-face like expression was on some flying duck contraption. She held out the newspaper.

"New paper boy?" I questioned.

Silence. "Girl." I took the paper and she flew off with her duck thing.

I went to the kitchen to get some coffee and opened the newspaper as I drank the black coffee. I was shocked at the what I read:

Man Found Mysteriously Dead

A man around thirty years old was found hanging by his feet on a tree. Blood was found dripping from his neck to his head. His blood was all over the floor.

His wound seems to have been made by a knife. No one knows what could've happened or who could've done the murder. Suspects are to be found but for now nothing is showing up. The murder was extremely clean.

Just be aware of anyone suspicious and report back to the authorities immediately.

A picture of the man, hanging by his feet on the tree, was also on the paper. His place was covered in blood and you couldn't recognize whoever he was because of the facial scratches all over him. I guess it would've looked creepier if the paper was in color rather than the black and white print.

I finished my coffee and went back into my room an hour later. It was getting outrageously boring so I grabbed my shoes and coat and went outside. Where to? Anywhere my feet brought me.

My feet brought me to the park. A few blocks from here was where the murder occurred. I stood in front of the park for a while until the silence was broken.

"I thought you'd come." The same girl I met yesterday stood up from the swing.

I walked a bit closer to the swings and her. "How long have you been waiting here?"

She shrugged, "For a while, not that long though." She smiled and went back onto the swing, "There's another swing beside me. Why not join me."

"I think I'll pass. I haven't been on a swing for a long time." She got off the swing and ran toward me.

She put her hands on my wrists and looked up to me and smiled. "My dream." I thought.

She took me by surprise instead. She grabbed me and we ran back to the swings, "Then this is a perfect time to get back on them! The swings are my favorite part of playgrounds!" She said so gleefully.

I sat down on the swing beside her swing. We swung there together in silence. It wasn't bad though, wasn't bad at all. It was strange but actually, I liked the feeling.

After an hour, we got off the swings and I was content with that silent conversation we had. If that's what you'd call it. We sat down on a bench and stared at the stars and the moon.

"Your different." She said. I looked at her and I didn't know what she was talking about.

"Different from what?" I asked.

She swung her feet back and forth, "I'm not sure. I guess, from other people I've met." She smiled as she stared at her swaying feet.

I smiled at her statement. I put my hands in my pocket and felt something inside. A hard object. I pulled that object out and I found my rubik's cube that I gave up on a long time ago. Sure I was smart, but I guess the rubik's cube was just one of those things that I couldn't succeed on doing.

I tried it again there though.

I realized she was staring at me, "Natsume?" She said my name. I forgot she even knew it.

"Hn?" I continued on the cube matching the red side. Only one side was all I could do.

She looked at the cube, "What's that?"

"It's a rubik's cube little girl."

"Rubik's cube? What do you do?" She sat closer, analyzing the cube even more.

I looked at her, "You've never seen one before?" She shook her head. "You just have to try and get each face into one solid color. See?" I showed her the red one that I did. "Thing is, you have to get all the sides into one color."

She still stared at my hands twisting the cube around. "Oh!" She replied in understanding.

I stopped twirling the cube around. "Uhm. You want to try?"

She looked at me with huge puppy dog eyes. She nodded. I looked away from her eyes. I didn't notice they were a milk chocolate color. Maybe a little lighter. Innocent. That's the word. That's the word that described her. She's different, as well.

I handed her the cube. "Want to borrow it?" She stopped twisting it for a moment, "You can give it back to me tomorrow if you want."

She smiled with an extremely joyful expression, "Absolutely!" She jumped around on the bench twirling while jumping.

I smiled too in amusement, "Stop it, your going to hurt yourself," I joked around. She stuck her tongue out at me and continued on the cube.

After that, I made my way home. The family was home asleep in their beds when I got back. I looked at the clock and it was 4AM, the time I usually crashed. I have an insomnia problem I guess.

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I woke up around 12PM to the closed curtains. It was strangely dark in my room, even at this time. I went into the bathroom and took my clothes off for a quick afternoon shower. I looked at myself in the mirror, talking to myself. "You dreamt about her again didn't you Natsume?"

I smirked, "Shut up." I told myself.

"You know talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity." I told myself again.

"Hn." I entered the shower.

As I walked out, I looked at the mirror. Behind me; she was standing there.

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