Hi! I'm sorry for the kinda late update, I've been brainstorming cause I knida ran out of ideas for a while ----- :) So here goes chapter 7! Thx to all of those reviews!

Disclaimer: Gakuen Alice is not mine, I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friends, I told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense.

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"fate is an elegant, cold-hearted whore. she loves salting my wounds yes, she enjoys nothing more. i bleed confidence from deep within my guts now. i'm the queen of this pity party with my jewel encrusted crown. i wanna tear apart your room. to see if what you say is true. darling don't you lie, lie to me. i wanna break into your heart to see why you want us apart. oh, i'm scared to death to find out what you think of me . according to you we don't click. that's a blatant lie and you know it. angel, what are you hiding from me? if there is truly another secret lunch-break, working late lover. then i would die, but at least then i'd be free"

Mikan put down her pen and sighed. She had been writing in her diary for the past 2 hours "This has been one crazy, mixed up week" she thought. Faking as a couple with Natsume had been hard for her right now. With Tsubasa's annoying joke, taunting and god knows what else, not to mentioned the way he followed her everyday had been hard enough, not to mention this new tingling feeling she just discovered she felt when Natsume hugged her, or hold her hand in front of the fan girls.

"Why the hell I'm feeling this way??! I couldn't possibly fall for him, no way. hell no. We are not even together! All these times, his hugs, kisses, are all for the sake of the fan girls. it's not because he love me. It's all just drama. Yeah, just a drama and we are both the actors" She thought as she put down her diary and decided she's now tired enough to sleep.

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Tsubasa has nearly gave up on Mikan, but slowly, and suprisingly even towards himself, he was able to find a way to get on the brunette's positive point of view. What could possibly be his trick? easy. Paintings. It was the very next Sunday evening when Tsubasa found Mikan, alone, looking at a painter who is busily painting in the sidewalks.

"Hey" he greeted

"Hi" Mikan replied

Tsubasa widened his eyes. Her affection towards paintings can even made her usual snappy remarks turned into a cheerful greeting! More, this girl even forgot to tell him to 'go to hell' or 'outta here'!

"Ya know, that painting is called Shearing the Rams, it's made by Tom Roberts" Tsubasa told her, as Mikan quickly in a suprised motion turned to him

"This thing is a repro?!" She asks

"Yep!" Tsubasa replied

"How come you know?" The painter, who have been evesdropping quickly butts in

"Of course I know, haha" Tsubasa replied the painter

"How about this?" The painter pulled another painting from a case

"Oh my god, that is so chic!" Mikan instantly exclaimed

"Petit Dejeuner by Frederick McCubbin!" Tsubasa smirked, as Mikan and the painter stared at him in awe

"Come on, test me again!" He challeged

"Okay, how about this?" the painter pulled out another painting

"Impression for Golden Summer by Sir Arthur Streeton!"

"You're amazing, lad!" The painter excalimed

"Hahahaha. thanks" Tsubasa smiled out of sastification

"How come you know so much about paintings?" Mikan suddenly asks

Tsubasa smiled, and just like magic, Mikan agreed on taking a walk with him. It's just like she forgotten the fact that she's taking a walk with the boy she nearly killed in school!
"How come you're all alone? It's rare that you're not with Natsume" he asks

"Do I have to be with him all the time?" She asks back

"Duh, I mean, In school, you both are like siamese twins"

Mikan smiled. It's just when they are in school he cares a lot about her, but outside school? He doesn't care at all. Even if she's going to Antartica or any other planet in this galaxy, as long as it is outside school

"So how about we go for lunch? It's 12 already" Tsubasa asks

"Sure, why not?" Mikan replied

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Natsume stared at Mikan in disbelief, as Mikan told him about her meeting with Tsubasa the other day. All day long, Natsume asks her to repeat the story, about her meeting with Tsubasa, McCubbin, Arthur something and the other stuff he doesn't give a damn about it. Just one lunch with Tsubasa!! Only one!! And Mikan was out of his grasp. That made him feel like the most idiotic person on earth, for letting the girl he cares about to 'fleed' to another guy, and all just for his stupidity of not understanding paintings! just that! And he doesn't know that Tsubasa has just begun. For Mikan, she feels more comfy around Tsubasa. His eyes are his heart. She's free to laugh, get mad, and be herself. While with Natsume, reading his heart is like playing poker. He's way to unpredictable. And he always do the planning, the ordering around, the one who is talking, while she's always the one who listens. What's worst, Mikan's getting tired of being Natsume's shield, after all this time... but she doesn't have the heart to tell Natsume that. Because she remembers what he says, on the day he asks her to be his fake girlfriend...

Flashback:

"You wanted to talk about that, right?" Mikan asked, breaking the ice

"Yeah, have you think about it?" Natsume replied

"Yes" Mikan replied flatly

"So? The answer?"

"Can it be a no?" She asks

Natsume laughed. "Sorry, but it's either 'sure' or 'yes', take your pick"

"Yeah, that, that's the problem" Mikan turned and faced him

"Please? I really need your help!" Natsume pleaded again

End of Flashback

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Another gossip had started. In the school, they say that Mikan is cheating on Natsume with Tsubasa. It's because a lot of students had seen them both together. At the paintings gallery, the painting museum, the festival of arts, and the painting markets. And Sumire had taken a picture, I mean, the picture is not very romatic, or anything but... It shows how enthusiastic and close they (tsubasa and mikan) on affections for paintings, and Sumire had spreaded a gossips about the fact that the painting they are very eager about is a 'nude' picture, and what's more, Natsume believed in the gossip! And he questioned it the moment they got into the car...

"What kind of picture you were looking at?" he asks

"Views. Fete torcind la poarta by Nicolae Grigorescu and Mesteceni La by Marginea Baltii" Mikan answered truthfully, and to make Natsume believed her, she took him to the art market. And turned out, the painting had been replaced, into a... a... nude picture! Not really vulgar actually, but still...

"MIKAAN! you went to an art market to see a painting like, like this, with a boy?" and Mikan was shocked! That was not the painting she had seen with Tsubasa! HELL NO!

"But.. but..." Mikan stamered "That was not the painting I had seen!" She replied. It's true, she's not lying!

"But..." Mikan started, but Natsume's eyes stopped her

"If you don't believe me, fine" she replied

"I don't believe you" Natsume replied coldly, and as soon as they reached Mikan's house, Mikan slammed the door, with no good-byes, and went straight into her room. Mikan opened her diary, when suddenly someone knocked her door, as her little brother, Youichi, head popped in

"You've got a visitor" he smirked

"Who?" she asks, not in the mood for visitors

"You know..." Youichi smiled "Oh! must be hotaru!" thought Mikan

"Tell her to come in" she replied

"Come in to where?" Youichi was puzzled

"Here, du-h?" She answered

"WHAT? MOM WILL KILL YOU!" Youichi shouted in disbelief

"Huh? Youichi, mom had seen it hundred, thousands of times. Ple-ase" She rolled her eyes

"WHAT? SERIOUSLY?" Youichi screamed

"Yes!" Mikan replied "What's wrong with him?" she asks

"That is so not fair! You're my big sister but we're both no 17! I'm gonna protest when mom came home!"

Mikan stared at her little brother who went outside, still ranting on and on

"What's wrong with---" She started, but a voice cut her off

"Hey" Natsume is standing on her doorway to the room!

"WHAT? How come you're here? Youichiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" She shouted, as youichi ran towards her

"What?" he asks

"You little----! Why did you bring him up here????" Mikan shouted

"You're the one who told me to" he remarks

"I was talking about Hotaru! Not about him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed

"I'll be downstairs" Natsume said

"Curse you, dear brother!" Mikan hissed as she also went down

Natsume and Mikan sat across each other in the living room, while Youichi was busily eavesdropping behind the door.

Mikan started "I thought you didn't believe me?" she asks coldly

"Sorry... I guess I was shocked, I shouldn't have shouted at you like that" Natsume answered, looking straight into her eyes

"And dont cha think Im not shocked??! If I did see the picture before, I wouldnt challenge you all the way to go there!" Mikan snapped

"Yeah, I know..."

"You dont know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mikan screamed

"Uhmmm, you know what? This doesnt feel right. Why don't we go for lunch?" Natsume asks

"I don't wanna eat!" Mikan snapped

"What about... howalons?" he asks, naming Mikan's favourite snack

"I want one! I want one!" Youichi jumped from the door, as Mikan glared at him

"Didn't you get one from mom yesterday?" She asks

"Yep. But you finished it, hey oni-saan, Mikan is lying! she hadnt eaten anything since morning!!" Youichi answered

"Youichiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! curse you!" As Natsume chuckled at the brother and sister fight they are having. Youichi and Mikan, both small, and not a pretty sight when they are mad

"So oni-saan, If you wanna get some howalons, don't give it to Mikan. She might finished it herself!" As he smirked

"YOUICHI! Im so gonna put poison in your cereal tommorow morning!"

"I'll put it in yours when ure not looking! or i'll put it down the drain!" He replied, the climbed on Natsume's lap and whispered something as he chuckled, then ran away

"WHAT.DID.HE.SAID?" Mikan demanded

"He said that when you're mad, you'll ended up unconcious at the end of the day. So, you haven't eated for 12 hours because we had been fighting, so let's wait and see, you'll be unconcious in just another hour, I predict" as he chuckled when he sees Mikan boiled

"Fine. do what you want. Let's eat if that's what you want" and stand up as Natsume smiled

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