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TUESDAY AFTERNOON

Mikan had decided that after school she would head to the library to work on her assignment that's due date was drawing ever closer. Well, also getting out of the house and away from her mother was also a very welcomed bonus; she was always much worse around this time of year. As Mikan had come to the Library straight from school she was still in her school uniform and as usual her hair was out and hanging down her shoulders. Mikan had spent around twenty minutes working on her assignment, sorry, attempting to work on it. You see Mikan isn't the most, patient or attentive person; she had spent the first five minutes on it though the rest of the time was spent gazing out the window and tapping her pencil on the library desk. Just when Mikan was about to die of boredom though she heard several footsteps coming towards the desk she was working at. She looked up to see Usagi running down one of the aisles. When he saw her, he stopped running.

"MIKAN! Imagine meeting you here" He said with a big grin as he ran over to her.

"Usagi!" Mikan said with a small smile on her face as she was embraced in a large hug by the little boy.

"So what are you doing here?" she asked after he had finally released her.

"I'm here with my friend Ruka, he had this assignment he said he had to do." Mikan took her eyes off the boy and looked behind him and sure enough the one and only Ruka was standing there.

"Oh hey Ruka I didn't realize you were there, I hear your here doing your assignment as well" Mikan said, standing up.

"Ha ha, trying to but unfortunately I got stuck with the little one ... and Youichi over there isn't so sympathetic." He said motioning over to Youichi behind him whilst chucking and scratching the back of his head.

"Hey, hey" Usagi said while grabbing the hem of Ruka's shirt to get his attention. Ruka bent down to Usagi's level so he could whisper in his ear. Mikan was straining her ears but still couldn't hear a word Usagi said, neither could she read the emotions crossing Ruka's face.

"Hmm ... so I hear you're the one responsible for helping Usagi when he got lost that time. I really owe you my thanks." Ruka said once the whispering had stopped but just when he was about to stand up Usagi pulled him back down.

"Eh, oh we're classmates" Ruka said after some more whispering. Mikan let out a breath she didn't even know she was holding as she realized Usagi was just asking about how they knew each other.

"W-well d-did you w-want to sit here" she mumbled out nervously whilst motioning to the desk she was sitting on.

"Sure! I would love to! Oi Youichi please look after Usagi over in the picture story section, thank you!" Ruka said with the sweetest smile Mikan had ever seen, and to top it of it seemed real, a rare thing in this day and age. It's funny that after everything he's gone through that he can still smile like that. With that small smile it's like Mikan nerves were forgotten, even the fact he had powers were forgotten.

Ruka then settled his things in the other side of the desk as Youichi and Usagi wandered off down one of the aisles.

"OK, so honestly I haven't started where are you up to?" Ruka asked once had got himself settled.

"I've done the first part."

"ha ha ha ha ... might as well have said you haven't started either ha ha ha..."

"Hey, it's still more than you!"

"Good point, I think I will just copy what you've done then ha ha..."

"You will not, I worked very hard on this, thank you very much"

They both then burst into laughter before remembering they were in a library and it turned into small giggles. They had been working on their assignments for about an hour and a half and just leisurely talking about anything that came to their heads like they've been close friends for years.

"Hey Ruka can I ask you something?" Mikan said in a serious tone catching Ruka off guard but nevertheless he recovered.

"Ah sure what's bothering you?" he asked curiously.

"Umm, it's just that ... err ... you can tell me I'm being nosey ... don't think you have to answer or anything ... It's just that-"

"You don't have to be so nervous, I don't bite, ha ha ha ... contrary to popular belief" Ruka cut her off.

"Ah yeah well, I know Youichi has powers, and well, you and then there was that guy the other day in the classroom ... what I'm trying to say is do you guys, you know stay in groups?"

"He he, well most of us do, it's just easier, it makes everything easier when people who understand you are around."

"Oh, then Usagi has powers too?"

"Yep."

"What are they?"

"Ha ha why don't you ask him that" Ruka said before motioning behind her. She turned around in her seat and saw Usagi and Youichi approaching.

"You done?" Youichi asked Ruka, completely ignoring Mikan's existence.

"Ha ha, not really but as much as I'm ever going to be" Ruka replied chuckling.

"Hey Usagi, what are your powers?" Mikan asked timidly.

"Well, I can control the wind! And they say when I'm older I'll be able to use it to teleport! Isn't that cool?" Usagi said with the biggest smile on his face as he talked about his power. This made her a little saddened. When he grows up a little, when he knows what having his powers means, will he still have such a big, proud smile about it?

"Yeah! Really cool!" Mikan replied trying to match his enthusiasm but failing miserably.

'Sing a sad song

In a lonely place

Try to put a word in for me

It's been so long

Since I found this place

You better put in two or three

We as people, are just walking 'round

Our heads are firmly fixed in the ground

What we don't see

Well it can't be real

What we don't touch we cannot feel'

Mikan reached into her bag and started searching for her phone.

'Where we're living in this town

The sun is coming up and it's going down

But it's all just the same at the end of the day

And we cheat and we lie

Nobody says it's wrong

So we don't ask why

Cause it's all just the same at the end of the day

We're throwing it all away

We're throwing it all away

We're throwing it all away at the end of the day'

She finally found her phone and put it up to her ear.

"Hello?" Mikan spoke into the phone

"It's Mum" A cold voice came through the phone.

"Oh what do you want?" She replied in an equally cold tone.

"You need to come home now" Her mother said, no, commanded.

"What? Why?" Mikan was not in the mood to 'obey' her mother.

"Because dinner's going to be ready soon and it's almost dark" she replied, in the same cold tone as before.

"What am I five?" Mikan asked sarcastically, yep, she was not in the mood.

"Might as well be" her mother snapped back across the phone.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Mikan said snapping back.

"Nothing! Now just get home right this instance. It's not safe at night with those monsters around" She said, not angrily though or like she was annoyed, she just sounded exhausted. To be honest Mikan felt a twinge of guilt deep down when she heard her mother's tone, of course though she then realized what her mother had said. Mikan hated her mother's point of view on this topic. She knew her mother needed someone to blame but she was just sick of her one-eyed hate. Her mother wouldn't even listen to her reasoning when she defended them, she was just yell and scream about how she was betraying Nathan. That was what hurt the most.

"What if I told you I cant come home cause I'm hanging out with a group of them right now?" Inwardly she was laughing her ass off at that comment, she wondered to herself when she had gotten so witty.

"That is not funny Mikan." Her mother's tone caught Mikan's attention once again, it was the coldest she had ever heard it before. She wasn't just saying this, even after the funeral, even during every fight, never that cold and distant.

"Nathan would have laughed." The moment those word left her mouth she desperately wished they hadn't. She hated her Mum and has never gotten along with her but she never wanted to bring up Nathan like that. She knew her mother was still hurting, hell, they all were. At that moment she couldn't have felt worse. She felt like crap for bringing him up like that.

"Honestly Mikan I don't know who you are anymore!" Once again what she was feeling had vanished and something inside of her snapped at her mother's comment.

"Anymore? You make it sound that at some point in time you did know who I was." Mikan said sarcastically, but deep down she knew how true that statement was. Worse still, she knew that her mother didn't know how true it was.

"Why are you like this?" Her Mother asked helplessly through the phone.

"Because you're not the only one hurting..." Mikan said trailing off.

There was a moment of silence so Mikan continued.

"Because I'm hurting too..."

Another moment of silence went by so once again Mikan kept talking.

"Because I'm still here, i still feel..."

Mikan didn't wait to see if she would respond this time.

"Because you seem to have forgotten that. Oh, and I hear you loud and clear I'll be home soon." With that Mikan flicked her phone shut and shoved it in her bag. When Mikan looked up she found three sets of eyes staring at her. She shuffled nervously in her seat as realization struck that they had just heard every word of what she had just said.

"Sooo ... Umm ... That's was my Mum and I have to head home as dinner is almost ready and it is getting late. I will see you guys round and thanks I had fun talking to you" said with a small, out of place smile before walking off leaving the boys shell-shocked.

"Wait!" Usagi said as he had recovered the fastest and had reached out and grabbed the back of her shirt.

"What's up?" Mikan asked cheerily though not turning around, she simply turned her head and looked over her shoulder.

"Err ... i was thinking Youichi could show you his little trick like he tried to the other day" Usagi said almost pleadingly. Mikan couldn't do anything, he was adorable and she couldn't refuse him.

"Okay then sure" she said happily enough as not to disappoint the little boy. Usagi gave a pleading look over to Youichi who begrudgingly made his way over to them and placed himself firmly in front of Mikan. He looked up at her and she, remembering from last time, stuck out her hand, palm up. He put his hands over hers and like last time a bubble of water stared appearing just above her upturned hand, except this time she didn't move her hand. She watched incredulously as the bubble started taking shape, it started forming into what seemed to be a flower. Her eyes were as wide as saucer and glazed over with amazement as every second the flower gained more and more detail. The flower was now formed in her hand with so much detail that if it wasn't water she would have sworn it was real then it suddenly froze into ice and dropped the few centimeters into her upturned hand. She almost dropped it out of shock when she realized that is wasn't cold, in fact it was room temperature. She looked up at Youichi incredulously whilst he just had a lazy look on his face.

"Hey, you know Youichi's ice is really strong and will never melt?" Usagi said with a big smile on his face.

"Really?" Mikan asked looking even more incredulously at Youichi.

"Yep, that'll last forever" Usagi said proudly as if he were the one who had made it. Mikan and Ruka couldn't hold back a chuckle at this adorable act.

"I'll treasure it always. Thank you Youichi." Mikan said with a soft, small, serene smile.

"No problem" Youichi mumbled and smile slightly.

"Hehe, I think he's warming up to, eh Youichi?" Ruka said jokingly whilst ruffling the boys hair.

"I guess so ... Oh I really have to go now!" Mikan said and then bolted out of the Library at full speed.

That night Mikan was in her room in her pajamas, she was sitting with her legs crossed on her bed. She was playing with the ice flower Youichi had given her earlier.

"I really will treasure it forever" She whispered to herself before placing it on her shelves. She placed it so the broken picture frame was on it's right and on it's left was a light purple shoe box labelled 'Memories'. After putting the flower down she gently stroked the picture in the broken picture frame with her thumb. She smiled a small sad smile as a small tear rolled out of her left eye. She stood like that for a minute or two before quickly wiping the escaped tear away and getting ready for bed.

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