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"Ahh, ouch!" I screamed when I fell.
"Look at her, she's such a klutz. She even fell on her own feet," A girl laughed even when I saw her handing out her foot in front of my legs to make me trip and fall.
That girl left with her posse and walked off. "You okay?" I heard Natsume asked behind me.
"Yeah," I replied and rubbed my forehead. He helped me up and looked at my knee.
"You've got a slight bleeding there. It's the third day they kept on bothering you. I suggest you go to the infirmary now before Ruka sees it," Natsume said and I nodded. He crouched down and looked back at me. "Hop up," He said.
"What?" I asked surprised.
"Get on my back, it'll be faster, who knows when Ruka'll pop up and find out about those girls who are bullying you," Natsume said and I got on his back.
"I'm heavy," I said.
"I know," He sighed and walked on. How mean! I thought. I stared at his back for a moment. I never knew that his shoulders were this broad, does he work out? Why is my heart thumping like crazy? It's just Natsume! "We're here," He said and dropped me slowly. "Excuse me, nurse?" He knocked on the door. When there was no reply he opened the door and found the room empty.
"Looks like the nurse isn't here yet," I said and he nodded.
"Come on, just sit on the bed and I'll place some cotton to clear the traces of blood on your knee," Natsume said and searched the drawers. I obediently walked over to the bed and sat. Natsume sweating after carrying me and searching restlessly for the first-aid kit made him look somewhat manly. Then suddenly the first bell rang. "Oh shit."
"Hey Natsume, class is starting, you better go first. I'll take care of myself, the nurse should come by soon," I said and Natsume looked at me. He took out his glasses and ran his hands through his hair. So…so gorgeous! I thought and hid my blush.
"You're right, I'll go, make sure you get back before Physic classes start or else Ruka would be on his way here," Natsume said and wore back the glasses. "I'll see you later," He said and got out from the infirmary.
Wow, I never knew how it'd feel like this again. The feeling of loneliness. I thought. I mean, before I got to Junior High where I met Ruka and Natsume, I was always bullied, ever since I broke up with this boy name Reo, all the girls silently tried to kill me for making him feel upset.
Even my best friends left me because they love Reo more than me. I was really lonely, even my parents leave me once in a while for their jobs. Staying in Junior High made me feel better with Natsume and Ruka who're always right next to me. And now one of them is going to leave me. Natsume, I wish you the best of luck to wherever you're going.
"Ah? What're you doing here in this early morning? You're not planning to skip classes are you?" The nurse suddenly came inside the room and asked. When she glanced at my knee she smiled. "You fell huh? Not on purpose I hope," She giggled and got something out from her bag. "Here, chocolate bread. You should be hungry in the morning and have less energy to even hurt yourself," She said. "I'll get the bandage and the antiseptics," She said.
What a happy teacher. I thought and smiled. I ripped the plastic off the bread and bite on it slowly. The nurse came back and placed some liquid over the injured spot. "So what happened? A pretty girl like you would definitely take care of their health better. What made you fall? Love?" The nurse asked.
I blushed. Wow she's good! I thought and covered my face with my hand. "Eh, so I hit the jackpot, huh? Who could it be?" The nurse asked. I looked away and she sighed. "You don't have to say it you know? After all, I am the famous busy-body nurse," She sighed and patted my knee lightly. "Your knee is bandaged well. I suggest you stay for a while for the cut to be cured a little."
"Yeah thanks," I said and started swinging my legs up and down. "It's Ruka Nogi," I said slowly and the nurse turned back and smiled. "But the thing is, I spend more time with his best friend Natsume Hyuuga instead," I said in guilt. "I feel as though I feel more vibes around Natsume than Ruka."
"You can always choose your partner in life. That's why god created millions of candidates for all of us," The nurse said. "May I know your name?"
"Sakura Mikan," I answered.
"Miss Suzumiya," she said and smiled. "I'll tell you a short story about my love life," She said. "I had three best friends, two boys and a girl." She said and I was leaning forward just to know more. "Kisa-chan, the girl loves Chiaki-kun and from my point of view, they were a cute couple as were Damon and I. But after a year of being a couple, Chiaki had feelings for another girl and Kisa-chan ran to me a wept the whole night long. The next day, I found out that Chiaki's feelings were for me and Kisa-chan heard it."
"Wow, that's bad," I said.
"You don't know the half of it. We are the four famous best friends and now we're fighting against each other. It felt really bad. Chiaki threatened Damon to leave so he could have me and Kisa-chan kept on playing dirty tricks on me so I would forget about being with Chiaki. Yet Damon and I are totally in love with each other and they're just tearing us apart," Miss Suzumiya said. "At last, Chiaki met with an accident in the morning of our graduation and passed away. Damon got a scholarship to America and Kisa-chan refused to talk to me even when we went to the same nursing school. We broke up because of love."
"Then what about Damon?" I asked.
"He's married to someone else now," Miss Suzumiya said and I stared at her with my most sympathy eyes. "Please, it's alright. I'm already seeing someone and I'm engaged already," She showed a small diamond ring.
"It's beautiful," I said. "Who's the lucky man?"
"His name is Subaru Imai," She said and blushed then the bell rang. "Ooh! Looks like you've got to head back to class," She said and got up.
"Yeah, thank you very much," I said and bowed and walked towards the door.
"Oh, and Mikan-chan," Miss Suzumiya said and I turned around. "The reason I told you that story is just this, choose the person whom you know won't hurt you and will always be right next to you," Miss Suzumiya said and I smiled and left the infirmary.
"Natsume, where are you?" I called out and saw Natsume with a few girls around him.
"Ah, Mikan," He saw me and pass by the girls as if they were trash and walked up to me. "Ruka was getting worried. You better go and find him now. I only managed to stall him for a while saying you were helping out with the teacher with something," He said. "Ciao, I need to hand in my transferring documents." He said and left.
Ouch, that hurt. He could say he's leaving in front of me so easily. He says it as though I don't care about him one bit. "Mikan! Found you!" Ruka shouted. "What happened to you? I looked for all the teachers around and they said they didn't requested your help," Ruka said. Damn he's good.
"Huh. Oh, I actually helped the nurse carry some medical kits. While I carried it, it fell and it took us some time to rearrange everything in order. I'm sorry," I bowed and he sighed.
"Thank goodness. I thought something bad happened to you," He said. Yeah, Ruka's really sweet. And he's now my boyfriend. And I couldn't wish for anything better. Wait, actually I could. I really wish…Natsume could stay with us forever and we could be the awesome trio once again. "Come on, Physics is up next. We should get going," Ruka said and smiled.
"Yeah!" I grinned and walked next to him.
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Ever since that day we were a couple, I've been getting bullied a lot. Like trash cans dumped over my head and dirty water being sprayed to me. "Mikan! Look out!" I heard a voice and turned around. I saw a big body rushing towards me and grabbed me and pushed me away. "My god that was close," He said.
I looked over at the spot I was standing and saw a brick broken into pieces. I looked up and saw Natsume breathing in after pushing me away. "Thank you," I said and he glared at me.
"You idiot! What were you thinking? You should pay more attention to your surrounding! Idiot! What'll happen if Ruka saw you getting hurt like that? What would be your answer, huh?" Natsume scolded.
"I'm sorry," I said and fell my head and looked at the floor. I don't like looking at Natsume when he's angry, because he's only angry because of me. Everything I do always pisses him off.
"Well, you probably deserved that….OW!" He shouted and fell after trying to get up. I saw his ankle swollen.
"Oh my god, we should bring you to the Infirmary room," I said.
"No," He said. "Just take the bandage from my bag and wrap it. I'll be fine," He said. "Wait," He said and I turned around. "Ah, I knew it. You still got hurt," He said and I looked at my elbow and saw a scrape of blood oozing out. I got the bandage out from his bag and wrapped it on his ankle tightly. "You still don't know how to work with bandages, do you?" He chuckled and I frowned.
"There we go," I said and smiled proudly when I finished bandaging it. Suddenly Natsume pulled me and I dropped and sat on the ground. He pulled out something white from his pocket and wrapped it on my arm.
"You really are an idiot. You can't even take care of yourself," He said. "Why on earth did you scar this beautiful hand," He asked slowly. I blushed. He said my hands are beautiful! His eyes were just staring at them and bandaging it ever so seriously.
What's this feeling when I'm with Natsume? I always feel so comfortable. Oh right…I've forgotten this feeling a long time ago. I think…I might've fallen in love with him. "Natsume…I think I lo-."
"Natsume," We both looked back and saw Ruka walked with his face red. "Get off her hand and let me do it," Ruka said. Natsume slowly stood up and walked away and I saw him smirked when Ruka walked to me and wrapped my arm.
"Easily jealous, eh, Ruka?" Natsume smirked and walked away into the distance. I've forgotten once again, Natsume doesn't take anyone seriously unless it's Ruka. I sighed and looked as Ruka bandaged my arm. No, I don't have the same feelings for Ruka as much feelings as I have for Natsume. I really love Natsume. I was blinded because Ruka said he loved me. I thought he was the one.
"How did you get this cut?" Ruka asked to me bluntly.
"I fell," I said. Well, it was partly true. I just threw out the being grabbed and saved by Natsume part.
"I see," Ruka said, partly believing me. "Alright then. Next time, if you're in any trouble, I'm always able to help, I'll always be available to help you, Mikan," Ruka said and suddenly bent closer to me and kissed me.
I wanted to break it off but I couldn't! He has such a warm and sweet lips and his intentions were just that I'm his girlfriend…but I don't love him as much as I love his best friend.
"I'll see you later, I need to meet up with my team for a bit. I'll see you after school," Ruka said and left. The thing I didn't realize was that Natsume was behind a tree and he saw that kiss. Once I realized he noticed the kiss, my heart nearly stopped beating.
No! I didn't want him to see that! I didn't want to see that disgusted expression on his face! With those cold eyes glaring! No! I cried and walked back into the school. You were the one who told me to be with him, why did you have that expression?
I've decided to take Ruka seriously and become his suited lover. I'll forget about you for good, Natsume. I will. "There's a commotion outside of school!" I saw people running out of the school. What commotion?
When I got out, I couldn't believe my eyes, Natsume and Ruka were dueling each other in a fist fight. They look worn out and they're bleeding. "Stop it!" I shouted and ran down towards them.
"Why?!" Ruka suddenly shouted. "Why'd you hit me? Didn't you give up on Mikan just for me?!: Ruka shouted in rage.
"Wait, that's impossible," I said. "He told me he was giving you up for me," I said and Natsume's face was red in anger as was Ruka's.
"Heh, I was really a fool to think I could use the transfer as an excuse," Natsume chuckled. "Yeah, you're right," Natsume said and took off his glasses that were broken from the fight. "I gave up my love for Mikan for you," Natsume said.
I fell from the shock. How could he do that? "Ruka's very friendly to everyone and he has the guts to do things perfectly while I sit around being a genius yet lazy. I respect that about you, Ruka that's why I thought it'd be best if you were with her," Natsume said.
What are you saying?! I shouted in my head. "To me, rather than seeing Mikan being snatched away by some other freak, I'd rather have her with Ruka. I trust him better than anyone I know," He continued. Ruka clenched his fists and punched Natsume's face.
"Heh, I deserved that," Natsume chuckled. "I'm really ashamed of myself for doing something so shallow but a fact is still a fact. My love for her is not much of a difference from yours!" Natsume shouted and Ruka twitched.
"Why?" I suddenly whispered and everyone's eyes were on me. "Why do you say this now?" I asked with tears welling up in my eyes. "What did you mean by telling me to hook up with him? With asking me to confess to him and that I shouldn't blow this chance," I said.
Even if I had feelings for you, it's long gone, Natsume.
That's the end of the second chapter! The last chapter will be posted up soon.