Chapter 4: Love?
Mikan opened her eyelids half close after she had slept a whole day. She got up into a sitting position. She yawned and rubbed her eyes, and yawned again. She still felt sleepy and decided to sleep again, but stopped when she noticed someone sleeping at her side.
She noticed the person's raven-colored hair. "Natsume...?" she murmured the boy's name.
"What is he doing here?" she thought confusedly. She stared at his sleeping figure. She began to run her hand into his raven hair and smiled. Natsume's hair felt soft and shiny, and smelled nice too. She wondered: how did Natsume manage his hair into something like this when he's always on mission?
She giggled softly when she thought about that. Suddenly Natsume stirred. Mikan quickly took away her hand from his hair. Natsume got up with eyes half closed. He looked at Mikan. "Oh, you're awake?" he asked the first thing in the morning.
"Ehehehe... well yeah..." Mikan rubbed the back of her head.
"What are you laughing about? I heard you giggling a little while just now," he said, now fully awake.
"Nothing. By the way, what are you doing here?" Mikan asked as she poured down cold water into her glass on the bedside table.
"I accompanied you..." he replied, not looking at his dream girl.
"Oh... why? You shouldn't stress yourself over something like this. I can take care of myself," she smiled. "Besides, I don't want to cause trouble for you,"
"Well, you already have," he muttered softly.
"Eh? What? Did you say anything?" Mikan didn't hear a thing he said, fortunately. He didn't want her to get angry if she did.
There was silence between the two of them...
Mikan broke the silence. "Natsume, do you want anything? Coffee or tea?"
"Huh?" he saw that Mikan got down the bed and headed to the water-heater.
"Hey wait! Don't!" he quickly stopped Mikan from doing anything.
"What? I can make delicious drinks!" she argued.
"That's not what I mean!"
"Then what?"
"You're too tired right now, so you should rest. Just let me handle everything."
Mikan just stared at him. Then she smiled brightly. "You're so kind, Natsume. I think I should say thank you," Then she get onto the bed once more.
"Wh-whatever." he blushed a little. He helped serve coffee for Mikan after 10 minutes. Then he sat back on the chair next to her.
Mikan sipped her coffee. Her face lit up. "This coffee is so delicious! I never know you could make as delicious as this! Brilliant!" she made thumbs up. Natsume sweat-dropped.
"Whatever..." he took the newspaper on the floor and began reading where he left off last night.
After a while, Natsume decided to make a conversation. "Oi, Polka,"
Mikan twitched at that so-called nickname. "What?!" she snapped.
"I wanna ask you something,"
"Hm? What is it?"
"Did you really mean it?" he referred to the time when Mikan seduced him.
"Ha? I meant what?" she raised her eyebrows and sipped her coffee.
"You said that I'm your boyfriend," he finally said it.
Mikan poured out the coffee from her mouth into Natsume's handsome face. Mikan coughed several times before she could calm down. Looks like the word 'boyfriend' had strong effect on her. Natsume grabbed a nearby cloth and wiped out his coffee-covered face. He had three veins on his head.
"When the hell did I say that?!" Mikan shrieked after she had calmed down. Her face red in fury and embarrassment.
"The other day." Natsume said shortly.
"There's no way I would say that!" she yelled again.
"But you did." He said nonchalantly, like Hotaru.
"I don't recall saying anything like that!" she stood up on the bed, glaring down at Natsume.
"You mean you don't remember anything?" he asked in confuse tone.
"What are you, sick or something?! Suddenly asking me random things... are you pulling a trick on me?!" she held an accusation finger on him.
"I did not! And why the hell would I? And after all, you tried to seduce me!" this time Natsume yelled and stood on the chair. He blushed a little.
"Me?! Try to seduce you?! Hey get real, Natsume! I would never do something like that! I think maybe you were just dreaming something perverted like that!" she put both hands on her hips.
"Yeah I think like that too! Maybe it was just an illusion! But it felt real! And you're the one who did that!" he stepped onto Mikan's bed.
Suddenly Mikan lost her balance right after Natsume stepped on her bed. "Aaahhh!!!" she shrieked and began to fall, taking Natsume along with her. Mikan closed her eyes for the impact she's going to receive.
Both of them fell into the bed, with Mikan on top of Natsume. Mikan opened her eyes and her eyes widened. She realized that she was on top of Natsume. Furthermore, her lips were collided with his lips too! Natsume's eyes widened looking into her own. Mikan blushed furiously and get off of Natsume in a flash and sat far away from him.
Natsume got up too and turned his back on her. Mikan's heart beat faster than usual. So did Natsume.
"Wh-what was that just now?!" Mikan screamed in her thoughts. Her hand trembled as she brought her fingers to touch her own lips. "Th-that was my first kiss too... wait does it considered as a kiss?" she thought, still blushing.
While Natsume on the other had a hard time calming down his heart that will explode anytime soon. He blushed furiously. "Ochitsuke! Ochitsuke! Chikusho!" he screamed in his thoughts. (a/n: ochitsukecalm down, chikusho god damn it)
A knock on the door break the silence. Mikan and Natsume turned their heads toward the door at the same time.
The person behind the door revealed Hotaru. "Oh, I see you're awake with Natsume-kun here,"
Mikan, suddenly got a feeling on what she meant, she yelled, "Wh-wh-wh-what are you talking about?! D-d-don't say like I was sleeping with him!"
Hotaru raised an eyebrow. "You were?"
"Eh?"
"Oh I see... so you were sleeping with him. So did anything happen?" she smirked.
"I didn't sleep with him! Don't get me wrong, Hotaru! I'm not some kind of slut, you know!" her face red in embarrassment.
Hotaru giggled a little. Then she smirked. "But it's too bad for you two now,"
"Ha?" both Natsume and Mikan said.
Hotaru took out her Polaroid camera from her purple bag. Then she pressed a button and a piece of photo came out. She showed the photo to them. Inside the photo was a picture of Natsume and Mikan kissing on the bed with Mikan on top of Natsume.
Mikan and Natsume's faces red as a tomato and Mikan dashed toward Hotaru to snatch the photo. But Hotaru is faster. She pulled back the photo.
"Hotaru, give me that picture!! When did you take our picture?!" Mikan yelled as she tried to snatch the photo but to no avail.
Hotaru smirked wider. "Oh well, I was on half way to your room and I heard you two were arguing about something. So I took a peek at you both. I'm surprised that even Natsume didn't hear the door creaked a little. And lastly I saw you fell on top of Natsume and kissing him passionately,"
"DAMN IT, I DIDN'T KISS HIM!!! Now give me back the picture!!!" she shouted more loudly. Her face is even redder, if that was possible.
"But your lips touched his, right? Admit it. And this picture is not yours. It's my masterpiece." Hotaru snickered more evilly.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Mikan screamed even louder. And Natsume couldn't take it anymore.
"Shut up!!" Natsume shouted suddenly. Both Hotaru and Mikan stopped their activities and stared at Natsume, blinking.
"N-Natsume?" Mikan stuttered.
"Will you shut up?! You Polka-dotted panties girl!" now Natsume is very, very angry. His crimson eyes in red flames.
Mikan silent. Hotaru put back her Polaroid camera in her bag, including the photo.
"It's just a damn kiss, alright? There's nothing hella special about it! I'm outta here!" he walked straight to the door and disappeared down the corridor to class.
Mikan watched where Natsume had left. "N-Natsume..."
"Oh my you made him angry at you... maybe he will hate you later..." Hotaru sighed and shook her head.
"That's true... hey! It's your fault for taking our stupid picture!!" Mikan exclaimed suddenly.
Hotaru laughed. "Enough about that... still we have to go to class, right?"
"Yeah..." but then she realized she was still in patient's clothes. "Hotaru... I have no other school uniform with me..."
"Don't worry, that's why I'm here. I brought you my school uniform," she took out her own school uniform and hand it to Mikan. She took it gratefully.
"Arigatou, Hotaru..." Mikan hugged the uniform.
"Remember... the rent for my uniform is not cheap... remember to pay me later,"
"What?! Hotaru, you meanie!!"
Her best friend just smirked.
Tbc
Tq 4 reading both my stories... Keep reading! Jaa!