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REVENGE of the FALLEN

CHAPTER XV

The next day, at about 7:20 in the morning, class 2-B was already filled with students for no apparent reason. A certain brunette was busily writing something in her yellow pad. Her partner, on the other hand, was busily reading his manga. Luna was sleeping. Koko was talking with Sumire. Youchi was still unseen while Ruka was not doing anything, just sitting. If you ask me, today was just the normal day, nothing could go wrong until Narumi came bouncing and flipping once again.

"Good morning my dear beloved sweet," the students didn't allow him to finish when they both yelled "We get it!" at the same time. Narumi just kept on smiling and twirling. Students sweat-dropped. When can he seriously stop? They all thought in unison. Just after they thought of it, Narumi suddenly stopped (well, that's a surprise) and switched to serious mode. He cleared his throat. "Okay, beloved students, you'll have a new classmate. Please come in."

After he said those, a certain raven-haired lad with violet orbs came inside with a stoic face, the same face as Mikan showed in the early days. As she speak, it was also done with no hint of emotion whatsoever, just plain coldness. Too bad when she announced her name, a lot of students came leaping for joy but when she glared, they stopped. Guessed what she said? Yup, she just announced herself as… (DRUMROLL), "I'm Hotaru Imai," the first and most well-known author of online stories. Well, of course, a lot of the students wanted to have her autograph but restrained themselves because of the cold aura she emits. 'God, she sure can rival that of Mikan's deathly aura,' everyone thought in unison. Narumi can no longer be seen anywhere. 'As expected, he's always the first one who disappears when the going gets tough.'

"Hotaru?" a certain brunette, emotionless but with a hint of surprise, said while standing up from her chair. Everyone, as in everyone, turned to look at her, questions filled their mind. "Mikan?" the new student replied which made everyone's mouth flung wide open, well, except for three. "Good to see you again," Mikan replied with a smile, making the other's open jaw open much much wider. ""You have some explaining to do, baka!" Hotaru uttered. Mikan kept on beaming. Okay, that was weird, everyone thought. "Okay!" Mikan answered, "I'll go to your house later." She added. Hotaru nods. A lot of people who couldn't handle the shock fainted in their seats.

Later, after dismissal, Natsume brought her to Imai's house. He asked her for the hundredth time whether he should wait or not because, according to him, he's willing if she'll just let him. But still, also for the hundredth time, she answered him with a no. So, without any options, he just shrugged and left. When he was finally out of sight, Mikan pressed the doorbell and the entire household was disturbed by the ringing bell. Minutes after waiting, the door finally creaked open, the same raven-haired girl on the other side. "May I come in?" Mikan asked. Hotaru nods while opening the door wider.

After Mikan got in, Hotaru led her to her room where they could safely talk to each other, out of reach by peeping ears and eyes. When they finally arrive, Mikan immediately laid on her violet sheets as Hotaru closed the doors. "Well, you better start talking," she said with a threatening voice. Mikan gulped inwardly but physically, she showed the carbon-copied image of Hotaru. "Where do you want me to start?" she asked. "From the beginning," she replied and Mikan nods.

"After you left for America, I was left with nothing but boredom until I discovered this site about online writing. I took it as a career, with an alias of Hotaru Imai, hoping it'll reach America," she started. "And it did. People then kept on bugging me afterwards," she butted. Mikan cleared her throat, saying she still got more to tell. Hotaru kept quiet. "Like I said, I kept on writing but people got bored on friendship stories." "So, you blackmailed Hyuuga, hoping that you could use him for your love stories." "Yes." "But what you didn't expect is to fall in love." "Well, yes." "But then Youchi came in and blackmailed you to love him or else." "Yes, now allow me to talk, Hota-" "Yet you said no because you're in love with Hyuuga but Youchi kept on following you and Luna got all this jealous and threatened you but you ignored her and instead challenged her." "Well, I thought I'm going to do the explaining? Turns out you already knew the whole thing about my life." "Of course, idiot, you're like an open book." "Oh."

Silence after…

"So, what do you want me to do?" Hotaru asked out of the blue. Of course it was unusual because usually, it was Mikan who asks that and not her. Mikan turned to her so-called best friend, who was by the way smiling. Surprised, Mikan raised a brow. "What did you just say?" "It seems thrilling for me. I want to play a role but you owe me crab brains big time," she monotonously replied. "If that's what you want, then, okay. Anyway, what I only want you to do not to tell anyone I'm the real writer, the one with an alias of Hotaru Imai." "Why? You're afraid that Hyuuga might discover you just used him and he'll break up with you instead?" Mikan only answered her with a blush, but a blush is enough for Hotaru to know what she truly feels. Without saying anything, she stood up followed by Mikan. "Well, I guess that's it. If you plan on sleeping here tonight, you may freely do so but be sure to call auntie before you do that. And no hugging while we sleep. Tomorrow, let's deal with that Luna dear. My hands are itching for some full-time blackmail as well as my baka gun. Let's see if that second placer author is smarter than how I think she is." Mikan sweat dropped as she nods physically but hardly gulps the big lump on her throat inwardly. She's scarier than I sometimes, she thought.

**To Be Continued**

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