Yay!

Tomorrow's my birthday! YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOO!!

I'm going to go to watch 'L Change the World'. (Kisses movie coupon) You rock, L! XD

Chapter 5

It was 4 pm in the park. Ai and Natsume had walked hand-in-hand together around the park, observing the beautiful greenery and enjoying each other's company while, unknown to them, five of Ai's friends had secretly been stalking them.

As the two of them walked, Natsume had noticed a pretty pink Cherry Blossom floating gently downwards from its tree. He let go of her hand and quickly caught the flower just before it reached the ground. With the flower sitting daintily on his outstretched palm, he walked back towards his girlfriend.

"A beautiful Cherry Blossom for the beautiful young lady," he said, as he slid the flower behind her left ear. She looked like a typical love-struck Shojo girl as she felt the Cherry Blossom there. Both of them didn't even notice a slight rustling in the bushes behind them.

In the bushes…

"GRR! Let me go! I want to rip him apart!" Ueki whispered angrily and aggressively, struggling and clawing in the air like a wild cat as the others tried to restrain him. Sano was giving him a headlock, Shoko was pulling her brother by his waist, Rinko was tugging at the green dress and Hideyoshi squeezed both of Ueki's legs together.

"Shh! Shut up! We don't want them to know we're here!" Sano whispered urgently back.

"Yeah, Ko! We have to keep quiet!" His sister whispered to him. "Look! They're walking away! Quick, follow them!"

All of them hurriedly crawled and crouch-walked to keep up with their 'target', stopping when they stopped and walking when they walked. This continued for another 15 minutes until, luckily for their tired legs, Ai and Natsume stopped to sit on the park bench.

As they watched, they noticed that Natsume was inching closer and closer to her. He then wrapped his arm around her shoulders. Ai turned to look at him. He lifted her face using his index finger and thumb. They were about to kiss when…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Ueki screamed, standing up quickly from behind the bush.

"KOSUKE UEKI!" The other four shouted desperately, shocked by the fact that he revealed their hiding place so suddenly and unexpectedly.

"Aha! I knew it!" Ai shouted triumphantly, pointing her finger at him like a detective pointing out the criminal. Natsume had pulled back his arms and then placed them on his legs, smiling calmly.

"You knew what?" Ueki asked, scratching his head in confusion.

"I knew that you have a crush on me…" She said, deducing the answer to his behaviour. "I had pretended to act like one of those I-am-in-love-with-a-cute-Bishonen-boy kind of girl from one of those crappy cliched Shojo animes that the girls from our school love so much to attract your attention.

"When I first talked to you about 'Natsume'," she made a hand signal, which indicated that Natsume was actually a fake, "your face and tone of voice revealed very clearly that you're uncomfortable. I also pretended to sound like I'm under some sort of trance and 'accidentally' revealed information about him along with the day, time and places of our 'date', so that I know if you will really spy on us like how you did just now." She pointed at the same bush Ueki was hiding in. "Sano, Rinko, Hideyoshi and Shoko, I know you're still down there…"

The four of them stood up, gaping in awe at her intelligence, observance and at how wonderfully well she had acted.

Before Ueki had the chance to open his mouth again, his sister spoke, "Wait, if Natsume was just an alias, who is he then? How do you know that we had stalked on you two even in our disguises?"

"Easy. Sano and Ueki had been too weird to be girls, especially when those two guys had tried to pick them up. You're a game otaku and obviously, you'll cosplay. Rinko probably dress up as people with a personality opposite of hers, which is usually a rowdy and unintelligent person like a break-dancer or a hip-hopper. I know that the 'grandmother' hanging around you guys is Hideyoshi, thanks to that tip-off by the little kid at the zoo.

"As for Natsume Atatakai…" She snapped her fingers. 'Natsume' removed his dark-haired wig and tea-brown contact lenses to reveal…

"ROBERT HYDEN?!" her friends shouted, startled by his sudden appearance.

"Yes, that's right, he's Robert. I, by coincidence, bumped into him around a week ago. He was asking about Ueki. One of the questions he asked is that whether Ueki has a crush on me. I've also had been wondering about this question for a long time and we decided to do this 'experiment'.

"Heheh, you all should've known a while ago that 'Natsume' is fake. You're all Japanese, aren't you? You should know that the 'natsu' in Natsume means summer while 'atatakai' means warm and almost everything about him are associated with summer!

"And by the way, Ueki, Shoko, Sano, Hideyoshi, nice outfit!" She grinned cheekily and gave a double thumbs up. The boys blushed furiously and looked away while the rookie nurse giggled.

She turned to Ueki. "Now, Ueki, what are you going to say?" The grin reappeared on her face.

"What am I suppose to say?" he asked his sister. His sister whispered the answer in his ear. As he listened, his face changed into different shades of red raging from light pink to tomato red. "Oh," he replied.

"Well…" Ai's hands were at her hips.

He sighed and walked over to her. He then held her right hand with both his hands and kneeled down in front of her.

"I love you. You're the only girl for me. You're good-looking, charming, smart and not as fat as my sister told me…" He kissed her hand and looked the other way, blushing.

She was a bit annoyed about him mentioning the size of her waistline but the kiss was more than enough to make up for that.

"Aww, that's so sweet of you! Except for me being fat bit," He looked down at the floor, "but, I'll accept it anyway. Yes, I'll be your girlfriend." He looked up with a large smile on his face and a glitter of happiness appeared in his eyes.

"Now, Ueki, please stand up." He stood up but was almost knocked over when Ai jumped and hugged him, forcing the air out of his lungs in a large bear hug. "I love you too…" She whispered in his ear as Ueki began wrapping his arms around her as well.

SNAP! FLASH! They heard a camera snapped and flashed its light on them at the corner of their eyes. They released each other and looked at the source of the sound and light.

It was Rinko. She was holding a digital camera in front of her face. She noticed that both of them were looking at her so, she quickly pocketed her camera and ran, dragging Sano by his wrist.

"AFTER THEM!" Ai shouted. The others ran after those two with Rinko laughing mischievously and saying something that sounded like 'blog' and 'eBay'.

-Tamat-

If you really must know, Ueki and Ai had been struggling hard to outbid the photo with another user in an eBay auction. They lost the bid when the other user had placed ¥1000 at the last second. Two weeks later, that user received the photo and pasted it in her diary. Rinko was ¥1000 richer and the user turned out to be… Shoko Ueki.

Finally, I've finished writing this story. I had enjoyed writing this as much as I love eating chocolates and durians. I hope you're satisfied with the ending and please send me nice reviews to make this birthday girl feel more special and important than she is now. :)

Ps. Tamat means finish/end in Bahasa Malaysia. (It's pronounced 'Tuh-MUTT)