A ride with King of Spades!

I heard the birds. I could smell it was morning. And I felt a blanket wrapped around my body. It was when I realized I had spent the night on the couch. "Whoa! What a long night!" I said out loud as I yawned and covered my face again with the blanket. Hold on! With the WHAT?

"I don't remember bringing a blanket here!" I said as I tried hard to recall what exactly did happen last night.

"Why, are you the only one living here?" I could hear his hoarse voice ringing. And that made me uncover my face and look up at Natsume, who was sitting right in front of me, dressed in his school uniform. I was astonished. "Whoa! Did he…" I thought as a slight smile formed in my lips.

"Ruka came here." He said out of the blue.

"What! Then was it Ruka Pyon who… OMG!" I thought as a shot of embarrassment ran through my spine. "Could it be Ruka Pyon who covered me with the blanket? And if it were him… He could've seen…"

'He could've seen your Polka dots if I hadn't you covered with that blanket before he walked in." Natsume completed my thoughts. It took me a while to understand what he was implying.

I was about to thank him when the realization hit my mind.

"Whattt! You saw my-!" I started as I knelt down on the couch, thunderstruck.

"Thank me for not sharing that view with Ruka!" Natsume said, cutting me off. Right after saying that he stood up to leave. I didn't know if I really had to thank him or not but I opened my mouth before he stepped away.

"Thanks." I didn't say it. It just dropped outta my mouth.

Hearing that his crimson eyes looked into mine and in the next moment, he was gone.

I moment later, I could hear the sound of his car driving away from home. I felt so lonely once again.

Mom wasn't home yet. I looked at the clock as soon as I heard Natsume driving away and it simply drove me crazy!

"OMG! I'm gonna miss Hotaru!" I screamed as I ran into my room, again like a crazy birdie. I had only 10 minutes left to take a shower, put on my uniform and flee. It was only when I looked at myself in the mirror I could realize how tiresome the previous night had been for me.

"Ooh NOO…" I yelled. "I look like a total mess!" I added to my comment.

Not taking too much time to worry about my looks, I got into my uniform and left the house, without stopping even to have my breakfast. Of course Natsume never did forget to have his breakfast. It was so unlike me to do so too, but that day I had run out of time! If I missed Hotaru, there was no way for me to get to that damn school.

I was at Hotaru's gates within two minutes. She was standing still like a stone pillar by her mom's car, no emotion! No need to read her expressions: I knew she was gonna kill me in the next minute. Hotaru, one of the brightest students in the school, never preferred to go to school late. So being her best friend, I had to, I mean I was forced to go to school earlier than I would've gone if I hadn't been her best friend. Needless to say, sometimes I'd wished, I hadn't been her best friend; especially because I hated going to school early!

"Oh hiii! I'm late!" I said as I waved my hand at Hotaru's emotionless face. She didn't answer just like I had thought.

Without saying a word, she gave me a cold death glare and got into the car as Mrs. Imai looked at me and smiled, gesturing me to hop in as well. With that, I ran to the car and hopped in, trying hard not to make a clumsy noise when shutting the door.

"Whoa! Last night I… I mean we… had an accident! Umm… That's why… You know…" I said without been asked. I knew Hotaru never wanted explanations, but I had to give one, hadn't I?

But that explanation seemed to have caught her by interest. I could say so when she turned her head to say something.

"We? You and Natsume?" She asked, monotony could be seen in her tone, but I suspected she really had wanted to know what had happened between us in the previous night.

"Yeah… Momma wasn't home last night." I said in a tired voice. Hearing this, Hotaru's interest seemed to have faded away.

"When will you guys stop acting like stupid baka kiddoz?" She asked in a not-approving tone. "I can't believe Natsume could act this childish. You guys quarrel whenever Mrs. Hyuuga isn't at home. This is crazy!" She added in her emotionless tone. I knew Mrs. Imai had been waiting to hop into the conversation all that time.

"Why would it matter if they act like children? Besides, it's way better than acting like adults." Mrs. Imai said, chuckling; I couldn't see what was there to chuckle at though. But Hotaru seemed to have caught up with what she said.

"Don't worry mom. They'll never end up being adults. I don't think Natsume would ever want something really adult with this moron." Hotaru said. I didn't know how she managed to say those bad stuff about me without any fear. Of course, there was no need to fear me: I was unarmed, unlike she herself was. I wished I could steal her baka gun right then and shoot her right on the head.

"Oh Hotaru! Stop badmouthing her every time! She isn't anything you call her!" Mrs. Imai had saved the day for me. I looked at her eyes in the mirror and smiled, gratefully.

We arrived at school very late; well… not very late in my opinion though. In Hotaru's perspective, it was very late!

I was happy to be late because we had already missed the school assembly and there was no chance for me to bump into Kaname-senpai since everyone was already sitting in their class rooms.

We stepped into the classroom to find there was no teacher present yet. Hotaru walked directly towards her chair while I exhaled in relief and bent down to adjust my socks while smiling brightly to all my friends. I could see Hotaru had already seated on her chair and searching her schoolbag for something. It was when I stood straight I noticed the class was oddly silent and all the students were busy looking at the books. I saw Nonoko pointing her index finger at the door, her eyes filled with fear.

I turned, only to freeze on the spot.

"Sakura! Late again, aren't you?" That was it. For me there was no difference between Mr. Jinno and Detention, because he always foreshadowed detention.

Within a few minutes, I was enrolled in the duty of cleaning the lunch room. It looked messed up more than the last time I had to clean this crappy hall. Yeah, it had been always me who cleaned this part of the school because it had been always me who got punished by Mr. Jinno.

I was gonna miss that day's math lesson and I couldn't have been much happier than I was when I thought about that.

I was cleaning the lunch room, yawning and stopping whenever I was sure that no one was passing by. Ten minutes passed and I was done with my cleaning process. I sat down on the floor near the wall, tired to death, but happy at the same time. I checked my phone hoping to see no messages again, but no way! There was a message and I hoped that wasn't from the service provider. When I opened my notifications, I froze again! Just to see it was from-

"N-Natsume!" I yelled, totally forgetting where I was. "What the! OMG! I can't believe he's texting me!" I said to myself as an astonished smile escaped my mouth. Then I opened the message; it read only three words. "Nice polka dots."

"GRRRR! NATSUME YOU BAKA!" I screamed as I typed the same words in the reply and sending the message in an instance.

I was still raging when Jinno-sensei appeared from the door and gestured me back into the class room.

Hotaru must've noticed the zombie look I had in my eyes when I sat beside her. I could say that from what she asked.

"Why? Still that Kaname guy bothers you?" She asked. "Or is it Natsume this time?" She added to her question, still not lifting her head from the book.

"Natsume's such an idiot!" I said in a dreamy voice which caught Hotaru's attention. This time she lifted her head from the book and looked at me.

"Aha! Natsume. Interesting." She said. I thought I saw her eyes gleaming for a millisecond. Of course! Hotaru always got energized whenever I talked about Natsume bullying me. She liked that very much.

"Yeah. I hate him." I said, not sure if I really meant that.

The bell rang. Another boring school day was over.

In a few minutes I, Hotaru, Nonoko and Anna were standing at the school gates, chatting and laughing about almost nothing. Hotaru was the only one silent among us. Her eyes were fixed on her brand new weapon, "The Piranha gun". She hadn't mentioned about its mechanism to anyone yet. I wondered if it actually had something to do with Piranhas. I hoped not 'cause I knew I was gonna be the one to taste its opening shot.

"Hey look! Is that him?' we could hear a girl shout out loud in the background. Her voice was able to drag the attention of everyone in the school yard in milliseconds.

We all looked in that direction, wanting to see what was going on.

"Hell ya! It's him!" Another girl screamed. With that everybody started hissing and pointing at a car that was currently parked nicely in the parking lot.

"He just drove in!" another excited voice yelled.

"What is he doing here?" "He can't be dating a girl here, can he?"

Whispers were heard everywhere. Everybody was going crazy and I couldn't realize what the heck was going on in front of the school.

"Who are they talking about? Who's there? I can't see a thing!" I asked Hotaru, because it seemed the easiest way to find out. Hearing that, Hotaru looked at me amazed.

"Don't tell me you don't know that car." She said bluntly. "What I'm wondering is what made him come here." Hotaru added, her eyes fixed on that beautiful black car. Wait! What car? Yeah! I knew that car!

Definitely, I knew that car.

"Natsume!" I yelled as if I were nuts as everyone looked at me as if I had spilled a top secret.

Now… I was again being the model of the day.

"You know, they say this girl lives together with him!"

"No! Can't be! That girl?"

"Yeah. I don't believe that too. Besides, no one has spotted them together."

I could hear them whispering. I was humiliated once again. Not wanting to be the center of attraction anymore, I stepped outta the gates and started walking towards the parking lot, leaving Hotaru and all my friends behind.

I wasn't so sure why I did something like that. Maybe I just had wanted to leave the scene or… maybe I'd wanted to give them a better show by asking Natsume to take me home.

I was walking slowly towards his car until I saw something that stopped me in the midway. It was no one other than Kaname-senpai, standing there watching me with his gang. Seeing him, I felt more and more embarrassed. I was sure I was being their topic of conversation as well.

I saw them laughing and some of his friends were making faces at me. As I hurriedly looked down and started to walk again, I felt something grabbing me by my hand. I looked up only to find me dragged away by Natsume towards his car. I was shocked to death. Yes, I had been hoping to ask him to take me home, most likely I'd been hoping to beg him to take me home, yet I never had thought he himself would've decided to take me home like this.

I didn't speak a word while being dragged away. I just let him lead me without any struggle. I knew this was gonna be the headline of the school magazine that day. "Flat idiotic Mikan Sakura was dragged away by the Glorious Natsume Hyuuga this afternoon. Witnesses say that Natsume Hyuuga had even opened the door for that third class lady to hop in to his car."

It happened just like that. He didn't let go of my hand till he opened the door for me and stuffed me inside. Once inside, I could clearly see Kaname-senpai's perplexed face through the shutter. I even could hear the big hiss of the crowd as I got in.

Everything went really nice and smooth, thanks to Natsume.

I felt like I'd taught them all a good lesson for underestimating my powers.

As Natsume got in, I smiled at his cold crimson eyes in the mirror. They were looking at me but there was no expression in them. He started the engine and drove away at once, putting an end to the big show that had been going on for about twenty long minutes.

I was at last, at ease.

Here I'm with my 6th chapter people! Please drop me a review and tell me how it felt!

-Awful Nightmare-