A/N) Yay the next chapter of the story! Natsume, the disclaimer please~

Natsume: No. You didn't put me in the last chapter.*sticks tongue out at me*

Does it really matter that much? So immature... Mikan?

Mikan: Animelover189 does not own Gakuen Alice!

Mikan's 3rd Pov

Did Mikan hear him right? Did he just say he was in love with the same person who had been blackmailing him for 7 years straight? Mikan's mind couldn't process this very well. She had so many things to say, and yet nothing at all.

"What?", she said, saying the only word her mind could come up with.

"I feel... happy being around her. Watching that gentle smile on her face that she shows to you rarely... she's really nice but just never shows it. She keeps this cool exterior but is very sweet on the inside. It's... cute." His face is red, but he holds a slight smile on his face as if thinking of a fond memory.

"I love her, or at least I think I do. That's why I'm such a mess right now. I've been thinking of it for a while now." He looks up at Mikan, eyes determined.

''Help me. Please. Even if she rejects me, I'll feel better than just not knowing."

Mikan looks into those determined blue eyes and found that she couldn't say no to them.

"Ruka-pyon", Mikan says her own determination rising, "Let's do this together."

Ruka's face holds his obvious confusion so Mikan elaborates.

"We can get the hearts of the people we love together! You and Hotaru and Natusume and I!" She smiles broadly. "Won't that be great?" She grabs his hands and holds them across the table.

"That'd be great Sakura-san, we can be happy together." He returns the smile hesistantly.

All of a sudden the door opens to reveal Natsume.

"Hey Ruka, I for.. got... my toothbrush.. what are you two doing?"

Mikan and Ruka quickly retract their hands, but it's too late. There they were, sitting in Ruka's room at his table smiling at each other and holding hands. It must have looked like something was going on. Mikan was the first to react. She quickly got up and laughed awkwardly.

N-nothing! We were just talking about stuff like, y'know studies and stuff. Ahahaha.." She looks at Ruka." I guess I'd better be going.. we'll talk about.. math later." She offers him a knowing smile before walking out and sprinting down the halls.

Natsume looks after her for a while and then turns his fiery gaze to Ruka. "Did I... interrupt something?", he asks slowly.

"No..not really.. she was just helping me with that problem."

"So why was she being so secretive about it?", he asks suspiciously.

Ruka tenses a bit. He couldn't let Natsume know Sakura liked him yet! "She probably didn't know you knew. I mean, it's not like I told her that you and I talked about it."

Natsume seemed pleased with that answer and stopped his interrogation.

"I came to get my toothbrush. I'm gonna go take a shower." He grabs his toothbrush from the bathroom and walks out.

'Ruka isn't telling me the whole story. I wonder what else they were talking about...' He lets the thought trail off as he walks to the boys showers.

Mikan's 3rd POV

After leaving Ruka's, Mikan caught some lunch and headed to her dorm to go finish some homework. After three hours of struggle, tears and brain hemorrhaging, her homework was finished and she had done it all by herself. She smiled looking at her handwriting on the paper. She was sure to get an A. To celebrate she was going to visit Hotaru and maybe eat lunch together. With Mikan walked out of the door and headed to Hotaru's.

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Mikan was now running through the halls, trying to stay alive. A hiding place is what she needed. She turned the corner. There! A door! She ran inside and locked it. The echo of 'baka' could be heard getting fainter and fainter. She breathed out in relief. But, what was that sound? Mikan looked around her surroundings.

'A bathroom?', she thought. She follows her ears to the sound of rushing water, leading her unknowingly further into the boys' bathroom.

Natsume's 3rd Pov

'Was that the door?', thought Natsume upon hearing the slight sound of creaking. He resumed his shower and continued thinking about today's events.

Mikan and Ruka were in Ruka's room, holding hands and smiling at each other. Then both insisted it was nothing. He knew of his best friends affections for Hotaru, so that's why the whole situation seemed strange to him. If Ruka liked Hotaru, why was he all smiley-touchy-feely with Natsume's crush? It didn't make sense to him.

Mikan's 3rd Pov

As Mikan walked further and further into the bathroom, it became more and more apparent that someone was in the bathroom showering. Her curiosity got the better of her and she continued, wanting to see who was in the shower. The shower was in front of her now, transparent, but blurry. She squinted, trying to get a better look, when the door suddenly slid open, scaring her to pieces.

Natsume's 3rd POV

Natsume slid open the shower door, about to get out, but stopped when he spotted something, or rather someone, was sitting on the floor staring up at him with a clearly shocked expression.

It was Mikan.

(A/N) Chapter two! Yay! I think the next chapter will be lemon but I don't want to rush it… Natsume what do you think?

Natsume: You should make me fuck Mikan senseless. It would be fair compensation for my absence in the first chapter.

Mikan: What type of perverted things are you saying, Natsume? S-sex is for married people!

Natsume: Married people my ass. Was your mom married? Sides, you like it so shut up already.

I'm surrounded by idiots.., Jeez, minna-san, please review so that I know what you think so far. Bye Bee!