DISCLAIMER: GA's definitely not mine.

A/N: HI! Yes, I know. It took me monthsss to continue this ficcy. I hope you'll like my update. And by the way, to those whom I wasn't able to mention ever since (lol), you can PM me or something. I really want to thank you! :D

This fanfic will have around ~10 more chapters so please bear with it!

Chapter 14: Separate Ways

I was so happy that day that when I reached our room, I was still smiling like an idiot.

But then, something happened and that something was unexpected. Really unexpected.

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"Sumire-chan..." I caught her attention. She was standing there, her bags all around her.

"Mikan-chan... I.. I don't want you to see this." She smiled weakly as she looked at the floor.

"Why?" I closed in the distance between us. "Why, Sumire-chan? What's happening?"

"I... I'm leaving, Mikan-chan." She smiled while tears were running on her beautiful face.

"What? Why?!" I was panicking that time, lost at what is happening.

How come Hotaru wasn't here? How come NATSUME, her boyfriend, doesn't know about this? I mentally cursed that guy.

"I'm just going home, Mikan. It's not like... you should stop me, right?" She laughed weakly.

"Does Hotaru know this? How about Koko? And Natsume?"

"Haha, will you please relax Mikan? Yes. They all know about it. But I don't want them here so I told them to leave me as a favor."

"But.." I was about to reason out that it wasn't logical for them not to be here because she would be leaving us!

"Mikan, look. Before I leave, I just want to say that I'm really really sorry. About everything. You see, Natsume, I really doubt he loved, loves or will ever love me. And I think I was being so mean when I asked you to give up Koko, too. I mean, I should have known that he just sees you as a friend while I'm..."

"While you're something more than that." I finished the sentence for her and she nodded while crying harder this time.

"I was so stupid not to see that, Mikan. Maybe I asked you to ignore him because I was too afraid to lose him. Why was I so stupid?" I couldn't help but hug her.

"Shh. You know, Koko's feelings still the same." I said as I softly pat her head.

"You know," she chuckled, "he asked me a favor as an exchange of the favor I asked them."

"What?"

"He told me to wait for him at our hometown." She wiped her tears and smiled brightly.

"Oh dear, he really loves you!" I beamed at her and held her hands.

"Yes, he does. I'm so lucky to have him, eh?" She bit her lower lip.

"Oh, how about Natsume?"

"I... I broke up with him."

I just stared at her, dumbfounded.

"He said he was alright with it. And for some weird reason, I didn't cry or even felt like crying. It was so funny!"

"You- you broke up with him?"

"I guess it was all just physical attraction so—"

"You broke up with him?" I asked for the third time, verifying of what I heard.

"YES. Goodness, Mikan. Can you pay more attention?" She chuckled.

"I see."

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Even though they're over now, nothing will change between us. Because in the first place, Natsume was surely not cold to me because of Sumire. I sighed.

"Now, will you stop sighing over there and help me carry my things?" She said as she carried a box.

"And you wouldn't want them here?" I glared at her, not really getting her point of asking our friends to leave.

"Oh please, I want to make you suffer at least once more before I leave." She said with her fake bitch voice which made me laugh and just, well, help her.