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Cherryblossom210

Chapter 2: I love him. I love him not.

"Yaahhh,"Himeno yawns to the morning sun.

She jumps out of bed and stretches out her arms and legs getting ready for the rest of the day. She only got few hours of sleep but it was better than nothing at all.

She felt so cheery today, that it made her want to run to school instead of taking the car. 'Hmm... this is the first time I got up for school early.'

She changes into her uniform and skips down to the dining room for breakfast. She never felt so good in her entire life.

"Good morning Himeno!," says Kaoru, the father of Himeno, he waves very childishly.

"Good morning daddy!" She jumps and hugs her dad with a kiddish smile and a faint blush on her face. Mayune, Natsue, and Mawata gasp in Himeno actions.

They really could believe what just happened. They knew that Himeno became cheerful after the battle with the tree of Ferir, but they never knew she could be this cheerful.

"Himeno, what is wrong with you? Do you have a fever?," Natsue asks.

"Uh-uh, I feel as happy as a hopping bunny!" Then Himeno jumps up from her fathers lap and starts dancing around the room like two year old.

Everyone's sweat drops except for Kaoru's, he enjoys seeing Himeno being so happy. "It's feels so weird having you this way....," Mayune says with her left eye twitching rapidly. 'I usually see you angry every time I pull a prank.'

"Now, now...sit down Himeno and eat your breakfast,"Natsue says calmly.

"Okie-dokie artie chokie!,"Himeno says playfully.

She skips to her seat and sits down looking at a plate of bacon and eggs with cereal.

'My Favorite!' Himeno yells in her mind.

She gobbles up her food faster than the first lightning strike.

"Uh......you are kinda creeping me out, Himeno," Mayune says with blue lines running down her face.

"Yeah?...Like how...?" She then turned from a sweet little angel to an evil looking face.

Which only made it more creepier for Mayune. Himeno was enjoying this, seeing her step-sister about to cry. "Heh...serves you right for playing jokes on me..."

"Why you little..!" Mayune jumped out of her chair and started at Himeno.

Even though Himeno is a lot faster than she looks, so it was easy for her to outrun Mayune. Himeno looked behind her with a fumed up Mayune. She started to giggle a little. "Nah nah na nah nah you can't catch me!"

Her family looks wide eyed from what was happening. It was like Himeno had too much tea-chee ice cream with chocolate chips (barf).

"YOU...YOU LITTLE!," oh now Mayune had it...so she took off her high-heels and started racing at her....to bad Himeno was still faster than her.

Himeno sticks her tough out playfully like a three year old.

"OOMF!,"Himeno runs into something, very hard. It was about a foot taller, it's human (or so like a human), it has dark blue hair, and dark blue eyes (guess what "it" is..more like who).

Of course it was Hayate. "What's wrong with you Tulip-head? You are bouncing off the walls today like a monkey jacked up on Mountain Dew."

He looks at her like she went crazy (which she did).

"Exactly what I was thinking,"Mayune says as she drops to the floor on with her whole body laying on the floor, trying to catch up with her heart beat. "Thank goodness you stopped her in time. I thought I had to call back up," Natsue jokes.

Himeno stands up with her bangs covering her eyes. Turning the opposite direction from Hayate, so he won't see the blush that appeared on her face not too long after she ran into him.

Then she goes into a flash back of what happened last night; then her whole face got even deeper into the shade of red.

"Himeno?," her father asks with a concerned look on his face.

'From psycho girl to quiet bratomatic,' Mayune thinks in her mind.

"Himeno, darling, are you alright?," Natsue says.

Everyone's gaze turns to the quiet 16 year old. She was still thinking about the night before. It replayed in her mind over and over.

"Hey...," Hayate says as he puts a hand on one of her shoulders.

It didn't seem to bring any affect so he put his palm on her cheek and brought it upwards for her face to look at his.

"Himeno...what's wrong?"

Himeno's eyes grew bigger at the moment. Her heart's rate went faster than normal.

"I..It's nothing," she finally says, breaking her silence rate.

"What?"

"Uh..uh...oh look at the time....I'm going to be late for school!" Himeno run. "Wait it's only 7:20! School doesn't start till 8:00!," Hayate yells after her. But she dosen't hear because she was already out of the gate door (pretty fast if you tell me).

She keeps running on and on to where her feet can take her. She slows down and turns into an alley.

She checks her watch; it was only 7:30, she was so early.

'Why did I run out like that? What is my problem? I go from psycho to flustered all in ten minutes! But... Hayate...was he really going to kiss me last night? I'm so confused. All I can think about is that!'

"GAH!" She falls to her knees from confusion.

"What else is going to go wrong!" She yells into the alley. It wasn't dark in the alley, the sun was shining right through it. In the alley was just back porches of apartments that you can easily go down by stairs.

The sun was shining so bright that it was starting to take up Himeno's vision.

'So bright and..there are no clouds in the sky to block the sun.'

Himeno stands back up on her feet and starts to walk forwards into the sunny alley.

'Are you confused my dear?'

"Huh? What was that?" Himeno looks behind her to see if anyone was following her.

'It's me princess. You may not know me...just yet.'

'Who are you and why are you inside my head?' Himeno looks around above her to see if it was someone from above and not in her head.

' My name is Michiko. I'm here to help you when ever your in need. So tell me princess why so confused?'

'Sorry I really can't tell you. If I don't know you.'

'My apologies for asking.'

'No...no it's okay. I can tell you.' Himeno starts to walk again.

'I'm all ears my dear.'

'Well this morning I was going crazy; well I don't know why, I just felt so good. It's the first that I felt good in a while, for the past seven months.'

'Mhmm I see. But what brought you down in the beginning?'

'.....' Himeno stops in her tracks.

'You okay my dear?'

'Sorry, it's just...'

'What is it?'

'It's this person that I know.'

'Oh and what is this person like?'

'Well he is a friend of mine. He's stuck up, rude...'

'And he's your friend?'

'Yeah, surprising is it? But he is also caring at times and very gloomy. He calls me "tulip-head" a lot.'

'Very amusing. Your head does have that tulip look,' Michiko giggles a little.

'Hey my hair doesn't look like that.' A vain starts to pop out of Himeno's head.

'My apologies, it seems he might have a good sense of humor.'

'Not really, he barely smiles.'

'Surprising.'

'Eh...I wouldn't say so. I'm kind of use to it.'

' long have you known him?'

'For about a year. At first he can be very annoying, but once you get to know him, he can be a very sweetheart.'

'Hmm, really?'

'Yeah kinda.' Himeno's face turns a little red from embarrassment. She starts to pass a couple of streets and enters into the school grounds.

'What does he look like?'

'He's about a foot taller than me. Long beautiful dark blue hair, and dark blue eyes that you can get lost i.....wait what did I say?'

'Tell me princess, are you in love with him?'

Himeno stops in front of school doors. Her face was flustering up so badly that it looks redder that a red delicious apple.

'Um...y..yes.' She knows she couldn't deny it. If she did she wouldn't have been depressed for months. She knows in her head that she does love him.