Goose: I stayed home sick yesterday, and I got my one review for the last chapter, so I'm updating again...

Dwarfy: What about failing chorus?

Goose: I redid the thing I failed after I updated last and my mom brought it to school yesterday morning... But since yesterday was Friday, I get a three day weekend :D

Dwarfy: Lucky.

Goose: Oh, Dwarfy, do you think we should have Thomas here?

Dwarfy: ...Bring her in next chapter... (laughs evilly)

Goose: I don't own Shugo Chara!

Normal POV

Rima stood nervously on the Hinamori's front step and hesitantly rang the doorbell. She held her bag in one hand and the other was clutching her cell phone in her pocket. When she had told her parents she was going to Amu's sleepover, they were enraged that she had agreed without asking them first. They only agreed to let her go when she promised she would have her cell phone with her at all times.

The door opened, and Mrs. Hinamori smiled at Rima gently. "Hello, Rima-chan," she greeted her, "Amu and Yaya-chan are upstairs." Rima nodded and walked into the Hinamori household, looking around. It was a very clean home, and she could see Ami singing in the living room while Mr. Hinamori took pictures and yelled, "That's my little sparrow! Go, Ami-chan, go!"

Rima frowned. Amu's family was so close, so friendly, so caring. Amu had a little sister and two loving parents, and she took it for granted. She wasn't thankful, she was constantly complaining about how embarrassing they were, yet she didn't realize how lucky she was that she had them around at all. Oh well. Amu was stubborn; she'd figure it out eventually.

As Rima trudged up the stairs, she heard giggling coming from Amu's room. Smiling again, Rima knocked on the door, excited yet terrified to be going to her first sleepover. Before she had nearly been kidnapped, she had never had many friends because she was shy, and after that incident, her parents had never trusted anyone enough to let them have their daughter for a night.

The door flung open and she saw Amu standing in the doorway, grinning mischievously. Rima was scared. Amu only looked like that when she was either fantasizing about one of her crushes or plotting something evil. Rima hoped for the first.

"Rima-tan!" Yaya called out as she glomped the small girl. "Yaya planned lots of fun stuff! Now we only need to wait for Na-chi (A/N: Sorry, I don't know how to spell Yaya's nickname for Nadeshiko. If you know, please tell me!) to get here!" Nadeshiko wasn't here yet? She was almost never late. Did something happen? Maybe she wasn't coming! Now Rima wouldn't have to worry! She could enjoy this sleepover in peace! Or as peaceful as it gets with Yaya around...

The doorbell rang. Darn.

Rima could hear Mrs. Hinamori cry out from downstairs. "Nadeshiko-san! It's been so long!" Amu raced downstairs with Yaya and Rima not far behind. They came to the front door to see the purple haired girl being suffocated in Mrs. Hinamori's hug. "It's nice to see you again, too..." she managed to choke out.

Amu screeched and pulled the girl out of her mother's clutches. Nadeshiko nodded as thanks and quickly went to hide behind Yaya and Rima. Rima winced. Nadeshiko and Yaya looked at her curiously while Amu and her mother bickered about 'being embarrassing' and 'you could have killed her.'

Amu groaned in frustration and stomped away from her mother, signaling for the other three girls to follow. Scared that Amu would drag them to see Happy-chan if they didn't obey, they scurried up the stairs after her. After leading them into her room, she ran out and came back several moments later with four glasses of water. She locked the door behind her, handed out the water, and smirked as she sat down next to Yaya. Yaya. They both looked at Rima and Nadeshiko, who were beginning to wonder if coming was such a good idea.

"So, Amu-chi, what should we begin with?" Yaya gave Amu a knowing look. Rima and Nadeshiko looked at each other, frightened. One thought passed through both of their minds, They are so planning something evil.

Amu smirked as she reached under the pillow next to her and pulled out an empty water bottle. "Spin the Bottle Truth or Dare," she said as she placed the bottle on the floor and motioned for the others to form a circle around it. "I'll go first."

Amu reached for the bottle and flicked her wrist. The bottle spun for several seconds before stopping at Yaya. Amu and Yaya both looked disappointed. Suspicious.

"Alright, Yaya. Truth or Dare?"

"Dare," Yaya replied with out hesitation. Amu's smirk was soon back in place.

"I dare you to call Kairi and tell him how much you love him. And you can't tell him it was a dare." Yaya grinned more and more as Amu continued setting the rules for the dare.

"Very well, my dear Amu-chi," she said as she pulled her bubblegum pink cell phone out of her pocket. It had lollipop stickers all over it. Of course.

Yaya dialed Kairi's number and hit the speaker button. They all waited as it rang several times.

"Hello?"

"Hello? Kairi? It's Yaya." Amu snickered in the background and Rima and Nadeshiko stared in shock. She was really doing it!

"Ah, Yuiki-san. What may I help you with?"

Yaya laughed. Kairi was always so formal, even with his close friends.

"I just wanted to tell you that I love you so so so much and want to marry you!"

"Wha-" Yaya swiftly hung up the phone. "How was that?" she asked, smiling. That evil little girl, someday she was gonna rob a bank or something. You could see it in her eyes. Her evil, beady little, pyromaniac-homicide eyes...

"Alright, Yaya," Amu said, passing the bottle over to Yaya. "Your turn to spin." Amu and Yaya looked at each other again, before once more turning their smirks towards the short blond and the thin purple-head. Yaya spun the bottle with such force that it kept spinning for at least forty-five seconds. When you think about it, that's a long time for a bottle to spin.

The bottle stopped on Rima. She gulped as Yaya looked at her with a terrifying grin. If only she had a camera... or an exorcist. "So, Rima-tan..." Yaya said slowly, "Truth... or Dare?" Yaya looked as if she was about to kill somebody, if she hadn't already.

"Uh... Truth," Rima replied quietly. She could see Nadeshiko looking at her with a face full of pity and fear.

"Do you like Nagihiko?" Amu asked as if she hadn't put any thought into the question. Rima gasped, then hit Nadeshiko when she noticed the girl had spit her water out all over her at Amu's question. Amu grinned at Yaya. They had planned this.

"N-No way do I like that ugly, cross-dressing, purple-headed, girly-boy, nice, friendly, funny, handsome..." Rima was so busy "denying" that she liked Nagihiko that she didn't even notice what she was saying. Nadeshiko stared in awe as Amu and Yaya high-fived.

"Wow... just... wow," Nadeshiko said, amazed that anyone could like that idiot of a brother that she had grown to love and hate. She was happy for him... but worried, because Rima obviously wasn't going to admit to liking him any time soon. She noticed that Yaya and Amu were now looking at her while Rima attempted to kill herself with a comb (A/N: Heck yeah! The emo comb! Check my profile if you don't know.).

"Since Rima-tan is busy, Amu-chi, why don't you spin for her?" Yaya grinned. Oh dear. This wouldn't end well. Amu nodded at Yaya and spun the bottle with another flick of her wrist. Of course, it landed on Nadeshiko. "Alright, Na-chi," Yaya said, "Truth or Dare?"

Nadeshiko gulped. If she picked truth, Amu would obviously ask if she liked Kukai, and if Yaya was there when she was asked that, she would go blab about it to the soccer player, them being the big brother/little sister characters they were. "Dare," she replied confidently.

Amu and Yaya looked like they had just woken up on Christmas morning. Rima had stopped with the comb and was now looking back and forth from Nadeshiko, to Amu, to Yaya, and back to Nadeshiko.

"I dare you to ask out Kukai."

Nadeshiko could feel her heart skip several beats at the mention of Kukai's name. Ask him out?! She couldn't do that!...Could she? Amu and Yaya looked at her with anticipation. They all knew that if she didn't do it, she would have to come to school on Monday in a chicken suit. The girls had to come to school in a chicken suit, the boys in the girls uniform. Those were their rules, and you can't break them. If you broke them, there were serious consequences. Consequences like watching the penguin-mating video with Tsukasa and Tadase for eight hours straight.

"Fine. I'll do it." Nadeshiko couldn't believe what was coming out of her own mouth. She felt herself reach into her pocket for her cell phone and dial Kukai's number.

"How can she remember Kukai's number off the top of her head?" she heard Amu whisper. It was because ever since she had become real, she had spent so much time, looking at that collection of numbers on her brother's contacts list, wishing that someday, that would be the number on her caller I.D. Sure, it was a bit stalker-y, but lots of girls were like that, dreaming of the day that one guy would notice them.

The phone rang. And rang. And rang some more. Nadeshiko was beginning to wonder if he would ever pick up. If he didn't, then she wouldn't have to go through with this dare, but if he didn't, she knew she would feel that cold emptiness she always felt whenever he left the room. She had never felt this when she was a part of Nagihiko. Was it because she was a girl now? She shrugged off that thought when she heard Kukai pick up.

"Yo, Kukai here! Hello?"

"Hello, Kukai," Nadeshiko said softly. She didn't want him to notice what she had started calling him, but couldn't bring herself to call him Souma-kun again.

"Hey, Fujisaki! What's up?" Kukai sounded so carefree, as if he had nothing in this world to worry about. Nadeshiko admired this about him.

"Uh..." Nadeshiko hesitated. How would she ask him? Well, it was a bit too late to think about that now. Suddenly, she had an idea. An evil idea, that she would probably get murdered for later, but it would have to work.

"Onii-chan is going on a date with Rima tomorrow and she wants the two of us to tag along on sort of a double date." All while Nadeshiko was saying this, Rima was glaring daggers at the back of her head.

"Sure, sounds fun!" Kukai replied without the slightest hesitation. Nadeshiko was filled with both confusion and relief. Confusion of how a simple dare had cause this whole mess, and relief that he hadn't turned her down. Why she was relieved, she still wasn't sure of.

"You idiot! I hate your brother!" Rima cried out. Nadeshiko noticed her voice was serveral times squeakier than usual, and that was saying something.

"You didn't seem to think that when you were describing why exactly you hated him," Amu smirked as Yaya giggled. Rima blushed and shut up.

Now all Nadeshiko had to do was actually set up Rima and Nagihiko's date.

Nagihiko's POV

I was just laying on my bed, listening to my headphones, when my cell phone rang. I checked the caller I.D. It was Nadeshiko. Wasn't she supposed to be at Amu's sleepover? Why would she call me when she could be talking to Amu, Yaya, and Rima? Did something go wrong?

"Hey, Nadeshiko," I answered the phone. "What's up?" I heard my sister cough nervously on the other end. I felt a bit panicky.

"Uh..." she began quietly.

"What in the name of all things kerfuffle is wrong, woman?!" I yelled. I felt bad about yelling at her like that, but I didn't have all night.

"Me, Kukai, you and Rima are going on a double date tomorrow okay, thanks, bye!" she said in one breath before she hung up. I dropped my phone and stared straight ahead, paralyzed.

A date? With Rima? Me? With Rima?

Wait, she was going with Kukai?! What happened to the whole 'guys don't date their best friend's sister' rule? And being Nadeshiko, it's like he's dating me, too!

Oh dear. I feel an overprotective older brother character coming along.

Goose: It's finally done! Now I can have my bacon!

Dwarfy: What?

Goose: Somebody told me I couldn't have any bacon until I finished this chapter. NOW GO GET ME SOME BACON!

Dwarfy: Get your own. But really, it took you thirteen hours to write this?

Goose: I have a short attention span. You should know that by now.

Dwarfy: Whatever. R&R.

Goose: Bacon...