Mikan's POV

"Mikan, come on Mikan wake up. Get up now," I heard someone say while shaking me.

"Uh… I'm sleeping. Wake me up in an hour."

"Mikan, if you don't wake up I won't share my Howalan with you," she whispered. And then I was up faster than a heartbeat.

"I want some! I'm up!"

"You take way too long to get up Mikan," Nobara said. Now that I noticed she wasn't in uniform, but a simple and cute outfit. Then she threw an outfit towards me.

"Hurry up and get changed, I want to go try some marshmallow ice cream that I keep hearing about."

"Fine," I said as I threw on the outfit. Then I picked up one of my violin cases and opened it. My special violin… I plucked a few strings. Hmm… Maybe I should take it to get tuned today. I put the violin back in its case and slid it on my back. I am going to Central Town anyway, and if I'm careful it won't break. At least I hope it doesn't break.

"Mikan, hurry up! We'll miss the bus."

"Coming!"

On our way to the bus stop we saw Koizumi-sensei. It looked like she was looking for someone. When she noticed us she said," Yukihara, you've got practice today at 5. If you're late I'll punish you."

"Yes Koizumi-sensei," I said emotionlessly. I don't want to go but since it's been so long since I've practiced I've got no choice. After all, if I don't go Mom and Dad will find out and I'll get punished. I'd rather neither happens. But anything can happen.

"Mikan?"

I blinked back to reality. Then I turned to her, smiled and said, "Sorry, I was just thinking about something. What is it Nobara?"

"It's time to get off the bus. After all since we're at Central Town, we should go have fun."

"Y-yeah. You're right. Let go eat marshmallow ice cream and Howalan. "

Natsume's POV

As I was walking around Central Town with Ruka, trying to find out what song I should do for the last round I saw Mikan and Nobara. Should I go talk to Mikan about last time? Should I talk to Nobara and hope that she doesn't hit me? Or should I just talk to neither?

"Natsume, why don't you go talk with Mikan," Ruka asked interrupting my thoughts. That's what I'm trying to decide!

"Why would I go talk to her? She would probably call her weird overprotective sister and I don't want to die yet."

"But I thought that you liked her, so why not ask her out on a date?"

"Again, if I wanted to die I'll do that. Besides she has a boyfriend," I said trying not to get my hopes up.

"They broke up didn't they? So now's your chance."

Ruka, you're like a brother to me so it's really hard not to kill you right now. Exactly what can I do? Instead of replying to him I walked into a bookstore to get a new manga because she probably wouldn't want to talk to me unless she's force to. Then again… she did talk to me when we were at the Sakura tree. We actually had a conversation, even through it was about10 minutes at most it was more than she talked to me in 3 years. Maybe I should try to beat that record.

"Thank you very much! Please come again."

Oh, I actually brought something. What did I buy? I looked in my bag to see a sakura charm. How did I get this-? Wait, I entered a jewelry store didn't I? I turned around to see a jewelry store. I was pretty sure that was the bookstore… So how'd I get there? Doesn't matter now. But what do I do with this thing?

…..

I've got nothing.

"What'd you buy, Nat," Ruka asked me. Now that I think about it where did he go? And where did he come from?

"Just some charm. I think I'll just return it."

"Why don't you give it to Mikan?"

"And I would do that because…," I said waiting for him to fill in the blank.

"You like her, you got her angry at you, and you should at least get her something to apologize with."

"No wonder your fan club is big."

"Yours is bigger. Just go give it to her. She's right there," he said pointing to her and Nobara. It was obvious since she carried a violin on her back.

"I don't see her," I say hoping things weren't going to get worse than they already were. I was about to walk away when Ruka pushed me towards her.

Mikan's POV

"That was really good," Nobara said.

"It was," I agreed happily.

"So did it make you feel any better," Nobara asked.

"Actually… it did. This was a great idea Nobara. Thanks."

"No problem. Oh, it's almost 4:30. You should go get your violin tuned. I'll go get the Howalan and we can go eat it later."

"Sounds good."

Right as we were about to go our separate ways, when someone fell on me! I looked and Hyuuga was lying on my back.

As I got up, I started to yell at him. "Hey, Hyuuga what's wrong-? "

Then my eyes grew wider when I noticed that my violin case wasn't on my back. I turned my head around only to see it in halves, the neck had broken off completely. My precious violin. It's the only thing that I actually wanted to keep if I gave up music.

"Mikan are you al-"

Nobara stopped talking when she saw me putting shattered violin in its case.

"It's fine, I have other ones. I can use those," I said trying hard to have my voice cracking. "I'll probably be late to my lesson."

I felt eyes staring into my back. Hyuuga probably. I didn't turn to check. How am I going to be on time? It'll take at least 25 minutes to run all the way back to my dorm if I go now and I might not have enough time to run to where Koizumi-sensei will be.

"Mikan-," Hyuuga began.

"Mikan, use my violin."

I turned to the side to see Rou holding his violin case and took it from him. "Thank you. Can you please throw the other one away? I've got to hurry so I can't do it," I said.

"I'll take care of it."

"Thanks. And Hyuuga," I started to say in a stronger voice. "I hate you. A lot more than I did before."

"I'm so-"

Then I ran before he could say another word.