Tap! Tap! Tap! Tap!
A girl with shoulder length black hair was tapping her fingers on the desk in impatience. Beside her, a brunette stood with her annoyed face while in front of her, a raven-haired boy glared at the wall.
Someone: Shouldn't the three of you start to search for her now?
The voice came from a raven-haired girl that leaned on the wall near the window, the only window in the small dim room. Her eyes were locked at a certain machine gun that lay coldly on the floor.
Jacklyn: (Mutters) Without knowing where she go?
Mikan: She can run to everywhere…
Natsume: (Glares at Jacklyn) Because of someone's fault.
Jacklyn: (Glares back at Natsume) Someone? Yeah, someone here.
And that triggered the silence glare contest between the two.
Mikan: (Rolls her eyes and sighs) How did this happen…
--FLASHBACK--
In the same room…
illutia mist: (Flails her arms while being dragged by Natsume) NOOOOOO!!
Natsume: (Covers one of his ears with his hand that's not holding illutia) YOU'RE TOO LOUD, FREAKY AUTHOR!!
Jacklyn: (Rolls her eyes) Good thing that I'm not the one who drags her by now.
Natsume: (Glares at Jacklyn) Then drag her, sketchbook girl.
Jacklyn: (Sticks out her tongue) You wish.
Natsume: You're the one that let her go at first.
Jacklyn: Ho? So why didn't you just ignore me and torture her like usual?
And the two went on with their quarrel.
Mikan: Not again…(Shakes her head)
BAMP!!
The sudden loud sound made the four of them (Remember Hotaru?) turn their head to the source of the sound and found the author holding a machine gun in her hands.
illutia mist: (Glint in her eyes) Nice…
--END OF FLASHBACK--
Hotaru: And she left these papers on the floor. (Takes out some papers from nowhere)
Mikan & Natsume & Jacklyn: What's that?
Hotaru: Read it. (Tosses the paper to Mikan's hands)
-x-
Small Pieces of You
-x-
12th Piece: Commotion of the Fan Girls
"Jacklyn-chan, how's the uniform?" a nurse asked as she stuck her head out from behind the just-being-opened door.
The black-haired girl turned her head to the door, facing the nurse. "Yeah, it is fit on me," she answered as she smiled.
Because her uniform had been quite ragged in the battle, Narumi gave her a new uniform that noon. And after that, the gay teacher went off to he-knew-where.
The nurse came into the room and closed the door behind her. "It's good that you have recovered now," she sighed as she smiled warmly at the girl. "When the first time Koko-kun brought you here, you were injured badly. He said something about you fought a kidnapper. Is that right?" she asked worriedly.
Jacklyn grew quiet for a while before she replied, "Sort of."
"I wonder," the nurse mumbled as she put a finger on her chin. "That kidnap things never happened in this Alice academy before. Well, there's once when Natsume-kun was been kidnapped, but it's because of the AAO…"
The last word that came out from the nurse's lips caught Jacklyn's attention. "AAO?" she asked curiously.
"Nothing." The nurse smiled at her, shrugging off the topic. "Well, you better go back to the dorm. You must have many things to do."
"…Okay…" Jacklyn said hesitantly, but she caught the nurse's strange act at that time. 'She changed the topic. What's the AAO anyway?' she thought in wonder.
"Then I excuse myself now. The other patients have been waiting," the nurse said kindly then disappeared from the door, hurriedly.
Jacklyn stared at the door, wondering at the nurse's weird behavior. She thought for a while before she took her backpack and sketchbook from the bedside table then walked to the door.
On her way to the entrance door, she thought about the AAO thing that was mentioned by the nurse earlier. But it just made her get headache.
When she turned at a corner, she caught a glimpse of a familiar person and quickly hid.
'Marika Houji?! What is she doing here?!' she thought as she turned to her back and ran, searching for a place to hide.
She ran into a girls' room and stopped there to catch her breath. After she could breathe normally, she thought of how to pass the leader of fans club without being recognized by her.
After thinking for sometime, an idea popped in her mind.
She opened her sketchbook and drew a waist length black colored wig. She touched it and the wig appeared in her hand. Without waiting any longer, she quickly put it on her head, covering her shoulder length black colored hair.
She then looked at the mirror, checking on her new looks. 'Perfect!' she thought as she smiled at her reflection. 'But I think I better add something for safety,' she thought as she opened her drawing book again, drew a glasses, and touched it. She put on the glasses and then smiled triumphantly at her reflection.
Jacklyn glanced at the mirror once again before she went out. She tidied her wig's fringe for the last time then went out from the girls' room. She walked to the entrance door again and saw Marika walking to her direction.
'Whatever. If she recognizes me, then I have to fight them again,' she thought in submission as she acted like usual and went straight to the entrance door.
Surprisingly, Marika walked passing her.
After walking quite far from Marika, Jacklyn sighed in relief. She looked at the receptionist and decided to stop by.
'Good afternoon. Um…May I ask who's Marika Houji visiting?" Jacklyn asked kindly.
The receptionist looked at her. "Marika Houji?" she asked as she looked at the visitors' book, "She wants to visit a patient named Jacklyn who's permitted to check out this afternoon."
'Whoa…That girl really has a business with me. It's a good thing that I'm in disguise,' the girl in disguise thought while smiling. "Thank you," she thanked the receptionist before she went out from the hospital.
Outside the hospital, she saw around ten girls standing near the wall. 'Fan girls?' she thought as she kept on walking. 'I hope not.'
As the girls spotted her walking out from the hospital, they murmured while their eyes followed the long black haired girl's movement.
"Are you sure?"
"With my Memory Alice, I'm very sure."
"So, the sketchbook is the same, huh."
"Yes, the burnt mark is also the same."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go."
Jacklyn walked in silence without any worry, thinking that they're not the fan girls.
Well, not until one of them called her.
"Hey, you!" But Jacklyn wasn't too sure that they were calling her, so she kept on walking. "I called you, glasses girl!"
Thinking that it didn't harm to take a look, Jacklyn turned to face them. "Me?" she asked unsurely.
"Of course you. Who else?" the one with dark brown-haired and glasses said.
"You're also wearing the glasses," Jacklyn said stupidly.
The girl's face turned red, not because of the embarrassment but because of the anger. "Don't try to make a fool with us, Jacklyn-san," she said dangerously.
Jacklyn's eyes widened a little. 'They know?' she thought, surprised. She quickly thought of something to cover the truth. "What are you talking about? Jacklyn-san? Who's that person?" she asked while trying to calm herself.
"Your appearance maybe is different, but not your sketchbook," another girl with short black-haired sneered.
'Bull's eye,' Jacklyn thought as she smiled to the girls.
Looking at her smile, the fan girls started to feel curious. "What's with that smile?" the short black-haired one asked, irritated.
"Nothing. Bye!" Jacklyn said as she ran quickly to a random direction, not caring about the destination as long as she could get away from the fan girls.
"HEY! WAIT! DARN IT!" a girl shouted irritatingly. "Someone calls Marika! She ran away!" the other commanded. A few of them chased the fugitive.
Jacklyn didn't look back even though she heard them shout for back-up or whatever. 'Good. They have memorized my sketchbook now,' she thought as she kept on running to nowhere, 'and I'm lost again! Where is this anyway?!'
Jacklyn kept on running until she spotted a forest in front of her. Having no choice, she ran into the deep forest and quickly hid behind the trees and bushes. She could hear the footsteps that following her before suddenly stopped.
"Did she run to this way?"
"…We can't follow her then. This is a dangerous area of Northern Woods."
"Great. She'll suffer this time. Maybe she is lost or being beaten by that Teddy Bear."
The last sentence that she heard made her confused. 'Teddy Bear? Beat me?' she thought in disbelief.
"So she gets her lesson then. Let's go back to Marika."
And with that, the footsteps walked away from her position at that time. Jacklyn sighed in relief, but then she realized that she was in a big trouble now. She hardly could remember the new place that she just saw.
Shortly, she was lost.
'Great,' she thought as she rolled her eyes, annoyed.
She looked around once again. When she thought that it was already secured, she went out from her hideout. She tried to remember the way that she took when she ran inside the forest while walking, until she arrived at a wooden house.
'Maybe I can ask for the way out,' she thought as she searched for the owner of the house. "Um…Hello? Anybody there?" she called, hoping there's someone answering her call or she would get trapped in this forest forever.
Yes. FOREVER.
Suddenly, she heard a chopping sound from somewhere around the house. She followed the sound's direction and found…
…
Jacklyn couldn't believe her eyes at that time, not after she saw the view in front of her with her own eyes.
'A bear is chopping the woods?!' she thought in shock. 'Is this for real?'
The bear then turned his head to her, feeling being stared. Jacklyn stared at him, still drowning in her thought. But she was very sure that she saw a glint in his eyes at that time.
"Hello…?" she greeted, unsure that she did the right thing. But the bear didn't move, just staring back at her while holding his axe in his tiny hands. Jacklyn felt that she could read a 'don't-come-near-me' aura around him. "I just want to ask where the way out is," she said from a quite far distance.
The bear didn't give any reaction for a few seconds. Jacklyn had intended to give up and walk away when she saw him pointing to a direction. Jacklyn's eyes looked at direction that was pointed by the bear, which was leading to another sea of trees.
She looked back at the bear with a smile on her face. "Thank you," she said. The fear that she felt a few seconds ago had vanished when she saw the bear pointing the way out for her.
Jacklyn walked to the direction that was pointed by the bear. On the way, she saw a tall figure leaning on the tree.
It's a man.
He wore a blue mask that had a scratch on the right eye. His hair was silver that gradated to blue on the end of the hair. He wore a black shirt, pants and shoes. A smile plastered on his face as he saw Jacklyn there, like he had waited her for a quite long time.
"Hello, little girl," he greeted with his smile.
Jacklyn eyed him suspiciously for she didn't know the man at all. "Who are you?" she asked, full of caution.
"Don't be afraid. I'm your friend," he convinced her as he straightened himself.
Jacklyn narrowed her eyes and stared at him sharply. "Why should I believe you?"
The man chuckled at her feedback. "You have a hard personality, huh," he said, smiling. He went near her which made Jacklyn take a step back in caution. "Don't be afraid. I won't do anything to you. I just want to tell you something," he said kindly while approaching her.
Jacklyn stopped on her spot. "What?" she asked in wonder.
Seeing that he got her attention now, he approached her without hesitation. "You have a useful alice. I can help you to improve it," he offered.
"What for?" she asked again, sending a warning to him to stop there right at that time.
But he ignored it. "I saw you fight those girls two days ago at Central Town. You have impressed me. But I also saw you were quite in trouble when that girl threw those icicles to you," he told her. "I can train you so you can learn self-defense and use your alice against any attack…and you can help your friends too."
Jacklyn fell silent, thinking about his offer. '…It's true that I need to be strong to help them, especially from that fan girls. But I can't believe this guy so easily…' she thought while staring at the silver-blue haired man.
A few minutes passed by in silence before the girl finally made her decision. "I think I'll decline your offer," she said with a stern face. "I'll protect my friends in my way."
The man wasn't surprised at her refusal. Instead, he approached the girl and patted her head gently. "I respect your decision," he said. Then he took out something from his pocket.
It was a bracelet with a silver-blue gem attached on it.
"Our conversation just now is a secret. You can't tell anyone about it. This bracelet can protect your mind so no one can read what you're thinking about. Your memories are also being secured," he explained as he put on the bracelet on her right wrist. "And if you change your mind, kiss this gem. A hologram screen will appear and you can contact me."
Jacklyn eyed the bracelet on her right wrist. She was a little suspicious, but she didn't know why she let the stranger put the bracelet on her right wrist.
"By the way, no one can take off this bracelet except me. And it can't be destroyed by any alice too," he added. "And you can call me Hirai."
After she stared at the bracelet for another second, she shifted her gaze to the man. "Why are you so sure that I won't tell anyone about this and that I will change my mind?" she asked him in a confused tone.
Hirai smiled at the black-haired girl, leaving a curiosity inside her mind. "Because you're an angel," his words made her surprised. She looked at him with her wide eyes. 'He saw me,' she thought, still in her surprised state.
"See you later, little angel," he said while walking past her. "By the way, those wig and glasses are looking good on you," he added as he disappeared among the tree.
Jacklyn stared at the direction where the man had just gone then looked at the bracelet on her right wrist. She covered it with her long sleeve and proceeded her way to go out from the forest.
-x-
Mikan sighed for the umpteenth time. She was standing in front of Jacklyn's room now, waiting for the black-haired girl to show up.
'I remember she said that she would come out from the hospital this afternoon,' she thought as she looked to the left and right, hoping she saw a glimpse of the girl. Then she looked at her wristwatch.
It was 6.30 pm.
She let out a sigh. 'Is she lost again? I have checked to the hospital and they said that she has gone out since an hour ago,' she thought worriedly.
Then something popped in her mind.
'Maybe she has gone to Natsume's room! Why didn't I think of that before?' she thought again as she started to walk to the raven-haired boy's room.
-x-
"Now, where is the way to the dorm?" Jacklyn thought as she looked at the wide green field. 'It'll be easy if I use those wings, but it'll make me miss the tutor.'
She looked around and spotted a certain mind reader passing by. Wearing a wide smile on her face, she approached him. "Koko!" she called as the mentioned boy turned his head to her.
Looking at the unfamiliar figure, Koko tilted his head in confusion and asked, "Do I know you?"
At first, Jacklyn was confused at his question. Then she remembered that she was in disguise. "It's me, Jacklyn," she said.
Koko eyed her for a while then got surprised after a few seconds. "Whoa…You are different than usual. What happened?" he asked as a smile crept onto his face.
"Fan girls," Jacklyn said as she rolled her eyes.
Koko was silent for a while, looking at her with a confused expression. "Umm, are you not thinking right now? Your mind is blank," he asked hesitantly.
"Huh?" Jacklyn was confused for a second then she remembered. 'Oh, yeah. The bracelet protects me from mind-reading and I can't tell him about the conversation.' She put on a smile and said, "Yeah. Sort of."
She lied.
Hearing that, Koko sighed in relief, "I thought I have lost my alice."
"You're kidding," she said, still smiling. "By the way, I want to ask you which the way to the dorm is."
"I just want to go back to the dorm too. Why don't you come with me?" he offered.
"Sure. Why not?" Jacklyn accepted his offer and followed him going back to the dorm.
-x-
"Eh? She hasn't been here?" the brunette said shockingly.
"No," the fire caster replied simply as he stepped aside so she could come inside.
"I thought she is here…I have checked the hospital and they said she has checked out at 5.30 pm…" she muttered as she walked into the fire caster's room.
"One word. Lost," Natsume said as he closed the door.
"I should have known that. She doesn't even know your room." Mikan slumped down on the couch as she let out a sigh.
"There's a robot that can take her to my room," he said coolly as he approached the couch which was across the couch where the brunette sat down.
Mikan blinked. "You're right, Natsume," she muttered in agreement. "Then, she is lost when she want to go back to the dorm."
"I didn't say that," the raven-haired boy replied boringly, "neither I care."
At his last statement, the brunette puffed her cheeks. "Geez. Natsume, I have told you many times. She's your friend. At least you care for her."
"And I have told you many times that I never said I'm her friend," he retorted in an annoyed tone as he sat down on the couch. "Let's just get started."
"Why don't we wait for her a little longer?" Mikan suggested.
Natsume looked at her for a while then leaned on the back of the couch. "Whatever," he replied simply.
The brunette gave him a smile at his answer, glad that the boy agreed with her to wait for a certain girl. "Mmm…Hey! Let's play something!" she said excitedly.
"Play by yourself," he said as he lay on the comfortable couch.
Mikan's lips formed a pout, unpleased. "Natsume, I can't play by myself! This isn't a videogame! I need a partner!" she complained.
"Don't care," was all his reply before he closed his crimson eyes.
"Natsumeeee…" she whined with her big puppy eyes.
Too bad. Natsume didn't see it because he closed his eyes.
Mikan wasn't too pleased at his attitude. She stood up and went to the couch where the fire caster was lying on. She went to the side where his head lay on then kneeled on the floor so her face was just a few centimeters from his.
"Natsume, come on!" she pleaded again.
Hearing her voice so close to him, he opened his eyes and was wide-eyed when he found out that the brunette's face was just a few centimeters above him. He quickly regained his expressionless face and said, "No."
"Natsumeeee…" she wailed again.
This time, the fire caster had his eyes opened so he could see those big puppy eyes urging him to fulfill her favor. 'Not those puppy eyes again,' he thought as he tried his best to resist the big puppy eyes. "No," he managed to state.
"Natsumeeee…"
And Mikan kept on wailing while the raven-haired boy kept holding on to his 'no' word.
-x-
"Finally!" Jacklyn exclaimed after they arrived at the dorm. She looked at the mind reader beside her with a smile on her face. "Thank you so much, Koko!"
Koko smiled back at her. "You're welcome."
"What time is it now?" she mumbled as she looked around, hoping that she would find a clock hanging on the wall for she didn't wear her wristwatch today.
"7.10 pm," Koko replied while having his eyes on his wrist watch.
"WHAT?!" the black-haired girl was wide-eyed as she whipped her head to the mind reader in the next second. She got panicked. "Oh no! I'm late! I must go! Thanks, Koko!" she shouted while running to a random direction.
Koko stared at her running figure. "Where will she go anyway? I really can't read her mind," he muttered while freezing on his spot.
-x-
Jacklyn turned at a corner and ran again, not thinking anymore.
When she was about to turn at another corner, she stopped with a hard brake.
'I forgot that I don't know where Natsume room is!' she thought as she slapped her forehead.
She looked around, trying to find the robot that she met on her first day attending the class when she didn't know the way out from the dorm. 'Where is that robot?' she thought as she went through the corridor, hoping she would find the robot by accidentally.
She turned at a corner and saw a familiar figure with seaweed hair. 'Sumire Shouda…' she thought as she sighed. 'Might as well ask her. I'm in disguise anyway.'
And with that, she approached the president of Natsume-Ruka fans club. "Excuse me," she said kindly.
Like how mere people reacted to the nearest voice, Sumire turned to face her. "Yes?" she asked.
"I want to ask if you can show me the way to Hyuuga's room," Jacklyn smiled, trying to be kind.
At the mention of Natsume's surname, the green-haired girl's eyebrows directly bent down. "What business do you have with Natsume-kun? Are you one of the fan girls too?" she asked suspiciously.
Jacklyn rolled her eyes. 'Not again,' she thought and then said, "First, I'm not one of the fan girls. Second, I have an urgent business with him," she replied boringly.
Sumire eyed her from top to toe and toe to top, still suspicious. "You're talking like someone that I know and despise of," she said while observing her from toe to top once again. "You have the same hair color too, only yours is long."
The black-haired girl started to feel eerie, being observed up and down more than once by the green-haired girl. "Yeah, whatever. If you can't show me, can you just tell me where his room is?" Jacklyn got impatience.
"Tell me what your business with him first," Sumire said as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"He agreed to tutor me. Now, can you-" Jacklyn was cut off when she saw someone far behind Sumire walking to their direction.
And she surely knew who that person was.
'Darn! Marika!' she thought as she quickly turned to her back and walked away. "It doesn't matter. Sorry, I have to go now!" she said to Sumire before she quickened her pace and ended running again.
The green-haired girl froze on her spot, watching the running figure's back while thinking about what the girl just said before. "Natsume-kun agreed to tutor her? She must be dreaming," she said as she went back to her own business.
"Shouda-san, as usual. You're not chasing Natsume again?" a voice interrupted the green-haired girl from continuing her business.
Knowing who the owner of the coquettish voice was, Sumire glared at the person. "How about you? I heard that you're seeking trouble with the second Imai. Who is it? Imai's sister?" she mocked back.
Marika had a frowning expression on her face. "Tch. She's not the second Imai. She is just an arrogant sketchbook girl," she said through her gritted teeth, annoyed. "She plasters my Natsume most of the time and calls him cocky boy. It's annoying."
Seeing the annoyed expression on her face, Sumire smirked. "So she annoys you now. Good news then," she teased the wavy-black haired girl, who was glaring at her.
"Don't be too big-headed just because you're in the same class with Natsume," Marika grunted. "By the way, I saw a girl with you just now. Who is she?"
Sumire turned her face a little, not looking at her. "She said she's not one of the fan girls and she asked where Natsume-kun's room is," the seaweed-haired girl answered lazily.
Marika held her chin with her right hand, thinking. "Why did she ask about his room?" she asked, wondering.
Sumire observed the girl in front of her. "Why should I tell you about this anyway?" she said to herself as she started to walk away.
Before she could walk too far, a girl, who was a member of Marika's fans club that had the memory-reading alice, touched Sumire on her shoulder.
In the next second, the girl's eyes widened as she gasped. "She's here! That sketchbook girl!" she told Marika and the others.
"WHAT?!" Marika shouted in disbelief. "Where did she go?!"
"She ran to that direction!" the girl replied as she pointed to the direction where Jacklyn ran into a few minutes ago.
"Come on! We chase her!" Marika commanded while running to the pointed direction, following by the rest of the girls.
Sumire was left dumbfounded on her spot, watching the girls running to a certain direction. "What happened just now?" she asked confusedly.
-x-
"HEY!! STOP THERE RIGHT NOW, NON-ALICE GIRL!!" Marika shouted as she chased the girl in disguise that was a few meters in front of her.
"I WON'T STOP IF THERE'S A MONSTER CHASING ME, YOU FOOL!!" Jacklyn retorted as she tried to get away from the fan girls that was chasing her at that time. 'How can they run after me that fast?! Darn it!' she whined loudly in her thought.
"HOW DARE YOU CALLED ME A MONSTER, YOU LITTLE DEVIL!! I WON'T LET YOU DISTURB MY NATSUME!" Marika shouted back and Jacklyn swore that she saw a pair of devil's horns on that wavy-black haired girl's head.
"I NEVER DISTURB THAT COCKY BOY!!" Jacklyn shouted back again, more loudly. 'Darn! Where is his room?!' she thought as she glanced at the room-id's each time she passed the doors. They had run through almost a whole dormitory and Jacklyn had started to feel exhausted.
"DON'T CALL HIM 'COCKY BOY', YOU UGLY SKETCHBOOK GIRL!!" Marika shouted with more rage.
Exhausted, Jacklyn could feel that she started to get annoyed at that time, hearing the shout from the leader of another fans club. "YOU THINK YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL?! YOU'RE KIDDING!! DARN IT!! WHERE IS YOUR ROOM, COCKY BOY?!" she shouted in annoyance.
-x-
"No," Natsume still held on his word.
"Na-tsu-me!" the brunette was still on her spot, wailing at him.
"No," he replied, irritated.
"COCKY BOY!!"
Natsume directly bent his eyebrows at the nickname. "I think I ever heard that," he murmured irritatingly.
The brunette tilted her head as she looked at the front door. "It came from outside. Why don't you check it?" she suggested.
The crimson-eyed boy grunted. He got up lazily from the couch and went to the front door. He opened it and looked around the corridor but found nothing outside there.
He was about to close the door when he saw someone turning at a corner and running to his direction.
An unfamiliar long black-haired girl.
"Finally!" that girl said while running to him. "Sorry! I'll tell you later!" she said again as she caught Natsume by the right arm, went inside his room and quickly closed the door.
"WHAT THE-" the fire caster shouted angrily but the girl quickly covered his mouth with her left hand and mouthed 'ssh' while putting a finger in front of her lips.
Natsume couldn't do anything but glared at the stranger while his mouth was still being covered by her. "If there's any girl (pant) asking about me (pant), say you didn't see me! (Pant) I'll tell you later!" she whispered as she tried to catch her breath.
Just at that time, three knocks could be heard on the door. "Oh no," the girl whined silently. "Remember (pant), say you didn't see me! (Pant)" she whispered at the raven-haired boy as she pulled back her hand from his mouth.
Natsume straightened himself and opened the door as he glared at the girl, who didn't realize being glared because she was busy catching her breath after running for a quite long time. She was like had an asthma at that time, which actually she didn't.
Natsume opened the door, only to find a certain black wavy-haired girl standing in front of him with her what-she-called sweetest smile. "Natsume, I'm sorry if I disturb you," Marika said coquettishly. "I want to ask if you see a girl with long black hair and glasses passing here just now."
The raven-haired boy twitched at the tone. He surely didn't like it.
Without any word, he banged the door close in front of her face, irritated. Behind the closed door, he stared at the girl who was still catching her breath.
"She isn't here," a muffled sound could be heard then the footsteps went away from the door.
The three waited in silence until the footsteps were gone from their hearing range. After a few seconds, Mikan approached the stranger and asked, "Are you okay?" The girl nodded. She was really exhausted.
Natsume eyed the stranger that barged into her room a few minutes ago. "Who are you anyway? Barged into people's room like that?" he asked angrily as he glared at her, annoyed.
The girl didn't answer for a few seconds until her breath came back to normal and she got her voice back. She glared back at the raven-haired boy with an annoyed face and said, "I'm sorry! I couldn't find the robot and those fan girls of you chased me!"
Hearing her answer, the brunette blinked twice then chuckled, catching the fire caster and the girl's attentions. "Um, who are you? You're talking like someone I know," Mikan asked as she smiled.
"Mikan, I'm sorry!" the girl suddenly apologized as she clasped her hands in front of the brunette. "I was lost before! Plus, the fan girls chased me!"
Mikan was surprised at the girl's sudden reaction. Confusion also engulfed her too. She was sure that she hadn't met the girl before. "Uh…You know my name?" she asked curiously.
The girl looked up at her, blinked then chuckled. "Mikan, it's me," she said between her chuckles.
"Yeah. Who?" the brunette asked as she tilted her head a little. She really didn't have any idea who the girl was.
The girl looked at Natsume, who was still glaring at her at that time. Then she poked her palm with her other hand. "Oh! That's right! I'm sorry," she said as she took off the glasses and the wig, revealing a familiar girl with shoulder length black-colored hair. "It's me, Jacklyn," she said, smiling.
Mikan's hazel orbs widened as she saw who was standing in front of her now instead of the stranger before. "Jacklyn! What's wrong with that disguise?" she asked, surprised.
"Fan girls," Jacklyn said as she rolled her eyes. "And the worst, they still recognized me."
Natsume threw a last glare at her before he turned away and walked to the couch. "Next time, learn your manner," he said nonchalantly.
Jacklyn glared at his back. "Sor-ry? You hope me to knock while I found your room by accidentally and those girls chased me?! You're kidding! I shouted through the corridor just to find your room, you know?!" she complained, absolutely annoyed.
"No, I'm not," he replied as he sat on the couch. "We better get started now, so you can get out of my room quickly."
"I'm glad you know," Jacklyn murmured irritatingly as she followed Mikan to the couch.
--To be continued--
Mikan: This is her script. Is she really that stupid to leave it here?
Jacklyn: Not important. The problem is where the heck did she get that machine gun?!
Natsume: (Shrugs) Figures.
Hotaru: …Actually, it's mine.
And with that, the three whipped their head to the inventor.
Mikan & Natsume & Jacklyn: WHAT?!
Hotaru: Ryu bought that from me a long time ago.
Mikan: And why did you sell that to her?
Hotaru: (Money in her eyes) Nice pay. So why not?
The answer of hers made Mikan and Jacklyn sweat drop, while Natsume cursed with many unreadable beautiful words.
Natsume: (Still murmurs something that's indescribable) That author…
Mikan: Geez…No wonder that it's hurt when illutia used that to shot us to unconsciousness…
Jacklyn: (Checks the list of reviewer) No wonder that the machine gun fell at that time. This Ryu threw it to When I Met You story but it ended here.
Hotaru: (Rolls her eyes) I know who threw the machine gun here from that story.
Hearing that, Mikan, Jacklyn, and Natsume looked at her.
Mikan & Natsume & Jacklyn: Who?
Hotaru: The stupid narrator from When I Met You.
A cold wind passed by them for a while, leaving the silence freezing them on their spot.
Meanwhile…
illutia mist: (Somewhere) OH! DARN IT! I LEFT MY SCRIPT!! OH! AND RYU'S MACHINE GUN TOO!!
…What a stupid freaky author…