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Gene's POV

I've been in SPR all morning. Mother and Madoka were driving Noll crazy and he couldn't take it anymore so he called Mai to demand she get here and hung up before she could say anything. The two women were sat on one of the sofas cooing over a wedding magazine. Noll was sat grumpily in his chair. They had insisted he sit out in the lobby with them and 'socialize'. 'Hah, yeah, good luck with that!'

Noll made to get up and go back to his office when Mother caught him.

"Noll, sit back down and chat with us. Honestly, Madoka, I don't know where he gets his antisocial behaviour from. Do you, Martin?" She asked Father. He looked up from the book he was reading on the other sofa.

"Hm? What's that?" He questioned distractedly.

"Noll and his antisocial behavior... never mind, dear, go back to your book." Mother stated.

When Mai walked into the office everyone was still sitting down on the sofas, talking. 'I really need to work on my English more. I have no idea what they're saying. But I guess this is why Naru's irritated, they're talking so he can't work and Luella and Madoka probably made him stay out here with them instead of in his office.' She thought. 'Good guess!'

"Mai!" Mother and Madoka ran at her, when they noticed she was here, and hugged her.

"Hey guys!" Mai wheezed out.

"Mother, Madoka, let Mai go before you kill her." Noll glared slightly at them. Mother pouted but nonetheless they complied.

"Oh, Luella, stop that. The girl has to breathe sometime." Father scolded. He went to Mai and patted her head as they exchanged greetings. 'What is she? A dog?'

"Mai." She looked at Naru and he stared back at her expectantly. She sighed. 'Of course... I think that's the only reason Naru called me here instead of 'entertaining' Madoka and Luella.' She sighed mentally.

"Aww isn't that adorable?! They communicate without even saying words!" I heard Mother 'whisper' to Madoka as Mai headed towards the kitchen. I'm pretty sure everyone else heard it also. Since Mai was already in the kitchen, she missed Lin trying to hide his smirk. 'That is soo creepy!'

Mai set the tray down on the table and served everyone their tea. Everybody said thank you—well, Lin gave her a nod—except Noll. 'Thank her, you jerk!'

"Mai, let's go shopping!" Madoka suddenly exclaimed. What she didn't know was that those four little words would lead her to so much trouble... 'Trust me, you do not want to go shopping with them. Get out, before it's too late!'

"Sure," She agreed. "just let me change out of my school uniform." 'NOOOO, what have you done!' Mother and Madoka glanced at each other and then between her and Noll.

"You keep spare clothes here?"

Mai nodded. "Yeah. I think Lin and Naru do too, right?" She asked looking over at the two of them.

"We have to with your clumsy self." Noll deadpanned. 'And whose fault is that usually? I'd drop stuff too if you yelled at me like you do at her.'

"For your information, I haven't spilled anything in weeks!" He raised an eyebrow. "Besides last week when I tripped and spilled tea on you..." He glanced at Lin. Really! He's making it sound like she's a child! "And when I bumped into Lin a few days later and spilled tea on him too..." She grumbled. I heard Madoka giggle.

"You forgot one." Noll smirked.

"What would that be?"

"You dropped those papers last week too."

"Yeah, I dropped them. I didn't spill them."

"Same difference really."

"No, it's not!"

"Mai, yes it is."

"No, it—"

"Sorry to interrupt your lover spat," Madoka teased. "but go change Mai so we can leave." Mai froze and slowly looked at Madoka who was grinning. She'd momentarily forgotten everyone was here. She smiled sheepishly.

"Oh, right." She got up and changed in the bathroom. When she came out they told Noll, Lin, and Father bye but not before Madoka made a comment to Noll about stealing his girlfriend for the day. And then they were on their way. I decided to hang out with them.

"Luella, are you ready to spoil our little Mai?" Madoka gleamed as we were walking down the street. Mother nodded vehemently.

"I sure am! Mai, dear, if you see anything in particular that you want, just say the word and I'll get it for you!" She told her. Mai nodded absently. 'Anything I want and Luella said she'd—wait, what?! I'm not letting them buy me anything!' Mai thought.

"Luella, Madoka, I can't let you do that! I don't want to cause you any trouble or spend your money on me!"

Mother grabbed her arm and we all came to a halt.

"Now listen here, young lady. You are not causing us any trouble and I am most certainly going to spend my money on you. I don't have any daughters as you know so I always wanted to spoil my daughter-in-law—grandchildren too. Are you going to deprive me of my dream, Mai?" Mother looked her dead in the eye. 'Oh boy, now Mai's done it!'

Mai gulped. 'She's serious and somewhat threatening; she's even making me feel guilty! Like I'm not guilty enough!' Mai thought. 'Yeah, that's Mother for you.'

I glanced at Madoka to see that she had the same look in her eye. They were definitely not going to take no for an answer. 'Mai's in trouble now. I tried to warn her, can't say I didn't.'

"No, ma'am..." Mai said. What choice did she have? 'No wonder Naru doesn't argue with them.' She reflected. Madoka and Mother smiled brightly again like nothing happened. 'Ah, I miss that. Being bullied by Mother and Madoka into doing things and them acting like it hadn't happened.'

"Good!" They each grabbed one of Mai's arms, with her in the middle and me beside Mother, and started walking and chatting again. After a while Madoka abruptly stopped walking, I looked at her questioningly. Her eyes flickered to Mai's and Mother's before looking back and she pointed to the side. I sighed when I saw what it was and so did Mai. A clothing store. I have to say though those dresses in the window are really beautiful, and they would suit Mai, but I bet you anything they're also really expensive. Looks like it anyways. The next thing I know is Madoka and Mother jerking Mai along into the store. 'Oh no.' Mai thought. 'And so it begins, the hours of torturous modelling for their pleasure. It's like they never had dolls as children and are making up for it now with whomever's available.'

"I. Am. Exhausted." Mai said to herself breathlessly. 'So am I and I was only watching! Do they really think you need five swimsuits though? And miniskirts, don't you have enough? Then there's the underwear, now that was just embarrassing! It's like they think you go around naked on a normal day!'

Mother and Madoka bought Mai three bags full of clothes at the first store we went to then they dragged her to a jewelry store and bought her a couple of necklaces. After that they came to here, a mall, and got her five more bags of full clothes. They wouldn't even let Mai pay for one thing! Oh, and not mention they made her try on just about everything in all the boutiques. At the moment I'm sitting down with Mai while Mother and Madoka are at the food court getting ice cream. They didn't even seem the slightest bit tired so Mai told them to go get the ice cream while she sat down with their—well, her—bags instead of toting all of them around. 'Get used to this, it will be a regular occurrence until Noll gets found out and even then I doubt they'll stop.'

Mai got out her cell phone to look at the time and sighed. 'It's 18:33. Luella and Madoka have been gone for a while so they should be coming back soon.' She thought. I looked in the crowds for the overly-energetic women from where I sat and Mai did too. That's when this guy came up to her and blocked our view.

"Um, can I help you?" Mai asked with a mixture of politeness and annoyance in her voice. 'Yeah, beat it, chum.' The guy grinned at her.

"Yes, in fact you can. How about going on a date with me?" The way he said it didn't even sound like a question. He just expected her to say yes. I shook my head and tutted. 'Ugh, I hate it when guys like this do that. Even Naru doesn't do it! ...Okay maybe a few times, but he's a narcissist so what do you expect? Plus I love him so I can't hate him...' She rambled mentally. 'I couldn't agree with you more. If only I were alive, I'd get rid of this punk for you.'

"No thank you." Mai replied as she and I stood up and she tried to pick up all the bags with just two hands. It's not as easy as it looks!

The guy frowned. "Why not?"

I could've laughed. See, what did I tell ya? 'First have a look in the mirror then look at your attitude. You are so not it like you think you are!'

After Mai finally won the battle with her bags she answered, "First of all, I really don't like you and second I have a boyfriend." 'Okay so Naru isn't really my boyfriend...even if I wish he was... but he is my fake boyfriend.' She thought to herself. 'Yeah, exactly... what am I agreeing to again? Oh yeah, Noll is your fake boyfriend, got it! Mmhmm!' As Mai tried to walk by the guy, he stepped in front of her again. 'Ohh, if I were alive I'd totally beat the living snot out of him!'

"Look why don't—"

"Did you not listen to single word she just said? She doesn't like you and she has a boyfriend who would kick your butt in an instant if he were here right now." 'And so would his brother if he could' Mai turned around at the sound of Madoka's voice. Cold and threatening. 'Yep, she sure is Naru's mentor. And I see Luella has the same expression on her face.' Mai thought.

"Look, old lady, I wasn't talking to you now, was I?" The guy rolled his eyes irritably. Mai gaped and narrowed her eyes. 'I know he did not just call Madoka an old lady!' She gasped mentally. 'He did and he will pay, Madoka style!'

As expected of her, first, Madoka just smiled sweetly at him. But then she walked up to the guy, took the drink from his hand, and poured it on his head. Mai's mouth dropped and I heard Mother say, "You go, Madoka!"

I laughed. 'Oh yeah, but there has to be more.'

"That was for harassing, Mai." But Madoka wasn't finished with him yet. Oh no, of course not. While the guy was cursing, she stomped on his foot—hard—with a 'hmph!' And as the guy's face went down she got one of the ice creams from Mother and shoved it in his face.

"And that's for calling me old!" 'Damn, you didn't kick him in the nuggets; I love it when you kick them in the nuggets. Oh well, no nugget-kicking today…'

Mai's POV

We walked—well, I dragged—into the SPR office to find the boys basically right where we left them. After I discarded my bags on the floor, I flopped down tiredly on the sofa beside Naru so close that our shoulders brushed against each other. I breathed heavily trying to catch my breath. Luella and Madoka graciously walked in after me and sat on the sofa opposite of me and Naru. I slumped down further so I could rest my head on my shoulder.

"So... tired."

Martin chuckled. "I can see why. Luella and Madoka got you quite a lot." He looked at the bags beside the sofa. I lifted my head and sat up straight.

"The shopping wasn't even the half of it!" I whined. Then out of nowhere Naru wrapped his arm around me. Don't blush, don't blush! You're 'supposed' to be use to this!

"Oh, what did you two do now?!" Martin chided at the two other ladies. Madoka and Luella did a small, fake gasp before they balled one of their hands into a fist and brought it to their chest, their other arms linked together.

"Why do you assume we did something?" Madoka asked, acting as though what Martin said hurt them. Martin gave them a stern look.

"Because I know you two. Now, what did you do?" He demanded again. They both rolled their eyes and put their arms down. I swear they could be twins!

"Okay, in my defense, I was only protecting Mai plus that guy just really peeved me off!"

"What do you mean?" Naru spoke for the first time since we got here. Was it just me, or did his voice sound colder than usual? I looked up and saw him practically glaring at Madoka and Luella before his eyes flickered to me.

"Well—" Martin held up his hand to stop Luella from answering Naru's question.

"I want to hear this from Mai. Who knows what you two might concot together." Martin then gestured for me to explain everything.

"Oh, um, well after we finished shopping we decided we wanted some ice cream. I sat down with all of my bags and rested while Luella and Madoka went to the food court. They had been gone for a while when this guy came up and asked me to go out with him. Even after I told him no he still wouldn't leave me alone." I paused as I felt Naru's arm tighten around me. I glanced at him, he was staring at the floor with a look in his eye that I've seen once before, but I can't remember when or where.

"Ha, yeah! Then I came in—"

"Madoka, don't interrupt." Lin scolded. Madoka pouted and leaned back onto the sofa.

"Well, like Madoka said, they came back then and Madoka told the guy off. He said he wasn't talking to her then he called her an old lady..." I continued. "She smiled at him before walking up to him, took the drink from his hand, and poured it on his head." Lin groaned and put his head in one of his hands.

"She said 'that's for harassing Mai!' then she stomped on his foot and shoved ice cream in his face. Then said 'and that's for calling me old!'" Lin groaned louder each time I told them what Madoka did. I hesitated before I told them the next part. "And well... she kind of kneed him when it hurts... and said 'that's for just being a jerk like you!'. A security guard saw the whole thing, and he started coming after us. Luella yelled 'RUN!' and well, we fled... the security guard chased us out of the mall." I finished.

I saw Martin shaking his head disapprovingly and Lin looked up in shock. I looked at Naru to find that he had an amused smirk on his face. Why?

"Oh, Madoka, you didn't!" Lin said something in English. She glared at him.

"Yes, I did. And I'm glad I did too! That jerk got what he deserved!"

"If the security guard had caught you, you could've went to jail for assault and or the boy could have pressed charges against you!" I don't know what they're saying, but Lin seems pretty ticked off. Why are they speaking in English anyways? It's really rude considering I'm the only one who can't speak it!

"We didn't get caught, so it doesn't matter!"

"But I'm saying if you did, you would've brought Mai and Luella into this mess with you." Okay, I heard my name! What are they saying about me?! I looked at Naru for help, but he seemed not to have noticed me.

"Please tell me you didn't do anything." Martin said to Luella also in English.

"No, of course not! I just handed her the ice cream... and cheered her on." Luella answered.

"Oh, Luella! How many times have I told you not to encourage her?!" He responded heatedly. All I could hear was Lin and Madoka arguing at the same time Martin and Luella were. It felt so awkard just sitting there and not knowing what was going on. And to me it doesn't seem like they're stopping anytime soon. I really should've paid more attention in my English class.

After a couple minutes of it, I decided to just go home. It doesn't seem like they would notice I'm gone anyways. But I'm surprised Naru was letting them argue like this, he always liked the quiet. Although it's Madoka and Luella you would have to get in between... which is the reason why I'm not going to tell them I'm leaving. They would just make a big fuss about it and make me stay. But right now I just want to go home and crawl into my bed. So I stood up and grabbed my bags and then tried to ease myself out the door without being seen. And I was successful!

I was walking passed the SPR builing when someone called out my name. I spun around to see Naru walking towards me. Naru! Oh my god, did I seriously forget Naru was there too? How could I? He had his arm around me for heaven's sake! My face began to heat up at the thought.

"I'm sorry. I guess I forgot to tell you I was leaving... distracted, I guess." I apologized to him when he stopped in front of me. "I just didn't want to get between the arguing especially with Luella and Madoka fired up like that. I mean, I didn't know what anyone was saying, but they seemed pretty mad."

"They were fighting about what Madoka did."

I nodded, looking up at the building.

"I thought so." I felt my bags being taken from my hands, and then Naru walked passed me. I turned around, stunned, and called after him. "Naru, what are you doing?!" He didn't say anything so I ran to catch up with him. I reached out and grabbed the sleeve of his jacket; he stopped. "Naru, what are yo—"

"I thought you said you wanted to go home." He stated more than asked.

"Oh... right." I replied sheepishly. I didn't know he'd actually take me home. "Thank you." In reply, Naru just continued walking and I followed.

As we walked to my apartment I wasn't sure what to do. I mean, I know Naru doesn't really like talking, but should I say something? It's not really an uncomfortable and unbearable silence, but I feel a little awkard not saying anything. But that brings me back to Naru not talk—

"Mai."

"Ah... yes?" I asked after I came back to my senses.

"I want to apologize for my parents and Madoka's behaviour."

I gave a small smile. "It's alright... you know, I really like your parents. They're..."

"Immature and a little insane?"

I laughed. "I was going to say fun and wonderful, but if you want to put it that way."

"...I can tell they really like you too." Naru said after a while. What he said made my smile widen. A blush starting to appear on my face, and I looked down, but it felt good inside to know Naru's parents like me. If only Naru liked me more than a tea-making assistant. When we arrived at my apartment I told him thank you again and goodnight.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Mai." He said before he left. I went inside and put my bags in my room before getting my night clothes on. I snuggled up in my bed, waiting to fall asleep and seeing what the next day would bring.

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