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Red Lining
Chapter 7

Natsume had kissed her.

The so-called Devil had kissed her!

Not just on the cheeks… but on her lips!

Damn! That was her first kiss!

And guess what?

All she could do was gawk at Natsume's ruby orbs (which seem to have silver flecks in it as he stared back at her) like a naïve girl while he's tongue went inside her mouth.

Oh God, his tongue.

His tongue which kept her awake; the thought that kept her consciously wide awake during the night. The way she had tasted a tinge of chocolate as his mouth came in on hers and even just the mind-blowing feeling that very much shocked her.

"God, I must be mental." Mikan whispered as a blush crept up to her face as she lay down on her bed.

Come to think of it, she had her first kiss with not just anyone around the corner but to a cocky, 17 year old boy who can have any girl under his fingertips and is, by the way, a damn rockstar!

A goddamn rockstar who's at the top of his own damn pyramid with too many-to-count die-hard fangirls, worshipping his every step!

A rockstar who happens to have his own recording contract on a very famous music label, has a lot of concerts and promotional ads and has his own car complete with all the entertainment needed. Plus, he's also a student in the Academy and look!

He doesn't even look like he's stressed!

Mikan stood up from her bed and quickly got out of her room. Maybe, in some way, if she walked a couple of minutes, she would get tired and have a comfortable sleep without the so-called incident running through her mind.

She was already almost out of her room when suddenly her phone rang scaring the lights out of her.

"Hello?"

The person on the other line chuckled and suddenly Mikan knew who exactly was on the other line.

"If you called just to annoy me, then this is just a waste of time. Goodbye." Mikan snapped shut her phone and walked out the door.

The phone started ringing again and Mikan choose to ignore it as she walked down the hall straight to the front door of the dorm.

Mikan wanted to throw the phone away from her as it continued to ring repeatedly.

Mikan sighed and answered the phone.

The people in the dorm would kill her if they woke up soon enough.

"What you did isn't nice."

"What would you know about being nice?" Mikan glanced at the clock on the wall. "It's 12:25 am and you're still awake. Leave me alone."

"Well, I'm not the only one awake. You are too. And you seem to be walking like a giant ape."

Mikan clenched her teeth. "If you were here, I would have broken all that bones of yours and throw you off to the pigs."

Natsume chuckled on the other line. "I didn't know you want me that much."

"The nerve of your—"

Mikan stopped dead at her tracks when she pulled opened the front door.

There he was.

There he was gazing up at her, looking like he just got out of a very sophisticated magazine (even though he was just wearing jeans and a loose shirt.)

Mikan suddenly remembered the way his eyes never even left her after he pulled away from their kiss and as she came gasping for air. And the way his eyes seemed to smolder in front of her just like when she saw him singing away with his music.

"Hmmm? I didn't seem to catch that?" Natsume inquired as he talked straight to his phone while he gazed at Mikan gawking at him.

Mikan who was definitely stunned about the fact that Natsume was in front of her, at the middle of the night, looking like a handsome—

Whoa?! Where did that come from?

Natsume snapped his phone off and stepped up to Mikan so that he was closer.

Mikan slowly snapped closed her phone as well and slowly whispered to Natsume, "Why are you here?"

Natsume smiled and brought up the plastic bag he had in his right hand.

"I have come with peace offering."

"Why are you giving me a peace offering, anyway?"

They were sitting on the front porch, in the middle of the night, eating delicious Chinese food bought by Natsume.

Never thought that Natsume could be a gentleman if he wanted to.

"That's none of your business."

Mikan glared at him. She was very much in a good mood already and he had to break it with his comment.

Natsume chuckled and looked straight into Mikan's golden orbs. "Just because."

Mikan didn't know what hit her but suddenly she felt herself warmed up by those simple words plus the hot stare of Natsume's crimson pools staring intently at her.

Mikan didn't know what to say anymore and an awkward silence enveloped them while Natsume continued to stare at Mikan, amused by her dazed and uncomfortable look.

"Do you really want to know why I decided to give you a peace offering?"

"Yes."

Before Natsume could even respond, Mikan's head snapped up to Natsume's eyes and asked the following:

"Do you regret kissing me?"

Mikan blushed as she realized what she had just blurted out.

Natsume, on the other hand, laughed quite loudly. Mikan had to clamp her mouth into his, sending them both straight down on the hard wooden floor.

"Shut up or you'll wake up everyone on this dorm."

"Okay, if it's the least thing I can do to have you on top of me."

Mikan blushed as she found herself on top of Natsume. Mikan tried to scramble away from Natsume but he pulled her against him and rolled her so that Natsume was now the one on top.

Natsume propped up his elbows and looked straight into Mikan.

Mikan was astounded. This was all moving too fast. What had she done to make this happen to her?

"For your information, I'm not regretting anything that concerns your first kiss with me."

Mikan gasped. "How… how did you know?"

"It's all in your eyes, Mikan."

Mikan blushed.

He had called her Mikan and the way it sounded was just too…

"Do you know how beautiful you are, Mikan?"

Mikan stared at Natsume's lips and all she could think was how it had felt when it touched against her own mouth.

"You confuse me, Hyuuga. You're always doing stuffs that make me hate you and other times… you make me want to be thankful to you and then you suddenly turn--"

Natsume curled Mikan's brown locks on his fingers. "Say my name, Mikan."

Mikan looked up at Natsume's eyes. It was shining even though the moon was behind him.

"Natsume. I know—"

Natsume cut her off when he pulled a CD from his jacket pocket. Mikan knew from the cover that it was the same CD that had led them to meet one another.

"It's for you."

Mikan couldn't find any words to say.

"I brought you this one just awhile ago. It's the last copy but thankfully no one had to kill me first before I got it."

Mikan just stared straight at him. Why was he being so good to her…

"You can stare at how handsome I am but right now you should get some sleep. You're eye bags are dangling."

That killed the moment.

Mikan almost murdered him if she wasn't locked up by his strong body.

Natsume grinned as he saw the way Mikan's heated face turned into rage. Natsume stole a kiss on her nose and pushed himself off of her.

"We have a show this morning and I also have to catch up on my sleep, not that I have the same big eye bags as yours."

Mikan sat herself up as she held the CD on her lap.

"Goodnight, polka."

Mikan was about to let go and not get mad anymore with what Natsume had just said but he just really want to piss her off.

"You pervert!" Mikan screamed. The lights on the dorm room suddenly lighted, signaling that the people are awake by her sudden outburst.

Mikan was left trying to apologize with her sudden outburst.

Natsume laughed himself crazy all the way home.

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