I've decided to MAJOR edit this chapter (meaning that this chapter has been changed in terms of grammar, lines and plot) that's why you may have realized that I deleted chapter 8: Blackmails and Love and replaced it with this.

So, please read it again. :D

Though I've still incorporated all the written stuffs I've done for the chapter before I edited it, there will be change in plans. :D Thanks for understanding.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own GA.

Red Lining
Chapter 8

My dearest Polka,

You might be wondering why, instead of a CD on a case, you've found this note "accidentally" slipped inside. Well, if you guessed it right (which I guess you didn't because of your naiveté) the CD is still with me.

You may call this blackmail but due to a universal rule which I thought of just now; "when someone blackmails you, you follow" and so...

Meet me at the Music Hall tomorrow at 7pm.

Sharp.

Tardiness would not be accepted tonight so be there at exactly that time or the following pictures I've taken will be published all around school and you'll have to sulk on pretending to be my girlfriend for the rest of your life. Not that, that idea is bad.

Natsume

P.S. If you don't want the people around you to see the pictures I've left in the CD, I suggest you scurry away from them and flush those pictures in the toilet.

P.P.S. But even though you flush that pictures and you suddenly regret flushing them, I still have unlimited copies and just come around and let me know. See you later :p

...

Mikan stared at the long note written in a piece of thick tissue paper and gradually to the case where the said pictures were.

She was deciding whether it was all a bluff from Natsume, but then again Natsume can do whatever he wants when he wants it.

But how did he manage to get a picture of her and him last night while Mikan didn't even realize it had actually happened.

Mikan looked outside the window of her classroom and down to the people playing soccer under the heat of the afternoon sun.

There he was, playing like a normal teenager, like he hadn't been all around the country, promoting their ads or albums. There he was, having fun and doing all great moves which clearly awed the following fans/audience of the game into a hypnotized, head over heels mode.

"He did change a lot, though." Mikan said as she rested her head against her knuckles, still observing every move of Natsume from outside the window of her class.

As if Natsume felt that someone was studying him from down below, he looked up and in an instant, his eyes connected straight with her. Natsume winked and smiled up at her and went back, concentrating on the game.

Mikan almost fell off of her seat.

She was getting confused and very bothered. Is it real feelings Natsume was showing to her or just the way Natsume flirts with girls he gets interested on.

Mikan sighed.

Well, she couldn't concentrate on anything right now except for the fact that she still hasn't opened the CD case.

That's where her best friend, Hotaru, comes into the picture. With Mikan, still having her deepest thoughts about a boy who was confusing her, Hotaru caught a glimpse of the CD case in front of Mikan and held it up in her hands, examining it, without Mikan being aware.

"Hey, Mikan, this is the CD you were going insane over, right? Where in the hell did—" Hotaru stopped as she opened the CD case and instead of seeing the circular CD placed in it, she saw a couple of pictures.

Using the advantage that Mikan still isn't back to reality, Hotaru, not caring of the fact that she was invading Mikan's privacy, held the pictures up and examined it. Her eyes widened with shock and delight as she looked at the different pictures.

"This is going to be something. This will make me a millionaire!" Hotaru exclaimed awakening Mikan from her deep thoughts.

"Hotaru, what are you—" Mikan's eyes widened as she saw what Hotaru was holding up in her hands.

It was the pictures!

Mikan snatched the photos away from Hotaru and quickly scanned them. With every picture, Mikan's eyes widened as her face became redder and redder.

The first picture she saw was the time when she was together with him on her dorm's porch. Another was when he "accidentally" fell on her and they were staring at each other and the last one was the time Natsume kissed her on the nose!

Mikan screamed. A loud sound that echoed throughout their school; the birds even left their nest due to the crazy sound that scared the hell out of them, the teachers who were even having an argument on their meeting stopped and looked at each other with quizzical looks, and even those people who were very concentrated on playing soccer under the sun stopped and stared at the window of Mikan's classroom.

Natsume looked up at the window where he last saw Mikan.

Ruka rested his hands on Natsume's shoulders and also looked up at the window.

"Was that Mikan screaming?"

Natsume smirked, "Yep."

"And I guess, from the smirk that you have in your face, you definitely got something to do with this?"

"I think she saw the pictures already."

Ruka started to laugh. "She's going to kill you when she sees you in class."

"Well, not as bad as she would kill you when she finds out that it was you who took the pictures." Natsume stated as he looked at his friends' embarrassed face.

Natsume laughed out loud. "I was just joking, Ruka. You should've seen your face!"

Ruka smiled at his friends' positive disposition. "Do you know how much you've changed after you met Mikan?"

Natsume looked at Ruka and half smiled. "Yeah?"

Before Ruka could even answer back, a very loud voice of an auburn haired girl came from up the window of the classroom shouting that she would really kill Natsume for sure.

Ruka looked at Natsume's laughing eyes. "I don't know what's spell she had cast upon you but it's working."

"NATSUME HYUUGA!"

Natsume looked up at the window once more. "I think that's my cue. I should get out of here." Natsume then rushed out towards the field, away from the group.

Ruka laughed. "Okay. I'll try to stop her."

Mikan dashed out to the field like a giant ape, approaching the group of people in the soccer field, her eyes become red with so much hatred.

"NATSUME HYUUGA! YOU COME BACK HERE!" Mikan shouted running as fast as her legs could towards Natsume who was already sprinting so far away.

Mikan ended up running, trying to catch Natsume 'til dismissal, until she could no longer walk nor run.

Hotaru ended up photocopying the pictures and earning herself with money that could last her for a month.

So how was it?

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Take care!

khostar