Sumi-chan: Hey. (Walks in wearily and slouches on the couch)
Mikan: Oh My God! Sumi-chan, what happened to you？Your soul is coming out of your body!
Sumi-chan: We've got family issues and since last week we had brownout I haven't been able to update at least a single chapter. T_T
Natsume: Humph! You deserve it, go find a better excuse, your lame excuse sucks, you lazy au—(Mikan elbowed him in the stomach) Ouch!
Mikan: Ssh! Um ... Natsume just said get better and update neh?
Sumi-chan: Really? Well, that's a first… Aww, you both are too sweet! Come on, give me a hug. (Reaches out)
Mikan: Err, no thanks, oh wait look at the time, I better go, I have some business with Hotaru to attend to.
Hotaru: (suddenly appears out of nowhere) what business, I didn't even contact you—(Mikan drags Hotaru out of the room.
Natsume: …. (Stares at Sumi-chan and awkward silence filled the room) No way in hell.
Sumi-chan: (cries) you all are so mean! It's a good thing that sun-moon-dreams, BestFriend09, Xxdarkness-angelxX, Nicole, moonacre99, cute123，Sakura Breeze，CrimsonCinnamon Eyes，*_* （thank you so much for correcting me!! I appreciated it.）and dragonslay and for those readers who put my story in their favorite and story alert list. Uwaa! I'm so happy I could just cry! (Mucus dripping out of my nose) Give me a hug!
Everyone back off and shakes head.
Sumi-chan: You traitors! So mean…..T_T
Natsume: Sigh, I guess I'll just do the disclaimer, Sumiko doesn't own Gakuen Alice, if she did, she would dress me up as a girl and make me dance and sing Babae po ako by Tuesday Vargas.
Chapter 8 A New Friend
"Can't read my, Can't read my, No he can't read my poker face, (she's got to love nobody), Can't read my, can't read my, No he can't read my poker face, (she's got to love nobody) P-p-p-poker face p-p-poker face" Mikan sang softly along with the song on her ipod as she was walking back to Natsume's room but then she was stopped by somebody.
"Mikan, I have good news, we've finished renovating your room, and you can pack your things and leave that asshole's hell hole now. I'll guide you to your room." Hotaru said sternly informing Mikan that she doesn't want her to stay with the dirty porcupine.
"Hn. Okay thanks for informing me, can you wait for me in a moment?" Mikan asked.
"Sure thing, just make it quick, or else I'll charge you." Hotaru replied back nonchalantly.
Mikan quickly went inside the room and packed her clothes and things, when Natsume came in the room, he asked, "Why are you packing you things? Are they done renovating your room already?"
"Yeah, so I guess this is good-bye."
"Oh." Natsume grimaced; he didn't want her to leave.
"Oh? Did I just see The Natsume Hyuuga grimace? Don't tell me, you're gonna miss me that much." Mikan teased, "Don't worry, the deal is still on, and you're still my slave."
Natsume lightened a bit; at least he gets to spend some time with her.
"I guess this is goodbye, Hyuuga." She glanced at him one last time and walked out of the room.
"Heeyy!!" Anna and Nonoko shouted down the hallway, rushing towards Mikan.
"We heard that your room is already renovated, and we wanted to see your room, so can we?" They were using their best puppy dog eyes.
"(Sigh) sure, why not?" Mikan said.
"Yay!"
As they were chatting on the hallways, Hotaru suddenly came to a stop in front of a door.
"Here we are." She stated.
Mikan opened the door hesitantly and was amazed at what she saw. Her room was bigger than Natsume's room, though it was only a room, not 2 rooms. The wallpaper was colored red and black, the curtains were dark violet, and there was a flame design on her carpet. There was a huge CD case near her queen-sized bed enough to fit 5 people. There was also a plasma flat screen TV and a DVD player on top of it. She opened the CR and widened her eyes; she just saw a mini Jacuzzi inside her bath tub! In short, her room was awesome.
"Woah, cool room! Though the color's kinda dark." Anna said.
"Of course it's cool, I was the one who designed it, besides you've got a problem with dark colors, I like dark colors." Hotaru glared at Anna.
"No, I don't, I like it very much, ehehehe." Anna sweatdropped.
"Though I never knew that Hotaru was a great designer, though I can't believe that Mikan has a mini Jaccuzi inside her bath tub." Nonoko complained.
"Yeah, why don't we have one?" Anna agreed.
"It's because you both are fools." Hotaru replied.
"Hey!" They shouted.
"Alright, alright stop fighting already." Mikan interrupted. When she looked at her bed, she suddenly had a desire to flop and jump on it and ….. She did.
"Woo Hoo!!!" she shouted with glee though it wasn't actually shown on her face, which was weird though you could probably see a glint of happiness in her eyes.
Anna, Nonoko and Hotaru looked at Mikan weirdly, they have never seen this childish side of her, but it was very very cute.
Mikan, who realized what she was doing, stopped and stood up from the bed.
"Err, the bed was soft, um.. thanks Hotaru." Mikan said awkwardly.
"Uh… sure." Hotaru snapped out of her trance.
Anna and Nonoko grinned as they pushed Mikan and Hotaru with them to bed, and they all jumped on the soft bed laughing happily then suddenly Anna thought of an idea.
"Hey, we should have a sleepover!" Anna said.
"To celebrate what?" Hotaru asked.
"Erm… How about celebrating Mikan's new Jacuzzi in her bath tub,-- No wait! I meant new room yeah! Mikan's new room and our Friendship anniversary." Anna said pointing her second finger up.
"Yeah! That's a great idea." Nonoko said, Hotaru and Mikan agreed. Then all of a sudden, Nonoko's stomach growled.
"Eh? Noko-chan didn't you just eat lunch?" Anna asked.
"Ehehe, well, I was kinda in a hurry, so I skipped it." Nonoko rubbed the back of her head, sweat dropping.
"Let's get some lunch in the cafeteria; I'm also kinda hungry anyway." Mikan stood up and and dusted the imaginary dust on her pants.
"Yay!" Nonoko cheered.
They all got out of the room and walked in to the hallways until a deafening scream was heard, they all rushed to where the scream came from and they saw a group of Luna's cronies bullying a girl with green bad permed hair.
Mikan immediately went and saved the girl. The girl was sobbing uncontrollably but when she looked up to thank who her savior was, she was surprised and a little bit humiliated that Mikan saved her.
When Mikan saw her face, she chuckled.
"Woah! What happened to your face Permy? You look like a mime losing makeup!" Mikan said.
Hotaru, Anna, and Nonoko also looked at Mikan surprised that she can chuckle, but when they turned to see the girl who she was chuckling about, they also started laughing uncontrollably holding their stomachs tightly though Hotaru looked away and chuckled.
"Why (hic) did you save me (hic)? I thought (hic) you hated me,(hic) because of what I did (hic) to you!" Permy said between sobs.
Mikan sighed and handed her a handkerchief to let her wipe her tears.
"Ba-ka! How could I let someone just be beaten right in front of my eyes without doing anything?" Mikan asked.
"Yep! Yep! Mikan is a really kind person even though she doesn't know it. She even saved Hotaru, right?" Anna cheerfully said.
Hotaru looked away and blushed.
"So why were those girls bullying you? I thought you were a part of their group?" Mikan asked Permy.
Permy looked down in embarrassment then she suddenly clenched her fist and gritted her teeth.
"It's all Natsume Hyuuga's fault!" she accused, "When I confessed to him, he said he also liked me too and now he broke up with me, I was so happy that he chose me over Luna, but I didn't know I was also going to get dumped and then Luna got revenge on me but you saved me…. ---Thank you so much." She continued quietly.
Mikan stayed quiet for a moment to let what she said sink in then she lightly patted her at the back and said, "No problem."
When Mikan got up to walk away, she was suddenly stopped when a hand clenched her pants.
"Don't leave me! Ah! Um…---I-I mean i-if you don't mind m-may I come w-with you? " Permy stuttered, "W-what I mean is u-umm c-can I b-be your f-friend?" She asked shyly.
"…..Sure." Mikan answered and smiled a small smile only noticeable to her.
They all walked together silently and awkwardly towards the cafeteria until Anna started talking to break the tension in the air.
"Erm, so your name is Sumire Shouda, right?" Anna asked.
"Uh… Yeah." Sumire said surprised that someone actually asked for her name, she was usually talking about boys and makeup when she was with Luna's cronies.
"My name is Anna, this is Nonoko and this is Hotaru, I guess you already know who Mikan is." Anna said as she introduced her to Nonoko and Hotaru.
"Pleasure to meet you, my name is Sumire Shouda." Sumire shyly bowed in front of them.
"Ano… May we call you Permy-chan like Mi-chan says?" Anna asked.
"H-Hai! Please do!" Permy answered.
"Hey! How come I'm not allowed to call you that?" Mikan asked.
"Fine! You can call me that." Permy stubbornly said. 'It' great to really have true friends.'
Then they all laughed together walking in on the cafeteria, grabbing a lunch tray, getting their food and sitting on an empty table.
All of a sudden, Luna and her cronies stopped by their table and snickered at them, well, more on Sumire.
"What's this? Sumire, are you siding with this bitch? You are such a traitor!" Luna pretended to be hurt.
All of her cronies pretended to comfort her, it almost felt like they were mocking Permy then Permy almost stopped until Mikan rose from her seat holding an ice cream nearing towards Luna.
"Wha--!" Luna shouted as Mikan "accidentally" dropped he ice cream Luna's shirt and crunched the cone.
"Oops, sorry." Mikan apologized nonchalantly.
"Why you bi—" Luna screeched raising her hand to slap Mikan but a hand stopped her and something that smells like spaghetti dropped on her hand.
"FYI bitch, Mikan is not a bitch, you are!" Sumire retorted spilling her spaghetti on Luna's head.
"Aughh!" Luna tried to sound pitiful so that everyone can pity her, but too bad, everyone was now laughing at her.
Luna then went near Natsume and clinged to his arm, complaining, "Natsume-kun, I'm so glad to see you here, look at what the bitches did to me!" she cried.
Natsume only looked at her in disgust and roughly peeled her off, "Didn't I tell you not to cling on me anymore, you're so annoying, and you deserved it." He glared at her hard.
All of the people in the cafeteria were laughing at her, she was so humiliated that she stormed off but before that she warned Mikan, "I'll remember this!"
"Hahahaha, you should've seen the look on her face before she left." Anna said wiping the tears on her eyes, still laughing.
"I know! It was too funny, I can't hold it in anymore." Nonoko replied ad held her stomach tightly as she laughed so hard.
"Crazy people." Hotaru muttered.
Mikan chuckled, "But you have to admit, the sight of Luna humiliated is beautiful."
"Yeah." Hotaru agreed.
"Thanks Permy, I never expected you to save me." Mikan said.
"No problem, I couldn't stand her bullying you any longer." Permy replied with a smile.
"Hey! Why don't we invite Permy in our sleepover tonight?" Anna said.
"Yeah, why not?" Nonoko asked.
"It'll be more exciting with her around." Anna said excitingly.
"Yeah, sure why not?" Mikan replied.
"Really?" Permy asked, sparkles in her eyes.
"Of course." Hotaru said, "More people to blackmail." Then everybody sweat dropped.
"Don't worry, I'll get all the latest magazines and all the hot gossip you can get, I promise you that this will be the most greatest sleepover you'll have." Permy assured.
"Well then, I'll be looking forward to it." Mikan said as they all laughed looking forward for tonight.
Sumi-chan: Well, that's the only thing my mind came up with.
Natsume: Permy going good? Your mind must really suck.
Sumi-chan: That hurts! T_T
Natsume: She was never a good girl to begin with.
Permy: Natsume-kun!!! I'm so glad to see you! (clings to Natsume)
Natsume: You see what I mean? (peels Permy off) You should just make my lines longer and have many scenes, it'll be too boring without me.
Mikan: You are such an egoist!
Natsume: But the fans love it.
Sumi-chan: I don't know how you can manipulate them, but you better stop it!
Natsume: They just can't help but fall for my charm.
Hotaru: Then do you want me to shoot you with my baka gun to destroy your face. (glint in her eye, holding the baka gun on his head)
Natsume: Uh… No thanks..
Sumi-chan: Sorry! Sorry! If this chapter is not to your liking, but please review. Thanks!