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***Chapter 5***

Fire & Water

I stared across the table in a complete daze.

"Mashiro-san? Mashiro-san!" I shook my head quickly, and took in my surroundings.

"Mashiro-san! Please answer question 5!" Nikaidou-sensei halfway screamed at me. I blinked back into reality and got up to answer the problem on the blackboard. A few girls snickered as I passed by, probably still jealous of my popularity. I walked up to the board and answered the problem but ended up getting it wrong.

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The guardian's meeting was finally over. I sighed and stared over towards Amu.

"Want to go home together?" I offered. She shook her head.

"Sorry, Rima, but I'm going shopping for supplies with Tadase." Amu replied.

"Yaya?"

"Mama's driving me to the dentist today." Yaya said with a hint of disgust in her voice. I sighed. Mama's going to blow up if she heard that I was going home alone. She'd be so mad that she'd never let me out of the house again.

"I can walk you home." Nagihiko offered. Eww...Great. Of all the people who could've been up to it, why him? Why couldn't I just get one of my slaves to d-

"Fine." I answered. Why'd I have to say that? Stupid Rima! Think before you answer next time!

"Are you ready to go?" He asked, holding out his hand. I slapped it away.

"I DON"T want to hold hands." I said sternly. He chuckled a bit and nodded. Stupid. That's un-needed laughing for something that wasn't even supposed to be funny.

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"So, why did you make this bet?" I asked.

"Huh?"

"You heard me. Why?"

"Hmm...actually, I don't know why." He answered. My eye twitched. What the heck? There was no reason? Then he's just playing stupid games with me?

"Then...Have you ever done this with other girls?" I asked in an almost whisper voice.

"Maybe..."

For some reason I felt so crushed inside. I didn't want to face the fact that I wasn't the only one. I wasn't anything special to him. Just another girl he was fooling around with. I felt tears building up in my eyes, but I held them back.

"So you just go around playing with girl's hearts then?" I hinted. My voice was trembling, but I didn't want it to sound like I was crying.

He looked away as though he didn't want to answer, because he knew it'd be a yes. Jerk.

"You're disgusting." I said coldly.

It felt as though my heart had been ripped out and torn, and I was left here to sulk and cry about almost nothing. I hated Nagihiko, so why did I feel this way. Why did it matter to me that he played with girl's hearts. Maybe it's because it was MY heart he was going after this time. Too bad, because he's never going to get it.

For a few minutes we walked in silence before he spoke up again.

"Rima...do you want to know the truth?" He asked. What do you think idiot? Of course I do! Who wouldn't?

"Yes." I answered quietly. He nodded.

"I knew you hated me, so I thought you'd be tough to go after. I wanted a challenge, so I challenged myself to make you fall in love with me." He explained.

"So you WERE planning to play with my heart? It wouldn't have worked anyways."

"Yeah, I know." He replied, "I was going to try and break you, but then I realized something. I don't WANT TO hurt you." I blushed a bit.

So he was planning on hurting me. He still is a jerk, but he doesn't want to hurt ME?

"What about Amu?" I asked, "How do you feel about her?" I eyed him suspiciously.

"It depends what you mean by that. I guess she's special to me, since she's my sister's best friend as well as mine." He replied.

"D-do you love her?" I stammered.

No. Please say no!

"No, I'm not in love with Amu."

I automatically felt much better. He didn't love Amu, but I was "special" to him in some way? Interesting...

***Nagihiko POV***

"Is that all, Rima?" I asked.

She was asking so many questions, and it was tiring me out finding the right answers. I couldn't say too much, but I couldn't lie. I didn't want to lose anymore of her trust, if I she even had any left in me. After all, I treated her as bad as she treated me, maybe even worse.

"Can I ask one more?" She asked, looking up at me with her huge honey colored orb-like eyes. I nodded.

"Okay, but only one more." She nodded and stared down at the ground.

"How do you feel about me?" She asked in her soft voice.

I immediately turned red. Why would she ask that? Maybe she liked me too?

"I-I'm not sure." LIE. "You're different from other girls I've met, so I can't tell how I feel."

Okay, that was the truth, but a lie at the same time. Why couldn't I just be honest and tell her how I feel? How hard is it to say just 3 words? I LOVE YOU.

"Oh. We're here." I announced.

She turned to stare up at her house. It was pretty small compared to my mansion-like house. She left my side and slowly ran up to her porch.

I already felt so anxious to be with her again, even though she was only a few feet away. She turned back to me.

"You're not as bad as I thought." She said, before opening her front door.

I'm glad that I'm good at acting, otherwise, my face would be bright red right now.

"Good bye." She said quietly before disappearing into the small house. I sighed and started heading back. If only she could know how much I loved her.