A/N: I've been having major, and I mean MAJOR writers block on this story. I had a whole 14 or so chapters plan for this story but now it's only going to be 5. This chapter is short and I apologize but I wrote this at 1 am in the morning. I was tired! Anyway, this is for my lovely reviewers. I know you probably hate me for taking so long to update.

~Jay~

I did not own Gakuen Alice last chapter so I certainly do not now.

"Hotaru," Mikan whined. "I feel like I never see you anymore."

It had been two weeks and the cheating had persisted. Mikan was spending more and more time with Natsume and a lot less time with Ruka and Hotaru. Not that Ruka and Hotaru cared, for it meant more time spent together. Mikan, on the other hand cared a great deal. She felt like her friendship with her best friend was slowly dwindling. She had always told her best friend everything yet she had not known about her and Natsume. She was astonished at the state of their relationship. With drastic efforts she managed to find a way in which she and Hotaru could strengthen their friendship. It was the oldest trick in the book. All Mikan had to do was simply to have a sleep over. If Hotaru, Mikan, and all her friends were to hang out it could restore the hole that had found its way into their friendship. Everyone readily agreed to going to the party.

Friday night came along and Mikan got ready to host the ultimate slumber party of all times. Hotaru, being the one that had lived the closest to her was the first to arrive.

"I'm so excited!" Mikan squealed as she greeted Hotaru at the door.

"How many times must I tell you not to yell?" Hotaru asked slightly annoyed.

Mikan shrugged. "Just keep telling me and maybe one day I'll listen," she said grinning from ear to ear.

The next to arrive was Anna and Nonoko. Every where they went they went together and it was no surprise to everyone that they showed up in matching pajamas. "Mikan, I'm so excited!" exclaimed Anna.

"I am too!" squealed Nonoko. "This is going to be the best night ever.

The final two to arrive was Usagi and Sumire. They always liked to be fashionably late so everyone assumed that's where they were the last to arrive. As soon as they arrived all the fun started.

The first thing the girls did was turn up Mikan's stereo as loud as it could go and danced around the room like mad women.

After they danced they decided to play a little game. The object of the game is to share the best secret. A secret no one would know about. Mikan usually lost these games but she knew that, that night, she was going to have the best and most astounding secret. Anna was the first to reveal one of her many secrets.

"I almost killed my parents," said Anna.

Everyone in the group turned to look at skeptically. "How did you almost kill them?"Mikan asked.

"They asked me to make them lunch. I was planning to prepare something fancy and because of that I had very little time to look at the labels of the spices I had placed in my dish. It turns out that I put poison in instead of cinnamon in the desert. Luckily my dog stopped my parents from eating it at the last minute."

"Why do your parents have poison in their house?" asked Hotaru. She didn't seem to believe the tale.

Anna went for the obvious answer, "Because they want to."

Hotaru gave Anna a disbelieving look but did not say anything.

Sumire was next. She looked at all of us, cleared her throat and began talking. "I think I like Kokoro Yome," she confessed.

No one commented. Of course she liked Koko. She had a crush on him from he was little so it was only expected for her to still have feelings for him.

Mikan decided to follow Sumire. That was such a bad idea. Taking a deep breath she looked at her friends and said, "I'm cheating on Ruka." They all looked at her shocked. Mikan wasn't the type of girl who cheats and break people's hearts.

As soon as Mikan said it, it felt like a major weight was lifted off her chest. She couldn't believe she had kept that secret bottled up inside her for so long. All of her friends responded as she had presumed they would, except for Hotaru.

"You what!" she exclaimed. Hotaru was genuinely shocked at Mikan's secret. She thought she and Ruka were the only bad ones.

"I-I'm cheating on Ruka," Mikan responded. She had never seen Hotaru get worked up over something so trivial.

"Well that's surprising," muttered Hotaru, "Considering Ruka's cheating on you." Hotaru hadn't even thought about what she was about to say before she said it. This was incredibly unusual for Hotaru but when it came to Ruka everything she did was incredibly unusual.

"No he isn't," said Mikan. Hotaru failed to hear the hint of desperation in her voice. She wasn't aware that her best friend was still in love with the guy she was cheating on

"Yes he is," retorted Hotaru.

Mikan immediately went on the defense. "Ruka loves me!" she exclaimed. "He would never cheat on me!"

"Well I happen to know that he is."

The girls watched as the best friends argued back and forth. It was strange to see them bickering, for, though the often bickered over small trivial things they never once bickered about Mikan's love life.

"I know Ruka better than you ever will so I think I should know if he was cheating on me or not!"

Hotaru, not willing to admit defeat, pulled out her cell phone.

"What are you doing?" asked Mikan.

"Proving a point," replied Hotaru.

She put her cell phone on speaker so everyone could hear. After the first ring the person picked up.

"What's up?" came a voice from the other end that was unmistakably Ruka's.

"Mikan's cheating on you," Hotaru stated.

"What!" yelled Ruka.

Mikan glared at her best friend. Why would she tell Ruka? The whole point of the secret sharing game is to be able to share secrets and know that your friends will never tell anyone.

"Tell her that you're cheating on her," ordered Hotaru.

"Is the phone on speaker?" asked Ruka.

"Yes," replied Hotaru. "Now tell her."

"Mikan?" Ruka's voice sounded sad and distant.

"Ye-Yea?" asked Mikan.

She was afraid of what he would tell her.

"I'm cheating on you with Hotaru," he said.

At that moment everything in Mikan's world fell to pieces. Even though she had cheated she couldn't believe that Ruka would cheat. Ruka loved her! They had the perfect relationship. They were supposed to grow old together then one day, while sitting on the front porch of their house they would tell their grandkids about how they fell in love. All her dreams were shattered. Sure she had Natsume but Natsume was a bad boy. Could she really imagine herself growing old with a bad boy? And what would her family be like when she was finally old enough to have kids? If she didn't have someone as kind and caring as Ruka by her side how would she manage? She knew she should have thought about all these things before she decided to cheat on Ruka, but there was no going back now. There was only one way she knew how to fix things.

She ran to the bathroom with her cell phone in her hand and dialed the one number she had memorized over the past few weeks.

His gruff voice came on the other end.

"Hello?" he answered.

"I can't do this anymore," Mikan said.

"Do what?" asked Natsume. "What are you talking about?"

"I can't cheat on Ruka anymore and I know he's cheating on me with Hotaru-"

"Wait, what!" Natsume exclaimed.

Mikan ignored him and continued. "But I'm going to do everything in my power to get him back."

"Mikan don't do this," Natsume begged.

"Sorry," she said apologetically before ending the call.

She walked out of the bathroom to find her room deserted. Everyone was gone. Everyone except Hotaru.

"Where is everybody?" Mikan asked.

"I sent them home," replied Hotaru. "We need to talk."