Rest Of My Life Chapter 2: Runaway Baby, a gakuen alice fanfic

Summary: Sometimes life is to difficult to tell in words, so we sing about it. Because sometimes singing or even writing a song is easier than telling a story. This story takes us through all of Mikan and Natsume's life, starting from the first time they met to their last moments. It has all the ups and even all the downs.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice or Bruno Mars.

Author's Note: I've taken this challenge, from myself, to write a multi-chaptered song-fic with songs only from Bruno Mars. Every chapter will follow the same story, but will also take the theme of the song I have chosen.

Runaway Baby

Ahh yes

When I first met Mikan Yukihara, she was this little thirteen year old girl who loved dresses and wore her hair up in pigtails. Pigtails. I didn't think much of her at the time, she was my annoying neighbor who lived across the street with the polka dotted panties.

But when I think back to it, maybe her being so.. unique was what attracted me to her.

She wasn't like my fan girls, as Mikan had so kindly dubbed them, who were always all over me trying to get with me. And I won't lie, a couple of them did. I lived up to my name as a player – but I still made time for my friends: Mikan Yukihara, Ruka Nogi, and Hotaru Imai.

Mikan was probably the only girl in the whole school, minus Hotaru – if she even counts as a girl; I rather think of her as a robot – who didn't look at me with this look in their eyes like I was a piece of meat. I had a couple girlfriends freshman and sophomore year, all last no longer than two weeks tops. But none of them made me feel the same way Mikan did when I was just around her as friends.

Well looky here, looky here
Ah, what do we have?
Another pretty thing ready for me to grab
But little does she know
That I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing
'Cause at the end of the night
It is her I'll be holding

I love you so
That's what you'll say
You'll tell me
Baby baby please don't go away
But when I play, I never stay

I started having feelings for her, or rather I realized my feelings were there, sophomore year. So I let up on the name calling and the picking on her, but she failed to notice any difference. Then again, for Mikan to get anything, you had to spell it out for her at least twice.

I didn't do anything about them, my feelings. I hid them the best I could. I didn't want to bring Mikan into my list of girls that I had been with, just so she could be another one for me to sleep with and leave. I actually liked her. And if that meant being just friends, then it would stay that way.

Hotaru knew. So did Ruka. About my feelings towards her, that is. Hotaru tried to blackmail me a couple times, she's that kind of person, while Ruka tried to get me to confess to her.

What would she want in a guy like me? I have nothing to give her. There were so many other men out there who would treat her well.

And then it happen; Mikan got herself a boyfriend.

To every girl that I meet here this is what I say:
Run run run away, run away baby
Before I put my spell on you
You better get get get away get away darling
'Cause everything you heard is true
Your poor little heart will end up alone
'Cause lord knows I'm a rolling stone
So you better run run run away run away baby

It was mid-sophomore year. She was fifteen years old, and he was a senior – an older guy, was she into that? I didn't stand in her way, though I was always throwing nasty looks at him when she wasn't looking. They lasted a good three months, which I think wasn't bad for her first relationship, especially considering how long mine lasted.

I was pleased to learn she hadn't done anything with him, besides kiss – which still irked me. I could have been her first kiss, not that she would have been mine. But I didn't want her to fall victim to, well, this.

Well let me think let me think
Ah what should I do?
So many eager young bunnies
That I'd like to pursue
Now even now they eating out the palm of my hand
There's only one carrot and they all gotta share it

I love you so
That's what you'll say
You'll tell me
Baby baby please don't go away
But when I play, I never stay

She was innocent, while I was not. It's like she was vinegar and I was oil. We didn't mix, but somehow we could stand to be in the same container together. I don't know why she put up with me. I never thought there was much to go off of; but girls still lined up at my feet.

Apparently for my looks and nothing else. Not once did one of my so-called-girlfriends ever try to get to know me. It was always about sex.

Since when was it the girls that wanted all the sex?

There was a time at the end of sophomore year when Mikan and I had become best friends. We started hanging out all the time, with or without Hotaru and Ruka around. We hung out at each others houses, her mom even finally warmed up to the fact that I was her daughter's friend, at school, the mall, and everywhere.

I had come home one night to my mother, and she gave me this huge lecture about treating girls right. She had tried to get into the sex talk, but I kindly refused that one. I figured Yuka, Mikan's mother, had talked to my mom or something about Mikan and I being so close. She normally wouldn't have sat me down for a talk like that.

But then again, Yuka was just being protective of her only child. And she had all the right to be, especially when her daughter was around me of all guys.

See I ain't try to hurt you baby
No no, no I just wanna work you baby
Yup yup
See I ain't try to hurt you baby
No no, no I just wanna work you baby
If you scared you better run (You better run)
You better run (You better run)
You better run (You better run)
You better you better you better

That summer, Mikan and I were inseparable. We did everything together. One night, she even convinced her mother to let us have a sleepover. We didn't sleep in her room or anything like that, just out on the couches in the living room. We had stayed up all night watching movies and just talking. I believe it was the best night of my life, at least at that time.

And from there, things only got better with Mikan and I. We were best friends. And I wouldn't have changed that for the world.

Run run run away, run away baby
Before I put my spell on you
You better get get get away get away darling
'Cause everything you heard is true
Your poor little heart will end up alone
'Cause lord knows I'm a rolling stone
So you better run run run away run away baby!