Mikan woke up to the persistent ringing of her phone. She groaned and rolled over to the phone. She grabbed it and looked at the caller ID. She answered the phone and groaned, "What, Sumire?" She looked at the clock on the bedside table. It blinked 6:01. Her mood turned sour, thinking, 'Really?'
"I didn't tell you because you didn't cross my mind." Mikan replied sarcastically. "Sumire, as someone who cares about my cousin's life, stop it. He doesn't like you that way and please, call some other time when I'm fully awake." She shut her phone close and groaned, burying her head in the pillows and went back to sleep.
It was twelve noon when Mikan awoke from the knock on her door. She yawned and rolled out of bed, scratching her head in the process. She walked towards the door and opened it. She gave another yawn and looked at her brother.
"What?"
"Good morning to you too," Tsubasa answered sarcastically, rolling his eyes at her.
Mikan frowned and rubbed the sleep off her eyes. "It's still morning?"
Tsubasa stared at her with shock eyes. "Oh my gosh, you did realize it's already noon." He covered his mouth, pretending to be shock.
Mikan glared at him and growled. "Spit it, brother."
Tsubasa glared back at her and threw the receiver at her. "The ice queen wouldn't stop calling. It's irritating. The phone was ringing every ten minutes since nine o'clock. Why the heck is your phone unreachable?"
She caught the phone and signed, "It must have been drained. I forgot to charge it last night. Sorry, I'll call her now." She closed the door and sat on her bed. She dialled Hotaru's number and waited for her to answer.
After the fifth ring, Hotaru finally answered. "Thanks Kami. You finally answered. Hotaru, I'm really sorry. My phone's out of battery and I just woke up. I'm really sorry I wasn't able to answer your calls." Mikan hurriedly apologized. She stood up and walked to her closet and opened it.
"I can't meet you today, Youichi asked me to accompany him to a party." She browsed through her dresses and found a black body-hugging dress with spaghetti straps. "I don't know who's hosting it but he said it's a friend of his."
Waiting... "Alright MOM, I'll be careful and be home by eleven." She ended the call and placed the receiver on her bedside table. She took a pair of black strap-on three-inch heels from her closet and placed it beside her dress. She hurriedly dressed up and proceeded downstairs to talk to her mom and wait for Youichi.
Mikan found her mom in the living room browsing through some magazines. She lightly knocked on the door to get her mom's attention.
Yuka looked up to see her daughter fully dressed. Her eyebrows furrowed when she asked where Mikan was going.
Mikan smiled apologetically and replied, "Youichi, kind of, invited me to this party his friend was holding. I told him I'll go and accompany him, if that's alright with you?"
"You should have told me earlier." Yuka said. "Girls like you shouldn't stay out at night and you just got home tomorrow. It would be nice if you would just stick around the house for at least a day or two."
Mikan smiled and sat down beside Yuka. "Sorry mom. I promise I would not leave the house tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Mikan laughed and hugged her mom.
She waited for Youichi in the living room, talking about Paris with her mom.
At six sharp, she heard a car horn from bellow. She grabbed her purse and bid her mom goodbye, promising to be home by eleven. She went out the house and into the front seat of the car.
"Ready?"
She smiled and flipped her hair. "I'm always ready." They laughed as Youichi pulled off the road.
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Okay, I know this is too short. But I want to sum up the party in the next chapter and I'm sorry for being unable to update last week. I had to finish some documents needed in my internship, so yeah. But here it is!