So long I hadn't updated. I'm sorry. I have so many things going on and I have a huge French project. I might rush this so I'm sorry. Hope you like this chapter and Review please.

~Amu POV~

It's been three days after the contest. I just got home from shopping and couldn't wait to run up the stairs to my gloomy room to write in my journal. I burst through the fount doors to find a crowd of people around the house. I stared at them in question and dropped the bags of grocery beside the door.

I then pushed around people and tried to find Mary the cook. I finally found the closed doors to the kitchen and I pushed it open. I saw Mary standing in fount of the oven baking a cake. I looked at the counter and saw already one sack of cake on a flat plate. Around the plate of cake were a dozen bags of icing and fake flowers.

"Mary what is this? Why are there people in MY home?" I demanded Mary answer my question.

~Normal POV~

"Mizuki…Aiko…Party…sixteen…tonight" Mary said as she ran around checking to make sure everything was in order.

"So Mizuki and Aiko are having a sixteen party tonight?" Amu asked. Mary just nodded. "But they already turned sixteen." Amu said. Mary just shrugged. Amu stared at her godmother.

"Why don't we move Mary? I'm not old enough to move out of the house yet but law does say that you can move out of your house of your parents are dead and you have an adult with you." Amu stated.

"Amu I wish I could but even if your parents are dead, your stepmother already married with your father which means that she's your parent too." Mary finally said as she set the second piece of cake on top of the first cake.

"But she's not my parent. She's not even close to being a mother. You're my godmother. You should at least side with me. I mean as soon as father died we could have run away together but instead you rat me out and then offer to work as our cook." Amu cried out to Mary. Both of them could remember the day as clearly as a raindrop.

~Flashback~

10 year old Amu quietly sneaked out of the house. It was about midnight at the time. Amu closed the door behind her and tiptoed out of the driveway and toward the woods. As twigs snapped under her weight Amu ran through the dense wood. Suddenly Amu bumped into someone.

"AHH!" Amu screamed. A hand covered her mouth.

"Shhh It's okay. I'm here Amu." The stranger said. Amu looked up and as the moon's light hit the person's face Amu sighed in relief. It was Mary. Mary took her hand off Amu's mouth and Amu's heartbeat returned to normal.

"What are you doing here?" Mary asked.

"I'm running away. I can't live with that witch." Amu explained.

"Then let me help you." Mary said as she grabbed Amu's arm. Amu followed as she trusted her godmother.

"Mary aren't we going the wrong way?" Amu looked around her.

"No my house is this way." Mary lied. Suddenly they were out of the woods. In fount of them was the driveway of Amu's house.

"Mary what are you doing?" Amu started panicking. She couldn't be caught now. Amu started struggling to get out of Mary's grasp. Mary griped Amu's arm tighter. Mary then dragged Amu across the driveway and to the fount door. Mary then knocked loudly on the door. Amu's stepmother opened the door and yawned.

"What do you want?" She growled; clearly piss of about waking up in the middle of the night.

"Your stepdaughter was trying to run away." Amu's stepmother snapped awake and glared at Amu.

"You! I gave you a home and food and clothes and you repay me by trying to run away?" She was clearly angry. "You come with me miss." She pulled Amu out of Mary's grasp. As she was about to close the door Mary shouted,

"Wait! If you don't hurt Amu then I'll work as a cooker in your home." Mary insisted. Amu's stepmother raised an eyebrow.

"Well Amu can't cook and I can't let my darling daughters cook in a kitchen so might as well." She opened the door wider and Mary stepped inside.

"How could you do this? I was so close." Amu hissed at Mary. Mary looked down shamefully.

~End~

"You don't understand." Mary said.

"You said that to me every time. But you never explain to me why you did that. Since you're 22 now you should be able to explain to me then." Amu said.

"I did that because… I didn't have a home. I had no money, no food, nothing. How could I take care of my goddaughter when I can't even take care of myself?" Mary said.

"But mother said you had the biggest home in the city." Amu said.

"I did until your stepmother took it away. She knew about me and knew that you would run away and live with me so she came and took away my home. And my money. Now I work here and she knows that if I ever get even a penny, she would take it all away. I'm stuck here." Mary blurted out.

"You could have told me sooner. I would have understood. I mean you're my godmother. You're more like a mother to me than the ugly old witch." Amu looked down.

"One thing I don't regret when working here is I get to see you everyday and watch you grow up" Mary said.

"Aw" Amu smiled and gave Mary a big bear hug. Suddenly a beeping sound filled the air.

"Opps." Mary ran over to the oven. She opened the cover and black smoke poured out. Amu laughed as Mary brought out the burnt cake. It's was all black and hard as a stone.

"Now I have to make another batch." Mary sighed. Amu then turned around and went outside. She watched as men carried a tub of water across the room.

"Oh there you are Amu." Amu turned around to see Mizuki walking over to her.

"I'll need you to wear this and send out the invitations." Mizuki handed Amu a dress and a stack of cards. Amu looked at the dress.
"I can't wear this!" Amu shouted. Suddenly people stared at her.

"Move along." Amu shooed the people away. They resumed to what they were doing.

"Like I said. I can't wear this. It's so slutty looking." Amu stared at it in disgust. It was a dress that was higher than her thighs and was only held up by two strings tied together. It also included bunny ears.

"Come on. It's a sweet sixteen party. It shows that you're at a sixteen party and not afraid to cover up." Mizuki persisted.

"What I'm afraid is to lose my virginity." Amu stated.

"Come on. I'm not inviting so many people." Mizuki said.

"Then who are you inviting?" Amu asked.

"Um two hundred boys, three hundred girls and five hundred strangers?" Mizuki said quietly.

"That's it. I'm not going to wear this with two hundred hormone crazy boys." Amu dropped the dress.

"If you don't then I'm telling mom." Mizuki threatened. Amu paled. Her last bleeding scar had just healed and she couldn't risk another beating.

"Fine but I'll also need leggings to cover up the scar, makeup for the bruises and something for the arms." Amu said. Amu couldn't believe she was doing this.

"Okay anything else?" Mizuki asked.

"I want a brown wig." Amu demanded.

"Make it blond and you got yourself a deal." Mizuki said.

"Fine" Amu replied.

"Okay!" Mizuki turned around and skipped away.

She must be crazy now. No way would she be that nice to me. Amu thought. Amu climbed the stairs to her room and dumped the outfit on the floor. Amu then closed the door and went outside toward the mailing station. She got there in about 5 minutes and dropped the invitations at the office box.

"Now that that's done I'm going to go enjoy myself." Amu said to herself as she walked toward the woods again. She entered the dark fresh air of trees and made her way down the path.

She saw the clearing before she heard it and rushed forward. She burst through the thick bushes to the bright clearing. She saw the sakura tree and walked up to it.

I miss you mom. I miss you dad.

…

"Amu you done?" Rima asked through the attic door.

"Just wait." Amu said as she finish putting on the red lipstick. She stared at herself in the mirror that Mizuki let her use. Even with long fake hair, she looked beautiful. It's been so long since she looked at herself without a hoodie hiding her face. Amu opened the door. Music burst though the door and surrounded Amu. Rima was standing there with a long red dress and light pink lipstick on.

"Whoa you look so beautiful, even though what you're wearing is so slutty and you have long fake blond hair." Rima said.

"Is that supposed to be a compliant?" Amu asked.

"Yes it was." Rima said. Amu laughed.

"Stay by my side. Mizuki made me wear this and there a bunch of guys ready to pounce on any girl." Amu warned.

"You're so paranoid. I went down there and it's great. The guys didn't even notice me." Rima said.

"Were the other girls wearing short dresses?" Amu asked.

"Maybe" Rima blushed. "Come on. I'll protect you."

…

"No."

"Come on. This is one of the biggest parties of the year. The whole school is here." Nagihiko tried to persuade Ikuto.

"No." Ikuto replied bluntly.

"Come NOW!" Nagihiko glared at Ikuto. Ikuto paled and hurriedly tried to get out of the car. Ikuto knew Nagihiko chara Tamari's wrath is great. Nagihiko grabbed Ikuto's arm and then started dragging Ikuto into the house. As soon as they were inside Nagihiko let go of Ikuto's arm and walked off.

"Now what am I supposed to do?"

…

"Hold on."

"I can't." A crowd of people soon separated Amu and Rima.

Rima tumbled out of the crowd. Rima got up and tried to find Amu over the heads of people but it was no use. Rima gave up and went to the punch table. She got some punch and drank it all. As she was about to finish her second cup, Yaya came toward her.

"Rima look. You know the guy I was dancing with. Well I found him." Yaya said excitedly and pushed some one in fount of Rima. Rima spat out her punch. Standing in fount of her was Kairi. He was one of the F4 and even trough he read a lot of books and was smart, he was really popular. You would get a slim chance to even dance with him.

"Why you do that. Don't tell me you like him too?" Yaya asked behind Kairi.

"No it's not like that. It's just that Kairi is really popular at school." Rima explained.

"Really then how come I never heard of him?" Yaya asked. Rima sweat dropped.

"Because you were too busy licking your lollipop that you didn't listen to me." Rima said. "Well nice to meet you Kairi." Rima said.

"Hi." Kairi said and Yaya and Kairi walked away. Rima shook her head and was about to drink more punch when a purple haired guy walked up to her. She didn't notice him till he tapped Rima's shoulder. Rima turned around and spat out her punch again. (Seems to do that a lot)

"Nagihiko?" Rima wondered if she was dreaming.

"Yes I'm Nagihiko why? You thought I was another guy?" Nagihiko said.

"No it's just weird because you're popular and I'm a…loser." Rima said the last part quietly.

"Just because I'm popular doesn't mean I don't talk to other people. I'm just wondering if you remember me." He asked. Rima shook her head.

"Come on. Don't you remember me?" Nagihiko asked. He then danced a bit.

"Is that supposed to impress me?" Rima asked.

"I knew you were the one. I wanna talk to you about something. Before we danced I notice that you were with a girl with pink hair and a gold mask. Mind telling me where she is?" Nagihiko asked. Rima scanned the room. Finally she caught a glimpse of Amu.

"Sure. She's over there." Rima grabbed Nagihiko hand and dragged him to Amu.

"This is Nagihiko. He wants to talk to you." Rima said.

"Can you just wait there? I'm going to get my friend. He really wants to meet you." Nagihiko said. He then rushed off to find Ikuto.

"Wonder who's he's friend." Amu said.

Wow she's really dense. Rima thought.

…

"Ikuto I found the girl you're looking for!" Nagihiko shouted but Ikuto didn't seem to hear him. He was around a bunch of girls.

"Ikuto!" Nagihiko shouted again.

…

"Saaya, Nagihiko knows that Amu's the girl. We gotta stop him from telling Ikuto." Aiko said.

"I know just what to do. Get me something of Amu's." Saaya said. Aiko rushed off.

"Hey everybody. Ikuto's here!" Saaya yelled into the microphone. Everybody started shouting.

"Ikuto get up here. Don't you want to say something?" Saaya smirked. Everybody started to push Ikuto to the fount. Ikuto got up the stage and Saaya handed him the microphone.

"I do have something to say. I realized that I couldn't find the girl so I'm available now. I think that she is really a girl from another school and I've given up on her." Ikuto said. He then went back into the crowd. A crowd of girls now crowded him.

"Maybe he's joking." Rima said to Amu. She couldn't let Amu be heartbroken again.

"Wait let's see what Ikuto's really doing there." Saaya said. The spotlight then aimed at the crowd around Ikuto. He was holding a girl.

"Kiss!" Saaya said. The crowd echoed and soon Ikuto kissed the girl. Soon it was a full make out session. The spotlight went back to Saaya.

"Now you all know the loser, Hinamori Amu who says she hates Ikuto. But she's lying. I have a letter addressed to Ikuto from Hinamori Amu that says

'Dear Ikuto, I miss you so much. I can't wait for you to come back and maybe we can live happily ever after.' How fairytale can that loser get?" Saaya said, smirking. The crowd turned on Amu and started teasing her. Amu backed away and then ran up the stairs.

"My work here is done." Saaya said as she got off stage.

~Amu POV~

I went to the corner of the room and cried. I knew I shouldn't have come to the party. I should have stayed up here in my room. Aiko and Mizuki were right. Saaya did make my life worse. Maybe that's why Mizuki was so nice to me. I cried for a bit more before I looked up. I looked at the dress and the mask that was kept in my room. I then stared into the mirror that was at my feet. My mascara was smudged and I looked like a mess. Suddenly there was a knock at my door.

"Go Away!" I shouted. The door rattled and opened.

"I said go away!" I yelled. A figure creped toward me.

"Rima? Nagihiko?" I hoped it wasn't a rapist. I backed away.

"Amu is it true? Do you love me?" A husky voice asked.

"Who are you?" I was scared. The voice didn't belong to anyone I know.

"When I first saw you, I thought you were ugly but who knew that you had blond hair. And you totally turn me on when ever I see you in that outfit." The person said. He loomed over me. I caught a glimpse a blue hair. It couldn't be. It was Ikuto.

"Well I don't love you. You broke my heart already and you gave up on finding the girl. I thought you might finally found your true love but I was wrong. You're just a player." I said and turned my head away from him.

"I'm a player because I want to also find my true love."

"I don't believe you. You make out with every girl in school." I said.

"Not all. You and your friends are the only ones who I didn't kiss yet." Ikuto said.

"So you're trying to find your true love. Yea like that's going to happen." I said.

"I gave up finding her because she knew I was trying to find her. So I thought if I said I wasn't looking for her then she's believe me and drop her guard. Then some day I'll kiss her and know that she's the one for me." Ikuto whispered in my ear.

"And how do you know that she's your true love even though you met her once?" I said.

"Nagihiko taught me to dance you know. He said that when you dance with someone, if they follow your move and know what you're going to do next then you're destined to be with them. That's how Nagihiko found Rima. He just picked a random girl and danced with her. He picked Rima and danced with her and knew right away Rima was the girl. I found the girl I was dancing with is my soul mate but I couldn't know her name. So I decided to also kiss her. Because like dancing I know when I kiss someone that she's neither the one or not. That's why I was kissing girls to find her." Ikuto explained.

"That makes no sense." I said.

"To you it doesn't but to me it does."

"So what are you doing in my room?" I asked.

"This is your room? There isn't even a bed." Ikuto said as he looked around.

"Yes it's my room." Ikuto then caught sight of the dress.

"What's that?" Ikuto asked pointing at the dress.

"Um my stepmother's dress." I said.

"You do know that you're a bad lair. It's your dress isn't it? This means that you are the girl." Ikuto said.

"Just because I have a dress like the girl you're looking for doesn't mean that I'm really the girl." I said.

"You're right. There isn't enough proof." Ikuto said.

"I told you. So don't just go around saying that I'm the girl. You have to try something else if you wanna want proof." I said.

What am I doing! I'm supposed to get him out of my room not telling him to find out if I'm the girl or not. I thought.

"You're right. I can't do that. So maybe I should do this." Ikuto said.

"What you me-mrph." Suddenly Ikuto kissed me. It was just one simple kiss that I wrapped my arms around Ikuto. My hand tangled Ikuto hair as he kissed me again, more forcefully. Ikuto stopped and I gasped for air. As soon as I parted my lips, Ikuto swiftly kissed me again, darting his tongue into my mouth. I moaned. I then realized what I was doing. I pushed him off me.

"You're the one." Ikuto said.

"So maybe I am." I said.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Ikuto asked.

"I was about to but then you blew me off." I looked down.

"I'm so sorry Amu." Ikuto said. I looked back up and looked into his eyes. They were so beautiful.

"I forgive you." I said without realizing it.

"So why do you hate me?" Ikuto asked.

"That's something I call a secret." I put my finger to my mouth.

Omgosh I didn't realize I wrote 7 pages already. Without a song. That's a lot. Well for me. Thanks for reading. And review cuz it isn't over. There's still more. I'll try and update on Sunday here in Canada cuz on Saturday I'm going to a birthday party. So R&R!