Okay, okay, today we're moving fast because... I'm gonna live a hell next week so I don't think I'll have time to post... The hell of the... glue, glitter, sparkles, dazzle, stars, flowers, crayons, scissors, colored paper sheets, stickers, Easter eggs, gingerbread men, rainbows and... (*tries to remember*) Oh, yeah, The Little Mermaid. You know, that stupid week called... 'The different school' or... 'A brand new school' or... 'The new point of view' or... 'My new happy school' or... *shudders in disgust* Anyway...

It's the... shinny, bright, glowing in colors and rainbows week... where everyone picks up flowers and draws for their mommies, but not for their daddies... and where we kiss each other's cheeks a lot... And on Friday there's a day called... 'The magic world of Cinderella' or something like this... So, I'm happy that I didn't rage until now... at the thought that... I'll spend six hours per day in the hell of pink and shine... but at least I can forget about the hell called 'Maths' for a time. Ah, this week isn't supposed to be for eight or nine year old children?

Chapter 19: Swedish hyacinths

8 p.m., at Hikaru's apartment

"Ouch!" Hikaru exclaimed, then looked down at her finger. She cut it with the knife while trying to peel an orange and now it was bleeding. Then she looked at the knife in her other hand. For a second, she had an impulse, but then quickly let it down on the table. "Ah, what's with you today?"

She forgot about the orange and about the knife and went in her bedroom. She flopped on the bed and sighed heavily. She started to mutter for herself on a bored voice: "Life... is hard. I shouldn't cry, should I? No... Definitely no... I cried enough... He doesn't own me anything. Absolutely nothing. Nothing... Nothing... I did enough. He did enough. We did enough. I will not cry... I will not cry... I don't feel any regrets... I will not sneeze because I don't want to... I will not cry... I didn't let him change my nature, my temper, my personality... I didn't let him change... me. La-la-la... I will not cry... You will not cry... He will not cry... She will not cry... We will not cry... You will not cry... They will not cry... Me will not cry... You will not cry... Him will not cry... Her will not cry... Us will not cry... You will not cry... Them will not cry... Myself will not cry... Yourself will not cry... Himself will not cry... Herself will not cry... Ourselves will not cry... Yourselves will not cry..."

Before she could end the list, her telephone rang on the hall. She groaned but went there and hung up the handset, putting it at her ear. "Yes? [...] Madoka? Oh, hi. What do you want? [...] Okay, if you say so... I am also feeling terrible so I guess a walk will help. [...] Good. See you there, then. I'm coming. [...] Yeah, yeah, I know... I'll try to rescue my cell from Angel. [...] Yeah, bye. Kisses..."

She put back the receiver into the cradle and sighed heavily.

At McDonalds, where Hikaru and Madoka met

Hikaru was sitting on a dark red couch, drinking from a juice while Madoka was sitting on the opposite couch with a big mound of hamburgers in front of her, on the table.

"You know, I am very desirable and hot and bad and wild and... I'm gonna eat all these hamburgers Gingka can eat a day! And I'll be big, fat, like a cow! It shouldn't have ended and just this!" Madoka whined while eating from a hamburger. Hikaru rolled her eyes and put her elbows on the table, continuing drinking from the juice with a light green straw.

"C'mon, isn't it so?" Madoka continued while Hikaru didn't pay attention to her, just continued drinking without any word. "Probably." Hikaru finally decided to answer in her infinite boredom, then went back at her business with the straw.

But Hikaru's eyes suddenly changed their direction from Madoka to nowhere as she remembered about something. Parts of that event went back trough her mind. It happened a few days ago, one morning, actually the day after she and Kyoya got drunk with Madoka.

-FLASHBACK-

"Someone was stalking us last night!" Kyoya exclaimed, then took her wrist and dragged her in the living room, carefully closing the door behind him.

"What the heck is happening with you? There wasn't anyone stalking us! You are sick!" Hikaru protested, refusing to face him, but Kyoya whirled her around by her wrist, then pinned her to the wall.

"Listen... I'm talking seriously. What did you do?" he insisted, looking straight into her eyes. She remembered about something at that. Hikaru sighed and shook her head vaguely.

"Look... You did enough. I wanna end this. We're not made to be friends. And, more than this, we're not good as friends. I want myself back again. We can talk sometimes if you want, but no more caring one for each other, okay?"

Kyoya sighed. "Okay. I agree." he muttered, then forced a petty smile.

-END OF FLASHBACK-

Madoka's sudden exclamation snapped Hikaru to reality:

"Ouch!"

Hikaru sent her a questioning look, but then understood what happened. She bit her fingers, just like Benkei does when he eats hamburgers. Hikaru sweat dropped, but she didn't support it anymore. She took a hamburger and started to eat. "It is so nauseating..." Hikaru breathed in relief while biting from it. Madoka growled to her.

"You stole my hamburger!" she protested, but Hikaru didn't mind. Madoka also got bored of insulting and fighting, so just forgot the event. Madoka suddenly grinned to something.

"Look who's here! My best friend, Hyoma!" she squealed. Hikaru's heart jumped because of fear. She looked at the left, then at the right, searching for him. Madoka laughed at that. "Just joking." she whispered. Hikaru growled to her, but kept her nerves at home. She sighed and put the hamburger on the table.

A loud, hard laugh suddenly could be heard from another table. Hikaru looked there, but, surprisingly, the person who was laughing was Gingka. She raised an eyebrow and tilted her head a little, but then she noticed that Gingka wasn't alone. Besides him there was Tsubasa and, on the opposite couch, in front of him, there was... Hikaru gulped. ...Kyoya. He was drinking something with a dark blue straw, rolling his eyes to Gingka, looking with boredom.

Oh, but Gingka noticed her. He revealed his silly smile and walked towards her table. He didn't notice Madoka, so he took Hikaru's arm and dragged her at their table. Gingka sat down and invited her to sit down, too. Hikaru just accepted and sat down next to Gingka, taking a deep breath. She looked at Kyoya first. Surprisingly, he wasn't looking at her, but seemed like he noticed her presence. He continued drinking with indifference, until he finally also looked at her, stopping drinking.

His eyes were cold, bored, indifferent, so she also tried to be the same. She ordered a drink, breaking the connection between their gazes.

After about fifteen minutes, of course, the entire gang had to join, too. Yuu and Benkei entered the place and walked towards their table. Yuu sat next to Kyoya, and Benkei sat next to Yuu. Kyoya sighed.

"Hi, guys! What's new?" Benkei saluted cheerfully. Gingka smiled. "We were eating something, like friends." Gingka answered with the same cheerfulness. Kyoya sighed.

I listened to a lullaby last night. Kyoya thought with boredom.

I broke up with Madoka yesterday. Gingka thought.

I wanted to kill myself this evening. Hikaru thought.

But, suddenly, from the table Madoka was some minutes ago, they heard:

"And what if I kissed another boy? Guess what? I didn't kiss a girl! And what, guess what, I kissed another boy besides him because his breath smells awful! It's his fault! And he snorts!"

Madoka was still eating, but with her was Kenta, on the opposite couch, sucking up a juice from a light pink straw, rolling his eyes, with one elbow on the table. Hearing Madoka's complains really bored him, but she's her friend, so...

Gingka spitted out of his mouth everything he was eating directly on Yuu. "Yacks..." he complained, but Hikaru gave him a tissue, so he cleaned his face.

"What did she say?" Gingka questioned the others at his table, almost angry, refusing to believe. They made some confused eyes, fluttering their eyes at the left and at the right.

I just remembered about that TV show with naked girls... Kyoya said for himself with a petty smirk.

Okay, let's see if you can surprise me... I already heard too many pathetic things... Like 'You are in all of my breaths' or 'You are my soul and a person cannot live without his soul' or 'You are a part of me' or 'You are living inside me' so let's finish this 'cause I am... bored. Hikaru thought.

Madoka is imagining Hikaru naked in a tree while she is shooting her with pink darts. Kyoya thought while staring at Madoka.

Kyoya is imagining me and Benkei playing Scrabble on a rocket while gravitation is 0. Hikaru thought as analyzing Kyoya.

Kyoya stood up with a swift movement. "I'm outta here."

At seeing that, Hikaru also stood up. "Me too."

But Madoka, from the other table, who heard everything, added with a euphoric and tipsy smile, on a nonchalant tone, waving her hands: "Look, people, all my boyfriends are here now!" Gingka's face went confused. "My boyfriends? What do you mean?" Then she realized. "So it was true?"

Madoka grinned and pointed at Gingka. "You..." Then pointed at Kyoya. "And him..." His face went pale. Then she pointed at Hikaru, without any certain reason. "Oh, and she's head over hells in love with Kyoya and that's why I feel nervous when she's around and..." She pointed at Yuu. "I stole his first kiss!" She pointed at Tsubasa. "He... Um... He's not guilty, but I think he's cute and..." Madoka finally pointed at Kenta. "He's a good boy and he..."

"I'm outta here! You're drunk!" Hikaru protested, then walked a few steps away, until Gingka grabbed her wrist and stopped her. "Nobody leaves until Madoka doesn't tell me what the heck is happening!" Hikaru huffed and snatched back her wrist, but remained there.

"Hah. C'mon, tell us what the heck you did now!" Hikaru yelled at Madoka, who smiled although. "...the pervert bitch who washed then wringed Kyoya's mind spoken." Madoka completed, making Hikaru growl to her. "Everyone noticed it. I mean, I think the only people who have no idea that Hikaru and Kyoya are in love are..." She shrugged. "...Hikaru and Kyoya."

"I'm outta here! She's drunk!" Kyoya protested, too. Hikaru nodded to him. "I totally agree. She's drunk!"

"I didn't ask you anything!" he retorted to her. A sedated smile grew on Madoka's face. "See? They are having a lovers fight! Hips don't lie!"

"You know what? I don't give a crap on what people say about me, I go sleeping without removing my make up, my house's floor is covered with dirty clothes and I always buy new clothes because I don't wash but I'm an independent and determined girl! And I'm not going to waste one thousand and one nights because you are a slut, so you'd better let it drop because I don't care about Kyoya! No, no, I hate him so much that I almost wanna hang, slice, shoot, then burn him, and after everything, smooth the ground where I did all these, okay? Now you're fine?" Hikaru sputtered angrily, her voice retorting to Madoka, then turned around and left the place in a huff.

Kyoya sighed long and heavily. "Congratulations... You just divulged two of my dirty secrets." he whispered to Madoka, on a 'I'll hang, slice, shoot, then burn you and afterwards I'll smooth the ground where I did all these when no one's watching and I'll dress up in red clothes at your funeral' tone.

But, then... after Hikaru left, they heard the sound of a gun shot. Then again. And again. Thee shots. One, two, three. They all froze for one moment, but then started to panic, screaming, yelling, shouting, reproving things, running around and thinking about last wishes, but just Kyoya, in that confusion and agitation thought that Hikaru was... alone; alone, outside, where the shots were coming from.

Oh, and I know, the title is... weird. That's because of the glitter. I didn't name it so because between the chapter and the title there is any connection.