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The weeks seemed to pass by in the blink of an eye for Takara. Now that the threat of Pyrrhus was no longer hanging over her head she could focus solely on her newly discovered social life and more importantly her newly obtained boyfriend. Everyday seemed to be brighter and she was often caught staring off into space with a goofy smile on her face. When asked she would simply state that she was glad that she was given a second chance to live her life the way she wanted to without having to look over her shoulder every other minute. However Zero didn't seem to share her sense of joy. In fact his weeks were the polar opposite of hers in the sense that they dragged on and on while his mood got progressively worse. It got to the point where some of the girls stopped lining up to catch a glance of the night class in fear of brining Zeros rage down upon them. The worst part was that he didn't even know why he was so mad. At first he figured it was just because he was hungry but soon became apparent to him that something bigger was bugging him. To make matters worse every time he say Takara and Aidou together he saw red, he couldn't even hang out with her like he used to because Aidou always seemed to be attached to her hip, not that she seemed to mind, those words seemed to leave a bitter taste in his mouth. After patrol one night as he and Yuki were heading back to their dorms Yuki decided to confront him about his foul mood.

"What's going on with you Zero? I mean your acting like an overly jealous teenage girl."

Zero scoffed at her not even bothering to waste his breath on a response before turning to walk into the male dorms. That was ridiculous what would he have to be jealous about, Kaname hadn't won Yuki's affections. Then unintentionally his mind drifted to the image of Taka and Aidou cuddling under a tree in between classes and instantly a fire seemed to light itself in his stomach. He shook his head almost instantly, that was a ridiculous thought there was no way in hell that he was jealous of Aidou because he was dating Takara even if she was one of the prettiest girls he had ever met… Wait a second, did he actually just think that. Yep he had and now he was greatly conflicted. It seemed that he had loved Yuki ever since he had been brought to Cross Academy as a young boy, but now he wasn't so sure that she was the one he truly wanted anymore. He spent the rest of the night contemplating his dilemma before finally coming to the conclusion that he was completely and undeniably in love with Takara. The only problem is that she is already dating Aidou. He then pondered what to do about the obstacle Aidou presented before deciding that he would spend as much time as he possibly could with Taka until she realized that he was so much better for her than Aidou was. Finally content with his plan he settled into his bed, looking over at the clock on his nightstand he finally noticed that it was already 4:30am and that he was lucky it was a Saturday, otherwise it would have been hell trying to deal with controlling the day class girls. He shuddered at the thought of them before finally shutting his eyes and drifting off into space. Zero put his plan into action as soon as he woke up immediately going over to the night class dorms and inviting Takara to go on a horseback ride with him and then dragging her off before she had time to invite Aidou to go along with them. He continued to do this as often as he could stealing her away for her boyfriend in order to eat lunch with her or go into town for the day. He even went as far as to openly make flirty comments to her after a while. But of course because Taka was so socially inept from being on the run for so long she didn't seem to realize that he was being anything other than friendly. Aidou however did pick up on Zero's intent to steal Takara away from him. And when she just went along with it he came to the conclusion that she must return at least some of Zero's feelings. Aidou was deeply hurt by this realization and started to flirt with the day class girls again in order to get Takara back and then ignoring or even avoiding Taka when she tried to ask him what he was doing or if he was okay. This went on for a few weeks before finally he got on Takara's last nerve. She cornered him before classes started determined to figure out what his problem was.

"Aidou what's going on with you; you keep avoiding me or ignoring me in favor of those stupid day class girls!"

"What like how you blow me off for that lowly prefect Zero?!"

"I don't understand I didn't ever blow you off in order to hang out with Zero, and he is not lowly!"

"Whatever bitch, look I need to get to class we'll talk about this some other time."

And with that he walked away leaving Takara standing frozen in shock. When she finally snapped out of it she immediately took off running blindly in a random direction. After a few minutes she bumped into Zero who immediately wrapped her in a huge hug.

"What's wrong?"

Taka shook her head refusing to answer at first.

"Common Taka talk to me, what happened?"

"Well you know how Aidou has been ignoring me for the last few weeks," Zero nodded his head, "Well I finally confronted him about it. But when I did all he responded with was some claim that I was ditching him for you. Then he called me a bitch and walked away… Zero what should I do I'm so confused!"

"Well obviously you should break up with him I mean he called you a bitch for heaven's sakes!"

Taka stared at him shocked.

"But Zero I love him! I don't want to lose him without at least trying to make things better between us!"

"Look you asked me for my opinion and I gave it to you. If you ask me you would be better off without that spineless jackass anyways."

"Well it's a good thing I didn't ask you then isn't it; God I can't believe you are being so insensitive!"

With that Takara left with a huff Zero leaving not too soon after in a similar huffy fashion. What he didn't know was that as soon as she was out of sight Taka broke down in tears before heading back to the dorms, she didn't even care that she was missing school; all she wanted was to go to sleep so she could forget all about what just happened.