Here I am, nervous as hell. I looked back at the gate I had entered. I had already rung the doorbell, so I couldn't back out now. A man opened the door, and I stuttered out a nervous hello. A few minutes later, I was sitting in the living room on the couch. On the other side of the table was the man who had opened the door. He had light color hair and green eyes.
He was drinking tea a maid had served us. I looked around me nervously. They were really rich.
"My daughter will be home soon."
"huh?"
"You're not here to see her?" He stared at me, slightly confused.
"A-Actually… I'm here to see… you and your wife." I felt my nervousness building up for every second that passed.
"What business do you have here then?"
"I just have something I wanted to ask." I said in one breath, trying not to stutter.
We heard the front door open and a woman yelling "I'm home!"
The man stood up and walked to the door again.
"Welcome home, honey. Can you come inside the living room for a minute?"
"Why?" I heard her ask.
I heard their footsteps coming nearer and I stood up. Before me I saw a tall woman with a really nice figure. She had black shoulder-length hair parted in the middle and she had fire-red eyes; just like her son.
"Who's this?"
I swallowed nervously and introduced myself and bowed my head.
She bowed back and greeted me. We sat down and I felt the nervousness build up more and more.
I laughed nervously. The man just stared at me and the woman smiled.
"Well… the reason I'm here… Is because of your son."
I could see their eyes widen.
"How is he?" Mrs. Hyuuga asked.
"He's great."
"Are you close with him?"
I nodded shyly.
"What's your relationship with him?" Mr. Hyuuga suddenly asked.
"Umm... I've dated him for two months and a week." I blushed as I said it.
"Aww, how cute! You're still together, right?" I nodded. "Aw, that's so cute!" Mrs. Hyuuga giggled and stood up, walked over to me sat down next to me. She took my hands in hers and nudged me a little. "How far have you two gone?" my eyes widened and I blushed a lot.
"Th-That's n-not why I'm here, Hyuuga-san."
"Just call me Kaoru, Mikan-chan! You have to tell me everything! How did you get together? Did you confess or did he?"
"Honey. She has another reason for coming here. Let her talk."
I bowed a little to both of them.
"I know it's none of my business, but I really want to help. Natsume told me about what happened in England three years ago…" I saw them both stiffen a little. "Why haven't you talked to him in 2 years? He really cares for you. I know he misses both of you and it hurts him. He thinks you hate him."
"He almost killed my daughter, his own sister!" Mr. Hyuuga said, now mad.
"But that's not true! He just encouraged Aoi so she would feel more confident! He loves Aoi So much! If anyone got the blame, it would be those drun-'"
"Enough!" Mr. Hyuuga almost yelled. "you're right. This is noneof your business, so get out of my house!" He stood up and was on his way out.
"Please!" I stood up and took a few steps forwards. I got down on my knees, laid my head on my hands that were on the floor. "Please forgive Natsume. He loved you and misses you. You have no idea how much you means to him."
"Mikan-chan…" Kaoru said. "Come on, honey. Can't you see what's happening here?"
"Leave." was everything he said. "I can't believe that guy would send his girlfriend to beg for forgiveness.
"Natsume doesn't know that I'm here. This is all my doing." I looked up at him. "Do you know what Natsume has on his desk in his room? In a really nice frame, he has one of your family pictures. All of you are smiling, no grinning. He's holding a baby Aoi in his arms, and you guys standing behind him and hugging him. I can see the happiness in your eyes. Natsume often looks at that picture. I see the sadness in his eyes now. He loves you so much…" I felt my tears running down my cheeks. "He's lonely. He doesn't want to tell me how sad he is; since he knows I'll worry. But I'll worry no matter what. I see how he acts. He's not happy without you. He's in the dark, and I can't help him. I don't have any light to help him out. I don't know what to do…"
"Mikan-chan." Kaoru said and walked over to me. She bent down and hugged me as I cried more. I wiped my tears away and bent down again. "Please, forgive him."
"Why should I forgive someone that hasn't done anything wrong?" Mr. Hyuuga suddenly asked."You're right. Natsume never did anything wrong. It was my fault. I doubted Aoi and-"
"No!" I almost yelled. "It's not your fault either! It's not your fault. It's not Natsume's fault. It's not Kaoru-san or Aoi's fault! It's not her date at that time's fault either. If someone is to blame, it will be those guys who don't know how much damage they've done. But please… Talk to Natsume again… He's in the dark. I can't help him out of there."
I felt to strong hands on my shoulders and they made me sit up. I saw Mr. Hyuuga in front of me, smiling with teary eyes. "Thank you so much, Sakura-san. You're right. I need to forget these things. They are in the past. Forgive and forget, right?" He smiled and I cried out in happiness. Kaoru smiled as well. "How should I contact him?"
"Ne, Natsume. Where are you?"
"At the store you forced me to go too, since you didn't have peach ice tea." He answered a bit annoyed.
"I'm sorry, Natsume, but I just painted my toe nails, so I can't go outside. It will ruin it. And no one else was home."
"Hn."
"I'm getting another call, so I'll talk to you later! Bye!"
I hung up before he could say anything else. I turned around and gave everyone a thumb up. I went over to the front door and locked it. I smirked to myself, since I had Natsume's keys in my hands. I walked into the kitchen and gasped.
"Anna! It's beautiful!"
Anna giggled. "Thanks. I'm pretty pleased with it myself."
"It really is lovely. He loves strawberries, too." I smiled and hugged my friend. We walked into the living room and helped the others with whatever they were doing.
30 minutes later, we heard Natsume walk up to the front door from inside and we all hid in the living room, turning the lights off. He tried to open the door. We waited as he looked for his keys and it took a few minutes before he knew he didn't have them. He knocked on the door.
"Oi, Idiot! Open the door!"
I blushed as the others giggled/ chuckled at his "loving" nickname for me. I glared into the dark. Well, I didn't hide, since I had to open the door.
"Hey! Open the door now!"
It was silence again and I almost jumped when my phone rang. I let it ring a few times before picking it up.
"Hello?"
"Open. The. Door. Now." I knew he was really annoyed at me right now, and I held my laughter in.
"Oh, I'm sorry Natsume. I had my ear plugs in, so I just saw the light on my phone turn on when you call."
"I don't care, just open the door."
"Right! I'm coming." I hanged up and ran walked up half the stairs, then ran down again, pretending I was upstairs. I opened the door and got a cold glare.
"Hi…" I smiled sweetly. He just shoved the ice tea in my hands.
"Let's go to the living room." I suggested.
"Give me a massage." He said, no; he ordered.
"What? Why?" I pouted.
"Because you forced me to go to the store and buy you ice tea and then locked me outside"
I pouted. "Fiiiineee…" I already knew I wouldn't have to give him a massage anyway. He walked towards the living room and I followed him. He went to turn the lights on and I couldn't stop smiling. When he turned the lights on, everyone jumped up and yelled "SURPRISE!". I laughed at his shocked expression as he looked at everyone. His eyes landed on me and I got a cold glare. I giggled nervously. I walked over to him, tiptoed and kissed him on the cheek. "Happy birthday" I said.
"Nii-chan!" Aoi ran up to him and hugged him. He hugged her back but he froze when he saw who was behind Aoi.
"Mom… Dad…"
"Happy birthday, Natsume!" Kaoru said and hugged him. Natsume hugged her back, even as shocked as he is.
"Happy birthday, son." Mr. Hyuuga said, standing next to Kaoru-san, with a hand on her waist. Such a lovely couple! I mouthed for Tsubasa-sempai to turn the music up a little, loud enough for us to not hear the family talk and low enough for them to actually talk.
15 minutes later
I was standing with Hotaru and Sumire, talking about some girl stuff, when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I was spun around and I was surprised when I felt warm lips on my own. I closed my eyes and kissed him back. He pulled back and pulled me closer to him, like a hug. He pulled back and led me to the balcony. I blushed as I felt the others look at us. He walked around the door and leaned on the wall. No one could see us now. He pulled me into a hug again.
"My parents told me what you did."
I blushed and hid my face in his chest.
"Thanks for existing." He said and rested his chin on to top of my head. I just hugged him a little bit tighter and blushed even more if that was possible. "You're wrong" he said, after a few minutes of silence. "You told my parents that you have no light." He pulled back, out foreheads touching each other. "You're my light" He whispered. I smiled and closed my eyes. He lent down and kissed me. I kissed back, and we stayed out on the balcony for a while, before we went in and opened presents. I gave him a gift wrapped in polka-dotted paper. He got manga from Ruka and Yuu, some cloths from Tsubasa-sempai and Natsuke. I had wide eyes and my mouth dropped to the floor when he got a car from his parents. Aoi gave him something homemade she made at wood shop at her school. All the girls had got together and gave him a really expensive watch. The only left was Koko and Kitsu's gift and mine. He opened their gift, not showing it to the rest of us. He gave a death glare to the two boys. "Your death wishes are soon to be fulfilled." He said in a cold tone. The boys started running with Natsume after them. Tsubasa-sempai went over to the gift and looked inside. He started laughing.
"What is it?" I asked and started to walk over so I could see.
"I don't think you want to know" Tsubasa-sempai said and started walking backwards.
"Tsubasa-sempai. Tell me." I said.
"No." he said before he ran off.
"TSUBASA-SEMPAI!" I yelled after him, a bit annoyed. Natsume entered again and walked over to the balcony door. He locked it right before we could see Koko shirtless and Kitsu without pants outside appearing in front of the door, begging to come in.
"Natsume, what did they give you?" I asked him. Everyone was shocked. Did Natsume just blush? I walked over to him and pouted. "Tell me…" I gave him my saddest look. At this point, Tsubasa-sempai comes back into the room. He sighed and bent down and whispered something in my ear. Sex-toys. My eyes widened and I blushed myself. Now everyone was curious. I just walked over to the couch and sat down, in my 'ball position' and hid my face in embarrassment. I shot my head up fast as I remembered something. "Tsubasa-sempai! Where did you put the gift?" I almost shouted. "Don't worry, Mikan. No one will find it." I sighed in relief. We didn't let them in for an hour or so, and then they were sneezing and were very cold, of course. Anna made warm chocolate and blankets.
"Ne, Mikan. You haven't given your gift to Natsume-kun yet." Nonoko said, and everyone looked at me. I looked at Natsume and he looked at me curious.
I blushed and picked up my gift. I could see Natsume's smirk when he saw it. I walked over to him and gave it to him. "Happy birthday, Natsume." He took it and opened it. It seemed like he took forever to open it and I felt my nervousness building up. He looked at me and had wide eyes.
"What did you get?" Aoi asked.
He took the gift out of the box and showed them. It was a pair of tickets to the concert of his favorite musician.
"It's boring to go to a concert alone, right? I bought you two so you can bring anyone you want." I gave him a smile. He leaned over and kissed my cheek. He whispered thanks in my ear and I just smiled.
At the end of the party, Natsume's parents and Aoi went home, the others fell asleep so it was up to me and Natsume to clean it all up.
"Natsume, I can clean this up. It's your party" I said while some glasses on a tray. He just gave me a look and I giggled. I stood up and I didn't really know what happened. I was suddenly in Natsume's arms and the glasses were all over the floor.
"Clumsy" Natsume mumbled, and carried me bridal style over to the couch. He put me down and sat beside me before he pulled me into his lap. I blushed a bit and leaned my head on his shoulder.
"So, you're going to meet up with your parents again soon, right?"
"Yeah. All thanks to you."
I didn't say anything, just smiled.