Hey guys! Ready for a new instalment? I'm gonna try and get a few new chapters in while I'm on my holiday so that I'll be further through on this project! I already have some ideas for some new Fanfics I'm working on, but I'm gonna finish this one first so that I don't get confused – or worse – lose interest! (Check my profile for some clues.)

Amu: You'd lose interest in us?! And I thought what was happening in your Fanfic was bad!

Me: Don't worry! As long as I'm focusing on this one I won't!

Ikuto: You'd better not! Now, let's just get on with it! Darkerthannightskys does not own 'Shugo Chara!' or any of the characters, just the story she is wrighting!

Amu's P.O.V:

My life has gone to shit… All over again. My boyfriend said we should 'take a break' because I was being idiotic, the guy I thought I loathed kissed me and now I'm unsure whether I loathe him or love him, my friends are worrying which makes me worry and now every 5 seconds mum's knocking on my door (ok, that's an exaggeration, every 5 minutes.) and I just keep telling her that I need to be alone. ((By the way, it's still really weird calling Ikuto's mum that!))

Across the hall I can hear dad consoling Ikuto. That drama last night must've been traumatising for everyone – not just me. I should just think it over while carrying on with my every-day life so I can minimise the casualties of people who're worried. Ok. Starting from now, I'm going to act normal and talk it out with the people I need to. So, once mum and dad are gone, I'll sneak out and knock on Utau's door.

"Utau?" I hear running footsteps, and then she flings open her door, jumps onto me and drags me into her room.

"Amu! I'm so glad you're alright! What the heck did my brother do to you?"

*~*Amu Explains the Situation*~*

"OMG! What was he thinking?! Oh and, sorry to change the subject, what did my mum talk to you about?"

"Errrrrrm… Well….."

*~*Back to last night*~*

"Amu, honey, what's going on with you and Ikuto?" asked mum

"Urrrrrrrm… It's complicated." I replied, staring at the floor, I don't want a lady I only just met to know all of my secrets!

"Look, I know what you're thinking, 'I don't want this crazy lady knowing all my private business,'" she says in a mocking tone "'I just want to keep everything to myself and shove my feelings deep down inside of me so no-one will notise.'"

"How did you-"

"It's written all over your face! 'I'm confused' and 'Who do I love?!' I think you need to let everything off your chest."

"I can't…"

"Why, honey?"

"I just can't…." Amu stop. This isn't the time for crying. HOLD. IT. IN. "If I actually talk about it with anyone… Then I feel like my f-f-feelings will g-grow e-even more…" I trailed off. Oh, no. oh, no, NO!

Before I could even take a step back, she pulled me in and whispered, "It'll be ok…" I slumped into her arms and before I knew it, I was sobbing my eyes out.

"I don't know what to do! I care for them both and I thought me and Ikuto were just friends since me and Usui were going out, but... Whenever I see him my heart starts pounding and now we're in this fight and everyone's worried about us and I feel bad for letting this go on for so long! I just wish I could figure out what I feel for each of them, but to do that, I need to get away from Ikuto and just be with Usui and talk it out with him. And that won't happen unless I go to him right now!" I just let it all out, I told her everything that happened and just kept going on and on and on about the pointless shit that's happened/happening with me, Ikuto and Usui. I'm not quite sure where it came from, but it all just trailed out of me in a long, sloppy line, in 'words' that even I couldn't understand. I soon pushed away from her though.

"Hon, I know you need to go to Usui's house and talk it over with him. It sounds like he might be just as distressed as you are about this matter. He was probably really jealous of your relationship with Ikuto, as was Ikuto with your relationship with Usui. Figure it out together with him and make sure they both know where they stand. Because, in the long run, it'll make your life easier." She pauses for a minute, as if she's re-calculating her thoughts "And d'ya know what?" I shake my head "I think you need to start putting yourself first. Because, from what I've heard, you only care what people think of you, not what you think of yourself."

"Ok. Thank you, that really put everything in perspective." I headed to the door "I'm gonna call Usui and ask if I can stay at his house for the night."

"Ok, I'll go tell Aruto. I hope you sort things out."

*~*Back to Amu and Utau*~*

"It doesn't matter now, anyway." I look up at her. Then, what comes out of my mouth next shocks me "...I think I'm in love with Ikuto..."

We both stare at each other in shock. "HA! I KNEW IT!" she starts laughing so hard "I can't believe it took you THAT LONG TO FIGURE IT OUT!" she coughs "I mean, you know, I had a feeling this might happen… So, what're you gonna do?"

"Well, first I have to talk to Usui, I know that much. But, I need time with Ikuto, so could you please just keep him away from me for a couple of days. You know? So that I can figure stuff out?" I pleaded, I really don't want to see Ikuto for as long as I can hold him off.

"Fine," she sighed "but you do know that you're gonna have to talk to him in the end and sort things out, right?"

"Of course I know that, who do you think I am? An idiot?"

"Well, that idea isn't too farfetched…" I hit her and we both laughed our heads off.

After me and Utau chatted about random shit I knew it was time to get dressed and face the world. So, after Utau had checked the coast was clear, I ran to my room, locked the door, got dressed and ran back to her room. This is when we slowly proceeded to the front door – tiptoeing all the while – put our shoes on, and Utau drove me to Usui's house.

When we got there, I knocked on the door and waited; his grandpa and grandma opened the door and greeted me. I asked where Usui was and they responded, "He just left for the train station", me and Utau looked at each other in shock, then asked them where he was going, to which they responded, "To go back and live with his family, of course. Didn't you hear about his dear old mother? She was put in hospital just this Friday."

"WHAT?!" we both shouted "What time is his departure?" wow, me and Utau are very synchronised.

"At 12:35, why?" they both looked very confused.

"I'm sorry, but we have to go. I hope to see you again someday!"

"You too, Amu, dear!" they shouted back

Utau drove me to the train station with just enough time to talk to him. "I'm pretty sure he's taking the train to the airport, since his family lives in Canada."

"So, you'll know where he'll be if you look at the sign, right?!" Utau asked me, timidly

"Yep… Oh, crap! We have 20 minutes to get there, find his platform, find him, make him listen to us and apologise!"

"We're here! Now, let's run!"

And with that we both sped to the train station, we found his platform in less than 5 minutes and – there he is. I – full speed – ran to him, then stopped just in time so I didn't ram into him (although, we were rather close – just putting that out there). "Usui!"

"Amu? What are you doing here and how did you find me?!" he looked so shocked

"I went to your house and you weren't there, so your grandpa and grandma told us that you were here and where you were going!"

"Did they tell you the reason?" he looked down at his feet, sadly

"Yes… I'm so sorry, if I'd known I would've been a lot nicer to you, I'm guessing that on friday when you said there were 'family issues' you meant that, right?"

"Yeah, I found out she had breast cancer."

"That makes what I'm about to say A WHOLE LOT harder. So, here goes nothing:"

I take a deep breath then, "I feel terrible for everything that's happened. Honestly, since you've came back, I've been so confused about my feelings for, not just you, but Ikuto too." I took another deep breath, then continued "I thought that if I had you, I could forget about all my feelings for Ikuto. But… They've never even left me and it was wrong to go out with you when I still had feelings for him as well-"

"But that was partly my fault as well," he interrupted "I thought that I could steal you off him and make you forget all about him, so yeah." He finished

"However, with all this said, it was partly Ikuto's fault as well, for not letting up even when I had a boyfriend. I still don't understand why he has to tease me all the time! But, on his behalf I'm gonna say, I'm sorry, because I'm not talking to him right now and so I couldn't ask him to come along and apologise too."

"Ha! Serves him right! That bastard!"

I just ignored that remark and carried on "I have no idea why he did what he did, but I'm hoping it wasn't on some kind of whim because right now-"

"You love him, don't you?"

"Y-yes. I'm so sorry. I-I'm r-r-really s-sorry!"

"I've known it all along." I looked up at him - yet again - shocked "It was very obvious that you both had feelings for each-other and I stepped in-between them. However, I won't hesitate to do it again."

"Wait- What?!"

His train had just arrived and he was getting up to get on it, when at the door, he stopped and turned around "I'm coming back. And when I do, I'm going to steal you off of him," and before I could say anything, he swooped in and pecked me on the lips as he pulled away he just smirked and said "you just wait."

As the doors closed, I was dumb-struck. "W-wait! Usui! I didn't get to properly say goodbye!"

"This isn't goodbye!" he shouts out the window "It's just a see you later!"

And just like that, he was gone. Utau was standing next to me with a what-the-fuck-just-happened look. I must have had the same face, because I was suppost to break up with him and he just kissed me and implied that he'd take me away from Ikuto one day! What's with that?!

On the drive home, we were both silent until Utau broke that silence. "What the fuck just happened?"

"Who knows? Because I sure as hell don't!"

When we arrived home, we both timidly stepped out of the car, and walked up to the door. Utau put her key in, but couldn't fully turn it, because as soon as she did so, the door flung open and they pulled us in. (By 'they' I meant mum and dad)

"We thought you ran away! We were so worried!" dad shouted, they were both crying.

"Why didn't you tell us you were going out?!" mum then had the most worried face on since I don't know when!

"Mum, dad, we don't even have any clothes with us. How could we have run away without them?"

"Also, we thought we were only going to be out for ten minutes! I needed to talk to Usui so that I could break up with him."

Everyone but Utau and I gasped, why were they so astonished? I saw Ikuto and Kukai were in the corner talking, but they stopped, just to look at me in awe.

"Amu." Kukai said, he sounded rather serious "We need to talk to you" he gestured to himself and Ikuto. So I gulped, turned to them and took my first step towards hell personified.

So there I was. In the living room. With Kukai and Ikuto both staring at me, wide-eyed. And all I could think of saying was, "Y-yes? What is it?"

"I'll leave this one up to you bro." Kukai patted Ikuto's shoulder, then left the room. I've got a bad feeling about this.

As soon as Kukai closed the door, I turned back to Ikuto and saw that he was still looking at me, which made me jump! "Would you like to tell me why you broke up with Usui?" was the first thing he said.

And with that one sentence, I froze. In these sorts of awkward times, I notice weird things like how tall he was and how much he towered over me. But, here goes nothing…

Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Next chapter's gonna be very interesting, so make sure you check it out! I'm already working on it because today, I just feel like writing. So I'll probs be at the computer for a very long time!

Anyway, if you have any questions that you'd like to ask about the chapter or my future stories, then please either leave a review or pm me asking your question. Thanks for reading this instalment and I'll see you next time! Byeeeeeeeee