Okay, first off, I want to get things straight. This IS a sequel to my other fanfic, Nagihiko the Liar and Rima the Hypocrite, but you CAN read this without reading the former.

RIMA'S DIARY

April 20th

Don't get me wrong—I really hate Nagihiko. Hated him since the day he stepped into my life, always hated him from then.

Hated him when I saw him dancing on that stage, hated him when I saw him laughing with Amu, hated him when he saved my life—or at least saved me from stitches and broken bones.

So why is it that when our lips touched, I didn't push him away immediately? Didn't slap him across the face?

Why is it that I let him kiss me?

Maybe I should back up a bit, to the day Amu announced we were going camping.

I woke up to the sound of someone choking.

Utau's voice comes out of the darkness. "Moron, you shouldn't have given Yaya that many popsicles. What were you thinking?"

"Well, it was either that or they would've gone to waste," Kukai's voice protests.

"I think I can help," Kairi's voice volunteers. "Okay, just hold her down…there, the stick's out."

"Class President!" Yaya gushes.

I open my window and stick my head out. "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU GUYS DOING?"

"Trying to get you out of there," Kukai grumbles.

"Why?" I shriek.

"Amu arranged a surprise camping trip for all of us," he says.

"What? And you didn't tell me? What am I going to tell my parents?"

"She already told them a week ago and they agreed."

I wondered idly how she'd gotten them to agree, but on the other hand, I really didn't want to know.

Nagihiko suddenly comes running into view. "Here, I stole a ladder from her neighbors. I don't think they'll notice...I hope."

"And you call me a juvenile delinquent," Ikuto smirks.

"Rima-chan, just climb down the ladder, 'kay?" Nagihiko calls up, ignoring Ikuto.

I shrug, grab the suitcase that had appeared next to my bed magically (Mom must've packed it for me), and begin climbing down the ladder. My grip is slippery and I'm afraid I'll fall.

Nagihiko must realize the same thing, because he yells, "Rima-chan, just throw the suitcase down!"

I let go of the yellow-and-green polka-dotted luggage. It falls on Tadase's head. "Ouch!"

Oops.

I quickly slide down the ladder, and Nagihiko takes my hand, sending a shiver up my arm. "Rima-chan, we've got to go. Utau, where's the van you rented?"

"Out in the front lawn," she says. "Kukai, grab the pipsqueak's luggage."

"Pipsqueak?" I snarl.

"Hey, I like that nickname," Ikuto says. "The blonde pipsqueak!"

Nagihiko smirks at me, and I glare back.

"And the purple-haired crossdresser," Utau laughs. I grin at Nagihiko, who glares back.

We run to the minivan and pull open the door. Then I realize a crucial detail. "Wait, Kairi, who's going to drive?"

Kairi swallows. "I can't believe I forgot that specific problem…I'm getting distracted by Ace…"

Nagihiko raises his eyebrows. "What?"

Kairi blushes, a faint pink outlining his high cheekbones. "I just have to tutor her every other weekday afternoon."

"Oh, I thought you meant something else," Ikuto mutters.

"It's not like that," Kairi stammers.

"I'll drive," Utau volunteers.

"NO!" Ikuto, Kairi, Amu, Yaya, and I yell in unison. She gave us a ride to the airport a few months ago when we were saying good-bye to Kairi, and, to sum it up, I ended up with six bruises and eight stitches.

"You're only 15!" Ikuto points out.

"I've never been in a car where Utau's the driver," Kukai shrugs. "It sounds interesting."

"Why don't we have Utau drive? It's either that or Ikuto, right?" Nagihiko says.

"She drives so—" Amu begins.

"Yaya nearly threw up—" Yaya interrupted.

"She breaks so many laws—" Tadase suggested.

"I'm driving," Utau says firmly, sliding into the driver's seat. Ikuto sits in the passenger's seat and that's when I realize another problem.

"Um, this minivan is a six-seater."

"So?" Utau yells over the blast of heavy metal.

"We have nine people."

"Here, pipsqueak can sit on crossdresser's lap and the baby can sit on green-haired genius's lap. Doesn't seem like you four would mind," Ikuto smirks.

"NO!" I yell.

"Whatever, get in and sit somewhere. I'm leaving!" Utau sticks the key in the ignition and the engines roar.

I ended up sitting on the car floor. Yaya sat on Amu's lap.

Utau slams onto the gas pedal, and we zoom forward.

"WE'RE GOING TO DIE! I REGRET NEVER BEING ABLE TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD NOR STEAL AMU'S HEART! I WANT A FUNERAL WITH ALL 30,000 OF MY SUBJECTS THERE AND WHITE ROSES STREWN EVERYWHERE!" Tadase, Character Changed with Kiseki, yells.

"I really wish I had a seatbelt," I mutter.

"Amu-chi, is it okay if Yaya vomits all over you?" Yaya asks.

"WHAT? GET OFF!" Amu shrieks, pushing Yaya onto Kairi.

Nagihiko shrugs and pulls out a book on the history of Japanese dancing.

"HOW CAN YOU READ?" I shout at him.

"Um, I'm sort of bored, because even though you guys are pretty entertaining, I see enough of this stuff at the Royal Garden?"

"What does that mean? Aren't you affected at all by her driving?" Amu yells.

Nagihiko shrugs, absentmindedly pulling his hair into a high ponytail with a red hair elastic.

"Go faster! Go faster!" Ikuto urges Utau.

"DON'T LISTEN TO HIM!" Amu and I shout in unison.

"LISTEN TO ME, YOUR KING! HAHAHAHA!" Tadase hollers.

I turn to look at him, and then I see Kukai. He's asleep.

WHAT? How…how…UGH!

"Why does Tadase always Character Change randomly? It's pretty worrying…" Amu notes.

Kairi pushes up his glasses. "It's because he hasn't found love yet, so his heart is unstable, getting his dreams muddled."

"He should date that hot girl from that reality show," Ikuto mutters.

"No, celebrities aren't good for him, they'd just inflate his ego even more," Nagihiko argues.

"Let someone else drive!" I shriek.

"I will," Ikuto says.

"BESIDES YOU!"

"Nobody else has a license…"

"There are hardly any road patrollers in this rural part of the road, so it doesn't matter," Nagihiko points out. "I'll drive, it looks fun."

"WHAT?"

"Let the twelve-year-old crossdresser drive. It'd be interesting to see how bad he is," Ikuto grins.

"Better than you, at least," Nagihiko snarls, grabbing the wheel.

Nagihiko actually drove quite normally until Kukai challenged him to a game of basketball after we got to the camping area. He Character Changed with Rhythm and began swerving around like he was drunk.

"I'll drive," I say.

"Your legs are too short, they can't reach the brake," Utau laughs.

I scowl, because she's right.

"Yaya'll drive!"

"You're on a sugar high," Amu points out.

"So?"

"You can't drive."

"Let the green-haired genius drive," Ikuto suggests.

Kairi swallows. "What…me?"

Kairi, Tadase, and Nagihiko got into this big debate about Asperger's Syndrome or something. The rest of us decided that it wasn't safe for Kairi to drive while he was arguing about the percentages for eight-to-ten-year-olds with the ability to speak, so he got denounced of the driver's seat.

"I'll drive!" Amu volunteers.

"Yeah! Let's do this!" Ran shouts, Character Changing with Amu.

"Do you have an Ace?" Nagihiko asks me. We're playing Go Fish.

I scowl and hand over my three Aces. Nagihiko sticks his tongue out at me. "I win."

I roll my eyes and survey the scene. Kukai's still sleeping. Yaya and I drew a mustache and goatee on him about thirty minutes ago.

Kairi's reading a book on anatomy, using a green highlighter to mark important parts and taking notes in a small black notebook.

Yaya's sucking a lollipop and watching Kairi work.

Utau's listening to her mp3 player, her violet eyes darting back and forth at all of us suspiciously.

Ikuto's talking to Amu, smirking and laughing. Amu's blushing like crazy, and Miki, Su, and Ran are all in shock over something Ikuto just said.

Tadase is miserably watching Ikuto and Amu. Poor guy. He does need a girl, like Kairi said.

"Oh, we're here!" Amu says cheerfully. The heart in her hair changes into a spade. "I want to paint the scenery!"

"Let's wake up Kukai," Utau says mischievously. She grabs the cup of coffee she hadn't touched. I grab my half-full cup of hot chocolate. Yaya grabs her water bottle. "On three?"

"One…two…three…" we pour the liquids all over his mustache. He sputters and looks at us.

"Was I asleep for the entire ride?"

"Yes," Amu answers. "Uh, Kukai, you probably should clean yourself up. The bathroom's over there." She points to a small cabin in the distance.

"Let's go on a hike!" Nagihiko says.

"YEAH!" Yaya shouts.

"I want to study the topography," Kairi agrees.

"I need to write my new song," Utau says.

"Amu and I need to find a secluded, obscure corner," Ikuto says.

"I want to stay in the cabin," I announce.

"Me too," Nagihiko immediately announces.

"I don't want to be alone with you," I grumble.

He sticks his tongue out at me. "Too bad."

And then, when I was crouched into a ball, sulking in the corner, and he was reading a book, the roof to the cabin collapsed. He grabbed my hand, pulling me out of there. And then…

HE FREAKING KISSED ME.

Afterwards, he kept on saying things like, "Rima, we need to talk!" But I'm ignoring him.

Because there's just no way I like him. It's just impossible.

…Right?

Okay, thanks for reading! If you read the fanfic that predates this one, you will notice that I made some changes to this. It's so it'd be easier for new readers to catch on to the basic plot.

Does that even make sense? =_=

"No," Rima suggests.

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