It's been a weird day since I woke up.

I took a glance at my watch. 12:26pm. I touched my stomach. I'm quite hungry.

Is it me or everyone started to have boyfriends?

I looked around me as I walked alone towards the cafeteria. Everyone's in the love mood right now.

I walked into the cafeteria, there they were, Ruka and Hotaru. Although Ruka didn't succeed in breaking Hotaru's shell but it was nice that she fell inlove with one of the most popular boys in school. I'm happy for them.

I tried to recall how this happened. I think I knew it already, even before Ruka confessed.

Flashback

Ruka with his hand touching his rabbit and Natsume beside him, still glaring at everyone he sees.

As usual, no one really bothered to hate Natsume. Everybody loved him. The teachers favored him, the girls loved him, the boys idolized him. We were young, how could older boys idolize a boy younder than them? I could care less.

I knew Ruka felt something towards Hotaru. You can see it through his actions. Everytime he talks to Hotaru, it was either he's red even before a word comes out of his mouth or he avoided looking at my best friend.

I think Hotaru knew also, she just didn't want to admit it.

She was a tough nut to crack, even for me, her best friend. She rarely showed emotion, even in the things she says. She was rather emotionless. But it was nice to see her smile every now and then. She'd smile when I cry infront of her, she knew that it'll make me happy when she smiles. What a friend.

Hotaru will always be the rookie of the year, everybody knew who she was because of that award. She was brilliant with her inventions. She was popular for being the rookie of the year when we were 10, she was popular for being the one Ruka Nogi liked.

It took Ruka a good 3 months before he confessed to Hotaru. Of course, I was involved in all this.

It was a rainy day. Hotaru was, of course, busy again with her inventions. She was creating this device for easier eavesdropping, which I found really useful but she never gave me one, she told me I should buy it for 150 rabbits. But I was broke, so I chose to eat rather than buy that. Anyway, the Alice Festival was coming. I told Ruka he should inform my best friend his intention for the last dance. I think he had a choice of surprising her, but it was a bad idea for me, Hotaru wasn't fond of falling in love with people, especially Ruka, since he is Ruka Nogi. He's got a lot of fan girls, but Natsume still beats him. Ruka forgot the fact that Hotaru didn't like surprises, she would ask someone else first before Ruka would ask her so I told Ruka to tell my best friend how he feels. He had second thoughts. He sighed and followed my advice.

I accompanied him until he reached his destination. Hotaru's Door.

Hotaru had a lot of suitors but she never entertained anyone. But I knew she liked Ruka, she just didn't want to make the first move so she denied it inside. Hotaru was confused but, of course, she didn't show it. My best friend was good at these things.

Ruka looked at me, as a sign for me to leave. I did, but I quickly hid behind a silver armor standing about 7 feet from Hotaru's room. I was lucky the armor was there. Come to think of it, since when did Alice Academy had armors in the corridors? I wanted to hear the way Ruka will tell Hotaru.

I peeked a little from behind the metal thing. I saw Ruka looking down on his rabbit. I guess he was thinking hard whether to do it or not. If I wasn't hiding, I could've shouted at Ruka to do it because it was getting late. Perhaps, after a few minutes, Hotaru will be off to sleep, but unfortunately, I was hiding so I chose not to shout.

Lucky for the one watching, Ruka sighed deeply and knocked at Hotaru's door. No one answered. Ruka didn't knock again, instead he began being a coward, I just wished he was like the Ruka we had trouble with when Reo still had Natsume, the brave Ruka but he wasn't, he decided to back out, after one knock at Hotaru's door, he got scared. I got frustrated, they deserve each other!

I went out of my hiding place. Ruka saw me.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Helping you!" I said as I made my way to Hotaru's door and gave it two hard knocks.

"There! You're such a coward!" I told Ruka.

Hotaru finally opened the door. She sighed.

"What do you want?" She said blankly.

"Ruka has something to tell you." I said as I pushed Ruka towards Hotaru.

"What?" Ruka lied.

I didn't say anything, I looked at both of them, Hotaru was looking at Ruka, Ruka was looking down.

"Ruka!" I called out.

"Oh yeah.. Hey, err... Hotaru... I have something to tell you.." He started, still not looking at Hotaru.

"Spit it out, Ruka." My best friend said.

"Well, I..."

Hotaru took Ruka's hand and pulled him towards her room and closed the door.

I was disappointed, I thought I had the chance of seeing Ruka confess to Hotaru. I sighed and sat down on the floor and waited for Ruka to come out.

And before I knew it, they were together. See? I really didn't know how it happened.

Ruka just went out of his room with a smile on his face and won't tell me why he had that smile. I guess it worked out. I should give myself an award for doing this, although all I did was convince Ruka, but still I helped.