Hey everyone! Amulet-berriie back again! I'm REALLY sorry for the LONGGGG delay for this sequel. Uhmm... I actually don't know how I'm going to write this sequel, so I kindly ask for your wait. I will promise NOT to drop this story out or anything and WILL CONTINUE until the VERY. LAST. CHAPTER. But you'll need to be very patient seeing I still need to think more about the story. I know I said I'd post the story up on during the holidays and it's the LAST day of the holiday, I sincerely apologized for the delay again. Please forgive me. ANYWAY.
HERE'S THE SEQUEL TO "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not". I've decided to make each chapter longer than the previous story. By the way, IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE PREQUEL, GO READ IT NOW. ENJOY THE FIRST CHAPTER TO... RETURN TO ME.
Oh right, the summary:
One heart, two boys. Her old time crush has suddenly appeared right in front of her after 4 years of going to Alice Academy US and not contacting her. Not to mention her ex-boyfriend suddenly comes back from Italy and has become "even greater" than he was before! What will happen to Mikan!
Chapter One
Appearance of Hyuuga Natsume
Mikan Sakura laid on top of her bed in her new dormitory with her suitcase on the ground. It was near the end of August and she was happy she got a room. Last year she had to rent a room in a house because the university dormitory didn't have any space anymore because she registered for one too late. This year, she was the first to register for a room with her roommate Hotaru Imai. Hotaru wasn't moving in at the moment though, she'll be moving in with Mikan the next day because she was on a vacation with her family members and coming back today. Mikan sighed of boredom and yawned a bit. She dialed Ruka Nogi's number to see if he was available.
"Hello? Mikan?" Ruka asked on the other line.
"Rukaaaa, I'm so bored. Haven't seen you for a long time, are you free? You want to go hang out?"
"Sure, but give me a few minutes, I'm unpacking right now. Hey! Agh! Miyanaga-san! Please do not touch that, it's quite fragile! Sorry Mikan, it might take longer than I expected because my roommate is looking through my stuff. I'll call you when I'm done, gomen, bye!" Ruka hung up on Mikan after.
Mikan blinked for a while as she looked at her cell which said 'Conversation Ended'. She huffed a bit and closed her cell. She got up from her bed, picked up her purse and walked out the door. She took out her cell again and dialed up Hotaru's number to see if she was back yet.
"Sorry, this number is unavailable at the moment," the operator said.
"Ugh, where are you Hotaru?" Mikan said, frustrated. She searched up Yuu's number and tried him instead.
"Moshi Moshi?" Yuu said.
"Yuu! Are you free? Please don't tell me you're unpacking too, I'm in desperate need of hanging out with someone," Mikan said as she walked out of the University Dorm building and headed towards the path to a park.
"Um, I'm not unpacking, I'm done. But I'm eating lunch with my mom…" Yuu said.
"Oh, sorry to bother then! Sumimasen, continue eating your lunch and tell your mom I said hi," Mikan said apologetically.
"Okay, bye," Yuu hung up as well. Mikan dropped her head and closed her cell. She placed the cell in her purse and walked silently towards the park. She looked at the greenness of the trees and took a deep breath of fresh air. The shades from the trees covered her from the sunlight and she walked through a path. She sat down at a nearby bench and watched a little girl play with a little boy.
"Don't touch that shovel! It's mine!" The little boy said and shoved the girl to the ground taking the shovel she dropped. The girl's eyes began to tear and the boy began to panic.
"Gomene Miyabi-chan! Here! I was kidding; you can play with the shovel!" the boy took the girl's hand and placed the shovel gently into her palm. He wiped her tears with his shirt. The girl then after wiped her own tears with the back of her hand and wiped it on her shirt.
"Daijoubu Miyabi-chan? Gomenasai!" the little boy said.
"H… hai. Daijoubu S… Saitou-kun," the little girl said as she stood up. Mikan smiled as she watched the little kids. Her cell suddenly rang. She looked at the caller ID.
"Ohaio Kiyoshi!" Mikan said joyfully.
"Haha, you sound excited," Kiyoshi said.
"Of course, I was sooo bored but you came to the rescue!" Mikan said.
Kiyoshi laughed again. "So what's up? You finally moved into the dormitory yet?"
"Yep! I didn't unpack though, I got lazy. Ruka's unpacking though, but he'll be with me in a while after he's done. Anything new with you lately Kiyoshi?"
"No, nothing new, just sight-seeing right now,"
"Oh! I never really asked what you're majoring yet," Mikan said.
"Ah, I'm majoring designing clothes and such."
"Ohhh, so when are you going to design one personally for me?" Mikan laughed.
"I'm working on it right now. I'll give it to you when I come back. I'm in Italy right now," Kiyoshi told Mikan.
"Ohhh, oh, I got another phone call, must be Ruka. I'll talk to you later than, okay Kiyoshi?"
"Okay, I don't want to waste your money on the billing too,"
"Yikes, almost forgot about that, okay bye! Loves you,"
"Loves you too," Kiyoshi hung up as did Mikan. Mikan picked up the next phone call.
"Moshi moshi?" she said.
"Mikan? Sorry, I'm still unpacking. My roommate is messing everything up again and being really annoying, I'll meet up with you at the café shop in front of the university in an hour, okay?" Ruka told Mikan.
"Fine, I'll see you then! Bye," Mikan hung up and saw that the two kids had already disappeared. Bored again, Mikan got up to do some shopping. She went to the nearest shopping center and went to a clothing store. She walked over to the miniskirts section and began to look through the skirts there were. There was another lady around the same age as her looking through the same group as her too. Mikan found a black denim skirt she liked with a drop chain from the back to the front of the skirt. As she reached over for it, the other lady also reached for it too. Their hands bumped into each others.
"Oh, sorry, my apologies," the girl said.
"No no, here," Mikan took the skirt out and handed it to the girl, "you saw it first right?"
"It's alright, you can look at it, there are other skirts to look at," she replied.
"No, I insist," Mikan told her.
"Haha, no here look," the girl reached into the group again and took out the same skirt, "here's another one."
"Oh, haha," Mikan laughed and the girl laughed with her. They giggled together and after a few seconds, had finally settled.
"I'm Koizumi Luna by the way," Luna reached out a hand.
"Sakura Mikan, are you out alone?" Mikan asked.
"Actually no, my boyfriend's here with me, I don't know where he disappeared to though, he said he's going to eat so he's probably in the food court. Are you alone?"
"Oh, and yeah, I'm alone. I'm meeting my friend in 30 minutes though."
"Oh, how nice, meeting friends. I haven't got any friends yet. I've only been here for a year."
"Is that right?"
"Well, I'm going to go buy this skirt then head over to the food court."
"Oh, I better buy this too and meet up with my friend," Mikan agreed. The two girls walked over to the cashier and purchased their skirts.
"Bye Sakura-san! It was nice meeting you," Luna said.
"Yes it was nice meeting you too Koizumi-san. Bye," the two girls separated as Luna walked to the food court and Mikan walked to the café. After 15 minutes of walking to the café, Mikan walked in and saw Ruka had already arrived.
"Ruka!"
"Mikan? Whoa! You dyed your hair colour!"
"Yeah, hehe, you like it?" Mikan asked as she sat down in front of Ruka.
"Uh, it looks nice."
"So anyways, you're here early."
"Yeah, I was able to get my roommate to stop messing with my stuff after he heard I had to meet a friend, here's your ice cap," Ruka said tiredly. Mikan sat down in the chair across from Ruka.
"Thanks and yikes, good luck with your roommate," Mikan said.
"Thanks, you think I can switch rooms? Maybe not, it's alright, I'll get used to Miyanaga-san. So what were you doing before?"
"I bought this really cute miniskirt! You want to see it?" Mikan asked.
"Uh… sure?" Ruka said. He knew Mikan would show him whether he wanted to see it or not. Mikan took the skirt out of the shopping bag.
"Kawaii ne?" Mikan smiled.
"It fits you really nicely. Oh, why'd you dye your hair black?"
"Black with a red streak at the front!"
"Same thing,"
"I don't know, I guess I like black now. Oh, you know Ruka, I met this really cute girl when I was shopping. She got the same skirt as me too!"
"Oh? Really? That's nice, did you ask for her name?"
"Oh! Yeah! Her name was… uhm…"
"Did you forget?" Ruka took a sip from his latte.
"No, let me think. Oh! Luna, Koizumi Luna!" Mikan said. Ruka spat out the latte he had drank.
"What?"
"Ewww, Ruka, that's disgusting!" Mikan picked up a few tissue papers and began to wipe the table from the spat out latte.
"Gomen, but what did you say her name was?"
"Koizumi Lunaaaa!" Mikan said loudly and annoyed. Ruka opened his mouth to talk but was then stopped by a loud shriek of happiness.
"Sakura-san!" Luna ran over to Mikan's table, "it is you Sakura-san!"
"Koizumi-san! Konnichiwa, fancy seeing you again," Mikan said.
"I know eh?"
"Did you find your boyfriend?" Mikan asked. Ruka sulked a little, trying to hide his face.
"Yeah, he's buying drinks right now though, is it okay if I share the table with you seeing we know each other? Oh! Sorry, are you on a date with you boyfriend?"
"Eh? No no! This is my friend I was talking about!"
"Oh! Splendid! Is it okay if he sits beside you while I sit with my boyfriend across from you guys then?"
"No problem! R-" Mikan didn't have to call Ruka's name to get him to move. He was already beside her by the time she said it was fine. He still kept his head down low though. Luna sat down.
"Arigatou uhm…"
"Ruka?" a voice was heard as all three heads at the table shot up to see who it was. Mikan's eyes widened really big. Luna smiled and Ruka's eyes widened with worry.
"Ruka? Ruka Nogi? Is that really you? Oh my gosh I haven't seen you in ages and I hardly recognized it was you! Natsume, come sit here, Sakura-san was nice enough to let us share a table," Natsume's glance fell on Mikan who turned her head towards the window.
"Hai, how are you Luna-chan?" Ruka smiled with hesitation.
"Tsk tsk, no need to be so formal my long time childhood friend. Sit down Natsume!" Luna said.
"There's a free spot over there," Natsume replied coldly.
"I want to sit here!" Luna huffed.
"Fine," Natsume said and sat down, and looked at Mikan.
"This is the cute girl I was talking about that I ran into! I forgot her name for a minute, but after seeing her, I suddenly remembered," Luna told Natsume.
Natsume and Mikan looked at each other for a minute. Mikan still not believing who was sitting in front of her after so many years.
"Sakura-san, this is my boyfriend, Hyuuga Natsume. Natsume, this is Sakura Mikan," Luna introduced.
"Oh… Hello" was what Natsume said and nodded.
"We know each other," was all Mikan said.
"Really? Natsume never told me anything about you!" Luna said in a surprised tone.
"I'm sorry, I don't know you… have you maybe mistaken me for someone else?" Natsume asked.
"Huh? No, I'm sure I haven't…" Mikan said.
"But this is the first time I'm meeting you…" Natsume confirmed.
"What? Oh… maybe I have mistaken you for someone else…" Mikan looked out the window sadly.
"Natsume, how can you not know who she is?" Ruka blurted out.
"I said I don't know her!" Natsume glared at the two of them. Luna looked at Natsume and Ruka and quickly thought of something to interrupt the two.
"Hehe! Sakura-san,"
"Oh no, please call me Mikan, if it's alright with me calling you Luna," Mikan turned to look at Luna and smiled at her.
"Oh, okay, Mikan, is it alright if I have your cell number? Seeing we all know each other somehow," Luna asked politely.
"Sure, may I have your cell?" Mikan asked. Luna gave it to her and Mikan stored her number in. Mikan gave Luna her cell to store Luna's number in.
"So, what University do you guys go to?" Luna asked.
"University of Tokyo," Ruka replied monotonously.
"Oh, wonderful! Natsume and I go there too! Mysterious how we never bumped into each other," Luna giggled. Mikan cringed.
"We have another friend that goes to the same Uni, her name's Imai Hotaru. She's a great friend; you'll like her a lot. She can be cold at times though," Mikan said.
"Ah yes, Imai Hotaru, Natsume told me about her. The girl with the invention Alice right?" Luna asked.
"Ah… yeah, did Natsume tell you about anyone else?" Mikan asked Luna.
"Hm? Oh yeah, he told me about Narumi-sensei, Yuu-kun, Koko-kun, Sum-" Luna said. Natsume cleared his voice a few times.
"Oh, Natsume, are you okay? You're not catching a cold are you?" Luna asked, concerned.
"No, something caught my throat; I think it's time for us to leave, I see Pi-chan outside of the café waiting with our luggage," Natsume said.
"Who's Pi-chan?" Ruka asked.
"Our butler, oh, is it time to move into the University already?" Luna asked.
"Yes, hurry, Pi-chan's going to get angered if we're not out. You know how it hates it when we're slow," Natsume said, getting up.
"Finee," Luna whined and she got up too.
"Who's your roommate Luna?" Mikan asked.
"Uhm, some person named Suzy, she's foreign I guess, but at least a new friend!" Luna said, "oh yeah, who's your roommate Natsume?"
"Hm? I'm rooming alone, I got permission, now let's go!" Natsume said.
"What? That's not fair!" Luna complained as they walked out the café. Ruka and Mikan watched them go out and enter a car with a butler holding the car door who must've been "Pi-chan". The butler closed the door after Natsume got in and went around to the driver's seat and drove off. Mikan watched as the car disappeared.
"So… he really did never talk about me," Mikan said softly as she watched the car turn around the corner, entering the University's parking lot.
"Uhm, I… I see you're done with your ice cap, do you want another one?" Ruka asked. Mikan shook her head and looked at her watch.
"5:37, let's head back then Ruka," Mikan said as she got up. She threw her empty cup of ice cap and opened the door. Ruka followed her procedure and went out the door too. A ring tone was suddenly heard.
"Is that yours?" Ruka asked.
"Yeah, it's Hotaru," Mikan took out her cell and opened it, "Moshi moshi? Hotaru?"
"Oi, baka, you still haven't unpacked! And where in the world are you?" Hotaru yelled through the phone, loud enough for Ruka to hear.
"Are you in the room? I thought you weren't coming until tomorrow," Mikan said in a monotone.
"Change of plans, I came early in case you'd get lonely tonight," Hotaru said.
"Thoughtful Hotaru, arigatou," Mikan said, "I'll be back soon; I'm in the café across from the school with Ruka."
"Okay, but you better hurry up or else I'll make you pay again," Hotaru said and hung up.
"Hotaru's back?" Ruka asked.
"Yeah, and she wants me to hurry back and unpack everything so let's go," Mikan said in a sad tone. She crossed the street and got to the other side and kept going. Ruka watched her back from the other side of the road. Mikan kept walking and never turned her head to see if Ruka was following, Ruka then knew, Mikan was upset. Not just upset, heartbroken.
Yeah, that was chapter one! I'm not very sure when the NEXT chapter is coming out... I'm pretty sure not within a week though... Exams are coming up soon and i need to focus on that as well. So anyway, hope you enjoyed chapter one! Sorry if you didn't like it. But I thought it was okk... Haha. So until next time!
Preview of Chapter Two: Mikan's Cloudy Heart
""Of course I don't mind, Natsume didn't want you to, but I convinced him!" Luna said, happy that she could help a friend, although Mikan didn't want it.
..
Natsume suddenly turned his head and looked at her. Although Mikan was looking at Luna, she could feel Natsume staring at her hoping she would go, for some reason. .
..
"She sure ran off quickly, at least she wasn't crying," Luna said, shrugging. Natsume looked over at where Mikan was and saw tear stain on the table cloth and a few drops on the plate. Natsume knew she cried."
And that ends the preview for Return to Me's Chapter Two: Mikan's Cloudy Heart.
Remember my warning: I cannot promise the second chapter will be out soon, but i'll try to upload it asap.
XOXO,
Amulet-berriie