Stuck in Love (Trapped in Love)

Ch.1 Being Pursued

Hinamori Amu, that's me; standing at about 5 ft 5 in and with medium length hair that is the color of strawberry bubble gum and I have honey golden eyes. I'm in my second semester of my junior year at Seiyo High School. To everyone at my school I am cool, outgoing, and stylish, however I am really shy and I don't have the courage to be myself. I am nowhere close to the definition of 'cool.' I have two best friends, a dad, and a sister.

But I will get back to more about me later 'cause right now I am waiting around a corner trying to build up the courage to hand my crush a letter confessing my feelings. And to be honest I am nervous out of my mind. I look up and see my two friends Yaya and Rima waving at me and encouraging me that everything will be just fine.

You probably want to know who my crush is don't you? Well he is Souma Kukai, junior at Seiyo High School. He's a totally awesome athlete and super nice. I don't know much about him but he's in three of my classes and he played my knight in shining armor when I dropped all my books on my way up to the stairs. He's totally cool.

I press my letter close to my chest and look at Yaya as she starts pointing, signaling that Kukai was coming up which meant I had to hand him my letter, which I had no idea how I was going to do. Should I try to keep my cool character? Or should I go all out and girly?

I look up at Yaya one more time and she's waving her arms in the air like crazy and I knew I only had a few seconds. Yaya and Rima duck under the rail so they wouldn't be in view if Kukai just happens to look, and I take a deep breath.

I extend my arms out and bow my head and say, "Souma Kukai-kun, I've liked you a really long time and would like you to have this…!" I look up and notice Kukai walking straight on by me. I blink two times trying to realize what had happened. Did he just blow me off or did he simply not hear me?

I bite my lip and face forward where my letter is still waiting to be taken. My eyes widened and I gasp as I realize that there was some attractive boy with shaggy dark blue hair and sapphire eyes standing there smirking at me. I stand completely straight and turn red. How did I get the wrong person?

"I-I…" I remember that I need to keep my cool character because I have no idea who this guy is, "this wasn't meant for you, so stop smirking!" I shout as I turn around frantically grabbing my backpack that was on the ground.

'I have to get out of here,' I shout to myself. I throw my backpack onto my shoulders and I rush up the stairs not bothering to look at the boy I left behind. I hoped that I would never see him again as I hurry back to where Yaya and Rima stood with their mouths wide open in shock. I grab each one of them by an arm and we hustle down the hallway to leave that blue-haired boy behind.

"What the heck happened?" Rima screeches in my ear as I continue to pull my two friends to somewhere far away.

"I-I don't know," I state, "I turned around after noticing Kukai-kun passed me and there that boy was, how did I miss him?"

"Where did that guy even come from?" Yaya asks as she looks back trying to see if we were being followed.

"Hell if I know," I answer. "I've never seen that guy before." I open a doorway to a stairway and pull them inside so that we could finally stop rushing. I lean against the wall and grab my face. "What did I just do?"

"You just made a fool of yourself," Rima answers bluntly, "and probably missed a great opportunity to confess to Kukai, he's probably at practice by now. So do you wait another day or wait till practice is over to tell him?"

Yaya itches her chin and nods as she looks at Rima. "That's right. That was a great opportunity," she states and then she looks at me. "You still have the letter right?"

I nod my head, "of course," I answer as we all look at my two empty hands. My eyes go wide. "No, no, no! I have it!" I throw my backpack off of my shoulders and unzip it so that I can tear into my books, notebooks, and binders, that's when I realized my letter was nowhere to be found.

I could feel the sweat pouring down my face as I become sick to my stomach. What if that guy has it and is going to give it to Kukai or what if someone else finds it and will post it all over school? I could tell by the way Rima and Yaya were looking at me that my skin had turned pale white.

"Great," I mumble as I collapse on my knees. My reputation was ruined and I would probably become the laughing stock of the whole entire school. "What am I going to do?"

Rima shrugs and answers in a sarcastic voice, "you could always move to Canada."

Yaya nudges Rima in the ribcage with her elbow. "That's not helping Amu-chii, she's really worried right now."

"She shouldn't have messed up," Rima states sticking out her tongue at Yaya.

"You're being extremely too blunt right now Rima-chan," Yaya says narrowing her eyes at our friend as they stood and I sat in the middle of an empty stairway.

That's when silence fell upon us and I start to think how I can find my letter and how I confess to Kukai the right way. I placed my chin in the palm of my hands and sigh.

"Wait a minute…" Rima mumbles and Yaya and I look up at her with wondering faces.

"I think I know who that guy was," she finishes as she looks down at me. I gave her a look to continue and she did so. "I believe that was senior Tsukiyomi Ikuto."

"Who?" I ask more confused than ever. I had never heard of that name before but then again I didn't stay in tune with gossip. So I always missed out on things or who people were.

"Tsukiyomi Ikuto," Rima repeats, "Hoshina-sensei's grandson."

"Hoshina-sensei? As in our principal, Hoshina-sensei?" Yaya asks as the same question pops into my head.

Rima nods and she continues on, "You've heard of him right? People say he's super bad and a major heart breaker. He doesn't listen to teachers and does whatever he wants. Girls all over are so madly obsessed with him that they would do anything just to get his attention. So he's majorly popular and as we all saw he's crazy good looking. People say all he has to do is look into a girl's eyes and she will do whatever he wants like a little puppet. Freaking crazy, right? Talk about major ego problems right there."

I tug on my hair and sigh dramatically. "Why did I have to mess up around such a guy?"

Yaya shrugged and looked at the watch around her wrist. "Well it's about time for me to pick up my baby brother from daycare, so I'll see you two later. Ja-ne!" She opens the door and turns to look at me, "Everything will be okay, Amu-chii. You worry too much." She winks at me and then leaves.

I look up and Rima who had her arms crossed and I could tell she had something on her mind. She notices that I was looking at her and she smiles. "She's right, if that guy chooses to mess with you, I'll kick his ass."

I smile at her. "True," I sigh as I stand up, brushing off my skirt.

"So you better go looking for your letter, I have meeting," she claims as she hands me my backpack.

I nod and we both leave the stairway. "Thanks Rima, you and Yaya are great," I say smiling.

"We know," she says cockily and then she waves and heads off to her meeting with the yearbook committee.

I head down the stairs to look at the place I must have dropped my letter. And when I get there I see nothing. I feel the breeze pick up and hit my face. 'The wind! It probably blew my letter away!' I look to the direction the wind was heading and look toward the soccer field and courtyard. 'That way!'

I look carefully as I walk on the grass, hoping my letter will just pop up. And it seemed I wasn't going to end up lucky.

"What are you looking for?"

"A let…" I stop and look up to see Kukai standing behind me with a questionable look on his face. "Oh hi!" I say straightening up. "I was just looking for my letter...that my grandma…sent me…" I lie straight through my teeth, smiling.

"Hhhmmm," he looks at me and then his eyes wander the courtyard. "Well if it was here it isn't anymore, the wind really picked up. Do you need help looking for it?"

"No…no…thanks. I can handle this," I say as I start to rush off, but my feet stop and I turn around to face him. "I'm.."

"Hinamori Amu," he says smiling, "I know."

I smile and bow my head. "Ja-ne," and with that I sprinted off and while I was leaving I couldn't help but feel like I was being watched and it didn't feel like it was coming in the direction of Kukai.

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I walk into the apartment that I live in with my dad and sister and throw my backpack, causing it to slide across the floor and stop right by the couch. I smile to myself. 'He knows my name!' I kept repeating to myself. I couldn't be happier. I plop down on the sofa and turn on the TV hoping something good is on.

"Amu-chan!" I hear my younger, eight-year-old sister, Ami, shout.

"Yes Ami." I say not moving an inch because I knew in a second she would appear before me with a huge smile on her little innocent face.

"Papa and I are going to go to the park and take pictures! Wanna come?" she asks as she shows off what I am guessing is a new pink dress.

"Not really," I answer solemnly. "You know I'm not a fan of taking pictures, Ami."

Ami pouts and crosses her little arms over her chest. Little Ami has the same color of eyes as I do, but her hair color is a soft brown. And she's way too cute and very outgoing. We are already different, and not because of our age difference.

"Amu-chan! Are you home?" I hear my father shout, probably from his office.

"Hai!" I shout back. I pat Ami on the head, "go have fun with papa. You two will have a blast."

My father, Hinamori Tsumugu, steps out of his office and walks into the living room where we were. This is probably a good time to talk about my family. It's just my dad, little Ami, and I. My mother, Midori, passed away from cancer five years ago. The three of us just don't have the heart to leave this apartment with the memories of our lost loved one. My mom was a great woman and we loved her very much. My father and mother had been together since college and they were completely happily in love. Dad would never try to replace Mom, but I believe he is dating someone. And I believe he's worried about Ami and me. I wish I could tell him not to be, but to be honest the thought does make me nervous.

"Amu-chan?"

I snap out of my thoughts and look up at my father. "Hm?"

"Are you available this Saturday evening?" he asks with hopeful eyes.

I blink. This Saturday? "I don't work…so yeah, I'm free, why?" I ask looking at my dad with wonder across my brows. "Are we going to be doing something? Got something planned?"

He smiles. "Just a lovely father having dinner with his beautiful daughters!" he beams.

This has me worried, but I just nod. 'Hopefully Dad will open up and tell us what he's been hiding. I know something has been bothering him.'

6:00 that night

I'm at my job, which is a little burger joint just three blocks from where I live. I'm busy taking someone's order when I notice a flash of blue in the corner of my eye. I look at one guest to the other that was at my table and asked what they would like to order. They tell me and I write it down.

Behind me another employee whispers to me, "You have another table."

I nod and turn around so that I can greet my new table. My eyes widened as I recognized that smirk. 'HIM?' I scream to myself. Well he wasn't alone; he was actually with two other boys, one with long purple hair and the other with medium length green hair. And they were all staring at me.

I take a deep breath and approach the table. The plan was to act like today didn't happen and that they were just like my other normal guests. "Hi, I'm Amu, what would you like to drink? Want any appetizers?"

"I'll have iced tea," the one with long hair answers. I give him another look and I realize he is actually very feminine looking. I felt a little jealous how 'pretty' he was. And his voice was really gentle.

I nod and look at the one with green hair, who also wore glasses. "Mountain Dew." He too was another 'pretty' boy. How come I have never seen any of them before? I nod again.

And finally I face the man I encountered today, who apparently is our principal's grandson. "And for you?" I ask, smiling, which of course was forced.

His smirk widens and my knees shake. I don't have a great feeling about this. "I'll have water, some cheese sticks, hhhmm chili fries, and you," he says so coolly that I almost didn't catch his 'joke.'

I frown. "Cheese sticks and chili fries, with one water, one iced tea, and one Mountain Dew?" I repeat what they wanted, ignoring the 'me' part completely. I look at my notepad and write it down.

"And you."

I look back at the boy known as 'Ikuto' and scowl. "Look bud, I'm not on the menu." At that point I wasn't afraid of getting in trouble with my manager for being 'rude to a costumer'.

"I can read, and I know that very well," he states and at this point I am staring into his eyes and I can see why most girls fall for his little games, luckily I'm not like most girls, however I still couldn't help but notice the beauty of his deep blue eyes.

"Stop playing around then," I say as I start to turn around, and as I'm about to leave I feel something grab onto my wrist preventing me from leaving that spot. I turn back around and look at him, seeing he is, of course, the one holding my wrist.

"I wasn't playing around, kid," he states standing up.

'Wow. He's tall.' I think to myself as I gulp, hiding that from him. I force my cool, collective attitude on him. "Who are you calling kid? And let me go." We stare hard in each other's eyes, except it's more like I am glaring.

"Listen here, Aaaammmuuu," he says my name all extra slow and continues, "I get what I want, and what I want is you."

That's it. That pissed me off. "No you listen here, I'm not going to play your little game, and you're not going to get any amusement from messing with me because I will award you no such thing!" I declare and then, finally, I yank my wrist out of his grasp and I storm off. I explain to my manager how I cannot wait on their table and my manager understands and assigns a new waitress to take care of them. Even though I wasn't serving them anymore, he watched me, for the whole entire time that they were there.

I'm wiping down a table when I feel a presence behind me. Two hands sit on my shoulders and I feel someone's warm breath against my neck. I flinch and bite down on my lip as I wait for him to speak because I was sure that I knew who it was.

"You'll be mine Amu." His words were soft and if I didn't know any better I would have melt and totally would have been under his spell. He sounded so seductive; his words sent chills up my spine. I had to suck in a deep breath. This boy is good, I give him that much, but like I said I am no fool.

Shortly after he spoke the heat of his body behind mine disappears and I turn around to see him walking through the door.

"As if!" I shout loud enough for him to hear before the door closes behind him. I huff and I know my face is as red as a tomato. I had a feeling that this wasn't the last time I would be seeing him or having to put up with his-cocky-self. There is no way that boy was going to toy around with me any longer.

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When I walk in the front door at home I see my dad sitting on the couch, he turns around and greets me with a smile. "How was work, Amu-chan?"

"Fine…"I mumble kicking off my shoes as I walk. I sit next to him on the couch and I see his worried expression. "Just a few costumers made my night a little difficult." I look at him and he nods and I realize here is my alone time with dad without Ami around. I need to confirm if he's been dating.

"Dad…"

"Amu…"

We both pause as we stare at each other.

"You go first," I state smiling at him, hoping that he will answer the question without having me to ask.

He nods and smiles at me. "You know, don't you? You are a smart girl after all…" he starts; he takes a deep breath and continues on. "Amu. I have been dating this wonderful woman for the past three months…" he looks up at me.

My eyes widened. I didn't know that he had been doing something that long without me knowing. I was thinking it had been a couple of weeks.

His eyes go wide and he starts to mumble "I'm not trying to replace Mama…"

"Dad stop," I say shaking my head. "I know you're not." I smile at him and ask, "Are you happy?"

He nods and smiles again. "Yes, actually, Saturday night I want you and Ami to meet her, we're both thinking of going to the…um next step…" he says sounding confused on how he should have said the last part.

"Marriage?" I question knowing it probably wasn't going to be as easy for him to say it to me.

"Yes, marriage. Do you disapprove?" he asks me with a serious face.

I scratch my chin. "Hm…I can't say. I have to meet her first in order to tell you that one papa." And with that I give him a big smile. "If you are happy, and if Ami is happy, that's all that matters to me. "

"Amu-chan!" he beams as he pulls me into a hug. "I know you'll just love her! She's so excited to meet you girls!"

I hug him back and mumble, "Ok Dad, that's enough." I pat him on the back and pull away. "I'm going to bed. " And with that I go to my room. I shut my door behind me and lean against it. What kind of week is this? First I mess up my confession, then that stupid Ikuto jerk started harassing me, and now my father is telling me he wants to get married to a woman I'm going to meet this Saturday, seriously, what is the deal?

I decide that texting Rima might make me feel better, and that she might be able to help me out. Which I am hoping that she can, but who would have known that my life was about to do a complete 180.

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Well this is my new Shugo Chara fic! I hope you readers enjoyed it. I think it will turn out really good. I have faith in this story and of course my readers. I hope the summary is good enough but I really don't know. If you liked this then you should go read my other story, Strawberry Witch.

This story was inspired by The Devil Beside Me.

Here's some info:

This starts taking place late January.

CHANGED THE AGES OF AMU, RIMA, YAYA, NAGIHIKO, and KAIRI

CHANGED THE GRADE YEARS OF AMU, RIMA, YAYA, and NAGIHIKO

Amu: 17 (Junior)

Ikuto: 19 (Senior)

Kukai: 17 (Junior)

Ami: 8 (3rd grade)

Rima: 16 (Junior)

Yaya: 16 (Junior)

Nagihiko: 18 (Senior)

Kairi: 17 (Junior)

More characters to be introduced in later chapters! Promise!

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