“What the is this!? WHAT THE IS THIS? MAKI WHAT THE IS THISSSSS?!” Mao yelled loudly, screeching out the last bit as high as her voice could possible go. Maki's only reaction to this horrible odd sound of a plea coming fro Mao's mouth was to cover her ears reflexively and hit Mao on the head to shut her up. She couldn't do Mao's make up and cover her own ears from the damage Mao's sound was offering her.

“I usually don’t swear Mao but...right now...at this very moment in time...it's incredibly tempting and you just might make me. Mom was right about you, you know? You are possibly the worst possible influence on me. If only getting out of friendships was as easy as getting into them," She teased and cracked a small smile but saw that Mao wasn't returning it as she pointed at the mirror and then at her eyelashes. "THIS is the newest look from Yves Saint Laurent at the moment. It’s called factory girl.” Maki said in a voice that showed she was drained of energy due to the demanding Mao bossing her around for what was likely to be about half a day.

“I KNOW THAT. DON’T YOU THINK I KNOW THAAAAAAAAT?” Mao yelled back with the same scream as before stretching the last vowel for as long as possible. As Erika sighed in the corner and looked at her best friends, Mao pointed at her again as she had priorly done so all evening due to the fact that Erika just sat there. By now though Maki was ignoring all of Mao's points. It seemed that this afternoon all Mao would be doing was yelling and shrieking and squealing...possibly all really loudly. In fact she was doing all of this so loudly that it might almost be classified as screeching. Maki was surprised her mirror hadn't broken yet and the news on T.V. hadn't reported the incident as just a teenage girl in the middle of her preparation for a date and not the day of judgement.

Erika glanced periodically at Jun who was looking through outfits like crazy with Megumi, who’s hair was actually frizzing up with the tension that Mao was pouring all over them. She looked at her to make sure that she was okay and not being bullied. She remembered when Mao had detested her but a week ago and people's emotions, especially the stubborn Mao's didn't change all that easily.

She looked on as she saw another one of Megumi's hairs jump up into a frizz, she didn't blame her for her frazzled look right now, Mao had already rejected the outfit she was wearing now five minutes after she’d agreed on it.

“You know...I’m actually kind of glad I don’t go on dates.” Erika said suddenly as all four of them turned around to stare at her as if she’d let utter from the worst word in the world.

“WHAT THE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT IT’S THE BEST!” Mao yelled and Maki immediately started laughing and started to come over, possibly to pat Erika on the head cutely as she usually did.

Mao pulled her back because she wasn’t done with hair and makeup yet.

“YOU COME BACK HERE!” She yelled loudly and Maki sighed, frustration apparent on her features as she came back and started to thin down the humongous amount of mascara she’d applied on Mao because she thought it looked cute.

Apparently Mao was done with cute but of course no other look seemed to suit her, Erika noticed. Mao was cute! She wasn’t anything else.

Mao was trying to be someone else tonight though for some unknown reason. Erika couldn't really tell why. After all it wasn't someone else that Toma invited on a date, it was her. It should have been fine had she chosen to go in sweatpants.

This was all far too confusing.

Of course she would never tell Mao that though because if she did…well god knows what would happen to her. She watched Mao meanly start pulling on Maki’s hair and cringed as Maki yelped and hit Mao on the head again. It was almost like a mother daughter relationship except Maki and Mao ran deeper than that even. Erika almost felt the jealousy from before Megumi entered the picture seep through her body.

Jun noticed the connection between them as well and turned to Megumi questioningly. At first Megumi had been rather cold towards him when he entered the room but as they both tried to look for a suitable outfit for Mao and her hand had accidentally touched his ‘’ she’d warmed up to his presence. It was almost like a sorry that Megumi didn’t want to say to Jun.

She figured just being friendly with him was apology enough. Jun was in no mood to argue with this pity friendship.

Megumi shrugged back at him now as she examined a black leather corset dress. “It’s just always been like that. We joke about it, they might have been family in a past life.”

“NO!” Mao yelled out before even Megumi’s face could register distaste on the dress.

“Thank god we’re doing this in Maki’s room cause otherwise I’d feel sorry for Haruka.” Megumi said to Jun in a scared manner. He nodded back.

Was it odd that this kind of turned him on? This whole demand and control and power thing that Mao had going for her and yet no one went against her? It was surprising how capable she was. Someone of her birth, able to do this with the illegitimate Kamenashi daughter and the Toda's only child, along with the Horikita enchantress's daughter? Crazy. He couldn't help but find it irresistible. He'd always been attracted to mean women, they were just like him after all.

As he sifted through some more clothes, he spotted a yellow cloth, and picked it out to find that it was a yellow sundress type of outfit and Megumi nodded in approval so he quickly turned around to show Mao.

He could hardly believe the Mao in front of him with her friends and the Mao she had been last night with him alone were the same. The other Mao had seemed so much more approachable and normal this one was a banshee! No wonder he hated being in girly situations. If he was a girl, he'd run far away from her...even in normal boy situations he found himself thinking that if Aya did this sort of thing he'd bolt.

But for Mao he found himself WANTING to stay by her side.

Mao looked at the outfit in his hand and started to disapprove of it but Jun quickly got up off his bended knees and started defending his chosen outfit.

“If I was a guy,” and I am, he added inside his head. “I would definitely want my girlfriend to wear this,” even though I’ve never really had an official one just usually one night stands, whom I never actually end up doing anything with because I'm the heir of Matsumoto and if that resulted in a baby I'd be dead. Condoms snap all the time, he found his conscience saying to him, well at least ed had driven that into his mind. “because it would show that she had the taste to wear something that would leave something to the imagination,” and that would make me want to do her...but condoms still snap remember Jun, “and because she’d look exactly like I wanted her to. She’d look as if she wanted to keep me interested forever. She’d become my muse with the right hair and makeup too if I was like an actor like Toma.” He added girlishly realizing he was talking far too much like a guy pretending to be a girl pretending to be a guy.

“Whoa Jun-chan, talk about getting into the cosplay of being a guy.” Mao said quietly for the first time in the whole day and Maki, Erika and Megumi all looked at him as if he was some form of a god, well goddess he realized later, to calm Mao down.

“I’ll wear it,” She said finally quietly giving Jun a big smile, which he couldn't help but smile back at seeing as how it was only directed at him.

Two seconds later, she immediately piped back up into her angry attitude and started yelling at Maki surprising her so Maki hit Mao again and this time it was rather hard so Mao rubbed her head through the curlers and Maki slapped her hand away.

“Bakaa do you want your hair to look bad or something?” Maki said and Mao stuck her tongue out at her best friend. Suddenly though Mao decided to admit something to them. As was girly tradition to do so before a first date, like in the movies!

“I’m really nervous Maki…I’ve never had a boyfriend before.” She said looking at her nails silently and even though she hadn’t addressed Megumi, and Erika it was unspoken that she had been addressing them as well.

Erika looked up and stared at Mao and was surprised at how blatantly honest she had been. Mao was a lot more ‘hidden’. She didn’t let her feelings out of the box often enough. She was uptight. Erika showed her joy by smiling happily, she was glad Mao was coming out.

Megumi couldn’t help but wonder if Toma would treat Mao well enough. She couldn't reveal this to her friends, it was a confidentiality thing they practiced in psych but...she truthfully did not- no could not trust him after that little might-as-well-have-been-confession-of-his on Maki. It seemed far too doting and not platonic enough, like friendships like Maki's and Toma's were supposed to be. She could tell that Toma was in love with Maki now. Everything he did for Maki finally made sense now. Even why her dearest Pi-chan hated on Maki so much made sense now. Why’d Toma'd glared at her the first time this year only when she’d hugged Maki in place of him? Why he’d stared at Maki so closely when she’d walked into the lounge room the night of the opening of the club and Mao’s first date with him this year. Why he’d not made a move on Maki yet…everything was clearing up in her head and she couldn’t help but not want Mao to do this because she knew that one day Toma’s hidden building emotions for Maki would surface and Mao out of everyone would suffer the most, she wouldn’t know who to ask for help because the woman who she'd usually ask would for once be the cause of the whole issue, Maki.

Jun looked at Mao and found his breath caught in this throat again. He remembered the first time he’d ever felt this way. It had been the day after Aya and Ryo were discovered in Ryo's bedroom by Aya's mother and the news had spread like wildfire. He’d cried that night and promised himself to hate the women species for what he saw as then forever.

However he could see that these girls were slowly changing his mind, and his stance on women and their usefulness. Maki with her beautifully enigmatic personality hidden carefully behind the farce of perfection that even Shun was unable to cross, Erika with her innocence that resembled that of an infant...one that Jun couldn't help but know would break too soon, and Megumi with her sharp mind carefully concealed in her gorgeous body and dumb words, and finally Mao the fragile girl hiding beneath the stance of a strong lady. The one who appealed to him the most even though there was nothing about her that should.

Condoms can snap, he reminded himself and hit his head. Where had that stupid thought come from?

Going back to his previous thoughts he continued thinking staring at the four as they had an unspoken conversation between their eyes. These girls were slowly but surely changing him. He wasn't dumb, he could sense it however slow the process. He hadn't been nearly as woman hating recently.

He wondered if Aya would freak out when she arrived tomorrow. He wondered if he looked like he’d changed. He wondered how she was doing over there. He hoped that she hadn’t seen Ryo too often at their house in the time Jun himself was absent, the only person that had been keeping her back from really engaging in that ‘forbidden’ relationship was himself and Blair. Blair thought...now that Serena was back he doubted she was paying too much attention to Aya.

“Okay we’re done your makeup,” Maki said finally and Jun clapped eagerly.

“YAY MAKI-CHAN! On my next date you are totally doing my makeup!” He said in his girly voice and watched Maki blush and nod.

“Of course Junny-chan.” For some reason this had just really caught on. Perhaps that was the name people saw when they looked at him. He would have gotten angry at the name and yelled at Maki but he couldn’t bring himself to. He still thought she was rather fake and wanted to yell at her for hiding her true self from people the way she did but he was starting to like her truly as a friend.

“Oh Jun-chan. Could you go out and get me some iced tea?” Mao asked and Erika immediately piped up as well. “Me too!” which made Megumi yell out. “Me as well,” and then Maki started looking as if she was thirsty and as she opened Jun sighed tiredly. He nodded as he started towards the door.

“Mao! You better be ready by the time I get back!” He said in his y girly voice and they all nodded and pushed him out and started pushing Mao into the bathroom to change.

“Oi! I ed a lot so I know I deserve some form of pain but that hurt!” He heard Mao yell from the room as he started towards the cafeteria. He burst into laughter as he walked drunkenly. Mao was really something...

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“WHAT THE IS THIS YAMAPI! WHAT THE IS THIS!?” Toma yelled loudly in a displeased manner as he looked into the mirror in Yamapi and Shun’s room. Yes, clearly Yamapi had no taste in fashion.

“It’s my favorite Armani polo and if you aren’t going to wear it I’d like it back.... See if I lend you clothes anymore. This is supposed to be lax for you know? You aren't a girl or anything.” Yamapi said calmly ready to start stripping Toma off himself but Toma yelled extremely loudly and kicked him away with his feet. Toma had always been kind of shy.

“Yamate! ert I know my body’s hot but no need to go hands on. Watching is allowed though.” He said and took off his shirt as Yamapi paused and looked at Toma’s body and shook his head.

“Not buff at all, you make me depressed. You wouldn't even get 1 yen at a male stripping club. Horrible. Want me to show you a real body?” He said taking his own shirt off to compare with Toma in front of the mirror.

Ahh the things he did with Toma he'd probably never do otherwise.

Toma looked and nodded and went and felt Yamapi's arm muscles as Pi flexed them. “I won’t lie. You’ve always had the better arms.” He said faking tears as Yamapi hugged him. The attempt to comfort him wasn't awkward at all Yamapi found.

“It’s okay if you’ll never be as handsome as me Toma. I’m too good. Just far too good for anyone to catch up to me.” Yamapi said and then Shun walked in and saw this hug and walked out.

Then he walked back in and screamt. “WHAT THE IS GOING ON IN HERE? You have a date with Mao! Not a booty call with Yamapi!” Shun said and Yamapi and Toma gave each other naughty looks and then the two half men attacked him with hugs and of course Shun tried to push them off but eventually accepted the love as was the only way to escape.

After all Yamapi's arms could grab onto someone quite well he found.

As the three of them lay there on the somewhat cold tile floor they each thought about rather different things. Toma thought of Maki and Mao…they both flashed in his head at respective moments and he found himself almost edging towards Mao more so than Maki and gulped nervously. He’d always thought of Mao as special but it was scaring him how she was able to make him stop thinking of Maki as frequently. This was not to say that his feelings for Maki had disappeared though, he knew that was false with one look at Maki sleeping as she studied for Physics.

But Mao had worked some sort of miracle on him and maybe she would make him eventually forget about Maki even! Then he remembered Megumi’s eyes as he’d told her his earliest memory of tears and he knew that he was lying to himself just a little bit. Yes he might have just started thinking of Mao more so than Maki but Maki would always be in his heart...even if she had the biggest chunk of it or the tiniest bit to house herself.

Yamapi thought of Megumi and her cute smile. They hadn’t yet gone on an official date. That was pretty pitiful He should have taken her by now. It was quite a while since they’d started going out. He hadn’t even properly kissed her since! He’d made sure he would keep his hands off her until he knew for sure that he wanted her. He had no intention of using a girl again. For a brief second an image of Maki dancing in his head passed by and just as quickly as it came he forced it out. He wouldn’t think of Maki…or at least not when he was with Toma and Shun…half to add.

Shun thought of Mao. From this night forward he wouldn’t really be able to hug her like he used to, with a hint of the love he still held for her, or really share an ice cream with her. From this night forward she would really be labelled as Toma’s. With the seal of probably his lips on hers as most first dates ended. His and Maki's had as well...so why should this be any different? He knew there was no better choice for her if it wasn't him, Toma was extremely loyal and he would treat Mao well even if he didn't like her. He wasn't like Shun who would have traitorous thoughts as he was kissing his own girlfriend. Shun couldn’t help but want to be the one in Toma’s position now. Sure he had Maki…but Maki had been distancing him to an extent lately that he’d even bailed on their date yesterday to go hang out with Hiro and call Aya. HIRO! A guy he hardly knew! AND AYA! Worst of all the of a sister he hated so dearly. They'd worked out a plan too but she'd sounded really weak on the phone as if...someone had come and pulled all her breath away or played with her heart so it stopped beating at the right tempo.

“Oi, you do have a date..in like an hour you know,” Yamapi suddenly said when he realized that he was unable to get the image of Maki dancing out of his head and decided to busy himself again away from the glompage of his friends. Toma laughed nervously and got up and put the Armani polo back on and Yamapi got up too putting on his standard wife beater on again.

Shun just stood there staring at the two of them and nodded. “You look fine Toma don’t worry about it. I know for a fact that Mao’s being harassed by her friends though. She probably yelled her head off at them too many times.” That was the type of girl she was, when she was nervous she'd yell like a crazy girl. He remembered the first test she'd had she'd called him the night before yelling into his ear.

He'd hung up.

She'd later told him she'd continued yelling for at least an hour after he'd done so.

He'd also been hit multiple times for his rude behavior and she never failed to about it now.

He never failed to back.

“How do you know that?” Yamapi asked curiously.

Shun giggled surprisingly girlishly and told them “Welll when I was passing by Maki’s room I heard Maki bang the bathroom door and Mao yell out a string of curse words. That girl has the vocabulary of a yakuza!” He said jokingly and Yamapi laughed nodding along.

“Ehh is Maki-chan all right?” Toma asked suddenly and Shun looked at him oddly and nodded. That was...odd but he was used to the weird displays of concern Toma would have for Maki every now and then.

Yamapi gulped guiltily in the presence of everyone. He really shouldn't bring this up but he remembered the look on her face yesterday as he'd said that Shun wouldn't be showing up on the date. “Eh Shun-kun are you and Maki-well are you going to be okay? She seemed rather pissed off at you yesterday when you ditched her.” He asked looking at Toma for his reaction but Toma displayed no reaction even if he felt one. He just grinned widely at Yamapi like he normally would.

Yamapi hoped that perhaps Mao would work some sort of spell on Toma’s heart and make it hers so that Yamapi would stop feeling so guilty about the feeling of Maki’s hand in his which still remained imprinted into his senses. He could forget the sound of her voice ringing in his ears then. He'd called her confession pathetic...she'd retaliated in the most graceful way possible. To put it in his horrible terms she'd called his reaction to it pathetic. The confidence and pain and hurt of that one sentence kept resounding in his mind. Reminding him...that while he couldn't give his all to Megumi because he had huge issues with commitment he found himself giving more of his time to thinking of the girl he wasn't attached to.

He hadn't even done this with Masami when he was dating her. He'd thought of Masami 99% of the time and Yui had gotten about 1%. In this case...to be fair Megumi took up about 45% of his thoughts and Maki took up around 55%.

Shun shrugged and bit his lip nervously. He really didn’t know the answer to that. There was a reason he was avoiding Maki he was quite sure. The reason was probably that he thought the moment he saw her they'd break up. So he was trying to stretch the perfect Eitoku couple's relationship for a bit longer. He liked the jealous comments he got in gym class when he saw Maki come to fetch him with a chef-made-to-look-like-a-home-made-bento in her hand. He laid back against the wall resting his head so he wouldn’t have to hold it up a he started speaking. “I don’t know Yamapi. She’s put this wall up in front of us. I mean I sensed it when she showed up at my house,” Yamapi unwillingly realized that this was before she met him. He also unwillingly realized he didn't want to know any intimate details of the Maguri relationship. It made him feel like barfing. “And then we got caught by my mom about to do something that…well I didn’t know if she wanted to do or not.”

Here Toma winced and Shun noticed this and he continued on confused thinking perhaps this was just a figment of his imagination. Yamapi wanted to frown and actually almost wanted to beat Shun up, which was rather mean of him since Shun had been nothing but nice to him, but instead he sat down beside him, pretending to be the advice giving friend. “Way to go Shun, at least you’d get some this way right?" Now he wanted to punch himself. Who said like that about the girl they were spending 55% of their time thinking about? He unwillingly glanced at Toma as well and could see the red in his face start to increase.

“I didn’t get any,” He said shamefully. It was not an easy thing to admit. Especially to a man like Yamapi who told him of his conquests once every day at least.

Yamapi’s hand almost shot up in victory and he could feel his feet start to do a victory dance. He couldn’t help it. He’d always just thought he pitied Maki in the club where he hadn’t wanted her touched by unknown men but now he realized that perhaps he just didn’t want Maki touched by anyone else. Period.

Oh . He didn't want anyone else touching her.

that meant-

. Was all Yamapi could think as he came to one of the most important realizations he'd probably ever have in his life.

Toma turned his bright-red-with-anger face away from the two knowing that if he turned around and looked at Shun he might punch him or do worse. He might mutiliate his face to the extent that no one would recognize him.

And he wouldn't care if he lost his career as a famous actor, he wouldn't care if he'd get kicked out of school, or lose anyone's friendship...most of all he doubted he'd even regret ever doing so.

Maki…his Maki, he thought shuddering with anger as he imagined her trying to push Shun away. But now he realized she was not his…because she was someone else's. Still...to do this sort of thing- Shun...to her? He felt his fist rise up to his hand and grasp it roughly as if he wanted to pull it out.

She wanted someone else, not him. She was almost touched…by someone else.

He wanted to yell and scream but as he opened his eyes which he had priorly closed due to frustration he saw himself seeing in red but not the red in which you fell in love with. The red with which you wanted to kill someone.

He suddenly turned around and glanced at Shun involuntarily, who was looking at him almost as if he was trying to figure out something. Probably his odd behavior, Yamapi noted as he took in his friend's stance. He knew what Toma was thinking, he'd learned to read people's body language based on his so Toma's was the one he was most familiar with anyways.

Toma shook his head happily. “Nehhh better luck next time eh? I’m going to go pee…I don’t want to accidentally do it when I ask Mao to be my girlfriend.” He said in an especially showing off manner. It was obvious that everyone knew that Shun had loved Mao not so long a time ago.

He felt the need to make Shun experience the same anger, the same pain and hurt and the feeling of betrayal that he was feeling right now. All he wanted to do was punch his friend in the face but this was all he could manage for now.

Shun was indeed jealous of him right now Toma could make out when he saw Shun’s eyes darken in jealousy and anger. The anger bit was made out by Shun's nostrils flaring. Yamapi looked at Toma and Shun as they exchanged what looked like the friendliest hateful glares.

Yamapi felt a cold rush of air pass over all of them and immediately looked over to the window but saw that it wasn’t open and almost coughed uncomfortably. Yes he definitely hated women. They complicated everything! As he turned to look at the two priorly so-close-it-was-almost-making-him-jealous friends he knew why he hadn't told Toma about Maki's confession to him.

He could only imagine how these two boys, who had accepted him whole heartedly when he’d shown up at this school, would look at him if ever he told them that Maki had confessed her feelings…while still in a relationship to him? What idiot girl would do that? She’d complicated everyone elses lives. She wasn’t worth any of the attention she got.

He turned to look at both Toma and Shun’s tabletops, Toma's was now his but he was far too lazy to clean it up, they were adorned with pictures of the two of them with each of the four girls. With Erika, Shun was ruffling her hair and she was blushing and looking down at her feet. But with Toma, this picture was in Venice, they were both as close as possible with his arm wrapped around her shoulders and she was looking into the camera with a smile that actually reached her eyes. Yamapi shook his head, that was one girl it would take him a long long time to work out.

He paused to crack a smile at the picture of Megumi with each of them. With Shun she was kissing his cheek as Toma grinned cheekily and the camera captured the joking smile on Megumi's face. They were obviously drunk and at a party. Megumi and Shun were the drinkers in the group after all. With Toma she was pulling his school tie as if she was pulling a dog along as he stared at her in an annoyed manner. Toma's own hands were gripped tightly around Megumi's waist so she could never stay too far away from him. So it looked more like a partnership of power rather than him being the dog and Megumi the master. Yes he really did love Megumi in a way; there was no one with as much personality as Megumi, no one.

With Mao it seemed that Shun was around fourteen or fifteen and they were sharing an ice cream. Yamapi raised an eyebrow. He was confused at this image. They both had ice cream on their noses and the ice cream in between them was mint chocolate chip. In the picture their hands were holding the ice cream together as they tried to wipe the ice cream off each other's noses. Why Shun had chosen this picture to put up only god knew. On Toma's desk they were back to back posing and looking at each other from the sides of their eyes and as Yamapi noticed they were holding hands. In fact the grip Toma had on Mao's hand was rather tight because her hand was slightly redder than the rest of her body Yamapi could tell. Almost as if he was desperate to hold onto her.

And then there was Maki. With Shun there was a clear picture of the two of them kissing at a club and there was a smile on her face. A true smile that Yamapi hadn't really seen on her face just yet, he found himself replacing Shun's image in his head with his own and quickly shook himself out of it forcing himself not to stare at it for too long. That girl...she was really his weakness right now. He had to work hard to actually get over her.

With Toma though it was so innocent. It was one armed hug between Toma and Maki...but Toma couldn't keep his eyes off Maki. While Maki looked into the camera smiling in the garden type place Toma stared on at Maki with a faint smile reaching his eyes and Yamapi could see that his head was leaning towards her as if he was going to blow in her ear and freak her out. Which Yamapi completely didn't doubt he did as he touched his own ear in memory of their hockey practices.

“So Shun-kun what should you and I do today?” Yamapi asked and Toma stopped looking at Shun and started towards the washroom shutting the door.

“Well Yamapi,” Shun paused to seriously think about this but then he cracked a wide smile. “LET’S HAVE A STARING CONTEST!” Last time Shun had won surprisingly so Yamapi’s eyes narrowed automatically.

“How about an arm wrestling competition?” He replied and Shun shook his head looking at Yamapi's arms with dread. Shun knew that an arm wrestling competition with Yamapi would result in a broken wrist and failure..both of which weren't at all appealing right now.

“Eh lets just spend a night with the girls. That’s what we’ll end up doing anyways. Plus I suppose I should apologize to Maki,” He said weakly. He wasn't yet ready to let go of Maki.

Yamapi was sure he could hear a sigh of exhaustion from Toma in the washroom. He was obviously listening into every word Shun and Yamapi spoke between them. Yamapi found himself feeling almost felt jealous that Toma was allowed to crack his act of not loving Maki for a second...but he himself was unable to do so.

Then he remembered that he didn’t love Maki. No he didn’t even like her, especially on this cloudy night, he decided, as he looked outside and immediately he looked at Toma's desk and saw the one picture he'd put on there. It was a picture of a rose...and a girl...and himself in his innocence.

In his Erika form, he decided to call it. She was staring at him shyly, he was staring back.

No he could never have those feelings for anyone else. Not...the same ones.

They shouldn't have ended so abruptly, and when he thoguht about it he still felt the pain sting his heart at the thought that he'd hurt her. How could...

No...he didn't love Maki...he couldn't love Maki.

He wouldn't do that again. Especially not to Megumi, a girl who'd already been through far too much, he decided as he stared at her picture with Toma.
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A/N: DID YOU GUYS LIKE IT? HUH HUH? I loved writing Yamapi in this chapter. He was extremely interesting to write because he went from a completely unserious character to like this total deep man.

There's a lot to be revealed about Yamapi's relationships. He's had the most out of everyone on the character list (not counting Megumi and her multiple one night stands)

Yeah the story's gotten a little mature this chapter. I promise to bring it back to it's normal state in the next chapter but this chapter was incredibly important for that because the guys were together and I haven't really written many of those scenes and I imagine that guys talk about mature things... or so they tell me. *has research dudes she asks about these things*

Thanks to my reviewers again!: fallenserendipity, Zing, Makitear-chan, Sara, Ichigokut3, xxing, AX, andddd GL!!!! LOTS OF <3 TO YOU GUYS!!! *super glomps to all*

And now without further ado the long awaited ACTOR'S CONFERENCE! (Will probably be short)

Toma: So sorry about that...we couldn't do it last week cause I was really busy with Hachi Kuro. I told the author to put it on hold. Gomen nasaii.

Author: OMG He's such a sweetheart! *fangirls on Toma*

Jin: *comes up behind Author* Ehh why?

Author: Cause it was totally my fault but he's taking the fall for me. *dreamy*

Jin: *pushes Toma off announcement chair and sits down in a serious manner himself* Dear Readers, do not be fooled by our "innocent"-looking Toma-kun. IT'S ALL THAT WOMAN'S FAULT!

Author: OH I CAN TRANSLATE THAT! ANO ONNA- no wait that's where I stop with it. Jin stop the readers they look dangerous! JIN! STOP THEM! *readers near with pitchforks lolll this is just my weirdness don't mind me*

Jin: *EVIL LAUGH* I WILL! ONLY IF YOU LET MAKI-CHAN DO A KATTUN CARTOON CONFERENCE WITH US!

Author: That's your big plan? You don't want kryptonite? Or like want to be an evil lord demon in the story? You want Maki-chan with KATTUN in the conference?

Jin: Don't make it sound stupid *glares*

Author: FINE!

Toma: *is still lying on the ground forgotten*

AND NOW FOR THE LONG AWAITED RETURN OF MAKIXKATTUN!

...NEXT WEEK.

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LMAO I'M SO EVIL.

I'm sorry I got sleepy again. Sorry minna! I hope you'll forgive me this is like a preview to it though.*did something at least* HOPE YOU'LL COMMENT AGAIN ON THE NEW CHAPTER! And I love all the people reading this story I have such interesting readers and commenters =D