11Chapter 5 "Finally, My Wedding …sigh…"
I won't tell you what happened after our TRUE couple parted on the seashore. If I would, the words, cry, cry inside, alone and stare blankly would be written all over this chapter. I wouldn't want to waste my time typing and retyping them. So, let's just forward time to tomorrow which is now the present, the day of Shoichi and Mikan's wedding. Now, I'm going to place this chapter in Mikan's point of view.
Mikan's POV
"Those words aren't true. I've known you for so long and I could see in your eyes that you're lying. Well, In case I'm wrong, you'll be saying I do to Shoichi tomorrow."
Natsume, do you even understand what I'm feeling right now? If… you told me that the day on the beach, the day I fulfilled my promise, then we could be together…but… I can't live my life in ifs and buts… Gomene Natsume-kun…
Well, yeah. So here I am, in this little room filled with full length mirrors and a wedding dress in front of me. I find it hard to wear and I think you know the reason why. Mom opened the door and scolded me for being so slow. Okay… I gathered up some courage to wear it. I let out a deep sigh as I saw my reflection. I'm Mikan, wearing a white halter-top gown with a ribbon on my waist. Little pink beads in the form of flowers were dotted along the lower part. Yeah… this is exactly what I was supposed to be seeing… but why is my reflection a totally different person… it's like I don't know her… the mikan I knew… would never- Someone knocked on the door and asked if I was already finished changing and I said yes. Two girls went inside. One girl fixed some of the details in my dress and the other one was in charge of my make-up and my hair. After everything was done they left me alone in the room. It was about time to go to the church I thought to myself glancing at the wall clock. I went out of the room and saw mom waiting patiently and opened the door of the car for me. So… this is really the big day huh?
Red carpet… a red carpet under my feet… I was really walking towards the altar now. Hotaru, Anna, Nonoko, Ruka, Inchou, Sumire… demo… Natsume's not here… Hotaru said that he has some business to attend to. If I knew… he just doesn't want to see me… Natsume…
Everyone was smiling at me… I can't bear to smile. I just looked down and tried to keep my tears from falling. Natsume you're such an idiot… demo… Shoichi-kun's kind too… I know I'll be able to learn to love him… I tried to smile… looked up at the man standing beside me… wait…
Wait…
Wait…
I looked back at all the memories… flashing up on my mind… the day I left Natsume… He was hurt right…? When I told him I'd be married… He looked down and didn't say anything right…? Right? Mikan! How could you be so stupid! You're so dense not to realize everything! Natsume… No one can understand him better than me… yet, why did I not fight for anything? I was so weak to my father's orders… I didn't fight… didn't follow my heart… I stopped there… my tears were flooding and the people were wondering why I stopped. I just couldn't go on… I fell to my knees and stood there numb for a few seconds…
Someone approached me and said…
"Baka…" A familiar voice that makes me happy when I hear it… Natsume's voice…
Natsume? Natsume!
I looked up and saw what I was looking for… Natsume was staring at me with a smile.
What's happening? Everyone clapped their hands, some were laughing, other showed no expression, and yet others were very happy. Uhm… yeah… you really wouldn't know how much I felt so ignorant at that time… If someone took my picture, I would have probably looked like a lost child… I was so puzzled and was in a trance until someone spoke on one of the microphones… I turned to look and it was Shoichi-kun smiling at me… he happily announced…
Normal POV
"Congratulations Mikan… You already fulfilled your father's wish… Here's his last letter that we should have let you read years past, but we thought that we'd rather not because we want you to do it deep in your heart…" Shoichi said as the crowd was in a silence. Yuka walked towards Mikan and handed her the letter… After reading... Mikan cried out and hugged Natsume really tight…
"Natsume… Eventhough you're selfish, I really love you…" Mikan said to Natsume with tears in her eyes. She looked at Shoichi, who was standing behind one of the podiums looking at both of them with joy.
"Shoichi-kun… Arigatou…" Mikan said with a small smile. Ruka approached Natsume.
"Natsume, You might want to say what you want to say now…" Ruka said in a whisper to Natsume. And with a blink he went back to where he sat.
"Yeah…" He replied... Mikan looked puzzled until Natsume called her.
"Oi… Polka…"
"Eh?! Natsume you pervert…! Were already adults and your still like that… hmff… so childish"
"Baka polka-dots girl…"
"Chauvinist brat!"
"I Love you Baka"
"Natsume…"Mikan said in a whisper, her tears overflowing from the sudden rsuh of joy. Natsume knelt down and pulled something from his pocket.
"On the day that you told me abut the marriage… the day that we met again, I was planning to give you this…" in his hand was a dazzling silver ring with a little red crystal stone on it.
"Would you accept it and be Mrs. Mikan Hyuuga?" he asked with a smile…
"Natsume no baka! Of course I would!" and she hugged him really tight…
"oi oi! Can't you see I can't breathe here?"
"gomene Natsume-kun!" she released her arms around him and smiled…
"Read what it says in the ring…" Natsume said…
"huh?" Mikan replied taking the ring and looking at it really closely…
"Together Forever… NxM…Natsume!" and she hugged him once more…
In the end… yeah… You guessed it… they got together and lived a happy life near the shore where they first met. They were a really weird couple, Hotaru and Ruka would say… but then again… even Hotaru and Ruka became a couple… that was a strange thing but you would most likely suspect that they would also be together… and as for the letter, Mikan's father wrote there…
My dearest Mikan,
I know that you could have seen how I loved your mother very much and how she loved me…. It maybe unrealistic for you if I just told you how much we loved each other… In the future I hope you'll be as kind and caring as her… and soon the find the one you can't live without and the one who'll love you more than anything… when that time comes never let go of that person… I already told your mom to keep an eye on you… Mikan… never let go of that feeling… never…
Love…
Otou-san….
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….THE END….
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A/N: sorry if this chapter was really really late… School already started and after about 3 months I was stuck doing requirements… anyways! I hoped you liked my little fic! Watch out for more!