Merem glanced at the clock, it was 7 P.M. She smoothed out her pajama's and straightened out her bedsheets before cleaning up her already clean room.

Why am I so nervous?

Unable to prevent herself from fidgeting more, she sat down on her bed and tried some breathing techniques.

Knock Knock...shuffling sounds could be heard from behind the door.

They're here! Merem thought.

She couldn't hold down her smile as she opened the door to reveal the Natsume.

That's strange...it's only Natsume-San?

"Please come in," She offered to him. They had both been standing in the doorway awkwardly, and Merem had just snapped out the thoughts she was having.

Unfortunately she must have been unable to shake off her confusion because Natsume suddenly spoke up.

"It's 7 P.M. Don't look much into it."

Natsume was wearing black silk pajamas with red piping. His slippers were also black, his hair looked like his everyday hair.

I wonder what he would look like with bedhair.

"Hey." Natsume squinted his eyes at her, in what she thought was suspicion.

"Hm...? aAh!" She must've been staring for a long time. Her face heated up in embarrassment, and she looked for a way to get out of the awkward situation she created.

She wasn't Mikan, she didn't want to actually change the plot by accident. Though it seems he's already got a crush on her. So cute!

Merem giggled to herself at the thought, "Would you like some cakes or a juice box?"

Prior to transmigrating into Gakuen Alice, her mother would always host parties with her friends and they would drink wine, and share some cakes made by world-renowned chefs. Merem had never been allowed to go to any of the parties, but she was able to watch them from secret areas of the house unnoticed.

"I'm fine." He said curtly.

"Alright."

She moved to her navy-blue starred bag and opened it before reaching in, and pulled out some red cloth. She turned around to face Natsume who was still standing awkwardly in her room and stared at him intensely which made even the impenetrable stone-faced Natsume uncomfortable.

Ok, got his measurements. Oh! Almost forgot.

"You can go and sit down on the bed Natsume!" She watched as he sat down obediently.

So cute! She gained a motherly aura that surrounded her.

Knock knock...

"Coming!" She opened the door to see the rest.

"Merem-Chan~ Geh! Natsume is already here." Mikan said belatedly.

"Good evening Merem-San." Ruka nodded his head politely.

Hotaru stared at her before heading in and Iinchou smiled in apology to her while he rubbed the back of his head.

Merem closed the door.

"Okay! Since everyone is here, I'll begin."

She want back to her bag again and dumped all the contents out of it. Her sewing kit, cloths, and clips tumbled out, she managed to grab her nailpolish before they hit the floor with quick reflexes she had gained from always attempting to evade her mother's wrath.

She looked up to see everyone looking at her and smiled, "I need the boys to sit down for a bit, I'm going to work on the clothes for Mikan-Chan and Imai-San."

"I thought we were only helping you make your dresses Merem-San." Hotaru said robotically.

"Yes, but I had been working on my dresses for three weeks so I'm pretty tired of them, I had been extremely excited to wear them yesterday but unfortunately I wasn't able to." She said looking at Hotaru in an attempt to guilt-trip the stubborn girl.

"Mm..." Merem took the admission as an agreement. Merem smiled mischievously before she selected the pink and purple cloth and hair clips. She stared at them to gain their measurements, she had never been a top student in math, but sewing had come to her naturally and she was able to tell the size of a person from just a glance.

"Alright, does anyone want refreshments, cake?"

Mikan, Iinchou and Ruka piped up excitedly, and she gave them what they wanted.

I'll have to thank Narumi-Sensei for the pastries, and juice later.

"You guys can sit down now... Ruka-Kun, Yuu-Kun, can you guys stand up as well?"

Started at being called so familiarly they sat stunned before following her requests. She repeated the same process with them, and began cutting the pieces of fabric to their sizes, she had gotten the scissors from her sewing kit.

It's so useful~

She was left with a couple of cloths. All this had taken up to 30 minutes to do. She looked at the clock, 7:45.

I should lay out the futons for the others.

She headed to one of the closets in her room and pulled out a gigantic futon, it had originally been smaller, but she had accidentally made it bigger with her Wish Alice and never changed it back.

After pulling for a while, she realized that she couldn't move it, panting in fatigue. When I changed the size, did the weight also double as well?

The others seeing her plight moved to help her pull the item out of the closet, they had just assumed that it was another piece of cloth and thought nothing of it.

Ruka, Iinchou and Natsume went over and began to pull the strange item out to the middle of the floor. The strange item turned out to be a large fluffy futon.

"Alright! The boys sleep on the futon while Mikan and Imai-San share the bed with me. You guys are still boys so we can't have you sharing a bed with the other two." She looked at Ruka and Natsume knowingly before flopping onto her bed.

The others are here to help me out with making my dresses, but here I am completely being selfish, and wanting to make clothes for them instead. I'm not even doing anything worthwhile that would help me create some amazing memories with the others. I don't I'm considered a friend to the others yet, I'll just have to keep trying hard until they acknowledge me, just like how I have to work hard for mother to worry about me at all.

Merem felt her eyes begin to tear up, and rushed to cover her face, she was unable to keep in a watery sob in time and hurriedly tried to dry her tears before more came.

During this time, Mikan decided to check to see if Merem was ok, with Hotaru following suit. The others laid and watched from their comfortable futons at Merem.

"Merem-Chan? Are you feeling ok?" Mikan asked. Even Hotaru was a bit offset by Merem's behavior, the girl was naturally a crybaby but maybe what we did really did affect her badly, misunderstanding Merem's tears. She patted Merem's head softly.

Unable to hide the truth due to Mikan and Hotaru's kind gesture, Merem broke down. The sobs getting louder. The others perked up at the suddenness, as Merem had been extremely happy just earlier and they got up to join the others to see what was going on.

They weren't used to comforting people, but they didn't want others to be in pain like they were.

"I'm sorry..." She sniffled. "I-"

"You don't have to tell us," Hotaru said kindly, the sight of Merem crying in front of them meant that she trusts them enough in her vulnerable state she should also reciprocate.

"Merem... I was wondering if you had any parents."

At that Hotaru smacked Mikan in the head for her tactlessness.

The two started to fight, before Merem spoke up.

Ruka watched Merem attempt to sit up, and gave his hand.

She looked at it before grabbing it and thanking him.

"I do in fact have a mother and a brother." Their ears become bigger at the admission, and they struggled to hear Merem's quiet words. "But you could say that I ran away and ended up in front of Gakuen Alice." She thought thinking about how she transmigrated to the gates of Alice Academy.

Everyone was quiet at her words.

"She would... hit me for talking back, for not being as smart as my older brother."

"That's not true! You're extremely smart." Mikan said angrily.

Merem laughed whole-heartedly and stood up. "I guess even though I left that place, I still miss them...Enough of that, instead of working on the dresses, I have a deck of cards we can play. Natsume-San, mind shuffling the cards for us? I'm pretty clumsy."

The others noticed the change of subject and followed as she said.

They ended up having a blast and laughing, some smirking instead. They played for about two hours before it was time to sleep.

"Oh! It's gotten this late!" Merem got up to the pile she left on the floor, looking for things.

"Ehh- I want to keep playing." Mikan said pouting.

Merem came back with 6 hair clips, one for each of them. She gave the clips to everyone and thanked them for coming, and if they wouldn't mind coming back tomorrow.

They were enchanted by her beauty which was magnified with her smile and agreed after much thought.

Merem turned off the lights, after everyone went to bed to go to sleep.

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