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Chapter 1

"I-I love you!"

How much courage you need to confess your love? How long the time you spent to gather it? And how were your feeling when that courage turned into dust, the instant your crush had said....she doesn't feel the same way as you do.

Hatsune Miku, 16 years old, a high school girl, recently had experienced her first heartbreak after she confessed to a certain pink haired girl, her best friend and senpai all at once.

Her name was Megurine Luka.

At this moment, she felt a new dilemma building inside her. What would happen with their friendship after this? What face should she make when she meet the pink haired girl? Why would she act like there's nothing in front of her? Would the pinkette did the same thing, instead of feeling disgusted, because she admits about herself being in love with another girl?

Whilst Miku, feeling truly worried to sleep that night, didn't have that much of choice except of staying awake, running every other possibilities in her head. Unfortunately for her, it seems her brain didn't have much energy left to think about the positive outcomes.

"Uhh... sorry, but I don't like you that way."

In addition for her torture, the scene when Luka turned her down keeps replaying in her head until she's too tired to even feel sad about it.

That was how the teal haired girl spent her night after the first rejection she had experienced. Let's pray for her poor soul, shall we?

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Miku was sure her senior tried to avoid her as much as possible since the day she confessed to her. Though at first, the tealette tried to avoid meeting her best friend all the same, now she's starting to miss her to the point of herself being oblivious about Luka's reaction all the way.

However, the truth she found out was not nice at all. She never thought she would avoid the pinkette just because she confessed to her that day. She thought their friendship were much more than that, she's wrong. Miku didn't blame the pink haired girl though, she had all the right to avoid her after she did something like that.

She was the one who ruined their friendship.

And she truly regret it now.

Of course, if regret could change the past, there wouldn't be any in the first place, because the past moments holding their very regret had already been removed from history.

Who knows? Maybe this teal girl would be lucky and get the happy ending she'd always wanted.

"I wish I could go back to the past, and not confessed to Luka-senpai."

It was really a sincere wish.

Too sincere to the point that someone with power would do anything to grant her that wish, back to the past, that is.

"Are you sure you wanted to return to the past?"

The voice that she heard feels really familiar; but at the same time feels foreign too. The impression it gave makes her couldn't decide whether the source was a man or woman, and she didn't know whether she's inside a dream or having just knocked her head too hard, because as far as her eyes went, all she could see was just white, blank, emptiness, around her.

Where was she? Why was she trapped in a place like this? Was she dreaming? Why she's alone?

This white place felt really surreal for her comfort, and who was the person that spoke earlier? What did he or she meant by going back?

"I could grant your wish and send you to the past if that's what you really wanted."

The voice said again, still with the same tone s/he used earlier; the same familiar and foreign voice she heard before.

"How did you know I wanted to go back to the past?"

Miku thought it was better to reply, rather than keeping it to herself all the time. She asked the voice in a very confused tone. This place had already bothered her, and now there's a suspicious voice that knows what she had been thinking, in addition of speaking about granting her wish....how the hell did s/he knew about that? How the hell s/he was planning to grant that impossible wish?

"I just knew it," the voice answered with an indifferent tone. "So, do you want it, or not? Choose one of it, human."

The tealette cocked her head to the sides, not really understanding it, but her mouth still answered that question automatically, as if the answer was already obvious from the start, and there was no need to ask it again.

"Of course, I want it."

...

"Very good, but there's one condition for your wish to be granted."

Condition? Now she felt like she would do a contract with an evil entity. Would this be safe? She wouldn't know, though in her mind she was thinking, that she would do anything in order to regain her friendship with Luka.

"What's the condition?" asked Miku bravely, and curiously.

"Simple, the condition for you to go back is....you will not remember about this present and the time travel, by the time you're back." said the voice with laid-back tone, though still with the same impression of it.

Huh? That was surprisingly simple and well... safe? Maybe this one was not an evil being after all, thought Miku while nodding to herself, but she still asked to make sure she really understands what the voice truly meant.

"You mean... I will not remember about this place, your voice... and..."

Miku looked unsure, what was the last thing she would forget?

"...and you will not remember about your confession, and how then it would go wrong for you."

The voice continued her statement, explaining.

"What?! But then... how do I fix it?!" asked Miku, confused. "What's so good about going back to the past if I didn't know what happens thereafter?"

"It's not my business, isn't it? And who knows? Maybe you will take a different action? Maybe you would be too cowardly to confess now?" the voice answered, again, with an indifferent tone, and though his statement was cold, it has many sentences that didn't support his first statement at all.

It made Miku thought, what the hell going on with his/her character? At first s/he gave the impression of someone powerful and mysterious, but now s/he just looked like some meddlesome people who likes being lazy?

"Hey, I still can read your mind!"

Oh... and now, he was upset, or maybe she. Miku shrugged, it's not like that it would bring any difference to her situation.

"I could take back my word about granting your wish, you know."

"Uwaah! Sorry! I'm so sorry! You're really great! You're the best! Don't take back your word, please!" Miku frantically apologized to someone with no form to be seen, and bowed repeatedly to nowhere in particular; it looked so foolishly funny that the voice really lost his/her charisma because s/he laughed too much after that.

"Okay... okay... so, do you accept this condition?"

The voice asked again after calming down his or her laughter; it was really creepy to hear for Miku because the impression that his/her voice gave had been so familiar yet foreign. and it was a laughter!

Ah... it's best if she didn't think about it that much.

"Yeah, I accept that condition." answered Miku certainly. "I didn't think I have that much courage to say it again, after all."

"Well done. You will return to the past; the day when you would confess to her."