Miku's POV:

   I'm so mad at myself. Len found the knife, and he took it away. It's so embarrassing. Everything would be so much simpler if I just ended here today.

If he would just let me throw everything away...

Besides, it's not like he can really like me that much. We've only known each other for a day when you think about it. For now I'm stuck living with him looking at me all pitifully.
I don't want his pity, I just want everything to stop.

   "Hey Miku," Len smiled good naturedly. "I have an idea! Why don't we go to the mall."

"The...mall?"

"Yeah! It's super public, you know? There are all kinds of stores there and tons of people. Meito won't be able to pull anything with all those people around, and I've already tried the theatre."

"Yeah, okay."

"Great! Let's go!" Len cheered and grabbed my hand, jogging down the sidewalk in the direction of the mall.

   He was right of course. There were tons of people inside. Most of them were adults, which made sense since we were technically supposed to be in school.

"Okay first rule, let's avoid the elevator." Len declared.

I blinked. "Why?"

"You wanna know how many accidents could happen in an elevator? The answer is no, you don't. Let's just walk around until the day is over. That's probably our safest option."

"Okay."

Wow, Len is really cautious. He's too freaked out to even take an elevator?
But I guess that's my fault.

I wonder why time started looping...why I wasn't allowed to just die. That's all I could think of for hours as we meandered around the mall.

   "Clever girl." Meito hissed in my ear, causing me to jump at least fifty feet in the air. I was just able to suppress a scream forming inside my throat.

Len yanked me close to him and stood up straight. He wasn't as tall as Meito, but he had on such a threatening look that I don't think size would matter if it came down to a fist fight.

"Very clever. Bringing her here." Meito repeated, glaring at Len. "Where all these people are. You're not an idiot, Kagamine. I'll give you that much. It's really too bad, you never had a chance against me, You think you've won; but you should know that I'll be waiting."

"For what? Your ego to shrink? Sorry buddy, but I don't think that's gonna work out for you." Len shrugged.

   Meito's eyes flashed angrily. If there hadn't been people all around us he would have socked Len on the jaw right there. "It doesn't matter what you say, what you do, how long you try to keep her away from me...Miku is mine. You can't have her, Kagamine. I know you want her, but you can't have her."

Len lifted up his chin more and stared straight at Meito. "I'll have her if she'll have me."
Then he wrapping his arms around me and placed his head against my shoulder. 

   I don't think I had ever seen Meito angrier than that moment. He punched Len in the gut and then walked away. Len gripped his stomach and grinned at me.

"Well that worked."

I just stood there blankly and gave a little: "Huh?"

Len's eyes got a panicky look. He started waving his arms around. "Miku! You're crying!? I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you cry, are you okay!?"

He started babbling on and on while I just blinked and felt the tears flooding down. Why do I cry so much? I don't even know if I'm sad or not.
I clenched my fists and stared at the floor. I wanted to run, or maybe hug him, but I couldn't do anything. I just stood there like an idiot.

   Finally I became conscious that Len had stopped talking. When I turned my head and looked up at him, he was holding out a white tissue paper flower. His face was unreadable.
I took the flower and gazed at it stupidly.

"Come on, we should get a snack." He advised and took my hand, leading me to the food court. "The day is almost over."

I felt a shock. It was!?

"What time is it?" I asked more timidly than I had intended. My voice was so quiet I was surprised Len had even heard me.

"ten forty-seven. Do you want a cinnamon sugar pretzel? I'm not getting you any fast food or anything because with our luck it could give us food poisoning."

"Okay." I mumbled.

If we got through this day, would I stop dying? Would I be able to keep living for a while? Will...will the time loop end? 
I wondered these things as we walked through the mall, munching on our pretzels.

"We should start to head back. I'll walk you home." Len announced with a sad smile. Why was he upset?

I nodded and followed him outside. Completely and utterly embarrassed. Why? Because of my thoughts. They were racing one particular feeling, and it was the urge to feel Len's arms around me again. It had felt so comforting...but it sounds so weird to just randomly ask him to hug me...or maybe even let me hold his hand...

   As it turns out, I didn't have to ask. He had already taken my hand into his.
"Keep your eyes out for Meito." He cautioned. 

"Hey...um...Len?"

"What's up?" He smiled and downed the last bit of his pretzel.

"Well...after today ends...will you still want to hang out with me?  It's been today for so long, I'm kind of nervous about what tomorrow will be like." I admitted softly.

"Don't worry about that. For now let's just focus on staying alive until tomorrow actually comes. That's all we can do, right? And besides, I've been hanging out with you for at least a month of todays so why wouldn't I hang out with you tomorrow?"

"Do you think that tomorrow, will be just like today? With me dying in a million different ways and time looping?"

"Who knows? Even if you forget I'll keep figuring out ways to keep you going. You can't get rid of me that easily." Len grinned.

It was so dark. We were so close...just a little over an hour and it'd be tomorrow. Maybe we would actually be able to pull this off.

There. Something moved in the distance. I saw it just past Len's smiling face. In another instant I saw something else.
A knife hurtling towards, not me...

But Len.