Posted 13 November 2008 - 05:45 AM
Chapter..5!
This one has the most words so far. Its not as action packed as the other ones I don't think, but I hope you still enjoy it.
Surprise!
“Come on Gaki, don’t be so afraid.” Ai said as she reached for me again. I backed away, wondering what was up. Ai hadn’t even hinted that she liked me, and now she was doing THIS? It was all to crazy to make sense. I hit the wall and could back away no further. I had to let her, didn’t I? That’s how I reasoned it, anyways. She leaned in for the kiss. I was just about prepared until…
“What the hell are you dreaming about? It sounds like you’re in the middle of making porn…” I opened my eyes; Reina was standing over my bed.
“What are you doing here?” I asked slowly.
“I need a favour from you.” She responded, coolly.
“What makes you think I’ll do anything for you?”
“It’ll be on your conscious forever if you don’t. It’s your fault I almost got kicked out of Hello! Project, with that little lie of yours.”
“You deserved it.” I said bluntly.
“Yeah, well, you still owe me. I want you to take Kamei out, spend a day with her, show her that you’re the awesome person that you are, and then maybe she’ll develop a crush on you.”
“Why do you want me to do that?”
“Well, Aiba… He’s not much of a looker, but he’s actually pretty good at what he does. He’s quite the pleaser… I think I might have been cooped up with you girls for too long, because really, what was I thinking? I don’t like girls at all…”
“I think Kamei has moved on from you anyways. She was getting pretty buddy-buddy with Sayumi,” I said, with a small smile. I couldn’t help remembering how shocking it was to see Kamei that happy.
“That girl has no taste.”
“She had a crush on you. Thanks for making that one easy for me.” Reina laughed and so did I.
“Hey look, if you want, I can take you out and introduce you to Aiba’s JE pals. They’re all pretty hot, and I could see you hooking up with some NEWS member…”
“Eh? No! That’s okay. I’m fine here.” I could feel myself going red. “I mean I’m—“
“Never mind, then. I guess I have to go apologize to Aika. Tsunku didn’t even consider meeting with her, let alone letting her leave, so I guess I better start acting like a friend, give her a reason to stay, you know…”
“That’s good of you, Reina…” It really was good of her. It was hard enough to get the girl to say sorry, let alone apologize AND act upon her apology.
She left, and I grinned to myself. Maybe, just maybe, this could actually have been an attitude changer. Maybe Morning Musume was going to live up to its image. Maybe…
After I wasted a long time battling my hair (which was getting long again), I head out to practice, feeling a lot more bubbly than I had in the last little while.
“Surprise!” I opened the door, and only Ai and our vocal coach were in the room.
“Great surprise…Where is everyone?” I asked.
“Well, they’re off practicing their songs, right? We need to practice our duet for the concert…” Ai responded.
“Oh, duh,” I laughed, and then felt awkward. I was acting like some high-school girl now.
“Your laugh was really cute there,” Ai said with a grin. And of course, that qued me blushing and I looked away.
After practice was over, we hung back for a conversation.
“Reina actually apologized?” Ai asked a shocked expression on her face.
I laughed. “No, no, not to me, she said she was going to apologize to Aika. She wanted me to take Kamei out on a date, eh? That’s crazy… I mean,”
“You’re not really a lesbian?” Ai asked.
I dropped the lyrics card I was holding.
“No I—Well, no, I don’t think so… I mean, I … don’t know.” I finished, hating myself.
She laughed. “Well, once you sort out your emotions, let me know, okay?”
What did she mean by that? I started thinking of all the possibilities...
Just then, the door banged open. Aika was standing in the frame, teary-eyed. “Oh, I’m so sorry, this is the wrong studio…”
“Eh, come in, Aika!” Ai gestured her into the room. “What happened?”
“Oh it’s nothing, really. I mean…” She looked away.
“Come on, you can tell us…” I said encouragingly.
“Well, I was working with Reina… I was trying really hard, but I’m not that great at singing, am I? Well…” She swallowed. “Reina told me I was hopeless, and she said … she said she wished I would just leave Morning Musume and never come back…”
(saying Ai and I is really awkward ftr, but that’s proper English)
Ai and I rushed over to her, and gave her the biggest hug we could. “Just ignore her, Aika…” I said, trying my hardest to sound sympathetic.
The only thought on my mind was how much I wanted to slap Reina again. What happened to her apologizing?
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you deserve them don't worry~
