Sorry for a very late update
I really had a bad time on writing this because I can't help myself to remember that day when
almost all of the happenings here, happened to me
So here it is, a kinda' long update.. Hope you'll enjoy this
Chapter 4: The Unexpected Prisoners
Right after the confessions and sweet kissing scenes that happened between Mariko and Kuu, the two head together to their previous room while holding each other's hand tightly. The students at the hallway are looking at them as both of them really look so sweet. The boys who are obviously having a crush on the tall woman felt jealous on Kuu who's giving an expression of 'Jealousy will kill you all. She's already my girl'.
When the two arrived at their a bit empty room, as they opened the door, Rena, Yukirin and Haruna noticed them and their current situation made the three girls shocked.
"Where did you two go? And why are you. ....." Haruna asked as she looked at the intertwined hands.
"Earlier, the two of you are doing the 'avoiding blues' and now. ...' Yukirin added.
"Well.... Guess what I've discovered...... Mari-raffe loves me" Kuu said proudly.
"Hey! You're the first one who confessed that you love me!" Mariko blushed.
"And so? It's not a big deal for me. At least I've known that you love me since the first time that you saw me"
"I did not say that! You're adding stories which is not true!" Mariko removed herself from the Gachapin.
"Stop that! You're going to have lovers quarrel again! You know, we already know about that. It's pretty obvious! Duh!" Rena stopped them and continued "Look over there.... Do you think it'll be a big problem? She seemed really into that Takahashi"
All of them look at Atsuko's location, her favorite place at the room; beside the window. When Mariko left them she's already at there watching her little prince charming and until now, she's still there like she doesn't care on everything around her.
"I don't know. Maybe now, it's not..... Well, we'll see" Kuu answered then give a smirk on Haruna which was not noticed by the others.
They decided to interrupt their friend's 'staring at her prince charming' moment so they could go home early to ready themselves and everything that they need for tomorrow's event. Their homeroom adviser told them to make a booth that can be fun and interract the students together and of course that can fit for the theme, "Let's fall in love". Rena who has a connection on their college society contacted tem if they could join together on their booth and it was immediately accepted. Before she part her way with her friends and act suspiciously again, she still did not say what their booth is all about. After she left, Yukirin followed. These two are really hiding something.
As the four remaining continued on walking, Kuu opened up a topic that really interests Atsuko and at the same time watching how Haruna will react. The Gachapin asked many things about Kai to Atsuko and how much she likes the guy. Of course the woman answered all of it joyfully then starts telling everything that she saw earlier even though it's just all about Kai. While listening to Atsuko, Kuu was watching Haruna but the woman seemed doesn't care what Atsuko is talking about; just like she's avoiding it.
-Earlier at the university’s ground- Since Kai and Yuko don’t want to attend their boring subject, history, they decided to skip it and just spend their whole time lying on the grass under a tree. Well, it’s for Kai but for Yuko there’s more, he wants to spend his time with the two girls on his side. He didn’t know them as he just met the two earlier before they reach their current location now. Kai, who’s already used to it, let his friend on whatever he wants to do but of course, the thought of being a playboy never fade on his mind.
The blond rested his back on the ground while his head on his left arm. He took out his phone and scanned all the images that are stored on it. Yuko, even though he’s busy flirting with the girls, noticed the blushing and smiling look of his friend. He smirked then tried to take the phone from Kai’s hand but he failed. The blond quickly put back his phone on his pocket before it will cause an argument.
"What are you hiding huh? You're watching starts with the letter 'P' and ends with 'orn' right?" Yuko gave a smirk.
"Don't count me as one of your comrades........ perverts" Kai rolled his eyes.
"Tss. What are you talking about? What a polluted mind you have. I'm talking about 'Popcorn' not the nasty thing that you're thinking"
"Whatever. ....."
Kai closed his eyes and when the moment he saw only nothing but black, a woman's beautiful face appeared. She was smiling then giving her head a tilt while waving her hand. Kai can feel the heat running over his face without knowing that he's also smiling. Then suddenly his thoughts were interrupted by lips that touched his cheeks.
"What the?! Who did that?!" Kai roared.
"I did" One of Yuko's girls admitted while blushing. Kai just give a glare on Yuko as he know that it was his idea.
"What? It's not my idea. It's hers... Haha! Tell us what you are thinking or rather WHO are you thinking" Yuko smirked again.
"Nothing. I just want to smile. ....." without thinking, Kai said a failed reason.
"Okay. I'll pretend that I believe that failed reason.... By the way, what's our plan for tomorrow's event?"
"Our? or your? I don't have plan for tomorrow. I'll just let whatever will happen" Kai closed his eyes again.
“Tomorrow will be so special ……. I think? But of course, I’m kinda nervous. I don’t know what will I say or what will happen tomorrow. Until now, my heart is beating so fast. I can’t control my emotion, should I be happy or scared? Damn it! Kai, show your guts! Don’t be so sheepish. This might be your last chance!”As Kai continue on thinking about it, Yuko interrupted him by saying “Let me tell you about my plan tomorrow ………. I’m planning something on Kojima-san. I’m sure she’ll be surprised and of course, that will make her to fall in love with me”
By hearing that from his friend, Kai opened widely his eyes then grabbed immediately his collar that made his friend shocked. “What?! What are you going to do on her?!”
“Wooow~ Chotto Kai. Relax. I’m not going to do anything harm on her ………. Wait wait wait .. why are you acting like this? Don’t tell me ……. You like her?” Yuko looked at him seriously and upon realizing something that his friend shouldn’t know about it, Kai removed his possession on the collar then scratched the back of his head.
“Eh? Me? N-n-no.. of course not. I don’t like her. I’m just ………..worried on your plan because ……….. if it’ll harm that woman, her fanboys will surely get revenge on you” Kai stutter.
“Oh I though you also like her. That’s good! Because I’m ready to fight even with you just for her” Yuko smiled then he does the same and thought,
‘well, we’re the same’-----------------------------------------
The other student’s from the other college departments were preparing the booth that they will use for tomorrow when Kai and Yuko left the university. The two were also wondering what they’re department will do on that event. They’re hoping that this time, they will do a perfect one not like last year when they did a supeeeer weird booth that no one wanted to participate on it.
Meanwhile in their own houses, after a long time of not checking his friend requests notifications, Kai saw a familiar face who added him. She’s having a cute smile and her hair was just shoulder length and a bit curly at the tip of it. She also looks beautiful but the blond still can’t remember where he saw that woman so he just accepted her request; maybe someday he’ll remember about that person. On the other corner of ……….. somewhere, a woman named Atsuko is now jumping as high as she can and running around her room like she’s crazy. She’s also clapping her hands joyfully while screaming when she saw a notification that Kai accepted her request. Upon relaxing herself, she quickly sends a message to her friends to tell the good news (for her) but she just received a reply of “ok”. Atsuko pouted sadly but after a moment, a smile flashed back on her face when she thought of looking on other images that Kai uploaded before; not just looking, but also saving.
Back to the blond’s situation, like what Atsuko did, he’s also smiling while typing/chatting with someone, the only difference is he’s a bit calm than her. Every beep, every red light flashing on the chat box is really making Kai’s cheek to blush. After an hour of chatting, Kai frowned when that ‘someone’ told him that they need to sleep early for tomorrow. He’s still not satisfied on the talk that they have. He still wants to talk to that someone for a long time so he replied a sad face. It took a while for that someone to reply so Kai thought that she might already logged out but before he could also click the close button of his browser, a beep and a chat box popped out with a name that really made his smile back. It’s not just the name but also the message that he received that made his night complete.
“Don’t be sad. We’ll still see each other tomorrow. I’m excited~ So, good night and have a dream with me ♥♥♥”-The next day- Early eight o’clock in the morning, the students are now coming batch by batch wearing their best casual clothes for this event. The high councils of different departments are still arranging and preparing their booth’s designs. Atsuko with her friends and of course the other students don’t expect that this will be great and looks exciting than before. There they have a lot of food stalls, Karaoke, otaku store, cosplayers from anime club that you can take a picture with and the most eye catching and targeted by the lovers or those who have crushes in the university are the Wedding booth by the Theater club and the Jail booth by the Computer Studies Department.
As Atsuko’s section and the said department are combined together to make that booth, all of them go to it to help the others but of course, since they come late before the time that was said to be their preparing time, they just gave them some foods and waters as the booth are now all set. While waiting for the signal to officially open the event, Atsuko is thinking what will happen now. Will she see her prince blond midget today or not? Is she going to enjoy this event or not? Almost all of the questions that Atsuko had in her mind are about Kai. She didn’t even think if she will participate on one of the booths as she already know that no one will like to go with her and also, she doesn’t want it.
It’s almost 12 in the afternoon and almost 3 hours had passed when the event started. Atsuko with her friends except for Rena who’s in charge on listing the names in the Jail booth, took their lunch together then sat on the stairs which is near the booth. They could see the blushing faces of the girls that are sent to jail with their love one or the other campus heartthrobs. Some of them are preventing themselves on showing that they’re glad that this is happening to them; it’s now or never so they should take this chance. It’s not only the girls who are enjoying this but also the guys. Some of them are they’re the one who’s listing their names to get caught by the ‘pretending- to-be a police’ students with the person that they like; pretending that they also didn’t know anything what is happening. In order to be in that jail, you need to pay for a cheap price so that the names that you want to be in will be caught by the ‘Police Students’. Police Students are random officers of the Computer Studies Department so you will not know if you’re the next prisoner or not unless you’re already been leashed by a red ribbon which have a partner ribbon on the other end. In order for the love prisoners to go out in jail, they have two options: they need to pick a question from the rolled piece of papers and answer it correctly or someone from outside or their friends will pay for their bail but if none of them were accomplished, they need to stay there for 30 minutes.
Atsuko keep on laughing with the student’s expression on that booth and also in the Wedding Booth which is located on the opposite direction then suddenly she noticed something or rather someone who is missing.
“Ne Mariko ….. Where’s your Gachapin?” Atsuko wondered as she looked around to search for him.
“Eh? I don’t know. He’s beside me earlier” she answered then did the same followed by Haruna.
“Owh he said he will go tommpph~” Yukirin wasn’t able to continue her words when Mariko suddenly covered her mouth.
“to the comfort room. Yes! I remember now, he said that. hehe” Mariko laughed awkwardly then whispered to Yukirin like she’s going to kill her, “I’ll kill you if she’ll know about it. That’s a secret you know?!”
Atsuko and Haruna gave a confused look at the two who are just smiling at them like nothing’s happened, then after it Atsuko decided to ignore it and continue on watching the funny expression of the students. After a few minutes, Atsuko noticed a strange person whose wearing sunglasses and keep on eyeing at her while his hands are on his back. Slowly, the man is now walking towards her and she felt scared about it. What if that man will do something harm on her? What if that man is holding a knife on his back then he will stab her? Those kinds of thoughts are running on her mind. Somehow, she felt that her feet are attached on the ground as she cannot move herself. She holds Yukirin’s hand and looks at her and said, “Do you know who is that man? He keeps on looking at me. He’s scary” but Yukirin calmly answered, “I don’t know. Maybe he’s not looking at you. You’re not the only one who’s in this direction. Don’t be a feeler Acchan”
Atsuko gave a sleepy look on her friend then rolled her eyes on what Yukirin said. Then back to the suspicious man, to her surprise, the man is now standing in front of her. The man removed his sunglasses and smiled evilly at her then showed a red ribbon and quickly holds her wrist.
Upon realization, Atsuko fluster and tried to remove the man’s possession, “Ch-ch-chotto! Chotto matte kudasai! I don’t want to! Guys help me!” she looked at her three remaining friends but all of them just have a grin on their faces and said, “Douzo Mr. Police”
The Police Student assisted Atsuko to where her partner is and as she was already surrendered, she just let the man to take her. Followed by her three friends, Kuu showed up then give a smirk on Atsuko. Atsuko felt something on that smirk; she thought that the Gachapin did something or rather he was the mastermind of this happening. As they continue on walking, they can now see a woman who’s waving at them and she’s obviously one of the allies of this Police. The woman is holding the man’s wrist. The man is facing his back on them; he’s wearing a fitted polo shirt which is revealing his slightly muscular and manly looking shoulders. His another hand is in his pocket while he’s laughing with his friends in front of him like he doesn’t care if he was caught or not. Somehow, Atsuko is now convincing herself that her guess is wrong. Even though all the appearance of that man is really familiar, the back, the way of standing, the blond hair and of course the height, she doesn’t want to assure herself that he is Takahashi Kai.
“No! It can’t be! He’s not that man! But what if he really is? No way! I’m not ready!” As those kinds of thoughts are running on her mind, Atsuko didn’t notice that they are now close to the man with his friends. Atsuko gulped when she noticed a squirrel look man with dimples; now she knows that her guess is definitely right. The man who’s facing his back finally turns around slowly to face at her. Even though she already knew who he is, a shock expression still showed on her face without noticing that there’s also someone who did the same. There he is, Kai of her dreams who is smiling when he turned around but it quickly fade off when he look at the taller woman who’s with Atsuko.
The two prisoners don’t have a choice; they just let the two Police students to take them into the Jail while their hands are leashed closely together. As they went inside, Atsuko can still see her friends and she is begging for them to bail them out but of course, because this is their plan, they just let Atsuko to cherish the once in a lifetime 30 minutes of her life with Kai. Even though Atsuko like what is happening right now, she doesn’t want her feelings to show up in this kind of situation so she’s trying her best to convince her friends; of course, she failed because all of them end up laughing at her redden face. Both of the prisoner don’t know what to do, Kai is just wandering around while Atsuko remained silent then suddenly, when a bunch of prisoners entered the Jail, the blond quickly move himself in front of Atsuko to protect her with those people. Their faces and bodies are now centimeters apart without noticing that their leashed hands are now intertwined. They looked directly at each other’s eyes for a few minutes just like the two of them are in love. Atsuko, same as Kai can feel the heat rose up onto their faces but somehow, they can’t manage to remove their eyes off. Meanwhile outside the Jail, Haruna saw everything what happened and it makes her heart hurt and jealousy dominates herself so she decided to leave quietly so that the others will not notice her but she’s wrong, Kuu was monitoring her actions since the start and the Gachapin is now at the peak of ‘knowing what’s going on with Haruna and Kai’.
“Okay! Eyes here! Who’s willing to answer a question?” Rena shouted that made Kai and Atsuko startle and break their staring session. Thank god Rena did that or else they might end up melting each other (if that can happen).
“H-Hai! Us! We want to!” Kai removed himself then raised his hand to point Rena’s attention to them.
Rena walked to their location while giving a smirk the two notice that she is not looking at their faces but on their hands; their 'still intertwined' hands. Both of them quickly remove it and blushed.
"Okay jail lovers... Since the two of you are IT students, I'll give you a question that will suit to your profession. Here, pick one" Rena showed an open box that has a lot of rolled pieces of papers.
"Call me again if you want to answer. I'll just go to the other prisoners"
Kai looked at Atsuko while holding the piece of paper that he got and asked, "So, we're in the same department. I'm a second year student. How about you?"
"I know. ... I mean, me too. I'm a second year student also..... Let's take a look on the question so we can get out of this. hehe" Atsuko said nervously then Kai shared the question to her.
What is the output of this:
system.out.println("I love you")Both of them scanned the question carefully as both of their heads pressed on each other then suddenly, Kai called Rena to say his answer without consulting Atsuko.
"The output is, I love you" Kai said while looking at the paper then on Atsuko's face. The woman's thoughts went wild again as she thought that Kai is like saying those words to her even though it's just an answer. Atsuko avoid the blond's look and pretended that she wants to look at the question again.
"You're wrong.... Try to look on it carefully" Rena grinned.
"Oh I know! That should be on the second line because of the println?" Kai tried again.
"Nope. .. Wrong again. If you will not get the correct answer on your third try, you need to stay here for another 30 minutes again. Think about it carefully if you want to go out or else you really want to be with together in this” Rena winked at them then leaves again when the other student called her.
“I know Atsuko already knew the answer but ….. the real question is, will she answer it correctly or will she choose to be with Takahashi-san for another 30 minutes?” Kuu whispered at Mariko and Yukirin then the two answered,
“We’ll see” the three of them smirked at their friend but Atsuko ignored them and focused on the question. As if she can focus when the blond suddenly rested his head on her shoulder. She was shocked on it and even though she can’t see her face right now, she knows that it’s badly flushing red.
“Damn it. He’s such a flirt! We only met today and yet he’s doing this?! Does he know or is it too obvious that I like him?! Aarrgh!” She thought as she looked on the closed eyes blond.
“I should stop this. He must not know that I like what he’s doing! I’m going to answer this simple question!”“Rena! I know now the answer!” Atsuko called her friend and it made Kai to look up.
“Really? Don’t you want to stay a little long-” Rena wasn’t able to continue teasing her friend when Atsuko suddenly stepped on her feet and gave a murderous look.
“Okay okay. What’s the answer then?” she asked with a pain on her tone.
“The answer is …… No output. This will be an error because there’s no semi colon” Atsuko answered; proud of herself answering a simple question.
“Eh?! You’re right! Oh damn it! Why I didn’t notice it. hehe” Kai chuckled a bit while scratching the back of his head.
“Nice one Acchan. You two can now go. This way please”
Kai and Atsuko leave the Jail and remove the thread that made them together for almost 30 minutes but before they could part ways, Kai suddenly hold her hand and said,
“Nice to be with you. Takahashi Kai desu” Kai offered a handshake.
“Maeda Atsuko desu. Sorry for the disturbance that my friend did just to make fun of me” Atsuko accepted the offer with a smile.
“Ehem .. Ehem” Kuu with Mariko and Yukirin showed up and pretended to cough.
“Oh guys. By the way, he’s Takahashi-san” Atsuko said to them with a ‘pretend that we did not know him’ look.
“Hajimemashite Takahashi-san” the three greeted in chorus.
“Someone’s missing ….. where’s Nyan-nyan?” Atsuko asked in confusion.
“Eh? You’re right. Where is she?” Yukirin looked around.
“I’m the one who should ask that! You’re with her earlier!”
All of them are wandering around to find their friend then suddenly a loud scream from a group of girls captured their attention. They looked at them and some of them are crying and shouting a “Nooo! Oshima-kun” and beside of those girls are boys who are preventing themselves to let out their anger. The crowd is making a circle around the Wedding Booth like there’s a royal wedding that is happening. The four with Kai run quickly towards it as all of them have the same thoughts, “Oshima Yuko and Kojima Haruna’s Wedding”
As expected, they are now seeing Yuko wearing a black coat while Haruna have a bridal veil. Four of Haruna’s friends are not expecting that this will happen today. They did not know that these two have a ‘something special’ relationship. They’re also confused if these two are meeting or dating privately but based on Haruna’s actions, she seemed not in love these days and also on Kuu’s investigation, she’s in love with the other person. Speaking of another person, Kuu checked if Kai is still with them and just like what he thought, he’s gone.
The wedding of the two campus crushes seemed on its final ceremony when the ‘priest look like’ said, “You may now kiss the bride”
Then suddenly a student from the Theater Club spoke “The bride may not allow the groom to kiss her since this is not a official wedding or something BUT in order for that to happen, she must pay a high price or if someone will pay for her”
Since the fee for the kiss is too expensive, the fangirls and fanboys of Haruna and Yuko had nothing to do and just let that kiss happen even if it’s against their will. Haruna on the other hand also doesn’t have enough money for that; even though it’s just a kiss on the cheek, she still want that ‘another person’ to be her first kiss.
“I think no one has the guts to pay. You may now kiss her Oshima-san” The priest declared.
Haruna closed her eyes while Yuko’s face is now moving closer to her. The girls’ scream is a bit louder now than earlier as every millisecond are passing, their prince’s lovely lips are moving closer to the blushing cheeks of Haruna. It was only centimeters apart when the student speaker earlier spoke again and two muscular men grabbed Yuko’s arms and move him away from the woman. The crowd are wondering why it happened while the fangirls and fanboys were relieved about it same as Haruna.
“Relax girls and boys over there. Give your thanks to someone named ‘Persona’ for paying the kiss fee. That someone doesn’t want to reveal his/her name. I guess this wedding will end here. Thanks for watching and let us wait for another batch of grooms and brides later” By that words from the President of Theater Club, all of them are relieved except for one ……
“Chotto! Let me go! Let me Kiss Kojima-san! You two are unfair! You’re using your ………” Yuko scanned the muscular bodies “….. big bodies on the little one like me! Unfair! Unfair! Unfair!”. The men ignored the squirrel’s grievances and continued on moving him away from the booth. Poor Yuko~
“That was close Nyan-nyan. Phew! We should be thankful to that ‘Persona’. I wonder who is that person ….” Yukirin said when all of them go to where Haruna is.
“Yeah … I also wonder who is he/she … ” Haruna look far away when she noticed a suspicious person who might be that ‘Persona’ and her thoughts earlier were right; HE is Persona.
“Thank you and I hope you’re not mad” she said to herself.
“Oh by the way, you still need to explain why all of this happened. Are you dating with Oshima-san?” Kuu smirked and followed by the remaining three. They continued their engravings when Haruna rolled her eyes and ignored them.
TBC ..
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