@ rndmnwierd: Good question, how long before Risa finds out about Reina's feelings??? Or better yet will Risa find out at all???
@pretend_2besome1 : Don't worry, I confuse myself all the time, like what the pairings are and how to go about with the story, for some reason I get confused as to what is going on and then I would have to reread my own fic from the beginning to get a sense of what has happened
Looks like the possibilities of pairings are still up in the air nee?
@kRisZ: kick air or kick Reina to knock some sense into her??? or better yet, do both
@ stefy: Reina did the first time they talked so she assumed that Risa would still keep everything a secret. Why not JunReina????
I have found some time between working on 2 different projects to update, a longer one than the last 2
Chapter 35REINA’S POVI reread those last lines in my diary as I closed it shut
‘That was my chance and I never took it. Now I can barely look at them. I thought I would be able to handle it but I couldn’t!!!! It tore me up inside looking at them so happy, having fun all the time. It was torture seeing them together but I had to keep my professionalism up so I would do as asked….nothing more’“Tanaka-san, its time to go!” I locked my diary into my suitcase and turned to see my roommate, JunJun. For the last couple of months I was lucky, very lucky because I had either Sayu or JunJun by my side, she was funny that it took the pain away momentarily. In fact, when the four of us, including LinLin, got together, we would usually have a blast, talking about anything, I guess it was because 2 out of the 4 were Chinese so the discussions about different things and the way they were describing things were hilarious. I would’ve never thought about moving on, nor was the idea of risking everything thrown out until that day I met up with my imoutous, Suzuki Airi and Natsuyaki Miyabi….
FlashbackI had been talking to Sayu about the risks the girls were taking…again, more like Sayu was trying to convince me to let go of being afraid. I don’t know what it is but I just couldn’t understand why they would risk it.
~BUMP~ “Watch where you’re….”
“Nee Reina-oneesan, must you always say that to me?” giggled Airi
“Airin!!! Miya!!!! It’s been awhile, I haven’t had much time to talk to either of you” I hugged Airi but ruffled Miyabi’s hair
“Reina-oneesan, yamette!!!! Why do you treat Airin better than me??? Anyways, its not that you haven’t had time, it’s more like you’re mind was too occupied” stated Miyabi grinning at me, just like a yankii as she tried to fix her hair
“What do you mean?”
The 2 girls looked at each other and nodded before Airi spoke up “Well do my senpais have time for a drink in the cafeteria?...you guys are treating”
Sayu looked at me, I shrugged my shoulders
‘Why those little pipsqueaks!!!! And Sayu!!! Why am I the only one that treats!!!! They are lucky that they have grown taller than me or I would’ve @#$%&*!@*&%$#’ “Sure”
We ordered our drinks, in which I had to pay for, I still don’t understand the logic of why me and not Sayu but I didn’t want to lose my cool infront of my imoutous “So elaborate”
Again Airi and Miya looked at each other
‘is that like some secret code or something?’ before Miyabi spoke “Reina-oneesan, is there a certain someone on your mind?”
“How did you know?” blurted Sayu, I slapped my forehead,
‘I am never telling this girl anything’. The 2 teenagers giggled, one glare and they shut up though.
“Anyways, Reina-oneesan, we are your imoutous of course we notice these things but we didn’t want to say anything for you to have time to sort our your problems”
“Airin, I don’t have any problems…” Sayu was coughing on the side as if to say I was lying, which I was but I didn’t need Sayu to point it out to me.
“Reina-oneesan, you don’t have to explain anything to us, we just wanted to make sure you were fine and happy”
“Your onee-san has a crush” blurted Sayu
‘God I’m gonna kill this bunny!’“Ah, so we were right about that!” stated Miyabi to Airi as their eyes lit up and they high-fived each other
“Wait! So you figured that out??!!! Am I that obvious?”
“No Reina-oneesan, I guessed only those in Aa! could sense it. I first sensed it at the Winter concert whereas Miya sensed it in the Summer concert”
Reina nodded at their explanations then a thought hit her, she never did get around to asking Airi about her thoughts about her decision with staying with Risako. “Airin, there has been something on my mind a while back but I guess I forgot to ask you but it has to do with the Fujimoto-san article”
Airi nor Miyabi flinched at the aforementioned article, instead they continued to sip their drink “about what?”
“Well I once overheard Maimi-chan and Erika-san talking, well more like Erika-san breaking it off with Maimi-chan and they mentioned something about you and Risako-chan”
“Maimi-chan and Erika-san???? Airi-chan and Risako-chan????” whispered Sayumi. We all looked in her direction, in which she shut up and pulled in closer trying to listen in.
‘Nosy bunny’“Yeah and?”
“Well I was wondering why you would risk getting caught? I mean you love being in H!P and you know that we are not allowed to date so why would you hook up with Risako-chan?”
“Because I can’t live without her” Airi replied without hesitating nor without considering anything “ It is because of my feelings for Rii-chan that I work harder at being careful. Neither of us want to leave H!P but neither of us wants to just give up either. We feel that as long as the media doesn’t know then we are safe and we have been haven’t we?”
Reina nodded “Yeah, it’s like telling me to live without seeing Chii-chan anymore. She makes my day brighter by being there for me, she understands what I have to go through, I can’t leave her, not when she plays a big part of my life. All of us have known each other for how long??? Ever since we joined H!P Kids. It also doesn’t hurt when you have great members such as this one” Miyabi ruffles Airi’s hair “to help us when times get tough”
“All of you? Who else is there?” asked Sayu
‘You butthole!! I don’t think that matters’“Well Michishige-san, there are Chisa and Maimai, Nakky and Kanna,…” started Airi
“Myself and Chii-chan, Captain and Momo, Kumai-chan and Maa-chan, Airin and Rii-chan…”
“and Maimi-chan and Umeda-san” finished Airi
“What?” I processed the last one that Airi mentioned “But I thought Erika-san didn’t want to risk it. She said her career was more important”
“Umeda-san did break up with Maimi-chan in which Maimi-chan gave her all the space and time she needed by just talking to her as necessary. Believe me it was a shock for us”
“It was a shocker for us over at BK when Rii-chan told us, those 2 were inseparable” Miyabi cut in
“We talked to Maimi-chan about it and she explained it to us that she respects Umeda-san’s decision and asks that all of us leave it as is”
I can’t deny that I was astonished at how Maimi-chan dealt with it all, she was more mature than me at dealing with this stuff. “When did they get back together?”
“It was around the time Maimi-chan was doing things for High-King. I guess it took Umeda-san that period of time when Maimi-chan was gone to make her realize that she couldn’t bear not seeing Maimi-chan again. Her bottled emotions exploded I guess”
“I see, that figures the change in aura around Maimi-chan when we were practicing and stuff. I thought she would have been over it by then. She was giving it her all during dance practices, I guess to vent her frustrations out. Ai-chan and I wanted to talk to her but every time we wanted to try, Saki-chan would take her away and talk to her. We assumed that because they knew each other the best so we left Saki-chan to talk some sense into her.”
“Luckily Captain was there, Captain told us about the emotional wreck that Maimi-chan was in but she had to keep it professional so she only opened up to Captain after dance lessons” added Miyabi “that and well both Maimi-chan and Captain do tend to practice like that”
“EH~~~~!!! They’re crazy both of them!!!! They got that dance down pat in like no time!!!!!” I frowned thinking about how those two practiced.
‘Ai-chan couldn’t even keep up and she was like a workaholic and to think these kids are usually like that, I can see that in Captain but Maimi-chan? I would’ve never thought she would be a workaholic too, she seems so….airheaded at times’“See Reina why can’t you be as smart as the kids” Sayu smacked me on the arm. Airi and Miyabi laughed as I rubbed my arm.
“Sayu!! Shut up before I make you shut up permanently” I threatened which shut the girls up
End of Flashback
Topic: Taking Chances-Epilogue-updated 12/26, Alternate Ending - 12/29 (Read 66491 times)