Well, it's been hard for me to write these past hours... The horrible news about Maki are making me the things difficult to write about her... And, apart from that, these kind of news always brought up memories to everyone... That kind of memories that the people like me prefer to bury...
I'm very sensitive when it comes to these subjects...
CHAPTER 13Maki looked at her mobile’s screen stunned, lost in terror. The message that Reina had sent to her was making her feel nervous about several things.
“Ya know what’s up with Ai-chan, right?” It was kinda impressive to see how such a short question could make the soloist so extremely scared, in fact, she throw the mobile at the couch as if it had a type of contagious illness.
“Ok, Maki, think…” Maki said to herself aloud, and started to walk along the rest room. “She’s just asking if I know what’s wrong with Takahashi, this doesn’t mean that she has discovered my
story with Rika… Nor that this crazy girl has insinuated her anything about it…” She suddenly stopped her march. “But if she doesn’t know or suspect anything… Why the hell is she asking this to me…?!”
Suddenly, she grabbed her mobile and started to type a response.
“What do you mean? Has she said something to you?”She was about to send it, but stopped when her logical intelligence started to work again.
“Wait a minute… If I respond her with a question like
“has she said something to you?” she will be the one who will start to make questions…” She retorted to herself quietly. “She’ll ask why I’m asking that… And that’s the last thing I want…” She removed the un-send message quickly.
Maki tried it again…
“She seemed normal these past days…”… But she had to remove the message once again.
“No… This isn’t the best I can say… Because Reina doesn’t know how many times we have seen each other lately…” She thought. “And if I say something like this she’ll ask if I’ve seen her more than once… Since she thinks that I’ve only seen Ai the other day, when she caught us talking in my apartment… And then, she’ll ask why we have seen each other so much… And I don’t want that either…”
Third try…
“She seemed normal the other day…”At first sight it looked a good response, but Maki didn’t think that way, and removed this message too.
“No good… I know Reina too well… And she didn’t ask anything about Takahashi’s visit last time ‘cause she fell ill… If I tell her this she’ll remember it and will start to make questions…” The soloist whimed, and plopped onto the couch where she had threw the mobile earlier. “Damn, Goto, think… A bad movement in the love’s game and you can end up in a badly… Shit…”
And then, she received a message.
“Oh, no… Reina again?!” She looked at the screen quickly, and calmed down a little when she saw who had texted her.
“I’ve got to talk with you. Can we meet at the café next to my place at seven?
- Yossie.” Maki, relieved and a little surprised because of Yossie’s message, gave a response almost immediately.
“I’m coming!
- Goto.”“If give a response to Reina right now would be as easy as give this one…”
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“So, have you talked with Eri…?”
“Yep!”
“And…”
“And she seems to don’t want to forgive you!” Risa said cheerfully to Sayumi.
“And why are you saying this like that…? Why are you so cheerful?”
“Because it’s better to see the bright part of this right now…” Risa replied and winked.
“And that part is?”
“That Kamei will forgive you… She just needs time.” The older stated giving a warm smile to her kouhai. “So don’t lose hope!”
“Ok…” Sayumi agreed.
“Well, now I’ll leave you alone with your thoughts. Bye!” And she went back to do her business, while the younger looked at her from behind, maybe a little longer than the necessary…
“Risa…” Sayumi thought.
“You’ve been so good to me since we met…”“Hey, Michishige-san…” Aika greeted coming out of nowhere. “Why are you looking at Niigaki-san so deeply?” She asked with a devious smirk.
“What are you insinuating, you little baby…?”
“Nothing, nothing… But the glow in your eyes wasn’t normal…” She stated in a musical voice.
“Mind your own business!”
“Ok, sorry…” And the youngest of the group went away.
“A special glow in my eyes…? Am I... No, it can’t be…”***
“So what is it, Yossie?”
“Well, I don’t know how explain this…” Yossie explained nervously to her old friend as she sipped her coffee. “Erm… It’s about Rika.”
Suddenly, Maki’s blood freeze, she was in a complete state of tension, probably thinking of she had got caught, and Yossie noticed this.
“You ok?”
“Y-Yeah…” Maki stuttered, pretending that she was fine. “What is it…?”
“Well… She’s been little distant with me lately…” She explained calmly. “Well… not exactly a little… She’s been a lot…”
“And… What do I have to do with this…?” Maki asked.
“Nothing, really.” Maki relaxed when she heard that. “But since she called you the other day… I wondered if she had said something to you…”
“I didn’t see her.” The soloist retorted quickly, maybe too quickly. “But however… You shouldn’t worry so much… Maybe she’s just stressed…”
“But I’m afraid of loosing her!” Yossie cut her off, and Maki tried to analyze what her friend had just said…
Yossie sounded fearful, very unlike her. To Maki, her reaction almost looked like her own when she thought about the idea of loosing Reina.
“What do you mean… what do you mean with “loosing her”?” Maki stuttered nervously, afraid of Hitomi’s response, because she knew where that words where leading.
“Listen… We haven’t told this to anybody yet…” And Yoshizawa took a long pause.
Maki swallowed hard, she knew what her friend was about to say.
“We’re dating… And I’ve got the feeling that she’s cheating on me…”
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Someone new enters in the game...
*Runs away, hides under the bed, and kicks out the monster down there*