Here's a really short update for everyone.
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Subtle as it is – Chapter 05 [08/05/12 – Update]
What you see is not always real… when the hardest thing is to tell apart dreams from reality.
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It was a bright sunny day. The wind blows frequently, the leaves of the trees and grasses sway together with the direction of the blow. At the edge of the open air park’s railings, stood a female with orange-ish reddish hair that flows with the wind. She wore white cream colored boots with furry leggings, a white skirt with a silver chain and a white jacket.
“You let your hair down today.” A tall figure approached her, hands in pockets, black hair flowing with the wind as well.
The female turned around and smiled immediately showing her cute fangs. “Ah, Junko.” She turned back to the railings the wind gusting back at her face. “I thought it’ll be nice for a change.”
“I asked you before to do that for me, you got so mad, blushed and walked away.” Junjun muttered to herself and chucked a bit.
“Hm?” Reina looked at her again, tilting her head to one side.
“Sorry, nothing. I only recalled something funny.” Junjun answered and walked towards the railings to lean over it as well. “How was school?”
“It was well, I suppose.” Reina answered, and nodded to herself. “Although, people have been talking recently about the leave of absence of our Student Council Vice President, our President felt out of it the whole day. She’s probably worried.” Reina pouted a little. She was indeed close friends with the student council; they were the ones who helped recuperate when she lost her memories in an accident.
“I see. Was it really a large issue?” Junjun asked.
“Gaki-san, your girl’s worried for you.” She transmitted telepathically.
“Che.” Came the immediate reply.
“It was. Gaki-san, our vice pres, she really absents much less takes a leave of absence. Everyone is now worried of what happened to her.” Reina leans on the rail as the wind blew again. “Like if it’s related to the recent appearances of those people who proclaim themselvess to be Goddesses or such.”
“Do you believe that they’re Goddesses?” The tall blackhaired female asked, turning around to lean her back on the rail.
“I think… they’re extraordinary people.” The shorter female answered, furrowing her eyebrows. “Then again, no one can explain why they have powers. So I guess they must be Goddesses.”
Junjun chuckled for a moment. “I see.”
“Hey! What’s funny?!”
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“Ai-chan?”
The brunette stared straight as she held onto a mop she uses to clean the spill on the floor of the convenience store.
“Ai-chan?” The store owner Fujimoto Miki suddenly smirked to herself. She crept up behind the supposedly mopping female and made a grab for two luscious mounds of flesh from behind the female.
“UWAGH!” Came the expected man scream, together with the unexpected mop slash. “Ah! Miki-san!”
“Ai-chan that was veeeery dangerous!” Miki said, grateful that she ducked in time, both hands over her head in protection.
“I’m sorry!” Ai bowed immediately and resumed mopping. “I’m really just… out of it today.”
“What’s wrong? Is it the brat again?” Miki asked, dusting her outfit as she flipped the store card from open to close. “Family problems?”
“No, no. My family is fine.” Ai frowns a little. “Gaki-san, after going to the infirmary yesterday, suddenly filed an absence of leave of indefinite time and no one knows why. Then suddenly another friend of mine goes to school with a few cuts on her face. She’s the type to really take care of her appearance too so I don’t really know what happened. She says it was an accident while cooking though…”
“Face? Must be a really bad accident.” Miki takes the mop from Ai’s hand and pats the girl’s shoulder. “Go home for now. You should rest.”
“But—“
“It’s fine. Go.” Miki said and almost pushed the girl of the same age as her into the lockers to get changed and leave. “Go Go~”
Fujimoto Miki put up her hand and removed a few strands of her bangs from her face back to the top of her head. “Oh? Yes, yes. Do that. Yeah.”
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“Eri?” Sayu stepped inside a dark home. She immediately started feeling for the light switch on the right side of the wall. “Ow.” Tripping on a shoe rack and successfully finding it.
Michishige Sayumi looked around the mess of a house. Shoes were scattered all around, shirts and skirts and even pants are thrown all around the living room. She immediately picked up the clothes, folded them in a semi decent way and settled them on the couch as she fixed the shoes and put them on the rack.
“Eri, if I hadn’t known you for so long, I’d think that a robber just came in here.” Sayu sighed and put away the last pair of pants and sighed. “At least I haven’t seen any underwear or I’ll be really worried… and angry.”
The black haired female climbed up the stairs, picking up socks and more shorts. “Eririn?” Sayu called again climbing more stairs and picking up more clothes.
She reached the only occupied room in that small second floor and slowly opened the door. “Eririn?” Sayu looked around for a while amongst the ‘room-like-a-dump-site’ of her beloved girlfriend, only to find a small bundle of orange move from the corner of what seemed to be a bed. “Eri?”
“Mhm? Sayu?” Eri moaned as she sat up, a pile of clothes falling down from on top of her. “What are you doing here?”
“What are
you doing there?” Sayu asked back, walking towards the female, picking up more clothes on the ground. “You should seriously clean.”
“Mhm.” Eri nodded. After the clothes on top of her were removed, the female was wearing nothing but her underwear and their uniform’s blouse opened all the way.
“You know, if you seriously don’t like being attacked anywhere, you’re not doing a very good job.” Sayu raised an eyebrow, leaning forward and closing a few buttons on the turtle female’s clothes. “There, that’s more conservative.”
“Mhm, thank you.” Eri leaned into Sayu’s arms, hugging the bunny’s waist. “Still sleepy.”
“As much as I want to let you sleep, we have a job to do.” Sayu said and patted Eri’s short brunette locks, while the turtle nodded, eyes closed.
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“I’m sorry for today. I’ll be heading home now.” Ai bid goodbye to Miki and left the convenience store at around seven in the evening.
It was a normal evening, light posts are open and cars seldom pass by the area. The student council president walked in a fast pace towards her home, until she turned a corner and found a female, slightly smaller than her. Long straight brown hair, with a paper on hand, and her other on her mouth, as if she was in trouble regarding something.
“Umm… may I help you?” With her inner good Samaritan mode on, Ai approached the female who only looked at her with confused eyes.
“Oh. Umm. I’m kind of lost.” The female said, with a foreign accent and scratched her head. “Umm, do you know how to get to this place?” She handed Ai the paper and frowned. “I was told it was around the area, but I am not really sure.”
“Oh. I know where it is. It’s near my house.” Ai answered with a smile. “Do you want to go with me? I’ll take you there. It’s really close.”
“Oh really?!” The girl smiled at her brightly, taking her hand into a handshake. “Thank you! Thank you!”
“It’s around ten to fifteen minutes of walk, so I guess we should get acquainted since we might actually become neighbors.” Ai smiled. “I’m Takahashi Ai, what’s your name?”
“Oh! My name is Qian Lin!” Without letting go the hand she was shaking a while ago, she shook it again. “You can call me, Linlin!”
(Chapter 5/END)
A/N: if I started doing PM Lists, would people reply more? ; A ;
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