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another fic i like from hct-aristocrat's livejournal, according to his post this is his/her first akb fic and it doesn't have a title
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“Otsukaresama deshita.”
Atsuko and Minami bowed their heads to the production team of a variety show after a day of work. It was almost twelve and Atsuko had yawned for
the nth times that night. Without saying anything, she followed Minami back to the changing room and packed their things.
Atsuko’s manager stood up and swiftly took the bags for her and went to the car waiting outside the studio, leaving her and Minami alone in the
changing room. The shorter girl was still in the changing booth at the corner of the room, changing her AKB uniform, while Atsuko, being a graduated
member, had already wore her casual clothes.
“Takamina,” Atsuko said, “aren’t you finished yet?”
“A minute,” Minami answered from behind the changing booth door.
“After all these years and you still can’t change in front of other people.”
“Well, it’s normal.”
“I’m a girl.”
“I’m shy.”
A minute later, Minami came out of the booth and smiled at her friend. “Let’s go.”
They walked out the room, walked along the corridor and they stepped out of the studio. There were two cars outside waiting for them. Atsuko didn’t
expect to see two cars. She turned to Minami who casually walked to her manager and gave him her stuff.
“We’re using separate cars now…,” Atsuko mumbled to herself.
“Good night, Acchan,” Minami waved her hand, smiling, as she hopped into her van.
Atsuko raised her hand, waved back a little, disappointed. She then walked to her own van and sat sullenly at the back.
“We’re going straight home, okay?” said the manager.
“Un,” Atsuko sighed.
The van drove along the empty street and Atsuko was hanging her head to the side, feeling lonely. She knew that being a graduated member required
her to be independent, alone, and she had prepared a long time for it. It should be easy, she thought, not being the face of AKB no more, no longer
carrying the burden of the nationwide idol group’s image. She should be at least feels a little lighter.
But she was feeling lonely. She missed going around in a large group, laughing at stupid jokes they make, and even though she was not the type to
jump in to a crowd’s excitement, she liked to laugh at the side, enjoying her friends’ mischief.
She missed Yuuko and her dirty jokes, Haruna’s futile effort of dodging Yuuko’s sexual harassment, Mayu’s high pitched voice, Mariko’s funny remarks
at her kouhai’s imbecile behaviors and she missed Minami’s shoulder. At times like this, she wanted to lean on Minami’s shoulder, hold her hand and
drift off to sleep.
Minami was fine, Atsuko thought, they parted casually like nothing happened earlier when she was crying river when Atsuko said she wanted to
graduate. She moved on so fast. And of course, being a graduated member didn’t mean that she can’t see the rest of AKB’s members, they meet up,
but it wasn’t the same anymore.
And even though Atsuko thought that she had prepared for everything ahead of the solo road she was walking on, loneliness got the best of her and she
cried in silent. Not wanting her manager to see her crying, she slipped to the back seat and lied down. She put her arm on her eyes, sobbing.
Then, her phone vibrated. Atsuko ignored it at first but the phone didn’t stop vibrating. She grabbed it from inside her pocket and answered.
“Yes?” she said.
“E? Why is your voice shaking?” the girl at the other end of the line asked.
“Takamina?” Atsuko wiped her tears.
“Are you okay?” Minami asked.
“I’m fine…,” Atsuko said.
“Are you crying!?” Minami started to yell, “Where are you!? What did the manager do to you!? I’ll turn around! Tell me where you are!”
Atsuko smiled. “I’m fine. I’m okay.”
“Then why are you crying!?”
“Stop yelling,” Atsuko cackled. “I’m just… lonely.”
Minami was quite for a while. “Me too.”
“You are the captain of AKB, you can’t be lonely.”
“You’re right. But I am.”
Atsuko watched the ceiling of her van when Minami stopped talking.
“Ne, Takamina.”
“Hm?”
“Can I see you tomorrow?”
“I don’t know. I think I have radio. Why?”
“I missed you….”
“We just met.”
“I know,” Atsuko fiddled with her phone strap. “I just want to see you again.”
“What’s wrong?”
Then, tears filled up Atsuko’s eyes again. “I don’t like this. I feel like I’m drifting away.”
Minami was silent at the other end.
“If I keep going like this, will I lose the sight of you?”
“Mmm.”
Atsuko wiped her tears with her fingers. “I made the decision myself and I’m not regretting it but I feel like I’m walking away from you….”
Minami didn’t say anything to that.
“Is it bad? Can’t I think of you that way?” asked Atsuko.
“It’s fine.”
“Then why are you so silent?”
“Because I don’t know what to say. We’ve been together for so long I don’t feel like we’re drifting apart,” Minami said, “we are walking on different
paths right now but we’re walking side by side. I can see you and you can see me. And the end of our paths is probably the same. We’re chasing the
same dream, right?”
Atsuko nodded by herself.
“So, we will never be apart. We might not see each other very much anymore but I’m just a phone call away.”
“Yes,” Atsuko smiled. “I wish you were a boy.”
“You don’t like me as a girl!?”
“I’m kidding,” Atsuko giggled. “Thank you. I don’t know how you do it but you always seem to be there when I need you. Scratch that, you always there
when anyone needs you.”
“I’m your friendly neighbor. Always around the corner.”
“Thanks.”
“Did you feel that?”
“Feel what?”
“Me hugging you.”
Atsuko laughed. “Oh, God, that is so cheesy.”
“Hey!”
Atsuko closed her eyes and hugged herself. “You still hugging me?’
Minami took a short pause before answering, “Yes.”
And Atsuko felt the warmth of Minami around her. Might be nothing more than a mere imagination but she didn’t care, she had to settle with that for
now. But if she wanted to, she could get the real one anytime because Minami was never far, never away.
“Thank you.”
“Good night.”
“Good night.”
Minami cut the phone end and left Atsuko in the van alone and smiling, looking at her phone’s screen with glimmering eyes. She put the phone near her
chest and said to herself that she loved Minami.
At the other side of the city, Minami was sitting in her van, alone with her manager, also smiling. She was holding her phone so close and she closed her
eyes, sending a message to her best friend, Atsuko, saying that she loved her.
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