Well, to type with just one hand is a pain... I'm too slow, and I wonder what's wrong with me since this is the sixth time that I've broken my wrist... I guess I should get used to this...
I have no remedy...
CHAPTER 11“Morning, Eri!”
“Hi, Gaki?” Eri replied with a weak smile, it was obvious that she was still concerned. “Whatcha doing?”
“Nothing, really…”
“Don’t lie…” Eri said gazing at Risa.
“Ok, I was looking for Ai-chan…”
“Have you thought about her?” The slightly younger asked.
“Yeah, I’ve spent all the night awake thinking…” Risa replied, as she stretched.
“Well, we’re two in that case…” Eri stated laughing and Risa smiled at her.
“So, you’ve been thinking too…?”
“Yeah…”
“Just about Reina?” Risa asked, earning a slightly cold gaze from Eri.
“No.” She stated simply as she sat on the floor, and started to stretch too.
“Eri…” The older whispered putting a supporting hand on Eri’s shoulder. “Sayumi regrets what she did…”
“What are you talking about?” The younger asked in an irritated tone, looking deeply at her friend.
“Eri, she wants you to forgive her…”
“And how do you know that?” Eri cut her off.
“Because she has told me…” Risa replied, in a low tone.
“You’ve talked with her?! After what I told to you?!” Eri asked scandalized.
“Yes…”
“I can’t believe it!” She got up from the floor, and didn’t look at Risa, who was a little dumbfounded because of her friend’s reaction.
“Eri… please… don’t be like that…”
“Don’t be like that?!” Eri yelled. “Well, if you want me to not be like that, please, explain what the hell were you doing with Sayumi!”
“We just talked about what happened between Reina and you…” Risa explained as she got up too, and approached Eri. “She wanted me to hear her point of view of the story…”
“What point of view?” Eri asked as she started to look at Risa again. “There’s no other point of view. She just told lies to Reina, and that’s it. End of the story…”
“Yes, but she wanted to say to me that she’s sorry…” Risa stated, in a calm voice to try to appease Eri.
“I don’t know why… But I can’t believe that…”
“She’s truly sorry, Eri…”
“Impossible. Sayumi loves herself too much, and always thinks that she’s right.” Eri exposed smirking. “She’s too narcissist to see her own mistakes…”
“Well, that’s what I thought. But this time she wants to do the right thing, and…”
Risa couldn’t finish her sentence since someone entered abruptly in the room.
“Kamei-san, Niigaki-san, the rehearsal is cancelled!”
“Oh, hi Aika-chan.” Risa greeted her kouhai. “But why?”
“Lack of members…”
“Lack?” Eri asked stunned. “No one never fails to come to the rehearsals…”
“Yeah, but Takahashi-san nor Tanaka-san have come today so…” Aika explained.
“Reina hasn’t come?” Eri asked surprised.
“And Ai-chan neither? How strange…”
***
While then, Ai was laid on her bed looking at her slightly purple fist.
“I guess I didn’t have to punch the wall…” She mumbled to herself, with an affected smirk. “What can I do…?”
Suddenly, something glow passed across Ai’s eyes, and she got up from her bed abruptly. She approached her closet and took a little box, which rested under a pile of clothes.
Ai sat on her bed again and crossed her legs, as she started to search for something inside of it.
“Damn! Where is it…?!” She asked to herself as she threw the content of the box on the bed. “If I find it… This will be resolved…”
And then, Ai’s gaze stayed locked into a certain photo which had fallen from the bed to the ground.
“There it is…!”
***
“Feeling better…?” Maki asked as she entered in her room, with a glass of water, a thermometer, and an aspirin.
“No…” Reina responded weakly from under the bed’s sheets.
“Hey, take this…” The older said, sitting right next to Reina.
“What’s that…?”
“An aspirin, it will make your fever go down.” She stated smiling and observing Reina as the younger took the medicine and gulped down the water. “Ok… Now sleep some more…” And Maki made an attempt to go, but Reina took her by the hand.
“Where are you going…?”
“To the kitchen…” The older replied slightly surprised because of Reina’s weird reaction.
“Can you… stay here?” She asked and Maki laughed.
“I’m going to be a few steps away, if you need something you can call me.” She replied amused.
“Yeah, but I want you to stay here…”
“Oh…” Maki was about to agree, but suddenly her mobile rang.
It’s Rika… She thought, and looked over to Reina, who was still waiting for an answer.
“If you have to go…” She said weakly, as settling back on the bed. “It’s ok…”
“Erm…” Maki stuttered looking at the mobile.
“It’s from the job…?” The younger asked, trying to find a response from Maki.
“…” Suddenly, the guilt appeared on Maki’s body, remembering her that she didn’t want to loose Reina. “Nevermind, I’ll stay here.”
“Really?” Now was Reina’s turn to be surprised. “You sure…?”
“Yeah.” Maki cut her off, as she plopped down into the bed. “I’ll stay here… With you…”
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