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I said that I was working on a KojiYuu OS but since today is Acchan's birthday... Here's an AtsuMina OS!
Story II: 20 Years Left to Woo You (AtsuMina)00:00 10/7/2011The ace of AKB48 stared at the date shown on her mobile. The day had just turned to 10th of July, which meant that she had just turned 20. Stream of emails wishing her happy birthday started to came in, causing her mobile to beep non-stop.
‘Happy birthday Acchan! Let’s go out for Karaoke later! ’
‘Maeda-san, happy birthday!’
‘You’ve turned old! Hahaha~ Anyways, happy birthday Acchan! ^^ ’ That were some of the many emails that had she received. She tried to reply to each email but the endless notification was making her a little bit impatient. Giving up, she placed her phone on the bedside and just let it there, thinking that she will reply all the emails later on once her phone had calmed down. Lying down on her bed, Atsuko stared at her ceiling.
“20 huh? That sounds so old.” Atsuko sighed.
She was no longer a teenager. Honestly she didn’t feel that much of a change, but she knew that people will expect her to take up more responsibility now that there would be a 2 instead of a 1 in front of her age. Ever since AKB48 rose to become the top idol group in Japan, their workload had seem to increase by tons and being the so-called the ace and the face of AKB48, Atsuko had been getting less and less time for herself. It was pretty exhausting, going here and there, rehearsals, going on variety shows, performing on music shows…. Now that her solo career had launched, the list of things to do had doubled, or tripled.
But she didn’t hate her life. On the contrary, she loved being the center of. As an idol, all those publicities gave her a sense of success. And she loved AKB. If given a choice to repeat her life, she would have chosen to audition for the group again. If anything, AKB48 was one of the best things that had happened to her.
However, Maeda Atsuko was a normal girl too. More than often when the pressure of work started to get to her she would wish that she could take a break without the watchful eyes of the media, without performances or interviews to do, and without cameras following them here and there, filming every little thing they do. Preferably a full vacation to the seaside with the girls. Because she was caught up with her dorama and her solo career, the time she actually got to spend with the AKB girls had been getting less as well. Compared to when she was doing solo activities and when she was performing with the group, the dressing room felt so much less chaotic… and lonely.
Though she can chat with other artists but of course it couldn’t compare to chatting with the girls that she had spend most of her time while growing up with. She missed the random hugs and kisses that her fellow members would give. Heck, she would even miss the groping (though she would never say this fact out loud). And most of all, she would miss her best friend who was also her captain.
“Minami…” Atsuko called out to her friend although there was no way that the captain can hear here considering that she was in her room.
The sudden ringing of her phone surprised Atsuko, causing her to jump and almost fell off from her bed. Realizing that it was only someone calling her, she calmed down and pick up her phone. The name on the caller display caused a smile to appear on her lips. Atsuko flipped open her phone and placed it on her ear.
“Moshi moshi?”
“Hey Acchan! Otanjoubi omedetou! How do you feel now that you’re as old as me?” Hearing the laughing voice on the other end of the line, Atsuko couldn’t help but laughed as well.
“Hmmm… .I feel that my body is growing old all of the sudden. Is this how you felt when you turned 20?” Atsuko chuckled.
“Eh really? You should take care of yourself more you know. Don’t overwork yourself.” Sensing the concern in the other voice, Atsuko felt warm inside. Obviously the other girl didn’t realize that Atsuko was only joking but because of that part of the girl’s personality, Atsuko couldn’t help but fallen a little bit more for the owner of the voice. Dear Kami-sama, how can she not want to marry that girl?
Atsuko laughed into her phone. “I was only joking, Minami. I feel pretty much the same. And yes, I’m perfectly healthy too.”
The ace can hear Takamina grunting and started to mumble something along the line of ‘don’t joke about things like that’ and ‘bad luck?’ Atsuko decided to cut off the captain’s mumbling.
“Anyways…. Arigatou, Minami-chan. For the wish…. And for always being there for me all this time.”
The captain fell silent for a few second. Atsuko positively can imagine a chuckling Minami when she heard the captain next few words.
“Don’t count on it. That’s what
friends are for.”
Atsuko pouted. Friends. Oh how she hated that word (sometimes) when it came from the captain’s mouth. The dense captain had always failed to realize that she meant so much more to the ace. All those hints that she gave out all these years, the flirting, the special treatment she gave the captain.. and darn it, she even publicly wrote that she wanted to marry the captain for Kami’s sake! When the short captain didn’t do anything when Atsuko told her about the pretend marriage with Mii-chan, Atsuko had almost want to scream at the older girl and confess her heart out.
“But that probably won’t work too.” Atsuko thought to herself and sighed.
“Hey, you alright? You were silent for a while.” Minami’s voice reminded Atsuko that she was still on the phone.
Panicking, Atusko wrecked her brain to find a quick excuse, not wanting to worry the other girl.
“I… uh…. I don’t know what to do now?” Atsuko wanted to face palm herself at her lame excuse but the laugh that she heard made her think otherwise.
“Why don’t you try sleeping? That’s what most people would do at this hour.” Minami said in between her laugh.
“Mou~ I’m not sleepy yet. I can’t sleep.” Atsuko pouted.
“Errr…. Go blog or something?” Minami suggested.
“Blog? I don’t know what to write though.” Atsuko said, considering the suggestion.
“It is your birthday. You can write about your wish this year or something. I’m sure the fans will love whatever crap you wrote there.” Joked Takamina.
Atsuko laughed. “My wish? For some reason I can’t come up with anything at moment.”
Atsuko was lying. She can think of a wish at the moment but it’s not one that she can tell the captain or the public.
I wish you would realize how I really feel about you. “Ehhhh…. Ummm…. What else can you write…” Minami voice trailed off. Seeing how hard the captain was trying to come out with what she should write for her blog, Atsuko giggled.
“… Uhh… Maybe… You…can write about…. Wanting-to-marry-me-again?” Takamina spoke again, the last few words came out a little bit jumbled but Atsuko managed to catch every syllable spoken.
Atsuko blinked. She wondered if she had imagined hearing things. But the awkward silence that came from the other end of the line told Atsuko that Minami had actually said that. Atsuko’s eyes lit up. Maybe her dense captain wasn’t so dense after all.
“What’s that Minami? I didn’t quite hear you. You were talking too fast.” Atsuko teased the captain. She also wanted to hear those words again.
“No-nothing. Forget what I said. Haha..” Minami laughed nervously. Atsuko couldn’t help but felt a little bit disappointed.
“I do mean it, you know…. The whole I-want-to-marry-Takamina thing.” Atsuko said softly, a sad smile played on her lips. Minami fell silent again.
“Acchan I….” The captain voice trailed off again and for a few seconds the world seemed to be too silent for the two of them. Atsuko’s heart ached.
Takamina cleared her throat.
“How-how can you said that?”
Atsuko’s heart was hurting a little bit more.
“You-you… YOU MARRIED MII-CHAN!” The sudden shout from the short girl shocked Atsuko. That was not exactly what she had thought the captain would say.
“Saying that you wanted to marry me but-but you married Mii-chan instead. Acchan, you playgirl you.” Atsuko laughed at Minami’s words.
Atsuko knew that Minami was joking but Atsuko also knew Minami well enough to detect a hint of hurt in the captain’s voice. Apparently the captain IS unhappy about her ‘marriage’. Suddenly Atsuko’s heart wasn’t aching anymore.
“Well... if I divorce Mii-chan, would you marry me then?” Atsuko asked while trying to cover the hopeful tone in her voice.
“Ehhh? What? Erm… I.. Uh..” Takamina’s voice indicated that the question had left her flustered. Atsuko can imagine that her shy friend was red with embarrassment on the other side of the line, which made her smile.
“What guarantee that I have that you won’t leave me for someone else like you’re going to do to Mii-chan?” The captain’s question caught Atsuko’s off guard. She could feel the seriousness of the question being asked. Atsuko smiled.
“You know you will always have my heart, Minami.” Atsuko replied softly. Another silent fell between the two girls.
“Che. Sweet talker.” Minami’s voice finally broke the tension amidst them. The words may have sounded accusing but there was no mistake that the captain was actually smiling when they were uttered. Atsuko let out a little laugh.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m always sweet.” Joked Atsuko, which earned a snort from Minami.
“Right, right. Go to sleep, you sweet thing. It’s getting late. You should get some rest.” The other girl’s voice was filled with concern again. Atsuko glanced at her clock, it was indeed late.
“Hai, captain. I will go to sleep now.” Giggled Atsuko.
“Good girl. Good night, Acchan.”
“You too, Minami.”
“Thanks and oh, Acchan?”
“Yes?”
“If by I’m 40 and I still don’t have anyone else in mind… I’ll marry you.”
Atsuko was speechless.
“So uh…. Happy birthday, good night and sweet dreams!” The captain hung up before the ace could say anything.
Atsuko breathed in deeply and lay down on her bed once again, with a huge smile on her face. She recalled back what she had written in her blog. She wrote that if she couldn’t find anybody else when she’s 30 or 40, she would just marry Takamina. Now that she had given more thought about it, it was quite ridiculous, actually.
There’s no way she could find someone better than her dearest captain. With that thought in mind, Atsuko came out with a new resolve. She will not give up on Minami. After all, 20 years old Maeda Atsuko had another 20 years left to woo her captain into marrying her for real.
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So... how was it?
I've written the KojiYuu OS and the continuation to the MaYuki story last night. Ideas just kept rolling in
I think I'll write another story before posting those. So be patient in the meantime!
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