Hey everyone!
A belated Happy New Year! i hope you had a great start into 2013! (my year started on a windy and cold rooftop with a bit too much alcohol, but it was cool)
I'm really, really sorry for not updating this fic.... I wnet home for Christmas. It's the first time I've been away for a longer time, so everyone was overjoyed to see me. I managed to get down with a fever the second day after Christmas Eve and as soon as I was healthy again my best friend had planned out all of my days because we hadn't seen each other in months. Oh, and I was supposed to study for university. Next week I'm moving again, so I gotta pack my bags and at the end of January there are exams... Everything's a bit too lively for my taste.
Anyway, if you're still going to read this, thanks for waiting! And liking the last chapter of course.
@kahem: Very likely!
@kurogumi: The fiance is not Rena, no... He doesn't even have a name yet. But of course there is a reason for hime to be named 'Matsui'. And yes, there will be WMatsui and Atsumina, I can promise that. The Happy Ending... we'll see. These things depend on my mood. And yes, Yuki and Mayu are not on the same school.
@ikun1216: I'm glad! Nice to see you here! Well, Yuki is not the nicest character here, that's true... I'm going to list the characters below this chapter.
@ChuuuPuffs: Hilarious? People always tell me that I have no sense of humour, so I'm happy! And getting wasted on the party (not going to happen in this chapter), well I got everything under control, I'm just not too sure that they do. Oh, I'll try to put spaces in this chapter, hopefully it'll work better.
@mo-chan: Thank you! No, they are not going to be guys, but there will be WMatsui. And there's a reason why Yuki's fiance is a Matsui (even though her probably won't appear in person, like ever). Hehe, to get Mayu involved... I have a plan.
@Chanaline: TOO MANY characters? Oh crap, I'm just getting started. I have a tendency to put characters overload
I'm just going to list them below the chapter.
@XxRoByNxX78: Yeah, quick didn't work, sorry.
@dirtydeeds: Woah, you do? Ah, thank you! It's not going to be too dark, only partial. I don't know if it's realistic, I just try. Oh and your comment is perfctly fine, probably way longer than any comment I've ever given. Heck, even a single 'Thank you' would motivate me. And so flattering...
P.S. Nope, sorry. No Gender bender in my 'realistic' fic.
Chapter 2Yuki“You’re Yokoyama, right?”
The girl nodded, looking up at Minegishi and Atsuko.
“So, you’re from Kyoto, I heard?” Atsuko crossed her arms and smiled. Yui, who was seemingly not aware of the fact that these girls did not mean well, nodded shyly.
“Ah, is that so…” Minegishi mused. “It’s an old city, isn’t it?”
“I love it very much” Yui’s face lit up. “It’s the most beautiful place on earth”
“Then you must want to go back, right?” Yuki stood up from her seat and walked over to her friends. “You must be homesick”
“I haven’t been here for such a long time…” Yui shook her head. “It’s not that bad yet”
“Oh, it’ll come!” Yuki giggled while Yui looked at her questioningly.
“You’ll be fine” Atsuko waved it off.
“We actually wanted to talk to you about something else” An evil smirk formed on Minegishi’s and Yuki’s faces, while Atsuko looked as innocent as ever.
“There’ll be a party at Yuki’s house” she announced. “Tonight. It would nice if you could come? Just… to meet everyone and mingle a bit?”
“Oh” A faint blush crept on Yui’s cheeks. “I… I don’t know, I’m not that good with parties…”
“It’ll be fun” Minegishi grinned stupidly and Yuki wondered why Yui hadn’t already fled because of the sight of the idiotic gossip queen. She couldn’t be that dense, right? But there she was, still unaware of the fact that they were not just ‘being nice’.
Atsuko elbowed Yuki, forcing her to say something encouraging as well. The tall girl narrowed her eyes at her friend who blinked innocently. Really, Atsuko was a master of seeming sweet.
“It would be really nice if you could come” Yuki pressed out between her teeth. For a second the Kyoto girl seemed irritated but Atsuko reassured her with a smile.
“Play along, it’ll be fun, I promise” she whispered into her friend’s ear. Yuki was not that convinced at all. She liked to face her enemies headfirst, by dropping a random mean comment every now and then without seeming to notice. Being actually sweet was a new experience for her, but her partners in crime had convinced her that it would be the only way to get the new girl to come to the party. Minegishi and Atsuko had planned and whispered the entire last lesson while Yuki had been trying to pay attention, so she did not know what they were actually up to. All she knew was that they had a plan and that they did not necessarily need her help, so she was quite satisfied.
Yuki snapped out of her thoughts as she heard Yui mumble something that could be interpreted as an ‘okay’.
“Yay!” Minegishi jumped and clapped her hands.
“It’ll be awesome” Atsuko cheered and nudged Yuki once more.
She decided not to answer and just raised an eyebrow. Really, she had said something nice. That should be enough. Everyone would love to hear her talking to them, no matter what she said, so it should be enough for the newbie. With a tiny fake smile on her lips she went back to her seat.
She could hear Yui ask: “Did I anger her?” in a silent voice.
“No, no, no, honey” Minegishi waved her arms while Atsuko giggled.
“She just got to warm up to you. She’s a true sweetheart once you know her”
Yui nodded, not convinced and seemingly regretting her decision. However, the two girls wouldn’t let her out of the appointment now.
“Look, I’ll write down the address so you can give it to your driver” Atsuko offered.
“I don’t have a driver” Yui said quietly.
“What?” Yuki turned to the girls again, rejoining the conversation. She wondered if Minegishi had been wrong about the status of the Yokoyama family. The gossip queen seemed a bit downed.
“Why?” she asked, wrinkling her forehead.
“I don’t like it. It’s too flashy” the Kyoto girl answered modestly.
“Flashy?” Yuki yelped as she realized that Yui was basically criticizing her lifestyle.
The other girl shrugged.
“Flashy… Well, if you can’t handle it…” Yuki crossed her arms. “Of course you need a certain kind of class to not seem sophomorically if you get out of a limousine…”
She was still pissed as the bell rung to the next lesson and her friends returned to their seats.
“Flashy…” she repeated. “Can you believe it?”
Minegishi shook her head frantically.
“Other than the teachers and the guys who are here on a scholarship she’s not going to make many friends with that attitude” Atsuko smiled slightly. “Really, how can she not know anything about the way to make friends? Does she not care? Or maybe her family was not rich before?”
“No, I actually heard that they were a really old family” Minegishi shrugged.
“And now you heard something different” Atsuko smirked.
“Huh?”
“Well…” Yuki followed Atsuko’s lead. “I bet today when I was late you spread your usual pregnancy rumor even though nobody confirmed it. But now you heard from a reliable source…” she gestured at Atsuko. “…that the Yokoyama family could have possibly been poor in the past”.
Minegishi looked at her with a tiny bit of guilt and then grabbed her phone to send one of her infamous rumor texts to everyone. A minute later the classroom was filled with whispers as everyone flipped their phones open underneath the desks.
“I added a bit of information. My creativity, you know…”
The three girls smirked at each other, convinced that they were going to have a good night at the party.
Mayu“Mayuyu, Mayuyu, Mayuyu!” Haruppi barged in the classroom during break, tears streaming down her cheeks. She threw herself on the floor in front of Mayu’s chair and buried face into her older sister’s lap. Then she started to sob like crazy while everybody was staring at them. Mayu was slightly surprised but not shaken too much. Once more she wondered what exactly had led to her sisters becoming this weird. She patted Haruppi’s head without taking her eyes of the manga she was reading.
Lovetan looked at them and sighed audibly.
“Really, Watanabe-san, you’re mean” she announced.
“Me?” Haruppi looked up and sobbed. “Why?”
“Not you” Aika rolled her eyes. “Your sister of course”
Mayu considered answering but figured that it could lead into an exhausting kind of conversation.
“Which one?” Haruppi asked clueless.
If she wasn’t already crying Mayu would have smacked her head for that stupid question. Lovetan seemed to think the same thing because she turned away with a snort. Sometimes she was super nice to the younger Watanabe girls but these periods of time were strictly limited. However, if Mayu ignored the sobbing girl too long she was in danger of actually being hit by that metal ruler that was sticking out of her best friend’s school bag. In order to avoid the immediate danger she closed her manga with a sigh.
Miori was faster than her though.
“Do you want a half of my lemon?” she offered sweetly. Haruppi faced her, tears still trickling down her cheeks.
“Thank you” she answered politely as she accepted Miori’s gift. “Are you Mayu’s new friend?”
“Oh we’ve been friends for a while” Miori shrugged and took a bite out of her own lemon. Haruppi watched her with fascination and almost forgot crying.
Mayu wondered what she was supposed to do now. Lemon girl was not a friend. She had her hands full with handling Lovetan’s antics and moodswings already.
Haruppi whimpered. She had tried to bite in her lemon and was surprised how sour it actually was. Searching for comfort she looked up at her sister. Mayu patted her head. The sooner she would get this over with, the sooner she could go back to her beloved manga.
“What’s wrong?” she asked, not even trying to sound comforting. It was no use anyway since she had no expression skill. Haruppi was content though. She nuzzled her nose into Mayu’s knee.
“They were mean” she whispered. “Those scary girls in your class”
Immediately Mayu glanced over to where Nagao Mariya and Yamauchi Suzuran were sitting during class. Well, and Yagami Kumi when she was not skipping for once.
“What did they do?” Lovetan demanded to know, suddenly very interested in the conversation.
“They wanted to have our money” Haruppi snuffled noisily.
“Who is ‘our’?” Mayu questioned.
“Me… and… and Jurina and Yuuka!”
“Who is that now?” Lovetan furrowed her brows. “Don’t talk to me about people I don’t know”
“Tano Yuuka and Matsui Jurina from my class”
“Ah” Aika looked at the younger girl thoughtfully. “Not like I care” she added quickly, but didn’t turn around to leave the conversation once more.
“What exactly happened then?” Mayu asked.
“They didn’t want to give it to them” Haruppi tried bravely to hold back her tears. “And then they said that we had to give it to them and then Jurina said ‘no’ and then they said ‘yes’ and Yuuka stuck her tongue out on them and then we ran”
“And then?” Aika urged.
“I came here to tell you” Haruppi answered, causing her older sister to sigh.
“Where are your friends?”
“Running?”
“Wait, they’re still after you?”
“Oh my god!” Lovetan panicked. “We got to tell the teacher, he just left!”
“But his zipper was open…” Miori butted into the conversation, stressing the words as if an open zipper was the biggest problem ever.
“It was killing me!” Aika blinked dreamily, while Haruppi looked at the older girls one after another.
“Huh?”
“Don’t mind them” Mayu patted the younger girl’s head. “If you’re scared we can ask Mizuki to take us to school on Monday and have a talk with those two. She’ll be overjoyed to be a bit late for university”
“Really?”
“Hmm” Mayu promised reluctantly, already deciding that there was no way she would witness this occasion that would probably be remembered by the school for a few more generations to come. But if it was for her sister’s safety…
“Smart idea” Lovetan praised and blushed bright red as Mayu looked at her with a sly smirk on her lips. “What? I’m not childish or pouting or anything, I admit the truth, okay?”
“Sure” Mayu answered emotionlessly, but she just couldn’t suppress that stupid smile. After all there was a reason why she always put up with Aika. They were friends. They were the best friends one could imagine.
“Onee-chan?” Haruppi tilted her head and Mayu realized that this was far from over. Her sister called her ‘Onee-chan’ when she wanted something very specific… like borrowing a manga or using the computer. Protectively, the otaku hid behind her back what she had been reading before being disturbed.
“Yes?” She tried to appear as uninterested as possible.
“We wanted to go to Jurina’s house after school… But I would feel safer if you would come with us…”
“Me?” Mayu asked disbelieving, wondering how someone could pick a person as obviously weak as her as a bodyguard.
“Please?”
“Uhm…”
“Of course we’ll come” Aika answered, the ruler glistening in her hand. Miori nodded too and bit into her lemon, making Mayu wonder when she became an official member of their tiny group.
Yuki
“She’s not really going to walk home, is she? Or take the bus or something?” Minegishi sat in the Kashiwagi family’s limousine and pressed her nose against the window, trying to spot the transfer student.
Yuki hid her giggles behind her hand as she noticed how the gossip queen’s foot got stuck between two cushions of the seats. She tried to pull it out the unsuspicious way; as if it as quite normal, but all that happened was that she lost her shoe. With an ‘uffh’, her forehead banged against the glass, just as Yokoyama Yui passed by on the outside. She looked around irritated, trying to locate the sound. Minegishi hid in the spacious footwell.
“Those are tinted windows, you know? She can’t see you” Atsuko who was sitting next to Yuki raised an eyebrow.
“You look ridiculous” The Kashiwagi daughter added with a grin.
With a pout, Minegishi resurfaced. She brushed some invisible dirt off her clothes, even though there was no way how this kind of limousine could be dirty, after all there were people to clean it, and sighed.
Sometimes, Yuki wondered if she was aware that people did not look up to her the way they admired her or Atsuko or even Tomomi.
“What are we waiting for anyway?” Minegishi asked annoyed. “If we don’t get going, Yokoyama will be faster at home than us”
“Yuki’s cousin” Atsuko looked up from her phone for a second. “Where does Yokoyama live anyway?”
Minegishi shrugged.
“But you always say that you know everything!” Yuki said accusingly, causing the other girl to pout once more.
“I’ll find out”
“Of course you will” Atsuko answered friendly and Yuki was not sure how to place her mood. Atsuko was probably the hardest person to read that she knew. She could be super nice one second and a moment later she would spit venom. It would have made Yuki much more comfortable to know that she could trust her completely, but even though they had been friends ever since kindergarten, she still couldn’t place the other girl’s feelings for her correctly. Were they friends or did they just stick to the rule to ‘keep your enemies close’?
Most of the time she didn’t care what people thought of her, either as a friend or a rival as long as they admired her in some way, but in Atsuko’s case…
The door opened and Kasao Tomomi crawled into the limousine. Minegishi stopped pouting in an instance. If there was anyone stupid enough to believe every single rumor she made up it would be Yuki’s cousin.
“Tomo~mi!” she announced, flaring her arms like a maniac. It was probably supposed to be a welcoming gesture.
“Hey” Tomomi smiled dreamily.
“What happened to your hair? It looks like a bird’s nest” Yuki pointed out, wondering why her cousin would be this… disheveled. With her braided hair almost untied, aside from the carefully placed locks that belonged to the hairstyle, and her cheeks red, her eyes glowing.
“She just did it, right?” Atsuko looked up, tilting her head. Tomomi pouted at her.
“Oh, pffffhh, don’t tell those people here. If they don’t know about these things they are just not ready for adult love!”
“I am ready!” Minegishi tried to stand up, forgetting that she was inside of a car and hit her head on the ceiling. “Ouch”
“Good Lord, you act like that maid of mine. Really, there must be something about that name…” Obviously bored, Yuki decided to inspect her fingernails. The girls were back to one of their favorite topics and she just didn’t feel like dealing with this kind of a problem now. They would bother her enough when they started to talk about that Cinderella-Ball-Party.
“Oh, so, what about that party you send me a mail about” With a safe sense for the topic Yuki wanted to avoid the most, Tomomi finally settled in a seat, while Atsuko signaled the driver to go. The limousine started out almost without a sound. Yuki stared out of the window while her friends were chatting; discussing everything from the brand of vodka for the night to the outfits they would wear. They had announced that they’d be staying at Yuki’s the entire afternoon, just to get ready. Their maids would have a lot of work, getting half of their closets to the Kashiwagi mansion so their mistresses could pick their favorite pieces. It was dreadful, really. Yuki’s entire fashion sense based on the tips from her stylist, Shinoda Mariko. Without her, she was kind of lost and of course Atsuko would allow no one outside of their little clique to dress Yuki as long as she, herself, was present.
“Huh, huh!” Minegishi waved her hand in front of Yuki’s face. “You there?”
“What?”
“Well, well, well, why so tired? If I didn’t know you had no boyfriend and this was your last chance to find love before reaching the save haven of marriage with your betrothed, I’d say the rumor I spread this morning was true! Anyway, are you going to call him?”
“Who?”
“Your future husband, who else! I think it’s stupid because, well, we are basically trying to get you to cheat, but Atsuko says that it would be interesting”
Yuki looked over to her closest friend who was smiling back sweetly. Normally they did have the same opinion on interesting things and if this wasn’t about her family’s business she would have considered it amusing indeed. Doing it to someone else was funny, but this time she was the one who risked something…
“I don’t even have his phone number” she tried to avoid the confrontation. If Minegishi was smart she wouldn’t ask anymore, not when Yuki’s tone was this dark. But Minegishi was never smart when it came to parties with the potential to be super scandalous.
“I’m sure we can get that. Just ask your maid to organize that, that’s her job, right?”
“Nooo” Yuki said slowly trying to think of a way out. She didn’t want to seem like a kill joy, normally she just went along with their ideas, but they had never gotten her in any kind of danger before. “She’s not my secretary, you idiot”
It was rare to hear Yuki insulting someone this directly. As she felt everyone’s looks on her she immediately noticed that she did something wrong. Deciding to play it cool she asked innocently.
“What?” and looked around. “Minami, dear, it was a joke”
“You don’t joke” Tomomi said, obviously not understanding. She furrowed her brows. It was a habit she had picked up when she was pretending to be thinking.
“Getting angry because our friend here expected too much of that maid of yours?” Atsuko tilted her head. “You must care about her a lot, huh?”
“What?” Yuki stared at her wide eyed. “Atsuko, what are you implying?”
“Oh my god, you got a thing with her!” Minegishi yelled and pointed at Yuki. “You got a thing with her”
“NO! Hey, keep that cell phone in your pocket, you’re not going to send any texts now”
“It’s a joyful message” Tomomi smiled.
“Even though your taste must be garbage to pick a maid” Atsuko shook her head. “Really, you need that party to find someone with a bit more class”
“I’m not into my maid, okay? Once you’ll see her you know why! She’s just…”
“Unbelievable? Cute? Charming? I guess I’ll have to tell her all those lovely things you just said about her!” Atsuko’s eyes sparkled with mischief. Yuki wanted to protest when the car came to a sudden stop. They had reached the Kashiwagi mansion.
Atsuko who was seeing her chance, did not wait for the driver to open the door, she just jumped out.
“I’m going to talk to her right now!” she yelled as she made her way towards the front door.
By the time Yuki got out of the car she was already halfway up the flight of stairs. She sighed deeply as she watched her disappear through the door wings, into the grand entrance hall.
“And she’s gone like the wind” Tomomi admired. “I wish I could run that fast”
Mayu“I don’t have to walk all of you guys home, right?” Mayu groaned as she saw the three girls in front of her.
“You’re our protector!” Yuuka smiled brightly, causing the older girl to groan even a bit more. Out of Haruka’s friends she was certainly the most annoying one, super noisy, always in a bright mood and a bit too clingy.
“No”
“Onee-chan?” Haruka tilted her head, showing her best puppy eyes.
“No” Mayu turned around, only to meet Jurina, with the same expression on her face.
“Please, please, please!” Another clingy girl and certainly a bit more disturbing than Yuuka.
As Yuuka was easy to please, or not when she didn’t feel like it, she shared some traits with Lovetan, who Mayu knew how to handle. Jurina meanwhile… well, she was much more persistent when it came to hugging and kissing.
“Besides, we’re going to Jurina’s house anyway, I told you!” Haruppi nodded.
“She did, she did” Aika had just shown up behind the group and grabbed Mayu’s hand possessively, shooting a glare at Jurina.
“I did, I did”
“Repeating it doesn’t make it more important” Mayu grumbled, knowing she stood no chance against their united power of begging. “Let’s go”
Chatting the younger girls followed Mayu an Aika from the school grounds, sometimes looking around for a trace of their bullies.
They were not to be seen, something Mayu surely didn’t interpret as fear of her of all people.
“Mayu-chan!” Jurina whined and came forward, grabbing the arm that was not occupied by a jealous looking Lovetan.
“What do you think you’re doing?”
“What do you mean?” Jurina leaned her head on Mayu’s shoulder and closed her eyes.
“Well, that!” Lovetan gestured, underlining her words by shaking the arm she was still holding onto.
“Huh?” Jurina was irritated, so she decided to ignore it. “Mayu-chan!”
The object of her attention had actually hoped that the two girls would get so caught up in their little rivalry that they’d lose interest in her, but it didn’t work.
“Hmh” she grumbled hoping it was an interesting enough reply.
Before anyone could answer, a voice caught them off guard.
“We’ve been looking for you people” Mariya leant on a wall a few feet away, grinning the most cunning. Her ever loyal friend occupied the sidewalk.
Mayu felt Jurina dig her nails into her arm.
“We’re not scared” the young girl announced with a slightly shaking voice.
“You’re not?” Mariya stepped closer, causing Haruppi to go into hiding behind her sister’s back. Yuuka tried to make a ‘come-at-me’ face but she looked a bit like an angry bunny. Cute but not really dangerous at all.
“We’re not” she announced, bouncing on her feet as if she was ready to do something outrageous and make a run for it afterwards. Protectively, Lovetan took out her ruler, swaying it in the air like a weapon. Mayu wondered how these things looked cool in anime but absolutely ridiculous in real life.
“I’m going to shove this baby up your nose” Aika threatened. The bow in her hair trembled angrily. Mariya looked at the ruler then at her opponents face.
“Okay…” she waved her hand. “Ranaran?”
“Yes?” Suzuran made her way over slowly, her hands in her pocket and a tough look on her face.
Lovetan gulped. Everybody knew that Mariya was the boss only because the others adored her for unknown reasons. Ranran was by far more dangerous and brutal.
“H-hey, Yamauchi-senpai” Jurina stuttered, still holding tightly onto Mayu. “You look good today” she complemented.
Yuuka gave her an Are-you-a-complete-idiot-look.
Suzuran just tilted her head.
“Your movements are so sharp” Mayu adored, without even meaning to say something this stupid. However, hearing those words from her classmate caught the Yankee off guard. Confused she looked over to Mariya who just raised an eyebrow.
“Run!” Haruppi, with a safe sense for the right moment started to dash down the street, followed by Jurina. Yuuka couldn’t resist poking out her tongue before following the lead and Lovetan swung her ruler once more.
Really, they were a bunch of idiots in Mayu’s humble opinion. Trusting her luck she walked away slowly, not turning around. Yankee’s were a bit like dogs, they would only attack when they smelled fear and she was not scared. Well, her knees trembled a bit, but she had been to kindergarten with Ranran and remembering the kid with the Disney princess t-shirts made her lose all kinds of respect. Not that she disliked Disney, but for a future yankee… No, she was not good at taking them too serious.
She entered quickened her pace as she noticed a bus approaching the nearby stop. Her companions seemed to notice too as they started to run as well.
Soon enough they all had arrived and entered the vehicle. Aika plopped down on a seat with an audible sigh. Dramatically she pressed her hand on her chest where she seemingly suspected her heart to be. It was the wrong side of the body though as Mayu noticed.
“What a shock” she announced.
“The adrenaline…” Yuuka stared into space dreamily, numbed by the experience of actually colliding with a yankee. Mayu was not quite sure if she really wanted this hyperactive girl ton be friends with her little sister.
“I was so scared” Jurina admitted and shook her head as if she was surprised about her own behavior. “Those girls are really dangerous, aren’t they?” she turned around to look out of the back window, but the bus had rounded a corner so Mariya and Suzuran were already out of sight.
“Hmmh” Mayu decided to go with the most neutral sound she could give. “Where is this bus going anyway?”
“Huh?” Haruppi looked at her. “I don’t know… I didn’t ask” she yawned and closed her eyes, ready to take a tiny nap, obviously shocked by the events. Lovetan poked her, seemingly checking for any signs of life.
“She’s fine” Mayu knew very well that her little sister would fall asleep in the most unusual situations, once she had blocked the toilet for hours, because she went to sleep while inside and wouldn’t wake up for nothing. Mizuki had ended up kicking in the door as she couldn’t hold it anymore.
“But where are we going then?” Jurina looked outside of the window. “I’m not familiar with this area”
“Woah!” Yuuka exclaimed and pushed her friend to the side to press her nose on the glass. “Look at those houses”
“They are beautiful, aren’t they?” Aika agreed. Even Mayu brought herself to shift in her seat and look outside. They had obviously entered a richer quarter of the city. The mansions got bigger and bigger as they kept riding farther.
“We should get off. It’s creepy” Jurina didn’t seem convinced. “Nobody’s entering the bus anymore or getting off. It’s afternoon, there should be people around”
“They have drivers” Yuuka pointed at a limousine that passed the bus. “Man, I wanna be rich… and live in those mansions… or wear that school uniform…”
She pointed outside were a girl was seemingly awaiting the bus that stopped sharply in front of her and allowed her to get on.
“So cute” Mayu mumbled, admiring the checked short skirt and the dark blazer with the emblem as she walked by. The girl had obviously heard that comment and blushed furiously.
“Oh no, I didn’t mean it like that!” Mayu clarified quickly. “Not that you’re not cute, but I’m not into girls, you know?”
“It’s okay. You don’t have to apologize” The girl lowered her head and Mayu was actually feeling a bit sorry.
“No really-“she tried to explain, but Yuuka butted into her sentence.
“Don’t you have a driver? I have one, but I prefer the bus” she lied cheerfully. Aika seemed to restrict herself for punishing her with her ruler for that, but Mayu could see her hand twitch towards her bag. Maybe she should do something to help the clueless girl out of the danger she had just gotten herself into, but she honestly didn’t feel the urge to.
“Oh, I’m the same” the rich girl said softly, a shy smile spreading on her face. “I’m Yokoyama Yui, nice to meet you” she introduced herself politely.
“I’m Yuuka” The younger girl flipped her long hair out of her face. “And the dead one here is Haruka, that’s her sister Mayu, oh they are Watanabes if you care”
“Ah” Yui looked a bit clueless. “I just moved, I’m not yet familiar with the local families”
“I’m Ota Aika” Lovetan had obviously decided to join in on Yuukas little lying game, much to Mayu’s and surely Jurina’s displeasure. The otaku girl knew that the younger girl had a strong sense for justice and honesty, probably the main reason why Yuuka’s careless ways didn’t influence Haruppi too much. However, keeping the form, the short-haired girl introduced herself as well.
“I’m Matsui Jurina, nice to meet you”
Yui’s eyes went wide.
“Matsui-san!” she exclaimed in surprise. “I’m glad to meet you. I didn’t get to introduce myself properly as I arrived very late yesterday. Please take care of me as I am going to be your neighbour from now on!”
With that she bowed her head deeply. Yuuka stared at her confused friend with an open mouth, Lovetan tilted her head questionably and Haruppi drooled on her sister’s shoulder in her sleep.
CharactersThe Watanabe FamilyWatanabe Mayu , 18 years old, in her last year of High School
Watanabe Mizuki (played by Kuwabara Mizuki) 21 years old, a lazy university student
Watanabe Rie (played by Kitahara Rie) 21 years old, Mizuki’s twin but a few minutes younger, very smart and hard-working
Watanabe Haruka (played by Kodama Haruka) 16 years old, goes to the same school as Mayu, first-year in highschool
Watanabe Sakura (played by Miyawaki Sakura) 14 years old, smart Middle School student
Friends & Classmates of the Watanabe girlsOta Aika, 18 years old, Mayu’s best friend
Ichikawa Miori, 18 years old, Mayu’s classmate
Nagao Mariya, 18 years old, a Yankee in Mayu’s class
Yamauchi Suzuran, 18 years old, Mariya’s loyal sidekick
Yagami Kumi, 18 years old, part of Mariya’s gang but barely showing up at school
Tano Yuuka, 15 years old, Haruppi’s friend and classmate, hyperactive
Matsui Jurina, 15 years old, Haruppis’s classmate and friend, clingy but at the same time very disciplined
Yukirin’s friends & classmatesKashiwagi Yuki, 18 years old
Takahashi Minami, 21 years old, maid in the Kashiwagi household
Maeda Atsuko, 18 years old, Yukirin’s best friend
Minegishi Minami, 18 years old, the school’s gossip queen
Kasai Tomomi, 18 years old, Yukirin’s cousin
Yokoyama Yui, 18 years old, Yukirin’s new classmate who is rumored to be more wealthy than her
Shinoda Mariko, 26 years old, Yukirin's stylist
Set to appear (incomplete list):
Matsui Sakiko
Matsui Rena
Oshima Yuko
Kojima Haruna
Itano Tomomi