Personal Replies@leEwẬy: Well who knows if what Yuki and Rena have done are deliberate actions. Plus I’m glad Jurina is providing you with plenty of amusements
@kenjoy12: Hmm well the outcome of Rena being comfy on top of Jurina will be right at the start of this chapter but other than that I guess there’s very little wmatsui, Mayuki on the other hand..
@-gibson-mayulover: Your welcome, though I’m sorry that this one took so long… Well at least I’ve unknowingly added something that you wanted though it is a really brief thing…
@Sherin: Well I won’t say anything about Rena, and yeah J is definitely an M (though this just unconsciously happened)
@jell_o_jello: I see you’re not convinced by Yuki’s search for her jumper but then you guessed wrong about the next chapter so maybe it’s the same with Yuki as well
@Terragen: Hmm interesting thoughts here and some of it is correct and some not so right but I won’ t tell you which parts. As for updating fast well I clearly didn’t ;^^
@kurumi: Well Jurina changing her mind is possible but she’s way too carefree to do anything like that now
@DC2805: Yeah if Rena does have a complex love then it certainly does involve a lot of slapping and well with Mayuki- Mayu is certainly trying to take the lead but the only thing stopping her is herself
@imteedee: Who knows about who is scheming with who and sorry for being gone
@rochilu: Of course there was that moment right at the start between Yuki and Rena which makes things a little less obvious~ Still at least you enjoyed the chapter.
@geki geki: Interesting ideas you got going there~ I won’t tell you if any of it is right though
@POPCAT: We may never know
and I see you’re torn between JuriMayu and WMatsui… Maybe this chapter will help a bit? I don’t know ;^^
@kurosawa87: Well it’s still baby steps for Mayu and I guess Jurina and Rena are still nowhere near each other, except at the very end when they’re sleeping together
@kurogumi: Well there is a 4th slap but there’s a slight twist to that one
plus I’m sure J has great memories of each slap
@Archer1992: Hee~ what makes you think that YukiRena is a team
@Zita: Well considering that Mayu is yet to slap Jurina I still think they have their differences, though you may be right about certain similarities
@Angeldarke: Well the chapter goes straight in at the best part, then kind of disappears ;^^
@atsuminaFTW: Well I’m not strictly a Mayuki shipper either and I’m the writer
A/N: So I figure that I’ve been keeping people waiting with this update and apologize for that, I have absolutely no excuse for the tardiness of the update. So again sorry for taking so long people.
Chapter 7The three of us were frozen to the spot and gawked at the sleeping Rena; we were all shocked at just how oblivious the sleeping girl could be to all the commotion that surrounded her. While all this was going on, chaotic thoughts crashed into my mind and started to wreak havoc.
“What’s going on? Why are they sleeping together on the same futon? Did Rena confuse Jurina with Yuki… No she couldn’t have! But then why would she get into Jurina’s futon she already has Yuki as a girlfriend and Jurina’s supposed to be mine!”
All my pent up anger began to churn together at the depths of my heart until it all erupted in a huge fit of rage.
“What the hell are you doing just sitting there you idiot! Get out of the futon and get her off of you!” Upon hearing my fierce roar the sleeping beauty finally stirred from her deep slumber and sluggishly scanned across the room. Eventually the fatigued pair of eyes was gazing straight into Jurina’s astonished pupils.
“Jurina come on!” To my great annoyance the pair just sat there and dumbly stared at each other, in fact I could swear that Jurina was slowly leaning toward Rena’s lips. Suddenly Rena properly woke up from her dazed state and realized exactly what was going on. However, before Rena could do her usual thing and slap Jurina, Yuki’s vice like hand had clasped itself around Rena’s arm and wrenched her up to her feet. Yuki then glared at Rena with stern eyes and spoke with a disapproving tone.
“Rena we need to talk, now.”
Yuki turned her back on us then yanked Rena out of the room with her, causing the ground to shake with every booming step. After the infuriated Yuki slammed the door shut I shifted my attention back to the dumbfounded Jurina.
“So care to explain what that was all about?” As I glared at the stammering Jurina my eyebrows started to twitch with annoyance.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about! I’m the victim here!” Jurina started getting dressed as she spoke. “Well I guess I can’t really say victim…” A ridiculous smile emerged from under the loose t-shirt while she tentatively scratched at the back of her head.
“Not exactly in the mood for a joke right now.” I ignored Jurina’s childish grin and continued to leer at her.
“Oh come on Mayu I’ve already told you that I didn’t do anything!” Jurina shot up into the air as she pleaded her innocence.
“Argh, that’s the other thing. When you’re caught asleep with another girl on your lap you don’t just sit there and enjoy it! You kick her off and start defending yourself!” With steam venting out from my ears, I catapulted a pillow at the head of Jurina.
“Well this is me defending myself!” Easily dodging the fluffy missile Jurina grabbed her own pillow and smacked me square in the face. “Anyway why are you getting so worked up Rena being in my bed, you should have been in Yuki’s bed! In fact I bet you didn’t even touch Yuki last night!”
“That’s not true! I did sleep with Yuki last night!” Tossing aside the cushion stuck to my face I stood up to confront Jurina. “I just wish that you could handle these situations a lot better than you do.”
“Haan~ So now the emotionally frustrated geek is not just going to help you pass exams, she’ll also be giving me tips on how to act in a relationship that she’ll never ever experience.” Jurina jabbed a finger into my shoulder and shoved me backwards.
“Yeah, I am going to tell this dumb thick skulled pervert what to do. Considering that the only time I managed to have a normal conversation with Yuki had nothing to do your wretched plans I’m pretty sure I’ll be fine without you. Rather I’ll do better without you!” I used both hands to push Jurina’s back against the wall. For a moment we just stood there in complete silence, glaring intensely at each other until our breathing gradually slowed down.
“Fine then.” Eventually Jurina spoke out with a blunt tone and stared at me with cold dark eyes. “If you think you’re an expert then go ahead and claim Yuki’s heart, it’ll save me from this stupid joke of a relationship I’m faking with you!” Without even looking back at me Jurina marched right by me and ripped the door open before slamming it shut again.
“I’ll do better job than you…” With the sound of the door shutting reverberating throughout the messy room, I was left to mumble to myself. I then proceeded to get changed into a white top and light blue jeans. Not bothering too much about my hair I gave it a quick brush and then let it drop down over my shoulders. Chucking the hairbrush back into my bag I left the room into the corridor and set off toward the dining hall.
Unlike the last time I was in the room, the chairs were all filled with countless students all chatting to each other and waiting for their breakfasts. In the center of the ruckus was my ‘girlfriend’ flirting with the hordes of fan girls that were swarming around her.
“Hey hey does this mean you’ve broken up with that gloomy nerd?” One of the many parasites latched onto Jurina’s arm was busy waving a finger in my direction, forcing Jurina to glance up at me. For a split second our eyes met but we both simultaneously turned away in a huff. Luckily for me I managed to find a short line of vacant seats so I went ahead and sat in the middle of the three seats.
“Who cares about that stupid flirt anyway…” Thumping my head onto the wooden table I let out labored grumble.
“A-ano… Watanabe-san…” I looked up to see a timid Rena gradually edge toward me. Seeing the irritatingly shy face caused a small vein in my forehead to start throbbing.
“Oh Matsui-san, what is it?” I morphed my face into a forced smile but judging from Rena’s scared look my sincerity must have been less than convincing.
“I’m really sorry about this morning!” Rena swung her head down so vigorously that she almost whacked me with her flailing hair. Not feeling in a particularly forgiving mood, the corners of started to form into a scowl as I leered at the top of Rena’s bowing head.
“It might be easy for you to say that but thanks to you Jurina is refusing to speak to me.” I turned away from Rena and stared straight ahead at the flirt and all her begging dogs.
“I’m sorry Watanabe-san I never realized that I was a sleep walker like you…” Rena was now looking at me with a sympathetic frown on her face. Tired of being patronized I decided to change the subject.
“So what about you then? Yuki can’t be pleased about you napping on Jurina’s lap.” Rena’s face went bright red as she started fiddling around with the frill on her white top.
“N-no not really…but I told her that it was all a big misunderstanding…”
“And it better not happen again!” Suddenly a sulking Yuki came marching past Rena with her cheeks puffed out. Yuki went to continue on toward me until Rena reached out and grabbed Yuki.
“Yuki I told you it was an accident!” Rena whined as she tugged on Yuki’s arm, only to have it pulled away from her grip.
“I don’t care if it’s an accident. This sort of thing should never happen!” Slowly but surely the chatting heads all turned their attention towards the pair’s raised voices.
“Ano Yu-Yuki I think you should calm down…”
“I am calm!” Despite her words Yuki’s voice was louder than ever, causing the entire room to point their gaze at her.
“Look Yuki everyone’s staring at you…” Hissing as quietly as possible I tried to alert Yuki to all the people watching her scream and shout. Finally she noticed the amount of unwanted attention she was attracting, causing her to immediately drop under the table to hide her scarlet face. Fortunately for Yuki the bell for breakfast rang out and several shutters across the back of the room shot up to reveal various trays of food. Everyone except the three of us rushed up in one huge swarm to claim their meal, Jurina being led through untouched by her groupies.
“Yuki you can come out now.” Rena crouched down beside the table and held out a hand that Yuki gladly accepted.
“Thanks…” A sheepish Yuki emerged from the table, dusting the dirt off her dress as she grimaced at Rena. “I might have been a little unreasonable just now…”
“No this is all my fault…” Rena took half a step away from Yuki then stared down at the ground.
“What are you talking about Rena? You said it was just an accident right?” Yuki grasped Rena by the shoulders to force the timid girl to look up. All of a sudden the atmosphere around the pair began to shift, causing a knot of unease to form in my stomach.
“U-un…” As Rena gave a nervy nod, the pairs face grew dangerously close to each other. Just as their eyes started shut I coughed out of jealousy to distract them. To start with the infatuated pair didn’t notice my deliberate ploy but with the second more forceful attempt I managed to catch their attention.
“Ahem…” Yuki and Rena both looked at me with bewildered eyes. I then continued to stare away from the confused pair while gesturing to the scenes behind me with my thumb. Once again everyone had their eyes glued to the events in our corner of the room. This time around Rena also joined Yuki beneath the table to hide from everyone’s shocked stares. Several boys directed whistles at the girls until a teacher wandered in the room and yelled at the rowdy students.
“Come on you lot. Stop making such a commotion and eat your breakfasts.” The teacher pointed around at the crowd and the empty seats. “And then what are you two doing crawling around on the floor.”
“Kya!” Shocked at being spotted by the teacher, Rena and Yuki both jumped up and whacked themselves against the underside of the table. “Owwww…” Clutching at their sore heads, the dithering pair emerged up and sheepishly gestured to the teacher.
“Sorry sir, we were just er looking for something.” Lowering her head a little Yuki pretended to continue to searching.
“Fine then, just make sure to have your breakfast. We’ll be leaving soon.” With that being said the teacher walked away to grab a bite to eat himself. I then glanced across the pair and tiredly mumbled.
“Some morning huh?” The pair sighed and nodded in agreement. I pushed back from the table and wandered toward the dispersing crowd of people. “Let’s just get some food.”
While I queued for the tray of food Yuki and Rena both stood behind me constantly whispering to each other and glancing at me. This continued until I eventually turned around and interrupted the pair. “Would you mind finishing your conversation soon? Listening to a constant hiss behind you can be pretty annoying.”
“Ah sorry…” Rena bowed her head down then stepped forward with a nervous smile. “It’s just we wondered if you wanted to be with us today, since well I’m the reason you can’t be with Jurina…”
My initial thought was to reject the offer from the timid girl but then I immediately realized just how good an opportunity this was for me to get in between Yuki and Rena. I can use this chance to spend the entire day with them and prove to Jurina that I didn’t need her.
“Sure I’d love to!” Desperate to claim this chance I pretended to be thrilled by their offer and clasped my hand around Rena’s. The shy girl began stammering as she tried to back away from my grip.
“Ahem…” Yuki was standing beside Rena, glaring at me with a pair of suspecting eyes. “Mayu do you mind letting go Rena’s hands…”
“Of course!” I immediately released Rena’s hand and hopped away from her. “Anyway we haven’t got much time before we’re leaving, we’d better eat!” Turning away from the girls I grabbed a few trays of rice and soup and handed them to the girls. Then on our way back to our seats I took a deliberate detour to walk right past Jurina to make sure that she had seen exactly what I’d already accomplished without her.
Getting back to our seats we hurriedly started eating without uttering a single word. It wasn’t exactly a pretty sight but the three of us were all desperately hungry from the frantic morning that we didn’t care about the mess that we were creating. By the time we were done with the meal everyone else had already left the room, leaving us to slowly place our trays back and then leave the building.
“By the way do either of you know what we’re going to be doing later?” I asked the pair as we wandered out towards the coach. The two of them just shook their heads and gave me a set of blank stares. “Well I guess we’ll find out soon.” Letting out a sigh I climb onto the coach and automatically walked up toward the back of the coach. Of course they wouldn’t know what was going to happen next, I was so used to Jurina just being able to tell me the next step of her plans.
Then all of a sudden I bumped into something causing me to go tumbling backwards. Shocked by the unsuspecting collision I took a moment to recover before looking up at the foreign object. Towering above me were the backs of several oblivious girls, all of them too busy clamoring over a certain someone sitting in the backseats.
“Girls, girls calm down.” Jurina’s irritatingly confident voice floated out from beyond the scrambling crowd. Through the various legs I could vaguely see Jurina’s cocky smile as she addressed all her subjects. “Once we’re at the theme park they’ll be plenty of time to be with all of you.” Hearing her words the girls all dispersed to their seats, trampling all over my curled up body.
“Hmmm Mayuyu, what are you doing down there?” Jurina opened out her legs and leant forward. There was an infuriatingly self-assured smirk on her face as she glared down at me. “Have you come to grovel to me?”
“Humph, why am I the one that needs to beg?” I slowly lifted myself up and leered at her. “It should be you that’s apologizing to me!” Righteously flicking my head away from Jurina I stomped off down the aisle, ignoring all the sharp stares from behind me and focusing on finding somewhere to sit. This led me all the way to the front of the coach and a single vacant seat just ahead of Yuki and Rena.
Immediately after sitting down I shut my eyes and started mumbling some choice words about Jurina. Then there was a sudden tap on my shoulder causing me to jump up in shock.
“Watanabe-san are you ok?” I turned around to see Rena lean around the side and whisper to me. However as I forced a smile and nodded I caught a glimpse of Yuki’s arm wrapped around Rena’s waist. Continuing to look across I noticed that Yuki had her eyes tightly shut and her head nuzzled up against Rena’s neck.
“Is Yuki asleep?” I quietly whispered as I pointed at the peaceful looking face. Rena silently nodded and gave me a nervous smile.
“She must be tired from this morning.” Rena quietly mouthed to me, making sure to not move too much so Yuki could remain resting on her shoulder.
“Oh, yeah I guess so…” Stifling my own yawn in, I turned back around before Rena could spot any of the envy in my face. I kept reminding myself to calm down; if everything goes well today then it won’t be long till I’m the one in Rena’s seat. Closing my eyes shut, I leant my head against the window and listened to the sound of the teachers board the bus. Soon the bus was rumbling along the road my head bobbing along with the disjointed rhythm. Within a matter of seconds my mind was drifting off and my consciousness had completely slipped away.
・・・
“Watanabe-san…” There was a distant voice calling out my name, causing me to groan and stir from my nap. I let out a loud grumble and turned my body away from the noise, hoping that it would leave me alone.
“Mayu, you need to wake up.” A hand grasped onto my shoulder and started shaking my body. My head had to be bumped against the seat several times before I properly woke up.
“Nngh… What is it now..?” I looked out of the window and caught a glimpse of all the students rushing away from the coach. Looking up from the crowd I could clearly see several large rides emerge up from the wall of trees. “Right Jurina did mention a theme park… So I guess we should head out as well.” Letting out a tired grumble I scratched my head and turned towards the pair that had just woke me up. Yuki and Rena both nodded as I picked myself up and joined them on the aisle.
“Well I’m sorry to be intruding on your date today.” I stepped down off the bus and grimaced at the pair, only to have Rena shake her head in reply.
“I’ve already told you Watanabe-san, it’s my fault that you and Jurina have had an argument.” I then noticed her hand was tightly holding onto Yuki’s, swinging forwards with every step they took. “Anyway sometimes it’s nice to have extra company.” She gave me a sweet smile then looked across at Yuki.
“U…un.” Yuki sounded surprisingly nervous as she nodded in agreement but she continued to smile as we wandered towards the theme park. With the teacher’s paying for all the students’ tickets, no doubt forced by Jurina, we went ahead and entered through the gates.
“So what ride do you two want to go on first?” Pretending to be really excited I dove in between them and separated their hands from each other. Luckily the couple seemed to just go along with my enthusiasm and actually put some thought into my question.
“Well I guess there are a few things we’d like to do…” They then continued to walk forward and quietly discuss their plans without me, so I just followed them and tried to listen in on their conversation. We were wandering around like this until the pair paused in front of me and pointed upwards.
“I know let’s go on that!” I looked up from the finger and gasped at the monstrous structure. My eyes couldn’t stop staring at the unbelievably huge frames, the steel tracks snaking in and out of each other as they formed multiple loops.
“You guys are joking… right?” A huge lump travelled down my throat as I looked across at the other girl’s faces, longing for the usual teasing grin that Jurina would always flash at me.
“You can wait down here if you don’t want to go on it.” I could’ve sworn there was a tinge of ridicule in Rena’s voice as she pointed at the lonely bench beside a bin.
“No way! Of course I’m going to go on this ride.” Flicking my head away from them I stomped towards the entrance and joined the end of the queue. It was only then that I realized just how long the line of bodies was. Countless rows of people were all packed up together along a tightly snaking path. My initial thought was one of disbelief, why on earth are so many people desperate to ride this death trap! However I remained shuffling along the queue, desperately trying to find something positive in this hellish situation. While I was stood still the line began to move forward again causing people to bump into me and send me tumbling forwards. Tripping on my own legs I collided into Rena and wrapped my arms around her in an attempt to keep my balance.
“Geh what have I done…” Flashbacks of Rena slapping Jurina flashed through my mind as a panicking scream echoed through the air. I hurriedly let go of Rena and braced myself for the pain that was bound to follow the shriek, curling up into a shaking ball. Instead there was a gentle hand resting on my head.
“Mayu I know you’re scared of this ride but…” Yuki had her other hand resting on her knee while she bent down to my height. “Maybe try to keep your hands off of Rena next time?” She gave me a strange looking smile as the ride flashed behind her head, carrying with it the screams that I heard from earlier.
“Sure…” I gave her a timid nod in reply then began fidgeting with my fingers for the rest of the time in the queue. As the pair held hands and spoke about how excited they were for the various other crazy rides in the park; I just stood there at an awkward distance, wishing to get to the front of the queue so that this entire ordeal could be over.
Luckily, or unluckily, my wish was granted and before I knew it I was being ushered on to the death machine. I sat on the very edge of the ride as the red harness slowly came down over my shoulders and trapped me to the chair. Then the ride immediately started to rattle forwards and begin a loud jerky ascent with my feet dangling down. Hoping to distract myself from the height I glanced across around the harnesses to watch Yuki and Rena; only to witness a worryingly calm smirk across Yuki’s face and a slightly twisted grin from Rena. The next thing I knew we were all hurtling downwards at stupendous speeds. My hands tightened their grips around the harness as my head rattled around between them. We were all tossed around by the twisting tracks, our legs pointing upwards and flailing around helplessly in the air. Our screams were being left behind in the air as we spun around several loops. Gripped by fear I shut my eyes as I went around the second loop, praying desperately for the ride to end.
Suddenly I felt a huge jerk on my body and let out an all mighty scream. The next thing I could was the snickering if laughter from all around me as I let go of the harness. There was a gentle tap on my shoulders, encouraging me to open my eyes and look across at Yuki.
“Er Mayu, the ride is over now…” The harness began to lift up over my head and allowed me to look around at all the ssexy beasting faces point at me. That’s when I noticed Jurina was in the queue, her finger directed right at my blushing face and her back bent over in laughter.
“Look at her screaming like that at the end! Seriously how scared do you have to be ti di such a thing?” Hearing Jurina’s mocking voice I leapt out of my seat stormed off toward the exit, not caring about whether Yuki followed me or not. Finally getting away from the ride I sat down on the bench that Rena had pointed to earlier and leant my elbow on my knee.
“Dammit, I should have just sat and waited here…” Letting out a tired huff, I shut my eyes and began to wonder why I was in such a mood. Why was I reacting like this to Jurina mocking me? I’m used to her making fun of me but seeing her talk about me like that with the other girls made me feel unusually upset…
“Ma… Mayu!” Yuki came scrambling towards me, huffing and puffing as she called out my name. “What’s wrong? The ride wasn’t too scary was it?” I limply shook my head and sighed. Although I didn’t enjoy the ride it certainly wasn’t the reason for the sudden turn in my mood.
“Then what’s the problem?” She sat down beside me and looked down on me with a caring gaze, causing me to blush a little.
“I don’t know… I think it might be something to do with Jurina…” From the corner of my eyes could see Yuki’s face form a frown.
“Oh right… Well…” Yuki looked around for a second before giving me another nervous look. “Why don’t we go on another ride then? Of course this time you can choose what to go on...”
“Ah well…”
“Yuki, can we go on that next?” Averting my eyes to the side I could see Rena point to a huge mountain with a huge waterfall bursting out from it.
“Er… Well Rena you see…” Yuki was dithering between me and her girlfriend, struggling to properly explain the situation to Rena.
“Hmm what is it?” The standing girl briefly shot a confused glare at the two of us, causing Yuki to continue stammering her explanation.
“Look its fine you two. We should just go on another ride instead of doing nothing. ” Fed up with wasting any more time I got up and looked at Yuki. “Plus I don’t actually have any rides that I want to go on.” There was an immediate smile form across Rena’s face as she leapt and dragged Yuki from the bench.
“Well then let’s get going!” With Rena’s words the three of us all headed across to a cave in the fake mountain. The path to the ride was a dark silent one, a few drops of water dripping down from the convincing walls and splashing on the damp stony floor. We eventually reached the end of a short queue and spotted a line of log like boats float alongside us.
“Phew… This looks like a calm ride.” Seeing the slow moving boats, my mind let out a relieved sigh. It couldn’t be that dangerous a ride since there were no harnesses or belts on the boat. After everyone ahead of us had boarded and set off down the river, it was finally our turn to clamber onto the boat. I was sat at the very front, Yuki then Rena sliding in behind me. Getting comfortable in my seat I looked around at the cheap looking animals, their mechanical movements clearly hampered by the rusting cogs within them.
“So why are we even on this ride?” I turned my head around and called out to Rena.
“You’ll see in a bit.” She poked her head out from behind Yuki and gave me a slightly teasing reply. It was at that moment that I heard a horrifyingly loud shriek come from deep in the caves. My body froze up and flicked my eyes around for the source of the noise. It had to be something jumping out from one of the shadows behind the rocks and scaring someone. However we went through the rest of the cave without seeing another thing, in fact I could already see the bright sunlight at the very end of the cave. Despite knowing that the end was near I kept my guard up and continued to scan everything around me. While we got even closer to the light of day I could hear the sound of tons of water gushing out.
The boat then tipped out from the cave and plunged down toward a large body of water. I shut my eyes as we slammed into the water and sending a huge tidal wave of water up into the air and all over us. Spluttering for air I could feel something tight wrap around my body and press me against a soft gentle cushion.
“Oh my god!” Flicking my drenched hair away from my eyes, I peeked down and realized that it was Yuki’s arms wrapped around me. “Wait then that means…” I had to clamp my hands over my mouth to stop myself from screaming in joy. Yuki was unknowingly pulling my body into her and pressing her breasts into my back. For the remainder of the ride I was desperately trying to hold my excitement in, praying that Yuki wouldn’t let go until the very end of the ride.
“Oh my! Mayu I’m really sorry!” As we finally reached the end of the ride Yuki let go of me and quickly climbed out of the boat with Rena. I couldn’t help but let out a slight tut in disappointment from the loss of the sweet contact. Yet I tried to contain my frustration and followed the two of them into a strange looking cubicle, a line of dripping water trailing along behind me.
Once I stepped into the machine the surrounding spotlights all lit up and a huge heat wave of air blasted us and caused our hair and clothes to flutter around in a frenzied storm.
“Kya!” I let out a shocked scream as we began to dry from the constant flow of warm air surrounding us. We eventually walked out, completely dry, before I bent over to take a tired breath.
“Can the next ride be something a little less energetic?” The pair paused and turned to listen to me. I glanced up beyond them and spotted a carriage high up in the sky. “Why not go on the Ferris wheel?” My suggestion caused the other two to glance quickly at each other before looking back at me and speaking in unison.
“Well we were kind of hoping that if you didn’t mind we could maybe go on that alone…” It took me a surprisingly long amount of time to work out exactly why they would want to do such a thing but once I realized their intentions I felt my heart sink.
“I understand.” I made sure to not make any eye contact, during or after my answer. “I have been intruding on you two for the entire day so it’s only natural that you’d want to spend some proper time as a couple.”
“Thank you Mayu, but this doesn’t mean we didn’t enjoy your company.” A serene smile from Yuki cheered me up and sent several butterflies free in my stomach.
“Today wasn’t a total waste right...?” Yuki seemed to notice my unconscious mumbles and gave what looked like a small nod of the head as she moved closer to listen properly.
“Look just go ahead and ride the Ferris wheel with Rena.” I clasped my hands onto Yuki’s shoulders and faced her away from me before I became too flustered by the nearing face.
“Are you sure it’s ok Mayu?” How I wished that I could reply to Yuki with a simple no. Tell her honestly that I wasn’t ok with any of this and just blurt out my true feelings of affection for her. However I just bottled everything up and shoved Yuki toward Rena.
“Just go and enjoy the ride. I’ll just float around and find something else to do.” After showing them a fake smile and looked away before they could spot how I was forcing every single one of my actions.
“Thank you Mayu!” I replied to the pair’s shouts with a casual wave without facing them and continued to stroll away. After several minutes of walking I heard an awful gurgling sound from my stomach.
“Oh god I totally forgot about lunch…” The sky was already turning a bright shade of orange and with the energy completely drained from me I collapsed onto a bench instead of seeking out something to eat. My eyes briefly opened to check my surroundings for a vending machine or a stall but I didn’t manage to spot any. All I could see was a large white fountain and a countless number of couples frolicking around it, hugging and whispering things into each other’s ear.
“This is the last thing I need.” I slammed my fist down on the wood with a thud and let out a rather loud grunt.
“Such a violent girl, no wonder you’re just sat there by yourself.” The all too familiar voice echoed through my mind, causing it squirm and correct me on my mistake. ‘She’ is the last thing I need.
“Are you here to gloat about something or make fun of me? To be honest it doesn’t matter, right now I really don’t care.” My eyes opened to actually find that Jurina was stood there by herself. “Your fans finally got bored of you?”
“You’re not being serious are you Mayuyu?” Jurina chuckled and sat beside me. Her voice went deeper as she whispered in my ear. “I just came to apologize to you.”
“Very funny Jurina.” My hand tried to push her away while she placed an arm over my shoulder.
“I’m not trying to be funny.” Several fingers gently forced me to turn my head to face Jurina. She then lifted my chin slightly and kissed me in one fluid motion, only to have me shove her back off me. I then stood up from the bench and slapped the shocked girl as hard as I could.
“What the hell is that for?” Jurina was holding onto her cheek as she shot up from the bench and yelled at me.
“I could ask you the exact same thing!” I fiercely shouted back and took a step towards her. “How does a stupid kiss prove that you’re actually sorry about anything!”
“That’s because I’m not sorry! Everything from this morning was a complete misunderstanding from your stupid over reaction to things! I mean why did were you so worked up over Rena accidentally sleeping with me!” Jurina was right. Her and Rena being together shouldn’t be a big deal to me, or rather I should have been happy about the possible rift it could have created between her and Yuki. Instead it was us, the fake couple that ended up in this pathetically pointless argument while the actual couple just solved the problem and got on with their day.
“Look if it makes you feel any better I’m sorry for what I said about you not having the guts to join Yuki in her futon…” Jurina glanced away from me as she spoke, presenting me with the rare chance to tease her.
“What did you just say? I couldn’t quite catch everything.” Pretending to not hear I leant forwards and cupped my hand around my ear.
“I said I’m sorry…” The embarrassed girl continued to mumble beneath her breath and avoid my playful gaze.
“Hey what was that word at the end? I think it began with an S?” My hands gripped on to Jurina’s arm and tugged at it. The smile on my face was making it obvious that I was enjoying this opportunity to tease Jurina.
“Look I said I’m sorry!” Jurina lashed out with her arm and yelled at me. By this point her face was completely scarlet and panting a little for air. “So? I’m also expecting an apology from you!”
“Oh right yeah I guess I did over react in the morning…” With a nervous laugh I scratched my head and grimaced at Jurina. Then a slightly strange thought floated into my head causing me to clutch onto her shoulders and lift my head closer to her. Our lips briefly came into contact before I pulled away and gave Jurina an awkward glance. “Is this how you would apologize?” To begin with Jurina was a little surprised by my action but she very quickly regained her composure.
“And have you done this to Yukirin yet?” I shook my blushing head at her and listened to her sigh. “Dammit Mayu, how can you casually kiss me like that yet you struggle to do the same thing with Yuki?” She wrapped her arm around and drew me closer into her. “Well at least it’s now obvious that you still have a lot to learn from me.”
“What are you talking about? I was perfectly fine without you!” I called out in protest and gave her a weak punch in the arm.
“Right so you’d be able to kiss Yuki if you saw her now?” Not wanting to fall for her trap, I remained silent and looked up to find Yuki and Rena walking straight towards us.
“Hey Yukirin~ Rena-chan~” Jurina called out to the girls and directed an excited wave at them.
“Ah!!!” Yuki stared at Jurina with a flabbergasted face while Rena’s mouth slowly fell down in shock.
“Missed me?” There was a wide grin on Jurina’s face as she waltzed me over to the other couple. “Especially you Rena-chan.” Rena’s face immediately flared up as her mind flashed back to the morning.
“W…well I’m sure Mayu-san did…” Rena was trying her best to simply brush off the return of the teasing Jurina and avert the attention away from herself.
“Don’t worry Rena-chan you can join me in bed whenever you—” I elbowed Jurina in the stomach before she went ahead and caused Rena’s head to explode. Before Jurina could recover and say something else inappropriate there was a loud chime echo throughout the park on the tannoy system.
“The park will be closing in five minutes…” The digital voice continued to repeat the announcement as we stared at each other in panic.
“We’d better get going on then!” With that Yuki took Rena’s hand and began scrambling through the empty park towards the sun set. Jurina then gave me a grin and wrapped her hand tightly around mine before chasing after the other couple. As I was being dragged along I couldn’t help but smile at the grinning Jurina. Things just aren’t as fun when the cocky pervert isn’t around to mess around with everything.
TBC
Topic: Why are we dating? - Chapter 7 [Mayuki, WMatsui] 25/08/2013 (Read 46524 times)