After a long hiatus, I finally found some time to write some more of this story. Again, hoping it's not too awful.
Chapter 4Keicchi looked at the two girls in bed together. Her roommate Yoshida Akari and the idol Kishino Rika.
After about 30 seconds of quietly staring at the two girls, Keicchi ran out of Akarin’s room. Akarin chased after her, but Keicchi had run directly into her room and had locked the door. Akarin’s knocks and requests to talk were met with deafening silence. Akarin returned to her room and sat down on the edge of the bed. She sighed and reminisced of a scene strangely familiar to this one.
FLASHBACKKeicchi reached the front steps of Akarin’s home just as the sun was setting. She had noticed that both cars were not in the driveway, which meant both of Akarin’s parents were away from work. Keicchi rang the doorbell and waited for Akarin to answer the door. After several minutes of waiting, Keicchi became impatient and started banging on the front door. The impact from Keicchi’s attack on the door knocked it full open and Keicchi cautiously walked inside.
“Akari, are you here?”
No response, but Keicchi heard some noises coming from the direction of Akarin’s room and decided to investigate. She arrived at Akarin’s room door and without warning, opened the door.
Keicchi held her hands to cover the gasp coming from her mouth. There in front of her was the sight of Rikanyan and Akarin under the covers of the bed. And those two girls were staring blankly right back at her.END FLASHBACKAfter reminiscing for a bit, she felt a slight tap on her shoulder. She re-entered the bed and Rikanyan immediately went to give Akarin a comforting hug.
After hugging Akarin, Rikanyan went to kiss Akarin’s neck and asked, “Now, where were we?”
“But… Kei…”
“I know that was a little embarrassing for her to walk in on us, but she’ll be fine.” Rikanyan then brought in Akarin for a kiss on the lips. After seconds of kissing, Rikanyan parted her lips and said, “Let’s not our good time get wasted.” And the two spent the rest of the night enjoying themselves in Keicchi’s bed until they both fell asleep.
The next day, Akarin woke up before Rikanyan did. She looked over to the clock and the clock read 1PM. She snuck away from the bed and headed over to Keicchi’s room to apologize. But upon opening the door to Keicchi’s room, Akarin found no one inside.
Akarin sighed. “She must have left.”
Akarin took out her phone and texted a message to Keicchi.
From: Akari
To: Kei
I’m so sorry about last night. We should talk. Please give me a call back when you can.After finishing her text, Akarin noticed that she had a missed call. She opened the missed calls folder and found that Mirurun had called her earlier this morning. She decided to call Mirurun back.
“Hello?”
“Hey Mirurun, it’s Akarin. You called me earlier?”
“Oh, hey Akarin! Oh yeah, I called to see if you were busy tonight.”
Akarin remembered that Rikanyan had to do another Orera radio show tonight and Akarin had nothing planned for the night. “I’m free tonight. What’s up?”
“There’s gonna be a new art exhibition at the museum tonight. One of my friend’s paintings is gonna be displayed there. Fuuchan’s busy tonight, so I was wondering if you wanted to go with me.”
“Sure, I’d love to.”
“Awesome. I’ll meet you at the museum at 9PM. See you there, Akarin. Bye.”
After the call ended, Akarin returned to her room and woke up Rikanyan so she could get ready to leave to her hotel room to prepare for her radio show later that night.
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Hearing the sound of cooking in the distance, Keicchi awoke from her slumber. She looked around at her surroundings and remembered that she had decided to spend the night at her half-sister’s apartment. She was all cozied up in Chihhii’s pink bed with the warmest blanket she had ever felt in her life. Just as she was feeling comfortable, the door to the room opened.
“Ah, you’re awake, sis.”
Keicchi nodded. “Yeah. I had a wonderful night of sleep. Thanks for letting me stay here for night.”
“No problem, sis. How about we have breakfast now? I made us some pancakes.”
“Pancakes!? You’re the best, Chihiro.”
Keicchi followed Chihiro into the kitchen and they both sat down to eat some pancakes. Keicchi took the first bite of her pancake and cherished the sweet taste in her mouth.
With a smile on her face, Keicchi said, “Your pancakes are always the best, Chihiro.”
“Thanks, sis,” replied Chihhii. Chihhii wasn’t sure why Keicchi needed a place to stay for the night, but she was just happy to help out her sister. And she was really happy to see her sister smile.
After breakfast was over, Chihhii asked, “Kei, are you doing anything until meeting Rena later tonight? We could go shopping, if you like.”
Keicchi replied, “I’d like that. Gotta find something to wear to impress Rena.”
And the two left to go shopping.
After dropping off Rikanyan at the radio station, Akarin walked over to the museum entrance where Mirurun was waiting. Akarin was wearing a short, red dress while Mirurun was wearing a beautiful, long, white dress
“Looking good, Mirurun.”
“As are you, Akarin. You ready? I want you to meet my friends.”
“Sure. Let’s go.”
The two entered the museum and looked around the many paintings and other art pieces. Eventually, they arrived at the newest art exhibit. Two girls immediately recognized Mirurun and went up to hug here.
“Maokyun, Yukistun, you’re here.”
“Happy to see you, Mirurun,” said the long-haired girl.
“Yeah, really glad you could make it for my art debut,” said the girl in sailor uniform cosplay.
Mirurun smiled and said to them, “Oh, this is my model friend, Yoshida Akari. You can call her Akarin.” Looking back at Akarin, she said, “The girl on the left in the sailor uniform is Mita Mao. She’s the artist whose paintings are on display tonight. And the girl on the right is Azuma Yuki. She’s a photographer for several different magazines.”
“Nice to meet you two,” said Akarin.
“Likewise. Wow, you’re so pretty,” said Maokyun.
Akarin blushed and said, “Thank you so much.”
Suddenly, Yukistun pointed at a girl over at from the distance, “Hey, is that Matsui Rena!?”
“The famous actress, Matsui Rena?” asked Maokyun. Maokyun and the others looked over at where Yukistun was pointing.
Akarin looked over and confirmed her identity. Akarin sighed. “Yep, that would be Matsui Rena.” With the driest of sarcasm, Akarin went on, “Well, this is gonna be a fun night.”
Yukistun asked, “You know Matsui Rena?”
Akarin replied, “Unfortunately. Let’s just say we don’t have the greatest history together.”
Mirurun interrupted, “Hey, isn’t that… Keicchi?”
Akarin focused her sights at Rena holding hands with Keicchi as the two were looking around at different art pieces.
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After finishing her shopping with Chihhii, the two returned to Chihhii’s apartment. Chihhii helped Keicchi do her makeup and hair and Keicchi tried on her new blue dress.
After thanking Chihhii for her help, Chihhii left for the museum. She had decided to arrive half an hour early as she knew Rena was always high up on punctuality. She went inside the museum and walked around by herself for a bit. While she looking deeply at a painting, she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around and caught sight of the person of the source of her greatest pleasure and her greatest pain: Matsui Rena.
“You are early, Kei.”
“Yeah, I knew you were always such a stickler for punctuality.”
Rena smiled and said, “Indeed.”
Keicchi could feel her heartbeat rising and rising, but she tried her best to keep her composure up. “You look amazing, Rena.”
“Thank you. As do you.”
Keicchi smiled. “I could never look as amazing as you are though, Rena.”
“You were always so good as flattering people, Kei.”
“I don’t think it’s really called flattering if the statement is true.”
Rena laughed, which Keicchi was not expecting. “I miss this.”
Keicchi stared at Rena and said, “Really?”
“Really. I always enjoyed our conversations together.”
“Then why… why… did you break up with me?” Keicchi couldn’t hold back her tears any longer. Seeing and hearing Rena brought about a multitude of feelings and emotions in Keicchi.
“About that… I believed I may have made a mistake.”
Wiping tears from her eyes, Keicchi asked, “Has Matsui Rena ever made a mistake before?”
“Yes, Jonishi Kei. Despite the rarity of its occurrence, even I make mistakes. I failed to factor in how much I would miss you.”
“You missed me?”
“Very much so. More than I thought I would. And I was hoping to be able to rectify my mistake here.”
“What do you mean?”
“I am hoping you would take me back as your girlfriend, Jonishi Kei.”
“Of course, I would love nothing more. I love you, Rena.”
“And I love you, Kei.”
And the two kissed with all the passion that Keicchi felt she had been missing lately. And Keicchi could feel her heart being healed. And after the kiss, the two decided to spend their reunion as a couple together looking at all the museum art pieces, hand in hand.