Thanks guys (and mama!) for the previous comments! I'm glad that it healed your WMatsui sickness (even if just for a moment as let's face it... that sickness returns after some time). But this short OS is not for WMatsui this time.
Happy New Year!
#27 - Jealous Bird (FuruYanagi)Rena wasn’t good at New Year Parties always feeling a bit out of a place. She smiled surprised when Airi come and took her by the hand “let’s go dancing!” without even asking for permission and simply dragging her friend after herself.
“What? Why me?” Rena looked around pleading for help from other girls but her friends were either truly busy or pretend to be at the moment.
Airi repeated her pull this time more impatiently “Listen, Churi is ignoring me and I don’t even know why but I want to have some fun! So let’s go, Rena! Its not like you have anything better to do and its just one dance to start a new year” she ended somehow mocking the girl. After all she was the only one knowing Rena’s secret of liking Jurina and her unwillingness of sharing this information with younger girl.
For the last time Rena looked at her friends while being dragged away into the dance floor begging for some help but getting nothing in return. No one wanted to get in between when it included FuruYanagi little quarrels.
“That’s just awkward. You know I might be murdered at the end of this evening if Churi starts imagining stuff, right?” Rena asked more quietly so no one around would hear it.
“So?”
“Wait… are you trying to make Churi jealous or something?” Rena asked unexpectedly while looking around.
Airi squinted her eyes seriously in return “what do you mean?”
“I mean she’s staring at us right now and you said she was ignoring you”.
Airi immediately turn her head to look in that direction but only for a second checking if Rena’s words were truth.
Obviously not wanting to show others that she actually cared Akane instantly turn around to chat with Minarun and Nao.
“No..I mean…who knows what is on her mind…I doubt she even noticed us” this time Airi just shrugged her shoulders looking as innocent as ever.
“She glared at me like she’s really going to kill me later… and you know that I’m close with Churi, she never looks at me that way”.
After few more seconds of their awkward dancing Airi finally sigh with defeat “fine… I wanted to make her jealous so she would actually give me attention for like a second… why is that so wrong?”
Someone cough and startled both Airi and Rena. Girls looked at the direction of Akane who stopped in front of them. After hearing Airi’s last statement she seemed a bit surprised but at the same time amused. “Actually… I came here to ask if I could dance with Airin… if you don’t mind”.
No one before has fled the scene as soon as Rena did at that moment. Surprisingly she even ran in the direction of Jurina who she kept avoiding for some time still unable to express her true feelings.
Airi and Akane were left alone now standing in front of each other awkwardly. Akane was the first one who speak up taking Airi’s hand and starting to dance “mmm… I think… I ignored you for… like a minute… only a minute”.
“More like ten minutes, Churi. You kept staring at those birds outside and it just…”
All of a sudden Akane leaned in stealing a short kiss from her girlfriend “does this make it up for the earlier?”
Already in a daze Airi smiled more happily “oh… well it depends how the rest of the evening goes… you know the saying… how you start new year… that’s how it is going to be…”
“Oh… you mean… me ignoring you for the birds?”
“And me getting jealous by those birds and trying to get your attention…and hopefully getting you jealous enough so you come to steal me away from someone?”
“and afterwards me kissing you and apologizing?”
“…and later on going back to our place and…”
“Oh… I wouldn't mind this arrangement at all” Akane smiled sheepishly while hugging her girlfriend. It seemed like they just made a small pact agreeing that things don’t need to change no matter what and they accept each other as they are.
One jealous because of the birds… other nicknamed as a ‘jealous bird’ because of her strange liking for these animals. Perfect two.