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1 – Life is Never Flat
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"I'm hooomeee!"
She says to the empty living room. Her eyes closed. Her arms spread wide as well as her legs. Hearing no replies come, she opens her eyes, right first.
"Hmm? No one's here?"
The short haired girl plops down on the couch. Throwing her backpack carelessly, she's ready to start her long awaited rest. At least, that was her plan before someone throws towel at her.
"Sleep at your own room, Rin!"
The one called Rin raises the towel from her face, looking at the raven haired girl who stands with her hands on her hip frowning. She smiles. "Nico-chan nyaa! I'm home~"
"Yes, yes. Don't start making mess when you just got back," Nico kicks the backpack lightly. Rin grins, taking it to her side. "Now, where's the money?" She holds out her hand.
"What's money?" Rin tilts her head.
"Rent money,"Nico furrows her eyebrows. "Don't say you spent it all for your trip."
Rin widens her smile. Putting her fist to her head, she winks at the older girl. "Tehee~?"
"Don't 'tehee' me!" Nico grabs the other girl's collar and shakes her. "I told you before! Save some money for rent this month!"
"Aww, aww, aww," Rin grabs Nico's hand, tries to stop the girl from choking her. "Eehh… but Rin didn't fully stay here last month!" She reasons after her futile attempt.
"You still live here!" Nico barks. "Your belongings are still in your room!"
"But… but… trip is expensive!" Rin whines. "Ah! I bought you souvenirs, Nico-chan!" She perks up.
Nico lets the girl go. Crossing her arms in front of her chest, she glowers. "Don't think you can make that same excuse every time."
"Nico-chan… I will pay you lateeerr," Rin puts out her most adorable puppy looks.
"No," unfortunately, Nico's already immune to the girl's trick. "You always late to pay it back. And I don't want ramen as payment."
"Eeehhh!" Rin grabs the older girl wrist. "Pleasee!"
"No," Nico takes her arm back.
"Pretty please! With cherry on top!"
"You ate it first," Nico remarks wryly. "Good luck trying to convince Umi." She waves her hand away from Rin when the other girl tries to grab it again.
"Nooo! You can't make me do that, Nico-chan!"
"Yes, I can."
"Uwaaa!"
"Why are you being so loud in the morning? It's too early to cause ruckus."
They freeze. Standing on the doorway, the bluenette looks at them reproachfully. Seeing no reaction from the two, she moves her gaze to the youngest girl. "Rin, welcome back. How's the trip?"
"Great," still out of it, Rin answers in short.
Nico, comes back to her senses, speaks up before Rin can continue her story and make them forget about the problem. "Umi, she doesn't have any money to pay the rent."
Umi glances at Rin, making the other girl stiffens. After a few seconds, she sighs. "Well… it's fine."
"Eh?" Nico gapes.
"Eeh?" Rin gapes. "Then, you will lend me money, Umi-senpai?"
"No," she replies curtly.
"Y-you will pay it for me, then?" Rin almost break in tears.
Umi shakes her head.
"You will make Nico-chan pay for it?" "—Hey!"
"No, of course not," Umi replies before the older girl can continue her angry remark.
"Then… what?" Rin slumps in disappointment.
"Yeah… how's that fine?" Nico wonders.
"Well… do you remember about the lottery tickets you bought before you were going two weeks ago?"
Rin scratches her cheeks. "Ahh… yeah… I did buy some."
"Yesterday, they announced the winners. I checked them for you. And surprisingly, one got through," Umi moves to the cupboard, taking white envelope from the drawer. "It's enough to pay the rent." She says as she gives Nico the money.
"Eh? Is there some left?" Rin asks, seeing Umi only gave Nico a portion.
"—And pay me back for the last month," Umi continues, putting the rest to her pocket. She smiles a bit mischievously to the younger girl. "Too bad. I don't think there's some left."
Rin looks dumbfounded. As realization of what her senior did sink in, she wails loudly. "Umi-senpai is so meaaan!"
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"You're the one who's wrong, anyway," Nico says without mercy as she puts her coat on. Umi has gone after saying she has morning class, elegantly escaping from Rin sulk. "You need to manage your money better, Rin."
Rin mocks sob. "Even though, I always thought of you whenever I went travelling."
"I doubt it," Nico opens the door. "That's too much for your one-way mind."
"Nico-chan meanie," says Rin. "By the way… where's my breakfast?"
Nico gives the other girl annoyed look. "You have guts asking for breakfast after calling me meanie. Anyway," she flicks her hair. "You haven't given me your share of meal money this month. So it's normal for you to not have any."
Rin jumps off the couch. "You're joking, right?!"
Nico nods. "Yesh, I am. Just look in the kitche—Let me go, Rin!" The orange haired girl ignores it as she smothered the other girl. "Love you, Nico-nyaan."
"I know, I know! Let me go! I've to go work!"
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"Ahh… I'm full~"
Rin lies back down on the couch. She hasn't sleeping well within last two weeks. There were always some events, occasions, agenda for her to do even at night. Not to mention she was too excited to be sleeping.
Don't waste your time to sleep when you're on trip!
That's her motto.
That's why she always sleeps one day full after she's got back home. She has to recharge her energy. And it helps she's not live by herself. So she can still get her dinner without doing anything.
Nico is stingy, but she's not that cruel.
Rin is a happy girl.
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"When are you going to start searching job?"
It's dinner when Nico asked Rin that.
Rin gives her innocent smile.
"You don't have to rush me~ I'm alright."
Nico frowns. "I'm not worried about you. I'm worried about my money."
Rin tilts her head to side. She's licking the tips of her chopsticks as she mumbles. "I won't take your money, you nyaaw."
"Rin, that's rude," Umi warns as she sips on her soup. The orange haired girl immediately takes her chopsticks in proper manner, grinning sheepishly at the bluenette.
"Yeah, not directly. But indirectly," says Nico. She points out her chopsticks at the youngest girl. "I don't have any interest to support your NEET lifestyle, okay? And like I said you still haven't pay your share."
"Nico, it's rude," Umi warns as she meticulously picking her fish. The raven haired girl puts down her hand quickly, though still glaring at Rin.
"Who are you calling a NEET nyaa?" says Rin, mock offended. "I'm a freelancer! And always be~"
"You don't have job right now, so yeah you're a NEET," Nico ignores the other girl's antic and continue eating.
"I will search for it tomorrow!" Rin pouts. "You don't have to be so mean."
"You will start search a job tomorrow?" Nico asks suddenly serious.
"Yeah! I'll do it tomorrow!"
Nico can feel her fingers twitch. "Could you repeat that?"
"I'll do it tomorrow?"
"…you know…"
"Yeah?"
"You know! There are people who don't have any leisure to say something like that!" Nico raises her voice along with her arms. It's lucky their dinner table isn't the low, round table type. If it was, there's high possibility she would throw them by now. "How many writers, mangaka, animators, salary man, workers can only hope they could finish their job by tomorrow?! Even I have to come up for new menu by tomorrow! That's why don't you dare saying you will do it tomorrow! You will do it today!"
"It's already night!" Rin cries.
"What's internet for?"
"Err.."
Nico stands up. "Rin."
"Yeah?"
"NOW!"
"Okay! Okay! You don't have to be so angry, Nico-chan!" Rin escapes without tidying up her plates. Nico frowns, realizing it. She takes her seat again, sighs, continuing her dinner. Rin is fast eater, so she's done before you can even blink.
"Nico, you're too loud. You will bother our neighbors," Umi warns calmly as she finishes her meal. "Thanks for the food." Tidying up her plates and Rin's, she goes washing dishes.
The older girl stiffens. "…sorry…"
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Rin takes her time turning on her laptop. And it's long when she finally opens the browser after trying to beat her high score for minesweeper. She loads her usual site for part-time job ads. Skimming most of the content, she stops when her eyes seeing one that she thinks suited her.
"KotoHana Mobile Catering?" she murmurs. "Well… I undoubtedly can drive. And food is always nice nyaa."
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Extra
What will happen if the Flat Trio share flat together? That's the theme I thought when I wrote this.
Nico: Huh? Who is the Flat Trio?
Rin: Nyaa…?
Nico, Rin, and Umi, of course.
Rin: Why Flat Trio?
Nico: I have bad feeling about this.
Well… you're both flat chested. So Flat –chested—Trio, right?
Nico: Who are you calling flat chested!?
Nico, I heard rumor about your real size is smaller than the one you put in the profile.
Nico: W-what?! Of course, not! What are you talking about? Ha Ha haha…
They said you lied about it…
Nico: Ehh… I didn't do it… Nico nico nii~
Don't worry, Nico. You don't have to lie. There are people who like that kind of thing. As someone had said… Pettan is Justice!
Nico: I'm not! Argh! Hey, you two! Why did you just stay quiet when he insulted us! It's sekuhara, you know! Sekuharaaa!
Rin: What's sekuhara nyaa?
Umi: I don't have any problem about my sizes. And I think it's best to ignore him if you thought he sekuhara'd you, well, except if you wanted to bring this to the court. But it would definitely make some scandal, I assure you.
Nico: U-umi… you're scaring me… Don't say it with calm tone like that.
Umi: It's the fact.
Nico: Uuugh…
Well… well… Nico is the most flat from your three. It's no wonder she's the one who feels upset. Reality is harsh, right, Nico-chan? I'm sorry to have brought you back to the earth from your delusion planet about your chest size.
Nico: You're asking for a fight, huh?!
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Rin: Say, Umi-chan? What are they talking about? Rin didn't understand nyaa.
Umi: He just gave his reason for grouping us. He said because our sizes are on the smaller side compared to the other members.
Rin: Hmm… Rin understand! But somehow… it makes me a bit annoyed nya. I mean… we are not as small as Nico-chan, right?
Umi: True. Now that you mention it...
Nico: I can hear you!
A/N: I lied. I didn't think that. I just wanted different trio from your usual year-based trio or subunit trio.
I got this idea because I watched too much dorama (for my standard, though for dorama lovers/fans I don't even meet their level of 'watching') this few days. And there's dorama where three girls lived together in a house. That was when I thought… what's going to happen if a trio from Love Live shared living quarter…?
As you can see… This is AU. They're not idols. They're past twenty. They have different occupations. But other than that, they're all same. I'm not sure whether I should explain their AU profile in this A/N or make you guess it yourself from reading the fic (It's not that important anyway, or this fic isn't that important).
I don't think I'll describe the detail of their background in the story. This is just your –below—average slice of life story where's nothing happen (maybe) after all. Well… because I'm lazy… I'll update whenever I've got motivation and inspiration.
And... as usual... forgive me for my lack knowledge of English...
