This is an alternative story for competition, Nozomi was already set on Eri and none of those little moments between the three happened. Maki is trying to cope with what happened when she walked in on Eri and Nozomi kissing in chapter 9.

I Don't own LoveLive

Chapter 1

"MAKI-CHAN! WAIT!" Nozomi ran after the girl, not wanting to lose sight of Maki, she forced herself to run as fast as she could. When Nozomi finally managed to grab ahold of Maki's hand they were at the school entrance. The entrance was abandon, the only thing that could be heard were Nozomi's and Maki's frantic breathing. When Nozomi finally caught her breath she looked at Maki to say something "Maki-chan please w—" Nozomi was once again cut off, this time it was Maki's lips however. Nozomi stood there frozen, too shocked to do anything, so Maki decided to take advantage of Nozomi's shock to deepen the kiss.

As soon as Nozomi felt Maki's tongue attempt to break through her lips, she pulled away and pushed Maki, the hand that grabbed Maki was now covering her lips "Maki-chan… I'm sorry…"

Maki looked at her with conflicted eyes, there was it was a mix of pain and anger. "Nozomi… Why is it always Eri?" Maki stared at Nozomi fully aware that Nozomi had just rejected her. What she saw in the room was a clarification that Nozomi wanted Eri, it made her despite the blond even more, knowing that Nozomi will never want her. It was Eri, it was always Eri she was just foolish enough to hope otherwise.

Nozomi couldn't answer she knew what Maki meant but she couldn't admit to her why, Maki wasn't ready to hear the truth. Maki looked so fragile as if any sort of word that would come out of Nozomi's mouth will break her. Nozomi didn't dare speak and that was all Maki needed, a reason to get away from her first love, who was now sadly her first heartbreak. Maki ran as fast as she could without turning back she didn't care about the rain, she just needed to run away. Nozomi was about to run after her when a pair of hands stopped her from going. Nozomi turned to see Eri desperately clinging on to her.

"Nozomi… Please don't go" Eri pleaded "Please… Just stay with me" was her words as she inched closer to Nozomi.

"Erichi…" and Nozomi let it happened she allowed Eri's lips to kiss her again only this time it was welcomed. I'm sorry Maki-chan…

Maki was still running, where she was going she didn't know and she didn't really care she just wanted to be away from there. Away from Eri and her heart ached for admitting it but she needed to be away from Nozomi too. What the hell was I thinking!? Did I really believe that I stood a chance? Against Eri… Maki never wanted to admit it, but Maki knew despite her best effort to show Nozomi that she loved her, in the end it would still be Eri, it was always Eri. She was merely prolonging the inevitable now her foolish hope had gotten her hurt, more than she had ever thought it would. Maki cursed at the thought of love if this was how it would be in the end she'd rather not feel it ever again.

Maki finally stopped running when fatigue caught up to her, she had no idea where she had ended at, but she didn't care. Maki just allowed herself to collapse on her knees. The hard concrete probably bruised and scraped her knees but that pain didn't matter, nothing could compare to the sting she was felt in her heart.

"Nishikino-san?" Someone called out to her, but Maki didn't bothered to look, she didn't want to. Whoever it was though, they were now shielding her from the rain not like it made a difference Maki was completely drenched. "Nishikino-san are you alright?"

Now they were just persistent Maki just wanted to be alone but whoever this person was just didn't take the hint. Maki glanced up to look at the one bothering her, she tried to glare at them but her tear stained face just made her look pitiful, even the pouring rain couldn't hide her puffy red eyes. "…Yuuki Anju-san…" Anju gave Maki a faint smile, whatever happened to the girl clearly wasn't pleasant and obviously where they were at now was no place for a conversation.

"Nishikino-san would you like to accompany me for a while?" Anju offered Maki looked like she was going to refuse when Anju continued "Perhaps somewhere dry, so you can freshen up, I don't think you'd like anyone else to see you like this" Maki wanted to refuse, she really did. Unfortunately Anju was right she couldn't possibly go home to her parents like this, they weren't going to stop interrogating her of what happened. Specially her papa, she was in no mood to explain what happened, she never even told them that she liked girls sure she knew her papa would be understanding, but she didn't want to talk about her love story gone heartbreak.

Maki nodded and reached for the hand offered to her, she followed Anju when Maki looked around she realized that she had gone somewhere in Akiba, where exactly was beyond her. Wherever they were going Maki just hoped it was somewhere close, because she was beginning to feel cold.

Well that's the first chapter. I realized this is probably not a ship at all but I thought it would be interesting to write about since Anju and Nozomi seems to have some similarities.