Missed me? Of course you did. Anyway, welcome to this sequel of "The Arrival of Cupid"! Let's cut the chase:
T for sexual innuendos, cursing and semi-adult scenery. Thanks for the people who submitted their OC's, both winners and losers. I'm not mentioning them, they already know if they won or not.
Please enjoy.
"Do you really have to go?" I asked my dear friend, with her luggage in hand. "Why?"
"Look, it's my dad." She said as sad like me. "If I could I would bring you with me."
"Put me in your luggage then!" I said, feeling them tears filling up my eyes.
"Don't cry." She said and hugged me. "It's not a goodbye."
"Don't say those cliches to me!" I yelled, letting the tears roll out. "I know them already!"
"Hey, we can talk." She said. "Skype and stuff, y'know?"
"But it's not the same..." I said.
"Christy!" I heard her sister yell near the entrance to the gate for their plane.
"I'll miss you a lot!" She said and hugged me harder.
"I'll miss you too!" I said and kept on sobbing. But soon, the space in my arms disappeared as I saw a blurry girl walk away, into the hallway to the plane.
That was the last time I saw Cupid in person.
The sun rose from the horizon, light spreading around the city of Takaoka. People woke up to enjoy the last day of the spring vacations.
In a certain street, inside a certain department complex, in the apartment numbered 302, there was an alarm clock with the numbers 07:00 echoing through the little place. A groan came from a covered body in a futon, who later took out a slim arm and turned off the alarm clock.
"Fuckin' training..." A female voice swore. The girl took the covers from her and threw them away. Her black hair was made a mess, her deep blue eyes soggily looked around the room, and her clothing, which consisted of pajama shorts and a t-shirt, showed clear hints of her being lazy.
Typical of Christine Simmons.
"I gotta wake up Yui..." She said and stood up. She walked to the wall besides and threw a few punches. Seconds later, same amount of punches were heard. "She's awake..." For you to be confused no more, here is a quick explanation. Christine lives as neighbor of Yui Funami, she is 16 years old, as most of her friends. And yes, she is training the waking up for when starting classes.
"Breakfast time..." Chris said and walked to the fridge. Inside of it there was plenty food, which was odd to happen, for she had no job whatsoever and her only financial income was from her sister, who works at a cafe as waitress and has a secret side job, and father, who is roaming the world. But its something. "Nah... Maybe later..."
Meanwhile, on the other room...
Yui Funami, 17 years old, lied down on her futon looking at the ceiling, thinking on what happened on early times. A little weird stuff happened, like a little party on Chris' place recently. But her mind was focused on a single thing.
Days ago before the Ikeda left to a trip to Tokyo, she and Chizuru had a discussion. A heavy one. Those two can't imagine being without the other, but just can cope with the other. It's complicated. Yep, they are a couple. Happened time ago thanks to Chris' help, but it was mostly natural.
Anyway, she was feeling a little mad at herself. It was a discussion like them all, Chizuru needs time to do things and Yui wants to be with her. She acknowledges that Chizuru is busy with her little summer-time part-time job, but sometimes a little Kyoko gets into her and she becomes negligent. Yui rolled on the bed, ending with her face on the pillow.
"I should apologize..." Yui thought. "I mean, I was the one who started it..." She felt bad. It was their fifth argument in the past 3 months. And starting from 3 months ago since it was that time when the two... Kinda like 'started from zero' for the second time. Their relationship was a firm building, but in a not so stable area apparently.
"What time is it?" She said and looked at the clock. 7:08. "It's still early... Breakfast with the others is at 8..." Yui sighed and stood up. "Shower..."
*Knock knock knock*
Yui looked at the door in the distance. She walked to the little screen device in a nearby table and, once she turned it on, she saw her neighbor with a towel.
"Can I join?" She said through the intercom. Yui just placed the screen down and walked to the bathroom.
The sun rose up higher into the sky. In a certain restaurant in the hearth of the city, a certain blonde sat down with a purplette in a table at the exterior part of said restaurant. Toshino Kyoko looked up in the sky as an airplane passed by closely while her girlfriend Ayano Sugiura looked at her magazine, both girls 17 years old.
"Is it landing?" Kyoko asked with her sunglasses on.
"It looks like." Ayano said eyeing the airplane. "It's really near, so yeah. Might as well be."
"Cool." Kyoko said. "And what if it crashes?"
"If it does, a lot of people will die." Ayano said. "Naturally. Why are you thinking in that?"
"Just saying..." Kyoko said and took off her sunglasses and looked at her girlfriend. "What time is it?"
"Its... Three past eight." Ayano said looking at her wrist watch.
"Ugh... I told you not to come so early!" Kyoko said. "I could have had 3 more minutes on my work."
"Kyoko, the deadline is in two weeks and you have 17 pages to go." Ayano said. "You can do it and have time to kill."
"But I'm on a rampage!" Kyoko said. "Yesterday I did four pages straight!"
"You need to cool down, sweetheart." Ayano said. Kyoko pouted and looked away. And when doing it, she noticed red and pink heads.
"Hey, Akari and Chinatsu are here." Kyoko said. Ayano looked there and waved at the girls.
Kyoko is currently working in her original manga, plus a side-work of her still going doujinshi of Mirakurun. Ayano is in a temporal hiatus on a lookout for her work. She is 'still so young'.
"Good morning!" Akari said, taking a seat besides the blonde. Akari has been looking for ways to become more popular, but the closest thing to her wasn't her liking... And at the short age of 16, like Chinatsu, it's wasn't a good idea.
"How long you have been waiting for us?" Chinatsu asked, sitting in front of Akari and besides Ayano. Chinatsu, on the other hand, has been doing nothing. That's it.
"Not much. Like 3 minutes." Ayano said. "How are you two doing?"
"I'm good." Ayano said.
"I'm super good!" Kyoko said.
"And how is the manga going?" Akari asked. Ayano rolled her eyes.
"I am going well. But thanks to this breakfast, I couldn't get working." Kyoko said. "If I had the day, I would have finished it by 4."
"Ohh, you work fast." Chinatsu said.
"I mean 4 in the morning." Kyoko said. The two girls laughed at Kyoko, as if she had said a poor joke.
"Hey, girls!" A voice behind said. The group turned around and saw the infamous Sakurako with Himawari behind, 16 years both. The blonde has been living out of the profit Himawari made. From living in her house to just buying little stuff with her money. Chris had said before that she is a leech. And apparently, Himawari is a masochist.
"Hello!" The group said and the two sat down.
"Hey, don't start yet!" Another voice said, being Chris herself with Yui besides, this time with Chris wearing glasses with thick frame like the ones Akari gave her long time ago. No lens graduation whatsoever, hipster-like. Plus her clothes... 100% hipster and stuff.
"Hey! Where are the albinos?" Sakurako asked.
"Both still in Tokyo." Yui said a little down and sat down. "But they'll arrive soon." Both Chitose and Chizuru traveled to Tokyo for tourism, but also to see if there was a job of their taste.
"In six hours, I guess." Chris said. "How nice. Being all together having breakfast."
"Let's just wait for Vampire-san to fuck it up." Sakurako said and looked up. "Hey, a plane!"
"Shut up." Chris said. "I thought you had dropped it years ago."
"You still bite people." Sakurako said and turned to Akari. "Amirite?" Akari looked away with a faint blush.
"Hey, stop arguing." Ayano said. "We are here to have breakfast. We can later argue."
"Right." Himawari said. "Let's just order and eat." She smiled to the group and took her menu.
"But Hiro hasn't arrived." Chris said.
"Who said that?" Suddenly, Hiro appeared from behind Chris and took out from her face her glasses. Hiro herself is having fun in her designing clothing hobby and, most recently, modeling for a friend of a friend of hers.
"Ha. Ha. Funny much." Chris said sarcastically. "Gimme my glasses."
"Why they don't have eye correction?" Hiro asked and sat down besides her, handing them to the girl.
"Because I'm not blind." Chris said. "Why aren't you a lesbian so I can punch you properly?" This last part she said it in a whisper. And yes, Hiro is the only one in the group who isn't gay, so a lot of teasing is given to her. Well, the 'isn't gay' part is still uncertain.
"She needs them to see that she is a hipster." Sakurako teased her.
"Would you shut up?" Chris was started to get annoyed, a vein popped out her forehead. (Anime style) "You, better than no one, knows how fucking much I hate hipsters."
"Calm down." Akari said with a innocent vibe coming from her. "Let's just enjoy this stress-less moment with our friends."
"She is right." Ayano said. "Let's have breakfast."
"Yeah!" Hiro said. "Bacon pancakes!"
And so, the group decided to enjoy the last breakfast before school.
"Look, sweetie. This is a heavy decision." My father said, worried but ready for anything.
"I have already told you, I'm 100% sure." I said holding a knot in the throat. It is a really big decision. But I have to do it. More want than have, but yeah.
"We can cancel the tickets if you feel insecure." I think he is the insecure one.
"Papa, please stop it." I said and looked at him a little irritated. He sighed deeply, sign of his resignation.
"Well... Another exchange wouldn't be bad." He said. "Plus, y'know Japanese quite good now, so I guess you will take no time in getting used to it."
"Thank the anime." I said, making him laugh slightly.
"Yeah, sure. And all those classes what?" I giggled. "Just go and make your bags, sweetie." He said and shook my hair. I threw me into him and hugged him quick before running upstairs and making my luggage.
It has been a nice vacation. Nothing happened that really affected the group of friends, so it was a nice spring.
But soon, the night came. And because Chris is Chris, she decided to invite everyone to a restaurant and have fun on the last night before classes. It wasn't a fancy restaurant, but it was a nice, little restaurant in a hidden yet nice part of the city. The wine was really nice, the food was delicious, the prices weren't cheap nor expensive, the place was nicely decorated, it was a really nice experience.
Little was the time the girls had to sleep.
And so, the first day came.
The Nanamori High School opened it's gates for, officially talking, the first time as a Co-Ed school for the boys and girls this lovely morning, where the Sakura trees let their pink leaves fall into the ground. Thanks to the previous director not being able to control the all-girls school, she reopened the school as co-ed but quit anyway for a mysterious reason. And now the new director is ready for it.
"Finally." Kyoko said stepping into the grounds of the school. "We managed to pass middle school with proud and honor."
"You did failed som-"
"AND NOW WE ARE IN HIGH SCHOOL!" Kyoko yelled, interrupting Yui and attracting the attention of some guys and girls around. "Muahahaha!"
"No time for evil laughs." Chinatsu said, slapping Kyoko back to the real world.
"Well, we already were." Yui said. "The girls younger than us should be saying that."
"Look at this beautiful scene." Chris said, inhaling the chilly spring air and letting it out in a sigh. "Sakura trees!" She yelled and ran to a nearby lump of leaves, spreading them around.
"Chris-chan, don't ruin your hair!" Chitose said walking near her. Chizuru just kept on walking.
"I finally can see if I find a boyfriend in here." Hiro plotted.
"Desperate much?" Sakurako said. "After you have given up, you better start looking for these sugar bits." She said pointing at all the girls around.
"Hey, I have my urges a man needs to take care of." Hiro said. "Not girls. Plus, look at all the boys! Aren't they handsome?"
"And you haven't seen the director." Himawari said, stepping in the chat. "They say that he had three wives but all left them. Meaning that he is either rich or handsome."
"Have you heard the rumors of the previous director?" Akari said, stepping in. "They say that she quit because police were looking for her after murdering her cheating husband."
"No rumors on my watch!" Ayano said aloud to Akari, scaring her. In her right arm the band of 'Stu Co.' was strapped. "You two. Why don't you have your band? It's part of your uniform."
"Oh yeah." Sakurako said. She looked in her backpack and soon found two, giving one to her girlfriend and the other placing it on her right arm.
"Chitose, pick up Chris and come on!" Ayano said to the albino, who was trowing away Sakura leaves from the girl underneath.
"Coming!" Chitose said and picked up Chris like a bag of potatoes.
"Woah, you're strong." Chris said amazed.
"Or you are so light." Chitose mocked and quickly smacked her girlfriend's behind, she making a high-pitched 'eep!'.
"Jeez, those two..." Ayano said. She kept on walking but soon a hug stopped her.
"Ayano-chan!" Kyoko said, hugging her girlfriend. "Let's make everyone here jealous."
"T-Toshino K-kyoko! Stop it!" Ayano said, blushing heavily. "People are watching!"
"I know." Kyoko said and kissed her cheek, augmenting her blush and attracting views from people around. "But I don't care."
"I'm the president, Kyoko. I have to give a good impression." Ayano said resigned, walking now into the building.
"Screw it, I'm your girlfriend and I don't care." Kyoko said nonchalantly.
"You're impossible..." Ayano said and, after making sure no one was watching, she kissed quickly her girlfriend on the lips. "I gotta go make some stuff."
"Okay." Kyoko said and let go of her girlfriend, but not without a kiss. "See you in class."
"Alright!" Ayano said and went quickly to the rest of the Stu Co., preparing herself for the initial ceremony.
So yeah... The new year started.