"Can acting count as confession?"

The class was rowdy with the upcoming school festival. Wait, it may be coming soon but it was still a month to go! Geez, whatever. Now, the classroom was filled with noises and sounds of students chattering with things that may be related about the festival.

"So, what should we do for the upcoming school festival? If anyone has any suggestions, please raise your hands!" said the class representative of 2-A, Shibayama Mayumi. The strict class representative stood in front of the classroom holding a long ruler, standing tall just to control the very hyper class.

Hands were raised and the class representative sighed, feeling that the suggestions may be stupid or just plain idiot.

"You!"

"A sale of girls' things!"

"Too indecent! Rejected! You!"

"The same!"

"Don't even bother raising your hand! You!"

"A café!"

"Mmm, good idea. We'll just write it down first,"

The class president walked to the blackboard and wrote 'café' on it before turning back and continued what she was just doing just now.

"You!" she pointed to a random student.

"Me?"

"Yes! What's your suggestion?"

"A play, maybe?"

"Another good one," she turned around and wrote the suggestion before turning, again, to face the class.

"So, now, we should choose between these two. Which of these two should we do for the school festival?"

"How about we combine it?" said a very familiar voice from behind the class.

"You baseball-idiot! There's no way we have time to prepare for those two tiring event at the same time! Try to use your brain a bit, idiot!" yes, another familiar voice yelled towards the earlier familiar voice.

"Both of you, please don't fight here!" said another familiar voice.

"Yes, Jyuudaime!"

"Loyal puppy Gokudera, here we come~!" said another familiar, yet a bit girly voice.

The class president looked towards the voices' direction and saw the familiar group sitting together at the back of the class. The group consist of one Sawada Tsunayoshi aka Dame-Tsuna, a delinquent-looking boy, Gokudera Hayato, an ever-smiling boy Yamamoto Takeshi, and a bored-looking girl, Kuroba Aoko. Gokudera Hayato was currently glaring daggers and tried to choke the girl while being held back by the baseball star, Yamamoto Takeshi. Tsuna was trying to calm the silver-haired boy while the girl was not even trying to hide her smirk.

"Gokudera Hayato! Be quiet!"

"Shut up, stupid woman!"

It was the class president's turn to be held back by the girls from charging towards the Vongola's Storm Guardian who was wearing his signature scowl. Seriously, the boy's attitude was too rude for his own sake.

"You stinky delinquent! What did you say!?"

"I said you're stupid, stupid!"

"You-"

"So, we can combine the two events together, right?" interrupted Yamamoto who apparently was quite ignorant about the current situation. The class president stopped resisting and reverted to her usual self and took a deep breath to calm her self down.

"Well, it's actually a good idea but I think it's a bit hard to do that. We need to choose just one of it, so… voting time! Whoever chooses café, raise your hands!"

Hands were raised but the counts were less than half of the class. Mayumi took a glance, and told the decision to the class.

"Play, it is! We'll do a play for the school festival!"

Mixtures of 'Yeah!' and 'Oh no!' can be heard among the students. Mayumi smirked when she saw their reactions before smacking the long ruler on the pandemonium she was standing before to get the students' attention again. Oh no, she was not done yet.

"Anyone who has any suggestion on what play should we do, please raise your hands!"

Once again, hands were raised into the air.

"You!"

"Mmm, sleeping beauty?"

"You?"

"Romeo and Juliet!"

"Mmm, you!"

"Errr, Snow White?"

Mayumi wrote the suggestions on the blackboard. While she was writing the suggestions on the blackboard, the boys started making noise and the class was rowdy once again. Well, Mayumi had to use a bit force to make them quiet and after draining her energy trying to make the class quiet down, she just chosed the play herself.

"Okay guys, we'll do 'Romeo and Juliet' for the play, so shut the f*** up!"

"Hey! Shouldn't we vote on which to do? Don't just decide on yourself!"

"Shut it! I've been trying to gain your attention and you guys just have to make my blood boil and make this classroom so f***ing noisy, and you're complaining now!"

And, that's what they continued to do until school time ended.

"Jyuudaime, what part did you get for the play?"

"Ermm.. wait for a while,"

Apparently, the class president aka Mayumi had made a very creative and successful way to choose role for the play. The students must pick one of the papers inside a box and whoever got a sign representing the character will act as the character for the play. This way have been forced by Mayumi to be by them because apparently, she had a sick feeling that if they do a voting like last time, they will surely end up the same way as they did yesterday. So, this way was sure a great way to prevent bloodshed.

"I got to be a patriarch?"

"Wow, it suits you, Jyuudaime!"

"Haha, really? How about you Gokudera-kun?"

"I got to be the patriarch too? Hey, what's the meaning of this? Hey, woman! What's the meaning of this? Why did I get the same role as Jyuudaime?!" Gokudera shouted towards the class president who was busy talking with other student.

"Mmmh? Oh, Gokudera is the patriarch of the house of Montague, but Tsuna's the patriarch of the house Capulet. Long story short, you," she pointed to Gokudera, "will be the father of Romeo and Tsuna'll be the father of Juliet,"

"Tch, say it earlier stupid woman!"

"What did you say, you stinky delinquent!"

Tsuna was trying to calm Gokudera when Yamamoto interrupted them. Again.

"Hey, I got this sign, but what does it mean?" asked Yamamoto confusedly.

The class president turned towards Yamamoto and looked at the paper he was holding.

"Oh! Yamamoto got the crown sign! So, you got to be Romeo! Suits you, Yamamoto!"

Murmurs of "Wow, Yamamoto is Romeo!" and girls' squeals can be heard in the classroom. Apparently, after Yamamoto got the role, all the girls in the classroom quickly checked their paper to see what role they got.

"Ah! I got the tiara sign!" shouted a random girl.

The whole class's attention turned towards the girl. Apparently, the one who got to be Juliet was a girl know as Hasegawa Maki. She was known as a socialized girl. She had a pretty shoulder-length chocolate wavy hair, a pair of dark brown eyes and a slender body. Her face showed her cheerfulness as soon as she knew that she got to be the partner role of Yamamoto Takeshi, the famous baseball star in Namimori High.

"Ano, Yamamoto-san, hope we'll be getting along well!" said the girl with the utmost cheerfulness leaked from her voice.

"Sure. Me too!" replied Yamamoto.

"Mmm, Yamamoto-san, if you'd like, how about we practiced together from time to time? I mean if you're not busy with baseball or anything else?"

"Mm… Sure if you'd like,"

"O-Okay! Thanks, Yamamoto-san!"

After the girl left and the bell rang, the four of them decided to go to Yamamoto's place to get some fresh and delicious sushi. Hey, who doesn't like sushi from Takezushi, by the way?

"Aoko, what role did you get, by the way?" asked Yamamoto after realizing that one of them had been left behind in the role-play conversation. The girl who had been reading her book looked at the baseball star before answering his question.

"I don't have any role,"

"You don't?"

"I don't,"

Apparently, this conversation had peak the interest of the other two boys who were talking to each other to turn back and faced the girl. The four of them stopped walking while the three boys stared at the girl as if she had grown another head.

"You don't get any role," said Tsuna.

"Yes,"

"Then, why won't you say anything?"

"Cause I don't even want any,"

"Maybe I should give my role to you?" said Yamamoto.

"Idiot! You're a guy, she's a girl!" said Gokudera.

"Oh,"

"Hey, I said I don't want any role!"

The three boys stared at each other before two of them sighed (promptly Tsuna and Yamamoto) while the other one just stare at the girl.

"Okay, if you say so~! Let's go now, we're late for sushi!" said Yamamoto. He dragged the three of them to his place. Yamamoto's father greeted them as soon as they came into the store. The topic of the role-play had been forgotten by them as soon as the food came into their sight.

"Thanks for the food, Yamamoto!" said Tsuna.

"Sure! Come again, okay!"

"Jyuudaime! I'll walk you home!"

"Err, okay. Let's go. Mom'll be worried if I don't show up soon,"

"Yes, Jyuudaime!"

"I think I'll go home now. My sister needs me for her study tonight," said Aoko.

"Okay, bye Yamamoto, Aoko!"

Tsuna walked towards his house's direction followed by the ever-so-loyal Gokudera beside him. After their figure vanished from the street, Aoko went towards her house's direction only to be stopped by Yamamoto grabbing her hand.

"Aoko,"

"Mm?"

"Thanks for the advice the other day. If you weren't there to cheer me up, I think I'll be depressed now," said Yamamoto with a huge grin.

"Sure. I don't really mind about that. Plus, I don't really like it when someone barges into my working place with a gloomy aura. That will surely disturb my work,"

"Ahahaha! You said it as if I go there everytime!"

"Well, you did,"

"Ahaha! Well, I think I'll be there again!"

Aoko stared at the laughing teenager in front of her and sighed before turning towards her house's direction.

"Well, I'm going home. Thanks for the food. It's really nice,"

She smiled at Yamamoto before walking straight home. Yamamoto waved at her all the way until her figure disappeared from the street. He smiled softly and went inside to help his father closing the store.

"She's a nice girl, right?"

"Huh?"

"That Aoko girl. You also seems to be happy chatting with her," said Tsuyoshi.

"I did?"

"Yep. It's quite different when you talked to the other girl you brought here two weeks ago,"

Yamamoto thought about what his father said for a while. Her, huh?

"You know, sometimes you don't notice something that is important to you even though they're very close. You searched for others even though there's one in front of you. It always happen,"

"What do you mean, dad?"

"You should think it yourself. It's not fun if I told you everything, right?" Tsuyoshi said with a grin.

Yamamoto just stared at his father before giving his own smile towards his father.

After finished cleaning and closing the store, Yamamoto lied on his bed and started to think about what his father said. Someone close to me?