Author's note: the story will be from Maki's perspective (mostly). It begins at the episode 10, season 1 and it will follow the anime... except in this first chapter were the girls get there late at night so they go to sleep, then they wake up, go to the beach, etc. It will be slow paced and (probably) long. Also... *winks at a certain blonde* ;)

PS: English is not my first language so I will gladly accept you guys pointing out any grammar mistakes. Please do it ;-;

Disclaimer: I do not own Love Live. *cough*loveliveownsme*cough*

At the beach.

After Honoka insisted, I asked my parents about using our beach house for a summer trip. The trip is supposed to be for more school idol training but I think it will be far from it… Obviously, my parents agreed and were happy about it. They always worry about me for being such a 'loner'. They were enthusiastic when I joined Muse's, like they didn't had to worry anymore about me, not having friends … the problem is that they think we are just playing around, they don't know how serious we are about it and it frustrates me. I know they will start to worry about how much time I am wasting being a school idol instead of doing something more productive. I sigh… Whatever, I thought.

The point is that we arrived late today to my summer house. We were all tired, so the other girls went to bed in their respective rooms. I couldn't sleep so I decided to do one of the things I like the most: reading outside the beach house. I turn around the page I just finished reading, when…

"Huh? Maki?" I jump in surprise, I look up and it was Eli. She giggled, probably at my jump scare. "I-I didn't mean to scare you-" I blush and look away.

"Y-You didn't! What are you doing here anyway, Eli-senpai?" I cut her off and then I keep looking at the words in my book, reading… or pretending to. I'm watching Eli sideways, she sighs with frustration and looks at the moon, which is very bright today, it lights up the night.

"Why aren't you sleeping? It's late." She just says looking at me. "And I told you to not use the senpai-"

"Well, I'm reading." I interrupt her, it' so obvious.

"I-I know that!" Eli sighs "you're so troublesome…" I ignore the comment.

"What are you doing here?" I ask once again, no longer looking at my book.

"I'm going to swim." She looks serious at me and I blink with surprise. Just noticed she has a towel, is she crazy? I asked myself. "You go to sleep." Eli says simply and walks away, towards the beach.

"D-Don't tell me what to do!" I muttered as she keeps walking away. And I am the troublesome one? I keep looking at the blonde… until I can't see her anymore. I snort with frustration as I stand up. She can't be swimming this late, right?

I walk to the beach and I can't see her silhouette, is she really swimming? I start to get worried at the sudden craziness of the student council president. That's when I see her, apparently lying on the sand. Ugh, I'm glad there's lights here at night, I walk towards Eli stopping just in front of her head. I cross my arms as I look down, it seems like she was looking at the sky.

"Huh?" she looks at me, she seems surprised for a second but then she smiles. "You wanted to watch the stars too?"

"What?" I exclaim silently as I look up. So that's what she's doing, I stay to myself while looking at the stars, they look so lively today how I didn't noticed? "Sheesh, so that's what you were doing…" I say looking down to her again. "I almost thought you were really swimming-"

"It was a joke." She giggles, then looks back at me. "Wait, were you worried?" I look away embarrassed.

"O-of course I wasn't!" I quickly deny.

"There's some space here." What? I look at her again and she puts her hand to the right of her towel, gesturing me to sit next to her. "You can't look at stars like this every day…"

"Ah, well… you should go back to bed." I say nervously as she rolls her eyes with frustration.

"You are the one who should go back to bed" Eli voices with an unamused face, looking at the stars once again and resting her hands on her stomach.

"Don't-"

"Don't tell me what to do!" She mimics my words as I snort.

"Fine, I'll sit, but just because I love stargazing too." I say frustrated as I lie down next to her, I look up to the sky while I put the book on my belly. I look at Eli sideways, she's looking at me with surprise.

"You love stargazing?" Eli asks, I get embarrassed, noticing that I accidentaly mentioned one of my secret hobbies.

"N-No…" I try to lie, I look at her once again. "I mean… yeah, I do." I admit with defeat, she grins as I focus on the stars to avoid the blonde's eyes, my cheeks are probably red by now.

"I used to watch the stars with my grandma on clear nights back in Russia." Eli says randomly like she also had to share some personal information so we are even. I look at her, feeling intrigued. "That's the Ursa Major." I look up.

"Yeah, and that's the minor." I say recognizing the other one.

"Ah! So you do know about constellations." She giggles at me.

"O-Of course I do." I muttered. I... just really know those two we just mentioned.

"Well, I don't know that much about it…" she voices. "I just like to look at then when I remember to."

"I-it's not like I know a lot about them, though…" I admit to her and she giggles, probably at my unsureness. Then we just keep looking at the stars in silence for a bit… I hate when I get too distracted with my responsibilities and forget to just look around and enjoy the view. I realize I feel really calm right now so I start to notice how tired I am, I woke up especially early today so I can't stop a yawn.

"Hey, you're sleepy!" Eli points out, looking at me. My cheeks get red at the comment, and redder as I notice we are so close, our shoulders are almost touching.

"I-I'm not!" I deny with frustration as I look away.

"Yes, you are." She smiles and I just snort. "I have a lot of sleep resistance, you know?" Eli says proudly.

"Me too!" I exclaim, not wanting to sound weak. "I just woke up super early getting stuff ready for this annoying trip you all planned!" Eli laughs, not getting offended by my apparent harsh words.

"Fine, fine. Let's go, then." Eli says standing up and I do the same automatically, still feeling a bit embarrassed. "I'm sure Umi prepared a particularly tough regime for us tomorrow…" I laugh at Eli's words and she does the same. "Harasho! You laughed." She says teasingly as she grabs her towel.

"I-I… Ugh, let's go already!" I voice in a hurry.

"Close your eyes." She says simply. W-what?...

And that's the end of the introductory chapter, I know it was a short one... I suppose you can already guess the (maybe) main pairing. If you read the entire chapter, thank you! If you didn't, thanks for reading this note haha!