She looked around the crowded airport for her ride. When she saw a bright pink sign with lots of multicolored writing she couldn't help but smile.
'Welcome Grace!' Was written in sloppy writing in multiple colors such as green, yellow, and purple. Several guys, 7 in total, were standing around with their hands in their pockets. Except for one boy with red hair. The one waving the sign around. His eyes lit up as he saw her wave her arms toward them. He turned and began talking excitedly to an orange-haired boy who had his arm protectively around a smaller girl with curly brown hair. He nodded and the girl giggled. He turned and began talking to a short blonde boy with a girl leaning on his shoulders. They both rolled their eyes and nodded.
She laughed and ran over to join them.
"Grace?" The red-head boy asked, grinning when she nodded. "I'm Otoya Ittoki. Nice to meet you!" She smiled.
"I guess you already know me." She laughed, brushing the blonde bangs off her face.
"I'm Ren." The tall guy said, removing his arm to shake hands, taking hers in his and giving it a small peck, causing her t blush.
"And I'm Sophie!" The girl said, clinging to Ren's arm, smiling happily.
"I'm Syo," The blonde boy said, taking his hat back from the girl behind him, "and this is Sara."
"Chibi-chan, I can introduce myself." She scolded lightly, stealing the hat once again and plopping it on her light brown hair. He just smiled and tweaked her nose.
"I'm Cecil." A dark-skinned boy with a scarf said, grinning as he shook her hand.
"Masato Hiijrikawa." A boy with dark blue hair said, nodding in her direction. Another blonde boy with curly hair and glasses pushed his way to the front and pulled her into a tight hug.
"You're so cute! I'm Natsuki! It's so nice to meet you!" Grace laughed.
"It's nice to meet you too!" She said happily, patting his arm. Otoya elbowed the final guy standing to greet her. He frowned but turned to address her.
"Tokiya Ichinose." He muttered, turning a slight shade of pink. Grace tilted her head before blushing herself and nodding slightly.
"So, Grace, are you excited about becoming an idol?" Syo asked, wrapping his arm around Sara's waist.
"Yep! And I'm so excited to have the famous STARISH here to greet me!" She said, holding her purple bag closer to herself.
"Yay! You'll get to sing with Renny! You're so lucky! I wish I could sing like you all do!" Sophie pouted, hiding her face behind Ren's arm as he chuckled and patted her hair.
"Are you all idols?" Grace asked, glancing between Sophie and Sara as well as the rest of the guys.
"All of us except for Sophie-chan." Cecil said.
"I'm a model!" She said. Grace smiled again, taking in the girl's bouncy brown hair and bright green eyes. Coupled with her small frame and fabulous figure, it was plain to see how she would be a popular model.
"Yes indeed, but I still don't like sharing you at all." Ren said, kissing her forehead as she giggled.
"Renny!" She scolded halfheartedly, still laughing.
"You might be grouped with Sara-chan on some concerts, or sing on your own, or with us." Masato told her, taking the heavy bag from her aching arms.
"And you'll get to work with both Hina-chan and Haruka-chan!" Sophie said, bouncing on the balls of her feet. She was dressed stylishly for cold weather, wearing dark skinny jeans and a large tan sweater that fell to her mid thigh. The sweater, being much to large for her considering how it was baggy and falling over her hands, Grace assumed to be Ren's. Her knee high boots with orange trim fit her personality perfectly, as did orange beanie on her head. Everything tied together and complimented her green eyes and brown curls.
"They're both really great, but Hina is a bit of a goofball, whereas Haruka is a major clutz." Sara said from her spot next to Syo. She too looked nearly perfect, if not a bit more conservative than Sophie. She was still wearing Syo's hat on her head, which was the one he must have worn while going to Satome academy, taking the school's crest into account. Her black jacket was designer, but casual, and covered a paint splatter design shirt. Her jeans, while not skinny jeans, still fit in all the right places, and her hair was a wavy light brown, not as dark as Sophie's, nor as curly, but it seemed to suit her. The whole outfit seemed to suit her, even the pink shoes.
Grace blushed as she thought of how she must look, her 18 hour flight was not exactly the most enjoyable, as she was sitting next to a man who was yelling into his phone the whole time, behind a woman who was humming non-stop, and across from world's next top model...not. Her air sickness didn't help because she threw up 3 times. But all she could do was thank the Lord she had been given an isle seat and pray it was over soon.
So now she stood before all of these extremely famous idols, even Sophie, who was stopped by squealing fangirls and several fanboys for autographs as they began walking out, the same as the rest of them. She stood her before them, in one of her brother's old shirts, which was slightly big on her small frame and advertised a band she'd never heard of, old jeans which were fraying at the knees, and sneakers. With a light purple jacket with wings on the back. She sighed.
'Great, just great. They must think I'm a total snob already and I've only known them for five minutes' She just gritted her teeth and continued to follow them out of the crowded airport, ignoring the several tear filed reunions happening around them. Adusting the flat billed hat on her head, she blew a strand of hair out of her face, neglecting to watch were she was going until she collided with the body in front of her.
"Oof!" She yelped. Taking a quick step back and glancing up to see who she had bumped into. A dark head turned to look down on her. Tokiya. Crap.
"I'm so sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going!" She quickly apologized, not quite sure what to do. Should she bow? Or just keep walking as if nothing had happened? Now she wished she had taken her sister's advice more seriously and actually studied some Japanese culture so she wouldn't be so lost right now. He quickly turned away.
"It's fine." He said hurrying to catch up with the group. She smiled and hurried with him.
The ride in the expensive limo was nice, but took a very long time two hours to be exact. By then they pulled into the long driveway of the place they would all be staying, (technically belonging to Sataome Academy) Sophie was sleeping with her head on Ren's lap and the rambunctious talking had ceased to a quiet murmur.
When they FINALLY pulled up to the door, they were greeted by two girls and four boys waiting outside the doors. One of the girls had pink hair and was talking excitedly to the shorter girl with light purple hair. And there was no mistaking who the guys were, they were one of her three favourite bands of all time, Quartet Night! This was going to be great!
I had been asleep for the better part of thirty minutes, but even when I woke up to the sound of Grace's excited voice talking about finally getting there, I stayed still. I was really tired after all, and I was also really warm and comfortable too. When the car stopped, I felt myself being lifted into my boyfriend's arms with my head rested against his shoulder. They talked in hushed voices in an attempt not to wake me, but little did they know I could hear every word they were saying.
"Are you really going to carry her in Ren?" Masato asked, sounding annoyed.
"Why not? She was out late last night for a job and up early this morning to go meet Grace, she must be tired."
"But don't you think you're spoiling her a little?" I hinted a light scolding in his voice, but not enough to actually show he disapproved.
"Nothings good enough for my little beauty, you'll understand someday Masato." I warmed inside at the affection in his voice.
"Are you guys going to come in or what? I can see Grace there about to explode!" I heard Hina's voice yell over to us, followed by her light footsteps. "Oops! Sorry! I didn't see Sophie was sleeping, so come on! What are you all waiting for?" She said quieter than before.
"It's fine, she's out." Ren said and I could almost feel his smile. As they began to make their way in the building, I began planning how long I was going to keep playing dead before I woke up to join the action. I felt myself being lowered onto a couch, I stirred a little before settling down on the soft cushions. When I felt a blanket being placed over me and slowly felt the exhaustion from last night and this morning catch up to me as I fell asleep.
Glancing over a Sophie's sleeping form, I smiled slightly before leaning into Syo's shoulder and listening to the murmur of conversation around me, feeling his sculpted shoulder through the soft fabric of his shirt. Grace was... certainly something else. She had a very off the wall personality that, while I found it very intriguing, was also very foreign. And tiring.
"When do you think we're going to sing together Sara?" Grace asked leaning towards me slightly.
"Not sure," I said, watching Tokiya stand up and walk out to the garden, "but we'll talk about that later, excuse me!" I said, jumping up and running after him. I heard Syo laughing, but knew he wouldn't follow me. Running into the brisk afternoon air on the already cloudy day, I spotted Tokiya standing by the fountain.
"Tokiya!" I yelled, running over.
"What is it?" He asked, looking over with a distracted expression.
"What on earth do you think you're doing?" I asked, putting my hands on my hips.
"Huh?"
"I'm not stupid and neither are you. You and Grace have been giving each other the goo goo eyes since she got here, but you won't even talk to her. What are you doing?"
"I don't think it's any of your business."
"Uh, I think it is! If you'll remember, Grace, Sophie, and me have been best friends since middle school. I'm not saying this to help you, I'm saying this to help Grace. Now you're going to walk in there and have a civilized conversation if I have to drag you myself. Let's go." And with that, the taller boy followed me back inside and sighed as I quickly laid down to take the extra room on the couch, leaving the only empty seat next to Grace.
He sat down and when she turned to look up at him with her big happy brown eyes, he couldn't help but feel a frantic beating of his heart that forced him to smile back. Don't ask me how I know, I could just tell. It's this thing called Sara-magic.
I wrote this for my BFF Vandygirl2023 because she's moving soon :( Guess which character was me, which one was Van-chan, and which one was based on my cousin, (me and Van-Chan's other BFF) and I'll add your personal OC in the next chapter with any guy you want!
It has to be a guy that was not already taken, (so not Ren, Syo, or Tokiya) and you have to give me a full details about your OC (appearance, personality, and background)
Or you could just guess. You don't have to leave me an OC. Or you could do whatever you want, but leave a review please!
Have a nice day! B-)