"Okay guys. All three of you will be auditioning for this part, but I don't want the others to be jealous or start fighting about it" I said to the 9-year-old trio standing in front of me. There was Shiro, Kanon and Nao, the 3 boys that made up Mofumofuen. Shiro was the most enthusiastic of the 3, but Kanon and Nao seemed excited as well.

"Don't worry Touma-senpai!" Nao calmly said "We'll do our best"

"AH!" Shiro screamed "its 765pro!"

"Not so loud Shiro, they'll hear you" The remaining boy shushed.

"Guys, you can't go into the audition just thinking about the idols from 765" Okay I admit it; I was trying to act cool in front of the kids. The thought of one of the girls from Haruka's agency being there was not exactly my cup of tea, but, well, I learned to deal with this kind of situations. "It's all the more reason to do your best to try to surpass them!"

"Is that so? Then maybe I should up my game." A soft female voice came from behind me. "I didn't know you were so competitive Amagase-kun, maybe I should up my game." I turned around and my jaw literally dropped.

"HARUKA?!" The girl giggled and turned to the younger boys who took a step back each as she kneeled down to them.

"I look forward to working with one of you" She said smiling. The boys blushed a bit and looked at each other.

For the rest of the wait we stood there in silence, occasionally moving around, but no sudden changes. It was awkward. Haruka and I talked all the time! Is sending letters really that different?

After the boys were called in to the audition room, Haruka and I walked outside together. Ken was to pick up the boys later. We stood there just outside the building- it had started snowing while we were inside the building. Haruka checked her phone.

"Do you have a job now?" I asked

"No" she started "I honestly thought the auditions would take much longer so I reserved the day, but it's barely 4:00pm yet"

"Well I'm free now too" I paused. I shouldn't have said that "I mean... We could go somewhere and just talk... cuz well we send each other letters and all, but we never really... well..." at this point I decided to just stop talking. It was not like me to talk so much, nor was it like me to go out with a friend (or in Haruka's case- rival)

"Amagase-kun" Haruka swung into my view. She had her arms behind her back "Are you asking me out on a date?"

"Well no, not exactly" I said looking away "Forget it, it'd probably be trouble anyway"

"Not at all!" She interrupted "I would love to go on a date with you" Her face seemed so happy it made me feel a bit tranquil.

We walked to a nearby park. We both had disguises on- basically a hat and a pair of fake specs, although there weren't that many people around. Better safe than sorry. We wandered around as if it felt awkward to stand in one place for too long. It also seemed out of character for us to talk.

"The snow must have really piled up this morning!" Haruka exclaimed "It wasn't snowing when I got to the auditions"

"It did snow a bit last night" Haruka wasn't from around here. In fact she wrote in one of her lessons once that her train ride is 2 hours long! God knows how early this girl wakes up to get to work here.

Haruka walked past me, over to a little girl who was crying. She kneeled to her, telling her not to cry and that everything will be all right. Turns out she was crying over a snowman which she had built before some boys destroyed it.

"Don't worry. This big brother and I will help you build an even bigger snowman!" I didn't want to be dragged into this, but she was trying to help out a little girl so I decided to just go along with it and we slowly built a snowman whose height was in the range between Haruka's and mine.

"I think we did a decent job" I said looking at the snowman. I'm not a very artistic person (for an idol) but I was proud of it. What's even better is that I did it with Haruka. That was the first time we ever did anything with an idol from 765pro. The little girl thanked us and ran off to show the snowman to her mother. He mother... I wondered if mine could it from where she was. Do I even stand out enough for her to notice me?

"Touma-kun? Are you all right?" Haruka asked. This was the first time she ever called me by my first name.

"I'm fine." I started "I just... This outfit! I don't really like disguises"

"None of us do" She paused "Except for maybe the twins"

The thought of the twins playing detective in the middle of the road made me want to laugh, but I contained myself. Then I remembered how similar their personalities are with Shouta's and I couldn't help but at least smile at the thought of Shouta running around in cosplay.

"What? What did I say?" She fumbled around

"Sorry" I broke into silent laughter

"But your smile is so cute!"

"What?" I turned away, but Haruka still made her way into my plane of sight. I covered my mouth with my arm and tried not to make eye contact, but she kept moving closer and closer until she tripped in MY feet and we both went tumbling down on that very snowman we worked so hard to build.

"Mommy! Mommy! Look what I..." The little girl stopped in a gasp. Haruka's eyes were close to mine, so close that we couldn't avert one another's gaze. My arms were wrapped around her waist and hers on my chest. She had a tiny waist, fit for an idol.

Suddenly a flash of light came from the side. "Mommy! It's Amami Haruka and Amagase Touma from Jupiter!" The little girl yelled. Before we knew it a crowd had formed around us. I grabbed Haruka's arm and hat and squeezed thought the crowd, running as fast as I could, away from the crowd. When we moved to a safe distance, I brushed the snow off Haruka's hair and put on her hat for her. We couldn't risk being seen together for the time being so I walked her to the station and silently hoped that the white flash I saw earlier was just my imagination.