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Amu panted as she impatiently pressed the button for the elevator. Ikuto had nothing for Amu to do today, so he decided to make her run across the street and go pick up some takeout for his lunch.
It wasn't like Amu could drive, since she didn't have her license yet. Besides, it would be a waste to just drive about a couple feet across the street and back to pick up a small box of food your irritable boss wanted.
So Amu walked. The sun was shining brightly today, plus the fact that it was July, the hottest month of the year, wasn't helping much. Amu practically melted as soon as she stepped out of Easter's nicely air-conditioned building and out onto the street. She swore if she was one of the small eggs sold at the takeout store and was thrown out onto the street, she would've been cooked by now.
By the time she reached Ikuto's office that was almost on the top floor of the building, Amu felt that her legs would give way under her any moment now. She opened the door to Ikuto's office, not even bothering to knock, and threw the small bag in his direction.
"Here's your lunch," She spat, leaning against the door and breathing heavily.
Ikuto smirked at her misery. He caught the bag mix-air, opening it and began picking out certain various foods.
"Wow. This is one of the few things you haven't dropped, broken, or somehow made less useful than a pile of trash. And by the way, I don't like this stuff," He said casually, gesturing to a small mound of food he had piled onto a small napkin. "But to get the stuff that I do want I have to also get this crap. You want it?"
Amu glared at him hatefully.
"Like I'll eat anything you've touched, let alone the food you're only giving me because you don't want it for yourself," She said darkly. "Isn't there a rule against mistreating your secretaries like this?"
Ikuto shrugged.
"Let's find out," He suggested, reaching down and opening the lowest drawer under his desk. Ikuto pulled out a thin packet and began flipping through it, quietly reading parts of it aloud to himself as he searched for something.
"What's that?" Amu asked curiously.
"Your contract," Ikuto told her without looking up. The two of them fell into a silence, the only sound in the room was the turning of pages from Ikuto.
"Found it!" He said suddenly, tossing the packet to Amu lightly. It was already flipped open to the page Ikuto mentioned. Amu read the paper.
... as the secretary, you are to abide any rules set to you by those higher than you. Part of your job is to also do as your boss says without complaint...
"God Easter is stupid," Amu muttered to herself. "You would think that I was getting a job as a maid, not a secretary."
Ikuto's smirk changed to a sarcastic smile.
"Welcome to my world," He said in falsely cheerfull tone. "Where everything about Easter and ther rules sound like freaking BS!"
Amu played along with him.
"Yeah," She continued in her mock-understanding voice. "Only your world doesn't have overcontrolling, selfish, butt headed excuses for bosses that can make you do whatever they want and are too lazy to walk across the street to pick up their own lunches!"
Ikuto's teasing abruptly stopped.
"Trust me," He muttered. "There are those in my world."
Amu raised an eyebrow at him.
"Yeah," She said sarcastically. "Right. That explains why you treat me like garbage."
Ikuto sighed; the whole topic irritating him.
"Like I told you," He said through his teeth. "You wouldn't understand."
Amu backed away, slightly frightened by his change of mood.
"Okay, okay," She said quickly. "No need to kill me over this!"
A sudden, sharp knock on the door interupted their mini-argument. The door slowly opened just a crack, and a beautiful girl slipped in.
Her black hair curled down past her shoulders, and her eyes were a deep blue. She wore extremely short dark blue shorts. The ruffled V-neck of her tanktop went really low, showing some cleavage.
Amu frowned at the outfit.
What a slut... who is she anways? But she looks familiar... almost like I've seen her before...
"Ikuto!" The girl shouted cheerfully, skipping over to him and sitting on his lap. Ikuto immediately brightened and gently pulled her closer. The two of them began cuddling each other until the girl noticed Amu standing in the doorway awkwardly.
"Ikuto," She said in her melodious voice. "Who's this?"
Amu waved tentatively.
"Hinamori Amu," She said shyly. "Tsukiyomi-san's secretary."
The girl nodded in understanding.
"Oh!" She said. "So you're the secretary Ikuto keeps complaining about all the time! By the way, nice to meet you Amu! Name's Suki!"
Amu gasped.
So that's why she seems so famliar!
"Suki..." She asked. "As in Tanaka Suki?"
Suki nodded, smiling.
"Tanaka Suki.." Amu said. "As in the singer?!"
Suki grinned and nodded again.
"The one and only!" She announced proudly. Amu gaped again.
And to think I thought of one of my favorite singers ever as a slut..
"Wow..." She awed. "I've never met a real celebrity before!"
Suki turned back to Ikuto.
"Ikutooo..." She said sweetly. "I don't see why you complain about her all the time! Amu-chan sounds like a fun person, not an airhead!"
Amu twitched slightly and glared at Ikuto.
"What exactly did you tell her?" She asked through her teeth. Ikuto shrugged.
"I did nothing wrong," He said. "I just told her the truth. There's no way someone who isn't an airhead could make smoke come out of a copy machine and make a coffee machine spill coffee all over the floor."
Amu decided to ignore him. She turned back to Suki.
"So what is a famous singer doing here?" She asked.
"I'm licensed under Easter," Suki explained. "So I'm here to go record a new song song. Plus I thought I'd sneak away to visit my boyfriend Ikuto for a little bit before hand!"
Amu felt like everything she was learning today was a big (and sometimes bad) surprise.
"You're Ikuto's girlfriend?" She asked in shock.
"Yeah.. so back off!" Suki joked. Amu shook her head vigorously.
"Like I'd ever want a guy like him!" She shouted angrily. "Besides, I already have a boyfriend... Hotori Tadase."
Amu thought she saw a flicker of horror on Suki's face, but told herself it was just the light since a second later Suki's face was the completly normal, overly-happy face that Amu saw since she met her today.
She felt her heart sink as she watched the cute interaction between Ikuto and Suki.
It's funny... Ikuto and Suki look perfect for each other... unlike me and Tadase, who are...
Amu cut herself off, trying not to think of how to finish that thought.
All of a sudden, a small beeping was heard. Suki looked down at her watch and gasped, jumping off of Ikuto's lap.
"Crap!" She shouted. "I'm late! Gotta go record the song."
She ran out of the room. Ikuto shrugged and turned his attention back to his food.
"Hey," He complained. "There's no drink in this!"
He looked back up at Amu.
"Go to the gas station two blocks from here and get me a some soda from the food store there," Ikuto ordered her. Amu glared at him.
"I hate you so much," She hissed. Ikuto smirked.
"I hate you too," He said cheerfully, studying her anger.
"Anyways," He began again. "If you hate it here so much, why don't you quit? God knows why I can't, but what about you? There's nothing stopping you from walking out that door."
Amu glared at him.
"Like you said," She retorted. "You wouldn't get it. No one would."
With that, she spun on her heel and walked towards the elevator.
"Get me some tayaki too!" Ikuto called out to her.
"FINE." Came the angry reply.
Ikuto laughed as he heard the elevator 'ding'.
Baka.. doesn't know that there's a vending machine down the hall that sells the exact same stuff as the gas station.. not that I'm going to tell her until she gets back.. it'll be fun making her walk all that way and back when she could've walked a couple of feet instead.
*****
Suki slipped into the bathroom just outside of the recording studio. She pulled out her phone, dialing the familiar numbers, the one that she had called millions of times the past week to plan out their nights together.
"This is Hotori Tadase speaking," The voice on the other end said.
"Tadase-kun?" Suki whispered urgently. "It's me, Suki. We're going to have to be more careful with what we're doing. Turns out your not-so-precious Amu is the secretary of my Ikuto!"
She heard a groan from the other end.
"Damn..." Tadase muttered. "But you're still spending the night at my place tonight, right?"
Suki grinned.
"Of course!" She said. "Why would I know? I've been doing that for the past couple of weeks! But make sure you promise not tell Amu or Ikuto about any of this!"
Tadase chuckled.
"Of course," He laughed.
*****
Amu glowered at the ground as she waited in line at the store, holding a can of soda and a bag of tayaki. Suddenly she heard her phone ring. Amu pulled it out of her pocket, her face falling as she saw that it was another text from Tadase.
From: Hotori Tadase
gomen amu-chan. can't make it to the amusement park with you today. really busy today. how about postponing it to next week? gomenesai. still love you though -bye
July 2 3:58 PM
Amu almost groaned aloud.
What is with him?!?!
She reluctantly texted back her reply.
From: Hinamori Amu
you know what? just forget it. don't bother postponing it. you're so busy you're probably going to cancel that too. how about we just forget about everything and just do something really big when you're not busy anymore? maybe try for something better on our two year anniversary? love you too -bye
July 2 3:59 PM
Amu sighed. There was seriously something wrong with the two of them together.
*****
Tadase grinned as he received Amu's text. He picked up his phone and called Suki again. Of course, he was automaticaly forwarded to voicemail since Suki had to turn off her phone while recording her song.
"Hey, Suki-chan," Tadase said. "Just cancelled on Amu, so you can come over earlier than planned tonight if you want. Call back soon. Love you bye."
He hung up, smiling.
Having two girlfriends is so much fun... especially when one's completely clueless about what's going on and the other just loves the idea of cheating on people. Plus one of thems a world famous singer...
*insert dramatic music here* DUN DUN DUN. Okay so yeah.. um.. review!