Forget It
Chapter 2: New, Friendly Friends
Ever since then, Ritsu had been avoiding her 'Ex-Best Friends'. She even avoided eye contact with them. The remaining Light Music Club members have informed Azusa about it, she was surprised at first, but then shrugged it off after some time. Probably because she meant what she said.
Sawako couldn't believe it, though. She liked Ritsu, as a student. She liked her presence in the clubroom. She blamed and blamed Mio, Yui and Azusa. Not to mention Mugi, though. Mugi actually liked Ritsu's presence too. But Ritsu shrugged it off. She didn't forgive Mugi either, since she is still with...Them.
Satoshi became worried about Ritsu. He then talked to her when she was free.
Since she finally agreed that studying 24/7 and not taking a break after 5 hours is not very good.
"Nee-chan?" Satoshi called out. Ritsu turned to him after she took a big gulp out of her water bottle.
"Hmm?" She answered. Satoshi fumbled with his fingers.
"E-Etto...N-Nee-chan...aren't you feeling a bit...l-lonely these days...?" He asked nervously, looking at the ground. Ritsu stared at him intensely, her eyes half open. She sighed then smiled.
"Well, not really. Why'd you ask?" She asked. Satoshi then looked at the wooden board beside the wooden board he was just looking at.
"W-Well...I was hoping you could some...well...new friends..."
Ritsu pondered about this for a few minutes.
"I'll think about it." Satoshi looked up and saw Ritsu grinning at him. He made a small smile and nodded. He then went back up to his own room. Ritsu stopped smiling then looked at the ground. The same wooden board that Satoshi was recently looking at.
"New friends, huh?"
K-ON!
"I can't BELIEVE you would hurt her like that! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GIRLS?!" Sawako shouted at the four girls, who were looking down at the ground in shame. Sawako then turned to Mugi. "Tsumugi, I appreciate that you didn't hurt Ritsu as much as THEM and liked her, but you still shrugged it off! How dare you!" She shouted at her. Mugi then closed her eyes in fear and shame.
Sawako then sighed.
"You better go apologize, or I'll be back and you'll regret it." Sawako then stomped off to the door and left. The girls still sat there, looking at the ground. They stayed silent, until the brunette finally spoke up, "I think we should go apologize."
Everyone looked up and stared at her. Azusa looked at her with a disapproving look.
"I don't think we should. She deserved it anyway." Azusa said, sighing afterwards. Yui glared at Azusa, dark aura surrounding her. Azusa flinched at the sight of her senpai.
The usual happy and goofy airhead turning into a mad, angry demon?
That escalated quickly.
"Y-Yui-senpai...?"
"Azu-nyan, how dare you? How would YOU feel if your friends say things like that to you? Huh?" Yui said calmly. But deep inside, she's actually filled with anger and rage. Azusa started to sweat. Yui had a really good point there.
"W-Well..."
"You would feel hurt, anger and sadness, right? So why say those things to Ricchan?"
"I- well...Y-You said bad things about her, too!"
"But I've realized I've done the wrong thing already. We should at least think about what's good about her. I mean, if it weren't for Ricchan, we wouldn't have met each other and have so much fun. I wouldn't have tasted Mugi-chan's delicious food, and I wouldn't have met you, Azu-nyan." Everyone looked at Yui in disbelief. This is the most shocking thing they had ever witnessed.
"I...I'm sorry...Now I have realized my mistake...I'm sorry for my rants and the bad things I've said..."
"Don't apologize to me. Apologize to Ricchan." Yui said, smiling at Azusa. Azusa made a small smile, too.
"So what are we waiting for?" Mugi said, standing up. "Let's go find Ricchan and we'll be the best of friends again!" Everyone then stood up from their chairs and made a fist pump.
"Yeah!"
K-ON!
"Mattaku~! I can't believe entrance exams is in 1 month! That's not enough for me to study!" Ritsu grumbled as she walked through the streets to home. On the way, she saw two boys about her age playing in a playground. She sweat-dropped.
'Playground? As a teenager?'
"Oi!" She shouted. The two boys stopped in their tracks and looked at Ritsu.
"What?" They shouted back.
"Why play at the playground when you're already that old?" Ritsu shouted back at them. They then laughed, leaving Ritsu somewhat confused. They then walked towards her, hands in their pockets. Ritsu looked at them in amazement.
"Hi, I'm Kei." The guy with blue hair said.
"And I'm Rei." The other with red hair said.
"And we're the Fujisaki twins!" They said in unison as they put their arms around each other's shoulders. Ritsu smirked.
"Wow. Cool. Now stop acting like idiots."
"That's what our mom always says." Kei said, looking at the sky as he smiled. Ritsu got what they meant and said a sincere "sorry".
Kei turned to her and grinned.
"Don't worry! We've moved on! We were really young when she it's her time." He said. Ritsu grinned too.
"Anyway, what's your name?" Rei asked.
"Ritsu Tainaka." Ritsu said. Kei smirked.
"Nice name. Ya know, we have a friend- OW!"
"You can shut your dirty mouth. You're not talking about him." Rei said as he cut Kei's sentence by elbowing him in the waist. Ritsu stared at them, confused.
"About who?"
"See? She knows already. Let's just tell her." Said Kei, who was rubbing his waist. Rei sighed in defeat.
"Fine. His name is Ritsu Todoshi and he's my rival, enemy, frenemy, betray- Mmf!"
"We get it." Kei said, covering Rei's mouth. It was Ritsu's time to smirk.
"Yeah that's really nice. Look, I gotta go now. It was nice meeting you." As Ritsu was about to leave, Kei suddenly grabbed her hand. Ritsu sighed as she turned around to see what's their problem now.
"What?"
"Hey, you seem like a fun person. Let's exchange numbers! Well, he's in it too. We could meet and hang out sometime." Kei said, smiling as he used his other free hand to hold his phone. Rei held his phone too, smiling as well. Ritsu smirked again.
"Cool." So then they exchanged numbers. Ritsu finally said her goodbye and Kei and Rei finally went back home.
K-ON!
THE VERY NEXT DAY!
RIIIIING!
It sounded like the school bell. Everyone packed their bags and began to leave the Sakuragoaka High School, especially Ritsu.
But as she was about to leave the classroom, she felt someone grabbing her hand. She looked behind and frowned.
"Leave me alone."
"Ritsu...come on. Let's go back to the music room and settle this." Said Mio, with Mugi and Yui behind her back.
"Yeah right." Ritsu said as she pulled her hand away from Mio's and walked outside. Mio exchanged looks with Mugi and Yui as they ran after her.
"Ritsu!" Mio shouted as she finally caught up to Ritsu. She placed her hand on her shoulder, until Ritsu suddenly removed Mio's hand with her hand.
"Get lost. I've got plans this afternoon."
"Ours is more important-"
"I don't think so!" Ritsu snapped. Mio, Mugi and Yui flinched at her outburst.
"I've already got my own friends! I don't need YOU to be my friends too!" Ritsu shouted as she left the scene. Mio looked at the ground in shame, so did the other two members.
They've really done it.
A/N: I wrote this after I announced that I have exams on August. I finished this story on my last sight on my phone for this month. This is the last time I'm touching it...for this month. Anyway, gotta end it here. I think it's long enough...maybe...I don't think so...but meh...you get the point...right...?
So anyways, hope you're liking the story!
Mitsewo out!
