[3]

"J-Jun-kun!"

Shock hit his eyes in sudden realization. "Akashi-kun! Nice to see you again." His face then turned to a smile. Oh how badly I wanted to jump and hug him right now.

Hiro's little brother (who actually has the same birthday as me, on the same year too), Jun Mizushima, was completely identical to Hiro in many aspects. Most aspects, visually. Though I gotta say, I'm surprised Jun was in the group of guys interested in a group date. He's popular girls, I admit, but never was the flirtatious type like his brother.

"It's been a while neh, Jun-kun."

His smile, still friendly but suspicious as he replied, "Yeah, I'd never expect you to be here." His friends bid good-bye, probably expecting Jun to convince me on the group date.

"Surprise, surprise." I said, grinning.

We walked out in the garden as everything calmed down inside. "I was very... shocked when I saw you enter class this morning. After all, Nanami-chan you're..."

"Heh, yeah, I'm pretty surprised I made the effort to come here myself." I said, and for something so trivial...I should apologize soon. I added to myself. I stared up into the sky. The stars were showing tonight. Rare...usually, the busy streets of Tokyo, would be over populating with lights.

"Did you come here for aniki* (brother)?" he asked. I felt him gaze intently at me. It's weird, he gave me a very intense atmosphere though he never used to do that, something changed in him.

"No. I was just as surprised to see him as he was to me." I replied honestly.

"Then... why?" he urged. I smiled as I looked over at him. "Aaron Yan." Was all I said. And it's about time I get back to apologize to him. You know, I may be the stubborn type, but I get over it fast. Therefore, I've had enough guilt and fighting for one day. Eventually, it was time for me to go, but I was curious.

"Neh Jun, why are you here?" He looked into the sky before answering.

"Well you know our parents are rich. (Hiro and Jun's). And they own the school and all its other sister schools around the world and other companies and such."

I nodded, their parents owned anything and can buy everything humanely possible. He continued. "Well, we need someone to inherit the companies. So both of us are forced to go here, one of us will succeed the company while the other graduates and continues with the entertainment industry. I'm really into acting now, so I'm not gonna let my brother win. No matter what, this time, victory is mine."

It was silent for a while. Brother rivalry, over something non-trivial too. Such an important decision, I can't believe their parents would do something like that to them. I've always hated rich people. The way they speak to others insignificantly. Though I thought the Mizushima family was fine, until now. Why would they force their kids to do such things.

Hiro has told me about his dreams before, He has no intentions to suceed his father's company but really, he loves modelling and acting. He used to do it for the money in order to study aboard, but he's grown to love it. They're both fighting for such an occupation... the one with the most talent provails.

"Well, gambate neh* But keep in mind, victory isn't everything." I got up to leave then. I didn't want to say anything to increase sibling rivalry, but truth is, Hiro would be the winnner of this round. Once again, it's not because of favourtism or that he was the older sibling, but because Hiro was always the one with the charisma, always has been always will be. Once he sets his mind to something, nothing holds him back, typical Hiro.

I walked inot the room, afraid. I didn't know what to say or how to say it. It's hard to act like a guy and worse, hard to act like you don't love him regardless how crappy they treat you. I felt unexpectantly calm by the time I'd hung my jacket up. That's when I realized the cause behind the sudden change of aura.

The first time I'd enterred this room, I was in too much fury to spot the piano off to the corner. If I hadn't looked closely, I would've thought it was a large white keyboard, but no, it was a piano,a white one. I was immediately attracted to it.

"Neh, Aaron-sama, what're you doing?" Oh shoot! Did I just say "sama" ? Please please please don't notice.He sat on the piano bench, scribbling some type of nonsense on the paper. "School project." He replied simply. I looked over his shoulder to find a bunch of bar lines, scribbles, some lyrics, and even more crossed out notes.

"Composing?" I mumbled, staring at the page.

"Yeah, I thought I'd write something for Fahrenheit. We haven't been releasing albums for a while."He said, scanning the page.

Like I didn't notice. The last album you sent out was two years ago. I thought to myself.

He crumpled up the paper and tossed it into the over flowing garbage can. "Some school project that is." I mumbled under my breath, what a liar.

"What's it to you?" he asked, pulling out another peice of blank staff paper.

"Nandemonai*" I said, "just curious. I have absolutely no idea how you crazy celebs cope with life. No privacy at all." I plopped onto the lower bunk, staring at his back which was still busy writing out some stuff. Once in a while he would press some chords and melodies on the piano.

"You're the one that barged into this room like you owned the place." He replied, but I could tell in his voice it was nothing serious.

"And I'll be torturing you for the rest of our time here then." I said in a cheerful voice. Or until I get busted. I added internally. He sighed in response.

"I'm going out for a bit" I told him, "anything you want from the caf?"

His reponse wasn't something I'd expected. "You shouldn't go anywhere at this time, it's dangerous outside and it's almost curfew." I chuckled at the thought of Hiro getting me in trouble for breaking curfew. It'd be great to challenge his authority over me.

"Did I miss a joke?"He said, his eyes met mine. I blushed immediately and turned away, praying he didn't notice.

"Imma go get a drink"

note: (Copt and Pasted from the last two chapters.) Just a heads up, if you had read my other fanfics before you would know, but I am living a very busy schedule with school and all, and fanfictions are really high on my priority levels but I can't update constantly so please don't be checking every hour for an update, it won't happen. But I would appreciate it if you guys message me and continuously bug me to update (yes I'm giving you permission to) because it would inspire me more to write (oh, by the way, I have like enough written out on paper for at least 3 more chapters after chapter 3 but I'm too lazy to type it up.) So anyways, thanks for the support, message me or whatever and please stay tuned for updates probably once a week, twice on the occasion. Thanks a bunch --Bonnie :)