Chapter 3: Music Start!

ㅡI'm glad that this essay turned out well! Now that we're six it has been tough, but I'm sure we'll do it greatly!

A ginger haired exited girl said, Maki just shrugged as response. It's been a while since she started to get closer to this people, they were so interested in having her in the group that finally she agreed. Rin and Hanayo who were her classmates started to hang out with her, now everything changed.. Sometimes the maid thought that she may be fired as the redhead now had friends, maybe she was just bothersome now for her. The pianist stopped treating her well even when they were alone, as if she lost the trust in her. She didn't knew it was hurting Niko quite a lot. She was completely jealous. Not just the group, but about her ojou-sama having friends besides her and forgetting about her. How could she? Was she really that heartless? She was convinced that deep inside Maki wasn't like that. But now.. Their relationship started to became distant.

ㅡMaki-chan!, are you coming with us nya?

A cat like girl asked her as she was left behind accidentally while she was deep in her thought, she just agreed following them to wherever they wanted to. Not knowing her maid followed them behind. All those days Nishikino has been thinking about the ponytail girl, how she was able to do something that none of her new friends were able to, winning her confidence. Although they were good friends, no one could get her heart as Niko did. Rin held her arm while walking as she knew the fellow was still in her own world, deep in her thoughts, as well as holding Hanayo's arm. The second year girls were walking in front of them. As the red eyed girl followed she kept asking herself why she didn't ever took her arm, the jealousness was overcoming her. She missed her closeness with Maki. As the girls at the end of the day parted ways Niko fastly tried to walk in front of her ojou-sama, so that she wouldn't realize that she wasn't at work, but unluckily for her, the door's keys got stuck, as she desperately tried to turn the key, the pianist reached her and stood behind her.

ㅡWhat do you think you're doing outside without even wearing your costume? Don't tell me you skipped work, go inside right now!

She shouted at her, not knowing that the later already felt hurt from earlier. The older's eyes started to get blur as she finally could turn the key and open the door, and again, the redhead treated her badly, pushing her aside as she walked straight to her room, not even letting her maid reply or justify her lateness. Niko entered to the home almost running, not being able to hold anymore her tears from falling. The other maids watched the scene worried, it was the first time that Maki ever pushed one of her employees. They followed her and tried to comfort the younger member of the maids, but they didn't knew the pain was deeper than what they thought. Yazawa gathered strength again after a few minutes and dressed up, she started to clean the dinning room while the other maids were cooking.

ㅡJust..what the heck I'm doing!? Why I pushed her.. Why I'm running away from her when all I want is to get closer to her.. I can't even concentrate at classes, all day thinking of her.. Stupid Niko, why you make me feel this way!?

She said out loud her thoughts, no one was around by the time so she expressed herself as she wanted. Her chest felt weird somehow, it was as if something was pressing her there. Although she felt like that, all she could do when she was in front of the red eyed girl was scolding at her and avoiding her, she didn't even look into her eyes while talking, it felt different, she didn't knew why but it was so awkward, as if she cared so much about Yazawa to the point of being afraid of ruining it. Or that was what she thought. What else more could it be? But then her thoughts were interrupted by a knocking in her door. She sighed, guessing it was either her mother or Niko ready to scold her. She didn't knew how to deal with this situation. It was too hard for her.

ㅡJ-just go! I'm busy! I said not to knock at my door, didn't I?

She said trying to sound angry, not knowing Niko was feeling bad and it was her chance to fix the things. The later just sighed and left the house in that moment, earlier than usual. Having just talked with the mother of Maki who told her to go to her house and rest. She was worried but she knew this time she couldn't do anything to help them. Her daughter was having a hard time too.

The next day Niko was doing some research about the new group, she was gathering some information about them. She knew her ojou-sama didn't cared that much about being an idol, being the daughter of doctors wasn't a thing she could just leave aside. She also has to care about those things as she also wanted to follow that path. But still if the redhead wanted to enjoy her school life there was nothing she could say against it, yet she couldn't deny she was so jealous. There was this annoying ginger haired girl asking her about the club, she got to know about her which bothered her a lot. And she was not feeling alright to having to deal with those girls. So she just kicked out Honoka from her club. But things weren't going easy for her, when they finally were alone at school which didn't happened in a long time, all what the younger did was shout at her again.

ㅡWhy are you being so stubborn about it? Don't you think it would be great if you join? C'mon! You'll do your job taking care of me and you'll get recognition! Who knows if an agency calls you one of those days? Are you really going to let this chance go? Don't be dumb!

ㅡShut up Maki! And leave me alone, will you? I really don't want to deal with you right now, I'm fed up!

She said troubled by all the things happening, and instead of waiting for the redhead to leave the room she did it, harshly closing the door behind her. She ran out of there, again the tears were streaming down her cheeks. The pianist saw that scene when she opened the door right after she left, again, her chest was in a deep pain. 'What's going on? Again I gave her a bad time... I just don't know how to express my worries and care for her. I just..keep ruining it, and it hurts..' She thought, not being able to hold her pain anymore.

ㅡNishikino-san~ have you ever considered the fact that you are having too many feelings towards Yazawa-san?

Suddenly and out of nothing, the vice president appeared and talked to her in a teasing voice. The crying girl flushed and stuttered while replying to her.

ㅡH-how..

ㅡHow do I know? The cards said so, you seem sooo close! Seems like I'll have to punish this young lady for being so harsh with my classmate

Again, the teasing tone was evident, specially with the mischievous grin of the older, who started to step closer to her doing gestures with her hands, adverting her that she was going to grab her boobs. Maki covered herself with crossed arms and walked backwards not letting Nozomi touch her body.

ㅡC-can I..ask you something Toujou-san?

ㅡGo ahead dear~

ㅡW-what does..the cards told you exactly..?

ㅡHmm... I don't want to tell you that, I want you to realize it by yourself. All I can say is that my cards never fail to guess the future.

The pianist nodded after hearing her last word and seeing how she hid the card between her boobs so she couldn't see it. Her cheeks were now as red as ever, the purpled haired girl just kindly smiled in response, thinking that she was innocent and cute. She just left her there curious about it. Everyone at school knew she was some kind of fortune teller and that she liked to bother people, so it wasn't weird from her. Redhead sighed and dried the remaining tears on her cheeks, wondering if the petite girl was still crying somewhere.
She walked her way back home alone, hoping to see the maid again there, but her mother told her that she asked to have that day free and she agreed, just aggravating more the pain in Maki's chest. She felt lonely again, thinking that her beloved friend was going to broke their precious friendship and leave her job.

Next thing she knew about Yazawa-san was that she finally accepted to join µ's, which made her feel a little bit more relief, knowing that even if she decides to abandon her job as her maid, she'll be able to -at least- have her close enough to talk to her sometimes or glare at her. But things didn't turned out as she expected. Niko asked her if they could talk alone after school, and she waited for her at the music classroom, as she didn't knew any other place of the school besides her other classroom and the cafeteria. When the older stepped in she felt goosebumps, but the expression on the later's face didn't showed any emotion at all.

ㅡYou know Maki-chan? I waited like forever for you to talk to me again, to let me keep being by your side and to keep your word, but you didn't. As soon as you got those new friends you seemed to have completely forgot about our friendship, yeah, I did it for the money, but I really wanted to be your friend, I really liked to have your trust.. I cared about you, but you just forgot about me. If I decided to join the group was for pursuing my dreams, so move aside as you always do and don't dare act as if you know me.

After hearing her words, the pianist felt as if something broke inside of her. All her hopes to keep the closeness with her beloved friend were broken now. She felt a deep pain in her chest. For the first time in long, Nishikino showed her feelings in front of the maid. Her tears were fast to roll down her cheeks, Niko backed a little bit shocked by her reaction, not knowing what to do she stared at the later worriedly.

ㅡDo as you want... You're right, I don't care anymore about you.. Just leave me alone.

ㅡStop lying Maki.. Why do you keep hiding everything from me? You're crying.. How can you say you don't care?

ㅡI won't care anymore then. LEAVE!

She replied, still not being able to stop her tears from falling. The red eyed sighed, seeing her crying like that made her want to hug her tight to calm her pain, but she was hurt too, there was no way she could hug the one that didn't cared about her. So she decided to leave her alone. But that day, she went to her work place, because although she couldn't hug her, she wasn't going to leave her alone like that. Niko was way too worried to act like if it didn't happened.