Sorry if this is late, I'm finally on holiday^^ Exams was sooo tiring. But I'm really glad that it's over!

Chapter 2: Just the Beginning! Part 2

Perfect! I'm on time! I happily thought as I took a seat beside Bou-san at the hotel's restaurant. Not everyone was here yet, which was good, I was normally always the last one to arrive.

Or rather everyone is always early.

"Mai-chan, are you excited for tomorrow?" asked Bou-san.

I grinned, "Of course!"

This was just the first day of vacation after all and it's already dark outside, so we could only start the actual fun tomorrow. Luckily later tonight we could go bath in the hot springs!

"Hey Ayako," I called her when she took the seat across me, "Aren't the rooms amazing?"

An hour before now, I had woken up from my nap and observed the hotel room. All I can say to describe it is that it was a work of an artist.

"Splendid! I've never seen such a beautiful room like that before!"

I smiled, glad that this time she didn't complain.

"That just tells us how you've never set foot in a 5 star hotel before." said Masako, who was sitting beside her.

Ayako's one eye twitched in annoyance, "Oh and I suppose that you have?"

"Why of course I have, Matsuzaki-san. I'm just that perfect."

John-san, sitting next to Masako, smiled nervously and tried to stop their argument. I sighed at his failed attempt.

Poor John-san. . .

Just then, Yasuhara-san had arrived with Naru, Mori-san and Lin-san. Both Yasuhara and Mori-san were laughing and grinning happily, while Naru held a slightly annoyed expression. Surprisingly Lin-san held a small smile.

Hmm. . . . He only seems to smile the most whenever Mori-san is around. I suspiciously thought.

By the time they took their seats at our table, the waiter had given us our menus. Yasuhara sat on the other side of Bou-san, Mori-san sat next to me, Lin-san sat in the seat across hers and Naru sat at the head of the table.

Wow, it feels like SPR is about to hold an important meeting and not eat at a restaurant for vacation. I mentally joked to myself.

I returned to looking at my unopened menu, to see what I wanted to eat.

. . . . . . . .

Bou-san noticed my blank look, "Hm? Mai-chan, what's wrong?"

I smiled at him tentatively, "I don't understand this menu. . ."

Bou-san comically hit his head on the table, "What do you mean by that!"

I nervously chucked, "I can read it. . . I just don't get what this food exactly is. . . "

He sighed and rubbed his head, "Look," he pointed on my menu, "Don't try to make out the name. Just read what's in it, okay?"

"Okay~" I replied, sighing.

I glanced at Mori-san, who was looking at me with a smile. I blushed in embarrassment and blushed even redder when I saw that Naru was looking at me too. I quickly returned to looking at the menu, using it to hide my face.

'Why couldn't we just have a buffet?' I mentally whined.

~o.0.o~

"Haaah~" I let out a relaxed sigh.

After we had finished eating, we sat there for another hour just talking. Right after that we went back to our rooms to get our stuff and straight to the hot springs.

The hot spring has two sections, one for the men and one for the women. There were right next to each other.

"Mai-chan! Can you hear me?" Bou-san called out from the men's side. Mori-san, Ayako and I giggled while Masako shook her head.

"Yes~!" I replied.

"Awesome!" he exclaimed, "You guys should try it out." I heard him say to the others.

Even though it was soft, I heard Yasuhara-san and John-san laugh.

"Well then. . ." said Yasuhara-san, while making a sound from moving in the water.

"Hey!" I heard his voice clearly call out. All four of us took a step closer to the bamboo fence. "Are you ladies wearing your towels at the moment?" he inquired in a nonchalant voice.

Excluding Mori-san, we had all blushed. No one uttered a sound, apart from the cicadas.

"What kind of question is that, Yasuhara!" Bou-san cried out, the first to speak.

"My, my. We've got a bold man here." giggled Mori-san.

"How embarrassing!" I said, holding my cheeks in the palm of my hands.

Ayako then yelled out loudly, "Have you no shame! You better run when we're on our way back to the rooms!"

Ah. . . Ayako is getting mad now.

"All taken care of!" laughed Bou-san from the other side. Also hearing a small choking sound from there.

"Ack! T-Takigawa-san, if you really wanted to touch me so affectionately, you could've said so."

"Why you! Is this affectionate now?"

We all heard choking and water splashing. Making me wander what Naru was doing there. He was probably sitting in the water quietly, Lin-san too, and John-san was probably chuckling nervously. I really want to see them. But then the thought of seeing Naru in a towel made me blushed.

Now is not the time, Mai! I scolded myself.

Suddenly we heard a bang from the other side and saw the bamboo fence slowly fall onto our side. Luckily we moved away in time, but. . .

We had all frozen in our spot when we saw the guys. Bou-san had his arm hanged around Yasuhara-san's neck tightly, near the fallen fence. John-san was standing nearby them, Lin-san sat near the exit door and Naru. . .

My face burned like a furnace at the sight of him. He sat against the rocks, looking like a god! Our eyes met, he held a slightly shock expression with a tint of pink on his cheeks. I saw nothing else but him and his beautiful features.

It ended with Ayako, Masako and Mori-san screaming, I was too late for that as I was distracted.

I heard voices just inside the hotel just by the hot spring door. "You heard that right? We should probably get the Owner or a female to check on it."

"Yeah, we don't want to get lecture for stepping into the hot springs when we're supposed to be working."

"Yes yes, let's get someone who's free to call her quickly."

Then we heard their footsteps disappear.

Didn't they hear the scream! They should've checked on us!

The scream probably wasn't that loud, I hardly heard the workers voices after all and they were men!

We all looked back at each other and thought the same thing, 'Let's get out of here!'

We quickly ran out of the hot springs and into the changing room, I quickly glanced at the guys and noticed Naru mumbled something to himself. I could only guess that he said 'what an embarrassment.'

Us girls quickly got changed by wearing our yukata's (with our undergarment too) and ran back to our rooms, at the same time as the guys.

~o.0.o~

As soon as we reached the hallway of our rooms, we stopped to take a rest.

I sat on the ground as I patiently waited for my breathing to calm down.

After that we looked at each other and suddenly burst out laughing, exclude Naru and Lin-san who were smiling.

"I can't believe that you guys screamed! And that the workers didn't seem to hear it!" Bou-san first said in-between his laugh.

"Your expressions were hilarious!" chuckled. Mori-san.

"How the fence fell is hilarious too." laughed Ayako. "five star hotel alright!"

"Don't forget the way we ran!" joined Yasuhara-san.

"Or how about just everything!" I said and we all agreed.

Tonight was definitely just the beginning of our vacation. The real fun was going to start tomorrow! I was really amped for it, especially since I'm with the whole SPR!

Hope you enjoyed this chapter! It's kinda slow in the beginning because I wanna make this story as long as possible^^ When I type it, it's very relaxing and calms me and my boredom^^;

Please review! It's what keeps me motivated to keep writing and make the story more interesting!

ClippedWing