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Chapter 4

"I'm so full!" Hikigaya said, sprawled out on the bed and rubbing his stomach in satisfaction.

Yukino raised her eyebrows in response but didn't say a word.

"Come on Yukinoshita, you can admit it - you're full too!" Hikigaya said.

"I had better." Came the simple reply.

"Really?"

"The meat was a little overcooked for it to be called 'medium-rare', I felt the tenderness of it and it resembles one of a medium. Apart from that, the sauce was not to satisfaction; it did not in anyway bring out the flavouring of the meat. The lack of vegetables are quite worrying and even the vegetables tasted like it was fried in oil made out of fat; the salt was overdone as well."

"Even the salt?" Hikigaya said in disbelief, "It's not like you know how to cook like that anyways."

"I do." Yukino said rolling her eyes.

"I bet you can't - after all it's not like you're studying to go to culinary school anyways." Came Hikigaya's more intense comeback.

"And you are? Last I check - You wanted to be a stay-at-home husband."

"Since when does my career path concern you?"

"Since when was the subject switch to your lack of motivation towards being employed?"

"Since when did you decide to switch the subject? Anyways the term still stays - you're not in anyway professional."

"Is that a challenge?"
"Do you want it to be?" Hikigaya asked as a sharp bell ring rang through the hotel room.

"I wonder who it is, and this late at night as well." Yukino said getting up to open the door.

"Hey."

The term was short, and curt and the certain tone belonged to the one and only Yumiko.

"Miura-San, I did not expect you this late at night, please come in." Yukino said politely, holding the door out for Yumiko, Yumiko entered and sat in the couch, as Yukino closed the door and followed, sitting on the double bed.

"To what do we owe this pleasure?" Yukino asked, "And do you want to have anything?"

Yumiko shook her head - 'Straight down to business I guess', Hikigaya said to himself.

"Yukinoshita, I know you're very popular amongst the boys and this might be a normal occurrence but..." Yumiko took a deep breath, "Hayama likes you, and not in a friendly way either, he likes likes you and I just wanted to tell you that." Yumiko muttered, but she sounded like she was going to cry.

"I do have a vague idea that, Hayato does like me however, I do not in anyway reapproach these feelings towards him. I had assumed that his feeling had died out from Middle School when he confessed to me but it seems not -" Yukino said the last part to herself as if she was talking to herself.

"Anyways, I assume you are not only here to discuss the fact that Hayato likes me and came to discuss something else?" Yukino asked.

"I kinda like Hayama, and Yukinoshita I know I haven't been friendly to you from the start but I'm tired of this cat and mouse game that we're playing - we only have two years left before graduation, and we're not getting anywhere." Yumiko said her voice surprisingly genuine.

"Well, that concludes the first step: Admitting you like Hayato to yourself can either make you feel more or less attraction towards him." Yukino said before turning to Hikigaya, "Any ideas Master of the Rejected?"

Hikigaya ignored her, "Well, I think what Hayato is, is that he's really conflicted between two people - Yukino and Yumiko so all you have to really do is cut off one to make him value the other or cut of one so that he'll miss the one."

"That doesn't make sense." Yumiko said.

"Yes it does, but it requires a lot of tricks and psychological manipulation - I'm not sure we can pull this off, as well as the fact we have to choose between our two options."

"Yeah, before you do that - care to explain to me what your so call 'amazing' plan is?" Yumiko asked.

"Okay, listen carefully - Hayato is torn between two girls, those two girls is you, Yumiko and Yukino. Using that we have two ways to use this to our advantage - first option, we take Yukino and place her in a 'relationship', this would mean that Hayato would have to move on to the next thing which is you, Yumiko."

Yukino nodded, "There are flaws in this solution, as Hayato might move on to another girl or just use you as a rebound, which is not good if you're looking for a long-term, meaningful relationship. Not to mention the amount of acting that my pretend-boyfriend and I have to do as well as the amount of time it takes to find one 'pretend' boyfriend who knows me or fulfill at least three of my personal requirements."

"That's easy, just take Hikigaya and ask him to be your pretend boyfriend." Yumiko said nonchalantly, causing both Hikigaya and Yukino to flush a light shade of pink. "What's the second option?"

"The second option, is that we remove Yumiko away from Hayama so he'll miss Yumiko moe and then figure out that he likes Yumiko. This also has it's flaws, as Hayama could go for Yukino, and get rejected in results. Not to mention that the fact he might give up on Yumiko as well." HIkigaya said.

"Or we could do both, they don't clash into one another do they?" Yukino said, "Although I do admit that it is quite complicated." She then turned to look at Yumiko, "The choice is all yours though."

"Well, I guess… I'll take both of them." Yumiko said.

Yukino raised an eyebrow, "You do realise that picking both option does not improve the chances of Hayama returning his feelings towards you - right?"

Yumiko nodded, "I just want to live my life knowing that I did try all my options, if Hayama doesn't pick me in the end then I'll know I did my best and move on as fast as possible." 'Or at least try to' Yumiko thought bitterly.

"Fine. But we need to make a more detailed plan so it wouldn't be flawed or something." Hikigaya said, "Because believe me when I say this: This plan has a lot of flaws."

"Considering this is coming from the Master of Flaws, I agree." Yukino replied.

"Huh? I thought I was the Master of the Rejected?"

"Master of the Rejected and Master of Flaws, thus; The Master of Jack of all Trades and Master of Nothing."

"That's such an oxymoron."

"I'm surprise you even know the meaning of that word, much less the word itself."

"Hey, I was 3rd in Japanese."

Yumiko sighed, she came to Hikigaya and Yukinoshita's room for advice, not to listen to two hormonal teenagers squabbling trying to deflate the amount of tension (Mostly Sexual, according to Yumiko) that they had with one another.

"Okay, it's settled then - I'll just start paying more attention to other guys and ignore Hayama, while Hikigaya pretends to be Yukinoshita's boyfriend, nobody tells anybody anything and this conversation stays between us, I'll be going now." Yumiko said.

"Wait… What about an alibi or something? About how I got together with him?" Yukino said, glaring at Hikigaya.

"I don't know, sort that between yourself." Yumiko said, waving goodbye before leaving.

"..."

"..."

"So? How did we get together Yukinoshita?" Hikigaya asked.

"We snuck out, you got drunk and confessed to me." Yukino said sarcastically.

"Now that's just stupid."

"How about, during the holidays and we wanted to keep it a secret?"

"That's a problem because you were in England during the holidays - remember? Yuigahama and Isshiki was there when you told us, they'll remember." Yukino nodded in agreement.

"On the plane?" Yukino asked.
"Everybody would have heard; the end of term before the holidays?"
"We got into a fight remember? Yuigahama-San was there to witness it."
"How about tonight?"
"Huh?" Yukino said in surprise.
"Tonight, it'll be a perfect alibi, nobody knows until morning - it's a good plan."

"Yes, Hikigaya; because everybody confesses in a hotel room." Yukino said sarcastically, "But it's a good idea overall."

Hikigaya nodded.

"How about how the confession started?" Yukino asked, writing it down on a notepad.

"We were fighting-"
"Believable"

"-And it was incredibly heated, more heated than it's ever been."
"That's a bit far, we would need to make a huge fight in here later."

"Yeah, and I break down and confess to you, and then you answer this time softer so it'll leave our neighbours to the left and the right on a cliffhanger; they would hear the question but not the answer." Hikigaya said, "Write that down."

Yukino nodded, before scowling and looked up. "What were we fighting about?"

"The fact that we accepted this stupid request." Hikigaya said honestly.

"Okay." Yukino said, "How did the second confession go like - this is after my answer which they wouldn't hear, they wouldn't hear this as well. It's on the list because that would probably come out from Komachi or Yuigahama-San."

"Yeah, they would probably demand to know how I re-confessed."

"Well?"

"How about: Yukino Yukinoshita, from the moment I saw you I knew you were the one."
"No, too out of character."

"Yukino Yukinoshita, at first I thought you were a stuck up b*tch that didn't care and was all high and mighty and all. But then I took the time (or rather you force me to) to understand you a bit, and you related to me in every bit, from our childhood to our middle school years (even thought you were the Rejecter and I was the rejected) we were always lonely. Two loners that ended up together - cliche right? Well we'll both never be lonely ever again, because I like you and I'm asking you to be my girlfriend." Hikigaya said, "That good enough?"

"Cut out the part when you say we'll both never be lonely again until the end, and you'll be fine." Yukino said as her eyes twinkled in mischief, "And now, the fight."