"Hello?" "Hello?" Ritsu was repeatedly knocking in Miyu's gate

"Maybe her mother took her someplace else" Azusa suggested

"We won't see her anymore, and we couldn't even say good bye properly" all of them knew how sad Ritsu was saying this

"Maybe she'll come visit us sometime Ricchan" Yui happily holds onto Ritsu's hand

"Yeah, I mean, I'm sure she'll come to visit you" Mio adds on, completely giving the subtext of Miyu's feelings for Ritsu, no one says anything though, Mugi then says that they'll go home now and if Miyu does come home there, they're sure that Ritsu will talk to her.
Azusa, Yui and Mugi are then leaving to go home. Ritsu and Mio are left standing outside Miyu's gate.

"I'll be going home now too Ritsu, you should too"

"Yeah, I could wait for her from my bedroom"

"Okay then, bye" Mio walked off thinking. she's completely forgotten about our talk

At the Tainaka Residence

Ritsu was waiting in front of her window for any sign of Miyu coming home, it was now 7:30 pm at her analog clock and Ritsu was already tired of waiting, she thought of resting for a moment and went to her bed to lay down, like how she laid on Mio's bed, she was then again supporting her neck with her hands.
Sighing,

Mio must have forgotten our talk, I wanted to talk with her still, but after what happened I'm sure Mio wouldn't be in the mood anymore

Ritsu takes her cell phone from her drawer and clicks to her photos, a considerable amount were those of Mio,

strangers, friends, close friends, best friends. They said that after being best friends the next level is being lovers, but Mio and I are both girls…. Mio….

Ritsu was blushing now; a big screen cap of Mio's face was all she was looking at. She was feeling warm and fuzzy inside when a sudden loud knock came to her door, The ditsy girl lose hold of her cell phone, unfortunately it drop straight to her face, the screen falls into her face lower part, from nose to lips, Ritsu was now so flustered as Mio's lips in the picture fell into hers, she quickly stands up and takes the phone out of her mouth, she then opens the door, her mom was standing outside, "Mom, what is it?" Ritsu asks her mom in a stern voice.

"Oh, Miyu-chan's here to see you"

"Miyu?" Ritsu's eyes go wide

"Yes, Miyu, our neighbor, she said she had something to tell you"

"Ok " Ritsu goes to change clothes "Mom, tell her I'll be down quick"

"Ok, then" Her mom slowly closes the door but momentarily stops "Oh and Ritsu…"

"Yeah, Mom?" Ritsu answers quite annoyed while putting on her t-shirt

"Your face is red, do you feel sick?" Ritsu stopped moving but resumed after a few seconds, "No, mom, I'm not feeling sick"
She was now heading to the stairs when her mother closed her bedroom door and teased Ritsu at the stairs

"Then I guess you were blushing"

Ritsu is then blushing more as she yells "Mom!"

Mrs. Tainaka ignores her and laughs as she flights down the stairs, she passes the living room, and informs Miyu who was sitting at the sofa that Ritsu, was on her way down now.

At the nearby park-

Ritsu and Miyu were sitting at the swings, "Mugi told us, about the things she's heard about you at your old school" Ritsu was looking at Miyu who wasn't answering and was just sliding her feet in the ground making her swing sway left and right.

"Miyu, was it true that you had a harem at your old school?" The question was straightforward and harsh, but this is what Ritsu knew she needed to say, in order to get Miyu's attention. The long black haired girl stops the swing from moving and looks at Ritsu quite hostile, this made Ritsu scared but she wasn't going to chicken up now, "I would never do that! It's those bottom feeding vultures that kept ruining my life who said that!"

"Bottom feeding vultures?" Ritsu inquired

"My classmates and schoolmates Ritsu, they're the ones who spread those rumors"

"Why would they spread that Miyu? And everyone just believed it?"

"They were Jealous of something that I had, and they weren't just making rumors Ritsu, they tried their best to drag me, to situations where they knew I couldn't deny those rumors"

"What were they jealous of?"

"It's a long story" Miyu was now standing up from the swing but Ritsu grabbed her hand

"And we have a long night Miyu" Miyu's tears began to flow now, seeing this, Ritsu felt guilty for stopping her, she lets go of Miyu's hand and apologizes, only to be hugged by the girl. Miyu was hugging Ritsu tightly as she cried on the drummers shoulder

"Oh, Ricchan! If only I could have fought for her! It was all my fault, I was so weak!" Ritsu is oblivious to who Miyu was talking about and all she could do was to pat the girls head and comfort her.

The next day Ritsu explains to the others what happened last night, and Ritsu assured them that Miyu will sneak inside the club room later after class, Ritsu was able to make Miyu promise to tell the other club members about the truth, everyone was now excited.
Mio and Ritsu talked at the classroom on lunch time after eating,

"I knew she'd come to you" Mio told Ritsu confidently

"Ahehe, yeah, I was surprised when my mom told me she was at the house"

"I could feel that she wouldn't leave without talking to you, I mean she likes you right"

"Yeah, she does" Ritsu smiles with worry, she thought about Miyu's screams, how the beautiful red blazing eyed girl was regretting to have let go of someone.

"But I think Miyu has someone else she really loves" Mio was now interested in the topic "How'd you say?"

"She cried for the person last night, I didn't tell it this morning to everyone cause I think she wanted it to be a secret"

"Then why are you telling me now?"

"Because… I trust you, and" Ritsu slightly looks away "You said you like me, so I thought you wanted to know"

Mio was now blushing, she couldn't believe what Ritsu just said

Ritsu is actually thinking about my feelings for her

"Ah, is that so, Thanks, I do want that"

The two girls are then awkward for the moment until lunch time is over.
Later on at the club room, Miyu did what she promised; she sneaked in to the club room and agreed to tell what really happened.
Mugi went to Miyu before she tells the story and apologizes to have believed the rumors, Miyu forgave her and said that "It's ok, I don't blame you, even my closest friends in the school believed it" with their misunderstanding and hidden bitter feelings solved, Miyu was now ready to share her story.
"I want to start where I ended my story with Ricchan last night, none of the rumors about me having a harem were never true, and they were invented by different people in my campus. Who they are? I don't know, everyone, some were even my close friends, they made those rumors because they wanted me to break up with my then girlfriend."

"Girlfriend?" Mugi asks quiet shocked

"Yes, I had a girlfriend and that was never rumored, although it was the only true thing. My girlfriend was my first friend since middle school, we were always together and all, but she had a lot of fans and admirers in the school. By the 2nd year of our high school we had started to grow feelings of more than friends, and had started dating, I was an ordinary student with good grades but she was the schools famous drummer, yes the drums that I had are hers and I never was in a band, she tried to let me in but her band mates were jealous of me, everyone was jealous."
Miyu was now crying softly, Ritsu and the others comforted her and said that she can stop now but Miyu insists that she wants to continue, she wants to take those bitter feelings out of her chest.

"The rumors about me being in a harem started little by little, and those involved in the rumor were trying to make it look like real, they had me help some students I didn't know about and accidentally push me into kissing them or make it look like I'm harassing them, they were paying these students at first but time grew and many students were already afraid of me, and the rumors just kept becoming surreal, my girlfriend believed in me though, and she always defended me and I was so happy, but then my mom heard the rumors, she didn't believe me at all and when she heard about my girlfriend, she got more furious and drop me out the next day, I was forced to live with my aunt here and enroll in a coed school, but I got attracted to Ritsu,
My girlfriends name was Rika and she and Ritsu were so much alike, and I thought I could move on with Ritsu, and so I followed her here, then I heard my girlfriend had a new lover so I confessed to Ritsu, I wanted to make my girlfriend jealous, I was desperate to get back to her but my aunt discovered that I forged my school, so now my mother wants to take me to abroad, if I'm in abroad, I will never see Rika again! "
Miyu was now crying heavily, and the other girls did their best to comfort her,
at the end of the day, everyone went home with a gloomy mood, they felt sad for Miyu but Miyu insisted that they don't do anything, she was selfish to not let go of Rika and to lie to her whole family and so she must accept her punishment, besides she said, "maybe Rika and me were never meant for each other"
The next day, Ritsu wakes up in the morning seeing Mio's face looking at her, the drummer smiles happily saying "hi, Mio" and shifts to her left, she is then murmuring in her bed sheets when she suddenly comes to,

"MIO!" she sits upright at her bed

"Good morning Ritsu" Mio smiles happily, she is finding it happy to see the waking Ritsu.

"Good Morn… huh wait, what are you doing here?"

Mio seats down at Ritsu's bed "I have a plan Ritsu and I want you to come with me"
Much later on; Mio and Ritsu are now walking at an unfamiliar walkway inside a big campus, wondering where they would find a certain someone named Rika.
The two of them are assisted by a student to the senior building and there they find Rika Tatsuna.
Rika is initially bluffed with Mio and Ritsu's appearance but after introducing who they were and what their purpose was, Rika had no more hesitancy.

"Eh!?" Mio and Ritsu exclaim together "You never had a new lover?"

"No!, Miyu is my only one, and I don't know where she heard that" Rika said to the two,
Rika was a simple girl, her hair was bluish black, it was cut short but a bit longer than Ritsu's and the end were cut in thin pointy tips. Her eyes were ash green, big yet beautiful, she was as tall as Mio, and her body built was fine and sexy.

"Then the more that we need to reunite the two of you" Mio held Rika's hand

"Come on Rika-chan! Miyu misses you so much"

"Huh? Wait, I'm not sure of this" Ritsu then gets irritated that Rika is dashing Mio "What do you mean you're not sure?"

"Guys, I know you want to help Miyu and me but her mom doesn't approve us"

"So what if she doesn't?" Mio answers her, she looks at Ritsu who exchange looks at her, Mio then blushes and takes Ritsu's hand and pulls her to her "That never stopped us!"

Both Rika and Ritsu are somewhat confused

"You and Ritsu are lovers?"

The two of them blush but Mio still goes on "Well, yeah, wasn't it obvious?" she then laughs afterwards to which Ritsu laughs along not really sure if they're doing the right thing.

"No, you were actually awkward with each other, but hey if you say so, but still… Miyu's mom is harder than you think"
Ritsu was now getting more annoyed with Rika, she lets go of Mio's hand and taps it to Rika's chest "Hey, how can you not even try, I mean milady here is already doing her best to give you a happy ending and your just dishing our efforts, so here's the last time Tatsuna, are you coming or not?!"
And yes, with the valor of Ritsu's straightforwardness and antics, the doubtful Rika Tatsuna has decided to 'give it a try'.
On their way back to the other city, Mio and Ritsu were seated next to each other in the train while Rika was seated in front of them, their hands were still entwined together much to each other's blush,

"So, Mio, how long are we going to this? I think Rika knows that were just acting"

"I don't know, if she does know, then maybe we should stop now" Mio was now sliding off her hand when Ritsu re-holds it,

"On second thought, I think it's nice if we hold hands"
Mio looks at Ritsu who was blushing red, she then smiles and puts her head down on Ritsu's shoulder.
After getting back to town Rika is introduced to the rest of the k-on club and they excitedly wait for Miyu's arrival. Once could imagine the happiness and love that spread to the atmosphere as the reunited lovers are met at each other's arms, they cried, they laughed, they explained and forgave each other, every moment was touching and the club was happy for their new members regained happiness.

"Mio, Thank you so much!" Rika happily went to Mio "You've made me realize that me and Miyu can still work things out" Rika embraces Mio,

"It's nothing Rika, you're really welcome" Mio embraces her back,
Ritsu was looking at the scene from the corner of her eye, she was talking with Mugi and Yui when she noticed Rika approach Mio, now that they were embracing, Ritsu was feeling upset in the stomach, Mugi noticed that her eyes were looking somewhere else now,

"Ricchan, what are you looking at?" Mugi asks her

"Huh?" Ritsu comes to "Oh, nothing, it's really great that Miyu's happy now"

"It's like that movie I watched a long time ago" Yui reminisces with googly eyes

"The yuri one?" Azusa asks from her side

"ahum" Yui nods at her

"really? You seem to like it so much Yui-senpai"

"Of course I do Azu-nyan, sometimes I wish you and I can be like that"
Azusa who was busy drinking her soda blurted everything she just sipped. "Yu…Yui-senpai, are you…by any chance a…le...lesbian?"

"Huh?" Yui's expression shows that she doesn't get the situation "hmm, why'd you ask Azu-nyan? Am I like one?"

"he..heh? no, it's just" Azusa was now blushing "Mou Yui-senpai!" she then yells in front of Yui,

"Gomen ne, Azu-nyan but I really don't know how to answer you" Yui was now scratching her head, Ritsu was in front of her drinking some soda of her own, when she couldn't resist but to dig in the conversation Ritsu sighs "huh, Yui you're really a spoonful sometimes"

"Huh? What do you mean Ricchan?"

"When Azusa was referring to lesbian, she meant a girl liking another girl"

"Oh" Yui exhales "then aren't we all lesbians then?" Mugi laughs lightly at this, while Ritsu and Azusa are awing with "What?!"

Yui's expression was now getting scared "But...you said girls who like girls, and don't we all like each other, and were all girls…doesn't that make us les..."

"No, Yui! When I said girls liking girls, I meant the kind of like between lovers!"

Mugi was still laughing but it was a bit louder now "Oh, come on Ricchan, Yui just misunderstood what you said" Mugi smiled at Yui "right Yui-chan?" Yui's eyes began to tear lightly as she hugged Mugi "Mugi-chan"

"there, there" Mugi strokes Yui's hair "I do think that what Yui said was still true"

"You do Mugi-senpai?"

"Well, yes Asuza, you see, a certain pair of lovebirds are hiding at our club" Mugi narrows her eyes at Ritsu who is simply shocked with what Mugi was doing right now

what the? Mugi knows...and is she rating me out?

"Ehehe" Ritsu is now the one rubbing her head "What are you talking about Mugi? Were all friends in the club, nothing less….nothing mo...re" Mugi's eyebrows were shifting downwards, she was signaling Ritsu that she knows everything already, and that its time for the other two to know too.

"Ok, I surrender" Mugi smiles victoriously, Yui then lifts herself up, she and Azusa look at each other

"What do you mean Ritsu-senpai?"

"Azusa, Yui, there's been something of a change between Mio and I"

"What sort of change Ricchan?" Yui asks

"You see, Mio-chan confessed to like me, like me"

"Mio-chan/senpai is a lesbian?" Both girls react

"Well, no…maybe, whatever! Even if she was a lesbian she told me that I'd be the only girl she'd like! And I, I like her too"

"Oh, Ricchan" Yui and Mugi heartwarmingly choruses

"Heh? Mugi-senpai, Yui-senpai, aren't you going to be shocked?"

"Oh no no no, Azu-nyan, love is love whatever gender it'll be" Yui hugs Azusa

"heh?!" Azusa then looks at Mugi "Mugi-senpai..?" but Mugi just smiles in agreement with Yui,
with the two of them smothered already, Azusa then looks at Ritsu, she noticed their hyperactive president was actually blushing and looking away, possibly feeling shy

Ritsu-senpai must really be serious, Mugi-senpai and Yui-senpai are happy for them and so should I!

"Ritsu-senpai" Ritsu slowly turns to look at Azusa "I wish the best for you and Mio-senpai!"

"Azusa" Ritsu says in an almost whisper, she then smiles widely with red blushing cheeks "Hai! Well can do!"
The four of them then whisk to their happiness. At the fall of sunset the light music club is now ready to send off their dearest short term member.
Mugi says her farewell to Miyu "Miyu-chan, I'm sorry for the doubts I've had on you, and even if I've spent a lot of times being spiteful and untrusting of you, I really enjoyed your stay in the club"

"Me too Mugi-chan, although we weren't that close to each other, I'm glad I got to taste your tea and cakes"

"I'll be happy to serve more to you, just visit anytime you want"

"I sure will" ith these, the two girls embrace each other, Yui is then next,
She holds Miyu's finger and starts to pinch it softly "Miyu-chan, although you don't really play drums, your hands are still gifted to make cute clothes within hours"

Miyu laughs and smiles enthusiastically at Yui, "Oh Yui, I'll be sure to miss your mischievousness"

"I'll miss you too Miyu-chan!"

Azusa was just standing at their back, happily looking at the happy farewell, she then joins in and says her own goodbye

"Miyu-senpai, you were my first senpai in the club who actually acted normal, so please don't change"

"Is that so? Well I highly recommend you learn to like your senpai's more, they're actually the type you'd miss even before you get separated" Miyu pats Azusa head and encloses her in a short embrace. Ritsu then steps to say her goodbye to Miyu

"So I'm not really your love huh?" Miyu smiles at her and shrugs her shoulder "No, I do love you, just in a different way though, my heart belongs to Rika"

"Phew!, Am I glad to hear that" Both girls laugh then, "And I have noticed that you have someone of your own in your heart"
Miyu looks at Mio not too far, Ritsu knows this without following Miyu's vision

"You shouldn't let her go Ricchan, she's a keeper"

"What makes you think I will" The auburn girl and black haired girl exchange smiles and share a very intimate hug

"I'm happy I met you Ricchan"

"I'am too, Miyu, I hope you'll fight for her now" Miyu smiles as Ritsu remembers her screams when she emotionally broke down,

"I will Ritsu, my mom won't stop me anymore nor can any rumor"

"That's the sprit"

After they break their hug, Miyu clings into Rika, the four of them are then waving hands at each other, but before the couple have gone far, Miyu runs back to the group, she goes to Mio and takes her hand

"I know we've said our good-bye's when the others were in the restaurant, but there's something I've been hesitating to say"
Mio was looking at Miyu and laughed lightly, "What?"

"Thank you. Thank you for everything Mio. I realized now that I could never be your rival, you have too much guts and love in you, and I'm sure I can never meet anyone like you anymore, although we were bitter with each other, you were willing to help me and give me happiness, Thank you, thank you so much Mio" Miyu chan was now tearful as she hugged Mio.

"I'm thankful for you too Miyu, you helped me realize my feelings, I understood your pain and I wanted you to be happy, I couldn't imagine what I'd do if I lose Ritsu"

"Don't worry Mio, I know that won't happen to the two of you, you guys have a stronger bond than me and Rika, and I'm sure that the two of you would make a heck of a couple!"

The two laughed silly in their embrace, they were talking so lightly that the four girls in the side were not able to hear their conversation; they just stared there and admired the new found friendship, everyone had achieved.
At the view of the lights at the night of Japan, the five girls are now at their separating lane, Yui, Azusa and Mugi waves from the other sidewalk to Ritsu and Mio, the girls then walk to their humble homes, Mugi is smiling brightly as she sees Ritsu and Mio happily talking as they walked, she also smiles happily when she noticed her two companions were now holding hands down the lane, Once left alone in the train station, Mugi contemplates to herself with a big smile,

"What a wonderful yuri ending"

Chapter Seven End.