"Hey Umi, um should we go check on them?" Kotori and Umi were currently waiting patiently in front of the student council office for Honoka and Yui who were discussing something, but the questionable sounds escaping the room began to peak their curiosity.
"Alright," the archer places her hand on the door knob hesitantly, preparing to open the door, "I really hope we're not interrupting anything," the knob is turned and a scene unravels in front of them. An intense battle between two lovers, a relationship and a bond withering, as the two girls clash in a duel of fate, where blood is shed and only one will prevail. At least that was what Kotori saw, what Umi saw and what actually went on was Yui and Honoka rolling around on the ground yelling nonsense at each other.
"Umi, we have to stop them! They'll rip each other to shreds!" the ash-haired girl cried. Genuinely worried for her two friends.
Frustrated with the scene before her, the blunette began pinching the bridge of her nose, "how did it get to this?". She wondered that for a bit before the two second years went to the ones who were fighting to pry the couple off of each other. Causing them to scramble after each other as the distance between them is increased while they're being pulled away.
"Lemme go! I'm not done with her yet!" the ginger was still trying to break free from the archer, fortunately Umi's iron grip wouldn't let up.
Yui was also struggling, giving Kotori a hard time, suddenly an idea came to her, "h-hey Yui if you stop struggling I'll get you some cheesecake!". This didn't stop Yui's fury, in fact she almost broke out of the hold, "what about two slices?". With that Yui stopped, she turned and looked at the tailor with sparkles in her eyes, "really?".
"Yeah sure anytime," Kotori sighed, hearing this Honoka snapped and with some new found strength, broke free from Umi's grip, as she rushes towards the others she fails to notice the object that will ultimately lead to her demise, the chair. The four legged monster catches one of the ginger's legs as she tries to run by, causing her to fall face first, once she had fallen Umi swiftly pinned her in a position where she sits on her friend with one hand on her back. The archer looks over to the mighty chair and silently expresses her gratitude, before going back to the situation at hand. Honoka was still struggling to break free while Yui was awkwardly waiting with Kotori. Umi looked down at the girl she was pinning, "you done yet?".
"No!" The ginger used all her strength to push herself up but immediately plopped back down under her friend's weight. "Okay, I'm done now,".
"Good now I want you two to make up, or we can stay here all day," the blunette glared at the bickering couple.
The ginger scoffs, "after what she did? Yeah okay… Ow!" she received a karate chop to the head from an Umi who doesn't feel like dealing with sass.
"What happened between you two anyway?" the designer asked.
"Well… wouldn't you like to know?" Honoka shot a glare at her childhood friend.
*Three weeks earlier*
On the school roof of Otonizaka High School a certain blonde Russian claps her hands to get everyone's attention after practice, "alright everyone, now that Umi and Mio finished the lyrics, we'll have to work on the melody,". The former student council president looks over to a certain tomato hair girl, "by the way Maki, do want to play the piano with Mugi, or do you want to dance with us?".
"I think I'll dance with you guys if you don't mind…" the first year twirls her hair, "n-not that I want to dance with you guys,".
Yui, who made her way to the Muse practice area with her band tilted her head in confusion, "so does she want to dance or…" she began.
Hanayo intercepted the question, "don't question it, just don't," Yui looks at the other Muse member who simply shake their heads. "Um… Okay,".
"Anyway we still need the tune," the Russian was addressing the band, "do you have any idea when you can get it done?"
The bassist of the band spoke up,"well that depends, is there a deadline for the melody?"
"Hm, I don't know maybe two weeks?".
This time the drummer spoke up, "then they'll be done in three!".
"Okay then I guess we're done here, meeting dismissed,".
Yui gathered her things and was prepared to make her way home along with everyone else. But before she could leave the rooftop, "hey Yui, wait up!" A voice called. The brunette turned around to find out the voice belong to a girl with ashen hair. "Hey Kotori, what's up?".
"I kind of wanted to talk to you about somethings, is that alright?"
"Yeah su-," *rumble*, "ehehe, sorry about that," the airhead rubs the back of her head and places an arm around her stomach after it rumbled.
The tailor giggled, "that alright if you're free why don't we go somewhere to eat?"
Yui could barely hold back her excitement, she lept into Kotori's arms, "sure!".
Meanwhile Honoka gathered her thing and went over to the slot where she usually met her childhood friends before going home. Only to see one of the two was present, "hey Umi where's Kotori?".
"She had something to do so she said we should head home without her," she points at the tailor who is seen walking away with Yui.
"Oh, okay," a pang of jealousy hits Honoka, what am I thinking? Kotori's my best friend and Yui's my girlfriend, of course I can trust them… Right? The ginger snaps out of her thoughts when Umi gathers her attention."Honokaaa, come on as important as school is I don't plan on staying here all day,"she was impatiently tapping her foot with her arms crossed.
"Huh? Uh sorry let's get going,".
"You don't have to worry about anything I'm sure they're not doing anything fishy,"
The ginger clung onto her childhood friend's arm, "b-but how can you be so sure,"
Umi sighed and patted Honoka on the head, "look I may not be Mugi or Nozomi or anything but be even I can tell that they're just friends, so calm down,".
While Umi continued to console her friend Yui turned around to see her girlfriend cling onto her friend while she was receiving pats on the head, the brunette smiled, "they're really close aren't they?".
Kotori turned to where Yui was facing, "well the three of us have been friends since we were kids,".
"Since kids huh?" Yui was recalling childhood memories with Nodoka and her little sister, how she would cling onto them for help, I guess Honoka and I have a lot more in common than we thought.
"Hey Yui is everything okay?" Kotori asks, noticing her friend who seemed to be lost in her thoughts. "You're not jealous are you?".
"Hm? Nah I cling on to people all the time," the guitarist explains while she clings onto Kotori, "see?... I was just thinking about my own childhood friends,". She explains letting go of the tailor as the two leave the school grounds, "anyway what did you want to talk about?".
"Well I design the costumes for the group so, I was wondering if you guys had any preferences for outfits,".
"Mm, well I guess I'm fine with anything, Sawako Sensei is usually the one who makes our outfits," the two continue to converse as they head to a nearby fast food restaurant.
"Oooh they have cheesecake here?!" The airhead exclaims as she inspects the menu, "oh but Mio said I should watch my weight," cakeoholic patted her stomach in despair. She looks over to her friend who also seemed tempted to buy herself some dessert. "Hey Kotori, you wanna split one with me?".
The idol's face brightened up a bit as she clung on to Yui's, "I would love too!". she cheered, making the brunette giggle.
'Coincidentally' Honoka and Umi happened to walk past the very same fast food restaurant, and let's just say Honoka wasn't very happy with what she saw through the windows which were partially covered with posters containing ads.
"Honoka are you listening? I'm trying to give you advice for the song you're making with Yui so you better be listening,". Once Mio learned about the song the couple were making, she let the cat out of the bag and let everyone else know about their little project. Now the two are just getting flooded by advice from their fellow peers. Anyway, Umi noticed the absence of her friend's attention, and snapped her fingers.
"Huh? Oh sorry, you had me at making a rhythm out of words,"
"Geez, is something wrong? Are you still worried about them?"
"No,not at all," the ginger faked a smile, she didn't know why but something inside her compelled her to lie, to bottle the feelings, even if the feelings were eating away from inside. "Anyway, what were you trying to tell me?".
"Well, as I was saying, cadence is…".
Once the duo received their order they went to a window seat, where they were able to see the sun set over the city, painting the sky orange with silhouettes of buildings and skyscrapers. "It's a nice view huh? I should take Honoka to see the sunset sometime," the brunette nibbled on some fries as she basked in the view.
Kotori smiled, "you really do care about her don't you?".
"Well of course I do! She's the reason I met you and everyone else, she helped me with my fear of thunder, and whenever I see her she's always shining,".
Kotori giggled from the lecture she received about how amazing her best friend was. "Y'know Yui, Honoka talks about you all the time,"
"Really? What does she say?" she asks, as she takes a sip of soda.
"She tells us how cute you are, how you're always making her feel special, and how she would feel bad about leaving you behind,"
the airhead blushed, "ehehe, now I'm really looking forward to spend some time with her,". She takes out the cheesecake and splits it in half to share with her friend. The two continue their meal and talk about friends, hobbies, and school. Once they're finished with their meals walk home together continuing the conversation before they have to split apart.
Several minutes after the two go their separate ways Yui spots a certain ginger walk out of a nearby store, "Honoka!" The girl calls out. No response, she runs up to the ginger and places her hand on the girl's shoulder who simply shakes it off, and begins sprinting away around a corner. The guitarist follows in pursuit, unfortunately once she turned the corner the idol was nowhere to be seen. What was that about, did I startle her? I'll ask her about it later, aw man I really felt like spending time with her. The girl cluelessly ponders the situation as she makes her way home.
Meanwhile Honoka can be found squatting against a wall, face against her knees, panting. I can't believe her, casually calling me after what she was doing? I'm gonna give her a piece of my mind. Her fist began to clench but soften after a while from hesitation. Once she finds the strength she begins walking home, Yui, were done.
*Three week time skip*
A broken Yui checks her and scans over her text, hoping for some sort of reply.
"Hey Honk I saw you yesterday but you ran off is everything alright?".
"Hey, wanna work on the song tomorrow? My parent went on a trip again,".
"Honokaaa?".
"Honoka, is everything alright?".
"Kousaka-chan I haven't spoken to you in weeks I miss you have you been busy?".
"Kousaka-san you there?".
Oddly enough the brunette knows her girlfriend read all of the messages, there was a little symbol that popped up next to each one, meaning that the message was seen. But Honoka just wouldn't talk back, she texted Kotori and Umi but they couldn't find anything out. So today she would find out, 'After School Tea Time' were on their way to the Otonizaka music room with their instruments (besides Ritsu and Mugi who had their instruments delivered by one of Mugi's servants, because they were too big to carry), to present the piece they created. The airhead avoided telling her companions about the situation, hoping to not create too much drama amongst her friends.
Upon entering school grounds they had to show the school staff a pass given by the student body president, but they still had to have their bags searched out of regulation. They wander over to the music room, where Ritsu's drum and Mugi's keyboard were already set up, along with some amplifiers for the guitarists and the bassist. The idol group were found chatting away once the band entered. The two groups greeted each other before getting down to business.
Yui scanned the room for Honoka, when the two made eye contact the ginger immediately broke away, and pretended to check her phone. What's up with her? I'll ask about it later. Pushing her thoughts aside, the airhead, along with the rest of the band began to prepare for the demo. Once they were ready, the idol group gave the band a small applause, as a sign of encouragement. The song began, Ritsu had a fast pace beat, while the rest of the members played high notes. The song induced happy vibe, making one that would make people want to move and dance. There was an absence of vocals, due to the fact that they have yet to decide how the lyrics would fit it. That however didn't make the song any less enjoyable. 'Muse' could be seen swaying their heads and tapping their feet. From time to time Yui would look up from Gitah and look into the crowd, she'd make eye contact with Honoka who'd almost immediately break away and pretend to fiddle with something.
Once the band finished preparing their song, there was an applause and some cheers among the other 9 girls in the room. Meanwhile the girls onstage gathered together to take a bow.
That cat-girl stood up and cheered, "Encorenya!".
The girls on stage froze, "um, we don't really have any other songs prepared,".
Eli dragged Rin back to her seat, "this is more than enough, alright everyone, now all we need are the choreography and the vocals and we're done!". Everyone in the room cheered, a piece they were working on for over a month was about to be complete.
Suddenly something came across Maki's mind. "So, what happens when we're done?" She asked, bowing her head. No one really thought about it, what's next? Are they performing it live? are they recording it and putting it online? Do they plan on working togeyher more, or is this it?. Even though she doesn't show it the redhead had grown fond of the band, and the feelings were mutual.
Nozomi walked up from behind and hugged the tsundere "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, alright?".
Mugi chimed in and patted Maki's head, "that's right, and we can hang out together as long as we want, it's not like we can't be friends when we're done working,".
Maki cheered up a bit, but her inner tsundere made her lightly shove the dynamic duo off of her, "II wasn't thinking that! You guys were reading into that too much!".
Mugi and Nozomi continued teasing Maki, while Azusa tried to get them to cut it out. Rin, Nico, and Hanayo began talking to Ritsu about something trivial. And Eli accompanied with Kotori, and Umi went to Mio to talk about the song. All the girls were casually talking, except one of the girls seemed to missing, Honoka.
Yui searched the room for her to no avail. The brunette made her way to the ginger's childhood friends. "Kotori, Umi, do you know where Honoka went?".
The two looked at eachother and Umi spoke up, "she said she had to do something in the student council office, here we'll show you the way,". The duo guided Yui towards the destination, making small talk along the way.
"Has Honoka been acting weird lately?" Hoping to have at least an idea of what happened.
"Well she stopped talking about you recently, did something happen between you two?" The blunette asked, she wanted to ask Honoka if something was wrong before, but ultimately decided against it.
"I dunno it started after our last group meeting,".
"Well I guess you'll find out, we're here, we'll give you two some privacy,".
Yui opened the door and peeked inside, she could see Honoka who was sitting, with her head down on a desk. "You seem to be working hard," the airhead joked.
Upon hearing her girlfriend's voice the idol immediately shot up, almost tipping her seat over when doing so, her surprised face shifted into a more upset one, "what do you want?" she asked coldly.
"What's wrong Honoka? Did I do something?" Yui slowly approached her girlfriend.
"You know I already know your little secret, there's no need to act like you don't know," the ginger refused to make eye contact with the other girl in the room.
"What? Wait, what are you talking about?"
"Still playing innocent huh, Hirasawa-san,"
"Stop! Don't call me that!" Yui slammed her hands on the desk Honoka was sitting at, making the girl flinch. "Do you know how lonely I've been without you? Do you know how long I stayed up at night, thinking about you? Do you know how many times I checked my phone to see if you texted back? You jerk!". Yui was panting, trying to catch her breath, the feelings she bottled up for the past three weeks were finally released.
"I'm the jerk? Yeah okay, talk about a hypocrite," she jeered the girl stood up, "just leave me al-". Honoka felt something, it was something that happened before, but this one stung a lot more than last time. She froze, and felt the part of her cheek where she was just slapped. She looked at the other girl who had tears streaming down her face. A small part of her was sad, guilty, seeing the girl's broken spirit. However the rest of her was angry, it was overwhelming. The girl who just cheated on her, slapped her across the face, and even had the nerve to call her a jerk. Last time she was slapped was by Umi and she didn't do anything about it. This time was different, without even thinking she attacked back. Slapping the other girl, Yui had a similar reaction and went back for another strike but this time Honoka was ready, she caught her hand and shoved her away, making the brunette lose balance fall. "You're pathetic,".
"Shut up!" Yui cried, without thinking she stood up and tackled her girlfriend. She pushed Honoka's shoulders down, as a way to pin her.
"Get off me,"
"No!" Yui's tears were dripping onto Honoka, who was attempting to hold back tears.
"I said, get off!" The idol attempted to push herself back up, was slammed back down by the guitarist.
"Talk to me dammit! Why won't you talk to me?! Tell me what I did!". She was violently shaking the other girl, as if she was trying to expel something within.
"Shut up!" Honoka swiftly twisted her body, throwing Yui on the floor, she then goes atop of the girl pinning her down, switching places. "Don't pretend you didn't do anything wrong! You're just lying to me again!".
Yui pushed Honoka off and the two started rolling around on the floor, throwing punches and kicks, fighting for dominance while calling each other names.
"Jerk!" (I'm trying to avoid explicit words).
"Cheater!"
"Scumbag!"
"Airhead!"
"Dummy!"
"Delinquent!"
The two continued to fight and call each other names until Umi and Kotori came to diffuse the situation.
"Do you plan on making up? Or are we staying here all day?" The archer asked, clearly tired of waiting for the two to forgive each other.
Kotori walked up to Umi and whispered something in her ear. The blunette nodded, she released Honoka and took Yui out of the room. The tailor watched them both leave before turning to Honoka who was still sprawled across the floor. "Honoka, what is this about?".
The ginger rolled her eyes, "I'm getting tired of that question, you should already know what's wrong, but you know what? Lemme ask you something, how was cake?".
Kotori didn't appreciate the sass but her friend was clearly implying something. Her eyes grew wide once she came to a realization. "It's about me eating with Yui isn't it?".
Honoka didn't say anything, she was refused to make eye contact with her friend.
"So that's how it is huh? If you're hungry you should say something about it! Here have a snickers," ( not sponsored). Kotori pulled out delicious, chewy, chocolate delicacy out of her pocket, while it's still wrapped in it's luxurious, high-quality, pristine wrapping (seriously, I'm not sponsored). "You're not you when you're hungry!".
Honoka resisted the temptation to grab the treat, and instead got up and slapped it out of her hand. "It's not about that! It's about you and Yui dating behind my back,"
Ashen-haired girl looked her friend, tilting her head in confusion, "date? What date?".
The ginger clenched her fists, annoyed by the situation she finally decided to spill the beans, " I saw you and Yui clinging onto each other,".
"So? You were doing the same thing to Umi,"
"Then why didn't you with us huh? Did you want to spend some quality time with my girlfriend?".
Kotori remained calm, deciding to ignore her friends hostility,"Honoka I make the costumes for the group, so I asked her about what she want to wear,". The other girl remained quiet, trying to reassess the whole situation. Kotori took hold of her friends hands, "Honoka, Yui loves you, while we were together she would keep talking about you, she even said that she wanted to spend some time with you as soon as possible,".
As soon as possible, for some reason those words were the ones that hit the hardest. Soon? Three weeks is everything but soon, I kept her waiting that long? "Sorry Kotori but I have to fix this,".
Kotori nodded in approval, "she should be waiting in the hallway with Umi,". The two make their way out of the room to find Umi waiting in front of the room by herself.
Honoka put both palms in front of her and and apologized, "Umi, sorry about everything, I need to talk to Yui, where is she?".
Umi smiled and put a hand on the ginger's shoulder, "she's on the roof, you better hurry and fixed everything,".
"I will, you guys go home without me!" Honoka made a sprint for the stairs, halfway there she turned around and called out to her friends, "thanks for everything!".
Once she reached the roof she felt a gust of wind push her hair, making her squint. She adjusts her eyes to see her girlfriend leaning on the roof's railing, short hair flowing in the wind as the sky is tinted orange with the sun's descent.
Honoka wanted to run up to her, to hug her, to apologize to her, but she hesitated. Do I have the right? I'm being selfish aren't I? Would she even forgive me? As doubt began clouding her judgment she began to remember all the time they spent together, their first date, the birthday party, the times where they worked on the song. All of those memories, all of the bonding granted her strength. She continued to close the gap between them as more memories flash through her head, "Yui…". Upon hearing her name the other girl turned around, there was a frown where her smile was supposed to be, and a shadow was cast over her face, covering her eyes. Honoka was disheartened at this sight, but she wouldn't let it stop her, "Yui I'm so-". Before she could finish she saw an incoming fist coming from Yui, the ginger shut her eyes awaiting the blow. However instead of being punched back, the fist grabbed her uniform and pulled her forward, making her fall forward. As she fell two arms wrap around her waist and her momentum is stopped by another body. She felt a familiar warmth, a warmth that she had been yearning for, for over three weeks. she smiled as tears began streaming down her face as she spoke, "at least let me finish apologizing," her voice began to waver, the rush of emotions made it difficult to speak, "I-I'm s-sorry, I'm so sorry…".The two pulled apart and Honoka could see tears on her girlfriend's face.
"Honoka, I love you, so please, never leave me again," the two stare at each other, brown eyes with blue ones. The move closer to each other, until their lips meet. All of their passion, their feelings, their love, all of them were being poured into kiss. After weeks of separation they were finally together again, and they made sure the moment would last. They pull apart to catch their breath, as they gaze at each other longingly. "Hey Yui, let's go on another date soon, I need to make up all this time I lost without you,".
"Deal! I've been waiting for this," Yui takes her girlfriend's hand and walks over to the railing. The two watch as the sun sets, hands intertwined.
"Yui?"
"Hm?"
"I love you!"
"I love you too!"
A/N: Thanks for reading! I wanted to try to make something more dramatic, while keeping little some silly bits, I want to know how people think I did with this one, so I'd really appreciate any sort of feedback.