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Soichi chapter 11

As my heartbeat continues to speed up, the footsteps get closer and closer. I look at the sleeping Soichi on my shoulder and start to panic a bit. People would get the wrong idea if they see us. Soichi won't appreciate it either. The living room door opens with a click as soon as I start to move. Shit! I try to hide by sinking into the plush, tan cushions on the sofa. I feel Soichi's breath on my ear as I hear the footsteps coming into the living room. I hold my breath, afraid if I even breathe, someone will notice me. My anxiety reaches its maximum point as the footsteps come to an abrupt stop. What am I gonna do? The footsteps start up again but instead of becoming louder, the get quieter. I hear a door click shut somewhere in the house and I am then safe again. I hope they didn't see us. Soichi suddenly stirs. I gaze at him and he opens the beautiful grey eyes of his. His pupils are still unfocused and he blinks in confusion. His eyes shoot open wide. He quickly sits up and scoots away from me.

"Why are you all over me?" I recoil at his sharp tone. He must be angry.

"You fell asleep… And then…" I all of a sudden start to trail off, his icy glare silencing me.

"So, I fell asleep on you?"

I nod. He is looking slightly regretful ow.

"Oh… sorry I yelled at you. You could have woken me up ya know."

"But…" How would he react to me telling him someone walked in and I was afraid to move? "You looked peaceful and I didn't want to wake you up. You were up late last night reading."

He has an annoyed expression on his face at this point. "Thanks but you should have woken me up. What if someone saw us?"

"Well…" I look at him nervously.

"No. Who was it? I need to go tell him it was a misunderstanding!"

"I don't know who it was. I just heard footsteps and doors opening and closing. I swear!"

"Alright. Fine. Let's just hope nobody brings it up okay? Start thinking of a cover story if that does actually happen."

"You mean lie?" I say with a sweet tone and a pout.

"Yeah?" he says as if it were obvious "You okay with lying? If not I will cover for both of us."

"Hehehe! You, fellow housemate, need to learn a thing or two about me." I smile at him. "For one, I couldn't care less if I lied or not. As long as I get my way. And for two, I am the expert at making excuses to don't worry about that part."

He smiles at me and turns his attention towards the fifty-two inch plasma screen T.V. He realizes the movie was finished and asks me if it was any good. I tell him that I stopped paying attention halfway through. I expect him to get angry and after he stares at me for a while, a huge grin covers his face. It surprises me. He offers to watch it again since he was the one who fell asleep.

"Okay, but you sit in the chair this time." I give him a gentle smile. It's weird though. I never smile when I am the true Amber Rose. I guess there is just something special about him. I don't know.

"Why do you get the sofa?" he complains jokingly.

"Because I am not the one who fell asleep!" he finally agrees but end up on the couch anyways. I just make sure he gets two of the cushions and I get the other two. But this time, we both had absolutely NO idea we were being watched.

It's dinner time now. I sit there sipping my miso soup and thinking about who could have walked in earlier.

"Kazuto's cooking is the best!" Sho speaks up. His voice brings me out of my deep thoughts.

"That's cuz nobody even dares to go up against Kazuto when it comes to cooking." Yusuke says. I put down my bowl and look at the two of them. The intruder earlier couldn't have been Sho. Definitely not Yusuke. He would have made some smart remark like 'Wow Am! You and Soichi are closer than I thought' or 'Already cozying up to him huh?'… What a perv.

"Thanks you two but don't think that flattery would get you out of your chores. It will get you nowhere." Kazuto smiles and walks into the kitchen with his bowl as well as mine. I am still in crutches but I can do things for myself sometimes too. He just doesn't understand. As I narrow down the suspects of the earlier happening, all I am left with is Bunta. I push that information to the side, compliment Kazuto on his cooking after a short speech from Sho, and head slowly to my room to get ready for bed.

I go to bed and see a shadow outside my door. I am about ready to fall asleep and those damn crutches are a pain in the ass to hassle with so I decide ignore it and go to sleep. Before I knew it, morning had already arrived. I head downstairs and see Soichi sipping on some coffee. I grab a muffin and told him to tell Kazuto I left early.

"Next is the PC room correct?" Nazuna asks Akio.

"Yep." Aki is a first year like me. He looks pretty cool but… "Oh, hold up." His way of speaking is somewhat….. Feminine… I turn and realize he is a few paces behind us.

I giggle (I am still wearing my frilly pink clothes for my experiment). "Don't be such a worry flurry! We will wait for you." Nazuna mischievously giggles.

"Maybe we should just leave him." she mumbles in my ear.

"Honestly Nazuna! We can't leave him here!"

"Okay, okay. I guess we will wait."

I hear my name being called and spin around to see Sho. I start to have a friendly conversation with him and Nazuna joins our conversation. Aki catches up to us and looks at me and Sho with a confused look on his face.

"…A friend of yours?" Sho asks.

"Oh, yeah. This is Akio Tsubaki."

"Oh I see. Is he your boyfriend Am?"

"No, no. He is just a friend I swear. We are in the same class together." Oddly, Sho smiles with a relieved look on his face. He couldn't have a crush on me right? Right?!

"Man! If he was, it would be a huge scandal. I was really looking forward to telling the Clover Hill boys all the juicy gossip!"

"Honestly Sho? You wouldn't let me tell them myself?" I say without thinking. It comes out a little harsh and I realize that I have made a big mistake. Nazuna asks what I meant by telling them myself. I couldn't say 'Yeah, I live with Sho and five other guys in a house called Clover Hill!' so I covered and said that Clover Hill was what we called the hill behind the cherry blossoms that was covered in clovers. I also said that it was an all-guys group but Yusuke convinced them to let me in because I fit in for some reason. After that short explanation, I see a guy and a girl were accompanying Sho.

"Oh, are these your friends Sho?"

"Yeah."

"Let's go already Sho!" the girls calls out.

"Fiiine. I'm coming." He turns towards me and lowers his voice. "Well, see you later then."

"Yeah. See you back at Clover. Tell Kazzy I will be late tonight by a few hours so I will grab something on the way home." I lied to him about getting something to eat. I haven't eaten much lately and I don't know what's causing it but I don't want them to worry so I have been skipping out on dinner because lunch usually fills me up by staying late or complaining that I have a headache or I had a stressful day at class.

"Alright!" he spins on his heel and walks away. Just then, I realized that the girl who was with Sho is staring at me. Does she have a crush on Shokichi or something? She seemed to really hate it when he was talking to me and Nazuna. Nazuna taps into my train of thought, throwing on the breaks as she does so.

"Are you alright Amber?" she says with concern.

"Yeah. why wouldn't I be?"

"I dunno. You just seemed out of it for a moment."

"Oh, I'm fine."

"And since when has he ever called you Am?"

"He just started to. Everyone in the Clover Hill group has nicknames. Mine just happened to be Am."

"Hey… uh…" Aki starts to say something.

"Yeah?" I question.

"When he asked if I was your boyfriend…" I realize he is looking at me. "Was he saying that he is actually your boyfriend Am?

-To Be Continued-