Chapter Warnings: Not much, some sexual mentions and sexual talk. Next chapter is the big mature one.

Risa Koizumi POV

After almost a month of school and work, and not seeing Otani in person, it was finally (almost) time for our trip to Hokkaido. With Nobuko and Nakao, of course. The night before we were supposed to leave, we were actually leaving on Thursday, not Friday like I thought, Nobuko called me to make sure I was packing. Which, of course, I wasn't.

She sounded really excited and I was super happy for her. She sounded happy for me too. It was so great now that both of us were the annoying people with boyfriends. It sucked when it was just her in the relationship. I mean her and Nakao are super cute, but it was painful having to watch them be happy when Otani was being such a freaking idiot!

But, it's all okay now that we're together. And it'll be fun to all be out on like a couple's trip together. Nobuko and Nakao are going to be staying in her grandmother's house, but since there are only enough bedrooms for them, Otani and I are staying in the guesthouse. I supposed that could have been the other way around. Like Nobuko and Nakao have been together much longer, they could have stayed in the separate house, but I do think it would be a little weird if Otani and I were staying with her grandma, without her.

Maybe Otani wasn't totally crazy when he was questioning if I would be okay staying in a room alone with him for a couple nights. I had been weird about that in the past. But, so much has happened. Things have changed. I mean, we like kinda hooked up in his dorm room and then we kinda hooked up in his bedroom too. It wasn't like Otani and I hadn't done stuff now. And It wasn't like I didn't want to do more this weekend.

On the phone, Nobuko was telling me about all the places she wanted us to visit. She was also trying to get me in on a plan to make the boys take us shopping… and maybe pay for everything… haha.

"So, Risa," Her tone changed, "Do you and Otani have any plans?"

"What do you mean?" I asked, plainly.

"Like night plans…?"

Blank-faced I threw the question back at her, "Do you and Nakao?"

"Duh!" She shouted back into the phone.

"Well…" I started, "Maybe…"

"Wait what?!" She sounded shocked, "Really?"

"Yeah," I objected, "Is it that surprising!"

"Yes! Risa I thought you were all nervous and stuff!"

I threw a bathing suit into a bag on my floor, "I am! But I wanna try… with Otani."

"Oh my gosh!" She sounded way more excited than I was. "Wait, Risa are you guys really ready for that?"

I held a t-shirt in my hands, contemplating, "Wait! I don't know, I have to ask him."

Pulling my phone down from between my shoulder blade and ear, I told Nobuko, "Nobu, one second, I'll call you back!"

The t-shirt dropped to the floor in a heap. I texted Otani as fast as I could, so I didn't forget before the actual, uh, event. I sent the text, rapid-fire.

Then, called Nobuko back, "Okay, I asked him. Now, we should be ready. Hopefully."

Nobuko giggled on the other side of the phone, "Risa, that's not what I meant, but I guess that answers the question if you're ready."

"Oh, what did you mean?"

I could feel her shaking her head at me, "I meant like are you ready, emotionally, but whatever. Forget it."

"Oh…" I stood still in my room, coming to a realization, "Oops."

Atsushi Otani POV

There I was in my dorm room, revising my last paper, before I could get ready to leave for summer break. I was trying to get all my work done early, so I did not have to worry about it while we were on our trip to Hokkaido.

Then, my phone buzzes and it is my weirdo girlfriend texting me.

Like a clueless idiot I happily go to check it like it won't be something weird, even though she is a big weirdo- my mistake.

I go over to my bed to pick up my phone. I am standing in the middle of my dorm room, my two roommates in there with me. I open the message and it reads:

'Condoms.

Do you have any? Nobu asking.'

Um what?

Frozen. I leave my body, in the middle of my crowded dorm room.

It takes me at least a few minutes to recover, before I call her.

She picks up her phone immediately. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" She starts shouting the second she answers.

"What?" I mumble into the phone.

"That's not what she meant! That's not what she meant! I'm so stupid!"

"What?" I repeat. Robotically.

"I… I… she asked me if we were ready. And, I'm sorry, that's what I thought she was asking about."

"What?"

"You know," Koizumi continued, "Like 'are you guys ready? Do you have protection?' And I didn't know the answer to that, so I thought I would ask you right away, before I forgot."

"Wha-"

"Like, because it would be bad if this weekend, we were about to… And you-we didn't have a condom."

"What?"

"Can you stop saying what?! You're freaking me out! I said I was sorry!" She yelled and I snapped out of my haze.

"I'm just a little taken aback, Koizumi!" I raised my voice.

"I know, I'm sorry."

"I don't understand why Nobuko would be asking…"

Koizumi defended, "She wasn't! I misunderstood! I'm sorry!"

"But you were still talking about it!" I hissed into the phone.

"Yeah, well…" She had no defense for that. I guess I should have expected she would tell her best friend everything. "So um…" She hesitated, carefully planning how to address this topic, "Do you have any?" She asked, her voice quieter.

"No," I admitted. I lowered my voice too, convinced my roommates could hear everything we were talking about, even though they didn't know the situation at all, "I didn't think you were that ready…" I covered my mouth and whispered into the phone, "But I can get some."

She spoke, her voice letting on that she was embarrassed, "Okay, I um… I don't know… I guess… Maybe I'm…"

"Hey," I whispered, "It's okay. I'll get some, either way, just in case."

"Okay," She sounded happier, and more comfortable. "Love you."

"Mmhmm, don't send me any weird texts okay."

She laughed and hung up on me. I closed my phone and caught my roommates staring at me. Not addressing that at all, I went back to my desk and finished up my paper, quickly, since I still had to go to the store tonight- apparently.

Risa Koizumi POV

"Risa!" Nobuko shouted from the porch of her grandmother's house.

"Nobu!" I yelled back, running up to her. I dropped my bag down halfway there.

She hopped down the stairs and we embraced in a big hug.

"I thought you'd never make it!" She cried out.

Even though Otani and I left for Hokkaido in the morning, the sun was about to go down by the time we finally got to Nobuko's grandmother's house.

Nakao was already there. He had clearly gotten here way before us. He looked calm and comfortable. I peeked past Nobuko and up at him. He waved out to Otani.

Breaking our hug, Nobuko and I looked back at Otani, who threw a casual wave back to his friend. I could have cried seeing my best friend again, but I guess a silent wave was enough for the two of them. Jeez.

Nobuko held my arm with two hands, "Risa, did you guys get lost?"

I avoided the question. And I think Otani wanted to too, because he suddenly walked over and picked up my bag. He walked by us and towards the house. He asked Nakao, and Nobuko's grandmother, "Where should I put these?"

Nakao pointed to the guest house in the back.

"Risa!" Nobuko raised her voice, "You did get lost! Didn't you guys?"

"Maybe…"

"I gave you instructions! Did you forget them?"

I looked down at her, "No! I didn't forget them…" I shrugged, "They were just hard to understand."

She grumbled, squinting at me.

"What?!" I backed up, "We got here eventually didn't we?"

"Ugh, you're impossible. It shouldn't have taken you hours."

I itched the back of my neck, "Well, we kinda fought over the instructions… and then, well, we saw these little boats you could rent when we got off the train so-"

"Risa!" She threw her arms down, "You guys got distracted?!"

I smiled awkwardly, "Yeah… Sorry."

Nobuko put her head in her hands, "Ugh, can't say I'm surprised. Well, whatever, I'm glad you're here now. Let me show you around the guest house."

"Thanks," I followed behind her as we crossed the yard, and Nakao joined us, "I'm happy to see you guys. I missed you!"

Nobuko grinned back at me, "You kinda ruined my plans for the day Risa."

"I said I'm sorry."

She rolled her eyes, laughing under her breath, "Fine. But we're going to see the sunset on the mountain tonight!"

"Okay!" I bounced, happily.

"Whoa!" I gasped, so excited to see the place we'd be staying at for the next few days. I glanced over at the boys, and could see stars lighting up in Otani's eyes. He had dropped our bags down right by his feet.

"We're staying here?" He asked.

Nobuko spoke in a hushed down, "Yeah…"

"Wow!" I exclaimed, jumping up to explore the place. There was a living room and kitchen, which were kind of connected together, along with the dining room. Really it was all just one room.

"I know it's kinda small…" Nobuko mumbled.

"It's so cool though!" I grabbed her hand, and basically repeated Otani, "We get to stay here? All by ourselves?"

"So cool!" Otani told Nakao, "What's your place like?"

Nakao shrugged, "Kinda… grandma-y."

"But Nobu's grandma's a hippy."

Nakao smiled and held up a finger, "Exactly."

"Oh," Otani shut his mouth.

I flopped down on the couch. There wasn't much room at all between the couch and the coffee table. The place was really small. I was pretty sure there was only one bedroom and one bathroom. "This is so adult!" I yelled.

"I know," Otani rushed over to the arm of the couch. "You guys can hang out here too. We could make dinner or breakfast one day!"

"Yeah!" I looked over the couch at Nobuko, "Like we're a family or something!" I started rambling to myself, "You guys could be the mom and dad and then Otani and I could be the kids- well wait I don't wanna be brother and sister. Shoot. Maybe we could be sisters and Otani and Nakao are our husbands!"

Otani smacked the back of my head, "Will you can it?"

"Hehe."

"I have stuff planned, you know!" Nobuko protested. "If you wanna make a meal one time maybe we can, but there are places I've been waiting to try until you guys came."

"Aw!" I jumped up and ran over to hug her. "I'm sorry Nobu-Chan! I wanna do your stuff with you too! I missed you so much!" I may or may not have started to tear up.

She rubbed my back, "It's okay, Risa, really. Thank you." She pulled me apart from our hug, "How about we go watch the sunset, huh?"

I whipped my tears away, "Okay."

A/N: Hey thanks for reading! Leave a comment and let me know what you think about the story so far! The next chapter is coming soon and its actually a sexy one so get ready! :)