Friends Old And New
Cast: Cure Dream, Yumehara Nozomi - age 20
Cure Rogue, Natsuki Rin - age 20
Kiriya, Irizawa Kiriya - age 23
Kiryuu Kaoru - age 21
June, 2013
"I just don't get my parents sometimes," Rin says as she walks in the shopping district. "First they want me to go to college, now they say I should move in with Shou instead of coming home. It's like they don't want me to take over the shop!"
"Maybe they don't," Nozomi says, between taking bites from a crepe. "At least, not right now? I mean, I can't exactly call any of them young, but your parents and mine are still a couple of decades off from the age when people usually retire. Maybe they think it's a bit too early?"
"I'm not saying I want to take over now! I could learn how they run the business, or something."
"How much are you going to learn now that you haven't learned already? What if you go back home and they have nothing left to teach you?"
"At least I'd find that out! What kind of parents tell a daughter to move in with her boyfriend?"
"The kind who want grandkids? It's all my Mom asks about now that I'm married. 'When Kazu-chan and I were your age, we already had the two of you!' she says. Anyhow, isn't it silly to say they should be worried about you doing it, when I know for a fact that you've already done it?"
Rin blushes. "My parents don't know about that!"
"You're marrying a celebrity, Rin. It'd be stranger if you hadn't."
"I can't believe I'm having this conversation! Whose side are you even on?"
Rin facepalms, then spots a familiar face on the other side of the street.
"Wait, is that- Hey, Kiriya, is that you?"
Rin runs to the other side of the road, where Irizawa Kiriya is walking with a blue-haired woman. He blinks in surprise.
"Natsuki Rin... You passed your exams, so by now... wouldn't you be in your second year at college?"
The woman tugs at Kiriya's arm. "Introduce us?"
"Oh! Ah, yes. Kaoru, this is Natsuki Rin, my former student. Rin, meet Kiryuu Kaoru, my girlfriend."
"Your girlfriend!" Rin's eyes light up as she meets Kaoru's gaze. "If you're dating this guy, you must be really smart!"
"I do program computers?" Kaoru answers with a forced smile.
"Wait, you're not thinking I might be a rival, are you? I look up to Kiriya, but it's really not like that. I'm perfectly happy with my own boyfriend. I'm even getting married next month!" Rin says, showing off her diamond ring. "Actually... I could invite you both. Wanna come?"