Soap Opera Blues
by AnimeLuver/Ally
Chapter 8
She raked her hand through her still damp hair and sighed. This was a disaster.. She always thought that once Akito and her were together things would get better and better, not worse and worse, as they seemed to be.
It was then that a voice caught her attention.
"Kurata? Hey! Are you... Okay..?"
She looked up, her eyes red and puffy, tears still trickling down her cheeks. The person was defenatly not the person she wanted to see... Walking over to her was the bishounen, Soyama Tori-kun!
"T-Tori-kun?" she choked out, batting at her eyes in a quick movement, she didn't want to look weak in front of a guy like him, that was for sure. "I'm fine.."
As he reached the bench she was sitting on, Tori sat down beside her with a frown of pure concern. "What happened?"
"Don't be ridiculous!" she stated with a laugh she had hoped would sound cheerful, but instead was dripping with her depression. "I'm f..fine.."
Tori tilted his head to the side, a smile returning to his face. "There's no need for you to pretend, I can tell you're upset. You've been crying. Any moron could tell you that."
"Is it that obvious?" she whimpered, a short laugh echoing out of her.
He nodded, his red spiked hair barely moving at all. She noticed then that he was wearing normal clothing, baggy jeans and a purple Tommy sweater. "So, what's the problem?"
Was it really okay to tell Tori her problems? She didn't see how that would be against the dating law. After a sigh she told him, "My manager met Naozumi-kun's manager earlier in the week.."
"And?" Tori asked, not quite understanding what she was trying to say, despite his listening.
"When I asked Rei-kun what they had talked about he said Naozumi-kun's love life.. And I think that they may be trying to get us back together.."
Tori eyed her for a moment, as if trying to decide whether or not she was serious. He stifled a laugh and shook his head. "I'm sorry.."
"What's so funny?!" Sana demanded, looking indignant and angry all at the same time.
"Sana-chan.. Can I call you that? Uhm, don't you read magazines?"
"Sana-chan is fine.." she quirked a brow at him, not understanding in the least bit where he was going with this. "No, I don't really read magazines anymore. not after what happened with Mizu No Yukata.."
Tori chuckled good naturedly and shook his head in disbelief, "Sana-chan, it's been all over the papers, Kamura-kun already has a girlfriend."
"EH?!" Sana exclaimed, her head spinning as she tried to take in this bit of information. "Naozumi-kun...? Who is she?"
Tori shrugged, flashing his perfect teeth over at her in a smile. "Nobody knows for sure."
"You mean..? Naozumi-kun isn't saying?" Sana asked in confusion, it was begginning to make sense. If it was a big deal thing, that could be why Rei-kun and Rio-san were discussing it.
"That's right. Kamura is being extremely secretive about her." Tori said with a mysterious smile, adding, "Or him!"
Sana eyed him wearily, he had helped her forget about Rei-kun and Rio-san putting her and Naozumi-kun together, but she didn't think it was nice of him to joke about Naozumi-kun being into yaoi. If he was, he wouldn't have dated her.
"Well, I doubt he's dating a boy.. But I am glad I talked to you, Tori-kun. Thanks." She stood up with a sigh, deciding that she might just head over to talk to Akito.
He winked over at her yet again, a grin on his face. "Anytime. That's why I gave you my number."
She smiled despite herself and left with a quick, "See ya." and headed right over to Akito's place.
When she got there Akito's dad answered the door and his face immediatly illuminated. "Oh, Sana-chan! What a nice surprise." he stepped backwards, allowing her access to the house. "Come in."
Sana smiled sweetly and walked in, noticing the worried way his eyes travelled across her still red face.
"Is everything all right?" he asked, still smiling.
Sana nodded, forcing a smile. "Yeah. Is Akito around?"
Like clockwork, Akito wandered towards the door to see who had come by. His eyes widdened as he saw Sana. "Sana?"
"Right there." Akito's dad said with a nod at his son. "I'll leave you two to talk."
Akito waited for his father to leave before he walked over to Sana, shutting the front door and then looking at her as if trying to guage her mood. "What happened?"
Sana walked into his house silently, Akito trailing behind her as she walked into his living room and sat down on the couch.
Akito took a seat beside her and waited for her to explain.
"Well.. I talked to Rei-kun this morning.." she said, going on to explain about what had been said, adding of course that she thought wrong. And then proceeded to tell him what Tori had told her.
"You talked to Soyama..?" Akito looked hurt and jealous at the thought that she had went to the bishounen before coming to talk to him.
Sana sensed his uneasiness and quickly explained how he had ran into her at the park.
"And he says Kamura has a girlfriend?" Akito said, thinking that now that Naozumi was finally out of the picture, this other bishounen had shown up and was attempting to steal Sana for himself.
'Kami must be mocking me..' he thought to himself.
"Apparently." Sana said with a sigh, she really wished Akito was a bit more open with her. He was a lot better now than he had been when he was younger, but he still bottled everything up. "But it could just be propraganda..."
"You mean propaganda?" he corrected her, inwardly smiling at the annoyed look on her face.
"Akito.." she muttered in irritation, her eyes narrowing at him. "Stop changing the subject.."
He stared at her blankly for a moment before she burst out laughing.
It wasn't overly clear to Akito why she was laughing, but it brought the smallest of smiles to his face seeing her looking happy again. Maybe his teasing actually was good for her.
"Sana-chan." Akito's dad interrupted, stepping into the room, holding a corless phone in his hand. "Sagami-kun is on the phone for you.."
Akito's eyes scanned over Sana, watching her reaction. She stood up, the smile not leaving her face. "Thank you." she said, accepting the phone and putting it against her ear. "Hey, Rei-kun.."
"Sana-chan! Are you all right?"
Sana found herself frowning. "Yah.."
"Listen, Sana-chan.. Naozumi--"
"I know, he has a girlfriend that he is keeping a secret."
"Err.. You saw the tabloids?"
Sana sat back down beside Akito and shared the phone with him, allowing him to hear as well.
"Not exactally, Rei-kun.. Tori-kun told me." she replied.
"Soyama Tori-kun?" Rei asked in surprise as he took in the information.
"Yeah. I saw him today and he told me."
"I see.. Well, don't worry about Naozumi-kun, okay?"
"I won't.. I'll be home in a while Rei-kun. Sorry for running out on you."
Rei paused for a moment, she guessed he was smiling with relief right about now. "All right. Bye Sana-chan."
She hung up and sighed, her smile re-appearing, like the sun re-appearing after a rainstorm had ended.
"Ya, don't worry about Naozumi-kun." she said, looking over at Akito who blushed lightly, looking appalled by her statement.
"Why would I worry about Kamura?" Akito asked, crossing his arms over his chest and looking away.
Sana blinked at his reaction and then pouted her lips with a sniff. "I don't know. Maybe because he dated me before you did and I am probably doing a kiss scene with him."
Akito glared at her, although she could tell it was meant to be more playful than menacing. "Well, maybe I do worry about him being with you."
"Is that so?" Sana replied, looking away, trying to act like she didn't care.
Akito narrowed his eyes. "Of course!" he said, immediatly shutting his mouth as he realised he had given in to her little game.
She grinned and snaked her arms around his neck, pecking him on the lips playfully. "Good. Just making sure we're on the same page, here."
Akito said nothing, he just stared into her eyes. He didn't know how he let her get to him all the time, but he guessed it wasn't such a bad thing since she was practically sitting on him right now.
"Well, I better get going." she said, letting him go and standing up, bringing an end to his pleasure for the moment.
"Ya.." he replied, trying not to sound disappointed.
"Thanks for listening." she said with a smile, leaning over and kissing him hard on the lips before pulling back and walking towards the door. "Bye!" she called, exiting through the front door.
Akito breathed a sigh, the colour in his face fading. He shook his head in disbelief, wondering if she knew how much she was driving him crazy with her little taunts.
~*~*
"I'm home!" Sana called, slipping on her slippers as she walked back into her house, wondering if her mom had returned yet.
"In here!" Rei called to her from the living room.
She quickly escaped into her room to retrieve her homework before she made her way into the living room.
Rei was sitting on the couch, reading through the movie script and drinking coffee, his sunglasses resting on the table in front of him.
Sana sat down on the floor in front of the table, pulling out her homework and starting to scribble it down on paper.
"This movie is a total roller coaster.." Rei said absent mindedly as he flipped through the pages. Sana wasn't even sure if he realised he had said anything.
"I know. I don't like the amount of kissing in it." Sana said, eyeing her math textbook as if it were written in an unknown language. "This stuff is impossible.."
"Did I say something?" he blinked in confusion, looking down at Sana and sighing, "Don't worry about the kissing stuff. It'll get easier."
Sana nodded, although she really didn't think he was right.
Misako returned around dinner time, saying nothing to anybody about what had gone on while they were out, to Sana's disappointment. She really wanted to know what was happening. But the night gave her no answers, her mom went to work on her book soon after dinner and Sana headed to bed soon after that.
*~*~
"Your parents aren't seriously going to make you get married, are they?" Aya asked, her face contorted into a disapproving frown.
Sana sighed, lowering her eyes. "They seem pretty sincere about it.."
"But, Aya-chan and I have been together a lot longer! Why should you two get married so quickly?" Tsuyoshi asked, looking more jealous than sympathetic to Sana and Akito's annoyance.
"You think we want to get married, stupid?" Akito snapped, looking more than a little irritated at Tsuyoshi's jealousy. "We're way to young to get married and so are you two."
Aya and Tsuyoshi frowned at this as they inwardly realised he was right. Their friends weren't even out of highschool, yet. Being married in highschool would be extremely odd, indeed.
"I wish Takaishi's parents and my parents would arrange for us to be married.." Fuuka said in her usual Osaka accent, listening to the others but really saying nothing of great impact to them.
"Oh well, at least we know that Naozumi is in a relationship, which means the kiss scenes will mean nothing between him and I." Sana stated with a shrug, while Aya's eyes widdened as she leapt forward, grabbing onto Sana's hands from across the cafeteria table.
"Sana-chan, the rumors are true?" Aya asked with an excited look on her face that made Sana inwardly kick herself.
"Shh.. Yeah. But it's a secret."
"Hey guys!" Hisae said as she walked over to them, Gomi at her side as they both sat down. Hisae beside Aya and Gomi beside Sana.
"Yo! Hayama-san!" Gomi said with a chesire cat type of grin. "Heard you have a girlfriend."
Akito, who was sitting beside Sana, gave him a look that sent chills down his spine.
"Ah! Sorry for asking!" he bowed his head while Hisae snapped at Akito, her temper flaring.
"Akito! Be nice for once, will you?!"
Sana's eyes widdened as she thought: 'Ohh! So they DO like each other! I see it now..'
"Akito.." Sana said, giving him a look of annoyance. She didn't know if he was too embarrassed to tell his friends he was dating her, or what, but she took it as an insult. "Akito is dating me, Gomi-kun."
Gomi's eyes widdened, he looked like he was ready to faint. "Hayama-san and Kurata?!"
Akito sent a glare in Sana's direction for a quick moment until she looked up at him with a loving smile. "That's right, eh Akki-kun?"
Akito blushed and looked away, crossing his arms over his chest with a, "Hmph.."
"Wow..." Gomi said, looking dumbfounded for a moment.
"So, how about you and Hisae-chan?" Sana asked, winking over in Hisae's direction and elbowing Gomi in the ribs.
Aya and Tsuyoshi sweatdropped, hoping that a fight wouldn't break out between Hisae and Gomi over this, but they had a feeling that a fight was inevitable in this situation.
Gomi and Hisae both went red in the face, looking un-nerved by Sana's suggestion.
"What do you mean by that?" Hisae looked more embarrassed than mad, but she still didn't look very happy.
"Well.. You guys are together so much now.." Sana looked over at Gomi who who looked at a loss of words as he opened and closed his mouth over and over as if trying to talk but not being able to.
"Err.. That's.. There's nothing between us!" Gomi finally choked out, looking away nervously as he faked a look of mock disgust.
"What do you mean?" Hisae asked, she frowned deeply, looking almost hurt by his remark.
"Uhhh..." Gomi looked back at Hisae who's eyes appeared to be filling with tears.
'Uh oh.. What'd I do now?' Sana thought to herself, inwardly smacking herself. Well... She actually did smack herself, so inwardly and outwardly, until Akito grabbed her hands, looking at her with a neutral expression, staying silent as his eyes travelled back to Hisae and Gomi.
"So, you don't care...?" Hisae started, her voice trailing off as she began to cry silently, tears slipping down her cheeks as she looked down at the table.
"Ah! I never said that, Hisae-chan.." Gomi looked taken off guard and looked desperatly over at Sana and Akito for help.
"Hisae-chan.." Aya whispered, putting a hand on her shoulder, she glared over at Gomi who bit his lower lip.
Hisae stayed silent, as if waiting for something that she knew would come.
Gomi sighed as he walked over to Hisae, a look of concern on his face as he sat down beside her.
"You don't want me, Hisae-chan." he stated plainly, looking around the room nervously, apparently struggling with words.
"Don't tell me what I want and don't want!" Hisae yelled, her eyes narrowed angrily, tears continuing to fall from her eyes. Most of the eyes in the cafeteria were on her as she said, "Stupid!"
"W-What..?" Gomi fell off the bench, blinking up at Hisae with fear-filled eyes.
"You don't get it, do you?" She growled, her words coming out funny because of the sobs that were shaking her body. "I like you! I don't care if you're different than me!"
Gomi's eyes lit up as he pulled himself to his feet. "R...Real-"
Hisae cut him off, her anger turning back into depression. "I want you.. Even if you don't want me, Gomi-kun.." Her eyes were sincere and honest as she watched him, a sad smile on her face as she watched him. When Gomi didn't respond, she got up and started to leave when he spun around and caught her with a hug from behind.
Sana smiled as two of her friends finally got together and what made it better was that, in a strange way, she helped it happen!
~*~*
"You're getting picked up after school, right?" Akito asked, standing in front of Sana's next class with her. He eyed her with something that seemed to Sana, almost like adoration.
"Yah, we start filming today, already."
"Okay. Meet you at your locker, still?"
She nodded, her spirits lifted a lot now, she was glad that she had helped out Hisae-chan and Gomi-kun.
"All right." Akito said, kissing her on the mouth for what seemed like a mere second, although Sana knew it was longer than that. When he broke the kiss off, he waved quickly as he jogged off towards his class.
Sana walked into math, dizzy with love as she sat down next to Fuuka, simply radiating happiness, while Fuuka cast her an un-happy glance.
"Today has been great so far!" Sana said out loud to Fuuka who pursed her lips and grumbled:
"Ya, well, just pay attention today, will you?"
Sana shrugged off her friends bad mood, continuing to beam. If things kept going this well at her first film session, she bet this would be one of her best days ever.
~*To Be Continued*~
A/N: There we go! Finally getting to the filming.. Anyways, I am going to try to get as much posted as I can before Friday, since that's when I'm moving I think. Hope you are enjoying the story, please review, I really appreciate it. Hope you don't mind my ordinary couples, I may do another story later with different couples, if everyone is interested. Also thinking of doing a story showing how Naozumi met the "person" he is going out with. Moving on, Will Sana survive her first day of filming? Are Sana and Akito REALLY getting forced into marriage? Will Gomi and Hisae actually last as a couple? What about Rei and Asako? And exactally, who IS Naozumi dating anyways? Keep reading Soap Opera Blues to find out!
~*Ally*~
by AnimeLuver/Ally
Chapter 8
She raked her hand through her still damp hair and sighed. This was a disaster.. She always thought that once Akito and her were together things would get better and better, not worse and worse, as they seemed to be.
It was then that a voice caught her attention.
"Kurata? Hey! Are you... Okay..?"
She looked up, her eyes red and puffy, tears still trickling down her cheeks. The person was defenatly not the person she wanted to see... Walking over to her was the bishounen, Soyama Tori-kun!
"T-Tori-kun?" she choked out, batting at her eyes in a quick movement, she didn't want to look weak in front of a guy like him, that was for sure. "I'm fine.."
As he reached the bench she was sitting on, Tori sat down beside her with a frown of pure concern. "What happened?"
"Don't be ridiculous!" she stated with a laugh she had hoped would sound cheerful, but instead was dripping with her depression. "I'm f..fine.."
Tori tilted his head to the side, a smile returning to his face. "There's no need for you to pretend, I can tell you're upset. You've been crying. Any moron could tell you that."
"Is it that obvious?" she whimpered, a short laugh echoing out of her.
He nodded, his red spiked hair barely moving at all. She noticed then that he was wearing normal clothing, baggy jeans and a purple Tommy sweater. "So, what's the problem?"
Was it really okay to tell Tori her problems? She didn't see how that would be against the dating law. After a sigh she told him, "My manager met Naozumi-kun's manager earlier in the week.."
"And?" Tori asked, not quite understanding what she was trying to say, despite his listening.
"When I asked Rei-kun what they had talked about he said Naozumi-kun's love life.. And I think that they may be trying to get us back together.."
Tori eyed her for a moment, as if trying to decide whether or not she was serious. He stifled a laugh and shook his head. "I'm sorry.."
"What's so funny?!" Sana demanded, looking indignant and angry all at the same time.
"Sana-chan.. Can I call you that? Uhm, don't you read magazines?"
"Sana-chan is fine.." she quirked a brow at him, not understanding in the least bit where he was going with this. "No, I don't really read magazines anymore. not after what happened with Mizu No Yukata.."
Tori chuckled good naturedly and shook his head in disbelief, "Sana-chan, it's been all over the papers, Kamura-kun already has a girlfriend."
"EH?!" Sana exclaimed, her head spinning as she tried to take in this bit of information. "Naozumi-kun...? Who is she?"
Tori shrugged, flashing his perfect teeth over at her in a smile. "Nobody knows for sure."
"You mean..? Naozumi-kun isn't saying?" Sana asked in confusion, it was begginning to make sense. If it was a big deal thing, that could be why Rei-kun and Rio-san were discussing it.
"That's right. Kamura is being extremely secretive about her." Tori said with a mysterious smile, adding, "Or him!"
Sana eyed him wearily, he had helped her forget about Rei-kun and Rio-san putting her and Naozumi-kun together, but she didn't think it was nice of him to joke about Naozumi-kun being into yaoi. If he was, he wouldn't have dated her.
"Well, I doubt he's dating a boy.. But I am glad I talked to you, Tori-kun. Thanks." She stood up with a sigh, deciding that she might just head over to talk to Akito.
He winked over at her yet again, a grin on his face. "Anytime. That's why I gave you my number."
She smiled despite herself and left with a quick, "See ya." and headed right over to Akito's place.
When she got there Akito's dad answered the door and his face immediatly illuminated. "Oh, Sana-chan! What a nice surprise." he stepped backwards, allowing her access to the house. "Come in."
Sana smiled sweetly and walked in, noticing the worried way his eyes travelled across her still red face.
"Is everything all right?" he asked, still smiling.
Sana nodded, forcing a smile. "Yeah. Is Akito around?"
Like clockwork, Akito wandered towards the door to see who had come by. His eyes widdened as he saw Sana. "Sana?"
"Right there." Akito's dad said with a nod at his son. "I'll leave you two to talk."
Akito waited for his father to leave before he walked over to Sana, shutting the front door and then looking at her as if trying to guage her mood. "What happened?"
Sana walked into his house silently, Akito trailing behind her as she walked into his living room and sat down on the couch.
Akito took a seat beside her and waited for her to explain.
"Well.. I talked to Rei-kun this morning.." she said, going on to explain about what had been said, adding of course that she thought wrong. And then proceeded to tell him what Tori had told her.
"You talked to Soyama..?" Akito looked hurt and jealous at the thought that she had went to the bishounen before coming to talk to him.
Sana sensed his uneasiness and quickly explained how he had ran into her at the park.
"And he says Kamura has a girlfriend?" Akito said, thinking that now that Naozumi was finally out of the picture, this other bishounen had shown up and was attempting to steal Sana for himself.
'Kami must be mocking me..' he thought to himself.
"Apparently." Sana said with a sigh, she really wished Akito was a bit more open with her. He was a lot better now than he had been when he was younger, but he still bottled everything up. "But it could just be propraganda..."
"You mean propaganda?" he corrected her, inwardly smiling at the annoyed look on her face.
"Akito.." she muttered in irritation, her eyes narrowing at him. "Stop changing the subject.."
He stared at her blankly for a moment before she burst out laughing.
It wasn't overly clear to Akito why she was laughing, but it brought the smallest of smiles to his face seeing her looking happy again. Maybe his teasing actually was good for her.
"Sana-chan." Akito's dad interrupted, stepping into the room, holding a corless phone in his hand. "Sagami-kun is on the phone for you.."
Akito's eyes scanned over Sana, watching her reaction. She stood up, the smile not leaving her face. "Thank you." she said, accepting the phone and putting it against her ear. "Hey, Rei-kun.."
"Sana-chan! Are you all right?"
Sana found herself frowning. "Yah.."
"Listen, Sana-chan.. Naozumi--"
"I know, he has a girlfriend that he is keeping a secret."
"Err.. You saw the tabloids?"
Sana sat back down beside Akito and shared the phone with him, allowing him to hear as well.
"Not exactally, Rei-kun.. Tori-kun told me." she replied.
"Soyama Tori-kun?" Rei asked in surprise as he took in the information.
"Yeah. I saw him today and he told me."
"I see.. Well, don't worry about Naozumi-kun, okay?"
"I won't.. I'll be home in a while Rei-kun. Sorry for running out on you."
Rei paused for a moment, she guessed he was smiling with relief right about now. "All right. Bye Sana-chan."
She hung up and sighed, her smile re-appearing, like the sun re-appearing after a rainstorm had ended.
"Ya, don't worry about Naozumi-kun." she said, looking over at Akito who blushed lightly, looking appalled by her statement.
"Why would I worry about Kamura?" Akito asked, crossing his arms over his chest and looking away.
Sana blinked at his reaction and then pouted her lips with a sniff. "I don't know. Maybe because he dated me before you did and I am probably doing a kiss scene with him."
Akito glared at her, although she could tell it was meant to be more playful than menacing. "Well, maybe I do worry about him being with you."
"Is that so?" Sana replied, looking away, trying to act like she didn't care.
Akito narrowed his eyes. "Of course!" he said, immediatly shutting his mouth as he realised he had given in to her little game.
She grinned and snaked her arms around his neck, pecking him on the lips playfully. "Good. Just making sure we're on the same page, here."
Akito said nothing, he just stared into her eyes. He didn't know how he let her get to him all the time, but he guessed it wasn't such a bad thing since she was practically sitting on him right now.
"Well, I better get going." she said, letting him go and standing up, bringing an end to his pleasure for the moment.
"Ya.." he replied, trying not to sound disappointed.
"Thanks for listening." she said with a smile, leaning over and kissing him hard on the lips before pulling back and walking towards the door. "Bye!" she called, exiting through the front door.
Akito breathed a sigh, the colour in his face fading. He shook his head in disbelief, wondering if she knew how much she was driving him crazy with her little taunts.
~*~*
"I'm home!" Sana called, slipping on her slippers as she walked back into her house, wondering if her mom had returned yet.
"In here!" Rei called to her from the living room.
She quickly escaped into her room to retrieve her homework before she made her way into the living room.
Rei was sitting on the couch, reading through the movie script and drinking coffee, his sunglasses resting on the table in front of him.
Sana sat down on the floor in front of the table, pulling out her homework and starting to scribble it down on paper.
"This movie is a total roller coaster.." Rei said absent mindedly as he flipped through the pages. Sana wasn't even sure if he realised he had said anything.
"I know. I don't like the amount of kissing in it." Sana said, eyeing her math textbook as if it were written in an unknown language. "This stuff is impossible.."
"Did I say something?" he blinked in confusion, looking down at Sana and sighing, "Don't worry about the kissing stuff. It'll get easier."
Sana nodded, although she really didn't think he was right.
Misako returned around dinner time, saying nothing to anybody about what had gone on while they were out, to Sana's disappointment. She really wanted to know what was happening. But the night gave her no answers, her mom went to work on her book soon after dinner and Sana headed to bed soon after that.
*~*~
"Your parents aren't seriously going to make you get married, are they?" Aya asked, her face contorted into a disapproving frown.
Sana sighed, lowering her eyes. "They seem pretty sincere about it.."
"But, Aya-chan and I have been together a lot longer! Why should you two get married so quickly?" Tsuyoshi asked, looking more jealous than sympathetic to Sana and Akito's annoyance.
"You think we want to get married, stupid?" Akito snapped, looking more than a little irritated at Tsuyoshi's jealousy. "We're way to young to get married and so are you two."
Aya and Tsuyoshi frowned at this as they inwardly realised he was right. Their friends weren't even out of highschool, yet. Being married in highschool would be extremely odd, indeed.
"I wish Takaishi's parents and my parents would arrange for us to be married.." Fuuka said in her usual Osaka accent, listening to the others but really saying nothing of great impact to them.
"Oh well, at least we know that Naozumi is in a relationship, which means the kiss scenes will mean nothing between him and I." Sana stated with a shrug, while Aya's eyes widdened as she leapt forward, grabbing onto Sana's hands from across the cafeteria table.
"Sana-chan, the rumors are true?" Aya asked with an excited look on her face that made Sana inwardly kick herself.
"Shh.. Yeah. But it's a secret."
"Hey guys!" Hisae said as she walked over to them, Gomi at her side as they both sat down. Hisae beside Aya and Gomi beside Sana.
"Yo! Hayama-san!" Gomi said with a chesire cat type of grin. "Heard you have a girlfriend."
Akito, who was sitting beside Sana, gave him a look that sent chills down his spine.
"Ah! Sorry for asking!" he bowed his head while Hisae snapped at Akito, her temper flaring.
"Akito! Be nice for once, will you?!"
Sana's eyes widdened as she thought: 'Ohh! So they DO like each other! I see it now..'
"Akito.." Sana said, giving him a look of annoyance. She didn't know if he was too embarrassed to tell his friends he was dating her, or what, but she took it as an insult. "Akito is dating me, Gomi-kun."
Gomi's eyes widdened, he looked like he was ready to faint. "Hayama-san and Kurata?!"
Akito sent a glare in Sana's direction for a quick moment until she looked up at him with a loving smile. "That's right, eh Akki-kun?"
Akito blushed and looked away, crossing his arms over his chest with a, "Hmph.."
"Wow..." Gomi said, looking dumbfounded for a moment.
"So, how about you and Hisae-chan?" Sana asked, winking over in Hisae's direction and elbowing Gomi in the ribs.
Aya and Tsuyoshi sweatdropped, hoping that a fight wouldn't break out between Hisae and Gomi over this, but they had a feeling that a fight was inevitable in this situation.
Gomi and Hisae both went red in the face, looking un-nerved by Sana's suggestion.
"What do you mean by that?" Hisae looked more embarrassed than mad, but she still didn't look very happy.
"Well.. You guys are together so much now.." Sana looked over at Gomi who who looked at a loss of words as he opened and closed his mouth over and over as if trying to talk but not being able to.
"Err.. That's.. There's nothing between us!" Gomi finally choked out, looking away nervously as he faked a look of mock disgust.
"What do you mean?" Hisae asked, she frowned deeply, looking almost hurt by his remark.
"Uhhh..." Gomi looked back at Hisae who's eyes appeared to be filling with tears.
'Uh oh.. What'd I do now?' Sana thought to herself, inwardly smacking herself. Well... She actually did smack herself, so inwardly and outwardly, until Akito grabbed her hands, looking at her with a neutral expression, staying silent as his eyes travelled back to Hisae and Gomi.
"So, you don't care...?" Hisae started, her voice trailing off as she began to cry silently, tears slipping down her cheeks as she looked down at the table.
"Ah! I never said that, Hisae-chan.." Gomi looked taken off guard and looked desperatly over at Sana and Akito for help.
"Hisae-chan.." Aya whispered, putting a hand on her shoulder, she glared over at Gomi who bit his lower lip.
Hisae stayed silent, as if waiting for something that she knew would come.
Gomi sighed as he walked over to Hisae, a look of concern on his face as he sat down beside her.
"You don't want me, Hisae-chan." he stated plainly, looking around the room nervously, apparently struggling with words.
"Don't tell me what I want and don't want!" Hisae yelled, her eyes narrowed angrily, tears continuing to fall from her eyes. Most of the eyes in the cafeteria were on her as she said, "Stupid!"
"W-What..?" Gomi fell off the bench, blinking up at Hisae with fear-filled eyes.
"You don't get it, do you?" She growled, her words coming out funny because of the sobs that were shaking her body. "I like you! I don't care if you're different than me!"
Gomi's eyes lit up as he pulled himself to his feet. "R...Real-"
Hisae cut him off, her anger turning back into depression. "I want you.. Even if you don't want me, Gomi-kun.." Her eyes were sincere and honest as she watched him, a sad smile on her face as she watched him. When Gomi didn't respond, she got up and started to leave when he spun around and caught her with a hug from behind.
Sana smiled as two of her friends finally got together and what made it better was that, in a strange way, she helped it happen!
~*~*
"You're getting picked up after school, right?" Akito asked, standing in front of Sana's next class with her. He eyed her with something that seemed to Sana, almost like adoration.
"Yah, we start filming today, already."
"Okay. Meet you at your locker, still?"
She nodded, her spirits lifted a lot now, she was glad that she had helped out Hisae-chan and Gomi-kun.
"All right." Akito said, kissing her on the mouth for what seemed like a mere second, although Sana knew it was longer than that. When he broke the kiss off, he waved quickly as he jogged off towards his class.
Sana walked into math, dizzy with love as she sat down next to Fuuka, simply radiating happiness, while Fuuka cast her an un-happy glance.
"Today has been great so far!" Sana said out loud to Fuuka who pursed her lips and grumbled:
"Ya, well, just pay attention today, will you?"
Sana shrugged off her friends bad mood, continuing to beam. If things kept going this well at her first film session, she bet this would be one of her best days ever.
~*To Be Continued*~
A/N: There we go! Finally getting to the filming.. Anyways, I am going to try to get as much posted as I can before Friday, since that's when I'm moving I think. Hope you are enjoying the story, please review, I really appreciate it. Hope you don't mind my ordinary couples, I may do another story later with different couples, if everyone is interested. Also thinking of doing a story showing how Naozumi met the "person" he is going out with. Moving on, Will Sana survive her first day of filming? Are Sana and Akito REALLY getting forced into marriage? Will Gomi and Hisae actually last as a couple? What about Rei and Asako? And exactally, who IS Naozumi dating anyways? Keep reading Soap Opera Blues to find out!
~*Ally*~