Hello again guys! Updated sooner this time! Thanks for the advice, Lady Miako. I guess that it does look kinda messed up in dialogue form.
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Complex Announcement:
Attention complex residents, a company picnic has been scheduled for communication improvement. All families are invited. Groups to be divided by age and building number.
Great, absolutely fabulisimo. Another chance to see the Tachibana monsters in action. Maybe it won't be so bad and well just have to succumb to their every will. Ha. If only we were to be so lucky.
While I was dreaming about ways to escape this monumental event, my mom seemed to be having other plans " Hatsumi, we have to go. Now, don't make that face at me. There's no way around it. Mrs. Tachibana wishes for us to go and we cant risk your dad moving somewhere else. Also, its separated by ages, so you wont have to be with a bunch of old people like us, so be happy" Easy for you to say, you wouldn't have to hang out with the slave master. "C'mon honey, say that you'll try to have a good time, please?" "Okay, I guess ill just hang out with Azusa, shinogu, Subaru and Akane.
Next day
"Yay! Company picnic. We get to avoid chores and walk around aimlessly." Akane just looked at me like I was insane until she figured out I was being sarcastic. " Well, you can't really blame me Hatsu, you're usually kinda boring, so I thought this would actually be fun for you.." "Oh yeah, im the number one camper. Only you have the brain capacity to figure out my true identity. MWAHAHAHA!"
We met up with Subaru on the way to the park. He seemed overloaded and looked like he was gonna fall. " Hey guys, I brought some mangas and some magazines if you want to borrow them so were not that bored at the park, and .." Apparently Akane was insulted as she thought she was too dignified to read such frivolous things. "SHUT UP! We don't want to read a bunch of comic books at the park.dweeb." He looked away, hurt by her words, but Akane had just spotted Ryoki and was in her own little world.
Damn, he just had to come. But it doesn't really matter does it? You knew that he had to come if his mother was going to be one of the big participants. I still don't like it. I wish I were still a kid so I could just whine and go home, but no escape. EscapeFutile.
And while my brain was having this splendid argument, Akane seemed to have found Ryoki, not to my surprise. She was able to smell a hot guy within miles. " Let's go say hi to him Hatsumi. He's the only other person we know here, after all ." "True, but Akane, I said that I would wait for Azusa. I can't leave; I can't just leave him hanging. Its not nice."
"Wow, you seem to be nicer than usual today, but it doesn't matter. More time for me to spend with Ryoki." Subaru seemed to be lost in all the argument. I guess akane assumed that he was gonna stay with me, but that wasn't really my plan. "Subaru, go with akane. Ryoki is probably looking for you." "Really? Ok. See ya in a little while. Bye"
A while later
I see a tall figure emerging out of the shadows, im scared for a second before I realize that it's Azusa. "Hey Hatsu" I look up at him, half angry that he had scared me and half relieved to see him. "Hey yourself" He looked as if he had been running, he was breathing hard and his hair was all ruffled up. He looked good though, and happy to see me, unlike most others. "Hey Hatsu, lets ditch this crappy thing and go see a movie or something…"
I am shocked at his proposal. Well, not really. He's always been a bit on the rebellious side, or it was probably that I am too boring. Still, I didn't think it was a very good idea. "I don't know, the others are probably waiting for us to join them." On the other hand, the farther away from Ryoki I got, the better. Score! Im leaving!
" Okay, where to?" he seemed lost in thought for a moment but then decided. "Probably downtown, come on, ill lead the way."
On the other side.. Only a few steps away….
Akane, Subaru, Ryoki, and Shinogu stood waiting for the two remaining people to start the so-called picnic. Akane then turns her head and violently whispers, " Hey guys, Hatsumi is leaving with Azusa. I wonder what they are doing. Lets follow them; maybe they're on a date. Cool." The guys all looked at one another, confused about what to do. Subaru, being somewhat the most reasonable, thought it would be best not to. "We shouldn't go, just leave them alone. Also, at least one of us has to stay here."
"Okay, then you can stay. I don't want to go but since Ms. Narita 'insisted' so badly. If anyone asks where we are just tell them that we are out walking and that you had forgotten something. Are you coming Shinogu?" Ryoki was not about to let his slave slip that easily from his grasp. He would follow them the whole day if it were necessary. "Yeah, I don't feel trees that much today. See ya Subaru." Shinogu didn't want to go that much but he knew that bastard Ryoki was out to get his sister, and he would not let him get close enough to hurt her.
Meanwhile, there sat Subaru, helpless and alone. " Me and my freaking big mouth!"
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