Im sooo depressed. I didn't get even one review for my last chapter….and yet im still updating, im such a loser…so anyways. Here's the chapter….

Disclaimer: I don't own hot gimmick

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I began to walk home, soaked to my feet and miserable. But in a way the whole ordeal of the night before had opened my eyes. Ryoki was just a miserable little bastard who used me. I would never be able to look him in the eyes ever again.

I walked past shops and headed towards the apartment complex. Suddenly, I heard a voice calling out my name in the distance. I turned around to see Azusa come towards me. "Hatsu, thank god I found you. I was so worried about you when you ran out of the hotel. I tried to squeeze out of Ryoki what had happened but he just laughed."

Great. He laughed. Just another thing to show that he was really using me. Even though it was tearing me apart, I wasn't going to let Azusa see me like that. " So, is that where you got your face hurt?" Azusa just nodded in a way that said that Ryoki had been the one that had been beaten, not him.

"Oh no. im so sorry I got you mixed up in this whole mess. But it's all over now. Lets go back home." I forced a smile and took his hand.

Wow, Azusa thought. She really is bad at lying. That smile was so fake it looked as if she had just gotten thirty doses of botox slammed into her mouth. It's kind of creepy.

ooooo back to Ryoki oooooo

"Ha, Azusa thinks that he can ruin me. Ha. He doesn't know what he has coming. What does he think, that just because he's a model and has more friends than I do he can beat me? Mwahahahahahahahahahaha. The thought. I have power! Intelligence! Beat me. There is no chance. Anyways, Hatsumi is still technically my slave. She can't say a word against me or her sister's secret will be heard round the world!"

A knock in the door stopped his ranting. He opened it and saw an employee from the lobby. " Please, sir, can you be quiet? You are disturbing our other customers in the adjacent rooms."

" Get off my freaking case, will you. I have plenty of reason to rant!"

He ran out of the room much like he had done earlier in the morning, only this time he had his clothes on.

Ooooo Hatsumi and Azusa ooooo

We finally reached my floor. I said goodbye to Azusa and stepped out. But, as the door closed, he reached for my arm and pulled me back inside the elevator, at the same time lowering his lips to my own. It was a rush. It was as if a wave had swallowed my entire body and wouldn't let me surface. Finally, he lifted his head and blurted out " I'm so sorry. I know that you're with Ryoki, but….sorry. It wont happen again I promise."

He punched the elevator buttons in a crazed fashion and when it stopped, jumped out while blurting out a strangled goodbye. I looked up at the security camera above me. Not recognizing the girl in the reflection. Ugh. This was a bit too much for just a twenty-four hour period. Im still just in high school.

Why is this elevator taking so long? Great, Azusa pushed all of the floor buttons in his haste to get out. Now ill have to wait a million years just to get back down to my floor. On the other hand, Im not really in the mood to go back home to a question filled mother. I could already picture it. " Where have you been? With who? And most importantly, what have you been doing?" Questions to which there was no simple answer. Specially considering that im such a bad liar.

I decided to stop at the top floor. I walked up the stairs and laid my head down on the concrete of the building roof. Comfortable, my ass. But it wasn't like I could really go anywhere else.

Ooooo Akane and Shinogu ooooo

The two siblings met along the entrance to the complex. Neither knew where Hatsumi was or what exactly had happened the night before. The only priority was to find her. Then they could just gently squeeze it out of her. "Akane, did you get anything out of Ryoki?" She just looked perplexed. " Most of what I heard was something about boinking.. Or something like that. The most obvious thing though is that there's something really serious going on not just between Hatsumi and Ryoki, but Azusa also."

" So, where do we start looking?" Akane laughed. " You're asking me, Shinogu? You are the smartest one in the whole family. Plus she can be anywhere in freaking Tokyo. Yeah. A total walk in the park."

Ooooo Hatsumi on the roof ooooo

Ow. Staring at the sky from a piece of concrete was great in every philosophical sense, but the truth is, its hell on your neck. I suspected that I was beginning to look like a swan due to my stiff neck. No, more like a goose. Along my argument to figure out which type of bird my face most resembled, I heard footsteps on the stairs leading up to the roof. Oh. Shit. I was so not ready for this. What if its Ryoki, or Azusa? I can't face either of them. Even though im avoiding them for very different reasons.

I tried to hide behind a pole, but it was no use. There was nowhere to run. Spiky brown hair emerged, and the shape of Subaru took form. Honestly, he was the last person I had expected to see. A gundam suit would have probably been more anticipated.

I suddenly remembered that he had been the one to stick back after the others had left to meet with us. " Uf. Thank god its you, Subaru. Hey, thanks for looking out for our butts in the company picnic. I hadn't thought that the rest of them would have tagged up with me and Azusa."

" No problem. Im pretty much used to being alone, but I think I made you guys seem a little strange. Every hour Mrs. Tachibana came to check on me, and I had to make like six different excuses as to why all of you were gone and I was all alone."

Ha. That would have been a laugh. All of us five suddenly having to go to the bathroom simultaneously, or having gone for food. What I would have paid to see the old hag's confused face.

"In the end I just went to where your little brother was and let the kids play with my gundam models. Anyways, I got a call from Ryoki. He sounded really pissed. What exactly happened?"

Aw man. Not this again.

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Hopefully you liked it. And please review. Im loosing steam. Lo..oo.ss…i..n..g s..t..e..a.m.

Haha

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