This chapter's plot was thought up by D.N.S. Akina. Thanks so much for the helpful review!
SJMT Shipper: Yes. Good Luck Girl was AMAZING. And the manga (in Japan it's called Binbougami ga, which means Misfortune God or something) is even better. I just finished reading it, and now I'm depressed. It was my favorite manga ever!
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"What are we going to do?" Akari asked, sighing. "I have to turn the application form by tonight, and I have no partner, no dance, no song, no anything."
"Feel better, Akari-chan," Koharu smiled reassuringly. "We'll find you a partner."
(They dragged Ako and Koharu into this too. Mahiru was already in, the makeup from the last chapter.)
"I guess," Akari smiled back. They already turned their forms in the day after the contest was announced... she thought a bit sadly.
"Akari-chan, I-" Yume started, before she was interrupted.
"AKARI!"
The girls all turned around, and saw a pink-haired lady, dark blue-haired man, crimson-haired girl, and aqua-haired boy.
"Who's that?" Ako asked, turning to Akari.
Akari's were wide in fear, and she was visibly trembling.
"Mother..." she whispered.
"Akari," her mother yelled. "I heard you still don't have a partner! It's the last day, what's wrong with you?!"
(She looked like Nadeshiko from Binbougami ga, only without the bunny hair bands.)
"I-I'm sorry..."
"NO EXCUSES!"
"I would have had twenty boys after me within five minutes," the redhead bragged.
(She looked like Yona from Akatsuki no Yona before she cut her hair.)
"She had at least ten boys after her within a minute after she put on makeup!" Yume defended. "She just isn't interested in any of them!"
"When did she put on makeup?" The blue-haired boy asked. "According to my calculations, pretty much every boy in the school would have asked her if she put it on right away."
(He looked like Zero from Mamotte! Lollipop only with glasses. And his face was a little longer.)
"Ummm... just yesterday afternoon..." Yume admitted sheepishly.
"So there you have it," he said, pushing his glasses up his nose.
"You have no right to be so rude to our friend!" Laura yelled.
"That's right!" Ako agreed.
"Of course he does," the blue-haired man answered. "She's his sister after all."
(He looked like Ikuto from Shugo Chara.)
"That still gives no right," Koharu said angrily.
Woah, Yume thought, scared. Even Koharu-chan is angry.
"Mother!" Akari yelled. "Please... please leave them alone!"
Her mother glared, and raised her hand to slap her daughter...
... only for someone to hold it back.
"Who?!" She raged, turning around.
"Hey," an orange-haired boy said lazily. "How about you stop picking on her?"
(He looked like Usui from Kaichou wa Maid-sama! And he pretty much acts the same.)
"How dare you?!" she yelled. "I'm-"
"Yeah, yeah, the idol that was famous years ago."
"You-"
"Go home," he glared.
Akari's mother stumbled back.
"What?" Her dad asked, before falling over.
The sister and brother backed away.
The boy's eyes were filled with anger, like, hollow, with a creepy little fire inside.
The family ran away.
"T-thanks..." Akari said in shock. "... ummm... your name?..."
"I'm Keita Sakurano," he smiled.
"Umm... Keita-kun- can I call you that?"
"Of course, that's what all idols' stage names are, right? Girl-chan, Boy-kun?"
"Y-yeah... Keita-kun... want to ... umm... partner up?"
He smiled. "You know, the truth is, I've liked you for a while now. So, of course!"
Akari giggled.
The two walked away to the registration booth.
"... Did she get a partner because of us, or because of herself?" Yume asked.
"Ummm..." Laura replied.
"I guess it's safe to say she found one on her own, and we just gave her a step forward, right?" Koharu smiled.
"Yeah..." Mahiru said.
"I bet it was Mahiru's makeup that started it, though," Ako noted. "She looked totally prettier."
"Hooray for Mahiru!" Yume cheered.
"It wasn't me," Mahiru said, poker-faced.