Ahh I think you guys are going to really like this chapter! :)

I'm kinda stuck with the next few chapters, which begins a new arc (possibly, I might be adding another "filler" chapter). I'll get over it soon though, so don't worry aha. I also have a horrible pit in my stomach, giving me a foreshadowing that once the S4 Selection arc starts, things are going to get messy! Which is why I'm trying to finish writing this story before then! Still super psyched for it though!

I do not own Aikatsu Stars!

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"Ako! Mahiru! Laura!"

The three called girls paused their walking and turned to see their energetic blonde friend.

"What's up Yume?" Laura asked.

Yume had a wide grin on her face. "Our movie is coming out!"

Laura and Mahiru lit up. "Awesome!"

Ako crossed her arms. "Yes, I already knew."

Yume gasped. "What?" She pouted. "Not fair! Why didn't you tell me?"

Ako rolled her eyes. "Calm down. It's coming out in two days."

"Wow, it feels like you guys were filming just yesterday." Mahiru commented.

Yume nodded. "Yea, I know!"

"So are we all going to go watch it together?" Laura asked.

"Yes!" Yume agreed with a cheer. "The four of us!" She stopped. "Wait a second… Ako. Didn't we say that we were going to go watch it with M4?"

Ako glanced at her. "Oh… yea."

"I forgot!" Yume shouted. "How are we going to go see M4 anyways?" She asked, wondering about how they would invite them.

"Why don't you look behind you?"

The four girls gasped and turned around, to spot M4 in the center of the path right behind them.

Yume shouted in surprise. "Were you eavesdropping on us?"

Subaru laughed. "No way. You guys were talking really loud, and we happened to be coming up."

Yume puffed her cheeks out and narrowed her eyes at Subaru.

Subaru responded by sticking out his tongue at her mockingly.

"Anyways," Nozomu suddenly cut them off. "How about we meet you girls on Friday for the movie?"

Yume turned to smile at Nozomu. "Yes!" She grabbed Ako's arm and looped it through hers. "We can't wait!"

Ako yelped at the sudden contact. Her cheeks dusted pink at the action. "Yea."

"I hope we're invited to that as well." Laura spoke up.

Nozomu nodded with a smile. "Of course."

Mahiru and Laura smiled at each other.

Yume grinned. "Well, bye then! Come on, Laura, Mahiru!" With that, she started running away.

Unfortunately, Ako was looped with Yume still, and so she was dragged along with the blonde. She screamed. "Yume! Let me go! Why are you running?" Her voice faded with the sight of them.

Mahiru and Laura took off after them.

Laura cried exasperatedly. "Yume! Why do you always run?"

M4 watched them go with amusement.

Asahi smiled brightly. "I can't wait for Friday!"

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Friday morning came, and the group of teens went into town to go watch their movie. After purchasing their tickets and some snacks, they were making their way into the theater.

"I'm so excited!" Yume called.

"Yume, this isn't even your first movie." Laura deadpanned. "Remember, you did the Film Festival movie?"

Yume's eyes widened. "Oh! Right!" She laughed nervously and rubbed her neck. "But I felt the same way!"

Everyone laughed at her.

"Let's just get our seats." Nozomu said, and they did so.

They sat in a row in order. Asahi at the end, next to him Mahiru, then Nozomu, Laura, Subaru, Yume, Ako, and Kanata at the other end.

Subaru held a bucket of popcorn in his lap.

"Why are you holding the popcorn?" Yume asked.

"Because you would finish it all if you held it." Subaru retorted with a chuckle.

"No I wouldn't!" Yume cried. She reached out to grab some. "I guess you want me to bother you during the movie, then."

Subaru's cheeks dusted pink. "N-no way! I paid for this, so I get to keep them."

Yume pouted. "Oh, right." She moved her hand to release the pieces in her hands. "Sorry."

Subaru grabbed her wrist to stop her.

Yume looked up at him in surprise.

"I didn't say you couldn't have any."

Yume smiled. She shoved the popcorn in her hand into her mouth. "Thank you!" She said through chewing.

Subaru frowned and recoiled. "You don't have to chew on me, though."

Yume laughed and pulled away, settling back in her seat.

Within a minute, the lights dimmed and the movie began.

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Ako leaned back in her seat. She had a small smile on her face, proud of her acting.

Suddenly, something poked her in the cheek.

Her breath hitched in surprise as she snapped her head to the right. A red piece of licorice was waving within her eyesight. She pulled her head back to see Kanata holding the licorice at her. He was offering it to her.

Ako frowned at him. He smirked in response, pushing the red candy towards her. Ako sneered at him and snatched the candy from his grasp. She huffed angrily at being disturbed from the movie. She bit into the sweet candy fiercely, but as soon as she tasted it, her face split into a smile. It was delicious! Ako closed her eyes and savored the flavor happily.

Kanata smiled as he watched the moody girl, before his eyes returned to the movie.

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Yume leaned back again into her seat and shifted her arms. She moved to rest them on the arms of the seat. When she lowered her left hand, she felt something warm already there.

Her eyes darted down, and she realized that it was Subaru's hands.

She gasped silently, as to not bother others around her.

Subaru quickly glanced down, and with a burning face, started pulling his hand away in embarrassment.

Yume gulped and gripped her hand, stopping Subaru's from leaving the arm rest.

Subaru's eyes widened and his face bloomed bright red. With a sudden courage, he suppressed his nerves and flipped his hand, leaving it facing upwards and causing Yume's hand to fall into it.

Yume's breath hitched. Something tugged at her chest and her face burned with a blush.

She pulled her eyes away from their connected hands back to the movie screen. She slowly took a deep breath in, and squeezed Subaru's hand.

With her heart thumping loudly in her chest, she tried to put her attention back into the movie.

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"Ah! It was great!" Yume cheered.

Laura smiled happily, nodding. "Yea! You did great, Yume!" She bumped her shoulder with the blonde.

Mahiru nodded with her own smile. "I agree. I liked the big climax point the best."

"Me too!" Yume cheered. "The ending was my favorite, though!"

"The end?" Mahiru blinked. "You mean where the characters got together?"

"Yes!" Yume said.

Subaru's face turned red, and the other boys snickered at him.

"Ehem!" The girls turned. "What about me?" Ako demanded with her arms crossed.

"Oh, Ako! You did wonderful, as usual!" Mahiru said.

Ako nodded happily. "I know, of course I did."

Laura laughed awkwardly. "Then why did you ask…" she muttered.

"I think we all did great." Nozomu said to the girls with a smile. "Let's celebrate."

Yume paused. "But aren't we already?" She tilted her head, then jumped up. "I know! Let's get ice cream!"

"Ice cream?" Laura raised an eyebrow.

"Yea! I just got a sudden craving!" Yume replied.

They laughed at her.

"Let's go guys!" Yume cried out and started running.

Mahiru, Laura, and Ako quickly ran behind her to keep up.

M4 watched them awkwardly.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Asahi asked his companions. "Come on!" He ran off, following them.

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The group regathered and ordered their treats. They sat around the tables set outside to eat.

Yume licked her strawberry cone. She closed her eyes to savor the flavors in her mouth.

A sudden laugh made her open her eyes.

Subaru pointed at her face while laughing. "You have you ice cream on your face!"

"Huh?" Yume's hand flew up to her face. "Where?"

He lifted his hand higher to point at her nose, before turning to lick his own vanilla cone.

Yume wiped her nose with her palm, then looked at Subaru, to notice his face. Her frown turned to a grin and she laughed. "Now you have ice cream on your face!" She swiped her finger out, wiping a streak of the cream off of his nose.

Subaru's eyes widened and he felt his cheek burn. "H-hey!"

Yume giggled.

He turned his red face away.

"Oh, don't be like that!" Yume said. She poked his side. "I got some on my face too!"

Subaru's face continued to burn. Didn't she realize that he wasn't blushing because she laughed at him? He sighed and turned to her, calming himself.

She smiled brightly. Reaching down, she grabbed a napkin, and before Subaru could react, she wiped it over his nose. "There you go! All clean!" Yume laughed. She folded the napkin and used it again to wipe her own.

Subaru couldn't hold his blush down, and his entire face enveloped into red.

Yume tilted her head at him when she looked back. "Huh? Don't you like vanilla?"

Subaru's face turned confused. "W-what?"

She lifted her cone. "Here then, you can have some of mine!"

Subaru eyed the girl nervously as she held her strawberry ice cream up to his face. His already red face continued to burn when he realized that she had already licked the treat. That would make it an… indirect kiss! He didn't know if he should. His eyes flickered to the blonde uncertainly. She was smiling at him encouragingly. Subaru gulped. Slowly, he lowered and stuck his tongue out.

Yume smiled as Subaru leaned to lick the ice cream. To her surprise, she felt something cold and uncomfortable touch her finger suddenly. Her eyes moved to her hand, where she saw the ice cream dripping to her hand. Yume gasped, her eyes widening in surprise as she suddenly tilted the cone to somehow prevent the ice cream from dripping.

However, Subaru's face was right there, so the cold cream slammed square on his face.

Subaru yelped and jumped back, causing most of Yume's ice cream to fall to the ground and staining his shirt.

Yume's eyes widened and she gasped.

"Hey! What was that for?" Subaru shouted, wiping ice cream off his face with his free hand.

Yume stared at him, before she burst into laughter.

Subaru frowned and watched the blonde silently, unimpressed.

She held her abdomen as she laughed. "So-sorry!" Yume breathed out. "I was- my cone was dripping!"

Subaru deadpanned. That didn't make any sense.

"What happened here?"

Subaru sighed.

"Ah, Nozomu!" Yume greeted with a laugh. "I accidentally hit my ice cream into Subaru!"

"How do you do that by accident?" Laura asked, who was beside Nozomu.

Yume continued to laugh.

Subaru huffed and rolled his eyes. "Can you hand me a napkin?"

Yume sobered and handed him a bundle of them. "Sorry. It really was an accident." She said again.

Subaru shook his head softly. After wiping his face, a small smile grew on his face. "It was pretty funny." He patted Yume on the head.

Yume giggled and stuck her tongue out at him.

Nozomu smiled. "You got ice cream on your shirt." He pointed out.

Subaru looked down. He shrugged. "Oh well." He then looked at the emptied cone in Yume's hand. He pushed out his hand holding his own cone. "Here, you can have mine."

Yume blinked. "Huh? No way! It's yours!"

Subaru shook his head and pushed the cone closer towards her. "I've had enough ice cream. Take it."

Yume smiled and grabbed it. She turned around to throw away her strawberry cone. "Thank you!"

Subaru smiled as she started licking it happily.

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Ako spooned another scoop of her mint chocolate chip ice cream into her mouth. She smiled at the cool and fresh flavor as it hit her tongue.

Her eyes strayed around, and she spotted a boat of pink sitting in front of Kanata. He had taken a cup of bubblegum flavored ice cream.

She didn't want to admit it, but when Ako was deciding on which flavor she wanted, she couldn't decide between mint chocolate chip and bubblegum. And now that she had the mint ice cream, the bubblegum flavor looked better.

"Do you want some?"

Ako's head snapped up, looking at Kanata. Her eyes widened when she realized that he had noticed her staring at the pink ice cream.

She turned her head away, a light blush on her cheeks. "N-no thank you!"

Kanata didn't say anything. Until, "Here."

Ako frowned and slowly turned her head back to gaze at what he was talking about. There was a spoon he was holding up with a plentiful amount of bubblegum ice cream, up to her mouth. She hesitated and eyed the spoon, thinking about the ice cream. Quickly, she leaned forward and licked the cream off the spoon, before letting the spoon out of her mouth.

She hummed and smiled happily at the bright flavor of ice cream with her eyes closed.

Kanata laughed quietly at her reaction.

"Aww, you two are so cute!"

Ako jumped and straightened. "Wh-what?"

Asahi grinned and poked his own cheeks. "Feeding each other ice cream!" He said. He turned to Mahiru, who was sitting beside him. "Here Mahiru! Let me feed you some of mine!"

Mahiru leaned away with a frown. "Ew, no. If I want some I'll take it myself. Which I don't."

Asahi pouted. "How hurtful." He paused. "Then can I have some of yours?"

Mahiru hissed. "No!" She guarded her chocolate brownie ice cream. "Stay away!"

Asahi laughed at her reaction.

Ako shook her head, then began working on her own ice cream again.

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The group finished up their treats and headed back to the academy.

Ako stretched her arm out and tasted the flavor of mint that remained in her mouth. In the side of her mouth, there was a strange taste that wasn't mint. Ako realized that it must of been the spoon of bubblegum she got from Kanata.

Wait. She got a spoon from Kanata. She got spoon fed by Kanata. She got spoon fed by Kanata of his own ice cream with his own spoon. She got spoon fed by Kanata of his own ice cream with his own spoon which he took a bite with a moment before!

Ako shrieked out loud.

Everyone stopped and stared at her, while she covered her face.

Yume took a step towards her. "Ako, are you okay?"

"Y-yes!" Ako rushed out. She peeked out of her fingers, and her eyes met Kanata's. Her eyes widened and she covered her face fully again.

Kanata raised an eyebrow.

Mahiru went to Ako's side. "Okay then… let's just keep going."

They did, and as they approached the split of their paths, they noticed a stray figure standing.

"Oh," Subaru called. "Hey, Tsubasa!"

Tsubasa nodded in greeting to all of them. "I watched your movie. Good job, everyone."

Ako's eyes lit up as Tsubasa faced her. "Especially you, Ako."

Ako felt her eyes get starry. Her idol was praising her!

"And now…" Tsubasa added. "It's criticism time!"

Ako felt her heart drop. "No!"

Tsubasa pulled a roll of paper out of her pocket. "I got a copy of your script and looked over it." She faced Ako, who was already shaking. "Let's start! Scene three! Your character needed more control! I could see your tone wavering! Scene seven part three! Your eyes glanced out of the frame! Rookie mistake! Scene fifteen!"

Everyone watched awkwardly as Ako shrunk smaller and smaller with tears running down her face at each one of Tsubasa's points.

Tsubasa finally stopped. "And that's it!" She rolled the script up in her hand. She turned. "Nozomu."

Nozomu smiled at her. "Yes?"

Tsubasa waved her hand towards Ako. "What's your criticism? Tell her."

Nozomu laughed lightly. "Don't you think you're being too harsh on her?"

Ako was sitting on her knees, covering her teary face as she recovered.

Tsubasa crossed her arms. "Of course not. She needs to hear this."

Nozomu laughed nervously at the two.

Yume fist pumped. "Alright! I wonder what Tsubasa thought of my acting!"

Subaru snickered. "If she's a theater class and got that many mistakes, then you probably did too many to count!"

Yume frowned. "Hey! I'm in song class, so it's not my fault!"

Subaru snorted. "Well get used to it. We," he said referring to M4, "always have to act, even if it's not our class."

Yume puffed her cheeks. She stuck out her tongue. "I know that!"

Subaru laughed.

Ako sniffled as she stood up. She wiped her face with her sleeve, turning as she did so. She stumbled into something when she tried to walk forward without looking clearly. Ako looked up at Kanata and froze. Her face bloomed red.

Kanata slowly raised his hand and patted her head.

Ako reddened even more. He stopped after two short pats and Ako quickly jumped away in embarrassment.

"Alright!" Tsubasa spoke up. "Let's head off, ladies." She glanced at Ako. "We'll have another talk later, young lady."

Ako drooped her head. "Yes ma'am."

She nodded in response and led the girls away.

Yume turned around and waved cheerfully. "Bye!"

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Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I decided to just jam all my ideas into one chapter instead of breaking it up, but it didn't turn out too long, so that's good.

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