Recap from the previous chapter
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"Coming!" I heard Koko shout. Oh no. Why him? I panicked. Maybe when he will see Hotaru, he'll faint, gawk, salivate or something along those lines. The door opened revealing the newly-showered, damp-haired, and stripped to the waist Koko. I looked to my right and saw Hotaru's left eyebrow twitch dangerously. Crap.
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End of recap… back to present…
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"Ahhh!!" Koko gasped at the sight of my 'girlfriend' as he pointed an accusing finger at her, almost touching Hotaru's nose. "Who are you? I don't think…"
"Is that the way you were taught to welcome guests?" Hotaru glared at him as she shoved his hand away. Koko looked abashed.
"I… I'm so sorry. It was just that… you were so pretty." He looked away, a tiny blush creeping up his cheeks. I assumed Hotaru rolled her eyes, as what she always does when she's praised. I chuckled inwardly.
Koko opened the door for us as we made our way in the living room.
Natsume and Ruka were there, watching a live game of soccer. The two looked at us and landed their eyes on the pretty lady beside me. Ruka mouthed a "Woah. Pretty," as I observed that there was also a rather-more-than-tiny blush visible on his cheeks. Natsume on the other hand had his mouth close as he looked at Hotaru from head to toe. "Not bad," was what he said, which, I think, only Ruka could hear.
Hearing the Koko's shout earlier, Taiki came down from the library and joined us in the living room.
"Err… Everyone, this is my girl friend, Imai Hotaru. But I suggest you should call her by her last name. She doesn't like it when people call her too casually." I smiled as I introduced Hotaru.
"Hotaru, this is Nogi Ruka, Hyuuga Natsume, Kokoro Yome and Yukihara Taiki. (I discovered that Yukihara was supposed to be their surname so I changed it. I hope you'll understand.) Koko plays the drums, Ruka and Taiki the guitars, I play the keyboard and Natsume's the lead vocalist." She nodded.
"Miko, let's talk in your room." Hotaru crossed her arms on her chest as she waited for me to lead the way. I lead her up the stairs, a turn to the right, then the last room. I locked the door after her. She sat down on my bed.
"I'm going to check them tomorrow and the next day. It's still 5:42 pm so I'm going home – "no! just borrow my girl clothes." She raised an eyebrow at my reaction.
"What are you getting panicked for?"
"Nothing. I… I just don't want you out of my sight now." Hotaru made her way to the door and opened it slightly. I almost missed the small smile on her lips.
"Don't worry, Miko." She went out with that. I stared at the door she disappeared into for a while before I turned to the ceiling. I made good friends as you told me to, Narumi-sensei. I smiled contentedly.
I stayed lying on the bed for a good few minutes before coming down for supper.
It shocked me to find Koko unconscious on the floor near the stairs with Ruka laughing hard, Taiki chuckling and well, smirking in Natsume's case. They looked at me as I descended down the stairs, laughing even harder.
"It seems that I have missed something important. Well, what is it?" I stood beside Hotaru who was neither laughing nor smirking. Ruka explained it to me.
"Well, Koko was playing around and accidentally bumped into Ho – Imai. She got pissed off so she took out this weird gun and shot him four times. That's why he's sprawled on the floor right now." I raised an eyebrow.
"What's funny with that? Getting shot with the Baka Gun version 1412XX is a lot painful you know. I was the test subject for that." With that said, they guffawed even harder. They were teary-eyed now. Such a rare moment of their laughter, I thought. The scene made me start laughing too.
After 3 minutes, everyone conscious had two protruding mountains on their heads, including me.
"Where's supper?" Hotaru asked, blowing the smoke from her Baka Gun. Koko started to stir and unfortunately heard her.
"You're having dinner here?! No–" he was cut off by a glare from my best friend. I think I should tell them about it.
I cleared my throat as I started. "Err… Everyone, I forgot to tell you that she'd be staying here for umm… two days and three nights starting today."Koko's jaw dropped and Ruka's face, unexpectedly, changed color. Hmm… blushing? Fufufu… I have someone else to tease her now. And someone I know better too. I laughed madly in my head.
"Ehhhh?? But… is there any rule against that?" Koko turned to Taiki since he knew the rules better. Taiki shook his head.
"Pops only said there won't be any yaoi under the roof of this house. Miko and Imai-san are obviously not of the same sex, are they?" Guilt pierced my heart. I am lying to them. "And he didn't state anything about other people living here too." Every one of them, as they heard the word 'yaoi', blushed furiously and covered their mouth to stop themselves from the urge of nausea. Oh well, as always, Natsume was an exception. He just rolled his alluring crimson eyes.
"So there aren't any objection now, are there? I'm starving." Koko sadly shook his head as Hotaru took a look inside the refrigerator. Her amethyst orbs narrowed one tiny bit and it hit me. Oops.
"Err… Hotaru, there aren't any crabs, I think. Koko's allergic. And Taiki is too, I think." She turned her eyes to me.
"Buy me."
"Ehh?? Why don't you ask your driver to? I think he'd be glad to be of use some time." I shook nervously. She snapped her fingers and muttered to herself. She took out her black phone and I presumed that she had called her driver. Or not… I saw her dial another number.
"Hey! That's not the driver's number! That's…" why did she call that friggin' Hayate?
"He'd buy me a lot more so shut your trap." She stood up, sat beside Ruka and crossed her flawless legs. Ruka, on the other hand, blushed furiously. In an attempt to cover it up, he pulled out a book and covered his face with it. Too bad though, it was upside down. Hotaru raised an eyebrow.
"Why are you reading a book upside-down? In your age, you should know better." Ruka reddened even more. We chuckled in the background. Ruka straightened himself up as if it would do something magically. He turned the book around and pretended to read again although it was pretty obvious that he was scrutinizing every part of the attractive lady beside him. We, again, laughed at this. This scene is too precious to let by, I thought. I took out my phone and took a picture of them from every angle but without their noticing. I chuckled. I just have a good feeling about this couple. Kekekekeh…
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Author's note!!!
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Thanks to:
moonacre99
bunnyjumps and
HanatsukiHime
For reviewing the previous chapter!! Thanks a lot! i would also like to thank those who put this story to their alert list.
And, does anybody have something to suggest? A scene or happening, perhaps? I would welcome any suggestions!! Thanks a lot and see you on my next update!!! =)
this is very important and i hope everyone would read this. in the previous chapter i wrote that they'll be debuting after two months, right? i'll change that to six. reason? i think it's too short or early.. anyway, thank you again.