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Chapter 8

Rima's POV

I woke up and stretched a bit, trying to stay away from Yaya's drool. It was in a puddle by the side of her sleeping face. She is so childish.

I looked around for a minute until my gaze landed on the digital clock on the nightstand beside my bed. It read 6:30AM.

Hmm…I should get up now; I wonder who else is up.

I quickly changed into something fancy and got ready for the day. Sometimes I would rather throw on some commoners' clothes. I tried them once (sweatshirt and sweatpants), and they were so comfy. It was like wearing a blanket.

I didn't have to be quiet because Yaya is a really heavy sleeper. She could sleep through a tornado.

Once I got downstairs (this place is really small compared to my house, but I guess I'll have to deal with it) I saw Utau sitting on the couch flipping through a magazine. I wanted to scare her, but I decided against it because her scream could shake the whole cabin. And that would mean waking the other girls up. That would not be pretty.

When I sat down on the other side of the sectional sofa, Utau still didn't seem to have noticed me. It wasn't until I was halfway through my magazine that I was reading, that Utau spoke up.

"Oooo I can't wait 'till we go to the town today!"

I put down my magazine and stared at her blankly for a bit before replying in a super enthusiastic voice, "I know right?! It's gonna be soo fun!" (A/N Ugh… I'm getting a headache from imagining these squeals in my head).

"What's all this noise for?" Akira said coming down the steps while rubbing her eyes in her silk PJ's. She's pretty calm most of the time. I like that because she doesn't make a big deal about small things.

"We get to go shopping yay!" Yaya yelled running down the stairs after Akira.

So when the four of us were seated on the couch, and were chatting away, Lulu came storming down the steps with her eyes blazing, teeth clenched, and hands curled into fists. Oooops we woke her up.

So for the next few minutes we were getting an earful of Lulu's yelling until Amu ambled towards us with a deadly expression on her face. We immediately stopped.

Amu was DEFINETLY the scariest out of all of us. Before she turned violent we quickly took her (against her will of course) and tied her to a chair with a washcloth in her mouth.

The chair was bouncing around for a few minutes until she got tired out and stopped to throw us a harsh glare. Phew, we're still alive.

She was still tied up in a chair when Yukari and two other girls came in. (Yukari also has a house key to check on us) One girl had navy blue hair with a blue beret on her head that had a spade on it in a darker shade of blue. She also had a pencil behind her ear. She was wearing a blue and white striped shirt with a denim jacket over it, blue flats with ruffles at the front, and a white skirt.

The second girl had her pink hair almost like Amu's, but a shade darker in a ponytail. (A/N not side pony like in the anime) She wore the same things as the girl in blue, but her colors pink and white instead of blue and white. She also didn't have anything on her head (hat, pencil, glasses etc.).

"Oh…what a pleasant surprise seeing her tied up in a chair like that." Yukari said with a condescending glare.

"Mmpfh" Amu said…er tried to say. (Remember she still has a rag in her mouth, a clean rag).

"Yes, thank you for your thoughts Amu. Moving on," Yukari said while moving to the sectional sofa to sit on closing the door behind her while the two girls followed suit. I noticed that they were carrying suitcases.

"These girls here are Ran and Miki. They are sisters, and they will be staying with you. But fear not, they came here for the same reason as you lot. Character improvement. Ugh, even I hate that phrase I mean you should be who you are right? Blah blah blah…"

I stopped listening by then because she was talking about irrelevant stuff, and I was too distracted by what she said earlier, 'You should be who you are…' .

But anyways, I couldn't care less about the two new girls. All they're doing here is taking up space. Guess that they're gonna be the ones to use the guest room.

Time Skip

We had just finished a very unsatisfying lunch…for me at least. We ate a chicken salad with coke, and a yogurt courtesy of the new girl Miki. I guess I'll have to thank her for that even though it wasn't that good.

We're gonna go shopping! I can't wait, but I was just told that we would have to start doing yucky chores when we get back. Ugh.

'Hey Mashiro-san!"

"What?" I replied grumpily. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Nagihiko the cross dresser had to come with us. He's going to ruin everything.

"Come on! We have to go!"
"Do I have to get in that garbage?" I asked, gesturing to the commoners van parked in front of me.

"Everybody else is already inside." Nagihiko said. He told me to call him Nagi, but I refused. It would make it seem as if we're friends. I don't even want to be close to this cross dresser, much less be friends with him.

"Ugh, fine. But the rest of the girls are only in there, because Akira shoved them in." I responded as I walked towards the vehicle.

The ride to town was very annoying. It was so cramped in there with Yaya's constant noises. I think Amu and Lulu were about to blow. Good thing we arrived there quick.

Akira didn't seem to notice at all because she had headphones on the whole time; probably blasting some music in her ears.

When we got off the van I looked around. The part of the town we were in was…small and there weren't really any city lights.

The stores, no…boutiques (they were that small) were standing together in rows on either side of the small paved road. I don't think that there were any parking lots because the car was currently parked on the side of the road. I wonder if this is how it looks like throughout the whole town.

If so, I think I'm gonna die. I tried to see if there was anything familiar, but as far as I could tell, there weren't any stores with big name brands of clothing. Just some average ones. Ugh, I refuse to wear anything that is not stylish and the currents trend. I just might have to order my clothes online. No actually that would be too much work.

See? If I were still in Tokyo, I could make all the boys that practically worship me do all this for me.

I turned back to Yukari when she spoke.

"So what do you think? It's pretty different from Tokyo huh?"

"Yeah it's so…different." Akira said disgust clearly evident on her face.

"Well I don't see any malls here, so let's go." Amu said.

Ah, ah, ah," Yukari said in a sing song voice.

"It's better inside, now let's go!" Yukari finished off by grabbing our wrists and dragged us to a random store.

The inside of the store was actually fairly larger than how it looked on the outside. We were in a clothing store, and to my surprise there were actually popular brand name clothes.

Before I could make a comment Yukari spoke up, "See? The town may be small, but it's not in the middle of nowhere either. This place is actually quite popular because of the ranch."

"Really? So how come I've never heard of it?"

"Hmm I don't know you answer that." Yukari said in response to Amu.

"But then how come it—"

"How come it doesn't have much people living here? Well, people consider this place as more of a tourist area than a place to live. Plus, there's actually a good amount of people living here, but it's just not as much as the number of people in Tokyo which you're used to."

"How do you—"

"How do I know all this? Well obviously before I was exiled here with you, I was forced to read a gigantic guide for endless hours…"

After that I tuned her out because she was doing one of her endless rants again.

I turned back around to the rack of clothes behind me and started to look through what they had. I was trying to find some clothes that were stylish, and that would suit this place. Seeing how I definitely can't get by wearing heels all the time.

After a long debate in my head I decided to buy a pair of sneakers. They were a pair of neon blue and green Nikes that seemed okay. I also decided to pick up some normal t-shirts (my first in a long time) and shorts because that was pretty much all they sold in this store. And strangely enough, I didn't have trouble finding clothes that were my size like I normally do. I hate to admit it but I'm pretty short for my age…

As I was about to go pay for the clothes I heard a masculine voice (semi-masculine? I don't know) behind me.

"Mashiro-san?"

"Call me Rima." I said.

Ooops, that just slipped out of my mouth.

"Uhh…never mind!"

"Too late Rima-chan"

Ugh, kill me now. But, I can't believe I forgot he was there. Hmm it turns out he didn't ruin everything, seeing how I forgot he was there in the first place.

"Rima! Ready to go?" Lulu shouted to me from across the room by the door (yes the store was just one long room).

I just turned around and continued to pay for my clothes. I guess they all finished shopping before me.

I grabbed the plastic bags and walked towards the girls with Nagihiko trailing behind me, looking strangely cool. W ell, as cool as you can get as a guy with long purple hair.

We piled back inside the car and decided that we should head back because the shops didn't seem that interesting. Yukari didn't seem cool with that idea. Guess she wanted to shop more.

I got strangely used to the (filthy) commoners van even though it's only been two days. Hmm maybe I can survive.

Thank you for reading! I am so sorry for the wait. And thank you so much for being patient with me. :)