Although I'm still new around the neighborhood, I took my time travelling around in hope of finding my way towards Tenma's house. I'm pretty psyched about this sleepover because it gives me lots of time to get to know the ladies.
After walking around aimlessly for a while, I managed to find the right house and approached the door. I checked the time and it was 5:50PM. "A bit early. Might as well let her know I'm here."
With that, I rang the doorbell and Tenma was the one to greet me.
"Sai! You're here early!" She shouted with a bright smile.
I smiled back towards her. "Yeah. I was trying to navigate my way here. You know, trying to understand the streets more."
Tenma opened her door wider to invite me inside. "Come in! You get to meet Yakumo". From the tone of her voice, she sounded extremely excited that this girls night is happening.
"Excuse me." I said politely as I entered the house.
Tenma's house was really nice. It was a very modern house that is suitable for two people to live in. They didn't have fancy decorations so the interior was nice and simple. "I like your place Tenma." I said, gazing around the room.
"Thanks Sai." I heard Tenma said as she closed the door. "Yakumo is in the kitchen. You can go in and greet her."
With a nod on my head, I trailed off down the hall and walked into the kitchen. There, I see a tall, slim young girl standing in front of the stove, cooking a meal.
"Yakumo, Sai is here." Tenma said as she stood next to me and smiled.
Yakumo turned around and gave me a warm smile. "Hello there Sai. Nee-san has been talking about your ever since your first day. It's an honor to finally meet you." She then gave me a very polite bow as I did so in return.
I took a look at Yakumo and realized that she was extremely beautiful. She had a true sense of natural beauty which really amazed me. I can't believe she's the younger sister. Yakumo looks like she is older than Tenma.
"Please, make yourself comfortable Sai. I also made tea for you while you await for the others to arrive." Yakumo said as she pointed towards the tray of tea on the table.
"Oh. Thank you Yakumo." I said with a smile.
Yakumo seemed like a nice, quiet shy girl. Tenma sure is lucky to have her as a sister.
"Sai!" Tenma called out to me. I didn't notice that she left he kitchen and was sitting in the living room. I followed her voice and saw that Tenma was sitting in front of the television. "Want to watch 'Three for the Kill' with me?"
"Eh? Is that a T.V. show?" I asked her curiously.
Tenma gasped in shock. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS!?" She yelled.
With that, Temna got up and immediately dragged me towards the television. "It's the BEST show ever!" She said with such enthusiasm.
I couldn't help but to laugh. She sure is a funny girl. I sat where Tenma dragged me to and looked at the television. From observing the show, I can see that it's an old classic about three men who travels around from the Edo period. This show showed the men fighting evil throughout their travel and working together to fight. It seemed interesting. I just don't understand why this is Tenma's favorite show.
Within a couple minutes of watching the show, the doorbell rang. I could hear Yakumo coming out from the kitchen and quietly said, "I'll get it."
Tenma shot up from her seat and clapped in excitement, "Oh boy! The rest of the gang are here!"
After Tenma said that, Akira, Mikoto and Eri walked into the living room.
"Hey guys!" Mikoto greeted us with her wide smile.
"Sup." Akira said coolly.
"Wow Sai. You're here early." Eri said.
I greeted my friends and smiled. "I left my place early just to get to know the neighborhood."
"I see." Eri said as she placed her bag on the ground. "Now that we're all here, let's start this party."
"Heck yeah!" Mikoto shouted in excitement. "What are we going to do first?"
Tenma looked at each of us and started to smile. "Let's all take a nice hot bath!"
We all turned our heads and looked at our friend. "Hot bath?" Akira questioned.
"I guess it doesn't sound like a bad idea." I said.
"I'm down for one right now." Mikoto said.
"Alright! Let's go then!" Tenma shouted as she guided us towards the washroom.
As we entered the washroom, there was a gigantic tub that could fit the five of us! We all undressed ourselves, wrapped a towel around our bodies and jumped into the hot tub.
The water was nice and relaxing. It definitely made my tense body relax into a jelly like state and I enjoyed the hot feeling on my body. Akira was relaxing with me on the tub while the others were busy splashing each other with the water.
"This is fun!" Tenma shouted as she splashed water towards Eri.
"It really is." Eri said as she giggled and splashed back.
Mikoto didn't say anything and just splashed a sufficient amount of water towards the girls.
We spent almost an hour in the hot tub and we finally dried off and changed to our night gowns. We settled down at Tenma's room and sat there, relaxed and refreshed.
"That felt really nice. It's been a while since I laughed like that." Eri said, using her towel to wipe her face.
"Seriously, that hot tub sure hit the spot." Mikoto said as she gave out a nice stretch.
"Yeah. It did." Akira added.
"Thanks for the awesome idea Tenma. I sure feel super relaxed now." I said, smiling towards Tenma.
I could tell her face flushed from shyness. "That's good to know..."
"Ladies, I made a snack for you all. I even made some iced tea to cool you off." Yakumo said as she entered the bedroom with a tray of food. She set the tray down on the floor as we huddled around.
"Oh boy! Food! Yummy!" Tenma said with a bright smile.
"Wow. How thoughtful of you." Eri said, looking at Yakumo.
Yakumo flushed from shyness and spoke, "O-Oh no. Thank you. This is for taking care of my sister." She said with a warm, shy smile. "Have a nice night ladies." She bowed once again and closed the bedroom door.
"You're sister is so sweet." I said to Tenma with a smile.
"She really is! I'm so lucky to have her!" Tenma said, shouting like a child.
It amazes me that Yakumo is extremely mature of her age. She is definitely opposite from Tenma.
"These snacks look delicious!" Mikoto shouted.
"Yeah! I'm starved." Eri said, looking at the tray of food.
"Agreed." Akira said.
I looked at the tray. There were the iced teas Yakumo mentioned as well as a plate of sweets, cake and pudding.
"Okay ladies! Let's dig in!" Tenma shouted as she picked up a spoon and started eating.
The rest of us did the same and snacked in.
After we all stuffed our faces from the wonderful sweets, we gave out a satisfied sigh and laughed.
"I'm happy it's just the five of us tonight." I said, excited that I'm able to spend quality time with my friends.
"Same here. No boys around." Eri said.
"Well, I just think it's great to get away from everyone once in a while. It's just us ladies." Mikoto smiled.
Akira didn't say anything and she just nodded her head.
I looked at Tenma and noticed that she was mumbling among herself. She seemed to be in a real deep thought. Not paying attention to a single word we just said.
"Hey Tenma?" I called out to her. She seemed to snap out of it and looked at me. "You okay?" I asked her.
Once again, she began to mumble among herself as the rest of the ladies and I stared at her. What is on her mind? Tenma finally gave a 'gulp' and faintly mumbled a few words. "Well...is there anyone you girls like?"
"Eh!?" Mikoto said, surprised from Tenma's question. "Why ask that all of sudden Tenma?"
"I'm just curious. Is there any guy you like Mikoto?" Tenma asked, staring at Mikoto.
Mikoto then looked at Tenma strangely and sighed. "You're weird Tenma."
"You didn't even deny that question Mikoto." Eri said.
"So?" Mikoto crossed her arms and looked at Eri.
"So?" Eri repeated. "You had three boys ask you out within the past month and you turned them all down."
Tenma was taken back from Eri's comment. "What!? Three guys!? Seriously!?"
"Wow. I'm impressed." I said, shocked as well. "But if you turned them all down, does that mean you already have someone in mind?"
Mikoto's face flushed but she quickly shook her head. "N-No! I just don't like anyone right now!" She flailed her arms around, defending herself.
Eri smirked and flipped her hair behind her back. "Well, that's nothing compared to the five boys that wants me to be their girlfriend." She said egotistically.
My eyes widened as well as Tenma's. "Five boys!?" Tenma shouted.
"You girls are weird." Akira said as she sipped her iced tea.
I sat there and laughed. I didn't realize how popular these girls are.
"Well, what about you Sai?" Tenma asked, breaking my small train of thought. "Hm? Me?" I looked at her, unsure what to say.
"Sai, you technically have 90% of the boys going crazy over you. How can you so gullible about that?" Eri said, narrowing her eyes.
I looked at Eri and shrugged my shoulders. "I don't know." I said with a slight laugh.
"Sai! I can't believe you're so popular!" Tenma screamed.
"W-What!? I'm still a new girl though." I said, feeling shy now that the attention is towards me.
"Come on Sai. We've been seeing you get hit on by the boys, one by one. I'm pretty sure Fuyuki has a crush on you." Mikoto said as she patted my back roughly.
I started to flush. It really is embarrassing... "H-Hey guys...you're making me feel weird..."
"Oh Hon. Don't feel weird. You're technically more popular than me." Eri said, flipping her hair once again. "I'm sort of jealous. Usually I'd like to be the popular one around."
I looked at Eri and blinked a couple times. "Jealous? Why? I don't really care about popularity..." I trailed off. "All I care about is being friends with everyone." I smiled.
"Well, you are popular with the boys because you're really pretty." Akira said.
"Plus, you're hanging with us." Eri said, crawling next to me and hung her arm around my shoulder. "You should know that us ladies, we're considered the most popular girls of Class 2-C." I could tell Eri was saying it with a lot of pride.
"Well...I wouldn't say 'popular' it's more like we are well known among the entire class." Mikoto said, rephrasing Eri's sentence.
"It's also because we're really cool!" Tenma added with her bright smile and had her thumbs up towards me.
I looked at each girl and accepted the words they said. "I guess so." I smiled.
"You know..." Mikoto spoke, placing a finger to her chin. "...that reminds me, have you changed your mind about Suga yet Sai?"
My face flushed once again after Mikoto spoke. Why is she bringing up Suga right now? Why is the attention still on me!?
"That's right!" Eri jumped in, grinning towards me. "You thought Suga was charming. I'm pretty sure you blushed when he called you 'the cutest girl' during Art class."
I was still blushing madly. I placed my hands to my face to hide off the redness on my cheeks. "N-No!" I defended myself.
"Yes she did." Akira said, calling me out. I freaked out and looked at her. "A-Akira!"
Tenma looked at me with determination in her eyes, "You should totally spend some time with Suga! If you get to know him more, you two are bound to go out with each other!"
I don't know why, but I choked when trying to speak. "W-What's with the s-sudden topic on S-Suga!? I-I just think he's charming! That's all!"
Eri gave out a sigh and spoke, "Oh come on. You should at least give it a try."
"Yeah! Don't be afraid Sai! I bet the two of you will work out for sure!" Mikoto laughed as she patted my back harshly.
I looked at the ground in defeat. These ladies will not leave me alone about this. "I-I just don't think...he's my type..." I finally said.
I do think Suga is charming and good looking, but I just don't think I would chase after him.
Tenma looked at me and began to pout. "Oh please, please, please, PLEASE Sai!" She started to beg. "Give Suga a try! It'll be awesome!"
I couldn't help but to give out a nervous laugh. I looked at each girls face and let out a long sigh. "I guess..." I spoke quietly, "I guess I can give it a try. Only on one date though." I looked at each of them with a serious look, emphasis on the single date. They all cheered and smiled towards me.
"That's more like it Sai!" Mikoto said with her fist in the air.
Eri used the back of her hand to cover her sudden laughter. "Doll, we were just teasing you! I can't believe we manage to make you agree to go on a date with Suga!"
My jaw dropped. "You fell for it." Akira said. My jaw continued to hang. Tenma sat there, giggling her butt off with Eri.
"It's time to hook the two of you up!" Mikoto said in excitement. "You should ask him out on Monday!"
I shut my mouth and glared at the girls. "I can't believe this..." I said quietly.
I can't believe they tricked me to do this. Now I really have to go on a date with Suga. Will he even agree to it? What if he only thinks of me as a 'cute' girl and doesn't think of me as anything else?
Whatever the case, I already have a strong feeling that the girls and I are going to get along extremely well.
Now that Eri mentioned about Art class not too long ago, it reminded me of my curiosity on Harima. He seems like an interesting person.
The girls were laughing from the trick but soon died down when I started speaking, "Ladies, I have something to ask." I took a deep breath and stated my request, "Can I know a little information about Harima?"
Eri was the first one to feel surprised and questioned my request. "Why do you want to know anything about that Hige?"
"Yeah. You interested in Harima or something?" Mikoto asked, looking at me with questionable eyes.
I placed my finger to my chin and thought about my next words. "Well, since he sits in front of me and I had him as my partner in Art, I was just curious about who he is."
They all looked at each other and then looked at me.
"Let's just say, Harima isn't someone you should be messing with." Mikoto said.
"Why not?" I asked.
"He's a delinquent." Akira answered.
"Huh? Really?" Harima's a delinquent?
"Yeah. Plus he can be so arrogant." Eri said, feeling disgusted.
"Well, why do you think that?" I asked her.
"That's because he acts all mighty and tough. They guy doesn't even have any friends." She answered as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Almost every boy in class is scared of him." Akira chimed in.
I just sat there and took in all the information. Poor Harima. He doesn't seem to be very popular in the class.
"I think Harima is an okay person." Tenma spoke. I looked up to see her as she tried to put up a serious expression. I nodded my head in agreement. "I also think Harima is an okay person. He seemed kind to me. Or at least, he hasn't been acting like a jerk to me yet."
"That's good. You shouldn't be scared of that Hige. He's just a loser." Eri said as she began to yawn.
"I'm not scared of him. I just find him more interesting than any other guy since he's different." I said, yawning in return from seeing Eri.
"Suit yourself Sai." Mikoto said, stretching her arms. "I guess we should head to bed. I'm feeling tired."
"What!?" Tenma shouted, still hyper as always. "I'm just getting started." she whined. Tenma stood up and started air punching and made martial arts noises.
I couldn't help but to laugh towards her. "You're such a silly girl Tenma. I think we should really get our beauty rest."
Eri looked at me and winked, "Now you're speaking my language. Night ladies."
We all took out our sleeping bags and made ourselves comfortable. We said our 'good nights' and tried to go to sleep.
I really enjoyed the night I had with the ladies. This is something I don't really do since Okinawa was a boring area and not a lot of friendships were made there. I'm really thankful to have met them. As for Monday, let's see how things will go with Suga.