Twisted Fairytales: Mikurella

Chapter 9

The days passed by slowly, Miku and Luka carried on their after school lessons, and got closer. Luki was curious and eventually met Miku and Rin after bugging his sister endlessly. They got along pretty well, but the Megurines always declined Miku's invitation to sit with her and the gang during lunch.


A month passed. Gumi and Lily became official, and the school was aware of their relationship. Like Rin had said, no one dared to offend Lily, so everyone kept their mouth shut. A few fangirls and fanboys did try to persuade Gumi to end the relationship with Lily, and even harassed Rin, Len and Miku, but the fans were all ignored. Kaito and Meiko learnt of Lily and Gumi, and they both accepted it and supported it fully.


Three months passed. Gakupo had plucked up enough courage and decided to ask Luka out, but she rejected him without even looking at him, and Luki winced at his sister letting go of what he claimed, was a 'good catch'. Miku's results improved, a result of daily tuition. Rin occasionally stayed back to say 'hi' to Luka, but that was that, so Luka and Miku's 'together time' was not interrupted. But Luka was getting edgier. What she thought was a crush had developed into something bigger, and she was unable to shake off the feelings she had for Miku.


Five months passed. Miku's grades were stagnant, like her mood. She had been brooding and sighing more than usual, and her family was all concerned about it. Meanwhile, Luka had requested to stop the tuition for a while, saying that she needed a short break.


"Can you believe it? She just said that she needed a break." Miku groaned and slumped forward on her desk.

"Well, aren't the year fours having their mid years? It's three more months until their final exam, which will determine where they go."

"But still~" "You miss Luka, don't you?" "Pft, nonsense." Rin looked at Miku pointedly."Ok fine, I guess I'll miss her, we've become pretty good friends."

"Good friends only?" Rin teased, and Miku growled. She wasn't in the mood for teasing. Luka never said when she would come back, and her absence was gnawing at her mind now.

"Fine." Rin huffed and grabbed Miku's bag.

"Let's go out today, it'll clear your mind."

Miku did not protest, and walked in front of Rin, still thinking of Luka. Somehow, she missed Luka more than she should. Maybe Luka was not just a very good friend. Maybe she was more than that. Maybe in her fear, she had mentally friendzoned Luka. What if she really did like Luka more than a friend? She had been struggling with her thoughts and feelings for so long now. What was she scared of? Rejection by Luka? Rejection by society? Rejection by her friends?

"Oof." "Oh, sorry!" Miku apologised as she crashed into someone.

"Oh hey Luki." Rin smiled. "Hey Rin, hey Miku."

"Yo Luki, why did you come here?" Miku asked.

"Nah, wanted to talk to you. I know Luka stopped her tutoring sessions, but don't think she's doing this because she doesn't want to see you or anything okay?" Luki swept his hair through his spiky hair.

'Great, now I'm playing messenger and repeating what Luka told me.' Of course, when Luka told her brother to relay the message, she was stammering and less confident than Luki. Luka insisted that Luki go instead of her, claiming that her 'bottled up feelings might take over her sanity'. Luki would have liked to know what happened if his sister's feelings overran her rationality, but decided to help her out this time.

"You know, cos she's worried about her grades, and she wants to focus now. But she'll be back to tutor you erm, someday, you know."

Miku tried to keep her usual smile in place. 'Someday? Someday? And when will that someday be?!'

"Ah, she doesn't mean that you're dragging her down or something okay? I'm doing a bad job of explaining, aren't I?" He cast a glance at Rin, who nodded but smiled.

"No, it's okay, I understand." Miku said. "Really? That's good. I've gotta go now, we're gonna revise for the exams. See ya."

Miku waved and walked down the stairs with a heavy heart. She didn't knew when she would see Luka again.

'Did I do something wrong?' she sighed and Rin poked her. "Oi, what are you thinking about?"

"Nothing." "Nothing makes you sigh, huh? Come on, let's go get a cake or something." Rin tugged her sister's shirt, determined to cheer her up.


"Yo sis. What's wrong? You seem out of sorts."

Luka was looking out of the window, no, more specifically, she was looking out of the window at two girls walking out of school. "Nothing. So you met Miku already?"

"Yeah. Come on, she seemed sad without you around."

"She probably had a bad day." Luki snorted at Luka's reply.

"Okay, maybe she enjoys my company." Luka quickly added, "As a friend, of course."

Luki rolled his eyes and patted his sister on the shoulder.

"But it's not like I'm that important in her life." Luka shrugged , "She has other friends too."

"Didn't you see how desperately she wanted us to join her for lunch? You rejected her many offers. And now, you're cancelling your after school sessions. When will you guys even meet?" Luki used overly dramatic hand gestures as he spoke. "This could spell, wait for it-" He paused, and smiled, as though pleased with the imaginary effect he had created. "- the end of your friendship!" He pretended to faint, an expression of horror plastered on his face.

"I'm surprised you don't like drama." Luka commented, ignoring Luki's monologue.

Luki recovered and continued, now speaking in a normal tone. "But really, at least have lunch with them. Lily and Gakupo are in our class, they've asked us too. And Gakupo has gotten over the fact that you rejected him, so it's okay to be friends, no?"

Luki could see that his sister was not the slightest bit convinced.

"I want to meet Rin's twin too. It's cool to meet twins."

Luka looked up at Luki. "Nice try."

"Aww come on sis, just once? You can't run away forever!" "I've already declined it for half a year."

"Fine. Let Miku be disappointed then. Her best friend, not even eating with her. Such a sad friendship."

Luka rolled her eyes. "I'm not going to eat with them."

"Are you scared? What are you scared of?" "Gakupo." "Really?"

Luka stood up and faced Luki, her eyes boring straight into his. Her 'Ice Princess' look had taken over, and she walked towards Luki slowly.

Luki gulped. Luka could intimidate him sometimes. Even though it was not a glare, there was something about that look…

Luka walked past Luki and stood at the door. "Let's go back."

Luki felt relieved. 'So it's not Gakupo then. It's Miku?'


Miku sipped her iced tea absent-mindedly, throwing her gaze at the people passing by the café.

"What are you thinking of?"

"Oh, nothing." 'I'm just wondering why I feel so empty now. At this time, I would be in the class and Luka would be sitting opposite me. Now I'm in a café and Rin's opposite me.'

"Huh." Rin drank her orange latte and eyed Miku.

"Really! I'm just looking out of the window- isn't that Gumi? And Lily?" Rin turned her head quickly and looked at the street.

Indeed, a tall blonde and a shorter green haired girl with a pair of omnipresent goggles on her head were walking together, smiling at each other as they held hands.

"Coincidence. Well, want to follow them?" "Goodness, Rin, we've followed them quite a few times already! It's always Len's or your idea. No, let's just leave them alone." "Fine, but you should cheer up." Miku smiled and Rin shook her head.

"Say, Rin?" Miku asked, before taking a sip of her tea.

"Yes?" Rin had a hunch that Miku was going to ask her something important.

"Well, you see…" Miku bit her straw and attempted to suck up more tea, but was disappointed with the annoying sound produced. "You see, my friend likes someone."

"Uhhuh?" 'How original. Your 'friend'.' Rin nodded, signalling Miku to continue.

"And to make matters worse, the person she likes is a girl too."

"So? Lily and Gumi are dating and no one really cares. Well, not much." Rin thought of Lily's fangirls and winced.

"Her crush has been asked out by many people and she rejected all of them."

Rin almost choked at the description. 'It's Luka, isn't it?'

"Well, so even if your friend asks her crush and gets rejected, it wouldn't be unusual. Besides, if your friend doesn't try, she won't know. It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."

Miku racked throught her brain, thinking of the excuses she had. "She's afraid that people will judge her."

"We're always being judged regardless of who we are and what we do."

"She doesn't want to lose the friendship." 'Sounds right.'

"Double or nothing." Rin mumbled.

"Pardon?"

"Oh, as I said, she won't know, right? She could tell her crush her sexual orientation and see her reaction."

"That's…"

"Not as sudden as suddenly confessing to her. If her crush is indeed a friend, she won't mind your friend swinging that way."

"Fine, I suppose that works. Oh, one last thing."

"Yeah?"

"She can't meet her crush now, they're not in the same year, and they don't meet up that often."

"Don't tell y- her crush through a text, she won't be able to see her crush's reaction." 'What am I, playing cupid?' Rin drank the last of her latte. "She should arrange to meet up with her crush, if they can meet."

"Okay…" Miku seemed to be thinking hard and processing all the information.

"By the way, Miku, who's your friend?"

"No one you know!" Miku said quickly.

'Right, we've been in the same school, same class and hang out with each other, suddenly you have a friend I don't know about. How very believable. Well anyways it's good to know you have feelings for Luka.'

Author: Thanks for the reviews, you've all been very kind. This is going on longer than I have expected *slumps onto the table in defeat*, and I must admit I'm having trouble. Perhaps I was too ambitious with my first multi chapter fic…

Anyways, that's that! I shall work harder! (・∀・) R&R?