Finally I had the motivation! T.T
Everyday sitting in front of the computer with blanked mind… and now… *sniff sniff*
I hate you Writer's Block!
Well anyway, enjoy! :'D
Note: Italic for phone related conversation or Len's memory.
Chapter 15: Secret
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Miku POV
The festival came to an end.
Some of the visitors beamed with youthful aura while the rest cried in despair of not being able to buy the limited anime products, although Gumi had another story. She cried because of the nightmare Rim gave her. Well she gave me the nightmare too but I'm the type that'll forget bad things easily, unless it's really remorseful.
"Checkmate!" I grinned. Currently we're playing chess in Teto's house. I felt bad leaving her out of the fun even if she had other things to do on that day. So paying her a visit and having a sleepover there was a good idea; except for Mikuo and Kaito. I had personally kicked them out of the house. No boys allowed, mind you. Teto's parents are strict on that.
"You cheated!" Neru whined for the third time. Three loses, three whining.
"It's just one of my talents~" I beamed, puffing my chest.
"By the way, where's Rinny?" Teto asked as she sips her tea. "Will she join us?"
"I was planning on dragging her here but Ringo-san told me not to."
"She's rejecting an offer? That's new."
"Yeah, it was surprising."
"Well this is her we're talking about. I don't know what's up in her sleeve but it'll bound to be fun," Gumi joined. "I think I'll call her so she won't feel lonely."
I don't think she'll accept any comfort from you though, correction, from the two of us since we crossed the line in the festival. At least Rin didn't find out about the doujinshi that I drew or she'll literally roast me.
Hehe, yup, I drew one!
Really!
I mean it!
It was a summer festival so it wouldn't hurt to draw one!
Want to know what I draw? Hint, RinxLen. Mwhahaha *shot*
"Miku nosebleed for no reason…" I heard Gumi talking in her detective mode beside me.
"I have a reason!" I got up, wiping my blood.
"She resurrected…"
"Listen to me!"
"Anyway, lets call Rinny~" she ignored and began to make a call.
"Your number has been blocked for numerous reasons," the cell phone talked, "leave a message and you will again suffer what you did earlier."
Beep
Beep
Beep
"Then I'll be going to sleep…" Gumi shuddered and went hiding underneath her blanket.
"It's too early!" I shouted as I tried dragging her out of her hiding. "Wake up!"
"No way! I'm not going to experience that again!" her voice trembled; tears were at the corner of her eyes.
Looks like Rin gave her a permanent trauma…
"Sheesh, then I'll call her," I sighed and took out my cell phone.
"This is twice," the phone talked.
Beep
Beep
Beep
"Oyasuminasai~"
"Idiots," Neru stated with a blanked face.
"Then why don't you call her?" Gumi frowned after she sat up from her bed.
"Unlike you I already predicted that mine's blocked," Neru replied as she texting an alien as usual.
"Oh yeah? How did you know that?"
"I tried once."
"…"
"..."
"Um… how should I say this… cheer up?"
"Hey, mine's connected!" Teto grinned showing her just connected phone.
Gumi abruptly stood up and snatched the poor phone out of Teto's hand. "Hello Rin!"
"Can you make it loudspeaker?" I asked. Gumi nodded and switched the phone into loudspeaker mode so all of us could hear her voice.
"Where are you guys?" Rin asked on the other side of the line. Gumi may not hear it but there's a slight angered tone in Rin's voice. Someone had a bad day…
"In my house," Teto replied in her usual cheery self, "We're having a sleepover."
"WHAT? I wanna join too!"
"I did plan you to join but your mom said to leave you alone," I stated.
"My mom? Why'd she do that?"
"Don't know why but she was giggling when she informed us."
"Anyway, where are you now?" Gumi asked, "You're not in your house now are you?"
"…How do you know that?"
"Err… I just… knew! Yeah, that's right! It's like our mind is totally connected!"
"Apparently she installed a few surveillance cameras in your house," Neru smirked.
"Wait—"
"Hee… I'll make sure to say hello to your cameras once I found them…" Rin said with calm yet menacing tone.
"Forgive me princess! I shall never touch your lair again!" Gumi unconsciously bowed the phone in front of her which currently holds Rin's figure.
"So, where are you Rinny?" Teto asked curiously.
Rin sighed and answered, "My house is locked, thanks to my mother."
"Wait, then where are you staying now?"
Rin paused before she answered the question.
"… In Len's house… only for the night…"
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How should I put this…
Upon hearing those sentence…
Gumi died…
"Miku..." Gumi coughed out blood as I held her staggering hands.
"No… you can't leave me now!" I replied, experiencing for the first time seeing my friend near death state.
"Can you relay this information to Rin?"
"Anything!"
"Tell her… I want to be the godmother of her unborn child…"
"But— I've always wanted to fill that role—"
"Please…"
"… As you wish, you can rest in peace now."
"Oh and one more thing, tell Ringo-san she's a genius…" Thus she left, with a smile on her face.
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"Somehow, the atmosphere kinda crazy there…" Rin's voice came out of the phone.
"Really? I think its fun to watch," Teto giggled as she ate some popcorn that got out of nowhere at the sidelines.
"Same here," Neru joined as she took a picture of us, making it her wallpaper for the time being.
Rin POV
"WHY DID YOU TELL THEM?" Len yelled with redden face. Actually Len was beside me the whole time hearing our conversation. When I told them my current situation, Len suddenly went bright as tomato. Funny, how did he do that anyway?
"Err… cause they asked me?" I answered quizzically.
"THEY'LL TOTALLY MISUNDERSTAND US!"
"What did they misunderstand?" I asked with the same confused face. I have no idea what he's talking about.
Len halted after he processed my question in his brain, and began to calm down. Even his abnormal face pigment turned natural. "Umm… nothing."
"What's that suppose to mean," I threw him a narrow look but he just shrugged it off.
"I said nothing," he laughed lightly. "Anyway, it's getting dark. You should sleep."
"Treating me like a kid now are we?" I frowned. "We don't have school tomorrow so there's no reason to sleep early!"
"Didn't you say you're bad at staying up late?"
"No I didn't."
"Then read back chapter 10, it should be there."
"Tch," she mouthed. "Fine I'll sleep…" Len smiled in relief as I went straight to bed.
"Wait, where are you going?"
"Bed?"
"Whose bed?"
"Yours, who else?"
Uh oh, Len's having that tomato red face phenomenon again. Seriously how'd he do that?
"You'll be sleeping on your own bed!" he shouted with his voice all trembling, "There should be one around here somewhere." And so Len ran to the storage room leaving me here as confused as usual.
Wonder why he's that negative on both of us sharing a bed? I mean, we always share one in the past. Mom showed me the picture.
Minutes past but there's no sign of him coming out of the room. I was never good at waiting. So I took a stroll around the house to see if Len was hiding some stash of treasures.
Before I knew it, I was in front of his door which resides his room.
Not thinking twice, I went inside like it's my own. "Sorry for the intrusion…" I whispered just for self-satisfaction.
I trotted towards his closet and opened it curiously. There's nothing much here, just his everyday clothes and our male school uniform. Without the owner's consent, I took out his uniform and posed myself in front of his full-length mirror with the uniform pressed against my body.
I really do look like Len.
With that thought, I took off my prized white ribbon and tied my hair in ponytail with it. By releasing the clips that holds my bang together, it fell between my eyes. I mimicked Len's hairstyle and started messing with my hair.
Whoa, there's a certain someone's twin here.
I feel like laughing.
I always thought our similarities were just a mere coincidence.
Well it is, right?
"Zen zen tsukamenai, Kimi no Koto. Zen zen shiranai, kokoro wa ubareru koto."
I heard a sound coming from Len's desk. Stopping what I was doing, I followed the music which was then guided to Len's cell phone. Strangely speaking, the voice that sang the ringtone was actually pretty similar to my voice.
Heh, it's probably just me.
That Len… he mistakenly set the alarm 9PM, I reckon it's supposed to be 9AM. I guess his hatred on waking up early getting into him.
In the middle of pitying Len on his bad habits, I saw a silver key besides it.
Come to think of it there's on drawer in Len's desk I haven't opened yet. I once asked him what's inside but he shrugged my question as always.
Yup, I almost peeked inside all of his belongings.
I stared at the key with mischievous grin and tried opening the never once before seen drawer.
A book.
A yellow book with blanked cover was inside.
With full of curiosity, I opened it.
'Curiosity killed the cat'
My father often said that to me, though I took no attention to it. When I'm this curious, there'll be no one there to stop me - except for my mother when she's in Yandere mode.
March 27th
The book read.
Wait, this thing's a diary?
I saw a girl crying unnoticed. I don't know her nor I have seen her, but I wonder why I approached her. I asked the girl if she was okay, she didn't reply. I didn't know what to do. So I just sat beside her until she regains herself.
Somehow, I'm feeling kinda nostalgic. Why is that?
After half an hour, she stopped crying. I asked her again if she's okay. She looked at me with redden eyes. I was beginning to feel regret, until she nods her head and gave out a smile.
"Thank you," she mouthed. Just mouthed, I couldn't hear her voice. I wanted to ask something, like her name or where she schools or other trivial stuff a sixth year old kid would ask. But before I could, she ran away, smiling.
After that, I walked home feeling disappointed.
I was pretty stupid back there.
I fell in love with someone whose name was unknown to me.
Th— this is…
AWESOME!
Who knew Len had a crush! I thought he was pure but…
Hehehe…
Hohohoho
I, the great Rin-sama, had found another topic to tease Len~
"Hey Rin," Len's voice appeared in the room, "I sorted out your temporally bed— why are you grinning?"
"So Len~"
"What?" he asked. His face had the same expression when I asked him what did Miku and the others misunderstand about.
"I just found out you have a crush."
Len's face was again tomato red. For the last time, how'd he do that?
Wait… somehow I remembered my mother saying something about it… Blushing?
"H-H-H-H-HO-HO-HOW'D YOU KNOW THAT?"
"Err… your diary?" I held it out in front of him, although it was then got snatched from my hand.
"Did you read it?"
"Only day one though. Can I read the rest?"
"NO!"
"Bummer… oh well. So who's the lucky girl?"
"Wh-wha?"
"You know what I mean! The one you wrote in that diary of yours."
"Trust me, you don't want to know!"
"Please!"
Len stared at me with anxious face. Sweat drops from the side of his forehead. Before he replied, he swallowed.
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"You"
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Hohohoho *Shot*