Chapter 15 (Miki)
"Ah, Aria, welcome ba-CHEESECAKE!"
Miki could not help it. Her cheesecake senses were tingling. It did not take a genius to know the celeste-haired teen was amused by her greeting (her blue-haired fiancé stood by the door in what looked like shock), but Miki did not care. Aria had cheesecake. That in itself was enough to make the brunette forgo greeting her roommate like a sane person and transform into an excited puppy.
"Yes, cheesecake," Aria agreed amicably, patting her head as she placed the box containing said cheesecake on the table. She had a feeling that, had she a tail, it'd be wagging. At light speed. With sparkles. Lots of sparkles.
As it was, though, Miki waved at the blue-haired teen (he waved numbly back; he probably was not used to her type of people, despite having two of them in his own group) and grinned at Aria. "What type is it-CLASSIC NEW YORK CHEESECAKE!" squealed the hyper brunette, hugging Aria in her joy when she opened the box to reveal the cheesecake in all its cheesecake-y glory to her. The elder female made obvious effort in not laughing in her face, but was giggling at her antics all the same.
"Don't you just love me now?" she teased, and Miki looked up with a huge grin on her face.
"I loved you, but my love for you has tripled," she intoned solemnly, but her grin made Aria lose whatever delicate control over her laughter she had left. Out of the corner of her eye, Miki saw Hijirikawa Masato's bewildered expression soften into a smile as he watched his fiancée laugh.
"I'm assuming things are okay again between you two," Miki said seriously, looking back and forth between her roommate and the Starish idol. Aria stopped laughing - though she was still smiling, and the latter looked confused. "If things are not okay, then make it so it's okay. Otherwise, I know a lot of empty broom closets and classrooms I can lock the two of you in." Cue sage nod.
"Oh you do, do you?" Aria queried mischievously, shooting the younger girl one of her famed eyebrow arches. Miki grinned back equally as mischievously.
"You're talking to the originator of the 'haunted'-" cue quote-y fingers "-classrooms rumor. Of course I know them."
There was a moment of silence as the two elder teens processed her words, and Miki nibbled on her slice of cheesecake. "Ah," intoned the male, "so that's where Shinomiya and Kurusu have been disappearing to."
"They come to watch me sometimes, yes," Miki agreed. "Oikawa Miki, haunted classrooms rumor-spreading extraordinaire, at your service," she introduced herself with a flourish, bowing dramatically - though the plastic fork in her hand ruined the effect somewhat (Aria was laughing a lot at her today).
"Hijirikawa Masato," he responded in kind. Miki pouted at the lack of dramatic flair from the elder male, but nodded in response. It was then she noticed the package he had tucked between his arm and body.
"Aria, is that package-thinger-majingy yours?" she asked. Frankly, she was just guessing, but...
"Well...yes," Aria voiced, wondering how her roommate could tell. Miki grinned, amused that her guess was right.
"I has awesome 'Synchro' pawaas!" she cried. Briefly, she wondered if anyone caught her 'Prince of Tennis' reference, but decided not to voice it. Hijirikawa-san looked amused - though whether or not he caught her reference remains to be seen. Aria did a little skip-hop thing towards her fiancé, retrieving her package and smiling at the blue-haired teen sweetly.
"See you for lunch tomorrow," Aria told him, and the blue-hair nodded to her and Miki before taking his leave.
"...well, meep," went Miki, and Aria spared her another amused glance. Miki grinned. "I'm going to finish this cheesecake, and then I'll go spread more rumors of haunted classrooms," she told her roommate, who had sat down after closing the door and just started on her own slice of cheesecake. "Care to join me?"
Aria paused mid-bite, as if pondering her suggestion, before her expression took on a "ah, what the heck" quality and nodded her agreement. Miki giggled, clapping her hands, and set to packing her laptop (she had the machine open in search of inspiration to complete her set of homework) in between bites before the celeste-haired teen's amused gaze.
Soon enough, the two cleared the cheesecake and the boxes, and Miki took the elder teen by the hand and proceeded to skip gaily down the school's many hallways in a manner that had Aria's shoulders shaking from the effort to stop her laughter ("Why're you laughing at me so much today?" Miki had asked, and Aria did not reply - she was that busy laughing). Spotting her 'to haunt' classroom of the day, she went into it and cheerfully closed the door behind Aria.
"So... is this where you'd lock Masato and I in if we hadn't made up?" Aria asked as she surveyed the classroom, watching Miki tinker with her gadgets happily out of the corner of her eye. Miki looked up as she logged onto the internet, and then onto Skype.
She hummed in mock-thought. "I'm afraid not," she said, her tone ridiculously professional as she clicked the 'call' icon under Saeki's name. "This classroom is too... open... for your more lemon-like activities."
"Wow, I pick up the call and I see my sister talking to a hot chick about lemon-like activities. Wow."
"Nii-san!" Miki chirped happily - a complete 360 change from her serious tone. She blinked, staring hard at the webcam feed on-screen. "You dyed your hair blonde, nii-san?"
"I get mistaken as 'tou-san too much lately," he told her, running his hand through his previously-black locks. "I don't look that old, do I?"
Miki hummed in mock thought. "Ye~ap, you do!" she said, and Saeki frowned at her. He started mumbling nonsense, but stopped when Aria showed up on his webcam feed.
"Ooooo~" went Saeki, and Miki burst out laughing. "Is a hot chick!"
Aria raised an eyebrow. "For a moment there, I thought you would say the same thing Miki here did. Guess it proves you're a guy."
"I'm a healthy man, thank you very much," Saeki answered, inclining his head in a mock-bow. "Oikawa Saeki, at your service. My thanks for giving my dear sister cheesecake."
"How'd you know I had cheesecake?" Miki whined, and Saeki grinned.
"You have different 'happy' patterns, sister dearest," he told her. "There's the 'I'm high on oxygen' happy, the 'I just bullied Syo-chan' happy, 'Someone's gonna get served' happy... this one in particular is the 'I had cheesecake' happy."
"Lies," Miki said, pouting, though Aria looked thoughtful. Saeki's grin grew.
"I do so believe Miss Hot Chick concurs with me," he said, "isn't that right, Miss Hot Chick?"
"Name's Ichijo Aria," Aria told him with an amused smile, "and yes, I do concur. But how did you know I was the one who gave her cheesecake? She could've easily gotten it herself."
There was a laugh. "I didn't, but thank you for confirming it for me," he said, and Miki pouted.
"Let's just play already. You said that custom map was awesome, so I downloaded it."
"Yes, yes," came the amused response. Half an hour later, Aria wished she brought earplugs - what Miki had told her the first week they were in school was not a lie. The Oikawa siblings had a really good set of lungs - hearing the cries of "BARRELS" and "SENORITAS EVERYWHERE" first-hand was really... she had no words for it.
"Wait, why can't I do anything?"
"Wait for it, Miki, wait for it."
"But no, seriously, is the map buggy? And 'Jaws' reference? Really?"
A laugh. "Just wait for it."
Aria watched in amazement as Miki let out a high-pitched, but amused, scream as whatever monster appeared and the younger teen controlled her character in-game to run away - she never thought it was possible with how deep and rich her singing voice was.
"Nooooo I don't wanna be raaaapeeeed!" Miki yelled, laughing insanely. The celeste-haired teen moved closer and saw, to her amusement, that the monster had taken on a particular form.
"Pedo-bear?" she choked out, laughing. Over the speakers, the two girls heard Saeki laugh.
"Awesome, isn't it?"
"I really don't wanna be raped!" Miki yelled in response, laughing. "Oh! Oh damn, I died."
"At least you weren't raped?" Aria offered. Miki giggled.
Yup, she and her roommate were getting along fiiiine.
Author's Note: So Miki gets high on cheesecake? Lol, the real-life Miki actually does too, which has made for a lot of fun conversations in the past involving cheesecakes. Don't ask people. Again, hail the Pewdiepie reference, we don't own.
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