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PART 3
*Tsuruga Ren's apartment continuation*
Kyoko woke up feeling really warm and safe. She couldn't remember when was the last time she felt so relaxed. She sighed with happiness and nuzzled closer to the warmth that was holding her. Holding? This thought run through her head for few minutes. Ah right I'm in Tsuruga-san's bed. She blushed at the thought. I mean Setsu is in Cain's bed. She corrected her thought. With a sigh she opened her eyes and tried to break free from his hold. But is wasn't an easy job.
"Nii-san!" She whined. "I need to make breakfast." No reaction from a big men holding her in his arms. "Nii-san if you won't let me go I'm going to kiss you." She said with a Setsu smirk on her face. She put her hand on his cheek and rubbed it slightly. "Come on Nii-San! I'm not kidding." She pouted, while closing a distance between their lips. Open your eyes! Open your eyes! Please open your eyes! Kyoko chanted in her head. Or maybe no… Just when her lips were mere centimeter away from his, he opened his eyes.
"What are you doing, Setsu?" He asked groggily. She narrowed her eyes. Not knowing if she was disappointed or relieved, she took her pillow and threw it on his face. Making him confused. To hide her embarrassment she jumped out of bed.
"It's your fault, Nii-san! You wouldn't wake up and I got trapped! Put clothes on yourself while I make breakfast!" She huffed at him and left the room. Leaving a confused men with messy hair and a big smile on his face.
Kyoko stood in the kitchen with her heart frightening her to beat out of her chest. I almost kissed him! Am I an idiot! What would Corn think! Kyoko thought with furrowed brows. But I was Setsu... A small voice at the back of her head tried to excuse her actions. It's no good. I can't do it. I need to get away from him. Tears frightened to fall. Get a hold of yourself Kyoko! Act as Setsu till you'll get separated and then go back to avoiding him! She took few deep breaths to relax herself and prepare to go back to act as Setse.
After they ate breakfast and she made a bentos for herself, Tsuruga-san, Yashiro-san and Moko-san they left his apartment to head to LME. Ren was happy the whole day, not knowing that his cute kohai decided to avoid him for good.
1 week later
*LME*
Kyoko did a good job with avoiding her senpai. She didn't see him after they played Setsu and Cain in his apartment. Partially she was happy with herself but bigger part of herself was sad at the thought of not seeing him for so long. He tried to call her many times. Sometimes she would just not pick up and than call him back when she knew that he had work and couldn't talk. She knew it wasn't a proper action for a kohai but it wasn't appropriate to fall in love with a senpai as well. First she had to deal with her feelings and then she'll apologize properly to her senpai. Sometimes she would pick up his call, just not to be overly rude, and make excuses why she can't go over to his place, or to meet with him to taste a food they've never had before.
The truth was that she didn't really have to lie. She didn't have much free time. President told the 3 love me girls that each one of them have to prepare 2 happy, love songs till the end of this week. So they had only four more days left. And all Kyoko could think of was a sad, unrequited love songs. And she dreaded of the time when she finds out what President wants to do with this songs. She just knew that she won't like it.
She was heading to the music room, where she was about to meet with Moko-san and Chiori-san. Who were stuck with their writing as well. Moko being too engaged with her work didn't want to think about something as useless as love. While Chiori wasn't interested in love particularly. She liked to think of herself as free spirit. I don't even want to think what that means! Every evening they were meeting in a music room and were sitting and thinking of what to write. Only when Kyoko had to appear as Boo in Kimagure Rock they would meet before, talk a little bit and she would head over to TBM Studio. And that's what she would do today.
"Moko-san! Chiori-san!" She opened doors to the room, eager to see her friends.
"Mo! Can't you be quiet at least once in your life!" Kanae said with annoyance written all over her face.
"Hi, Kyoko-chan. How is your writing going?" Asked Chiori a little bit happy to see her friend. "Kanae-san and I can't think of anything. Maybe you have it better?" Chiori hopped that maybe Kyoko could help them. But then she's a number 1 love me member.
"Sorry Chiori-san but I'm stuck as well." She didn't want to tell her friends that all she could think of were depressing songs. Or songs about her not so happy past, from which she moved already. Or at least she hopped she did. Which she secretly wrote. She tried to write happy or filled with love songs, while thinking of Corn but then she felt guilty. After what has happened in Tsuruga-san's apartment she couldn't stop feeling this way, like she was betraying Corn. "And I don't have so much time today Chiori-san. I have to go to TBM Studio in few minutes." She said a little bit dejected. She loved to act as Boo but she really didn't have time for it at the moment. She had to write a song and yet she didn't have an inspiration at all. She sighed and sat next to her friends.
"Ok! So let's ask ourselves a question." Said Chiori suddenly. The other love me girls looked at her with a start. "What do we think of love?" Both of them looked at her with confusion.
"What do you mean?" Asked Kanae. Not being happy that Chiori interrupted in her thinking.
"Well, we are suppose to write love songs right? But honestly I don't think we know what love really is." Kyoko and Kanae nodded at that, still not understanding what Chiori means. "So I'm asking what do you think of love? I think that it's unnecessary and it makes you distracted." They both nodded and agreed with her. "But then president thinks it's one of the most important emotions." They nodded again. "So what if we stop thinking like that for the time when we have to write this songs?" Now they frowned.
"Mo, I don't think I follow your thinking, Chiori." Said Kanae. Kyoko just nodded at that. She didn't understand what Chiori meant by that as well.
"What I mean is that if we want to please president with our songs we can't think of this emotion as a burden."
"But it is a burden." Said unpleasant Kyoko. Kanae agreed with her on that.
"Well yes, I agree with you, Kyoko-chan. But if we'll continue thinking like that, we won't be able to write this songs." She sighed and continued. "Beside in every emotion should be negativity and positivity. So let's forget about negative side and think of positive side." She finished.
"Mo, I don't want to admit it but I believe that Chiori is right, Kyoko." Kyoko contemplated what her friend has said.
"So in positive light, what do you think of love?" Asked Kyoko no one particularly with a frown on her face. Kanae and Chiori looked at themselves and just shrugged.
"Being in love makes you happy?" Tried Chiori. They both nodded, so she decided to write it on a paper.
"When you're thinking about that person you want to smile and worry about him." Kyoko added and fought with a blush that wanted to appear on her face. Chiori nodded and added smile and worry to the list. Then both looked at Kanae.
"You can't stop thinking about him? You forget about everything and he's the only one occupying your mind? And that's why you can't focus on your work properly?" She added. All three of them nodded at that.
"Ok, I agree, but I'll just write all the time thinking about him. Can we think of anything else?" Chiori looked at Kyoko and Kanae.
"But is it positive?" Asked Kyoko.
"Well for president probably yes." Kanae and Chiori answers at the same time. At that Kyoko just nodds.
"We have emotions, not many of them but it's a start. We can think of some other later. How about physical part of love?" Asked Chiori. Kyoko blushed at that, while Kanae thought about it. "I don't mean sex, although it is part of love."
"Chiori-san!" Shouted embarrassed Kyoko. I know that not every girl waits for a wedding to cross that line but to be so open?!
"Mo, Chiori she's too naive and too innocent for that!" Kyoko's eyes widened with shock and she just looked at Kanae with open mouth. While Chiori smiled apologetically at her.
"Sorry, Kyoko-chan. I didn't mean to scare you with it."
"Mo, don't apologize to her! Being an actress she will have to deal with it at some point." Kyoko blushed at that.
"Moko-san… Chiori-san… Ymmm…" She blushed even more.
"Mo, what is it, Kyoko!"
"Sorry Moko-san! Does this mean that you… Ymm had sex already?" The second part of her question she whispered with a red face. Chiori and Kanae looked at her and blinked few times.
"I didn't do it yet, Kyoko." Kanae answered honestly. "But I was thinking about it." Kyoko gasped at that. And Chiori just nodded.
"I didn't do it either." Chiori decided. "Just some heavy patting. But I have my fantasies." She laughed at that.
"Beside it's just physical and it's safer then to get involved emotionally." Kyoko looked at Kanae.
"But! Moko! Chiori! What about love? Feelings? Wouldn't it be wrong? I'm not talking about marriage but wouldn't it be wrong towards yourselves if you did it with someone you don't feel attachment, trust… love?" She didn't really understand them. Or what they were really saying.
"Says the number one of love me section." Chiori joked. But after that they sat in silence for few minutes. Thinking of what they just said. But Kanae decided to break it.
"But then Kyoko-chan can you tell me what is love?" Kanae asked sadly. Chiori looked at Kyoko wanting to know the answer for this question as well. Kyoko's eyes widened. But wanting to help her friends she answered honestly.
"It can be painful. But even when it is you just can't help but to be happy. It's even worse when you know that he worries about you and yet you know that you're not the one he thinks about or love." She said sadly. The two listening love me girls had frowns on their faces. "Love is when you're counting the steps he's taking away from you and your heart screams for him to turn around and look at you just one more time." She put her foots on a chair and her chin on her knees. She looked nowhere in particularly. "It's when he smiles at you and you just forget how to breath. Love is when you just want him to be happy even if you will have to pay with your own. Love is selfless. It's when you want to please him. When he praises you. Love can be kind but cruel as well." She finished. She couldn't face her friends and she just looked on the ground. After few minutes of being quite Kanae spoke first.
"If this is love, then I've never felt it before."
"But the way you described it, Kyoko-chan, it doesn't sound so bad." Answered Chiori and Kanae just nodded at that. Kyoko looked shocked at her friends.
"You really never fall in love, Moko-san, Chiori-san?" They both just shook their heads. "I see." She looked on a ground. Suddenly Chiori stood up with a smile on her face.
"You know what? I have an idea." She looked excited. "Let's set blind dates after we write this songs." Kanae frowned at that.
"What?!" Kyoko screamed.
"I'm not saying to fall in love but after this talk and Kyoko's speech I just feel like we're not moving forward." She looked at Kyoko and the at Kanae. "We're just saying that love is useless and bothersome but only Kyoko-chan can really say something like that. She is the only one who has experience in this aspect. But don't you want to move forward, Kyoko-chan?" She asked her and while she wanted to say something like: I don't want to go on a date! I don't want to get hurt again! She couldn't do it. Because she really wanted to move on. So she just nodded. Chiori smiled at that. "So me and Kanae will choose a date for Kyoko-chan. While me and Kyoko will choose a date for Kanae. And Kyoko and Kanae will choose a date for me." She finished with a smile on her face. Kanae smiled as well.
"Well it can be fun. And it can be a good experience. But don't you think we should do it faster? Maybe it could help us with writing songs?" Chiori thought about it.
"But do you think we will find blind dates so fast?" Kyoko's eyes sparkled at that. She went to Kanae. And whispered something to her ear. Kanae just laughed.
"Don't worry about it! I'm sure we'll find some willing guys." She said with a smirk. Kyoko looked at the watch and her eyes widened.
"I have to go girls! See you! I let you know later today Moko-san!" And she was out of the door.
"You are the one who's going to contact Tsuruga-san or should I do it?" Asked Kanae. Chiori just laughed.
"You do it. So what did she tell you?" Kanae smirked.
"You'll going to find out."
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I really wanted to put Kanae and Chiori into this story! :) Let me know who should be Chiori's and Kanae's blind date. I have someone in mind but I would love to hear some suggestions!
I thought I know how I want to end this story but somehow the idea just come to my head and maybe it will end a little bit different haha we'll see! If you have some ideas or want to see someone in it than let me know! I'm open for suggestions!