The birds chirp outside, as Aika sits up from her bed, her blankets and covers, sliding off her shoulders, and exposing her to the shadow filled room, with only a sliver of light that had invaded through the gap between the dark curtains. 

Yawn

Aika raised her arms in a stretch, while yawning, and stood up from her bed, her full body finally exposed, in the nude, as the blanket that had once covered her beautiful, slender, and petite body, was pushed off, by her. She  stood up and picked up pieces of clothing that were on the floor, her long, light brown, and straight fluffy hair, getting in her way of her sight. She placed them on a chair as she got prepared to choose her uniform to wear today.

Aika glanced around the room, as she wanted to make sure she didn’t miss anything.

“Oh gosh…You have to be kidding me.” She muttered. She stared at the homework pages that were on her table, and sighed in annoyance and exasperation at herself. 

As she picked the papers up, she heard a knock on her door, her mother’s voice telling her to wake up.

“Aika, wake up! If you aren’t down, soon, I’m coming in and dragging you. I don’t care if your hair will become a mess if I do that.” Her mother’s voice that threatened to come in, caused a change in the girl’s morning calmness.

Aika panicked, wanting not to be seen naked, when she should have had clothes on. 

“I’ll be done soon! Just need to put some stuff away!”

Aika could hear her mother sigh in disappointment, and could hear what her next words were before she even said them.

“Aika, I wish that you would be as good as you are here, like you are at school. I don’t believe you. Plus you take way too much effort in making yourself look nice! School is for learning not dating!” 

Aika finished putting her clothes on by the time she heard her mother walk down the steps, into the kitchen. As Aika did her daily morning routine, she remembered what her mother had said, “You take way too much effort in making yourself look nice,” and sighed in annoyance. She was sure that her mother knew that she was trying to look nice for a certain someone, because she kept mentioning dating every time she spoke.

Aika finished and ate her breakfast before walking out the front door, and waving goodbye to her parents, and headed to go to school, where she was prepared to meet her friends and her soon to be boyfriend.

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Aika

Aika walked slowly, once she started to get near the gate, sneaking and trying her best to be quiet. Her eyes wandered, searching for a target, which was any of her friends. This continued for a while, even causing her to stop, and wait, just to see one of her friends. 

After a couple minutes of standing inconspicuously, to the side, she finally spotted her friends, Tomoka, and Shizuku, walking together with Hiro, and also searching for someone. “It’s probably me they’re searching for.” Aika thought to herself, as she tried to sneak behind them for a surprise. 

As she crept closer to them, she finally realized that the group was also getting closer to a pair of people, the first person was a tall boy, with dark hair, and a face that made any girl squeal with excitement, and made any guy say, “I wish I was him.” The second person was a tall girl, with dark, purple, narrow eyes, that pierced anything she looked at, and dark brown, straight hair that went a few inches past her shoulders.

“Hey.” The tall girl, said. Her name was Kuukyu Akeru. And she was dating the handsome boy, Takahashi. The pretty couple greeted the group while Aika approached, now normally. Aika stood next to Tomoka quietly as Takahashi started talking to Hiro and the others. 

Aika looked at Kuukyu and almost snickered at how perfect her name fit her. 

Sure she looked pretty, in a cold way, but her eyes also looked empty, and unbothered, like someone who didn’t care. 

“Does she even like him? I know they’re dating but I would be better, cause I would actually care about him.”

As Aika pondered that, Tomoka elbowed her silently and said, “I’m surprised that Shizuku hasn’t figured it out yet.”

Aika looked confused and whisper back, “What?” Tomoka glanced at Shizuku and turned her head back towards Aika and grinned while whispering, “We’re kinda late and you know that Shizuku is a crazy girl for being there on time.” 

Aika glanced at her phone and quickly realized, what she saw. She glanced quickly at Shizuku who was happily chatting away, until she looked at Aika and saw the time on her phone. Shizuku’s expression immediately changed and she started pushing everybody while saying, “Get to you class! We can’t be late!”

Aika and all the others looked at each other as they were bing pushed and ended up laughing. As they went to the building, they were almost the last ones to arrive. Aika glanced at everyone and her gaze landed on Takahashi’s face and she blushed. 

Except the moment was ruined by Kuukyu moving between them as she sped past them, her face unmoving and silent.

Aika stared at Kuukyu as she walked past.

“I wonder is the rumor is true.” She said aloud.

“What rumor?” Said Hiro

“The rumor that she’s a secret lesbian.”

Aika looked at Kuukyu and smirked when she saw her face change.

“Well, if she is, guess she won’t be dating Takahashi anymore. Meaning that he’ll be single, and I’ll have him to myself.”