CREDITS TO : UTA NO PRINCE SAMA

CHAPTER 6

Maybe it sounded pathetic, dramatic and disgusting but...

The truth was Tokiya lied to Haruka about being late. In fact, he had at least two hours before his flight.

Yet, he chose to wait like an idiot in the middle of this public place, with his status as a celebrity and risky disguise because he did not feel like staying in the dorm for too long.

Not after he knew that his teammates were enthusiastic to win Haruka's heart.

Even he did not show any interest to join them but he also felt the pressure.

So, to cool off his mind as well as giving himself a rest, he decided to take a break abroad.

He hoped after the vacation, even he received news like;

1. Haruka chose Otoya and they were already engaged.

2. Haruka chose Masato but their relationship was opposed by the blue head's father.

3. Haruka chose Ren but they immediately broke up because Ren was still a womanizer...

Those news would not hurt him.

After a few minutes, he already felt bored stiff as he could not use his smartphone to kill the time (another 'wise' act since he did not want anybody to contact him just to inform that Haruka already chose someone). A perfectionist like him absolutely hated this kind of time-consuming situation without doing anything beneficial.

"Ichinose-san!"

Tokiya jumped a bit, nervously looking around for the voice who rashly called him out when he was in a desperate disguise. Right in front of him, the girl of his dream ran towards him, making him spontaneously stood up from his seat out of shock.

"Na... Nanami-san?" he rubbed his eyes as an attempt to stop his brain from hallucinating about Haruka but to no avail. Instead, the image of her became clearer and larger....

Before stopping herself from bumping into him.

"Ichi.. Ichinose-san... Thank God, I found you," the petite girl struggled to catch her breath.

"Nanami-san, why are you here?"

"I am.. I am looking for you, Ichinose-san."

"Why?"

"Why did you switch off your phone?"

"Well, I..."

"I want to tell you something, Ichinose-san..." he could see the determination from the golden eyes.

But for what, though?

"Nanami-san, my flight.."

"Don't lie to me!" she suddenly shouted as an ultra frustration empowered her. "Ittoki-kun told me that your flight still has two hours to go."

"Ehh? Well..." Tokiya could not give any wiser excuse as his mind was busy cursing his roommate for being such a big mouth. "Well, back to our topic, what do you..."

"I don't want you to go to Australia... If you still want to do so, you must take me as well..."

What the...

"Nanami san, I only bought one ticket and I believe all the tickets have being sold out..." he tried to come up with an excuse but..

"We can go tomorrow!" she totally could not accept any such from him. "Or next day or whenever but you can't go without me!"

"But why!?" Tokiya asked, hoping that when he shouted, it would not fall on deaf ears again. Haruka's randomness was so random and his brain could not manage to absorb it all. "Why all of sudden..."

"Ichinose-san..." she approached him before cupping his face, "After all this time, you do love me, right? Your confession just now... it was sincere, right?"

Damn! My big mouth! He totally forgot that he already confessed to Haruka.

"You know what, Ichinose-san? After the confession, you should wait for my answer first because...." she inhaled deeply before throwing out words that almost made Tokiya passed out."To tell you the truth, when you asked me those questions in order to help me, it is only you that keeps appearing in my mind."

"Excuse me?"

"All those questions... untill the last question, my head keeps thinking about you. My heart beats faster when you are around so what else does it mean, Ichinose-san?"

"How should I know? That's your head and heart... Why do you ask me..."

Haruka sighed in frustration. This guy could be stupid sometimes. But, it was not his fault, though. If he quickly got that he was the one who stole her heart, it sounded like he was full of himself.

"I love you, Ichinose-san. want to be the partner of your life. I want to be your Miss Ichinose, Ichinose Tokiya!"

Tokiya's blue eyes widened while staring at hers. He continued to be like that for a while until it managed to draw the composer's concern.

"Ichinose-san, are you alright?" Haruka patted his cheek softly.

"I.. I am okay. It just that.." he finally could talk. "Nanami-san, everyone is looking at us."

That was when she remembered that she just confessed to an insanely popular idol with a huge fan base. Tokiya's undercover was perfect but ruined by Haruka's loud and dramatic voice.

And that was when she cursed herself for being too moronic. People started to snap pictures of the couple. They even formed a circle around them, much to Haruka and Tokiya's panic.

"Emm... I..." her mind totally went blank before a big hand grabbed hers.

"Follow me."

Cecil : Our fan pages are going crazy! Kaichou is looking for you, Tokiya!

Masato : Ichinose, for someone who is secretive about his personal life, you sure made a good controversy for yourself. But, still, congratulations, though..

Otoya : Tokiya, congratulations for being the one who can go out with Nanami! *insert grinning emoticon ! But where are you? Do you still go to Australia? *insert wondering emoticon

Syo : Oi! You better take an insanely good care of her. If you make her cry, you will be a dead meat! *insert four skulls-typed emoticons

Natsuki : Tokiya-kun, congratulations! I can't believe you also confessed to Haru-chan! You are so cool,Tokiya-kun! *insert emoticion with love- shaped eyes.

Ren : Icchi *insert sighing emoticon, you should tell me from the start that you also love Little Lamb. I always ready to give you good 'advices' though..

Tokiya frowned at the messages from his teammates before putting his handphone into his jeans pocket. Nevertheless, he still felt grateful because they were being such supportive friends.

"So, where are we?" Tokiya smiled as he turned his attention to Haruka. She seemed lost and not bold like before.

After successfully escaping from Tokiya's fans, they quickly found a taxi and went back to the dorm. To avoid others from coming across them, they decided to sit together in a gazebo.

"I... to be honest, I..." her hands started shaking like crazy.

To her surprise, he held her hand before squeezing it gently.

"It's okay. Now, there is no one here. I will be the only one who listen to whatever you want to tell me.."

"But I think it's much more embarrassing when there are just two of us.." Haruka did not even have guts to look straight into the blue eyes. She just felt nervous.

"Oh yeah? Why?"

"Because there are two of us..."

"And?"

"Because it's you."

"Because I was Hayato? Or by chance, do you still see me as Hayato instead of Tokiya?"

"No, I am not!" the girl spontaneously shouted before eventually looking straight into the blue orbs. "Just like how I used to say back then in the island, no matter you are Ichinose Tokiya or Hayato, you are the reason why I love music. You are my inspiration and you are the one who made me into who I am right now. But, that's not my point. Rather than being stuck in your fandom, I want to be someone who will share everything with you including my past, my present and my future because... I love you, Ichinose san!"

They remained silent for God knows how long. The one who was supposed to give response alias Tokiya was just in a pause mode.

"Can you repeat it?" he cupped her tiny face while smiling delightedly. "I just want to make sure that my brain did not misinterpret..."

"I love you," Haruka responded by stroking his blue hair. "I may sound dense but I love you since a long time ago but I always misinterpreted my feeling as an admiration due to you being Hayato. But just now, when you comforted me, you gave me your jacket, you walked away from me, your confession.. not to mention your questions just now.. every single thing about you made my heart skip a beat. I just don't want you to leave me..."

"That's.. perhaps you also want to go to Australia. You should say that from the start."

"No, I don't mean like that!" Haruka pouted, bringing laughter to the idol. Now she knew how frustrating it was when you had to deal with someone dense.

Now she could relate to other STARISH members who also said that she was dense (particularly Cecil, Syo and Ren) just about an hour ago because she was so oblivious with affections that all of them expressed to her including Tokiya....

"Okay, okay. I am sorry. I am just joking," his cheeky expression suddenly turned loving and it melted her heart. "I am just so surprised and happy to hear your confession, Nanami-san. Only God knows how much I wait for this moment to happen... the moment when you finally reciprocate my feeling to you. You know what? All those questions that I asked you just now... it's actually what I feel about you.. all this time."

"Se..seriously?" her heart fluttered so much upon knowing the truth. She could feel that her love to him grew more and more.

"Yes," he stroked her silky hair while his eyes never left hers. "You are that someone who I can't help but particularly have my eyes on. Everytime I see you, your presence alone is enough to make me think that no matter how hard the problems I will go through, I have this confidence that I can surpass it. I really want to make you mine. I don't want to lose you to somebody else but at the same time, I feel like, Nanami Haruka.. I don't deserve her. She deserves somebody better than me.. I am nothing compared to her.. So I must prioritize her happiness over my happiness. And to make her smiles, I will do anything for her even though it means giving up on her."

Haruka never thought that she would fall for Tokiya this much.

"But now..." He kissed both her cheeks before embracing her tightly as he could not surpress his feeling anymore, making the girl a bit shocked with his sudden affection when in fact, he is the symbol of a stoic with lack of skinship among STARISH members.

Well, he is the type of guy who shows his true and loving side to someone who is meant to stay by his side as his family so it did make sense when Haruka was the only one who could see this side of him.

"Ichinose-san, I don't know that you are someone who can initiate a skinship like this," she muffled as she was pulled closer to his chest.

"Only with you and it is because I love you, Nanami-san. I swear, after this, I will be the best man for you. I will protect you and I will even sacrifice my life for you if the situation asks for it.. Thank you, Nanami-san. Thank you for loving me back."

He fulfilled his promise after all. Tokiya never lied to me, Haruka smiled bitterly while staring at Tokiya who was now queueing to buy some foods for his lunch while recalling their precious memory. Compared to the moment when he officially became her boyfriend, Tokiya currently looked much colder and scarier. You never guessed that this antisocial lad actually could be loving and sweet to his wife to the point of protecting her from being killed.

From the way he looked so aloof with everyone who tried to talk to him either because they were besotted with his good look or because he is so-called Hayato's twin brother, Haruka could tell that he had so much troubles to burden all by himsef to even bother to entertain any of them.

And the troubles included his packed schedule, his unstable constitution, his stress to put up with his persona a.k.a Hayato, his long-lasting family conflicts and many more.

To make those fangirls giving up, Tokiya focused on reading an English novel while waiting for his turn before his eyes served the sight of a letter in the book. He took it up to his eye level while staring at it in disbelief.

Oh my God! He is reading the letter! Haruka blushed even redder. Since last week, she sneaked a letter to Tokiya. She normally put it under his table or in his locker but this time around, she knew the moment he read the English novel, it meant Tokiya or Hayato would play a role from the movie version of the novel so she just wanted to cheer him up. She wanted him to know that there was someone out there who would support him.

Ne, Tokiya. I already met the 17 years old version of you. I could not control my excitement so I hugged and kissed your cheek in the midst of everyone.We almost got expelled by the principal. I know I should behave but I miss you so much. I am so glad because I can touch you again, her heart whispered in melancholy when suddenly someone tapped her arm.

It was Tomochika. Haruka instantly blushed as she realized she was caught red-handed.

That was rude, Haruka! You have these loyal friends around you but all you did was staring at the guy who did not even bother to look at you. Now, time to avert your gaze, she slowly turned her body so that she could face them.

"Nanami, I know you miss him but it willl be better if you don't make it too obvious," Syo reminded her, seriously.

"Eh?"

"His crazy fangirls, Nakamura and her friends just stared at you like they are going to strangle you, you know. I think they realize about your attention to Tokiya especially since the day you hugged him," Otoya continued as worries all written over his face. His red eyes glanced at the said trio who also queued to grab some foods.

Nakamura Yuna, Tanaka Naomi and Ashu Mizuki. The trio from A Class apparently had a huge crush on Tokiya and had a habit of glaring any girls who boldly approached the cold guy.

"Well, Lady, I hate to say this, but I had eavesdropped on some group of girls or to be particular, the A Class trio and sadly, they all talked bad about you. Saying something like you are a slut or something..." Ren's words were cut by an unexpectedly strong slam from a pairs of petite hands on the table.

"Wait, that's not fair! Why do they behave in such cliched way like in some shoujo anime? Who do they think they are to glare at me just because I stared at someone who could never be theirs? He is mine to begin with!" as she got emotional with the thought of those fangirls who acted like some skanks, claiming that her husband was theirs, an awkward and downright silence surrounded the cafetaria as her voice volume got louder.

To make it worse, Haruka's finger was pointing straight to Tokiya, who like the others, was gobsmacked.

"Nanami, I know you want to try to act but that's not the right way to express your emotion," Masato quickly covered for her before kicking Syo's leg who sat right beside him.

"Auch! Hijirikawa, what do you think you are... Eh? I mean, y..yes, Hijirikawa is right. You are supposed to be more aggressive because you play a role as someone whose boyfriend was stolen so you need to be like hell hath no fury," Syo winced in pain while letting out any random lines so that he could cover for the dense Haruka.

"Or if you read between the lines, you should imitate Ochibi-chan since he acts so grumpy all the time," Ren successfully gave a final shot as Syo quickly snapped at him, causing the other students now paid attention to Ren and Syo's petty fight.

Haruka slowly returned to her seat while mentally cursing herself. Why could not she behave when it comes to Tokiya?

She did not realize that she was stared intently by somebody with a pair of blue eyes. 

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