Chapter 29;

"I have an idea." I said while the group and I were eating lunch at our usual table the next day.

"An idea for what?" Nishina asked.

Luckily, Kae went to the girls toilet, so I could form the plan.

But Nana was missing.

"For Kae to get thin again." I said.

Nishina huffed.
"Oh great, another person on the guy's side."

"No, I'm only doing this because Kae wants to become thin again."

I looked at the group.
"Well, are you ready for this?"

I smiled and rubbed my hands together.
"The plan is that you guy---"

Out of nowhere, Nana ran to the table and flashed a piece of paper in front of our faces.

"I got it! Since Kae is a fujojojo-something---"

"A fujoshi." Nishina cut him off and crossed her arms.

"Yeah, anyways...we can do this plan to let her do obstacles and in return she sees us guys hug each other and other stuff!"

My mouth dropped open.
He just stole my idea!

"Hm, that is a pretty good plan." Mutsumi said.

Suddenly all heads snapped to me.
"Ayano-chan, what was your plan?"

My eye twitched, it's stolen.
"Nothing, nevermind." I said.

When Kae came back and saw the group's smiling faces, and my gloomy one, she tilted her head.

"Uh, what happened?"

I closed my eyes.
"Someone stole something from me, that's what happened."

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I started laughing when Igarashi had to kiss Nana because of an addition Nishina made.

Kae was thin again.
And the sparkles were back.

I held my head.
Why do I see sparkles and bright lights around her? Is she an alien? Because I'm positive I don't do drugs.

I stopped for a second and sniffed the coffee I had in my hands.
Yep, no drugs.

"Ayano?" Kae called out.

"Hm?"

"Why are you sniffing your coffee?"

I blinked, suddenly Nishina was right in front of me.
"How did you even get that coffee!?"

I stared at it.
I honestly don't remember, it's like it magically appeared in my hand.

I shrugged.
"Eh who knows and who cares?"

I dropped it in a nearby trash can and grabbed my bag, ready to head home.

But suddenly Mutsumi stopped me.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

He closed his eyes and pointed at Kae.
"We need to practice for the competition, with the rest of the club." He answered.

My eyes widened.
The competition! I forgot all about it.

"Do we really need to go?" I asked.

He nodded.
"It's already in a few months, before we know it, it would finally be the day."

"Why do we need to ride a train?"

Kae ran over here.
"Because every school joining should train in the same venue to avoid any cheating tactics!"

I blinked.
That's stupid...

Mutsumi sighed.
"We'll get seperate venues, same place but not the same room." He clarified.

"Oh."

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The train was too overcrowded, I bet I turned into a sardine now.

"Are you two okay?" Mutsumi asked.

"We're fine." Kae and I answered in sync.

Lies.
I said in my head.

Kae was in the same state as me, squished.

But it was either this train or wait another three hours just to be in this same situation.

Yeah, no thanks.

When the train stopped I wanted to cry, not because of joy, not because I could finally get out.

But because people were stepping on my foot, not even after a millisecond, there would be someone stepping on my foot.

I swear, one person was even wearing a metal boot.

A. Metal. Boot.

Who the hell wears that?

I looked at my feet.
....Rest in peace my friend.

"Are you okay?" Mutsumi asked.

I smiled.
"Yeah."

"Don't lie, Ayano-chan." Kae said looking at my feet
My eyes followed hers and I realized my feet were bleeding.

I would kill that guy in the metal boot.
I swear.

Mutsumi slung my arms over his shoulder.

"Just hold on to me, we'll treat it once where out of here."

Slowly and steadily, we were finally out, and we were now sitting on a bench.

Well, I was, Kae and Mutsumi looked around to see if there was a place to buy bandages.

I looked behind them and saw the rest of the Japanese history club using their phones and talking to each other, some were even reading books.

Others were strolling around.

"We'll be back." Mutsumi said as Kae and him went around.

I just sat on the bench when suddenly a paper airplane hit my head.
But for some reason it was wet.

I looked at it, there was some sort of red liquid on it, I smelled it.

It was blood.
But not my blood.

I was now afraid to open it,  ever since I was younger I had a habit of opening up paper airplanes when it hits me.

But now I could make an exception.
But being me, I held it in my hands and slowly started to open it.

Curiosity getting the best of me.

I silently prayed that there was no words inside it, that it was just blank.

But there were words.
And those words struck fear in me.
There were five phrases.

"WE'RE WATCHING YOU."

My eyes wandered to the next.

"LET'S PLAY A LITTLE GAME!"

What..Kind of game?

"THE LOSER DIES...SO YOU'RE GONNA BE  NEXT I NEVER LOSE!"

I frowned, my heart suddenly beating faster, it was hard to breathe.

"WANNA KNOW WHO'S BLOOD THAT IS?"

I froze in shock, I felt like time just stopped.

"IT'S TSUKI'S!~"

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