Chapter 18
'Ah! Hoshi!' Suyuri suddenly called through the transer.
"Suyuri?" the girl replied curiously. "Why are you calling me all of a sudden...? We just saw each other before we left school earlier."
Suyuri groaned softly and then looked around worriedly before looking at the the device on her arm.
'Are you.. outside right now?' the girl asked.
Hoshi shook her head and then looked at the corner of her screen to catch something that looked blue taking a part of the image, similar to the blue she saw once before. The girl blinked to make sure she wasn't imagining things, but then that was until her thoughts were confirmed. She was NOT imagining at all. In fact, the light blue image just started to shift around a little as if it was some animal trying to get comfortable with it's resting spot.
"N-no..." Hoshi finally replied. "Why? What's up?"
Suyuri nodded and then presented the said disaster that was happening around her.
'Students at school were laughing for no reason, remember? But out here, they're both laughing and fighting each other for unknown reasons,' the girl explained. 'Subaru is visiting AMAKEN today and I hope he's alright...'
The pink haired girl knitted her eyebrows together as she took in the image and memorized the scenes that continued to play. The was no such thing as a stop button in life and there really needed to be one right at the moment.
"Thanks for the news, Suyuri. I'll go che-"
'What ever you do, stay in your house. You may never know whether it'll happen to you as well,' Suyuri stated before turning off.
The girl sighed and covered her entire face up with her right hand before dialing down Misora.
"I feel like an FMian is behind this..." Vul said.
"It must be.. And stay in the transer please?"
The idol picked up a few seconds later and then suddenly started blabbering about stuff about studio before they both could greet each other.
'THEY'RE JUST SUDDENLY LAUGHING!' she exclaimed.
"The outside is far worse than inside the studio though, or so I was told," Hoshi recalled. "Just.. Stay safe alright, Misora?"
'Don't you worry about me, Hoshi. You stay safe as well,' the idol replied.
Hoshi nodded and the two hung up on each other to take care of their own problems. The next person she called was Subaru, but he didn't seemed to pick up at all. Calling him again, she failed, again, to connect with her classmate. Sighing, the girl decided to call Tsukasa, though he didn't receive the call as well. It only got her worried and more curious about what was going on.
"Subaru-kun is probably taking care of the problem right now.." she said, concluding the boy to be Megaman.
Concluding that Subaru was Megaman, then that also means concluding Suyuri to be Queen Magical. After all, the two were the most alike to be the twin EM human beings.
"But what about Futaba-kun?" she suddenly asked.
"Maybe he was caught up in the circumstance?" Vul asked.
Several hours after the phone call shenanigan and laughing fits from outside, Vul notified Hoshi that Tsukasa was calling her. It seems that he wanted to ask her for help or so, but that may not be the case. Subaru still hasn't called her just yet.
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Hoshi awkwardly entered the the shopping district as she quietly thought about school and well the morning in general. Everyone seemed to laughed uncontrollably and there were even heavy traffics along with accidents. On the other side of the town there were people just brawling with each other for the most stupid reason anyone could possibly think of. The girl looked around to find the person who called her out for the day though she was quite in deep thought at the moment. No, it wasn't Misora. It wasn't Suyuri, either oddly enough. Subaru could be one to ask her for favors, but then again it wasn't. The girl groaned and ruffled up her own hair exhaustively since she's always cooped up in her house or Misora's studio. But if it's a favor someone was asking for, then a completed favor they'll get.
"Ah, Hoshi! Over here!" Tsukasa called, stretching up his left am and waving the girl over.
"So.. far..." she complained.
"Sorry to call you out so early in the morning," he chuckled as they both approached each other.
"No, no, it's fine," the girl excused. "So why are we here for?"
Tsukasa tapped his chin a few times before pointing a finger up to the sky.
"A date," he concluded.
"That's a lie," Hoshi shot immediately.
That only made the boy laugh a little louder than earlier and her cheeks heat up in embarrassment. She was really curious to know the reason why he called her out and so she continued to wait for him to reply to her question.
"Okay, okay, sorry. Just wanted to hang out that's all," he chuckled, calming down.
"Sometimes, I wonder why I'm friends with you..." the girl muttered.
"Because we are," he said casually, patting the top of her head. "Let's go now."
The boy then began to walk off into the mall with the girl next to him, though he seemed a little cautious at this time around. Hoshi decided to ignore his alerted state and just acted as casual as she could.
"Hey, were you by any chance affected by whatever that thing was? The thing that made everyone fall into hysterics and quarrel?" Tsukasa suddenly asked, glancing over to the girl.
"Umm, no actually.. I don't really know why," she replied, getting her thinking face on. "It didn't happen at school and I went straight home right after. Just saw the event on the news and was informed about it by a friend, that's all. How about you? You didn't seem to answer the calls I sent you.."
Tsukasa shook his head and smiled.
"Not at all. I was at home before everything else happened as well," he lied. "Sorry for not answering."
Hoshi looked at him and blinked, staring straight into his brown eyes and burning holes into his pupils where she was able to reach his retinas. Tsukasa stopped smiling and now had a confused look on his face.
"Are you lying to me again?" Hoshi asked carefully. "Because it sure does sound like you are..."
Tsukasa suddenly stifled a laugh and shook his head before looking back ahead.
"It's true. I wasn't affected and I got home safely."
"I don't want to hear you getting into another accident again," the girl frowned. "You told me about it once, and I said that I'd never forget that event."
His smile faded into a growl, but he hid it from Hoshi's line of sight even though he was still able to talk and sound the way he usually sounded, but his face expression was twisted and indifferent.
"Don't worry, it won't happen," he said.
He immediately turned back around and flashed a bright smile before pointing her hair and saying, 'Hey, you wore it!' just to relieve the awkward tension that was about to build up. Hoshi was puzzled at first until she caught onto what he was indicating at.
"Oh, the hair tie? Yes, I did. It'd be wasted if I didn't wear it for anything," she reasoned nervously.
"Why so uncomfortable? It looks great," Tsukasa commented with a chuckle.
"I'm not uncomfortable or anything.." Hoshi denied.
"Hey, Futaba-kun?" the girl called. "Sorry about earlier. I mentioned such an insensitive event without thinking.."
Tsukasa looked over at Hoshi and took a sip out of his drink, just nodding slowly and looking back up at the sky.
"It's fine. I don't mind if it's from a close friend," he said, setting the drink down in front of him. "Hoshi?"
"Yes?" she responded before eating her sundae.
It looked like she was about to doze off again, but her thoughts were suddenly interrupted when Tsukasa forced a strawberry into her mouth from across the table.
"Why do you keep calling me 'Futaba-kun' when we're clearly really close to call each other by our first names?" he asked, leaning into the palm of his left hand and smiling. "I've already been calling you 'Hoshi' for quite a while now."
Hoshi blinked and finished the berry that was stuffed into her mouth before she was able to answer her friend's question.
"Well, why not?" she asked in a puzzled tone. "I guess I got too used to it to actually change up my way of calling you."
Tsukasa laughed softly and then sat up straight to make himself look taller than the girl in front of him. It only got Hoshi curious with what was going on in his mind and why he even asked in the first place.
"Tsu-ka-sa," he pronounced clearly.
Hoshi smirked at this, holding in a giggle as best as she could.
"Fu-ta-ba-kun," she said purposely.
Tsukasa sighed and shook his head before standing up and walking over behind her, getting her all nervous again.
"Tsu. Ka. Sa. Come on, Hoshi," he said, hovering his hands around her waist.
"Please don't tell me, you're going to..."
"Yes, I will," he said, knowing what she was going to end with.
"Tsu.. Tsu..." she tried saying, but it only made her feel nervous to try and say it.
The boy lightly drilled his fingers into the sides of her body, causing her to squeak and flinch at the feeling. Hoshi was now grabbing his hands and trying to pull them away from her waist, but he was much stronger than she was .
"Futaba-kun! That's very uncomfortable!" she exclaimed as her grip tightened.
"Ah, ah ah! You did it again!" he said, clearly having fun messing with her.
"Ts-Tsukasa-kun! Now stop it!" Hoshi said, wriggling around a little.
"Ah, much better!" he stated, removing his hands from her waist.
The girl was now rubbing her body and pulling her legs up to cover herself up even more than she needed to. Releasing a sigh, she looked over at the boy who was still behind her smiling innocently as if he didn't do anything wrong.
"Again.. Sometimes, I wonder why we're so close.." she stated once more.
"And I say that we just are," he replied back.
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Hoshi was now heading home after she parted ways with Tsukasa, groaning as she touched her waists again and feeling the drilling sensation he gave her in the afternoon. A stranger in a black leather jacket, dark jeans, and a white shirt with a scorpion silhouette designed onto it underneath his jacket suddenly walk up to her as she continued down the path to her house. The boy seemed to have heterochromia. His eyes were red and blue and he bore short dark wavy hair. It looked like his glasses were slowly slipping off girl didn't say anything, but decided to flash a smile to him in response of covering up her suspicion with the light green scorpion wrapped around him. Its piercing blue eyes were staring directly at her, so it was hard not to make any eye contact with said thing. The red lines trailing from it's head, to it's upper body, and up to the end of it's tail only made Hoshi feel uneasy and the leaking blue wave was the only thing that gave it's identity of an alien away.
'It doesn't look like she can see you... Are you sure she's the one?' the boy muttered under his breath earning a nod from the alien coiled around him.
Crossing his arms and tapping his left foot that was covered in a military-looking black boot, the boy looked around and began to study her.
"Um, may I help you?" Hoshi asked, dropping her hands back to her sides.
"Yes, you may," he replied, before giving off a smirk.
The scorpion around him suddenly began to move and lunged at the girl, causing her to flinch and back away against her own will. That only made his smirk grow wider and more crazy looking before he suddenly said, 'Found you.'
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