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Hey everybody! I bet you can guess what book Fubuki is teaching his friends English from! I'll give you a hint; "a black man charged with the rape of a white girl". ~(^v^)~

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"Hey you guys!" Hinata and Sho are walking with Kenta, they're all in jeans and T-shirts. On their backs are their rucksacks. Wow, we actually are going to make an effort to study!

"Where's Nito'?" Tanaka Kenta muses.

"Most likely calming Momo down." I snigger.

"What did the Minishiba do?" Ami-chan asks.

"Got scared of Rei." I sigh.

"Your brother?" Kenta, Hinata and Sho each cock a brow. I nod.

"Twin brother." I clarify.

"Oh God." Mei-chan huffs.

"Kai' said he was going to get Nito' while I was on the phone with Katie-chan." Fubuki states.

"Okay then..." Hinata turns to face me, flanked by Sho and Kenta.

"What?" I cock a brow.

"Why would Mikoshiba Momo be afraid of your brother?" Sho sniggers.

"Because he looks like me. How was he to know I have a brother." I shrug.

"But he was at that relay at Iwatobi SC Returns." Hinata protests.

"But Momo was busy trying to impress Kou." Ami-chan shrugs.

"And he's not one to pay attention to the little details...unlike Sei'. Why are my brothers always at the other ends of the spectrum?" Mei-chan groans.

"Happens." Fubuki snorts.

"Are they that different?" Sho asks.

"Ami-chan?"Mei-chan asks.

"Mikoshiba Sei', Samezukza graduate vs the Minishiba, Mikoshiba Momo." Ami-chan says.

"Sei' is much cooler when flirting. He's completely in control and confident. Can always draw the conversation back to where he wants it to be. Momo just babbles on and on and on and on."

"Family trait I see."

"If there's any trait in the Mikoshiba family it's their facination with the Matsuoka's." Ami-chan giggles.

"Huh?" Fubuki's jaw drops in sync with mine.

"EH!" Mei-chan's eye twitches, face pale.

"Mei-chan was really intrigued by Rin when he first joined the team." Ami-chan laughs.

"Not that you acted like it." I snigger.

"Gomen! Gomen! Gomen!" Kaito calls, Nito' at the brunet's heels.

"Aoi-chan!" Nito' pouts. "Rei-kun scared Momo so much and I didn't know how to calm him down."

"He was rocking backward and forward calling for Sei'-san." Kaito rolls his eyes. "That's what took me so long. The graduates didn't believe I was there to get Sei'-san. They thought I wanted in on their constant luxuries."

"Hahahahahahhahahaha!" the boys laugh.

"Shall we go for ice cream...I mean to study." Nito' asks.

"Right, let's gooo!" Fubuki does the same sort of jigg that he did when we went for sushi on the night before Regionals last year. Ami-chan grins. She and Mei-chan follow Fubuki's lead out of the reception. Nito', Kaito and I at their heels.

Hika'-chan, Kenta, Hinata and Sho follow, dancing half heartedly.

We hop onto a train to Iwatobi, only to see Rei.

He's on the phone. To Nagisa. Telling him he's got something to do tomorrow.

Then they, like Fubuki and Katie do the "You hang up first" thing. I snigger at Rei. His face burns when he sees all of us staring at him. Rei's lucky in some ways. He and his boyfriend have girly names so he can be as casual as he wants when calling him since it's first nature to assume a boy who is doing the "You hang up first" thing is calling a girl.

I wave to Rei as he gets off of the train.

We get off three stops later and walk for five minutes to get to the ice cream place.

"Hello we reserved a table under the name Matsuoka Rin." Fubuki flashes a grin at the server.

"Hello Mr Matsuoka, please come this way." the server smiles back at my clemenine haired friend. We follow her to the booth, split off from the others. "On the phone you had mentioned how you wanted a secluded booth to study for your exam? On behalf of our management I have been told to give each of your party free refils on soda and ice cream to keep you hard at work." the server hands each of us a sheet of pink paper. We bow to her and she to us before we take our seats and prepare to listen to Fubuki.

"Okay. Open the English version of the book." Fubuki commands. "Turn to page 14." We obey, turning to page fourteen.

"I want you three each to say the first sentence in English." Fubuki states, pointing at Hinata, Sho and Kenta. The trio struggle the most with pronouciation.

""Wander what heee dus in there." Hinata says. "Hee wood murma."

"Wanda wot he dus in t-here." Sho tries. "Hee woold murmer."

"Wonda w-hat hee do-es in there." Kenta attempts. "Hee wo-ul-d murma."

"Kai?" Fubuki looks to the brunet. He and Mei are great at pronounciation.

""Wonder what he does in there," he would murmur." Kaito translates nervously.

"Kyahh! Kai'! You got it spot on! If your accent wasn't so stong people would think English is your first language!" Fubuki exclaims hugging his best friend.

"Err Fubu', we've barely done a task." Kaito points out.

"Right!" he facepalms. "Hika, Nito', Ami, get the Japanese versions of the book out and write the last sentence of Part One, in English." Spelling isn't their forte.

'Atticus wos reeding tha papar.' Nito's says.

'Atticus was reeding tha paper.' Hika'-chan's says.

'Atticus wos reeding the paper.' Ami-chan's says.

"Aoi?" Fubuki turns to me. I thumb my way to page one hundred and twenty four and write the last sentence.

'Atticus was reading the paper.' I hand my tanslation to Fubuki.

"Excellent!" Fubuki's eyes shine.

"Now Mei, translate that blurb on the English version into Japanese!" he enthuses. The amber haired girl nods, scrawling in her notepad.

'Fire at all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it is a sin to...' Mei holds the paper out to Fubuki. He glances at the paper and to his copy of the book.

"Kai, translate the Japanese into English!" Fubuki orders as he looks over Mei's translation.

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it is a sin to...' Kaito's work is handed to Fubuki.

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After an hour and a half of studying the book, translating passages and writing opinions in both Japanese and English, followed by reading these opinions aloud...we were free of the study session. And free for the weekend. Now we can relax. Now we can eat.

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"BRAIN FREEZE!" Mei-chan whines.

"Totally worth it though." Ami-chan laughs.

"Should we have a movie night?" I suggest.

"You and movies." Fubuki laughs.

"Can we come?" Hinata asks.

"Do you realise how much sneaking around has to be done to get to the girls block at NIGHT!" Kenta shakes the blond.

"You've BEEN in the girls block at night!" Hika'-chan gasps.

"PERV'!" Mei-chan lightly shoves Kenta.

"Gahhh! Don't touch my Kai' you perv'!" Fubuki exclaims, jumping up and holding onto Kaito, who is now holding him bridal style, blushing like a fool.

We laugh, individually snapping pictures.

"GET RID OF THEM!!" Kaito wails.

"You sound like Nito'." Sho snorts.

"Hey!" Nito' pouts.

"Gomen Nito'." Sho hangs his head as we run to the train.

Upon getting on the train I actually check my phone.

'Want to do something tomorrow? We actually haven't hung out since the penultimate week of the holidays.' It's from Makoto.

'Do you even have to ask?' I reply, pouting when I realise how long he's been waiting for a reply.

'We need to talk'.

My eyes widen and my blood turns to ice.

Please don't tell me...

Does he want to see other people?