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CREDIT TO: UTA NO PRINCE SAMA and SILVERMOON249 (for Nanairo no Compass lyric)

CHAPTER 19

"Are you serious!?" the blue eyes which always looked calm suddenly and widely opened, sending Haruka to laugh out of amusement even she could presume his reaction when he learned that last night, he was not merely drunk but he transformed into Hayato because of Cecil's weird but precious drink.

"Yes," she grinned childishly which 'hurted' his pride more as the thought of his girlfriend already saw many different sides of him crossed his mind. She saw him getting melancholic in the rain because of his mother, crying like a baby in her arms, acting like a maiden who suddenly got excited about cooking curry to her boyfriend...

How come this girl even loves a lame and cheesy guy like him? It's crying shame!

"It's okay, Tokiya-kun. You look even cuter when you say that.."

"Aaaaaaa! Cannot hear that, don't want to hear that," since Tokiya was so desperate to forget about whatever 'cute things' he did last night, he closed his ears while making noise in order to stop her from talking any further.

Haruka laughed cheerfully before stopping herself abruptly. She could hear some annoying whispers from the girls not far from them. Obviously, they looked jealouse as she was the only one who could become that close with the ex-Ice Prince right in front of her.

Especially the trio in her class.

Decided that they did not even worth her time, she ignored them and continued teasing Tokiya, only making them more irritated.

He's mine, you desperate chicks!

"You even said that I am important to you. Making me a yummy dish is your priority..." she decided to tell him every single cheesy line that he blurted out last night, save for the 'Haru-chan, let's break off' part. She was so afraid if Tokiya would bring it up again and eventually leave her.

"Stop, Haruka! Stop!" he dramatically raised his big hand right in front of her face while his creamy-skinned face blushed more as he imagined any stupid lines that Hayato would blurt out to Haruka. "After this, please don't talk or make eye contact with me for a while. I need some time to make my embarrassement disappear."

"Ehhh??"

Which later he learned that Kami-sama did not always grant his wish.

"For this upcoming event, our school will organize a fan meeting with an idol. You guys are required to choose which idol you want to meet but please bear in your mind that this fan meeting is not only for fun. After the event, you are given a week to write a report about what do you learn from the fan meeting. It can be the content of the activities, how the idol entertains his fans.. Anything can do. Now, please write down which idol do you want to invite to our school."

Unexpectedly, the announcement from their homeroom teachers turned out to be a nightmare to Tokiya who would rather die than having to act as Hayato right in front of Haruka after the embarrassing night.

Especially when he saw the list of the top voted idols on the notice board a few days later.

Currently leading idol

1. HAYATO

2. Sawatari Kyoko

3. Helena

4. Suruga Shuu

"Just who the hell voted for that dude??" Tokiya murmured in chagrin while his eyes glared at certain red head for some reasons.

"The DUDE is you, though," Cecil rolled his eyes while wondering just why the heck he was here in Tokiya's room. The blue head just ordered him to drop by but so far, all he and Otoya did were listening to Tokiya's useless complaints regarding to the vote...

Which apparently, Tokiya did not think so.

"Yeah, but the DUDE is there, being the top one in the list because he was voted and when I said 'he was voted' which is obviously in passive voice, SOMEONE which is the subject of the sentence has voted for him.." Tokiya's blue eyes turned piercing as soon as he glared at Otoya, much to the red head's fright.

"Why are you looking at me that way?" Otoya stammered.

"Am I not allowed to stare at my roommate right now? It's called an affection, honey," his voice suddenly turned slower but it just crept both Otoya and Cecil out.

"Affection, my foot," Cecil muttered.

"Said someone who is the reason why I turned into Hayato last night," Tokiya sized his eyes up as soon as he averted his glare to Cecil who immediately shrank. "Because of you, right now, there is certain person who also most probably voted for the DUDE but unlike you, I feel bad to scold the certain person.."

"Are you talking about me? Am I that person?" Otoya asked cheerfully which he later regretted it.

"Bingo. You voted for Hayato," Tokiya deadpanned.

"Shucks!" Otoya exclaimed while mentally facepalmed for being off his guard.

"Baka," Cecil murmured to Otoya.

"Ittoki Otoya, you will sleep outside tonight. That's the verdict," Tokiya sounded like a dictator who just punished a criminal.

"What?? Did I just commit a crime or what?"

"Yes, you did. And if that DUDE is chosen, you guys better run for your life if you still wish to breathe oxygen," Tokiya threw a sincere threat.

"Tsk, such a lame threat. Do you think we are afraid with you, Mr. Cat Lover?" Cecil sneered.

Suddenly, they could hear someone running so fast along the corridor before..

"Hey, Tokiya!" without ever bothering to pound at the door first, Natsuki and Syo just slammed it open, sending Otoya and Cecil to jump from their spots.

"Where is your manner, guys? This room has a door, you know," Tokiya sighed in frustration for nth time. Natsuki was too easy-going while Syo perceived himself as too manly to knock on the door first. What a pair of roommates from heaven!

"The hell with the manner! We have something to tell you, Tokiya. This is very, very important," Syo exclaimed while still gasping for oxygen.

"What's so important to the point of you cannot even knock on the door at least?"

"The result for the idol fan meeting.. It's already finalized!" Syo exclaimed. "I mean not officially but just now, I just eavesdropped on Ringo sensei and Hyuga sensei's conversation and guess what? They already know who is the chosen idol."

"And that 'who' is?" Tokiya asked impatiently while grabbing a thick book on his desk.

"You, Hayato-kun. You got two votes more than Sawatari-san," Natsuki pointed out excitedly, sending the blue head to rise from his chair with a rolled book in his hand, preparing to attack Cecil and Otoya. The next thing he knew was Otoya and Cecil who were original fans and voters of Hayato already disappeared from his sight.

Two votes more... If only those dorks did not vote for Hayato...

"Wait, Tokiya-kun.. Why are they running away?" Natsuki asked, innocently.

"Because they still want to breathe oxygen," Tokiya answered before turning his attention to Syo, ignoring the confused Natsuki. "But are you serious? If you want to be funny here.."

"We are not trying to be funny. We just told you the truth!" Syo insisted.

"Just so you know, your sense of humour is still weak. You need to brush up.."

"I said it's the truth, you dumbass!" this time Syo let out an earth-shaking scream. "Hayato will come to this school next week."

"Oh, Kami-sama.."

All of sudden, Tokiya received a call from Haruka.

"Syo, did you tell Haruka.."

"Yes, I did. I bet she will be the one who is the most excited, though.." Syo said nonchalantly but Tokiya knew him long enough to tell that the small boy was mocking him.

"You jerk.."

"Well, let's hear her reaction together, shall we?" Natsuki activated his nosy mode as he snatched the phone from Tokiya.

"Shinomiya-san, what are you doing?"

Natsuki turned on the loudspeaker as soon as he accepted the call.

"Hello, Tokiya-kun!"

"Hellooo!!" before Tokiya could open his mouth, Natsuki and Syo answered excitedly as they formed a circle around Tokiya's purple cell phone.

These scumbags...

"Ara, minnasan? Are you turning on the speaker?"

"Yes, Haruka. Shinomiya-san turned it on," Tokiya answered weakly.

"Oh, is that so? Then, do you guys already know about the idol fan meeting?"

"Yeahhhh!! We are sooo excited to see Hayato right in front of our eyes!" Natsuki and Syo shouted in unison. As if they already revised a script or something.

"Oh, we all are in the same boat! I am also happy to see Hayato-sama!" Haruka remarked excitedly.

"Figures," Tokiya commented flatly.

Then, it turned into an awkward silence.

"Tokiya-kun.."

"Yes?"

"To tell you the truth, I am one of the.."

"You are one of the students who voted for Hayato," Tokiya interrupted. "Saw that coming."

"Plus, the form also asked me about the reason why I chose him. I simply couldn't make up an excuse if I chose somebody else. It doesn't feel right."

"Then, your reason must be 'because he is the reason why I want to be a composer. I want him to sing my song. I want to make a nice song just like his', right?" Tokiya confirmed.

"Yeah, pretty much. I am sorry, Tokiya-kun."

The sweet voice melted his heart yet since there were nosy parkers in the room, he frowned instead. "It's okay. If you say so, I guess I don't have any reasons why I should decline. My girlfriend wants to meet her original idol so I should fulfil her wish."

That was what he said even in fact, his heart gave a 'give me a break' cry.

"What do you think about your brother? How is he like at home?"

Tokiya or Hayato just grinned at such a clichéd question, coming from Yuna, the leader of the infamous A Class trio who squeaked like a dolphin.

Maybe in the eyes of all students in the hall, Tokiya or Hayato just provided them with a dreamy fan service in form of stunning smile but according to STARISH...

"He was this close to throw the mic to her, considering he already hates her," Ren commented.

"Fighting, Tokiya! We believe in you," Otoya cheered sotto voce.

"This guy's acting skill is so amazing, right? Even he dislikes Hayato, he looks natural making him as a part of himself," Masato acknowledged.

"Tokiya is.. Well, I heard that a lot of people said that he is aloof and doesn't have a heart in singing~nya.... But..." his grin grew wider as he so-called recalled how Tokiya acted when they 'were' around each other. "But for me, he is such a cute brother that I want to squeeze his cheeks so hard~nyaa..."

"And he is also amazingly full of himself," Syo scoffed.

"I know, right?" Cecil admitted.

The Hayato's fan meeting was rather smooth, adding the fact that Hayato is an experienced idol with countless fan meetings. The event started with the greetings from Hayato with his Oha-yahho trademark, followed by series of activities like singing together, lucky draw, having lunch while watching Hayato's movies and playing some games.

But Hayato is Tokiya after all. His demonic nature when it comes to his friends and Haruka always made him turned cheeky especially when he learned all of them voted for Hayato. Not to mention they were the one who made fun of him first by making funny faces in the midst of audience just to make him laughed and could not focus on the event. Heck, even Masato also turned to be mischievous right now!

"Please guys. When the event starts and I happen to make an eye contact with you guys, please by all means... please look at somewhere else. Your faces... No matter how serious they are, they looked funny."

Which of course, they did not obey him at all. Instead, they had fun teasing him.

Which again, eventually led them to be Hayato's victim..

First of all...

"Since Aijima Cecil-kun won the contest, I have a gift for Cecil-kun ~nya.." Tokiya exclaimed as soon as a crew with a plate of food in his hands came forward.

"Oh.. A gift?" Cecil turned pale even it was obvious that his prize is a food. Quarrelling with Tokiya for God-knows-how-many-times, the prince somehow could sense a menacing aura whenever the idol wanted to pull a prank.

"Why did your face turn white ~nya? You don't like fried FISH? I bet you like it, Cecil-kun. It's fried FISH, ~nya," Tokiya handed the fish just right in front of the prince's face, enough for Cecil to about to vomit.

He hated fish, for heaven's sake! Even he was used to be a cat who naturally loves fish, he did not seem like he possesses that kind of preference.

Thus, Aijima Cecil spent his day mentally swearing at Tokiya using his country's profanities after eating the fish.

For Masato, since the scion really hates insects, Tokiya chose him to come to the stage and played a game which apparently suited the scion well.

It was the worst decision that Masato had ever made in his life..

Masato almost fainted when he learned that he was going to put his hand into a few boxes which contained several kinds of INSECTS. The game was simple and predictable. He needed to guess what kind of INSECTS were there but to guess it..

Of course he had to touch them which automatically made the scion prayed so that all the receptors in his skin would be dysfunctional for a while.

Just for a while.

"WAAAAA!!"

"Masato-kun, you don't even touch them yet ~nya!"

" AAAAAA!!"

"Don't worry, Masato-kun. It's not dangerous. It's just slippery~nya."

"What? What do you mean by.. KYAAAA!!"

As expected, Masato's baritone and usually cool voice resonated through the whole hall after he had touched countless types of insects.

"Masato-kun is so cute!" Natsuki exclaimed as he could see how red Masato's face had become.

"I will make sure I will comfort him after this. Poor Hijirikawa," nobody could tell either Ren was being seriously sympathetic or he just had a fun to see his wimpish roommate.

"I suggest you leave him alone before he punches you," Syo deadpanned.

"Ara, the red head over there! Your hair color is so beautiful~nya.. Come here, come here~nya!"

Otoya swallowed his saliva as he could sense that Hayato's wide grin actually was a sign of his death.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Was Otoya's deadly scream a few minutes later.

While Kurusu Syo..

"Okay, for representative from A Class and S Class, please come forward and play rock paper scissors ~nya. If you win, I will join your team to play the next game~nya."

As soon as Syo and Yuna came in front, Tokiya or Hayato's first comment is...

"Kawaiiii!" Tokiya squeaked, much to the short boy's annoyance. "You are such a pocket boy! Wait, I am sure that this event is only for Saotome Academy students. Does Saotome-san allow your little brother to join as well?"

"Nooo," the audience answered as they laughed.

Syo's angry nerved throbbed on his forehead.

Tokiya, you jerk...

"Ah, I know! You must be Hyuga-san's nephew, right? If I am not mistaken, Hyuga-san has a five years old cute.."

"I AM NOT!!" Syo finally snapped.

As for Haruka, once Tokiya saw the rosette in the midst of the audience, getting blushed and obviously happy, his flirtatious mode suddenly activated. He deliberately planned the last slot which was about..

He would sing 'Nanairo no Compass' to her, with a castle-like stage before taking pictures together. She even would get a pair of earrings as a gift for being Hayato's lucky fan.

Is the guy even afraid with the 'love is forbidden' rule? The answer is no. He did not even care anymore because for him, it would be much better if Saotome could figure out about their relationship sooner.

There are a lot things that he wanted to say to the principal.

"Yeah, you, with the short orange hair.. Hai, please come in front~nyaa," while using his best acting skill to pretend that he just picked the rosette randomly, he enjoyed himself seeing the composer's reaction.

It was so cute!

'Tokiya-kun, are you serious?' She made a face, hopefully he could understand her.

'Yes, I am serious. Come on, don't be shy.'

But I am already shy! Haruka screamed in her head as she walked out from the crowd.

From the corner of his eyes, Tokiya could see how lethal Yuna and her friends' glares at his girlfriend.

Last time, they made her tripped. Shibuya-san even said that they always threatened Haruka. If I don't do something..

"Since this is the last activity for our fan meeting, I will personally escort this pretty lady to the stage~nya," as soon as they heard Hayato's remark, all students cheered in excitement. More of them were jealous though.

What..what? What did he mean? Haruka did not have much time to react as Tokiya was suddenly close to her before holding her hand.

"Shall we?" His smile is so stunning, melting the others' hearts.

"Waaaa, so lucky!!"

"It's nice to be her, right???"

"So jealous! How come that Nanami can be this lucky?"

It felt like the time stopped for a while and the next thing Haruka knew was she was already on the stage with Hayato.

Aka her boyfriend, Ichinose Tokiya.

"What's your name, miss?" Tokiya asked, still holding her hand.

"Eh? I..I am Nanami Haruka."

"Nanami Haruka-chan," Tokiya twitched his eyebrows, pretending to recall the name. "Haru-chan.. I think I have heard your name somewhere~nya. Perhaps, are you the new Goddess of Music that Saotome-san keeps mentioning ~nya?"

"Yess!!" just when Haruka wanted to deny such a grand title, the audience said otherwise.

"I see... well, it's an honour, Haru-chan. I wish you all the best for your debut~nya," Tokiya bowed as a sign of respect.

"Thank you," Haruka bowed back.

"Okay, Haru-chan. Are you ready?" he squeezed her shivered hand.

"Yes, I guess."

Ah... kimi dake ni todoke
kono kaze no oto yo　Feeling Heart...

It was Hayato, singing in front of her, only for her.

mou nakanakute ii yo sono mama de ii
sora o mite　Ah... My Sweetest Love

From now on, 'my sweetest love' only refers to her.

'How is it? Do you like Hayato, Haru-chan?'

'Yes. Hayato is so cool! And.. The earrings.. Thank you, Tokiya-kun. I love you.'

Tokiya smiled in relief as he read Haruka's message. Finally, the fan meeting has ended and he already changed his clothes. All he had to do is waiting for his manager to pick him up.

"Students, what are you doing here?" Tokiya could hear B Class homeroom teacher's voice, Fujiwara sensei outside of his waiting room.

"I told you already, Yuna-chan! We cannot just trespass on here."

"Please, Fujiwara sensei! I really want to see Hayato-sama for a while. I have something to talk to him."

Tokiya really knew the voice. The moment Nakamura Yuna bothered Haruka, he reminded himself to be careful with the girl.

Well, nevertheless, let's see what did they want from Hayato, Tokiya's 'brother'.

"Fujiwara-san.." Tokiya opened the door before curving in a smile at them. "It's okay. I will entertain my fans~nya."

"Is it really okay, Hayato-san?" the teacher hesitated.

"Yes, it's okay. Come in, girls. My manager is still on his way~nya."

"Yes, thank you!!" those girls squeaked before allowing themselves got into the waiting room.

So shameless, Tokiya mentally commented.

"Yes. How can I help you~nya?" it took all for Tokiya to calm himself down. He wanted the composure that he possessed before.

But after he knew Haruka.. After he fell in love with her, he grew a new side in him which is he would not let anybody hurt her which later led him to be protective and ill-tempered.

"Well, I.. I am your number one fan. Can I ask for your autograph?" Yuna initiated while trying hard to look pretty.

"Of course~nya.." He smiled and gave them his autograph.

"You don't have any earrings left? You know, the one you gave to that Nanami.." Yuna insisted, much to Tokiya's speechlessness.

'Please give me 100 reasons why should I give you that gift when I only have one girlfriend' is what Tokiya really wanted to blurt out.

"Nope. Don't have any~nya."

"Oh.. Is that so?" Yuna bit her lips, suppressing her jealousy. "If that's the case, can I take picture with you, Hayato-sama?"

"Em.. sure~nya."

"Okay, Hayato-sama," Naomi who was assigned as the camerawoman eyed Tokiya to get closer with Yuna.

Please stop this for the God sake!

"Okay, sure."

First picture was taken.

"Ah, can you touch me as well? This is such a rare opportunity. I really want my idol to hold me like this.." Yuna shamelessly grabbed Tokiya's hand before putting it around her shoulder. "And get closer with my face like this.." she softly pulled Tokiya so that his cheek would touch hers.

What the..

"Okay..~nya."

Not so easy, honey!

Just when the second picture was almost taken, Tokiya moved away from Yuna, much to the girls' shock.

"Hayato-sama.." Yuna stared at him, struggling to not scold her favourite idol while the other girls were speechless with his sudden rejection.

"I am sorry~nya," Tokiya pretended to check his cell phone, "My manager is already here. I need to hurry up. Glad to see you guys ~nya," he carried his bag but Yuna reacted faster. She blocked him.

"Hayato-sama, can you at least sing Nanairo no Compass for me like you did on stage earlier?" the moment Yuna boldly requested, Tokiya could feel something was boiling in him. He clenched his fist as he put two and two together.

So, are you saying that you are jealous with Nanami Haruka right now? That's why you are acting like.. No, Tokiya. Calm the hell down.

"My manager is waiting~nya," Tokiya widened his eyes, trying hard to be polite when in fact he did not think Yuna deserved the politeness.

"Oh, it's okay. But can I have a moment please? I have something to share with you about your brother," Yuna put the most beautiful expression that would surely melt the guys while holding his muscular arm.

Another body contact. All of him is Haruka's so he hated it when someone like Yuna touched him wherever she pleased.

"Oh.. Do you want to talk about Tokiya? Sure. What is it? I am glad to listen since my brother doesn't really tell me about his school. I am kinda sad," Hayato pursed his lips as he over reacted with his body as an attempt to release his arm from her grab. "Go ahead. If it's about Tokiya, my manager can wait."

"Well, you see.. Nowadays, your brother is weirdly close to a girl.. I mean the composer who you called Haru-chan just now. It's kinda disturbing.."

"Why is it so disturbing, huh?" Hayato's squeaky voice suddenly turned grim or to be precise..

The blue head just snapped as he could assume where this conversation was going.

"Hayato-sama?" Mizuki slightly move backward.

"I mean, why it disturbed you~nya?" Tokiya returned to his cheerful mode while mentally cursing himself to snap easily.

Just be cool, Tokiya. You are Hayato. You are supposed to be cheerful, friendly...

"Because it is disgusting to see how clingy that slut is. Even Ichinose-san kept brushing her off, she keeps being thick-skinned to the point of Ichinose-san could not resist her anymore. He is one of top princes here so to see him with such an ugly composer is an eyesore. An idol should not be in love and if the principal lifts the rule, that Nanami little bitch shouldn't be with him. Just so you know, apart from Ichinose-san, she also hit on Ichinose-san friends. Those guys that you randomly chose to play games with you just now are Ichinose-san's friends. That girl is such a sluttish.. "

"If she is a slut, what that makes you, then?" Hayato or Tokiya's high-pitched voice suddenly turned creepy again.

That made them froze in their spot. They never realized that they just insulted Haruka in front of Tokiya himself so...

Needless to say, they just dug their own grave.

"Now, I remember who you guys are. You are Nakamura Yuna, right? Tokiya told me that you used to confess your love to him. You even suggested to hide your relationship if he accepts you. Am I right?"

"I..Well.." Yuna stammered as she could feel the chill crept to her skin.

"Just kidding," Tokiya's cold voice suddenly turned vice versa again but it did not make them feeling better. "But let me tell you something, pretty girls.."

He suddenly grabbed Naomi and Mizuki's heads before fastened them to Yuna's who stood in the middle. Those three turned dumbfounded at the gesture which suggested an intimidation..

Which turned out to be true because while that Hayato still talked in his high-pitched voice, it still sounded scary. The dark aura around him erased the fact that this guy is a comedian who never exploded in front of his fans.

"Do you think a composer is JUST a composer? A composer and an idol complete each other, you know that? Who's your homeroom teacher, by the way?" Tokiya whispered with his deadly tone.

"Ringo.. Ringo sensei," Mizuki answered, still trembling. Nobody even had a nerve to meet Hayato's blue eyes. Not to mention he was way too bigger than them which made him looked like a monster for a while.

"Ringo sensei, huh? I am sure Ringo-san had taught you that a composer is a major part in an idol's career. Plus, do you say that Nanami Haruka is close to my brother? I tell you what. My brother never talked to girls before. But, to see him talking only with the girl, I suppose that the girl has something special that you guys don't have. Beauty is not everything, you know. It can fade away with your common sense. With this kind of attitude, I dare to say that you guys will never go anywhere. But if you do," he paused before making eye contact with each of them, indirectly stating that he was being serious. "I will make sure our country's showbiz will never support the bitches like you guys. Try me."

"Hayato, are you ready?" Hayato's manager, Himura suddenly interrupted which indicated the end of verbal torture to the trio. "What are you doing?"

"Nah, nothing. Just a fan service~nya," Tokiya grinned widely. "Okay, girls! I have to go~nya. It's so nice to have a chat with you," he stroked their heads slowly before leaving them flabbergasted.

They exhaled a big sigh of relief as soon as the door was slammed close.

"That gave me shivers, seriously," Naomi commented. "I always see him as a frivolous comedian but now.. Not anymore."

"Did you guys see his face? As soon as Yuna-chan mentioned about that Nanami, he completely changed. What a scary guy," Mizuki added.

"That Nanami Haruka! Just what the hell did she do to.. I mean, even Hayato sama backed her! How's that even possible!?" Yuna screamed out of rage. The fact that he was treated and warned harshly by her favourite idol was a downright insult to her pride.

"Yuna-chan, I think that's all for now. We should never disturb that girl again," Naomi suggested.

"No. it's not over yet," Yuna's red eyes due to an anger turned piercing.

"Yuna-chan, what do you mean?" Mizuki trembled again.

"I said it's not over yet!" Yuna screamed exasperatedly. "We need to teach the bitch some lessons so that she will leave Ichinose-san. I don't care what it takes but if he rejected me, Nakamura Yuna, that bitch will also be rejected."

Which again, she dug her own grave.

Pang!

Haruka fall onto the floor of the school store. The sudden pain she received on her cheek stung more and more. She lifted her chin up, only to be served with the sight of three students with lethal looks. It would not be an exaggeration if she assumed that these three girls wanted to kill her. If not, why would they suddenly drag her from going straight to dorm and pushed her into an abandoned store and to make it worse, other students already called it a day and rested in their dorms so no matter how loud she screamed for help, the chance for her being rescued was actually close to zero.

"You are such a slut, you know that?" the short brown-haired girl who stood in the middle coldly stated something that made Haruka more confused.

Me? Slut? She was the one who slapped and pushed me to the floor! Why am I being called a slut!? Haruka thought angrily as she glared at the girl. Now, she could have a better look at those three bullies before getting even angrier.

Well, why didn't she? Among all those fangirls of Tokiya, these three; Mizuki, Yuna (the short and brown-haired leader who was pathetically rejected by Tokiya a few months ago) and Naomi always picked a fight with her as the close relationship between Haruka and Tokiya became obvious.

"What do you want?" Haruka asked while still stroking her red cheek.

"Stay away from Ichinose-san," out of them, Yuna was the craziest one. The other two were just her little workers who you always find in any chick flick or chick lit; being so stupid to follow any order from their leader to stop other girls from being close to the hero. "He is everyone's so you cannot make him like your own puppet."

"Excuse me?" Haruka's blood started to boil as she heard the word 'puppet' which made her forgetting the sting on her cheek. Instead, she stood up slowly. "Did you just say 'puppet'? Do you.. Perhaps not looking at him as a person? And what's with the 'he's everyone's' shit? Did you make it up so that nobody has guts to approach him? So lameee."

If obachan knows I learned cursing, she will feel very sad, guilt suddenly stabbed her heart as she said 'shit' but she could not help it. Her attitude slowly changed after she was in a serious relationship with the late Tokiya. Being the lucky girl who Tokiya chose to be his wife out of his countless fans, she also endured countless criticism which made her almost giving up to spend the rest of her life with him. They sneered at her both face-to-face and via social media. Tokiya said nothing at first apart from convincing her that she should not give a damn about those maniacs because their opinions about here were small-bore but he totally snapped when after six months they got married, there were still lunatics who mocked Haruka which led the late Tokiya to bring those foul-mouthed fans to the court. He did not even tolerate any negotiation or appeal from them.

His words to Haruka which the rosette still remembered until now...

"Being quiet doesn't mean you are docile. You should fight for yourself if they are too much or else those mean people will ruin your life."

Which made her admiring him more and more.

"We made it for the sake of the rule given by the principal. There are no such things as love in idol world and you should aware of that. Not to mention that you are way too close with those princes. You, Tomochika, that Hazuki Maaya..." the black long-haired girl, Naomi stated.

"From the start, you already pulled those hot guys into your net and now, you even hit on Ichinose-san? For someone who is not that pretty, you sure are skillful to sweep them off their feet. You are such a slut!" Yuna suddenly got unnecessary emotional and that made her looked way more ridiculous to Haruka.

If only this girl knows how strong the friendship Haruka had with STARISH.. If only this girl knows that Haruka becomes close to STARISH is not because she wants to prove to everyone that she is such a hot chick..

"But compared to me, you are much worse, Nakamura-chan. You used to confess your love to that everyone's Ichinose-san but sadly rejected," Haruka chuckled sarcastically, enraging the trio. "Did you just make the moronic rule because you think something clichéd like 'if I cannot get him, the others also don't deserve him'? How pathetic!"

"Shut up you bitch!" Yuna could not control her chagrin anymore as she slapped Haruka again. The idol wannabe is sure a cheek-slapping expert since every slap Haruka received so far was impactful but this time..

It was too much. Haruka even smacked her head against the edge of a drawer.

What happened next? She did not know. Her surrounding just went pitch-black after she felt someone snatched her earrings from her ears.

The earrings that Hayato gave to her..

That's all for Chapter 19! I will upload the next chapter soon! Sayonara!