"Do you know who You Watanabe is?" the girl smiled sweetly at me.

"Um, who's asking?" I responded.

She laughed a little, "What are you, her bodyguard? Listen, I'm not the mafia trying to kill her calm down."

"Okay, I mean I can take you to her." 

She clung to my arm, "Then let's go! Yousoro!" 

"Wait how do you know-"

"Just go!" she cheered.

I sighed as we maneuvered our way through the crowd. It was know about three o'clock now and the sudden rush of middle school and elementary students who were getting off of school crowded the pathway even more. 

There wasn't even a set path, people were walking diagonally and on the wrong side of the road. I couldn't see where the other nine were but I kind of knew the general direction towards them.

Eventually after pushing through the crowd I spotted them eating on some benches. The stranger still clung to my arm, even closer this time. "We're here now..." I told her, "You can let go now."

"Yeah, but what if I don't want to?" I sighed as she winked, "Jeez fine I'll let go."

"Hey You, someone wants to see-"

"Tsuki?" You's eyes widened, 

"Hiya! Bet you weren't expecting to see me!" the stranger now named Tsuki grinned.

The rest of the girls also seemed to know who this person was. As they all greeted each other. 

"Um, sorry to interrupt this reunion, but what's happening?" I asked.

"Shizuko, this is my cousin Tsuki." You introduced, "I think you've already met."

Tsuki saluted, "Pleased to meet ya!"

"Pleasure is all mine, I think that's what they say..." 

"What? You never greeted someone? How'd you greet these nine?" she questioned.

"Um... well it's a funny story..." I laughed, "I never really-"

"He never greeted us, in fact he ignored us." Mari chimed in for me.

"So then how'd you all become..." 

"Long story, like a very long story." You sighed, "I honestly don't even know how."

"Well looks like you all did the trick cause this guy was a real gentlemen to me." she smiled.

Tsuki didn't see this but all the other girls gave me a death glare. Okay, so maybe it was true that I never let them cling unto my arm like that. But then again, we've never been in a situation that had that happen. Maybe I also wasn't a gentlemen when we first met, but that was a long time ago... 

"So anyways..." I scratched my head, "Um, what do you all want to do?" 

"Let's just walk around and see what to do." Riko suggested, something about the way that she said it seemed off. But, most of the time I'm wrong with these intuitions, hopefully this was one of those times.

Riko's POV

We let Tsuki and Shizuko walk ahead of us. We had something very important to discuss...

"I know we're all thinking the same thing..." Dia shook her head.

"He wouldn't just forget what he said to us right?" Hanamaru questioned.

"He's a teenage boy, their feelings don't last very long." Mari explained.

"So he's a lost cause?" Chika said almost defeated.

"No," I said confidently, "Listen, I know we're not on the same team, but we need to work together just this once."

We put our hands in, "Zenzoku zenshin!" You called.

"Yousoro!" we all chimed.

Hopefully this doesn't lead to embarrassment, but like most things with Shizuko, it will most likely lead to embarrassment.

Honestly I have no clue what we're trying to do. Maybe it was jealousy that swept our emotions to take action. But we were just going without a plan. I think the main goal was to not have Shizuko fall for Tsuki. 

So what'd we do? We all took turns sticking close to him while You did her best to distract her and I felt like we were acting too desperate. It was clear that Tsuki figured out what was going on within the first few minutes. Shizuko looked surprised and confused, while she seemed amused at what was happening.

I'll admit this was a very dumb thing to do and honestly if Shizuko did fall for Tsuki then we'd just have to acknowledge that Shizuko is a piece of crap and wasn't even good for us in the first place. 

While Shizuko went to the teacher's to go beg for food again, Tsuki finally said something. "I see exactly what's happening..." she grinned.

"You do?" 

"You guys need to calm down, I'll admit I did try to make you all jealous right away just so I could laugh a little. But while you all were thinking of a plan I actually talked to Shizuko and there's some things you might want to know." she winked.

We all leaned in to her better, "Do you want to hear the whole version or the short version?"

"All of it. Spill now." Yoshiko commanded.

"Okay, well basically I told him whether or not he has a girlfriend or even a crush. He just flat out told me that he liked all of you but he hasn't chosen yet." she explained, "Though he says he's close to making a decision." 

That caught all of our attention, "He didn't give any names did he?" Mari said worriedly.

She shook her head, "But he did tell me this, the odds that all of you like him are slim, so he's deciding whether or not to confess to someone who's already told him, or confess to someone who hasn't told him. You all like him don't you?"

We all looked away, but we also all answered at the same time, "Yes." 

"Yes what?" Shizuko said causing us all to jump.

"Where the hell did you come from?" Tsuki winked letting us know that she knew he was already there.

"They still won't give me food." he pouted

"Here," she threw him money, "We're having girl talk, make sure you warn us before you show up again."

"Thank you!" he grinned taking off.

"Now, back to talking." Tsuki sighed, "I realize you all are leaving soon right? Three weeks?"

"Unfortunately yes."

"Couldn't you all stay?" she wondered.

"Well, we left the decision up to him. And he told us to go, though it was kind of sweet the way he told us." Ruby admitted.

"What'd he say?" her eyes lit up.

"That it didn't matter if we left because we'd meet again one day, he'd make sure of that." Kanan smiled.

"Then maybe it's better if you don't hear his answer."

"What?" 

"If you guys will meet again, then what's the point of confessing now? If he confesses it doesn't last long, then why not wait?"

"But-"

"If it's true what he says, that you'll meet again no matter what, then maybe he'll take it to heart and keep waiting."

"It's not that easy." Chika said quietly, "I know I speak for everyone when I say this, we want to know his answer."

Tsuki thought about it for a moment, "Then if that's what you all want, then I can respectfully agree with you." 

Chika was right, no matter what the risk of hearing his answer, whether it be heartbreak or happiness, we all wanted to know. 

I looked over to Shizuko, he was bargaining with one of the teacher's to give him a discount, his arms were full of food. "This guy is a hundred percent a harem protagonist." the purple-eyed Watanabe laughed. "A dense idiot, can't even figure out when a girl likes him."

This is true, how did we all fall for the same dense idiot? I can't tell you exactly how, but I can tell you for sure, we all fell for him.

And I don't regret it.

I should really study... Or pay attention in class... But instead I'm writing here on wattpad... If I fail exams I'll blame wattpad.

Anyways thank you all for reading! Hope you all enjoyed! Next chapter probably won't be out until Sunday, I have to study a lot. Also finally wattpad put my book under the lovelive tag here... It took like a month but finally... the one tag that I originally put the book under is now here.

Another question for today: How many times have you cheated in online school or in person school? Also how do you cheat? I have my own stories and answers...

I love you all!

Be safe! Mask up! Don't be stupid!

-Kazuya