"I told the stars about you, and they were envious because I told them you're beautiful."

"Nene-chan, [Name]-chan, are you two okay...?" Aoi came back the next morning just as Yako promised that the missing students will return the next day. The two girls were tearing up seeing that their purple haired friend finally came back. [Name] quickly grabbed Aoi's wrists and hugged her tight.

"Thank God Aoi, you're okay." [Name] digs her face against Aoi's neck, sniffling in the process. Aoi's cheeks turned pink yet she didn't know why her friends were acting this way—she doesn't remember a thing so she's confused why [Name] hugged her out of the blue. She didn't complain whatsoever and returned the hug. "Ehem, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, [Name]-chan." Aoi reassured, still internally flustered by the fact that [Name] hugged her out of the blue.

"She hugged my precious Ao-chan—!" Akane broke his pencil in half when he saw that [Name] hugged Aoi.

"Easy Aoi, [Surname] is a girl." Yamabuki nonchalantly commented yet he didn't break eye contact with his phone.

"Girl or not, anyone who steals Ao-chan is a threat to me." Good thing that everything is back to normal since the missing students have now returned along with their belongings. Some of the students went over to [Name] to ask as to why she isn't with Souho anymore which was suspicious because the whole class knew her relationship with the moss haired boy.

"Oh? We broke up." [Name] simply answered.

"Then, that means..." The class looked at [Name] and Akane with a grin. "AKANE X [NAME] IS BACK IN THE HOUSE!" One of the students yelled out loud while holding up a homemade banner of their idiotic ship name. [Name] smacked herself on the head. Before she was dating Souho, her classmates shipped her with Akane because they often fight over who gets the right answers in Math, hogging over the board with their calculators for the correct answer.

The class dubbed the two as the real life rivals to lovers out of fanfiction. Of course, Akane and [Name] hated that. "That dumbass likes Aoi—!" [Name] told them. She doesn't even like that red haired boy, they're more like frenemies. The month without their classmates shipping the two teens was a bliss but it had to end once [Name] announced that she broke up with Souho.

"She's right! I like Ao-chan!"

"It's boring to ship the obvious. Literally half of the fandom likes two characters who are yet to reveal their feelings, they rely on fanfiction and get hurt at the end."

"Calm down Touko-chan, that's too real."

[Name] excused herself to go see Kou which Aoi and Yashiro told her to go ahead so that the two girls can catch up.

Kou was spotted talking with Satou and Yokoo near the lockers. [Name] approaches them with a smile on her face and giving them a little wave. "Senpai!" Yokoo's face brightened at the sight of his senior. Kou was also relieved to see [Name] so he and the light haired boy ran up to her. "Thanks to your lesson about Math—I managed to get a perfect score!"

"Aw, that's nice Yokoo-kun." [Name] rubbed the top of his head.

"He sure does look like a puppy." Satou commented while eating some gummy bears.

"Agreed—oh wait, [Name]-senpai can I talk to you for a moment?" Kou asked, gesturing that they should discuss things alone. [Name] nodded as she followed Kou while Yokoo and Satou waved goodbye to their blonde haired friend. "Did you find the yorishiro? Did we win?"

"Yeah, we beat Number Two and now I have to figure out what her rumor is going to be." [Name] answered. Kou was embarrassed by the fact that he turned into a doll halfway to the fight. Kou twiddled his fingers as he scooted closer to [Name].

"S-Senpai, do you have a pen? I think mine ran out of ink so I couldn't use it."

"Oh sure Minamoto-kun, stay there I'll get a pen for you." [Name] quickly ran off to the direction of her classroom to get a pen for Kou. Teru was doing his daily patrol around the school while holding a clipboard, he immediately saw his little brother so he decided to greet him while he was at it.

"Nii-chan!" Kou happily approached his brother.

"Kou, what are you doing here?" Teru smiled while ruffling his brother's head.

"I was just waiting for my pen." Kou replied as he removed his brother's hand since he was ruining his hair by messing it up. Teru and Kou had a little talk about random stuffs to pass the time, even talking about what's for dinner and their little sister, Tiara. Before Teru could even speak further, [Name] arrived to give Kou a pen to use.

"Hi Minamoto-kun, I'm sorry I took too long—" [Name] panted after running back to hand Kou a pen. "It's a sign pen, it makes your writing look neat." Teru was startled at [Name]'s sudden appearance. It was as if when she arrived, time seemed to slow down. [Name] was playfully scolding Kou that he should bring an extra pen, then she giggled afterwards.

Teru slides a hand to touch his chest to feel that his heart was beating quite fast. Usually when Teru tells the girls that confessed to him that he likes someone else, that used to be a lie—and now that he is seeing this girl talking to Kou, there was a sheer spark of feelings. [Name] waved goodbye to Kou as Teru's gaze followed where she went. "You forgot your pen?" Teru asked.

"Ahh, yeahhh." Kou lets out a sheepish grin. "So I borrowed some from her."

"What is her name?"

"It's rare for you to ask someone's name..." Kou thought that Teru knew everyone in school considering that he reviewed the list of students in the school. "Her name is [Name] [Surname] and she's a First Year in Highschool." Oh. At first Teru thought that she was adorable. coming from someone who's insanely handsome and hot and literally making every guy and girl be dead on a ditch.

When Kou left to go back to the Junior High department of the school, Teru, for the first time, was flustered as he replayed the moment [Name] arrived to talk to Kou. She was insanely pretty.

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"Yashiro...where's [Name]?" Hanako floated over to the cream haired girl who was washing her hands on the bathroom sink. She closed the faucet to look at Hanako, he had this worried and pouty expression on his face.

"[Name]-chan is currently doing something in her club, so she might take long."

Hanako suddenly recalled the night before where [Name] told Yako that she is being selfish for trying to bring back someone who's already dead, replacing them with something else, and the fact that [Name] lost someone important to her, so he was curious about that. "Remember what [Name] said back in the Misaki Stairs? She said that she lost someone important, do you know anything about [Name]?"

Yashiro halts. The two of them may be practically friends but when she thinks about it, there's nothing much that she knows about [Name] other than being the sweetest person ever. When Yashiro met [Name] for the first time, she was gloomy, monotone, always had the stare that stabs ice cold daggers even she felt shivers when the two made eye contact.

[Name] was transferred into their class because she started school two months after the first day of their final year of Middle School. Because of her cold and strange demeanor, she was often picked on by the kids in her class because she looked unfriendly, but she didn't budge and she ignored them. [Name] gets scary when she's mad, sputtering her colorful vocabulary and wouldn't hesitate to diss them.

Yashiro thought she was scary at first until the two got paired in a partner activity. She tried to conceal the fact that she was afraid that [Name] might say something to her none of that happened because [Name] may have accidentally showed her warm side to her. All the nervousness that Yashiro felt from that day faded away and that's why, she asked [Name] if she wanted to be friends with her.

Even now, Yashiro didn't know why she was still friends with [Name] despite the fact that there are some aspects about her that she doesn't know. Yashiro may not know a lot, all she could do was to support her, be there when [Name] needs her and try to be the greatest friend to her.

"From what I heard a year ago, [Name] has a sister that passed away." Yashiro replied. "I think maybe she's the one that she's talking about—I don't know, I think you should be the one asking her about it. [Name]-chan doesn't really talk about herself but you can see what she's like if you're with her."

"Other than that [Name] is pretty and she's really cute sometimes. I may be into boys but if [Name] asks me out I would say yes~" Hanako glared slightly at Yashiro at the moment, then he winced—why did he react that way? It's not like he likes [Name] for him to feel that way. "H-Huh? Why are you looking at me that way—do you like [Name]-chan?!" Yashiro asked Hanako as her eyes sparkled with excitement.

Hanako rolled his eyes. "Whatever." Then, he floated away. He would be lying to himself if he said he didn't blush when Yashiro asked him if he likes [Name]. She's just an assistant. A friend. Nothing will go further than that right? But the night before where he kissed her cheek told another story. Speaking of [Name], she actually appeared just as he was thinking about her.

"Hanako-kun, I'm sorry I'm late—I have to tutor Yokoo-kun and write down the activity log from my club!" [Name] groaned in frustration, since when the hell did she became a worker instead of a student? She sighed while wiping a sweat from her forehead. "I still have time to clean the bathroom so might as well go along with it while I can."

"You just cleaned the bathroom days ago, it's alright. Besides, there's something else I wanted to do." Hanako scratches his cheek in an awkward manner. "Let's go to the rooftop, I dunno, I guess that's the only choice I have to hang out since you don't have time for cleaning."

"I do want a break so I don't mind going to the rooftop." [Name] caught Hanako's cheeks turning red and she blushed as well. "Oi—why are you blushing?!" She pointed out as more vermilion shades came seeping through her cheeks.

"I-I don't know! You're blushing too!" Hanako retorted while lowering his hat to cover his face. This feels like a quick burn, not really [Name] was expecting because she thought that she's going to experience the slow burn and you know what they say that slow burn is dreading but at least you have something to read for the whole day.

"Broski, I blush easily." [Name] admitted. Good thing they are currently in an empty hallway or else a student would've been suspicious as to why [Name] is talking to nobody, then again she talks to herself sometimes whenever she's planning something. Hanako slides his hands to cup her cheeks which took her by surprise. "Eyow—what the fuck are you doing? My god, your hands are cold."

"I'm going to try calming your blush."

"By cupping your cold ass hands to my cheeks?"

"Yeah..."

But that made [Name]'s blush worsen. She opened her mouth to speak but was quickly interrupted by the apparition boy. "Try to stay calm." Hanako softly tells her. "Just look at me." Somehow, to Hanako, holding [Name]'s face was kind of therapeutic. He doesn't know why but it's working. The way his hands fit perfectly around her cheeks, it's like he's carefully holding a fragile ornament.

'How the fuck am I going to calm down if you're looking at me like that.'

[Name]'s eyes ended up into spirals and passed out on the spot with a tiny ghost animation coming out of her head because of how flustered she is. "[N-Name]?!" Hanako panicked because [Name] ended up passing out while he was holding her face. "[Name]!" Hanako shook her back and forth.

He thought he might have broke her.

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so which team are you? (ik this is a hanako x reader but roll with it lmao we're going to have, not just the second lead syndrome, but a third, fourth, fifth lead syndrome ig HAHAHAHHAHA)

team hanako (even tho he's the first lead HAHAHAH)

team kou

team yashiro

team aoi

team akane

team teru