My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

Piled on

Ishi was done with this day. Having his hopes crushed will certainly teach him not to look forward to anything anymore. He laid in his bed, wishing that this was all just a dream. However, there was nothing for him to wake up from. This was indeed his reality.

And the bad news would keep piling on as he heard banging on his window. The boy got up and looked to see what was causing all the commotion, only to see Rinse with a broom attacking the glass.

"What do you want?" He asked, opening his window. "Can't you see I'm in my room sulking right now." She did have free reign to look into his room at any given time. Of course, she made it a habit not to since he could be literally doing anything. A few of those thing being stuff she never wished to set her eyes on.

"You make no sense." She glared at him with rage in her eyes.

"Huh?" He didn't get it. They hadn't seen each other since class ended. Surely he couldn't have done something to have upset her already. "Did you just miss arguing with me?"

"It's not that." She retorted. "I'm talking about the girl you're having over."

"Uh? How did you find... Never mind." Ishi decided it was better to tell her the context to this story. Unfortunately, despite telling her the truth. Rinse didn't appear to be any happier to hear the news.

"Why would you even accept that?" He was always talking a big game about not wanting to interact with people. If that was the case, then the boy was really bad at doing it. "It's just like with the field trip. You're always arguing against everything, so why would you help out?"

"It turns out there are people I don't argue with." He explained. "They're called teachers." Authority did have an effect on him. Generally to the tune of not wanting to get into trouble, or disappointing the adults that held power over him. "If that's everything, leave me alone so I can go to sleep." Ishi attempted to end their conversation by shutting his window. However, she stopped it by jamming her broom into his room.

"Oh no you aren't." She said. "If you're going to have someone over at your place, then I have to be there to observe you."

"Observe me?" That was an odd choice of words. Then he remembered what she said to him during their bus ride back. The girl must've been rather curious about his actions, especially since they don't appear to line up with his character. To him, what was there to figure out? He simply never had the opportunity to do the things he wanted.

As much as he didn't want her to come over, there was no chance of saying no. Rinse would probably pester him seeing as she literal feet away from his room. "All right, but you're not going to find anything interesting."

***

A part of him was regretting allowing Rinse into his home. However, he also knew that if she wanted to annoy him for rejecting her, she could with that broom of hers. So this was his only logical answer.

"So, you got any homework you wanted to do while you were here?" He asked as she entered through his front door. This was the first time the girl had ever been to his place. A little unfair seeing as he got the chance on her first day.

"No, I took care of it before the break started. Doesn't everybody?" She really was the angel of the school, wasn't she? Ishi had a little bit that he didn't mind taking care of on his first day of the break. "I guess I can study a little bit while I'm here."

"Whatever." He led her to the couch in his living room. "Kamagata should be arriving in a couple of minutes. By the way, if you think I'm mean, then she's at least 10 times meaner than me." If that girl didn't want him showing up at her place, then she might not care to be doing homework in his room. Not to mention that being stuck in there all day would get stuff. So being in this more spacious spot was preferable.