My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

IOU

A few days into this Summer break after having to suffer through that tutoring session, Ishi was feeling confident that things were looking up. Rinse seemed to be leaving him alone, and nothing unfortunate had happened yet. Of course the break was still young, so something was bound to happen. Such as what his mother told him while they ate breakfast.

"Don't forget that your cousin is coming to stay with her for a while." She informed him. It was information he was aware of during the weeks leading up to this.

"I remember." He replied. "But I don't really like him, he's kind of weird." Ishi was already looking forward to when his relative would leave so that some semblance of peace and quiet.

"But you'll be nice right?" She said. "After all, he looks up to you a lot."

"Don't worry, I'm not going to bully him or anything." After all, that boy was still family. "Looks like he'll be staying in my room too." His place was going to be feeling rather cramped for a while. A bit of a shame that his parents were renovating the spare room over the past month. Both because of this, as well as the fact that he would've relocated himself to it when Rinse moved in.

He was disappointed about this news, but not shocked. This was already something he was aware of going into this break. The next piece of news was a bit more surprising to him. It began with a knock on their door. "Sheesh, we really keep getting way too many visitors these days." Ishi muttered as he went to answer it.

On the other side was his friend Otoya with that dumb smile of his. The person standing next to him was a little more of a surprise, since it was Rinse. "What thing are you about to rope me into?" Was the first response he had to this sight.

"Funny story, but it turns out I was the one millionth customer down by the Eight-Eleven." With that accolade, he pulled out the reward given to him. It was a set of four movie tickets to go see whatever he wanted in theaters.

"Let me guess, you asked Hattori to come with you, and want to ask me too?" He took a little bit of issue that this boy went to the idol first, instead of his best friend. On one hand, it was nice that he didn't want to bother him first. At the same time, it would've been better if he never showed up in the first place.

"That's the plan."

"And what exactly is there to keep me from saying no to this oh-so-kind offer?" He could deal with watching a movie in the comfort of his own home. However theaters were not up his alley. There were to many people there, and sometimes it could be a real mess. So Ishi planned on simply rejecting the offer, though he understood what his friend was up to.

Let's be real here, there was a popular idol who was friendly to him. However it would be too weird if they went alone since anyone would view that as a date. However, if a friend were to come along, then it wouldn't be a big deal. Though Ishi certainly didn't want to be some third wheel.

"Because I got this." Otoya reached into his pocket and produced a strip of paper with words on it.

"You got a piece of paper?" Rinse looked at it puzzled on how this would convince this boy to do anything.

"Not just any piece of paper." He bragged. "It's an IOU." Several months ago was this boy's birthday. Ishi being the generous friend he was, didn't have any gift ideas. So he gave him this scrap piece of paper that stated that he would do anything Otoya asked of him just once. No matter how much he might've hated it, or how ridiculous the request, this contract had to be fulfilled.

"That's what I get for not getting you a real present." Ishi sighed. As stupid as this sounded, if he made a promise, then it was going to be kept. Something like this was going to be saved for when it would benefit him the most. Well, a date with an idol certainly topped that list. That was probably preferable compared to what he thought this boy was going to request. It was most likely to be something stupid like making him dress up as a maid during their culture festival.