My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

An Offer he Doesn't Want to Refuse

There were still some time left in their Summer break. Ishi was hoping that it was going to be relatively peaceful now that his cousin had gotten himself moved in now. Surely nothing interesting was going to happen between now and when school got itself started once more.

Of course he knew that to be a false hope given the neighbor next door. In fact, as he laid in bed. Ishi expected the girl to start knocking on his window with a broom asking him to do something stupid. Or perhaps Otoya could swing by again and trouble him some more with a weird scheme. That boy certainly had reason to come by, and it wasn't because they were best friends.

What he didn't expect the knocking on his door. It wasn't the simple fact that someone was at their door, since he imagined that being how Otoya would make his arrival known. Now he knew that boy's style of knocking, so this definitely wasn't him. So he went downstairs to go answer it, as his parents were out shopping and they had left him to take care of Koto. That boy was really hopeless by himself and sometimes in public.

"Oh, it's you." He unenthusiastically reacted to the sight given to him. Rinse had dropped by, this time coming to his door rather than his window. "What do you want?" Ishi wasn't in the mood to be hanging out. Then again, he was never in the mood to hang out.

"Well I was about to leave for the studio." She said. Idols don't take breaks, regardless of the fact that she was on Summer break. The girl still had her obligations in her career. "I wanted the two of you to join me there." She left out the word 'ask', which changed the intentions of her statement drastically. It wasn't a question, rather it was an order for them to carry out.

However, before he was able to answer. The two of them had their conversation interrupted by the arrival of Koto.

"Ishi!" He called out to his cousin as he walked downstairs. "My uniform came in today. Oh, I see Rinse is here to see me in all my glory." The other two were utterly stunned by his appearance. This boy came down with all his pride while wearing a school girl uniform. "I have to say, the boy's uniforms look kind of weird."

"That's because that's not a boy's uniform." Ishi informed him. Not in an embarrassed manner, but rather sounding very disappointed that this boy couldn't just figure this out on his own. This is what the girls wear." He couldn't believe that the school could make such a major mistake. They hadn't even seen him yet, so there's no way they could've been fooled by his feminine looks. Must've been the name that caused them to trip up.

"G-girl's uniform?" Koto spoke slowly as he came to a bitter realization. "Then that means Rinse... She's watching me wear... Girl's clothing?" Absolutely humiliated by his blunder, the boy quickly covered his face and ran upstairs to his room in shame.

"You don't mind waiting a couple minutes, do you?" Ishi asked, to which she nodded her head. After the boy returned wearing normal clothing, they were able to get back to their present conversation. "Now that you're done embarrassing yourself, you want to go to where Rinse works?" He asked his young cousin.

"Really?" That was more than enough to turn the mood around for the young boy. "Y-you're not joking with me, right?"

"When have I ever joked?" His confirmation sent the boy into a frenzy as he rushed Rinse and gave her a big hug.

"What?" She responded, shocked and trying to get the boy off of her. "But, I didn't expect you'd accept so easily?"

"Well, considering that I've been stuck with an idol for a neighbor. I figure I might as well... You know, experience the fact that you are one." So far in his time with her, Ishi had yet to see much idol from her outside of singing. But if that was going to be the case, then she might as well have been just some popular beauty that could sing. It would've been nice to at least know what caused everyone in his school to go crazy over this girl.