My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

It Takes a Class

And so the class had decided on what they were to create for this culture festival. A talent show done inside, where they'd gather contestants to showcase their skills in front of many students. All this spearheaded by Rinse as a celebrity judge. Meanwhile, Ishi had offered his services to be the other judge. After all, how could auditions be performed without that classic harsh judge.

"I'm surprised that you're helping out as much as you have." She said as they gathered around their desks after school. "I thought you weren't looking forward to the festival."

"You see, Ishi's the kind of boy to take responsibility." Otoya teased with the wording. The past couple of years, he didn't do anything special outside of attending. So this was all new to him.

"I was the one to come up with one of the ideas." Ishi explained himself. "And the talent show is because of me speaking up. So if it goes poorly, it's on me." Just like when he was one of the two people in charge of the field trip. The boy knew those students would direct their ire on him during any potential failures. This was a pain, and he wondered if he should've kept his big mouth shut on this one. Then again, arguing with people was just too hard for him to resist.

"And that's why I'm also here." Ryugi slammed her hand onto his desk in a show of dramatics. "You're always the fun killer, so there's no doubt you'll do something stupid when it comes up." So she positioned herself to be his caretaker as if he was an elderly person with memory issues.

"Speaking of being here." Ishi ignored the girl in front of him, for the one sitting besides him. "Rinse, don't you have to go to work?"

"Well, there's some time before I'm scheduled to arrive." Since there were some things to be done with the festival, she decided this was the best way to spend her short bit of free time. It was to his displeasure, as this most likely meant having to see her after school more often now.

"How are you so comfortable with her?" Ryugi complained. "The way you act, it's like you don't even know she's a celebrity."

"I'm comfortable with everyone, celebrity or not." He fought back. "Even you, why else do you think I call you by your nickname?"

"Actually, you two do seem to act really familiar with each other." Rinse believed to be strange. While they never seemed to interact causally in class, there was just something about the way they talked that showed years of history. "But you almost never talk to each other."

"Just like with Youna, I've spent all three years of my high school life with her as a classmate." He leaned back into his seat and sighed heavily. "Disappointingly."

"Don't think I've enjoyed it for a second either!" She yelled at him. "Doing that group project with you was absolute torture."

"Because I wasn't going to be forced to do all the work." He argued against her further as they got distracted as to why they were here in the first place. "It's a group project, so everyone better pull their own weight. Plus when you used to sit closer to me, it was really annoying to have to hear your friends all the time." A group of girl's giggling and laughing without a care of those around them was horrible for him. While he did leave his desk at times from their presence, it was a major inconvenience to do so.

"M-maybe the two of you..." Meekly, Youna tried to make her presence known. However, her quiet voiced mixed with their near shouting match made this a futile effort. "Should stop fighting and... Get back to work."

"Ah, will you look at the time." Rinse took a look at her phone and saw the time. She was out of it and now was the time for her to leave and head to work. "I'll see you all tomorrow, don't have too much fun-" She was interrupted as she was exiting the room. While turned to face them and bid her farewell, the girl ended up running into someone attempting to enter the classroom. "Ah, sorry about that Katagawa." It was Chinae, along with a couple other of her classmates.