My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

I Don't Care if it Looks bad

This was a rather bad look for the pair as Rinse and Youna looked onto them.

"Why were the two of you coming from the boys bathroom together?" Rinse asked again what was going on here. Youna had a bit more of an internal belief as to what was going on. After all, Ryugi had a bit of a reputation, but Ishi wouldn't fall for someone like her, right? Certainly he wasn't the type to just give himself away to some girl.

"Well, we do have needs." He answered, picking up their cuffed hands as part of the explanation. "Unfortunately, the two of us couldn't handle our business by ourselves." He was calm in his response. The boy wasn't worried about how bad this must've looked to them. It wasn't that he was concerned they wouldn't believe him. On the contrary, it didn't matter to him is they bought his answer or not.

"R-right." In contrast, Ryugi was a mess. She didn't want any bad assumptions or rumors to get out to the rest of the students that she might've been... Enjoying Ishi alone in the bathroom. The girl had already suffered enough humiliation from this trip as it was. Not to mention that of the two people here to see her, one of them just had to be the school's idol. "I would totally never do anything with Hirose, he's so gross."

"I could've lived without the insult." He commented. A simple no would've sufficed in this situation, but he knew that she was overcompensating. "Not that it matters if we were doing what any other person might think we were doing."

"What?" His latter statement sent all of them into shock. It was unexpected coming from him, no matter how honest he generally was.

"I know it's against school rules, but what would you have actually done if you caught us?" He explained his thought process. "Tell on us? Well, I guess Youna would've said something because she's a class rep." Then again, she was painfully shy and probably would be biased on his side? But maybe that would be something he wouldn't want, since preferential treatment was a thing he disliked in cases like this.

"Uh..." Now the boy was lost in deep thought, which made him forget about the three girls standing around him now looking at him confused as to why he was no longer addressing them. Now he was muttering to himself what would've happened if the assumption was true as well as if that should be what should happen. "Ishi, it doesn't really matter now." Rinse snapped him back to reality.

"Of course it doesn't." Ryugi was relieved that this ended well for her. She wouldn't want to get on her idol's bad side from a misunderstanding like this. "Come on now, let's go finish the show." The pair of them left, as Koto's final scenes should be occurring soon.

The question neither of them bothered to ask was why Rinse and Youna were up here at these bathrooms. After all, these were out of the way that nearly no one would think of going here casually. The answer to that was these two had already seen the pair back at the auditorium. Since the idol had wanted to watch the play since she never had the opportunity herself to play a character on stage.

It was quite a shock to them when they saw Ishi sitting next to Ryugi. Even more so since when they stood up, it looked as though they were holding hands. To be fair, in the dark it was impossible to see the handcuffs.

Rinse was getting annoyed with the way she was looking at him now. Why should she care if he's hanging out with some girl he claimed to dislike? Even if they were a couple, she shouldn't be worried about their relationship and be happy for them. That's what Rinse the idol would do wholeheartedly.

But she's not always the idol.

Everyone returned back to the stage to witness the ending of the play. They were at the part when Juliet was sleeping and Romeo find hers, believing the girl to be dead. The tragic scene folded before them as Koto delivered his lines... Well enough for the job. His acting was a lot better than Ishi's, that's for certain.