My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

Help a guy out

 "You know, I thought the exams would've been more challenging with how much hype they got when we were second years." Ishi commented as they exited the classroom.

"Yeah." Rinse agreed with him as they stuck together after class. "But for me it's easy because I've already gotten plenty of tutoring during private learning." The girl was very fortunate to have some world class tutors, as well as the fact that her parents had her study college level courses.

"Speak for yourselves." Ryugi appeared to be very exhausted after their latest exam. Despite sitting in a chair all day, she felt like she just ran a marathon. "I don't even know if I passed."

"I'm sure you did." Youna had words of encouragement. "It looks like you've been studying a little harder these days."

"But that doesn't seem to cut into your hangout time with those girls." Ishi noted the trio of girls with the gyaru as she gathered some energy. "You'd probably be less tired if you sacrificed fun with study sometimes."

"Gosh, you're not her dad." Already there was defense being played by her friends. For some reason, Ritsuko really didn't like him. Not that he minded, for once someone seemed to have a proper reaction to his attitude. "She's a grown girl who doesn't need to listen to a boy like you."

"Heheh." Nervously, Ryugi laughed in regards to her friend's behavior. "Don't worry about it, Ishi's just someone who thinks he's better than everyone else."

"Am not." He responded, crossing his arms.

"I don't know." While they were chatting, another girl came into the conversation. "You always got an opinion on something." She had also just finished her exam in the other class. The bags under her eyes made it clear that she had also put in a lot of hard work preparing for it. That combined with her secret job as an idol definitely had its toll on her.

It was funny for him to think that he was forced to help her with homework back during the summer break. Now knowing the context of her career, it was a little more obvious why she let all that work pile up. Though how much of that was an excuse to be lazy about things was unknown to him.

"I don't remember asking everyone I know to surround me." Now Ishi was stuck with the girls for some reason. The boy was really bad at getting people to avoid him if a bunch of cute girls bothered to spend so much time with him. "Let's be real, you all know I prefer to be alone."

"Really?" Ryugi giggled. "Isn't it pretty much every boy's dream to be surrounded by beautiful ladies? Especially when you get to be graced with my presence."

"It's not every boy's dream." He certainly put himself as the outlier to that statistic, if one existed.

"Well, I'm only here because I got nowhere else to be." Chinae was a loner by nature, so she also had no friends in her class. On the other hand, she was rather acquainted with a fair bit of the members of his class. The one who mattered the most was Rinse, or perhaps it was turning more towards Ishi?

"Anyway, I'm just glad that it's the weekend." He said. Normally, weekends would be consisted of him being able to get away from most of them outside of Rinse. She usually didn't work on weekends unless there was a concert, which there wasn't this time.

"Yeah, I guess we'll see you next week." Said Youna. She was always disappointed to hear him speak like this. Since she was a part of the group that didn't see him, it appeared that he was excited to be rid of her when they weren't at school.

"Bet your days are just going to be the same lame things they always are." Just once, Ryugi wished she could take him out to show the boy all the wonders he was missing out on by being such a shut-in.