My new Neighbor's an Idol!?

Happiness 3

The time seemed to fly on by and before anyone realized it, today was Valentine's day. Of course people were going to be in a stir about how Rinse would go about this day. Presumably, most people assumed that she would get things started with it. However, it seemed more likely that she was going to save it for the end of the day.

"You know, everyone's going to be pretty distracted about your chocolates all day." Ishi commented as he peered over to the black bag she was holding. It seemed that even what she made was kept secret, but he felt it was mainly because she was lying about being able to make chocolates. Those were probably just store bought, though surely high quality considering the money she earned working.

"I understand." She sounded very tense to him. Seeing as the girl never appeared to be unnerved over performing in front of hundreds of people live, what she was going to do today must've taken a lot of courage. "I'm just waiting for the right time to do it, that's all." It made sense to him that she'd be full of hesitation. Perhaps she might even think about backing out, but there might be one problem preventing her from doing so.

"Everyone might be a little disappointed if you don't give it away." He reminded her that she wasn't forced by anyone to do this. "But they'll forget about it in a couple of days and we'll go just go on fawning over you."

"True... But what about what you said that day?" She turned it around on him. Ishi was the one who told her to chose the boy she truly liked. Not to just do it out of obligation if she really wanted to feel the holiday's spirit to its fullest. "I worked really hard on this last night, so I don't intend to give up so easily."

"It's also really nice that Ishi said what he did back then too." Otoya entered the conversation. "That means the person you give that to is someone you really care deeply about." Of course, that would really get the boy's most excited over the prospect of. No matter how long of a shot it was, most of them were secretly hoping that it'd be them.

"That part surprised me the most." Said Ishi. After all those dumb things they did when she first came here. Such as when he had to come up with stupid games to try and please the people who wanted be to closer to her. The boy never would've expected in a million years that she'd actually fall in love with anyone during school.

And so they tried to go about the rest of their day as normally as possible. Another thing that Ishi noticed as they went on was the lack of girls giving away chocolates to any of the boys. That was strange, since the previous years he could remember a lot of that happening during their breaks. It hit him to realize that they were also waiting for Rinse to finally give hers away first.

It would be pretty hard, understandably, to have the boy you like get chocolates from the school's idol. At that point, there would be practically zero chance of winning in that love triangle. Yet at the same time, they might also be afraid of giving it to the boy first, only to have their chance snatched away when Rinse rolled around.

"We got an issue brewing here." Ishi stated to her as he spotted his cousin coming up to their classroom during the lunch break. At this point, they were halfway through the day without getting any hints from her. People were beginning to get a little antsy about who her pick was going to be that they began to ask while they were eating lunch.

His cousin's arrival ended up creating a chain of events that was unfavorable for Ishi and Rinse. Depending on one's opinion, it was up for debate who suffered the most between them.

"Are you going to do it soon?" Someone asked.

"Can you give us a hint?" Another person spoke up. They had all crowded around her desk. With the number of people here, and his close proximity to her, Ishi also felt the group surrounding him as well.