Game Gyaru

Chapter 20: With us 2

The sight of the scene appeared rather normal. Who would question a group of teens sitting around in the living room with a game console at the center of attention. However, for Hakuta and Shiuka, this was the worst possible thing to occurring at this moment.

Their guests had come in unannounced, which was rather rude in his eyes. Though since she gave her friends a key to the house, it wasn't an issue of any legal terms. The bigger problem was they were only saved by the skin of their teeth by pretending he was over here first to hang out and play a popular game with her.

"How come you guys didn't invite me?" He asked as they booted up another game. Hakuta was given the reins when it came to the controls while everyone around was talking out loud as to who they thought were the fakers. Provided that he wasn't playing as one of those characters.

The reason for his question was that since they never shot him a message on his phone, he was unprepared for their arrival. A quick check on his phone was proof enough they didn't bother update him on the situation. However, in those boy's minds, he was still living back at his old house. So they were perfectly fine that he wasn't going to be here.

"Well, Ninka's boyfriend was coming too..." They sheepishly admitted their reasoning. With that boy, that made for what they thought was a total of three boys. Completely balanced seeing as there were three girls attending this hangout session. Seeing as they were still interested in the gyarus in a romantic sense, they believed he would feel left out.

"I'm sure glad you two are my friends." He sarcastically quipped about them planning on not telling him. Even if they made a good point, the least they could done was ask him if he was going to come. They never gave him the chance to say no. "Whatever, at least we're all here together."

Though, despite knowing most of the people here. Hakuta had to admit to not being partially close, or even in the same ballpark, with Ninka's boyfriend. He couldn't even remember that boy's name because he went to a different class. This guy also wasn't very memorable either.

One would refer to him as classmate A in a traditional light novel story. However, there were probably going to be more important classmates over this type of guy. So perhaps the term, classmate C or D was more fitting.

Either way, the most important factor was Hakuta was comfortable with most of the people here. And wasn't worried about acting too nervous in front of any of them, including classmate D since that guy seemed nice.

"I'm just going to drop by the bathroom for a moment." He got up and handed the controller to Shiuka. Then, he left the living room, but did not head directly towards the restroom. Instead, the boy looked back to make sure no one was watching him then headed up the stairs.

While playing, a thought came into his head that made him realize the risk of leaving the door to his room unlocked. If someone were to walk in there for some reason, any reason, then they'd know he was living here. That room had all his things, his clothes, his school stuff, everything. So a quick drop by to lock it with a key was all he needed for peace of mind.

With that out of the way, he prepared himself to head back down the steps when trouble hit him.

"What are you doing up here?" There standing in front of him was Ninka. "Thought you said you were going to the bathroom?"

"I did..." He spoke nervously. His acting job was pretty poor when confronted with stress. Obviously it would seem weird to anyone that he used the toilet upstairs when there was a bathroom perfectly working down on the first floor. "Shiuka just told me the one down there is... Dirty and we shouldn't use it." Hakuta used the advantage of supposedly being here first before any of them to his advantage.