Shining Stars

Chapter Thirty-Five: A Strange Girl

Ruby hummed as she got ready for the day. Ai had told her that they'd be going out with Grandma Yui. She was excited to see her Grandma again, she hadn't seen her in several months. 

She was in the middle of brushing her hair, her eyes closed, though from the entranceway she heard her brother's voice.

"I'm heading out to shoot, I'll see you all later."

Ruby's eyes widened, standing from her stool. She ran out of her room, and made her way towards the entrance way, dropping her brush in her haste to catch her brother before he left.

"Stop! Aqua!"

She shouted as she entered the entrance way, causing the boy to turn to her, his eyes narrowing.

"What is it, Ruby?"

He pulled out her phone and began to type quickly. Her eyes scanned her screen as if she was looking for something. Aqua became even more distrusting of her.

"What is this about..?"

"I'm your sister! I'm not very keen on having you going out with some girl I can't get along with!"

Aqua sighed as he knew that this was going to be one of those days with her.

"With that being said, I'm going to decide who you're going to date."

"How can you be so shameless?"

She smiled, ignoring her brother's question. She clicked one last time and glanced up at him.

"My number one recommendation is… Yukipon!"

She said as she flipped around her phone to show him some kind of page on Yuki, detailing her gender, height, profession, as well as her spirals.

"Yukipon..?"

"Yep! She's probably a good girl who's genuine and innocent!"

Aqua stayed silent for a moment, before he turned and was preparing to leave.

"You can't read people at all, so you're banned from relationships for the time being."

"What!? But that's so controlling you siscon!"

Aqua stopped and turned to his sister, his eyes showing a hint of anger under his normally stoic expression.

"Didn't you just try to tell me who I'm allowed to date…"

"Shut up! I just want to make sure you don't date some… some manipulator!"

She yelled and stormed off, flushing red as she was just called out on her hypocrisy. Besides, she needed to finish brushing her hair, at any rate.. Aqua rolled his eyes as he opened the door and left to head to the set.

- - - - - -

Ai and Ruby were waiting for Yui at the restaurant they were supposed to get breakfast at.

The crowd of people cluttered in the area was not out of the norm for downtown Tokyo on a Saturday. Ruby wasn't bothered by the amount of people in the crowd as she checked her phone.

"It's almost nine, that's when you said Grandma Yui was gonna get here, right?"

She asked her mother, who nodded. Like Ruby, she was unbothered by the amount of people in the area, she wore a cap, a pair of sunglasses and mask to conceal her identity for the moment. She had only retired a week ago, and the amount of people who wanted to talk to her when she went out in broad daylight was immense. She didn't want people who recognized her to ruin this girl's day out.

"There you two are."

Yui smiled as Ruby's eyes widened as she ran to give her grandma a hug.

"Grandma Yui!"