Momo❤︎Tomo [COMPLETED]

❤︎Chapter 7: Friends With Bullies

"Momoka-chan, what did you bring for lunch today?" Reina reaches for my bento and I hide it in my chest.

"Don't look at it! I was practicing this morning and..."

"Oooh!" Chiharu nudged me with her elbow. I glared deep into her mischievous dark brown eyes and she grinned at my defensiveness, "You must be practicing for the future."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Kyaa! Our little Momo is so adorable! I'm rooting for you! Hey, hey, I'm good at cooking cute bentos! I'll help you out when you want to start packing some for Tomo." Aimi wrapped her arms around me and squeezed. She was so close that I became overwhelmed by her strawberry scented perfume and her sunny blond hair.

"Cut it out already! I really hate you guys! By the way, I need your help."

Reina laughed and wrapped her arm around my shoulder. The 4 of us went over to the spot in the classroom where we usually sat and had lunch together.

"What's up, darling? Everything going smoothly between you and Tomomi?"

"Yeah..." I sit down as I take a deep breath. We start to open our lunches, but we never ate them after I started talking. "Actually, we're going to have our first date this weekend."

"No way!"

My friends nearly exploded out of their seats and I apologized to all of the kids eating in the class with us. They had to listen to us shout every day at noon....

"Mm..." I let myself get lost in happiness as I was bombarded with questions I had already asked myself.

"Who asked first? Tomomi, right?"

"What the heck are you going to wear?!"

"Ahh! You're going to do your hair the night before, aren't you?"

"Where are you two going?"

"Oh my god! This is so exciting!"

"I know, I know, I'll squeal with you guys about it later, but right now, our relationship is attracting too much attention. Unwanted attention." I said this waiting for my friends to look at me with confusion, but instead, they exchanged knowing glances.

Knowing the atmosphere was getting tense for a reason, I narrowed my eyes at all three of them.

"Guys. Something you want to tell me?"

Reina let out a sigh, "Oh, it's not exactly a secret. We just kept it from you."

"Oh, really, Reina?"

"Okay, okay. We didn't want to tell you about it because it would make you worry! We'd rather you be happy than know about what everyone in the school is talking about."

"They're gossiping about us?!" I smack my hands on the table in annoyance. I remembered the other day when the girls in the locker room were talking and hadn't thought too much of it. I didn't think it was anything to worry about, but if the majority of the school were chatting about it, then...

"What kinds of stuff are they saying."

"Oh, they're just jealous. They talk about how you don't match up with Tomomi at all, or how you're not smart enough or good enough to go out...stupid stuff."

"Ouch..." I sink in my chair as the words weigh me down. How cruel....how cruel, but true.

"Don't you dare start thinking those words are true!" Chiharu kicks me under the table and I jump.

"...since we're on the subject..."

I bring it up hesitantly, but eventually I manage to tell my friends about the anonymous texts I got in the middle of class. It's a quiet 10 minutes as my friends lean over my cellphone with deep frowns on their faces. When it's done, they hand my phone back.

"Well. We need to get to the bottom of this."

"..what?" I say in shock. For some reason, I wasn't expecting them to take this any further.

"Um, you alright, Momoka? You do know this is your relationship with Tomomi being threatened by some jealous chick in our school?"

"It shouldn't be hard to figure out who she is..."

"Hmm... Yeah I bet she's a member of the Prince Tomo club."

"You guys are going to go after this...wait, how do you know it's a girl?"

Aimi bursts into laughter, "You're so naive."

"...okay..."

"Look here. In this message, she says "Prince Tomomi can't belong to someone like you."

"What does that mean exactly?"

"Are you sure you go to this school? There's a fan club set up specifically for girls who love and support Tomomi Maruyama. He's their idol and their club grows everyday. Of course, they never take action unless something involving Tomomi happens that they get jealous over. Like you, for example. Now you two are a couple."

"..That makes sense. I want to join the club..."

"Really, Momoka? If you join the club, you give up your relationship with Tomomi. Every girl in that club is sworn to having a neutral relationship with him. Staying out of the club and being his girlfriend proves you're above all of them. Don't you see?"

"How dense are you, Momoka?"

"You guys aren't helping. I know I'm slow."

"Ahh! Geez. This whole thing really bugs me. Let's go talk to Tomomi."

Reina reaches over to scoop up her lunch and take my hand. She pulls me to my feet and the girls do the same.

"Guys! Wait...you're serious? We can't bring something like this to Tomomi! We should just keep quiet about it --"

"Momoka sometimes I want to slap you. Trust me when I say bringing the problem to him will fix everything."

"I don't want to burden him with this.."

"She really hasn't dated anyone before. What she said just now proves it."

I am then yanked out of the classroom reluctantly to tell Tomomi about the one threatening our blossoming relationship. I'm too scared to know how he'll react...

"By the way, I hope he and the guys won't mind us having a group lunch." Aimi says.

"Yeah, it's sounds kind of fun, though."

"Ahh! Don't you think Tomomi's friends are cute!"

"Aren't they? I have a bit of a crush on that Tadashi dude. He's the soccer team captain."

"W-- lunch with Tomomi...? And his friends? I'm not ready!"

"Momoka-chan, you have so much to learn!"