Unknown Secret

Chapter 22

[Finalist…]

“Please don’t give my heart back to me because it is now yours…”

“Eh?”

“That’s mean… I…”

“LOVE YOU!! Woooo~~~” 13 people went out from the exit door and cheered.

“Omae!!!” Arisa and Kota shouted angrily as they were shocked by their existence.

“Maa, Ari-chan~ Don’t you get what Kou-chan want to convey to you?” her step-brother tapped her shoulder.

Arisa still couldn’t get along with the situation and tilted her head. “Huh? What are you talking about?”

“ ‘Please don’t give my heart back to me because it is now yours….’ Means that… He loves you, Baka! Uwaa~ What a sweet mouth ne~” the pale guy explained then teased his best friend.

“Uruse!” Kota scolded him to cover his shyness.

“Eh? Chotto! Who and what are you talking about? He loves me? Who?” 

“Don’t play dumb, Ari-chan. We heard it. Kota-kun just confessed to you deshou~ No need to hide it~” Eri elbowed her and teased but she just received a laugh from her. Not only her, even Kota laughed together with Arisa.

“Ahahahaha! Looks like our plan turned out well ne, ‘Kou-chan’” she turned to Kota and high-fiving with him happily. They laughed together hardly as they hold their stomach.

The other members stayed confused. Their faces shown that they really don’t understand what’s happening here.

“Ch-chotto! You are the one who should surprise deshou? We shocked you, right? And what’s going on here? ‘Kou-chan’? Since when that… Isn’t that the only nickname that Inoo-chan and Chii called you?” the thousand questions from the penguin even make them more burst out of laugh.

“Ahahaha! Jitsuwa ne (Actually), we already a couple yo~” as they announced the shocking news, the members dropped their jaws.

“Eh~~? Maji de???” they shouted in synch.

Arisa and Kota nodded together. “But…since when?”

“Emm…” they looked at each other. “About a week ago maybe? Ne?” said Kota.

*Flashback*

It was on a Sunday when Kota wandered around the city, feeling his loneliness. Most of his best friends are now out for work and he had no friend and got nothing to do.

“Are? Kota-kun?” someone called him from behind. Kota looked back and saw a chibi girl there.

“Oh, Arisa. Yo!” he greeted her. 

“What are you doing here? Being alone?” without replying his greeted, she just straight to the point.

“Well, it was so good till you came here~” Kota joked around.

“Owh, souka. Then, I shall take a leave now. Jyaa ne” as she heard that she was unpleasant there, she excuse herself coolly. She maybe looked ‘hurt’ by his words but she said it coolly instead of pouting. 

When Arisa started to lift her right leg to leave him, Kota took her left hand by his right hand.

“Gomen… I’m joking. I don’t want you to leave now…” he said slowly, almost whispering as he wished he never said that because it just make him feels awkward!

Arisa stopped. Somehow, she feels happy to hear that. ‘I don’t want you to leave now…’ that kind of words. It was Kei who always say that to her.