Vocaloid: VOCAL ACADEMY

Sakura and Skating - #49

Last time: Luka tells her friends about the date and gets ready for the date.

Luka's PoV

My pen moves elegantly across the page in front of me, staining the page with word after word.

That's no good thing, though.

I am currently doing homework, and waiting for Gakupo to come and pick me up.

Thinking about it makes me wonder if Miku has patched things up with Kaito yet.

Ever since her fight with Meiko a few days ago, Kaito has seemingly been avoiding Miku. It's obvious that he has probably taken Meiko's side.

I decide that I will text Miku later, asking her about the matter.

A light knock on the door disturbs me from my thoughts.

I jump out of my seat, staring at the door like it will attack me at any moment.

It's time.

I slowly approach the door, take a deep breath, twist the handle and open the door.

In front of me is Gakupo.

He smiles one of his sweet smiles at me.

"Ohayogozaimasu [Good morning], Luka." Gakupo says kindly.

"Ohayo, Gakupo-kun." I reply, blushing slightly.

"Are you ready to go?" He asks. I nod in reply, smiling as he leads me to the silver car parked just across the road.

He opens the car door for me, and I hop into the passengers seat. As I do that, I feel my phone vibrate in my coat pocket.

I pull it out and switch it on. It displays a text message on the screen. It's from Rin.

A\N: here is where I try and copy the Whatsapp massaging system... Bear with me! XD

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"Has ur date begun
yet?"                    12:00

"Gakupo has just picked
me up,  so it's about to 
begin..."                12:00

"Ooh nice, r u excited
or nervous~? X3" 12:01

"A mixture of both. Sure,
I'm really looking foward
to it, but I'm a nervous as
well... what if I mess up so
early?"                      12:02

"Relax, u won't mess
up!                      12:03

"I hope you're right.."
12:03

"I should probably go
now, leave u guys to it.
Len's trying to  do some
cooking (he said it was
homework) so I'm having
to supervise him. I don't
want him to burn the house
down."                          12:05

"Haha okay, that's probably
for the best. Good luck with
that. Talk to you later" 12:06

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"Who were you texting?" Gakupo asks me as I turn off my phone and stuff it back in my pocket. His voice has a hint of protectiveness in it.

"Just my friend, Rin." I explain, leaning back in the seat.

"Oh, okay." He responds, sounding somewhat relieved. I smile to myself as he reports, "We are almost there."

I look out of the window, to see the most beautiful Sakura [cherry blossom] trees I've ever seen.

"Wow..." I whisper, as Gakupo parks the car. I scramble out of the car and look around, taking in the pretty scenery around me.

"What do you think?" Gakupo smiles, appearing at my side.

"It's stunning... I love it." I respond.

"I thought you would like it. This park is full of Sakura trees, and there is also a lake over in that direction." Gakupo says, pointing past the Sakura trees.

"Let's go." I say, smiling. Gakupo leads me through the maze of Sakura, with occasional petals pirouetting down to the ground.

Eventually, we come across the lake Gakupo was talking about.

Due to the cold weather, the lake has completely frozen over. There are even people ice skating across the ice, gracefully dancing and leaping around the rink.

"About every year, around this time, the lake freezes over. People will come here to ice skate." Gakupo explains, watching as everyone has fun on the ice.

"Amazing." I breathe. Gakupo smiles.

"There is a small lodge over there that hand out ice skates. If you'd like, we could go and join those people on the ice." He says. I look at him hopefully.

"Really?" I ask, even though I know I'm awful at ice skating.

"Yes, really. Wait here, and I'll go and get some skates for us." Gakupo says, and drifts over to the lodge he was talking about.

I sit on the grass, taking out my phone and taking a picture of my surroundings. I send it to the group, smiling as I imagine their reactions. I turn off my phone just as Gakupo approaches me, clutching two pairs of ice skates.

"Here." He says, handing me a pair.

We put our ice skates on, and hobble onto the ice. Gakupo skates in a figure of eight, whilst I struggle to just stand still on the ice.

Gakupo skates back over to me and takes my hand. I hope he doesn't see my cheeks turning red as we skate around the lake together, his hand gripping onto mine, refusing to let go.

Gakupo looks at me, his eyes staring deeply into mine, and gives me one of his famous, heart-warming smiles.

I wish this moment could last forever.

Unfortunately it doesn't, and Gakupo and I soon get off the ice, panting, laughing and smiling.

"This calls for a selfie." Gakupo says, turning on his phone and clicking the camera icon. I squeeze in beside him and he puts a strong arm around me, and we both smile for the camera.

"That reminds me.." Gakupo says, turning back to face me, "can I have your phone number?"

I blush.

"Of course." I say, and tell him my phone number.

"Cool." Gakupo smiles, "I'll send you the pictures later on."

"Sounds good." I smile back, and look up to the clouds.

Gakupo: And that's all for today.

Luka: The next part will be the 50th part, not counting the authors notes! X3

Miku: See ya guys!