A Painful Melody

Chapter 25- New ship

3rd person POV

"Akagawa-san!" A girl with short brown hair ran up to Akagawa. She was holding a small clip board.

"Akira-san, for what do I owe the pleasure of your presence?" Akagawa stopped, when the clipboard she was holding was pushed towards her face.

The papers on the clipboard were news articles, questioning why the emperor rented out a whole hotel and a three planes. Akira's green orbs looked straight at Akagawa. Shuichi grabbed Ayaha's wrist and decided to go on ahead.

"What about these?" Akagawa flipped through the articles.

Akira frowned, what was her connection with the emperor? How was any of this possible? She sighed when she saw Masumi in the corner of her eyes, "Hiro, what do you want?" The male chuckled lightly.

"What's wrong with checking in with the person I like?" He winked towards Akira, causing Akagawa to gasp.

"Are you two a pair? Should I start thinking of a ship name?" Akagawa's black orbs sparkled slightly. Since she barely interacted with anyone other than Shuichi, she lacked the opportunities to create a ship.

"No!" Akira shook her head violently and Masumi mouthed for her to do it anyway. Akagawa slightly smiled and mouthed 'good luck'.

Akira ruffled her hair,"Wait! That's not why I'm here! Hiro, stop making me go off topic!" She sighed deeply and her green eyes stared into Akagawa's. As if the staring contest were lasers, Akagawa felt like the way Akira was staring could have made holes.

"You can stare as long as you want, but I'm not so open as to saying my personal life." Akira paused and she averted her eyes.

"Sorry, I didn't mean-" Akagawa just started laughing and brushed it off by saying that it's okay.

Masumi put his arm around Akira's shoulder, "We'll see you in the next student council meeting. Thank you for helping us with the plane tickets and hotel." Akagawa smiled.

"No problem, I'll see you then." If this is what it was like for people to genuinely thank her and not just to get on her good side, Akagawa loved the feeling a lot. Hiding her past may have added an extra burden but the results were worth it. People don't know exactly who she is and the feeling is great.

Even though her nature attracted a bunch of hatred, there's still the selected few who didn't despise her.

As Akagawa was heading towards class the figure who was eavesdropping, ran from their position. Unluckily for them, while running away, the eavesdropper ran past Akashi. The red headed male memorized the suspicious figure's face.

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Akagawa sighed and looking at the time, Akashi was 20 minutes late. She didn't know how to feel about this. He pestered her for answers but when they scheduled for him to ask questions, he's late.

She ran her hand down her red hair, "In 5 minutes, I'm going to leave." She mumbled. Then as if he had good timing, Akashi came running from the corner and he spotted Akagawa.

He stopped in front of her and was panting from the long run. Akashi took deep breaths, "My apologizes for my late arrival, my father had an unplanned meeting but we couldn't deny due to the family being a VIP." Akagawa's black orbs seemed to faintly glow, but the small light disappeared before anyone noticed.

Except for Akashi, who was in front of her.

"Doesn't matter now, shall we get lunch?" Akagawa sighed softly and Akashi nodded his head.