Love is unexpected

Chapter 2: What is love?

Haruka's POV

"I'm sorry about the cramped space, I'll clean it out when I have the time. Oh right, the restroom is right next to your bed," Azumi said. I was so sorry I ever thought of her as a bad person.

"I should be sorry," I confessed," I can't believe I ever thought of you so badly."

"It's really alright, I expected it when I agreed to help encourage you so really, no worries. But I can do really bad stuff to you like make you clean Momiji's litter box."

"Who's Momiji?" I asked.

"My cat," she said and lifted up a little black cat with a white tummy.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door,"Come in," Azumi said. I expected one of my boys to come in but it was Mikaze Ai, one of the boys from Quartet☆Night, instead,"Sorry to interrupt, but can I borrow Azumi for a bit." He said flatly. His tone didn't sound like a question.

"Yes. Yes! Of course!" I said quickly. Azumi put Momiji on the ground,"I'll be right back. Feel free to feel at home." Then she stood up and left the room.

Since she was gone I took a good look around the room. The room was quite simple. Her bed was on the darkest side of the room, straight across from the window, which is where my bed is at. The windows were shut tightly, so no light came through. She has a desk placed right next to her bed and next to that was a bookshelf, which had a guitar resting against it. There were 2 drawers against the wall with the door. One was probably for me so I made me way over to the drawers. The one on the right had a box, a keyboard, and an iPod with a set of earplugs on top of it. So that was probably Azumi's. I opened the one on the left and started to place my stuff inside it.

After a little while I finished putting all my stuff in so I decided to go check on the guys to see how they're doing.

Syo's POV

Ai had left a but earlier and said for us to wait for him if we finished unpacking so we just hanged around in there. It really wasn't fair of him to take up all the space and only give us a small corner of the room. And an agenda?! Like every single minute of the day we had something to do. And even an agenda for the restroom?! He's so uptight and antisocial, doesn't need to care for anyone else does he? I bet he's not going to even care what happens to us. He's not going help us in anyway. So much of being a senior.

Suddenly the door opened, Natsuki and I turned to look. It was Ai and right behind him was Azumi, Haruka's Senior and Otoya's childhood friend. "Hello guys" she said as she walked in. Ai didn't say anything of course. "Sorry, Ai may seem really mean but he's actually really nice. He just acts really mean, but he cares for you a lot."

"Sit on my bed," Ai said to her flatly. She went over to his bed and sat down,"Is there anything I can help you with?"

Ai stood in front of her and just pushed her head down to the pillow. "What are you doing!?!?" I screamed.

"Shut up idiot," Ai replied to me.

"I'm fine, you don't need to worry," Azumi-san said and tried to get back up. But Ai kept his hand on her head,"No, just close your eyes, just for a bit." Azumi sighed but obediently closed her eyes, and momentarily, she was asleep.

"I told you, you were tired," Ai said and turned back to us. We just stared at him blankly.

"Ai-chan, are you in love Azumi-chan?" Natsuki blurted out.

"What is love?" He asked back as he put a blanket over Azumi.

"When you care and worry for a significant other. Or when you are always thinking about them and you get a furry feeling when you're around them."

"She's just tired," I said, knowing clearly I got off subject, but it was better to just stop that conversation there,"You don't know but she stayed up the past week to make your songs, just so she can give them to you." I took put the music sheet and read it. The song was incredible. It could be matched for MAJI LOVE 1000%. Or even better. I looked over at Natauki's, her songs are truly amazing. And Ai really wasn't as bad as I thought he was, since he's caring about Azumi so much...

Ai's POV

It was about dinner so I told Syo and Natsuki to come with me. " Don't tell the others Azumi is sleeping here. It'll cause a ruckus."

"Why don't we just wake her up?"Syo asked, I just walked out. I don't have the time to answer such stupid questions.

***

I sat down at the table, it should have been Reiji and Ranmaru's turn to cook. They had made chicken, corn, and mashed potatoes. To be honest their food wasn't the best. The corn, this time, was a little spicy, the mashed potatoes was chunky , and the chicken wasn't exactly fully cooked... The Newbies all made faces or spit it out. Ranmaru wanted to hit them, but we stopped him. Half way through dinner, Haruka asked me,"Where's Azumi-San? She never came back." Natsuki opened his mouth and said,"Oh, she-" I quickly out my hand over his mouth and answered her myself,"She in the library."

"There's a library here?" Renguji asked.

"This is? I didn't know that...," Ichinose said.

"Where is it? I want to see what kind of books they have here," Masato started to ask. Adding on Ichinose said,"I do too.

"It's not exactly a library, but it has tons of books. Well, it is a library, but it belongs to Azumi, she's a book collector, and unless she allows them, no one can go in." Reiji explained.

"So far, only Ai has been allowed in there," Ranmaru continued.

"I'm sure she'll let us go in if we asked her," Otoya said. For some reason I never liked him. Something about him always got me.

"Sorry," Azumi said bursting into the room,"I'm late again." She came and took a seat next to me. I looked at her,"I'm fine," she whispered under her voice to me.

"Azumi-San, perfect timing," Haruka said.

"What's wrong?"

"They were wondering, if it's okay if they check out your library," Otoya said, pointing towards Ichinose, Jinguji, and Masato.

She waited for a little while, and looked at me,"Sorry, but I don't want too people in my library, it's sorta a private place to me, sorry." Otoya looked not surprised at all,"You were always like that with your books huh, no can even touch them." She said smiling,"Sorry, guys, I tried my best." He said to his friends.

"It's alright," Ichinose said.

***

After dinner Ranmaru got his juniors, Ichinose and Otoya, to do the dishes. I walked Azumi back to her room and then went back to mine.

"Ahhhh! I can't keep to this schedule!!!" Syo complained. Natsuki tried to quiet him down because they thought I would be mad.

"Then don't follow it," I said plainly.

"WAH!?" Syo complained.

"I don't want to spend time listening to you complain about how inconvenient it is for you to follow my agenda." They both gave me blank looks. I sighed and left the room. Then I went to Azumi's library, which was just right next to her room. I knew she would be in there. She wouldn't even listen to me when I told her to rest. Next time, I'll tie her to the bed.

The library was a really big room, about 3 times bigger than the dining room, and had a second floor. The room was completely filled with books, all of different genres: fantasy, fiction, non-fiction, science, history... Anything you can name. It was almost like a real library.

I found Azumi sitting at the smallest corner of the room like she always was, reading a book. I sat down next to her and grabbed a random book off the shelf. I wasn't reading it, I was just looking at her. I was looking at how her purple hair was tired back with a little red ribbon, how her bangs hanged over her face even though her had already tried pulling it behind her ear, how she was so into the book that she didn't even notice I entered.

Suddenly remember when Syo and Natsuiki thought we were in love... Is this love? Caring for a significant other huh? Maybe... If I knew about it more, I got up, put the old book where I found it, and looked for a book about love.