Fate's Humor

Chapter 4

Things get confusing after a close-call of revealing your identity. You make new friends (that are girls) for once.
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You finally got home an hour later. That was because Aoi had dragged you a good distance away from your home, and you also had groceries to buy. Eggs were half priced, so today was a good day.
Because of the fight that happened, you started debating on whether if you really want to go shopping or not. Of course, you decided to go anyway. After putting groceries up, you stuck a bandage on your cheek. It wasn't bleeding a whole lot, just some swelling. If anyone asked while you were shopping, you got hurt from bonking your head on a car door.

You put your new dress on and rode you bike to downtown. It was a really nice day, and the wind was giving you a nice wind-blown hair look. Perfect.

You went into a small boutique, and it strangely smelled like grapefruit and hand lotion. It was neat because there was a small coffee shop inside too. Drink some coffee while doin some shopping sounded great

There was not a lot of people, only about a half dozen in the shop. Most of them were in the coffee line. Might as well hurry before it gets longer. You stood behind the last person in line.

"Oder 47, your coffee is ready." The line moved up some when 47 got their coffee. After a few more pickups, it was close to your turn. Holy Moly these people need to be faster. You've been in line for 10 minutes!

The door jangled when another customer walked in, and lucky you, it was Aoi. You were excited at first to see someone you know. Then you remembered the snotty way he was acting earlier. You decided to ignore him.

"Order 50, your coffee is ready." Finally! You grabbed you coffee, payed the cashier, and went to leave.

"Nice seeing you Aoi." You did your best to sound rude.

"Excuse me, do I know you?" He asked just as rudely. You froze. You cursed yourself. You forgot you were dressed as a girl.

Quick, quick think of an excuse. Your head went a million miles an hour scanning for potential reasons of you knowing him. You couldn't just say, 'oh I'm that guy you sit next to in class. Suprise, I'm a girl!' That would be stupid.

Suddenly, something came to you.

It was genus.

"Aoi?" You turned to face him. You faked a surprised face. "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry! I mistook you for someone else! You know, you look a lot like Aoi Hyoudou_, the famous net idol. Yeah, I know her." You smiled apologetically. It was Aoi's turn to freeze. You took it a bit further. "Are you sure you not Aoi?" You moved up and personal to fake inspect his face. "You could dress like a girl and practically be her!" You lied. He looked nothing like Aoi to you.

"That's enough." He shoved you face away. "You got it wrong just admit it. Leave me alone, you idiot." He went up to the desk to order his coffee.

"Hmmph." You faked being upset. But really, you were grinning on the inside.
On the way home, you contemplated on whether you could and should be an actress. You pretended pretty good to Aoi. You just couldn't believe he was dumb enough to believe you.

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The next day, school started normal. You couldn't help but crack a smile at the bully's hand, which was now in a cast. He deserves it. It also sucks for him because no girl would ever want to date him after what he did to 'poor, innocent' you. That guy might actually have worse luck than you. You got away with only a patch on your face, and he got a cast for his hand, and you didn't even raise a finger.

When Aoi sat next to you in his school desk, you realized that you still have really bad luck. Then, he tried to make small talk.

"You know." He whispered over to you. "I saw a girl who looks just like you yesterday." You shrugged, pretending not to care. But you did.

"Must have been my sister. Everyone sees her sometime or another." You didn't care to whisper back. It wasn't secretive, so why make it?

"Oh." He looked forward.

Some girls came up to us. "Yeah I saw her one time." One said. "Me too", said the other. "She was soooo pretty." You blushed. You don't think anyone has called you good looking while you dressed like a girl before. Dressed like a boy, on the other hand, was a different story. "You saw her yesterday right, Aoi?" She asked. "What did you think of her? Beautiful, right?" You blushed even harder. For some reason, you did not want Aoi to answer.

"Y-you just can't ask me that!" He blushed too. "If anything, the one thing I noticed was that she was rude." Aoi did his signature blushing frown. You knew that you didn't want him to answer. He never has anything nice to say.

"Aww maan. I really want to be her friend." One of the girls sighed. "Yeah", her friend continued. "She seems super cool."

Pride surged through you. You really wanted to hang with them too. You would have, if only your parents weren't coming home today. "Sorry guys." You apologized for yourself. "She would, if only she wasn't so wrapped up with high school and her job."

"It's all good", they said. They hugged you on either side. "We've got you."  They giggled, and you laughed with them. You weren't exactly friends with them, but everyone liked to talk to you at school. Now that you thought of it, you don't have any actual friends. Girls mostly want you to date them, and guys, guys you don't really click with. You didn't fit really anywhere. Maybe this would be your chance to make friends.

"Yeah. You guys could totally become friends with me. I'm 100 times better than my sister." You faked bragged, but you meant the part about being friends. They blushed and giggled.

"Yeah!" "Ok!" They were so happy. So were you.