My Father's Secret

Chapter 39

"So who wants to go first?" Midori-san asked. It definitely looked like she was in a rush to get incites on other people's secrets.

"Why don't you go first?" Akane-san suggested.

"Yeah! We should go from eldest to youngest" Kimiko added.

"You are only saying that because you are the youngest" Midori-san argued.

"Why don't we just spin the bottle to see who goes first? Then that person can choose who they want to ask next" Aoi recommend.

Since no one had any objections, Aoi walked into the kitchen and came back with an empty plastic bottle. She sat down and spun the bottle while everyone waited anxiously to see who the cap of the bottle would point to.

When it started to slow down, Kimiko and Akane knew they were safe and ironically, the bottle stopped right in front of Midori-san. The other three girls laughed while Midori-san mumbled words of compliant.

"So Midori-san, truth or dare?" Aoi asked when they started to calm down.

"Ummm...Dare!"

Aoi smiled mischievously before proposing her dare.

"I dare you to tell Natsumi-san that her cooking tastes horrible"

"What!? That's so offensive"

"But it's a dareeeeee" Aoi whined.

Midori-san sighed and got up from her seat with a scrunched up face.

"I'll get you back. Just wait for it" she said and stalked off.

The three girls burst into a fit of giggles. Even though Midori-san was the eldest among them, her behavior, ironically was the most childish and immature.

"That was so bad!" Midori-san complained the instant she got back to the circle.

"Natsumi-san looked so embarrassed"

"I'm sure they'll figure out sooner or later what we're doing, because we're gonna be messing up lots of stuff tonight" Aoi replied with a laugh.

"Midori-san, its your turn to choose now" Kimiko exclaimed impatiently.

"Aoi-chan!" she said without a single hesitation.

"Truth or dare?"

"Ummmm I'll go with truth. I don't want Midori-San making me do crazy things"

Now it was Midori-san's turn to smile mischievously.

"It doesn't matter which one you pick because you wont escape from my evil clutches either way"

"I don't have anything to hide, so let's hear your question" Aoi said confidently, intending to intimidate Midori-san.

"Are you sure you don't have anything to hide?" Midori-san asked, an evil smile plastered across her face.

"I'm sure" Aoi-chan replied sounding a little less confident now.

"Well then, care to tell us why you keep looking at this certain someone every soccer practice? Don't think I haven't noticed :)"

"What? What are you talking about?" Aoi-chan asked, trying to avoid the question. Her face was turning a visible shade of red.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about, Aoi-chan. Why don't you tell us about your feelings towards our ace striker?" Midori-san smirked.

Ace striker? She can't possibly mean Tsurugi-kun right?

Upon catching on the hint that Aoi-chan probably liked Tsurugi, Kimiko felt this strange feeling inside. A mix of unexplainable emotions. Was it jealousy? It couldn't possibly be. She never like him... did she?

But that wasn't the problem. Since they all knew openly that Aoi-chan liked Tsurugi-kun, there was no point in liking him anyways and what's worse was, she didn't have any clue if Tsurugi liked her. Since she didn't have any clear feelings towards him, she might as well just give it up before those feelings could turn around and hurt her in the future.

"Come on Aoi-chan. So are you going to tell us or not? Or do I have to drag Tsurugi-kun down here before you'll start speaking?" Midori-san threatened playfully.

"Ok, ok. I'll tell you whatever, just don't bring him down here please"

"So...how long have you had a crush on him?"

"Umm after he joined Raimon for the match against Mannouzaka I guess"

"Hmm, so just recently"

"But why Tsurugi-kun?" Akane-san asked.

"Well, its kind of hard to explain but it just that every time he looks my way, I feel like chocolate melting on a hot summers day"

"Do you think he likes you?" Kimiko asked this time. The fact that Aoi-chan had called dibs on Tsurugi first, was a little disturbing to her. As much as she wanted to let it go, something told her to hang tight. But again, she didn't know if she had feelings for him and whether those feelings were mutually remained a mystery to her. Despite that, she still wanted to know if Tsurugi showed signs of liking Aoi-chan at all. She decided that if he did, she would have to learn to let it go.

"I don't know but we've talked a few times and-"

"Omg! You guys have talked to each other? That is too cute. I totally ship you two together"

"I have an idea" Akane-san suggested out of nowhere.

"We should all make a deal to help Aoi-chan and Tsurugi-kun get together!" This was the first time Akane-san ever looked so excited about anything.

Well I guess I'm gonna have to let it go. This deal is even less of a reason to think or even worry about Tsurugi. There was never anything between us in the beginning so letting go shouldn't be an issue. I promise to act accordingly to the deal and do anything I can to get Aoi-chan and Tsurugi-kun together.

I just hope I don't break my heart along the way.