A Teasing Love

The End - Epilogue

-16 years later-

Third Person's POV

"Mommy, mommy! Look!" The four year girl yelled as she ran up to Yume with a big book in her small hands.

"What do you have there?" Yume asks softly.

"A picture book! It's filed with images of young people and they really look like our family!"

Yume giggles as she recognizes the book. "That's a photo album, my dear. And those people really are us." Yume pick the album from her daughter's hands.

"No way!" The little girl makes a shocked face.

Yume smiles. "It's true, Usagui. Come on." The mother goes to the sofa and sits. Then, she tapes the seat next to her and Usagui sat there, happy.

Yume opens the album. "See?" She points at the first photo. "This is me and your aunt Koharu on our first day at Four Star Academy."

Usagui's eyes twinkle. "But you look so young!"

Yume smirks. "Does that mean that I'm old now?"

Usagui blushes and whines. "O-Of course not! I didn't want to-"

Yume wraps her arm around her daughter and laughs. "I know, I know. I'm kidding."

Usagui sighs in relief. "Can we continue? Please?"

"Of course!"

Yume points at another photo. "And this is me and your aunt Laura on the day we met. Oh and this one is from my first solo live. I was so nervous back then... But all went well." Yume then starts saying where the photo was taken and with who as she points at them and turns over the pages.

"Your aunt Mahiru and your aunt Ako. This was taken before the S4 selections. Oh and this is one has Yuzu. It was the S4 where I entered."

"S4..." Usagui murmurs with admiration.

"This was at Venu's Ark where I made a kind of internship."

A photo of a younger Yume with a younger Subaru appears. Yume's eyes soften and she smiles. "And this one was taken on the day that I and your daddy started dating. I remember like it happened yesterday."

"You look so happy!"

"We were. And we still are." She adds, tapping Usagui's shoulder.

"I bet that you and daddy fell in love at first sight!" Usagui says dreamily.

Yume giggles nervously. "Yeah, right."

After some other photos, one of a group stand out.

"And this one was taken on Aikatsu Island. See? It has us all. Subaru, Nozomu, Asahi, Kanata, Ako, Mahiru, Laura, Ako, Koharu and me."

"Whoa..." Usagui stares at the picture, still finding hard to believe that this all this people are the ones that she considers family.

Yume also stares at the photo, feeling the nostalgia. So many photos, so many stories and memories. Yume founds herself thinking about what her and her friends accomplished.

Koharu and Asahi are now married and have two twin girls called Naomi and Takana with 3 years old. Koharu is now Yume's partner in Rainbow Berry Parfait and they are a huge success both in Japan as in a little all over the world. Asahi has now his own criminal series.

Mahiru and Nozomu married and are now living in France. Mahiru became a model known worldwide and a top designer like Koharu. Nozomu is also known by his model work. They have a daughter named Ryoko with four years and now Mahiru is 7 months pregnant with a boy.