Awkward Feelings| Aikatsu! SenAka (Discontinued)

Chapter 4: Suspicion and Excitement

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" 

If the Starlight Queen house wasn't sound proof, everyone would have heard the loud squeal that came out of Akari's mouth.

"He likes me back!" She yelled. Akari had arrived back at the school 10 minutes before curfew. That day definitely took an interesting turn.  All of Akari's anxieties disappeared, all she could feel was happiness. She was in the main room, and once she settled back down, she walked toward the TV and grabbed her journal. Like lightning she wrote about everything that she was feeling, until she sucked all of the events dry. 

RINGGGGGG!

Her phone rang from the other side of the room. Akari got up and reached over to grab it. The number that was calling was Sumire once again. 

"Hello, Sumirechan?"

"Yeah it's me again, did you make it back? I didn't see you but someone said that they saw you skipping over to the Starlight Queen place."

"Yeah I'm good, I made it here just fine!" 

"Wow, you seem really energetic. Did things go well with Senasan?" Sumire asked almost making Akari drop the phone. Akari's cheeks flushed red. She couldn't tell her...

"It went great! We decided on the dress design, and... um we talked... that's it. I wasn't really there long." Akari was a little bit shaky when it came to her words, but it was mostly the truth. Sumire however was a little set aback because of the change in tone of Akari's voice. She went from cheerful and happy to nervous and shaky. 

"You haven't been over there in a few months, how is he doing? Did anything happen that I should know?" Sumire asked, she didn't think it was anything important, but there was definitely something Akari wasn't telling her. 

"...No..." 

"Akarichan are you sure?" 

"Yeah I'm super sure! I'll call you later bye!" Akari quickly hit the hang up button before Sumire could respond. Sumire took the phone away from her ear. Now something was definitely going on. Sumire looked worriedly at Hinaki, who happened to be sitting across from her. 

"What's up?"

"Akari seemed weird..."

"What you mean? She's always weird." Hinaki said.

"No, this isn't her normal weird. She's been off these past few weeks. It seems like something has changed. I'm guessing it has something to do with a particular designer..."

"How so?" Hinaki was getting interested now.

"There are things I have mind, but I don't want to jump-"

"SPILL THE TEA!" Hinaki had scooched closer to Sumire and stopped what she was doing. Sumire was however uncomfortable with the close proximity.

"Move over, you're making me uncomfortable." Hinaki scooched back over.

"Oops, hehe... Anyways spill it!" Hinaki shouted. Sumire sighed.

"Well the first thing I had in mind was that maybe they aren't on good terms anymore and she didn't want to burden us with telling... Maybe the sudden energy is just her way of hiding it from us." Hinaki's frowned.

"Woah, that's dark, I don't think she would hide something like that from us." Sumire nodded at Hinaki's reply.

"Yeah, me too, she's too dense to keep that. She'd tell us if it bothered her. Doesn't seem like she had a problem with anyone." Sumire put her fingers on her chin and started scratching it, "I can't really- WAIT." Sumire stopped and cringed. Just the thought of it made her feel weird.

"What if Akari has a crush on him?" 

Hinaki stopped looking seriously and raised an eyebrow. "PFFF-" Hinaki fell back and started laughing, "hHAHAHA tHaT's hilarious! Good joke!" Sumire frowned and looked at Hinaki on the floor.

"I'm serious!" 

"How?" Hinaki sat back up on the floor and crossed her legs.

"I don't think it's true but it's just a theory..."

"Dude, those horoscopes have gotten to your head haven't they? I was waiting until you completely lost it!" Hinaki started laughing again, what she didn't notice was Sumire had gotten up from her seat.

"HAHAHAHA- OUCH!" Hinaki lay on the floor with a pillow mark on the side of her head.

"You asked for it." Sumire said climbed under the covers with one of her pillows gone. Hinaki sat back up and started rubbing the hit side of her head.

"Ne ne Sumirechaaannn" She grabbed the pillow off of the floor, "Take this!" She threw the pillow back at Sumire, but unfortunately it was dodged. 

"Grrrrr-"

"Go to sleep." Sumire said with a smug grin as she took her pillow and put it back into it's original position.

"Fineee..."

Though Sumire was only implying it, and Hinaki thought she was crazy. She didn't realize how right she actually was. 
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"Hehehehehehehe."

Akari set the radio down that she had and turned on an upbeat pop song. She ran, jumped, spinned, and did all sorts of different things. For once, she could enjoy herself again. She hadn't been this energetic in a bit.

"WOOOOOO!!!!" She yelled. She felt like a three year old again, and she liked it. Akari didn't care about anything right now because she was having fun. Akari screamed to the top her lungs.

"CANDY CANDY POP POP KIMI NO! HONEY HONEY NA EGAO NII! DOKI DOKI HEARTBEAT TOMARANAI NEE DOUSHITE SWEETIE!!!" 

(Kudos to you if you know the words to this song. *cough* Onces where you at *cough*)

(Imagine Ruka singing candy pop lol I'd love to see that tbh)

Meanwhile... 2 Hours ago

The Dreamy Crown door closed shut. Tsubasa got up and walked torward the window. Akari was seen walking away, holding onto her stuff. He watched as she disappeared behind the trees. 

"Akari..." Her name was like music to his ears. He didn't think he would ever feel so great by simply saying someones name. What a turn of events. He was so scared that she wouldn't like him the same that he didn't realize the signs right in front of him.

"yES!" He said throwing his fist in the air. Then some of his enjoyment instantly disappeared as he realized what this meant. What do I do now?

Akari left before they had decided what they were going to do.

Baby steps I guess. Tsubasa looked at the clock, it was 10:00. It was time for him to pack up his things and hit the hay. Akari was coming again tomorrow and he didn't need to look like the nervous wreck he was today. That would be bad. 

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Akari woke up the next morning no longer exhausted like she usually was. Although most of the energy she had was usually drained by the next day, this time that was not the case. She sprung out her bead and got ready quickly. This time she wouldn't waste any time and get out before her busy schedule started for that day. Luckily for her, she had about 5 hours to kill.  She walked down into the living room and grabbed her things ready to go. Usually she would use this time to jog, but she wanted to spend as much time as she could out. Who knows when she'll have another opportunity like this?

Akari pulled out her phone and texted Tsubasa, 

"I'm coming." 

And with that, Akari walked out of the door, at 8 in the morning. She walked as quickly as she could and tried not to be noticed by the other idols who had also been around. Little did she know, a certain purple head was watching from afar.