The Warm Melody

Chapter Five - "Sleepover"

"Empty"

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*Nico's POV*

It was a nice and long walk to Maki's house. The atmosphere was really cooling, especially since it was already evening. The chatting between eachother slowly died down as we arrived.

"Maki! Your house is huge!" Honoka shouted amazed at how humongous Maki's mansion was.

"It's not that big," Maki replied.

Hmph! You're right, it's not THAT big! ~ I thought as I stared at her.

"Why are you staring at me? Stop it. It's creepy," Maki said.

"Who are you calling creepy?!" I retorted.

"Whatever," She said before she looked around, surprised.

I wonder what she was so surprised about so I decided to look myself. Wait, was everyone staring at us?!

"A-Anyways, we should go in now, r-right?" I stuttered while nervously trying to avoid anything towards what happened earlier.

Everyone agreed as they went in.

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*Maki's POV*

"What do you guys want for dinner? I'll cook it," Nico asked us.

"You can cook?" Honoka asked.

"Of course I can! Who do you think I am?" Nico replied.

"I want ramen nya!" Rin said.

"Anything with white rice.." Hanayo added.

"I want bread!" Honoka said.

"You can't have bread for dinner Honoka," Umi scolded.

"Why don't we let Maki decide?" Nozomi smirked.

"Ueh?!" I was confused, "I guess anything with tomatoes..?"

"Spaghetti it is! Everybody loves it right?" Nico smiled.

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Everyone was just playing around, just as Nico placed down the last plate.

"My special Nico Ni spaghetti is ready to be served! Nico nico nii~" She announced.

"This looks delicious," Kotori said.

"That's because it's made by me, the number one school idol," She grinned.

Everyone sat down, "Itadakimasu." A few seconds passed after everyone took a bite.

It's..... delicious!

"Uh.. is it nice..?" Nico questioned.

"Yeah!" I smiled really widely. It looked like Nico made a sigh of relief. Probably just my imagination.

"Your house has a lot of tomatoes Maki," Nico stated before smirking, "As expected from a tomato herself,"

"What? I don't get you," I scoffed.

"Really though. This is amazing," Eli complimented.

"You don't need to tell me," Nico looked away, grinning widely. Jeez, she's so overconfident.

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"Your alpaca plushie is so fluffy~" Kotori cuddles the plushie as she wanders into her own world.

"Your room is surprisingly really girly," Eli commented.

I wouldn't say it's that girly. The walls are pastel pink while the floor and roof are black. However, I have a king-sized bed with a bunch of plushies on it. I also have a picture of μ's on my drawer.

"What's this nya? It looks like Nico nya!" Rin pointed as she held up a toy of what seemed like Nico.

"It really does look like Nico!" Honoka exclaimed.

Having not realised about my Nico plushie, I blushed immensely.

"Ooh~ Maki has a plushie of Nicocchi~ How interesting," Nozomi smirked as she looked at me, "I'd like to know why you have that,"

"W-Well.." I rubbed my nape as I avoided eye contact with everyone.

"Well..?" Everyone moved closer.

"Because!" I said.

"That isn't an answer nyaaa!" Rin jumped at me.

"Hey Rin!" I shouted.

"We can find that out another time. We should go to sleep already," Umi said.

We all agreed as we layed in our futons. I slowly dozed off to sleep as I heard the silence.