Twinning Jealousy

Chapter 4: The Plan

3rd POV

"Manami"

The text message's notification sound brought the attention of the scientist. Okuda put her glasses back on to see who the sender was. To her surprise, it was Nakamura. In their old class group chat, Nakamura kept on updating where she was staying and recently she posted that she was in California. "I guess it's almost morning there," Okuda inquired curiously, "I wonder what she wants." Okuda then decided to reply to Nakamura hoping to get the answer to her question.

-text begin-

Okuda: Hi Rio.Nakamura: Yo, Manami! You awake? Can we talk?Okuda: Sure ... I guessNakamura: Great!

-text end-

Their chat room was instantly replaced with an incoming video call from Nakamura. "I guess she meant a video call," Okuda sighed at Nakamura's sudden call and accepted the call. Her screen now revealed the blonde to be in what seems to be an apartment.

"What's up Manami!" Rio yelled through the speaker of her phone, causing Okuda to flinch at the abrupt sound coming from her phone. Okuda readjusted to a more comfortable position on her bed as she prepared to talk to Nakamura.

"P-please don't talk too loud, Rio," she asked quietly, "It's already 11 pm here in Japan already. Shouldn't it be early morning there?"

"Yeah, but I got up early and couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to talk to you since I figured you might still be awake and I was right," she replied with a grin. Okuda sighed at the energy that Nakamura had so early in the morning.

"O-okay, what did you want to talk about, Rio," she asked the woman, "also, can you also keep it down a bit. I have a guest tonight." This peaked Nakamura's interest greatly. The whole class knew that Okuda was dating Karma and so she was really curious about who this guest was.

"Oh really? Okay, I'll quiet down, but who's this guest at your house at this hour? Is it Karma," she said while smirking. Okuda, on the other hand, knew she messed up in mentioning having a guest at her place. She hesitated on telling her it was Nagisa.

"I-it's no one important, r-really. J-just a friend," she tried to convince Nakamura, but the blond didn't believe it and knew she was hiding something. She then thought of an idea to find out who it was.

"If you want me to be quiet, does it mean that they're sleeping right now," Nakamura asked with a slight grin.

"Yeah, of course. I don't want to wake them up, so don't try and sho-," Okuda responded and explained to the girl before she realized what she was about to do. "W-wait! Don't you dare."

"HI KARMA," the blonde shouted as Okuda frantically tried to lower the volume on her phone.

"P-p-please be quiet," she once again told the girl. "I'll tell you alright. Just don't yell." Nakamura smiled at her own success as Okuda raised the volume on her phone to an appropriate level.

"So who's this guest~. Is it Karma? Did you guys just hav-," she asked as she had a mischievous grin on her face before she was met by Okuda's sad expression. "Hey ... are you okay?" Okuda then recomposes herself and waved her hand in the air to signify she was fine.

"No, I'm fine, really," she assured her, "my guest isn't Karma. He's busy with work ... as usual." She sighed at the thought and Nakamura noticed it, but decided not to question it.

"So what the mystery guest?"

"It's ... Nagisa," she answered the question, clearly flustered for finally spilling out who the mystery guest was. She then glanced back at her phone to see a clearly shocked Nakamura. For a moment, she hoped that Nakamura would be too shocked to tease her, but her hopes were quickly crushed when the blonde started to smirk devilishly like a certain redhead she knows.