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the girls were supposed to be meeting up with the guys however they got delayed as Chisato hurriedly ran into a a sweet shop and managed to select nearly every item and try samples, the two girls who held feelings for Saiki stood there impatiently waiting for her to finish. Keiko hoped that Chisato took as long as possible, she didn't really feel like being near Saiki and the two other girls in the same place.

Chisato happily munched on the samples "Chinsuko is so good!"

Teruhashi stomped her foot "Let's go already!" she whined, acting like a spoiled brat.

"You can't just go into every store that offers free samples!" Yumehara added now waving her arms about.

"It seems like sampling food is all she's doing on this trip." Teruhashi said.

"We are going to lose the guys at this rate!" Yumehara sweat dropped.

Keiko rolled her eyes, "Since you two are so desperate to catch up with them, I'll stay with Chisato, I'm not really too bothered about what we do so you two go ahead."

Teruhashi tutted "No I'll stay too. You go ahead, Yumehara. I think Kaidou is still around here somewhere."

Yumehara's expression went from calm to insane in seconds, her checks flushed and her eyes had widened like a bugs "What?" he face became even more red as she started to sweat. "Why Kaidou?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that you might of liked Kaidou." she teased the poor girl.

'She must think she's funny saying stuff like that, I guess I'll just give her a taste of her own medicine, although me and Yumehara aren't getting along, I would never want her to feel embarrassed.' Keiko crossed her arms, giving the blue haired girl a small glare, she thought about what her mother said about Teruhashi having feelings for Saiki.

"Teruhashi, can I talk to you for a second? Alone." Keiko said calmly, Teruhashi turned her way giving her a confused look but responded with a yes. The two girls walked off alone where no one was around them.

"What did you want to talk about Mochizuki?" she asked in a fake innocent voice, not forgetting to put empathizes on the girls name.

Keiko gave her an emotionless smile "I know about your feelings for Saiki Teruhashi." the girls eyes widened before she could speak Keiko sent her a glare "No, you listen to me and don't speak. Since the moment I became friends with Saiki you seem to have an issue with me being around him, I want to inform you that Saiki is friend and I can be around him without worrying about your pettiness. I really don't care if you dislike me because I really don't like you either, especially your fakeness. Usually I want to try and get along with everyone but I can see right through you and if everyone found out what you were really like, they'll end up turning away from you. At the beach yesterday when you were flaunting to everyone, your friend Yumehara sat there shy and embarrassed, I could see she was insecure of her body and when she defended you from those guys you didn't even step in to defend her, Kaidou did. If your going to pretend to be a good person, at least try and act like it." and with that Keiko gave the shocked and silent girl one last look before turning away and walking off, leaving Teruhashi with not knowing what to say for the first time.

When the two returned, Teruhashi didn't dare speak to the green haired girl, instead they all went to a dessert restaurant seeing Nendou and Kaidou, but no Saiki. When he came, they all ordered a rare dessert and shared theirs out with the pink haired boy.

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The students had come back from the trip and were now back in school again as usual, that's when they heard a new transfer student was joining them, everyone questioned whether it was a guy or girl as they usually do. When they found out it was a guy, none of the others seemed to show any interest however some of the girls got curious.

The teacher then walked through the door "Everyone, have a seat." she told them "I would like to introduce you all to our new transfer student. Come in." everyone snapped their heads to the door to see a tall purple haired boy walk in, he had glasses and stood there awkwardly looking down, although most of the girls faces dropped Keiko sat there stiffly trying not to blush, 'OHMYGOG.OHMYGOD. HE'S SO CUTE!' how could no one else in the room find him attractive? Keiko didn't seem to notice the person who sat behind her giving her a slightly irritated look.

He stood at the front holding his hands together "Please introduce yourself." the teacher said.

The new boy turned around and wrote his name on the board, he turned back around and bowed, he now started to speak in a relatively deep voice making Keiko squirm even more "My name is Aren Kuboyasu. I moved here from Ibaraki." Some people questioned why he wrote down 'was here' and he jumped turning around again "Oh, no! That's just an old habit!" he shouted rubbing the words out "Sorry, forget that happened!"

"Nice to meet you, Kuboyasu!" one student said, the class seemed to of found his mistake hilarious and now seemed interested in him.

He then gave them an awkward smile before randomly coming out with "What's up homies?" he didn't sound like he was sure what he was saying but everyone seemed to be amused by it.

The boys eyes skimmed across the classroom until he caught sight of Keiko who was already gawking at him, she quickly closed her mouth and gave him a small smile before looking away with red cheeks which seemed to make him go red too.

When class ended Kuboyasu quickly got up and ran to the toilets and punched the walls leaving a huge crack in them, he then stomped out to let off some steam hoping that no one would find out about his past as he nearly exposed himself in front of the class.

After he passed students without trying to get pissed off, he didn't see someone turn the corner and knock into his chest "Hey watch were your going you piece of-" he started but cut himself off when he was it was the green haired girl he saw in his class.

"Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry! I didn't hear you coming and I really didn't mean to knock into you." Keiko blabbered a bit too quickly, a bit nervous by the cute boys presence, she then grabbed his arms "I didn't hurt you at all?" she asked.

He gave a confused look but then surprisingly let out a small laugh "I don't think you'd be able to hurt me just by knocking into me." he said smirking down at the girl. If it was someone else you would've thrown them out the window already.

"Heh." Keiko let out a small noise, she then noticed how veiny he was around his neck and face "You're really veiny." she let out, before slapping a hand over her mouth "I am so sorry I meant handsome- wait- that was really rude of me!"

"Hey it's-" before he could finish her sentence she ran off the other way, not wanting to face the embarrassment, he tried following her but she seemed to have turned off somewhere else causing him to loose sight of her. I'm genuinely surprised he stopped himself from trying to fight her, but It's Mochizuki. She could get just about anyone to fawn over her.

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Keiko had now avoided Kuboyasu for a week now, she felt bad but she wasn't sure how to get rid of the awkwardness, so she just stuck with Saiki. However she started to feel bad to see that he was all alone, he couldn't really seem to make friends.

One lunch Keiko saw him sitting outside on a bench alone so she decided to walk up to her, she cleared her throat and he looked up to see that she was avoiding eye contact "Is it okay if I sit here?" she asked.

"Oh, sure. Feel free." he said, he then moved up so she had her own side of the bench, they both sat in silence for a few moments until Keiko turned around and gave him a sad look.

"I'm sorry that I ran off like that the other day, it was really rude of me. It's just that your quite intimidating." 'you liar, you think he's cute.' "And I wanted to apologize and start over, I hope we can become good friends Kuboyasu." she said.

He gave her a small smile and patted her head "You don't need to apologize Mochizuki, and... I'd like to be your friend, I'm sure we can get along."

Her eyes widened and then sparkled, she was literally receiving a head pat from the guy she's been adoring over the week, she excitedly reached out for her bag and held out a box and opening it now handing it towards him "Would you like a blueberry muffin?" she asked him sweetly. She didn't notice another person was watching them from around the corner in distaste at their interaction.