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Who: Haruka, Himeko
What: Skipping classes
Where: Haruka's and Himeko's dorm room.
When: Monday, May 8, morning

Himeko slept in today. Just like she already did yesterday as well. Skipping classes wasn’t something her family back in Tokyo would approve of, but as always with the rules her family made she just didn’t care.
Even though, by now she was able to have a conversation without continuously mentioning her wish to disappear again, she still had difficulties acting like she normally would. There was no way she could show herself to the student body like that. She needed to preserve her ‘idolish’ image after all.

Additional to that she was pretty much aware of the fact that her depression could come back any second and it was better to be more or less alone in case that happened.
Still a little sleepy, she began tying her hair into somehow slightly messy looking low twin tails.
Another thing she had noticed earlier when she got up and went to the bathroom was that Haruka, who was usually the one getting up a little earlier than her, was also still in bed.

“Guess that makes us both skipping classes today. “, she simply remarked, observing her roommate a while before turning back around and facing herself in the mirror once again.
“Awful.”, she mumbled and sighed deeply before throwing her small stand mirror away from her, making it land rather smoothly on her bed.
It just was no good today again. It probably would continue being like that for a while.

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(Wasn’t sure about timeskip in this post.... >o< But I guess you could do it in the next one~ :3)

Did she somehow reveal too much? Even if she did there was no way she could take it back now. Plus, Haruka was someone she could trust. It was fine if she knew a little more than most.
“Maybe… but not that experienced at least. The school I went to before was much crazier about rules than this one. If it would have been just me alone breaking them from time to time I would have already been expelled and maybe even got a nice article about me in a local newspaper. The person, who taught me some tricks, is the real experienced one.”, Himeko answered and chuckled a little. Even though that time didn’t last long, it had definitely been a lot of fun.

“Those ideas sound all great! We should just go with all of them …even though that could take some time...Well~ it's not like I would need classes anyway!”, she agreed to her roommates suggestions. Everything was better than stupid classes right now. “Besides…I’d also still need some of your teaching in acting.”,Himeko added. After all the things that had happened, she already forgot about her plan to get her acting skills on a more believable level. Since idols also had to be able to appear in various dramas from time to time, her cutesy act alone wouldn’t get her very far.

While talking about a lot of various things, they reached their first destination, one of Himeko’s favorite bakeries in the area, pretty quickly. It wasn’t filled with people at that time of the day but there were still a few inside ordering some sweets or simply coffee.
“Let’s quickly order something and then get to one of the parks to eat! I really can’t wait anymore~!”

((Mmkay, time jump coming~))

"Crazier than here, huh? Wonder what kind of place that was." Haruka tilted her head upwards. Chitoku was both more leniant and far less than her old school. It was more leniant because they actually wanted students to succeed, supposedly (that'd wreck their advertising otherwise, a darker part of her thought). On the other hand was sorts of values they pushed and just their...whole situation.

She went quiet and let Hachi's words filter in. She focused on that rather than the other thoughts swarming in her mind that made her want to start walking back to their room. She instead put on that deceptive casualness again before replying, "Sure. Got a whole day anyway so might as well fill it? If we don't, there's always another excuse to skip another day." She sounded like she was joking, maybe.

The more they talked and the further they got away from Chitoku, however, the more lively he looked. By the time they reached the bakery, she looked like herself. She hadn't been eating much lately and it probably showed when she ordered a few more things than usual to go along with an extra large iced coffee, which she sipped as they walked. The park she picked for them wasn't too far away from the bakery. The park was across from an elementary school but this early in the day no one but a few joggers and passerbys were around. It was a simple one (a circular design ringed by a walking path, a playground in the center, a wall with a list of rules on a plaque, a few benches and only bushes and trees in sight) but as Haruka had said, there was a subtle sweet fragrance in the air, as all the surrounding bushes and trees were in bloom.

Turning to Hachi with a slight grin she asked, "Swing set or bench?"

“Do you even have to ask? Swing set of course!”
The answer came immediately and as excited as a little child Himeko let herself slump into one of the two swings on the playground.
Being surrounded by so much normality made her almost forget what the cause for the depression that haunted her the last few days had been.
It was pretty nice. Really.
She waited for Haruka to take the seat next to herself before starting to look through the things she just had bought at the bakery.
While slightly swinging back and forth, the idol wannabe finally decided to start with a huge chocolate muffin.
“Haruru~~ I picked the cream-filled chocolate muffin! Want half of it? You’d have to trade it for something just as delicious though…”, she asked and turned to her roommate, chuckling.

On their way here Himeko had realized that Haruka slowly began to act like her usual self again. Naturally, she didn’t make a remark or anything about it to not remind her of the mental state she had been in before, but she was glad that her roommate seemed to recover at least a little.
It had been a good idea to invite her out.
The small girl took a few moments to appreciate their surroundings. She usually didn’t visit parks that often as they seemed a bit boring to her, but they actually weren’t that bad.
The weather was nice, the park was nice…today was definitely not a day to spend at school all day.
“Just as you said before we really should do things like that more often. That’s much more fun than classes…don’t you think so too?”, she said, half-jokingly but there was also a little bit of seriousness in her words.

Haruka smiled as Hachi rushed to the swings. As she imagined something like a puppy, she knew that nickname hadn't been off at all. She felt her way to the swings and settled on the one beside Hachi, lightly flicking up bits of sand with her cane before she placed it down against one of the nearby poles. She light a long, "Huuuuh....chocolate is tempting... raise you green tea loaf with caramel swirls? Also got a napoleon and a mini-pizza.

"Sometimes?" She sounded deceptively like herself, like she missed the seriousness in Hachi's tone. She leaned back against the swing and lightly kicked the sand so she swung lazily. "Lots of things are more fun than classes? Still necessary just not interesting." Another light kick and sand blew in the wind.

Deciding what to trade for her chocolate muffin was an important decision. For someone as fond of sweets as she was at least.
“You really make this decision hard, Haruru. But alright! I’ll go with some of your green tea loaf for now…”, Himeko carefully broke the muffin into two equally halves and held one of them out to Haruka, while taking a bite out of her own.
“There you go!”

“Necessary…huh? I really doubt that sometimes…”, now it was her kicking the sand on the ground a little. “Well…fine. Some classes are important maybe...but definitely not all of them. Also... classroom cleaning! Nobody needs classroom cleaning! Don’t you agree?”, the cleaning in small groups all students had to participate in after classes was probably what annoyed her the most about school. Admittedly, she rarely participated in it herself. Whenever her group wasn’t supervised by their homeroom teacher she would just ask some of her fanboys to do the work for her. It was fairly easy to avoid it. Still, she hated when she couldn't get around it from time to time. Especially, when her group had to clean the toilets next to their classroom.

"If it's that hard to decide I can always take them all?" Haruka replied, smiling as she felt the air carefully until she felt Hachi's arm (thin, delicate and soft) before brushing her fingers up to Hachi's hand and plucking the half muffin from her hand. "Have to protect your figure from the fattening sweets conspiracy anyway."

She broke the loaf in half and held it out to Hachi while she took a bite of her own. She chewed thoughtfully as she replied, "Cleaning's sucky. Usually got excused from it though." Except for the times she didn't, which people either thought had hilarious results or they'd get frustrated. She tilted her head upwards and swung slowly. "Would be nice to skip math I guess though? Or dissection."

Himeko waited patiently for Haruka to take her half of the muffin.
“You don’t really worry about my figure, do you? I know you just want to eat all those sweets yourself!”, she then replied, a smirk on her face.
“I’m fine though… my training routine won’t allow me to gain too much weight. For the rest I simply skip some meals… as always.”

With that being said, she grabbed the loaf Haruka held out to her. “Well… I have nothing that would really excuse me from cleaning so I usually have to excuse myself by letting others do the work. The only use I can make of my fanclub so to say… They seem to enjoy doing it for me though.”, Himeko said and chuckled a little. It maybe wasn’t right to solve her problem with cleaning that way but her fanclub really annoyed the hell out of her every single day so she felt like it was the least they could do to repay her.
“Math isn’t my best subject either…But dissection…”, she distorted her mouth a little. The memories of that subject definitely weren’t good ones.
“Last time the whole group in front of mine fainted.”, Himeko said and stopped eating for a while. “I still was okay… surprisingly. But just a little longer and I would have been done for too…I guess.”, she shuddered and immediately took a huge bite of her muffin to clam down again.
“I’d like to have a different teacher in English by the way. I like the subject but he’s constantly mocking me so it’s no fun.”, she complained while letting out a deep sigh.

"Darn. My dastardly schemes have been foiled by your astute wit and paranoia," Haruka replied with a straight face. She smiled as she took a bite of the muffin though, taking the time to enjoy the chocolate. It was the first time in a while she actually tasted what she ate so she took another big bite. "Probably worry more when I feel the heavier foot falls in your direction?

"Convenient." Head tilt. "They really fall over you for that sorta stuff?" She supposed it'd fit the idol thing. Or super popular girls or people who seemed like they needed help. "You could always use them to do the stuff you hate I guess. Like deal with dissections or the English teacher if you really wanted to."

Himeko chuckled at Haruka’s strange wording. “Not happening, though. I’m pathetically even slimmer than most at school and I’ve always been eating sweets in secret …. Also, my family would probably kill me if I’d gain any weight.”

“Convenient…but also extremely irritating.”, she admitted after taking a few bites to finish her muffin.
She generally avoided talking about the whole ‘fan club’ thing since she knew that a lot of people, especially girls, reacted pretty badly to it. Haruka, however, didn’t seem to mind too much.
“Honestly, I didn’t want them to follow me around every single school day in the first place. I’m not even a real idol yet and I surely haven’t done anything that could make them idolize me that much. But it’s like it always is… I keep up being nice to them like an idol would, so that I can keep them in my fan base later on and they’re doing all kinds of stuff for me in exchange.” , she nodded. This was how the idol business worked. Even when after becoming an idol her fan base grew and not only people her age but also a lot of old men would stand in front of her, she had to continue treating all of them equally and in a nice way. No matter how awkward that would possibly turn out to be.
“Trying to use them for dissection could be a thing. English won’t work though. Actually, the only reason he mocks me is that he doesn't like my cutesy act and the way my fan club acts around me.”, she finally admitted and couldn’t help laughing a little while thinking about it. “It can’t be helped … I thought male teachers being resistant to my cutesy act would only exist at my old high school.”, Himeko shrugged, while taking her first bite of the loaf she just traded with her roommate.

"Huh. Weird concern. That strict about that stuff?"

She took another bite of the loaf before chasing it down with a sip of iced coffee. She thought about things she'd read about idols before and how many things got nitpicked - 'Manami-chan is too fat', 'Kaori-chan looks like a cheap blond', 'Shou is trying too hard to cover up SOMETHING', 'Olivia is actually a bitch IRL'. "Sounds tough. Kinda like drawing your own cult based on moe cuteness?" Beat. "Though lot less fun than it sounds.

"Might need another form of moe there? Or just yourself as many a show would quote."

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