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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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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."