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When Love Hurts 57
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“You’re kidding me…”
Eri crossed her arms and refused to believe what Gaki-san just said.
“I’m serious” answered Risa “People say that that’s why Nakazawa-san organized that reunion”
“And what happened with Miyo-chan?”
“Let fly your imagination, Sayu”
The three girls turned her heads slowly to look at the woman standing at the center of the room. She really looks serious, not angry but menacing, with her eyes fixed in the crow around her and paying attention to every conversation in the room. Conversations that were beginning to get her pissed of.
“Silence!”
The shout made all the murmurs disappear. Most of the girls held her breaths fearing to make any noise that could bother the eldest member.
“That’s better” said Yuko relaxing a little her face expression “Now that everybody’s here…”
“Leader isn’t here!” shouted Reina.
“Miyo-chan and the kids are missing too” pointed Eri who immediately regret what she had said and glued her eyes to the ground.
“They’re not coming” answered Nakazawa trying to remain calm “Yocchan and Miyoshi have some… things to attend. And for the kids.., they are out of the problem, at least for now”
Yuko waited a minute for any question that could interrupt her but seeing that nobody dared to open her mouth she smiled and began to talk again.
“Most of you must know about the little incident with Erika. This reunion is to prevent that something like that happens again. We are a big family, a family where everybody have to respect each other if we want to stay together and if, anybody, someway, dare to hurt that unity, I’ll take charge personally” Yuko made a pause and look at the girls around her and some of them looked away to avoid eye-contact “But…” she continued “There’s something that can destroy a family more than anything…” this time Yuko’s eyes where fixed in a single girl, the one with a pink sweater and the sad expression in her face “…a secret”
At that word, Ishikawa raised her head and her eyes met with Yuko’s.
“A secret is the most dangerous weapon in a war, and the last thing we need is a battle between members. So, here and now, I want to know everything. Who’s gonna start?”
The girls in the room looked at each other in silence, waiting for someone to be the first to say something but, as expected, nobody wanted to begin. The generalized though was like ‘that woman went totally crazy requesting something like that’. Of course, no one dare to say it out loud.
Seeing that nobody was going to start, Yuko sighed.
“Ok then. If it’s going to be easier.., I’ll make the questions and everybody’ll answer at the same time. This way nobody will feel embarrassed for being the first”
“Hey, obaachan had a nice idea!” joked Yasuda next to her.
“Honey.., shut up. Well, first question”
Nakazawa took some seconds to look at each girl and analyze their faces before speak again.
“How many of you had sex with another Hello! Project member?”
Everybody looked at everybody in shock. What kind of question was that? Even Kei, that knew her girlfriend very well, didn’t expect something so direct to start.
“Raise your fucking hands!” shouted Yuko impatiently.
“Ok, ok…” they heard a voice coming from one of the corners of the room. Then a sigh and a raised hand “Everybody knows me so, there’s no reason to hide it”
Seeing Maki raising her hand answering Nakazawa’s request, one by one, the rest of the girls raised their hands too. Yuko wasn’t surprised of many of them, but others were as shocking for her as for everybody.
“I don’t know… I feel like if I was left out of the party” said Nono, who was standing in a corner with another few girls that hadn’t raised their hands.
“I understand you” nodded Mari “You know there’s something going on but.., so many? I mean… Even Kaorin! She never told me!”
“Hey, at least you don’t have one of your best friends involved in a plot against another member…” sighed Yui looking down at the floor.
“Yeah, your right, that’s worst”
Yuko smiled satisfied, but she knew that the next step was going to be more difficult.
“Ok. That was easy. Now I need the same sincerity with the next question” she moved her eyes upon every girl’s face trying to read some of their thoughts before asking “How many of you are in love with another member?”
This time just a few hands remained raised and a lot of jaws dropped to the floor with the answer. Just a few people expected to see Gocchin’s hand raised, Miki’s and Rika’s answers weren’t a surprise at all, and for Ai-chan and Risa.., Gaki-san was the most surprised seeing the hand of her girlfriend raised.
“That’s… true?” she asked feeling how some tears were beginning to form in her eyes.
“Yeah. Why are you crying?
“Yo… you never told me…”
“Really?”
“I thought that you just… you know… wanted just…”
“Oh” usually Ai-chan had needed a clearer answer to understand what was happening but this time she realized immediately what the problem was and then her face changed from surprised to and affeccionate expression “You thought I was with you just because of the sex?” she smiled “You know there’s Goto-san for that, right?”
“That’s true!” shouted Maki from the other side of the room, getting with that a death glare from someone that was at her side with her hand still raised.
“Then, say it” continue Risa looking at her girlfriend “I need to hear it from you”
Ai-chan moved her head from one side to another looking at all the girls around, expecting an answer. Then she fixed her eyes on the younger, put her hands on Risa’s cheeks and wiping away the tears she made sure that every single word was clearly heard for everyone.
“I-love-you”
A lot of ‘aaaw’ and ‘how cute!’ filled the room. The two girls where staring at each other giggling and whispering words that just them could hear, and wasn’t paying attention at the people around.
“Nakazawa-san, can we skip to the next question?”
Yuko looked at the girl who had made the request and suddenly realized something.
“Shiba-chan…” said the older smiling “why do you have your hand raised?”
Obviously, nobody else in the room had seen that until Nakazawa said it. Then, all the girls turned to her and she felt the heat on her cheeks rising.
“Oi! You never told me!” exclaimed Maki standing at her side “Who is it?”
“Baaaka!”
“What have I done now?”
“You are so… so… stupid!”
Gocchin jumped back at Ayumi’s shout. The peaceful Shibata, the one that always remains calmed no matter what, had shouted and called Maki Goto stupid. Of course, no one understood why she had done that. Nobody could even imagine the truth.
Why is she so blinded?
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