Reeling

-Mai-

This is doing my head in. I sighed and rubbed my forehead.

“What’s wrong?” I heard across the room. I looked through the cracks in my fingers. Subaru stood in front of me. I sighed and dropped my hand.

“Where do I start?” I asked.

“Is it him?” she asked. My right eye started to twitch. It took my all not to scream. Why? Why won’t he leave me alone? Subaru had a look of pity on her face.

“Don’t,” I said. “Just… don’t.” She said nothing. I sat back in my chair.

“Why does he have to be here? On tour with us?” I asked.

“They are popular?” Subaru asked. I groaned and rolled my eyes.

“Why does he bother so much?” Yoko asked. I pressed my lips together. I had so many answers. None of them seemed to fit. I shut my eyes.

“I don’t know!” I said at last. I stood up from the stool. Yoko and Subaru weren’t going to be much help. I just needed to be alone.

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I sat around in the hotel lobby. I was looking at my phone. Why did I do that? Because I had to go and make it worse. I don’t know. The first post that I see? Are Isao-kun and Mai-chan dating? No! Look, I know I shouldn’t care. I really shouldn’t. Usually, I don’t. I’ve read things about me on the internet before. It meant nothing to me. I could brush them off and keep going.

But this…

I clicked my tongue. Why am I so annoyed by all of this? Just… why?

That’s when I read the article. That stupid, stupid article.

Charm Inu were doing an article for a local magazine. It’s not been published yet, but this reporter had a blog. Guess what she wrote. Yes! She “confirmed” that Isao and I were dating.

That did it.

I had to stop this before it got out of hand. I could think of one way. We were going to play a show tonight. I was going to confront Isao then. Confront him and put an end to this once and for all.