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“Riki is the song done yet.”
It was the day before the big show, and once again, unsurprisingly, the girls of Mygo were completely unprepared for it. Tomori of course had the lyrics figured out first, and now Taki was hard at work to finish the composition, now that they were done with rehearsals today.
Or at least she would like to.
“It will be--done--soon.” Taki sighed, visibility annoyed; though no one else could tell due to being annoyed being her default state.
“Riki~~...what about my part of the song?” Despite practice being done for the night, Anon stuck around to ‘help’’. Well technically everyone was staying to help, it was only Anon who was ’helping’. Tomori was working to prepare the set. Soyo was getting the costumes ready. Rana was off looking for snacks, not helping but that was ok.
But Anon was a different story. For the past week, Anon had dragged Soyo and Tomori with her on an ill-fated social media campaign. A campaign called AnonGo, supposedly to promote the band, but really just ended up with Anon taking photos of herself at landmarks around town to prove she wasn’t lost. The band itself was barely mentioned. She was self centered as always.
Ironically they all got lost on the way to the day's location.
Anyway AnonGo was a huge waste of time for everyone except Anon, obviously, and Tomori, who enjoyed seeing cool new rocks with Anon. So it was not all a waste of time, all things considered.
“Is it finished? It is good right?” Anon continued, just barely concealing her desire to be the center of attention.
This wouldn’t be too bad if it was just that. After all this was normal Anon behavior and Taki had begrudgingly accepted it by this point, but to do this after those pointless days. To think, Taki had gradually grown to appreciate Anon’s attitude over the time she knew her. What a fool she was, putting any faith into this idiot.
“Don’t you have something better to do?” Taki. resembling more a dog than a girl, growled at Anon aggressively.
"Like not bothering me” Taki left unsaid. She was trying to not be too mean, but it was hard to do.
“Not really, I finished AnonGo yesterday.” Anon continued, blissfully unaware of Taki’s true annoyance. After all this is normal Taki, she is always grumpy.
Taki glared at Anon, really not wanting to hear about that.
“So I was thinking... maybe I could help you out with the song--” Anon continued sheepishly. She was genuinely trying to help, she despite her outward appearance she actually felt guilty about wasting all that time. She wanted to help out, but she didn’t know how and honestly felt a bit nervous about asking.
“Huh” Taki snapped back. This was the last thing she wanted. Having Anon breathing down her neck, asking her about everything, coming up with such stupid ideas and generally just being an idiot. This would not stand.
Taki will have to shut this girl up, but how. With how she is today, Anon would not relent no matter how mean Taki was. Besides, she couldn’t be too mean. If she was, Tomori would be sad, and that would be unacceptable.
’Think Taki, think’
Unfortunately the gears in Taki’s brain clicked into place faster than she could think, producing an idea that she immediately accepted and did not comprehend, let alone imagine what it actually meant. Something deeper inside her than her brain thought it was a good idea.
Anon stood across from where Taki was sitting, looking completely dejected. She just wanted to help out...
“Well if you are going to be rude about---” Before she could finish Taki had already stood up, wrapped her arm around Anon's waist, pulled her into an embrace and planted her lips on Anon’s.
‘Wait why am I doing this’
Taki couldn’t believe she was kissing this idiot. Disgusting, Taki thought despite being overwhelmed by the sweet smell of Anon’s perfume. Even though every thought she had told her she hated this, she still continued to kiss Anon.
“Mmm.hmmm.mm” Anon’s eyes shot open as Taki planted the kiss on her lips. She was shocked to say the least. It wasn’t bad, in fact Taki was quite good at kissing. It was just weird. Weird and surprising.
’Wasn’t Riki just really mad at me, why is she kissing her now.’
After a few moments Taki finally pulled her lips away. Anon was still shocked by the sudden kiss, she looked dizzy and if it were not for Taki still holding her in an embrace she may have fallen down. Despite her mouth now being free she remained silent, still pondering the implications of what happened.
Taki was herself confused why she kissed Anon, but at least the feeling inside her that led her to do it was correct. Anon did shut up. Taki gently released Anon from her embrace, Anon having recovered just enough to stand up for herself again.
Unfortunately Taki wasn’t as discreet as she hoped. Everyone else in the room silently stared at the two girls, with various expressions of surprise on their faces.
In one corner Soyo was looking away, both pretending to not have seen it but also hiding her emotions. She was just barely hiding her indignation, as was normal of Soyo, but maybe she was also hiding something else. Maybe she was hiding jealousy.
In another corner of the room Tomori stared at Taki and Anon in amazement, as if she witnessed something new that she had never considered before. She realized she was lost in a whole new way, but perhaps Anon could help her find her way once again.
Rana stood in the doorway after having just returned from getting her matcha parfait. On seeing Anon and Taki embracing each other, she simply took a bite of her parfait and smiled.
“Wow, interesting women.” Rana was the first to break the silence. She took another bite of her parfait.
Taki was extremely embarrassed, her face was flushed completely red. She couldn’t believe she kissed Anon at all, let alone in front of the entire band.
“Riki...” Anon has emerged from her stupor.
“What...” Taki replied sheepishly.
“Riki...I can’t believe you actually like me Riki. You are always so mean to me, but you actually really do like me.” Anon smiled. She had completely regained her energy and was back to normal.
“I am so happy, Riki. And you like me like that... I guess it is ok with me~ I guess it can’t be helped if you fell in love with me Riki.”
’Oh god, the idiot is back to normal’
The feeling of being annoyed by Anon has completely over ridden the embarrassment she felt from kissing her. Taki was back to normal. Not only that, she was furious. She was in love with Anon? Don’t be ridiculous, how could she fall in love with that idiot?
“Has anyone told you how annoying you are?” Taki sighed.
“No, what do-” Anon squealed as she was swiftly pulled into Taki’s embrace once more.
‘Guess this means I will have to shut her up again’