Love Fest!

With the promise of him treating the group, they headed to the nearest fast-food restaurant. Even if they reluctantly accepted his grace, he was the one that invited all of them. Hanayo volunteered to help Hiroto with ordering the food.

They were waiting for the meal to be ready at the counter. "Hiroto-kun, I-I have something to ask you.." Hanayo somewhat stuttered, but she still asked him with a straight face. She rubbed both her hands with each other, feeling shy.

"Go ahead." Hiroto curiously looked at her.

"Y-you and Maki had a closer-relationship right?" Hanayo felt embarrassed before she looked down.

"Yeah, I guess so.." Hiroto nodded, the employees had put the meal in the trays. He picked up one before looking at Hanayo who stopped moving.

"Help me with this.." He called for her which surprised her but she heeds and quickly picked up the tray. She nearly stumbled down on the floor with her sudden movements.

"Don't be hasty, you might slip if you don't be careful." Hiroto held her shoulders and Hanayo could stabilize her body. She walked carefully to the table while he got another tray to deliver.

"Thank you.." Hanayo looked at him gratefully with red cheeks.

"No problem." He gave a curt nod before walking towards their table before placing the meals.

He saw Honoka that had a look of a somewhat degenerated person. He looked at Maki but she just shrugged her shoulders.

"Thanks for treating us Hiroto-kun.." Kotori bowed to him. The others cupped their hands and did the same. Hiroto raised his hand nonchalantly.

"What was she bothered with?" Hiroto asked the others and Honoka didn't seem to care about everything and just showed a foul looking face. She reached out for a french fries and ate it with grit.

The recurrent rain made Honoka sour. Others weren't bothered since they could relax for a time. He nodded at Kotori's explanation.

"Honoka! You're not doing yourself any favors by trying to eat your stress away like that." Umi looked at her feeling helpless.

"Don't make so much trouble." Maki looked to the side.

Honoka said in a lamenting voice. "Why won't it stop raining?" She pouted before munching another fries.

"Don't ask us that." Umi rolled her eyes.

"Besides, let's just pray that tomorrow will be a sunny day, I hope." Kotori tried to calm her down. Even if she had seen the forecast for tomorrow that it will rain, there might be a sliver of a chance that it wouldn't.

"I was so stoked at practice, but that dumb rain had to come and ruin everything, it's not fair!" Honoka mumbled angrily as she picked up another fries before sipping at the cup of cola.

"Mah, we were able to practice your voice, so it's not that the group didn't have something to do." Hiroto was sitting at the head of the table beside Maki and her opposite Umi.

"Muhh." Honoka pouted with a cute angry expression.

"Well, we were able to hear Hiroto-kun and Maki-chan's performance too," Rin said as she enjoyed the burger in her hand before taking a mouthful.

"Dhish is show jgud.." Rin mumbled while having a mouthful of food.

"Rin-chan don't do that.." Hanayo immediately got a cup of cola before raising it to her.

"Did you compose that song Hiroto-kun?" Hanayo asked while she looked at him curiously. Even though she just asked him earlier, it didn't lessen her curiosity since it was a good performance after-all.

"Yeah, you can say so.."

"You and Maki are so amazing making your songs like a piece of cake." Hanayo had some butterflies in her, they were that amazing these two who maybe had a relationship with each other. Thinking of that made her blush.

"Kayochin are you okay?" Rin put her hand on Hanayo's head.

"N-nothing!" Hanayo immediately waved her hands frantically.

Meanwhile, Hiroto noticed that there was a pink circle of something floating behind the cover of the tables opposite from his position. There was another table behind them so he didn't think it was something and was just customers.

'A hat or something?' He looked at his phone as he looked at the daily forecast and predictions for tomorrow, it seems that it will rain again.

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Nico was spying behind the table of the idol group. She wanted to find something that would make them stop their venture, as she was opposed to the idea and she hated that they were successful in their first live performance.

"But my disguise is a bit flashy." Nico fiddled with her glasses. She was wearing a big white coat with a ribbon on the neck. Wearing brown-tinted glasses and a pink poop hat.

A boy suddenly shouted while raising he pointed his finger to Nico in disguise as he held an ice cream on his other hand. "Wow! It's poop!"

Nico immediately looked at the kid and shouted. "Shut up!" The kid got scared of her before sprinting away.

-

"Huh?" Honoka balanced her seat as she leaned back to look at the sudden voice albeit not seeing anyone. Nico sighed in the cover.

"Look the forecast just said that tomorrow will be raining again too," Hiroto said while he raised his phone to them.

"Ahh!" Honoka sighed, she didn't see that her fries were missing. But Hiroto noticed with his acute senses, that a hand quickly snatched Honoka's fries. She looked at her meal, her french fries but she noticed that it was empty.

"What the, they're gone!" Honoka picked the fries box and showed it to Umi.

"Umi-chan, you ate my fries, didn't you?" Honoka leered at Umi as she pouted while looking to the side.

"You don't even remember how much you ate? For crying out loud." Umi got surprised before shouting. She was going to pick her fries and give some to Honoka but she noticed that it was also empty.

"Honoka, you ate mine!" Umi got surprised as she lifted her box that was empty. She knew that there were still many of them just now.

"I didn't eat yours!" Honoka saw her box, 'I haven't eaten everything, was it magic!.'

"Well, why don't I just order another batch?" Hiroto raised from his seat and headed to the counter.

"Wai.." Umi was going to stop him but he was already many steps away. Maki followed him to the counter.

"Hey, Hiroto, why don't we just ask the teacher to use an empty classroom to practice?" Maki looked at him while lightly scratching her chin with crossed arms.

"That is possible but we need to apply for a club so that we can have the permission" He ordered a few batches of fries while also ordering some desserts.

"We asked the teachers before, right? They said that there was a club similar to the school idol thing and we can't make another one because it's under the regulations of the school." He picked up the french fries tray and put it in her hands while he got the desserts tray.

"Yeah, that's the problem so do we have an alternative way to do so?" Maki looked at him for inquiry. They reached the table before putting the food on the table.

"Here are the fries, don't eat too much and share them." Maki rolled her eyes before distributing it to the others.

"Thank you Maki-chan!" Rin showed her gratitude while rubbing herself to Maki.

"I brought some desserts too, what were you talking about?" Hiroto smiled before sitting.

"Desserts!!" Rin immediately grabbed a cup of ice cream.

"Ekk, don't thank me, it's Hiroto's treat you know." Maki twirled her hair and ate a stick of french fries.

"Thank you Hiroto-kun nyah" Rin showed her teeth.

"Ahhh!" Honoka realized something as she looked at the others.

"I remember we have 7 members already right?" Honoka rubbed her head while she didn't think of this before.

"Do you want to apply for a club?" Maki looked at her as she asked.

"If we only need five members.." Hanayo looked at Honoka, she immediately got the idea as she opened her mouth.

"That's right! I forgot! We can form a new club now!" Honoka stood up from her seat before shouting a bit loudly.

"How could you just forget that?!" Nico was listening on the other side tsukkomi but she immediately hid behind the cover of the other table.

"Huh? Who was that just now?" Honoka looked behind and didn't see one. Hiroto noticed that it was the person who was stalking them before.

"But we asked the student council already? She said that another school idol club was already in school." Hiroto reminded the casual Honoka who was scratching her head as she forgot that detail.

"What do you mean you forgot? We have been saying it to you?" Maki rolled her eyes, she sighed.

"Sorry I forgot, hehe.." Honoka put out her tongue,

"This group might be hopeless." Maki rested her chin while looking at Hiroto who had a wry smile.

"But we just need to ask again and see if the student council will accept and we already have the necessary members for it! Then we will have our club room!" Honoka pumped her fist feeling excited.

'You didn't get what we just implied!' Hiroto rolled his eyes, he whispered to Maki as she also had a thinking expression.

"Well, at least trying wouldn't hurt," Hiroto said optimistically since the student council president might allow them given her personality. He hoped Eli would give them a chance since he already made some sense to her.

"Now that it's settled, I feel hungry again." Honoka rubbed her stomach.

"There's desserts and fries for everyone to get your share here." Hiroto didn't remove their enthusiastic faces, disappointing them now will just make them sad and sour.

"Ahh, fries! let me try!" Honoka looked below to the trays to get one but she immediately noticed a hand from the cover of the other table had picked up her hamburger through the small opening.

"Eh?" The hand found that they noticed her stealing before she put back the hamburger to its rightful place. Nico stood up from her seat before tiptoeing to escape the restaurant but her poop hat was seen above the cover, walking sneakily.

Honoka realized the events as she quickly caught up to the escaping stalker. "Stop right there!" She got a hold of her hand.

"You should break up!" Nico said while fixing her glasses in her eyes. Honoka realized that she might be the one who was the culprit of the missing fries before and the person that Hiroto had found during the morning training.

"Break up?!" Hanayo saw some distance from the girl in poop disguise, she had a wide-open mouth feeling the suddenness of the situation.

"Is that girl, the one that you said?" Maki looked at the arguing two, Hiroto nodded since she was basically using a catchy disguise that a person would easily notice her.

"Give me back my fries! Those are more important!" Honoka shouted.

"They are!?" Hanayo made a comical expression.

"That's not what you meant to say!" Hiroto suddenly made a tsukkomi.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Nico made a funny expression as if mocking her.

"Buy me a new fries!" Honoka put her hands and jumbled Nico's face like a mochi.

"But I already brought many!" Hiroto rolled his eyes as he said besides the others but it seemed that she didn't hear his words. Honoka wasn't able to forgive the person that stole her fries.

"You girls couldn't dance and sing your way out of the paper bag and the group was only successful because of the help you had." Nico mockingly while she feistily said.

"Show some professionalism!" Nico funnily said while Honoka was holding her mouth so she was slightly making her voice pitchier.

"Eh?" Honoka raised her brows before Nico removed the hands from her face.

Nico pointed a finger to Honoka "Get it? You girls are an embarrassment! A disgrace to real idols!" She flicked her brown-tinted glasses before she waved suit cooly.

"Hoy, stop that. You don't even know how they worked hard besides we don't even know you, why should we listen to your mutterings." Hiroto approached Honoka as he looked at the girl with some anger.

"Hmpf, just because you help doesn't mean that they were great, you should make them give up." Nico put her hands on her waist while proudly looking at them, she looked hostile at Hiroto before escaping.

"Ah!" Honoka quickly looked at the windows and saw the girl running through the rain.

"Poop is running!" Some kids were walking as they saw the poop hat on Nico as they made fun of her.

"Awesome!" The other kid said amazed.

"She left..." Honoka felt sad for some reason, they just didn't know if she was sad about not getting her fries or that her group was mocked.

"Don't be down, I don't know her motive and we don't know her why should we care?" Hiroto wanted to spat at the ground, that girl was just mean.

"That girl was too c.o.c.ky." Umi approached Honoka and consoled her if she was down or anything.

"Don't heed her words, she might just be some jealous person." Maki harrumphed, feeling slightly moody. He calmed her down by massaging her hands beneath the table.