Aqua Terrarium (Nagi No Asukara)

Chapter Nineteen

"Aoi...-n...,"

I groaned at the voice trying to pierce through my sleep, my hands grabbing onto my sheets and snuggling deeper into them.

"Five more minutes..." I murmured sleepily, my hand grabbing for the closest pillow and comfortably embracing it. The voice stopped soon after, allowing me to finally relax into the comfort of my bed.

Or so I had thought.

It wasn't until the sheets were fully yanked from me that my eyes flew open, glaring daggers at the person who so kindly had woken me up from my well-deserved sleep.

"What the hell?!"

"Good morning to you too, Aoi." Hikari's smug smile greeted me, my hand grabbing for a pillow and aiming it at him.

"Don't you know what time it is?" I berated him, his smirk growing wider while he pointed at my bedside clock. "I'm assuming you know how to read the time, Aoi."

My eyes could only pale at the time, my body immediately jerking up to grab for the clock. "I overslept!" I couldn't help but yell loudly just as the door to my room opened to reveal Manaka and Kaname walking in with Takashi in tow.

"You finally woke up!" Manaka beamed before turning to Hikari, "Aoi-chan was right! Your mouth can really wake anyone up, Hii-kun!"

"Hehe-Ha?!" Hikari immediately did a double-take, his puffed up ego quickly evaporating before he glared at me. "What on earth have you been teaching her?!"

"It's up to her what she wants to learn! Besides, why are you all in my room? Takashi, where's mom?" I asked my brother.

"She's downstairs cooking food. She told me to wake you up but you wouldn't budge so I asked Hikari-nii, Manaka-nee, and Kaname-nii to wake you up."

"You were sleeping like a log, Aoi. I could hear your snore from downstairs," Hikari couldn't help but tease which made me turn red.

"Shut up! That's obviously not true!"

"Is so!"

"Is not!"

"Um...you do know we're in a hurry, right?" Kaname tried to mediate, my eyes widening at the realization.

"I haven't changed yet!" I panicked, my hands immediately grabbing my shirt to lift it up and take it off.

Hands quickly grabbed mine to lower the shirt down, a red-faced Hikari glaring daggers at me in embarrassment before he stuttered. "What the hell are you doing?!"

"What do you think? I'm changing!"

"In front of us?!"

"I-," I stopped my speech when I finally regained my bearings, eyes were all on me, from Manaka's wide eyes, Kaname's blushing cheeks, Takashi's scandalized look and then back to Hikari's embarrassed expression.

"G-get out!"

--*--

I sighed tiredly while I adjusted my bag, my feet taking me to the platform in quiet silence.

I had let them go ahead of me, my embarrassment refusing to let me join them like nothing had happened. I can't believe I nearly flashed them like that, especially in front of Kaname.

I turned even redder at the memory, my hands slapping my cheeks before I shook my head. "S-stop thinking about it. I'm sure they'll forget about it sooner or later. No need to dwell on it," I tried to pep-talk myself, nodding to no one as I did so.

But would they really?

Knowing Hikari, he'd never live it down. Manaka might try to avoid the topic but she did always have a terrible way of slipping up every now and then. As for Kaname- oh god, I can't believe I did that in front of him. I don't even know how I'm going to face him now after that embarrassing display I did. I'm just glad Chisaki wasn't around or she'd be like Hikari and tease me the whole day.