Let Me be His Replacement

It's what you call "ship"

Aoi's  POV

I woke up bright and early in the morning, I sat up from bed and looked at my right, expecting to see my golden-haired friend, but she wasn't there. 'I almost forgot that she was the Starlight Queen' I thought, I did my usual routine, changed to my uniform and headed out to the Starlight Queen's manor, where she lives. She calls it the Ichigo manor.

I reached the gates of the manor and went inside, I walked to the front door. When I reached my destination I quietly opened it, went inside, and closed the door quietly. I went to the living room (where they were choosing partners for the Partners Cup and where they celebrated when Ichigo came back from America) but she wasn't there, so I went to  her bedroom. I went upstairs towards her room, I slowly opened the door to find her in her uniform staring outside her window,

"Ichigo..." I called as I went inside and closed the door, but she didn't move
"Ichigo!" I called out to her for the second time, but she still didn't move
"Ichigo!" I called her a bit more loud, but she still didn't move, that's when I got an idea,
"Ichigo, Suzukawa-sensei is looking for you!" I said as I walked to her, she finally moved and turned to me, but her face was bright red
"He-he's looking for me?" she asked nervously trying to act normal, I giggled
"I only said that to get your attention. No matter how I call your name you still won't move" I said to her
"Was I spacing out?"
"Yup" she had a nervous smile and looked out the window, I went next to her
"You must really like Suzukawa-sensei" I said she nodded
"What type of guy do you like exactly?" I asked
"I~ have no idea!" she said, the both of us giggled
"Come on, let's eat breakfast with Ran"
"Okay" she said as she did a closed-eyed smile, so the both of us went to the cafeteria.

~At the Cafeteria ~

Ichigo's POV

Me and Aoi went inside the cafeteria, we grabbed our food and looked around to find a familiar friend, we were looking for Ran, until we saw her sitting alone at our usual spot. We went to her
"Good morning, Ran!" I greeted she looked at us and smiled
"Good morning Ichigo, Aoi" she greeted back, our sitting arrangement was Ran is facing the window, I sat in front of her, Aoi sat beside me, then we started eating, we talked about work and stuff. When we were finished we went to class, since we don't have morning work or something like that.

~Lunch time~

We went to the cafeteria again to eat lunch, sat at our usual sport, and ate. It was silent until Ran started a conversation with a question
"So what do you think?"
"Think about what?" I asked
"About sensei's age"
"Which sensei?" I asked as I tilted my head, Ran sighed
"Suzukawa-sensei, so what do you think?" I blushed from the name but got over it quickly.
"Hm... Let's see..." I said looking up
"I bet he's 23" Aoi said
"Why 23?" I asked
"Well, he's a teacher, and he looks young. So I think he's 23"
"Okay. What about you Ran?" she was silent, she looked down for a while, then she looked back up at us
"I think he's 24" she said
"Why 24?" I asked
"I'm just guessing" she said, Aoi giggled
"What about you, Ichigo?" Aoi asked
"Hm... I think he's 22" I said, they just looked a me
"Th-that's just what I think!" I said as I sweat dropped, they just giggled

"So? What's the prize with whoever is correct?" Aoi asked
"Why are you starting this?" Ran said with a suspicious look
"It's just for fun! No hard feelings" she said, Ran just shrugged
"I'm not getting in this." I had a thought
"I know! The prize will be 1 free seaweed bento!" I said aloud, Ran turned to me
"That sounds good! What do you think Ran?" Aoi said looking at Ran
"We-well, I don't see anything bad there. So I guess I'm in" Ran stated taking a bite from her lunch
"Yey!" I exclaimed
"Come on now. We should eat now" Ran said, there's still some food on my plate,
"Okay. Let's eat!" I said as I took a bite. We all continued eating, when we were done, we returned the plates to the counter area and went out for a walk.