Two: Compliments, Critiques and Childish Conflict

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Two:

Ayase Miyoko's POV:

"Ugh!" I whine in class. It's lunch time now and everybody's getting into their social circles to exchange foods from their bento boxes.

"What's up, Miyo-chan?" Kashima Yuu-chan asks, shining emerald eyes depicting her worry.

"You okay, Miyo-chan?" Mikorin asks, brows up. He can see me reading the newest issue of Yumeno-sensei's manga. My bento is open so Mikorin and Yuu-chan can take and exhange from my lunch.

"You picked up the flimsy pair of glasses!" I huff. "I'll have to keep pushing them up all day!"

"That's your fault for sitting on the contact lenses." Yuu-chan points out.

"But he was the one to simply discard them on my bed!" I protest. "And not only do I look terrible in my glasses, I'll keep drawing people's attention to them!"

"You just need some complimeents." Mikorin gives Yuu-chan a nudge.

"Right. Erm..." Yuu-chan begins to spew a large ammount of empty compliments at me. I ignore her and start to study the new issue of Nozaki-kun's manga.

"Mikorin?" Ahh, looks like Nozaki-kun is here.

"Hey! Nozaki!" my childhood friend waves to the manga artist.

I found it hilarious when I found out that Nozaki-kun was writing a manga. A shoujo one to top it off. I don't think Mikorin caught on that I noticed his mad floral scrawls assoon as they appeared. But he did declare it when he saw me gwaking at one of the more intricate patterns of his.

However, Mikorin doesn't seem to realise how much he resembles that of Mamiko, the female protagonist of Nozaki-kun's manga. I remember once asking Sakura Chiyo whether there was a connection and she dragged me away to confess that Mikorin is actually the muse! It still amuses me to this day. Mainly because I sort of hear Mamiko speaking in Mikorin's voice...that's bad isn't it?

"Yo Nozaki-kun." Yuu-chan waves. Chiyo-kun also told me that Yuu-chan is the muse for Nozaki-kun's male protagonist Suzuki. That actually makes too much sense. It's actually kind of weird when Yuu-chan and I read the new volumes of the manga. She recently started to read Let's Fall In Love too. I just feel awkward because I will be sat beside the REAL Suzuki.

"Hello Kashima-kun, Ayase-kun." Nozaki greets, grabbing a spare chair. We all group together. I am pretty sure that I know what he's about to ask. Especially since his eyes just hit the manga beside my bento. Before we can start chatting critique and opinions, I hold out the bento box to Nozaki-kun. He then produces his own. We again begin to trade food.

Teachers don't approve of the students sharing food from the bento boxes but every social group does it. Hey, like it matters to us; sharing is caring after all. And its not like we're sharing chopsticks.

"Kashima-kun, Ayase-kun, have you caught up with Let's Fall In Love?" we are asked.

"I read it on the way in today after buying it last night." she nods happily. "I really loved the bike scene! That was sweet. How Mamiko thought back to the bikes when she was angry."

"That was sweet." I chime in, despite not getting to that part. The passing around of spoilers is something you have to get used to when you know that Nozaki-kun wrote a manga and that he knows we read it. I'm surprised that he's so open about talking about his manga...but maybe thats because of the fact that we're in a noisy classroom.

"I also enjoyed seeing Mamiko get all flustered when Suzuki looks her way."

"That was amusing, Miyo-chan." Yuu-chan agrees.

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