Dream Star

Lila frowned as she reached over and poked his cheeks, "Unfair, how can he be sleeping so peacefully?" Lila mentally cursed. Her whole body is aching all over, and she could barely speak. Still, maybe it"s a good thing he is asleep. Haruka has more stamina in the morning than night. She can only imagine what he would do to her.

It"s the first time that he"s held her so gently before. When Lila recalled the events of last night, she immediately became fl.u.s.tered. He"s so stupid, but Lila didn"t want to refuse him. Or rather, it was impossible for her to do that. Being held by this man, why does it make her feel this way? It doesn"t make sense anymore, but so did most things these days. While she was not like s.h.i.+chiro and Kasumi who take logical approaches to everything, Lila always thought of herself as a rational person. But, ever since she went out with Karas.h.i.+ma Haruka, she"s starting to think so otherwise.

How can he be so s.e.xy and yet look child-like when he"s sleeping? Lila reached over and brought Haruka closer to her; she giggled when his arms wrapped around her despite him being fast asleep. Is it a natural instinct now? It"s strange, a few months back Haruka would never have stayed beside her let alone hug her so close— okay, so maybe he was already embracing her to sleep before they dated. Still, there"s something different about the current situation.

As Lila thought about this, Haruka stirred awake.

"Morning," he was looking at her with a bright smile on his face that made her feel embarra.s.sed. Lila quickly moved away from him; she wanted to hide under the covers again. How embarra.s.sing, he caught her staring for so long.

"M—mor," Lila coughed, "Morn-," an even violent cough pa.s.sed her lips. Lila looked puzzled, eh? What? For some reason, her throat feels painful.

Haruka must have noticed since he sat both of them up. He reached over, "Open your mouth."

Lila nodded and did as Haruka asked.

"Hmm, seems like you have a bit of an infection."

Her eyes widened alarmed. She does? She"s never had one before, would this affect her singing?

"Don"t worry, it should disappear soon but huh, why did you get...," Haruka trailed off, and his expression immediately darkened, "d.a.m.n," Haruka cursed, "They got ahead of me, you-you drank that juice last night didn"t you? The one, the staff, prepared?"

"Ah, I did. Since there was no water."

"d.a.m.n," he muttered, "It was spiked, I wasn"t paying much attention last night since I kept looking at you. But, the drink was an odd color, wasn"t it?"

An odd color? Lila thought back to the dinner they had and recalled the drink in her hands, "It was a pretty shade of pink," she didn"t think it was unusual though. After all, she is a hanyou; drinks there come in all sorts - so Lila didn"t suspect anything was wrong.

Somebody deliberately did this. But what is their motive?

Ah? Lila recalled something; she has a G.o.ddess4 show. The first show back, despite her being on awkward terms with everybody still. Rinna relayed the message to her, out of the others. Rinna was the only one she was actually on speaking terms with. But even then, Lila sensed there was something wrong whenever they talked to each other. If she fails to do this show, then even Rinna would be disappointed in her.

If she misses it and fails to show up, then-then - her place in Universal Star academy would be gone. Lila clenched her fist; they did this on purpose.

"H...aruka," Lila called out weakly.

"You should save your strength," he muttered as he wrapped his arms around her, "What"s wrong?"

"I love you, Haruka."

"Dearest, surely this isn"t the time," Haruka paused, "I really am sorry. It"s because I invited you out here," he caressed her hair.

It isn"t Haruka"s fault, somebody knew of his plans with her beforehand, "Haruka, did you tell anybody?" It was difficult to speak, but Lila wanted to get to the bottom of this.

"I told Mei when she asked me out."

Lila raised her eyebrows, "She asked you out?" That girl is getting quite bold. Initially, Lila thought to leave the situation alone. After all, the girl was still one of her fans. But, it seems like because she is being so lenient. The girl thinks she can get friendly with her Haruka.

"Well for dinner, she said she wanted to have a meal with me. But I told her we had a date."

How careless of Haruka, he probably doesn"t realize it yet. But those people are using Aizawa Mei to let his guard down. Naturally, Haruka wouldn"t suspect the company"s newbie, since he"s the one who helped her get in the company. Haruka would not conclude of the possibility of Aizawa Mei being a spy, maybe if she told him? No, Lila figured it out by now. He seems oddly attached to her.

"Take me to Soichiro; we have to tell him."

Haruka wore a grim expression, "Do we have to?"

Lila immediately understood and took his hand in hers, "It"s okay Haruka, I won"t let him criticize you," and even if Soichiro criticizes Haruka. She has a bottom line. If he overdoes it, then even she would get angry. Besides, for a while now there is something she has meant to do.

....
In the car, Haruka was doing whatever he could to make it up to her to the point he was treating her like a Princess. It was somewhat embarra.s.sing for her, "Haruka, um, I can"t eat this much," Lila pointed to the food.

They stopped by that bar again, but Haruka didn"t go out. He simply asked somebody to buy him the food. Her favorite onion rings, cheeseburger, chicken. Alongside some salad.

Haruka nodded slowly, "Just eat whatever you can. I wanted you to have a good selection."

So, in other words, he wasn"t sure what was okay for her to eat or not. She smiled, "Then, I have a request, will you feed me?" Lila asked.

"Feed you?"

Lila nodded, "Ah-huh, feed me," she repeated. He owes her, right? Normally Haruka doesn"t feed her. There"s a borderline to what he considers flirting and in his words just plain stupid. The whole feeding thing falls under that category.

Haruka looked at the food and then back at her. He picked up the spoon, and her eyes lit up, but instead of feeding it to her, Haruka ate it and then brought his lips against hers.

"Nnnngh, unngh..."

"Not enough," Haruka murmured.

"Wait, there"s no more," but Lila"s sentence fell on death ears as Haruka"s lips are on hers again. He"s so stupid, so, so stupid. When she starts coughing, Haruka let"s go of her and picks up a bottle of water. He pa.s.ses it to her, "Thank you."

"Yeah."

Somehow, the surrounding atmosphere felt awkward. Lila felt nervous..

Haruka wrapped his arms around her shoulders, "Is there anything you want to ask me?"

"Anything?"

"Last night, it looked like you wanted to say something."

Oh, so he noticed it. Lila nodded, "I was just wondering, you didn"t sleep with Aizawa Mei that time you returned to the bar. I don"t believe all you did was drink," while she didn"t detect any unusual scents. She still felt something was wrong.

Haruka deeply sighed, a troubled look appeared on his face, "I see."

Uh, did she upset him?

"Why would I sleep with her anyway?"

Lila looked away; she felt ashamed. She shouldn"t have said that no having such a thought is already a crime, "I"m sorry, I didn"t mean it that way. I"m just getting a bit jealous; you told me before that Aizawa resembles me, and that"s why you can talk to her easily. So I"ve been thinking lately, whenever we fight or whenever you get angry at me, you"ll just go to her," she admitted. Though she was hiding it this whole time since that woman appeared Lila has felt very uneasy.

Aizawa is Haruka"s type too, a kind girl who is good at singing. Her thoughts broke off when Haruka cupped her cheeks, "Why are you so foolish? Why do I have to go to her whenever we fight? Do you really want to know what I do when we fight? I end up following you around in my car."

"Ehhh?" Lila exclaimed, "No way."

"Yes, way. I do so from a distance. I did a great job stalking you over the years remember, it"s not exactly difficult."

Lila blushed, "Oh goodness, how embarra.s.sing," she thought. All those times she thought Haruka was going off and meeting with other women. A sudden thought came to mind, and Lila frowned,
"You can"t possibly be following me all the time, admit it. There are times where you don"t, right? What are you doing then?" Lila questioned. Even for him, it"s impossible.

"Yeah, your right it"s impossible. So I get my guard to follow you or just return to the apartment. It wasn"t until recently when I started attending parties again," Haruka explained.

Recently, "Because I said I"d be your wife? Do you hate the idea of change? Should I not have answered you so soon?"

Haruka"s lips are on hers in seconds, and Lila lightly pushed him away, "Wait, you can"t get out of answering this one."

"Yeah, I don"t plan to," Haruka sighed, "You really are stupid. So you"ve been thinking these crazy things this whole time?"

Well, she wouldn"t exactly say the whole time, but for a while now.

Haruka must have understood what her silence meant, since he sighed again, "Geez, and I"m supposed to be the insecure one."

"I"m sorry," Lila apologized. How stupid of her. Even if Haruka gets along with another girl, that doesn"t mean her imagination should run wild. Haruka is allowed to have friends after all.

"So, I"ll tell you this now. Nothing is between her and me. Yes, I helped her get into the agency, yes I met with her even after she got in. But that"s only because the Boss wanted me to be her manager."

Ah?!! But that"s her privilege!! Haruka brushed his fingers on her lips, "However, I declined and said, that"s my wife"s privilege."

"Really?"

"Yeah, seems like she hasn"t heard the news yet though. I was going to wait until Boss told her, but I guess I should have. Sorry for making you feel bad."