My Good - Looking Neighbor

Ch 8: Messy

"Ami-kun!"

After a brief greeting, the man sat down. Nakano Umi, she is a friend of Chizuru's acting course.

"How are you, Chizuru-chan?"

"Very good. How's yours?"

"Well, have the days as usual. You're beautiful today."

Chizuru is a bit tekesiap. She has been bombarded with the teasing of her annoying looking neighbor lately. But still, being praised directly was somewhat embarrassing.

"Ah thank you."

Umi smiled.

"How's the casting?"

"I've sent the video to the organizer. And, well, it's rejected." Chizuru smiled helplessly.

"Enjoyously. There'll be another chance."

Please note, Chizuru has dreams of becoming an actress. Her hired boyfriend's job is also to fulfill that dream. He did it to train his acting. Because clients usually ask how Chizuru should act. Whether it's as a cute, cold girlfriend, tsundere, and much more. Therefore he thought this could be an exercise for his acting.

"Well, you're right. By the way how's your project, Umi-kun?"

"Well, it went well. There are still a few days left to shoot. The direction is pretty strict."

"How's it?"

"He was quick to get angry about something. I also scolded him often. Even though I was only a minor, he was quite serious about it."

"Well, how else. After you finish filming, you go to the course again right?"

"of course. There's still a lot to train."

The two of them chatted for a while about some matters concerning acting.

"You leaving now?" Umi looked at her watch.

"All right." Chizuru nodded.

"I'll pay the bill." Umi said.

"Eh? That's not necessary, Umi-kun."

"It's okay." Umi replied with a smile.

After paying the bills, they walked out of the cafe. While on the road many gazes fell onto the two. How else, they look flashy. Chizuru is beautiful and graceful and Umi is cool and calm. They both look like good-looking lovers that some people want.

Chizuru was already used to people's amazed gazes. He naturally ignored her.

A few minutes walking, Chizuru saw a tall black-haired man who looked familiar. The man was standing leaning against a building while holding a DSLR camera. It could be seen the man was looking at the results of his photos. He is her neighbor, Ryuuji.

Chizuru's heart was somewhat jolted. He's on a collision course with Umi right now. They seem to be dating. Indeed, Chizuru once said that she was dating when Ryuuji asked. But obviously, it was a lie. At first he had no problem saying 'dating' as a lie, but now he felt it was a bit untrue and stuck in his heart. Especially now that Ryuuji and Chizuru are getting closer despite the cold war before. Now she doesn't want Ryuuji to see himself walking with a man at a time when the issue has not been resolved.

However, before Chizuru decided to turn around or hide, Ryuuji was already staring at her after Ryuuji looked in all directions to look for his photo target. Chizuru's mind suddenly stopped but her body kept moving.

Umi who was walking beside Chizuru saw the tall handsome man in front staring at her, instead, more precisely at the girl next to her. As he looked towards Chizuru, he saw a surprised looking Chizuru. He stopped his steps and held Chizuru's wrist to a stop.

"Chizuru-chan is? Your acquaintance?"

Just then Chizuru suddenly regained her senses. Then he saw Ryuuji's blank gaze turn and walk away.

Seeing him walk away without saying hello made his heart ache a little. But he remembered his vague anger towards Ryuuji. He asked her not to say hello to him when he was with his friend.

'He still remembers it yes even though lately we have been acting normally.'

"Ah, he's my senior at college." Chizuru smiled bitterly with a slightly moody expression.

Umi chose not to discuss it further after seeing Chizuru's expression. They were silent for a moment. Chizuru immediately changed her expression and smiled towards Umi.

'Ah, this is a bit painful.'

...

After hanging out with Umi, Chizuru returns home. He arrived at the apartment quite late, at 10:30 p.m. Hangout's fun. He met a lot of people. But the shadow of Ryuuji walking away was ringing in his head.

So after returning home, he intends to chat with Ryuuji about today and about the day that Chizuru scolded him. Not directly into his room, he walked to Ryuuji's doorstep.

'Is he still awake?'

He knocked on the door. But there is no reply. Then he knocked again some without any reply from within. Then he saw the parking lot below.

'The bike doesn't exist.'

Since Ryuuji was not home, he entered his room. Chizuru walks into the bathroom to bathe in warm water and changes into somewhat cute pajamas and exposes quite a bit of her skin.

He immediately lay on his bed. His eyes stared blankly at the ceiling, still shadowing Ryuuji who walked away without greeting. Chizuru bit her lower lip and rolled over. He opened his phone and saw the notifications piling up. He then decided to open the email. At that time he looked at the inbox list and saw a familiar e-mail address, shinjo.ryuuji01@gmail.com. It was Ryuuji's e-mail.

Chizuru opened it and found some audio tracks. He downloads it and listens to Ryuuji's soothing music and voice. Automatically, his brain recalled Ryuuji walking away. At the same time, he also fell asleep. Falling asleep with a restless feeling.

...

"Ichinose, I want to talk about that time."

"Ah about that, I apologize for being angry at-"

"No need, you hate me anyway, right? Take it easy, I'll be out of your sight forever."

"Wait, wait, not like this, senpai!!! Ryuuji!!! Don't leave it"

"Good bye!"

His arms and legs moved slightly before Chizuru raised her body to get up and sat down abruptly. His breathing was intense and his heart was pumped quickly.

He had not expected to dream about Ryuuji. Moreover, it was a nightmare.

Chizuru saw her strange dream with a third-person view. He could see himself standing with Ryuuji in front of the apartment. But in every conversation, the place will always change.

The change of venue ended when Ryuuji said turn around and stop to say goodbye. He was in an empty white room. As he watched Ryuuji leave, he fell into the boundless black passageway.

'The nightmare.'

Breath and blood pumping to his heart was still fast. After he calmed down, he immediately went to take a shower. He walked out and opened the door. He was expecting something but his hopes were soon dashed.

'He's not standing there.'

He decides to approach Ryuuji's room and knocks on his door. But there is no answer. Tapping a few times also had no answer. And the clock has shown the time to immediately leave for campus. Then Ryuuji leaves first.

'Is he avoiding me?'

With a bad feeling, Chizuru sets off on her own to campus like the days before meeting Ryuuji. He has tried to eliminate this disturbing feeling as much as possible, but what power, even when the course takes place, the unpleasant feeling still appears.

Chizuru also tries to find Ryuuji on campus but still does not find him anywhere. Trying to haunt him with a chat, Ryuuji also did not reply. Even after arriving home, Ryuuji did not respond at all when Chizuru knocked on the door.

Surrender, Chizuru is currently lying on her bed wearing only a tank top and ****** *****.

'Is it really like this?'

Eliminating his uneasy feelings, he opened Diamond on his phone. Actually it is Chizuru's custom to check Diamond every time. Anyway it's his job. There are some orders. Chizuru looked at the top list. That's an order from a five-star VIP with a day date duration of about 12 hours. The date is Saturday, tomorrow. The payout is 80,000 yen and paid off. For Chizuru, it is very rare for a customer to pay in advance, especially with bonuses and without any demands.

The average VIP customer has demands to behave like what, dress like and so on according to the provisions of the service provider, Diamond. However, this person, Watanabe Akira did not demand anything.

Good things come, of course Chizuru accepts them. After all he was not a hypocrite, he certainly liked money. VIP customers must be served first. His mood was quite good now until he remembered Ryuuji.

Sighing, he placed his phone lazily and looked at the wall next to which was Ryuuji's room.

'Will he ask me as usual tomorrow?'

With agitated feelings and wandering thoughts, Chizuru fell into a deep sleep.