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Alright, Sonico. I will you next class.
[That’s all he says before she scurries out of the classroom. She finished it rather quickly, which he expected. What he didn’t expect was the message tagged on at the end. He froze in place as he saw it. His reaction would have been visible to anyone if they were in his classroom with him. She’s the..girl that he has been conversing with.
Would he have still treated her the same way if he knew ahead of time? Perhaps. He couldn’t show her favoritism because of their knowing each other ahead of time. But he would have wanted to speak with her more in person. She’s the girl that he has been talking with, it seems so surreal but he has no reason to doubt that it is the trust. Her hair color lines up and he thinks he may have seen her face on a magazine before. He taps his pen on the page and wondered what exactly he should do.
It isn’t until later in the evening that he comes to a decision. He dialed in her phone number to call her. It felt strange to be taking this from the realm of an anonymous app to now speaking with their actual voices. While she knew what he looked like beforehand, he now knows what she looks like.
Undoubtedly she is an attractive girl. One that would have no problem breaking into the idol industry with the right breaks and the right people in her corner. He waited until she picked up the phone before she spoke.]
You could have told me it was you, Sonico.
[It’s not an unpleasant surprise, just fully unexpected. He’s not sure if calling her is even the correct move. He’s now her Teacher and she has a career as an idol. They shouldn’t be having any interactions that are less than professional. But there is no way he can deny wanting to continue what they had going. Except now, they would fully know who each other is.
He never would have even asked to meet her in person unless she wanted to. But that choice has been taken out of their hands.]
But I assume that is the reason why you were so distracted in class.
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She shook her head, deciding to put him and the university campus behind her and out of mind for the time being. It was perhaps fortunate she lived off-campus; far enough into the city that no one but a select few knew where she lived. That way… maybe they could see each other sometimes. Sonico glanced at her phone — no new messages or missed calls just yet.
She had the day to herself; well, the next few hours, at least. Later that evening she had already told her grandma she'd be willing to help at her diner, not to mention she had five little hungry mouths to feed who were now meowing at her for attention and cat food, and a homework assignment from her previous class… there were others things to focus on other than him. Placing her phone face down on the kitchen counter for the time being, Sonico turns her attention to the five kittens nudging and climbing onto her legs, giggling as she opened up their favorite cans of food, giving each of them a large portion.
With them focused on their meal, Sonico could also focus on her assignments. One of which she had to do online, as she was not a full-time student due to her idol and modeling career taking precedence over her education; however, she still took her schooling seriously. She certainly wasn't the best student, but she was on the right track for her degree.
Halfway done with her assignments, Sonico noticed her phone was ringing in the kitchen where she had left it earlier. Not noticing the unfamiliar phone number, Sonico answered the call blindly… only to realize, with shock, just who was in the other end. ]
Ah! Takahashi-san! [ She nearly drops her phone, but manages to steady her hands enough to hold it up to her ear. "You could have told me it was you, Sonico." Flustered by his audacity (she was expecting a text first!) Sonico awkwardly chuckled. ] I-I was nervous… ah, a little bit, yeah… like, what are the odds, you know? You sent me pictures of yourself and stuff so seeing you in real life was…
[ Unexpected? Surreal? Sonico isn't sure what else to say. What if she said the wrong thing? This is why she wished he texted her first! ]
You're… um, p-pretty good looking.
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But she did pick up and he is getting to hear her voice again.]
I wouldn't have thought the chances were anywhere near possible. You could have been attending any skill.
[And her Teacher could have stuck around with no issues arising. But everything seemed to align and then fall into place to make their meeting possible. Even she could have stayed quiet about realizing who he is so she wouldn’t be tempted to interact with him outside of the app. But she would be see him quite often, so maybe she would have been tempted in the end.]
I thought you would be beautiful, but you exceeded my imagination.
[Because for him, that’s all he had to go on. Little details that she would drop about herself, but he never got nearly enough to paint a perfect picture of what the girl he was talking to looked like.]
I’ve seen you in a magazine before. In class, I thought you looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it. After I got your message, I thought long and hard on it and realized I have definitely seen you before.
[He can’t recall what the magazine was, but you don’t just fully forget a face as lovely as hers.]
So, our identities are exposed to each other now. How do you want to proceed, Sonico?
[He wasn’t going to assume anything with her. Her career is still one of the most important things to her, he thinks. Just because their conversations felt so much more real now doesn’t mean things have to just. Just because they both know what each other looks like and even knows each other full names doesn’t mean things have to be any different. But it will make things feel different, there no question about that. So, he wants to know what she wants. More important, what she is willing to risk.]
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Y-Yeah… it really was a coincidence to meet up like this. [ More than just a coincidence — it felt like fate. There were hundreds of universities in Japan and yet, somehow, he had been hired to hers; to teach her class specifically. There was no way she could have remained silent about all of this no matter her better judgment. They hadn't exactly started a relationship through the dating app; most of their conversations were pretty casual, albeit some flirting here and there. Sonico had been too nervous to talk dirty at the time and Yujiro had been respectful of her boundaries. So when he says she's beautiful, that he had seen her in magazines but at the time could not place her face… her heart skips a beat. ] T-Thank you, Takahashi-san. I… I'm really glad you think so.
[ How do you want to proceed, Sonico? It goes without saying that she really, really wanted to pursue this. He was handsome — really handsome. But there were other variables to consider; she couldn't just be immature about this and assume that a student-teacher relationship wouldn't get them both into trouble. ]
I-I… I like you, Takahashi-san. I really do. Talking to you really helped me back then. I was lonely a lot of the time, and you were always kind and considerate – you treated me like a person, not a celebrity. [ Sonico walks to her living room to sit down. She takes a deep breath. ] If we really do this, we should probably put down some ground rules, right?
[ Sonico takes another deep breath to gather the courage to what she would say next. ]
If you want… we should meet face to face and talk about this. My house isn't too far from campus… I-I can send you my address.
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I’m happy to know I’ve been able to make you feel so comfortable. And I like you as well, Sonico. I always looked forward to our conversations or receiving a new message from you.
[Even if he didn’t respond immediately when she sent one, whenever he had the free time he would always message her back. It was nice to have that connection with someone, even if it wasn’t in person.
He never tried to pressure her into revealing details about herself or her life. He was sure she would have reacted negatively if he tried. Through all their conversations, he’d grown content with their relationship being just that, two people chatting on an app mostly anonymously. But to think things were changing this fast. And now he had even received an invite to her home.]
Yes, I will stop over. I think ground rules are incredibly important before we do anything else.
[He thinks he knows what most of them will be from her end. She lived under strict rules as an idol. But she is breaking some of the most important ones by inviting him over. She broke them by even chatting with him privately like she had done. But, being her Teacher does give him a bit of wiggle room. He doesn’t think he will ever have to use it, because he knows how to be discreet. He knows how to look for tails or people surveying certain areas. If it is her desire to pursue something more with him than they have no ,he will make sure she is as protected as possible.]
Send me your address and I’ll come over now if that is fine with you.
[He’s never asked if she lives alone. Her living situation had never once been a topic of conversation, because why should it be? But now he would learn about that and much more.]