Chapter 63, originally posted on January 12, 2018.

At the student room at morning, Phase I closes the door and locks it as Team Phase are having a meeting.
“Yuki Koriyama, the popular girl, has got the penguin toy yesterday.” Phase A said.
“So she is the chosen one?” Phase O asked.
“Yes. She will become our member eventually and will help us to reach our goals for this school.” Phase A said.
“Okay. What if she doesn’t want to be part of our club?” Phase E asked.
“Well, that toy has a lot of meaning. She will be our attention to help us.” Phase A said.
“She did bring in some fans to get my attention by competing with her at the gym.” Phase I said.
“And that’s why we want her to be on our club. She will help us on our school plans, our goals, and most importantly, rule the attention of the school.” Phase U said.
“Exactly. We won’t just go out and ask her immediately. We gotta seduce her to join.” Phase A said.
“By seducing, you mean getting her attention.” Phase E said.
“That’s what I’m saying. Someday, Yuki will become one of us.” Phase A said.
Meanwhile, Yuki is in the front gate of the school, asking people about the toy.
“Is this your toy that you dropped?” Yuki asked Lia.
“No. I haven’t bring toys to school, but it’s cute.” Lia said.
Yuki asked Leon and Oka.
“Is this toy yours?” Yuki asked.
“It isn’t ours.” Leon said.
“Why are you asking us about this?” Oka asked.
“I found it on the ground on the side of the school after gym class.” Yuki said.
“It isn’t ours, but you can ask our classmates or yours since we both have gym.” Oka said.
“That’s what I’m planning to do.” Yuki said.
Meanwhile, Ren sees Aki at the locker and goes to her.
“Aki. I want you to feel better. I don’t want you to keep hating on me.” Ren said.
“Oh dear. REN! Why do you keep showing up?! I told you, I’m done with you! I don’t want you in my life anymore.” Aki said.
“But Ren, I am your best friend. I want you to not hate me for being friends with Yuki and them.”
“How many times do I have to say this?! You betrayed me! That’s it! You’re so delusional!”
“No! You gotta look deep down of a person to see what she actually is.”
“This sounds so cliché. I am done with you changing my mind! Get out of my way!”
Aki leaves.
“All I want is for her to accept who I am friends with and should know how good of a person Yuki is.” Ren said by herself.
Meanwhile, Yuki, Minoru, and Ayano are at the gym.
“So, who are we finding?” Ayano asked.
“My competitor, Lila.” Yuki said.
“She is almost as good as Yuki.” Minoru said.
They see Phase I.
“There she is.” Yuki said.
They walk up to her.
“Hey Yuki.” She said.
“Lila. Is this toy yours?” Yuki asked.
“Oh. No. I haven’t own that.” Phase I said, pretending she doesn’t know.
“I see. I am glad you are here to compete with me.”
“Good. The race is by friday and I plan to compete with you.”
“Sweet! I’m in!” Yuki said.
“Yay!” Ayano said.
“That’s when we have the track on our gym class.” Minoru said.
“Yep. It’s our first competition of the year.” Phase I said.
“Yes.” Yuki said.
Later during lunch, Yuki sits down with Minoru, Rin, and Retasu.
“So I asked several classmates about the toy. They all said it isn’t theirs.” Yuki said.
“Are you gonna put that in lost and found?” Rin asked.
“Well, I am gonna hold on to it in my backpack and still ask others about it.” Yuki said.
“I see.” Rin said.
Phase E left the room and meets Phase A.
“Yuki have been asking everyone about the toy.” Phase E said.
“I see. I’ll get one of our members to make up a story while not saying that we got it for her.” Phase A said.
“All right.”
After school, Yuki walks with Minoru, and then they meet up Phase U.
“Hey Yuki.” She said.
“Yes?” Yuki asked.
“I heard you’ve been asking about the toy.”
“Yeah. It’s lost. Is it yours?”
“No. What really happened is that a man carries a bucket with a lot of those toys filled in so he can donate them. He came across me and asked me if I want the bunny one and I got it. I saw him dropped it after tying his shoe by a distance. I didn’t know that he left it.” Phase U said.
“Wow. So it’s no ones.” Yuki said.
“That’s what really happened. He was there before the last period when I was outside.”
“Well, thanks for telling me.” Yuki said.
Minoru looks at her, thinking himself about her.
“She seems to look suspicious. Is it the same with Lila?” Minoru said in his mind.
“No problem.” Phase U said while showing her bunny toy.
“That’s cute.” Minoru said.
“It is.”
“Well, I gotta head home, so goodbye.” Yuki said.
They all left and at the bench by the building, Ren goes up to Aki again.
“Aki.” Ren said.
“Oh No. No. Ren! Can you hang with someone else, like Yuki instead of me?” Aki said.
“You’re my best friend since junior high.”
“Not anymore. I’m going home, and you better not follow me.”
Aki leaves.
“Aki. Please don’t be like this.” Ren said.
The next day at morning, Yuki comes with her scooter, and everyone takes a look at it.
“Hey guys! You asked about my scooter, and I brought it.” Yuki said while holding her helmet and leaning on her scooter.
“Wow! That looks amazing.” Boy1 said.
“That is really cool!” Boy2 said.
“So nice.” Girl1 said.
“I got this last year and it rides very well. I could make it to my work so early.” Yuki said.
“Sweet!” Boy2 said.
“Will you have one of us ride with you on that thing?” Girl2 asked.
“It’s only one, and I would love to take you all to your location, but I rarely have passengers. If I do get a car, then I’ll think I can carry several of you to a ride.” Yuki said.
“Amazing” Boy3 said.
At the hallway, Ren sees Aki looking at the window.
“Yuki. You took my friends away and brainwash them, and now you are grabbing everyone’s attention right now.” Aki said.
Ren walks away a little bit.
“I don’t think I should talk to her. She’s already mad.” Ren said.
Leo walks and he is near Aki. Aki decides to turn around and sees him.
“Hey there. You wanna make a friend?” Aki asked.
“Umm. Okay.” Leo said.
“I am Aki.”
“Leo. I am in Takigawa’s class.”
“I see. Do you have anything else today?” Aki asked.
“I am free at lunch. Maybe we can talk.” Leo said.
“Good! I am glad we just met. I think you are gonna be a great friend.”
“Umm. Sure. I’ll be at the roof.”
“You got it!”
Leo walks away and Aki starts walking too.
“Sweet! I think this day will get interesting.”
She turns around in the hallway and sees Ren.
“Are you eavesdropping?” Aki asked.
“Umm. Not really. I’m just checking out my calender.” Ren said.
Ren drops her phone and picks it up.
“Good thing it has glass protection with a case.”
“Whatever. I don’t want you interfering with me today.”
“Aki! We gotta talk.”
“How many times did you did? Ren! I don’t need you. You back stabbed me a month ago and I can’t believe you are here!” Aki said.
“You need to get over with the fact that I decide to be friends with Yuki. There is nothing wrong if you get to know her.” Ren said.
“How many times have I said this? NO! I don’t want you to be on my day. All right?!”
Aki walks away.
“You need to understand.”
Later after lunch, Aki went to her computer graphics class. She was happy about the lunch break with Leo.
“Lunch was pretty cool. Leo seems to be interesting.”
Aki sits at her spot and after class has started, the teacher makes an announcement.
“I want to pair all of you to get to know their creativity, and you will ask why they join doing computer graphics. Your conversation with your pair will be ten minutes.”
He picks up the board and reads each names per group.
Few lines later, he reads another group list.
“Minoru Tamara and Aki, you two will pair up.”
Minoru is shaking a little.
“Aki? I don’t feel comfortable pairing up with her.” Minoru said it in his mind.
Aki walks and sits next to Minoru while he is shaking a little.
“Minoru. Why you’re shaking?” Aki asked.
“Well…I…didn’t know we are getting paired?” Minoru said.
“It’s just pairing. I want to ask you as a part of the assignment. How is your skills for this class?”
“Umm. Pretty good.” Minoru said while shaking a little.
“Are you nervous? I don’t bite. Don’t take this the wrong way, but you have no idea who I am.” Aki said.
“It’s just that the way you treated my friends.”
“I never liked them. So? You never have done something wrong to me, so I respect you.”
“Huh?”
“I know you think I am mean to you, but I usually exclude you on situations. You never disrespected me at least.”
“Then why are you disrespecting my friends, and most of all, your best friend, Ren?” Minoru asked.
“Ren decides to be friends with Yuki, and she is the one who disrespects me a lot.” Aki answered.
“I think Yuki will give you a chance of you forgive her and her friends too.”
“Nah. I think we need to focus on our assignment. Now you ask me a question.”
“Okay. What made you take this class?” Minoru asked.
“I actually want to make better fan art. I like to make fan arts and post them online. I wanna learn more so I can make my future projects look very good.” Aki answered.
“That’s pretty good. I like to design things and like to work with geometry. That’s how you can make good proportions to your projects.”
“Interesting.”
“Yeah. I’m just curious. I think you should make up with Ren. She feels left out without you and you are the one who makes her happy.”
“Pfft. I think she can manage herself. Why are you going back to that topic?”
“Because you are making her sad and depressed. I think if you have better feelings with her, then you will feel relaxed when doing future artworks.” Minoru said.
“I already made recent artworks without thinking about…whatever that person is.” Aki said.
“Cool, but if you stop yelling at everyone and have a cool conversation just like we are, then I think you will be more relaxed.”
“Hmm. They keep picking on me, but I’ll think about what you said.”
“Please do.”
Aki thinks in her mind.
“ARGGHH! Even Minoru is curious about my friendship with Ren. I want to tell him to stop, but I don’t want to hurt that guy’s feelings. He’s Yuki’s boyfriend after all.”
Later after class has ended, Minoru went to see Yuki at the gym.
“Yuki! I need to tell you something!” Minoru said.
“What happened?” Yuki asked.
“Aki talks to me in class, and she acts different. I know we all see her as a mean spirited girl, but in class, she’s a normal person.”
“Really? I am glad she hasn’t yelled at you. What else happened?”
“We got paired and she said she took computer graphics because she wants to draw better fan arts and she has huge passion of anime.”
“Wow.”
“I even asked her a few questions. She thinks I never done anything wrong to her, and said that’s why she went easy on me.” Minoru said.
“Although, I think she also went easy on you because she knows I always protect you.” Yuki said.
“That’s what I’m been thinking.”
Meanwhile at the corner outside of the building next to the gym, Aki is by the wall and Ren walks up to her.
“Aki. We need to talk, please!” Ren said.
“I don’t want you around me anymore!” Aki said.
“I need you. You were a great friend, Aki! Why is making new friends a big deal to you?!”
“You made the wrong choice of friends! Stay out of me!”
“No. We need to discuss this!”
“I’m done with this! I can’t believe you and Ron made a wrong choice that goes against me!” Aki said.
“You should be sad that Ron is no longer here!” Ren said.
“I’m glad he did, because he betrayed me like you did!”
“You should think about our hearts! Remember we had great times with each other?”
Some of their classmates are watching them.
“I don’t care! Stop rubbing it in on me! I’m tired of you going up to me and bring the same subject all the time!” Aki said.
“I care about you! We were best friends! I-I can’t believe you don’t care about me anymore all because I had done one thing!” Ren said while bursting into little tears.
“To be friends who hates us! Listen Ren! I don’t like you anymore! I want you out of my life for good!”
“You shouldn’t.”
“And right now, you go!”
“Please Aki! Remember the fun times we had together?! I thought we were great friends before this!”
“I SAID NOT TO REMIND ME OF ALL THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE GONE!”
“NO! AKI! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!” Ren shouted.
“NO! I AM ABOUT TO BEAT YOU UP!” Aki yells at her.
“NO! NO! AKI! WE’RE BFFs!”
Aki pushes her to the ground and hits her multiple times.
“I WANT YOU OUR OF MY LIFE!!!” Aki yelled.
She keeps pounding her several times until Yuki comes in and grabs Aki away from Ren on the ground.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” Aki yells at Yuki.
“What’s it look like you’re doing?” Yuki said.
Ren gets up.
“You’re all right?” Leon asked Ren.
Ren cries and runs off to the locker room.
“What is your problem?” Leon said.
“We thought you both were bad, but you can’t change.” Kyanna said.
“You are the worst person I saw!” Boy1 said.
Yuki let go of Aki.
“What kind of a jerk you are? Why did you do this?” Yuki asked.
“So she would be out of my life, for GOOD!” Aki said.
They booed her. Leo comes in to talk to Aki.
“Aki. I changed my mind. There will be no hangout this weekend.” Leo said and leaves.
“TRAITOR!”
“What is going on with you? You only cared about her making friends with me and this is what led you to be like this?” Yuki asked.
“Hmm…” Aki hummed.
Everyone starts to leave and Minoru saw the whole thing. Yuki walks back to him.
“I can’t believe she did that. Poor Ren.” Minoru said.
“She has gone insane.” Yuki said.
“She was actually a different person in my class. I didn’t expect her to be like this.”
“It’s all right. I still believe you. I don’t think we can do anything about her.”
“Looks like you’re right.”
At the gym locker, Eru sees Ren crying at the corner of the room.
“Hey. Want some tissues to clean yourself from bruises?” Eru asked with tissues.
“They are marks of where I got hit. Thanks. You’re so helpful.” Ren said while taking the tissues.
Later, they are outside, practicing their workouts, and Aki sits at the bench instead of doing the activities.
The coach talks to her.
“Aki. You’re not doing anything and I heard about your fight. How disgrace! You will be running at the track alone until I call you.” He said.
“But it will be the entire class!” Aki yelled.
“Well, you picked on your best friend. Now get out there and run at the track for the entire time and I better not catch you taking a break.”
“Darn it.”
Aki left.
Ren walks around the sidewalks, and sees Aki heading to the track.
“I gotta stop thinking about her. It’s best that I don’t talk to her anymore.” Ren said to Rin.
“Look Ren. I know it’s hard to lose your best friend. I know how it feels.”
Ren cries on Rin and hugs her.
“She hurt me so much. I don’t w-want to lose her, but I have no choice.” Ren said while crying.
“I know.” Rin said.
“I hope you feel better soon. It takes a while.” Retasu said.
“The pain doesn’t hurt much, but my friendship does.” Ren said.
Yuki runs around and jumps too.
“This is what I would like to perform after school. I can’t wait for friday.” Yuki said.
“Yeah. You got your challenger and first activity of the school year.” Minoru said.
“Hey. Even if this challenger can beat me or not, I’m glad that I still compete for fun.”
“You got it. That’s your spirit!”
Minoru sees Aki walking away.
“Aki. What have you done.” Minoru said it in his mind.

Next Chapter: Aki’s Temper
Aki loses it after kicking Ren out of her life. She seems more angry than she was before the fight. Aki dangers herself to be more angry in her class. Meanwhile, Yuki and Phase I have a challenge at the track at friday. What can stop her from getting angry all the time? Tune in next time!