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Dreams or Love	By : ryutakasaki Category: Manga S to Z > Skip-Beat! (Sukippu B?to!) > Skip-Beat! (Sukippu B?to!) Views: 2788 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Skip Beat! nor any characters of Skip Beat! I also do not earn anything from this. It is a pure interests of me in writing this story for reading pleasure.

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Chapter 2: First day

Next morning

Aki began the day with making breakfast for Tsuruga Ren. She looked at the small little notebook that Lory gave with a box of stamp. She remembered that if she got a 100-mark for a consecutively 6 months, she would be able to release from this assignment and stayed in her own house. She did not know what she wanted to do thereafter; however, she just needed to focus on getting this full score first. The game had begun and she had no way to back out!

Aki set the table for the Japanese style breakfast. She then went over to Ren’s bedroom, knocked on the front door.

“Tsuruga-san, breakfast is ready,” she called in her voice that she thought that was loud enough for the man inside to hear.

Ren flipped over on his bed and took a glance at the clock. 7.00am. He heard the second knock, frowned his brows.

“Ok, Takashita-san,” he yelled back.

Aki then went back to her room and had a shower. She needed to prepare herself for the first day at ‘work’ too. The work that Lory had given to her was what he called a very simple task, Ren’s personal assistance. She dried herself with a towel as she walked out of the bathroom, naked. She quickly put on a blue shirt and a pair of denim shorts. Glancing at the digital clock, 7.15am, she got another 5 minutes to get out of the room. As soon as she got out of her room, she finished up her preparation of their lunch for three of them. She brought the rice out when she saw Ren was walking towards the dinning table.

“Let’s eat together, Takashita-san,” Ren said to the girl who was about to go back to the kitchen.

Aki nodded with a gentle smile. She sat down on the right hand side of the table. They both quietly had their breakfast. It was delicious and Ren was more than willing to finish it.

Ding-dong…

“I will get it,” Aki said as she heard the doorbell.

“Good morning, Yashiro-san,” Aki said with a bright smile when she opened the door. “Have you had your breakfast?”

“Good morning, Takashita-san. I had mine before coming, thank you,” Yashiro replied.

Aki then cleared the table, as she knew that they would be leaving anytime soon. Yashiro was briefly gone through the itinerary for the day.

“Takashita-san, we’re leaving in 5 minutes,” Yashiro told the girl.

“Yes,” Aki replied and ran into the room to get her bag.

Ren and Yashiro watched the new girl ran out of the room back into the kitchen. It was quite amusing as they thought that she did not need to be so hurry. Aki followed the two older men to the car.

LME Building

“Tsuruga-san, Yashiro-san, I need to report to Love Me section first. This is for both of you, see you later,” Aki handed over the bento boxes to the older men.

“Thank you, Takashita-san,” Ren thanked her with a smile.

“I heard that you don’t really like to eat, but skipping meal is not good for your health. So don’t skip your meal, ok?” Aki asked with a smile.

Ren nodded with a smile and watched the long hair girl ran towards the other side of the building. He then turned to his manager and gave him a very bright fake smile. He was rather pissed with Yashiro telling the girl about his bad habit.

Love Me Section

Aki stopped in front of the last room at the end of the corridor. She looked at the shocking pink door, wondering why this room was in such striking colour. She slowly opened the door. As soon as the door opened, the two girls inside the room turned their head to check who was at the door.

Aki smiled and introduce herself, “Hi, I’m Takashita Aki. Nice to meet you.”

Kyoko was very happy to see someone joining the team, “Hi, I’m Mogami Kyoko and this is my friend, Kotonami Kanae. Welcome to Love Me section.”

Aki bowed with a smile, “Thank you.”

Kyoko showed Aki her locker so she could put her things. Aki was still smiling as she could see how friendly the auburn hair girl was. She then changed into the striking pink overall.

‘I maybe able to make some friends here.’ She thought.

“Aki-chan, what do you have for today?” Kyoko asked curiously, as she noticed that Aki was somehow in a hurry.

“I have an assignment to do,” Aki replied and cocked her head, looking at Kyoko. “What about you?”

“Wow! It’s great. I don’t have anything at the moment,” Kyoko replied. “What is your assignment?”

Aki grabbed her bag, slung it over her left shoulder and replied before she got out of the room, “Provide some assistance to one of the staff.”

Aki ran out of the room, looking at her watch. She only had 10 minutes to reach to Ren’s dressing room. Aki knocked before entered the room.

“Sorry that I took so long to get here,” she apologized to the two men.

“Next time wait for me outside,” Ren said, as it was inconvenient for a girl to be inside the room.

Aki nodded and quickly went outside to wait. She thought to herself about the changed of Tsuruga Ren. They were friend three year ago when she first joined LME.

“Hey, Ren. I think you don’t need to be so harsh to Takashita-chan.” Yashiro told the taller man. “Anyway, she is your personal assistance so she is here to help you.”

“I don’t need an assistance. I’m fine on my own,” Ren replied.

“If you don’t need her. Why didn’t you reject President yesterday?” Yashiro asked.

Ren kept quiet, as he knew that he could not refuse anything that President gave to him. Basically, this is a task that the President wanted him to handle. He was in dilemma, as he was required to give her a hard time working with him. But this girl seemed to know what she needed to do and always well prepared. It was going to be tough for him to pick on her. Outside the room, Aki was standing still with a smile while waiting patiently for Ren to come out. Her mind was thinking about how to earn a perfect score from the mean Tsuruga Ren.

“Tsuruga-san, we need to leave for the set now,” Aki knocked at the door and said in a little louder voice.

She coughed right after as she seldom spoke so loud. Ren looked at the door when he heard coughing sound. He then began to leave the room, not forgetting to grab a bottle of water for the girl outside. Yashiro followed with a smile.

“For you,” Aki gave him a bottle of water as soon as he opened the door. “Please drink it before the set. It helps.”

Ren received the bottle on his right hand while he passed the water bottle that he supposed to give her to Yashiro. Aki surprised him by her little action.

‘Personal assistance? What about her career?’ Ren thought, as he knew that she was recruited as a talent, just like him.

Aki was standing beside Yashiro while Ren was working on the set. She asked Yashiro about Ren and his schedule so that she could understand how she should work with him. Yashiro looked at the girl curiously. He was wondering why President assigned her to the actor when she could be an artist, as she had the factor after all.

“What do like about working here?” Yashiro asked.

“I don’t know. Maybe anything,” Aki replied with a smile, while her eyes was fixed on Ren who was working. “I will do anything that President assigned to me.”

“Even if it is not benefit you, like this job,” Yashiro asked.

“What make you think that this job doesn’t benefit me?” Aki asked back. “Every job has something for me to learn. It’s just the matter of how you look at it. Look! I can learn something by just watching Tsuruga-san act. He’s a perfectionist, isn’t he?”

Aki straightened up suddenly, as she noticed that the director was going to call for the lunch break soon. She turned around and left the set to the dressing room to get the lunch ready for all of them. Yashiro was amazed by her observation. Whatever she did, she seemed to be someone who had been in this industry for a long time. Yashiro walked over to Ren with a bottle of water soon after he finished the set.

“Let’s go. Takashita-chan is waiting for us at the cafeteria,” Yashiro said as he led the taller man over.

Ren sat down at the table and was looking at the beautiful bento box in front of him. He began to wonder when did Aki prepare it.

“It looks delicious,” Yashiro exclaimed after he opened the cover.

“Itadakimasu,” Ren said before he started eating.

Aki smiled when she saw the older men started eating. She followed. Ren and Yashiro were chatting a little while eating, whereas, Aki was just merely concentration on her food. Everyone knew that Ren doesn’t really like food so did Aki. She ate very little and liked to play with her food. However, she could not do such thing in front of these two guys because she might get recognize by Ren.

“Takashita-chan, do you want some of mine?” Ren asked when he noticed her small lunch box.

“Thank you, but I don’t think I will be able to finish them,” she declined politely with a smile.

Ren nodded and continued eating. As he looked at the girl in front of him, he found she looked familiar. However, he could not remember who she was exactly. After lunch, Ren continued his drama set. As for Aki, she has an audition so she left right after lunch.

Sun Entertainment, Audition room.

It was a TV commercial audition that Lory arranged for her. Aki was waiting patiently for her turn while thinking about what Lory was trying to tell her. He challenged her to accept this task. However, she already set her mind that she would take anything that he gave her. It seemed that Lory always used his challenging tone to get her accept his task. She was confused of what the old man was thinking.

“Next, Number 12,” a staff called her number.

Aki walked into the room and stood in front of the judges. One of them was the director. It was a perfume advertisement.

“Show me a happy tear,” the man in his mid twenty, sitting in the middle said.

Aki closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She forced herself to think about her happiest moment with her first love, her first date. As she open her eyes, she smile with a single tear dropped from a corner of her eyes. Her eyes were gentle but lit up with happiness.

Crap, crap…

“Thank you, Takashita-san. We will contact you if you’re shortlisted,” the man in the middle said.

Aki bowed, “Thank you for giving me the opportunity.”

The man looked at Aki with a smile. He found the person he wanted.

“How was the audition, Takashita-chan?” Yashiro asked as soon as he saw the girl walking over.

Aki was still lost in her thought. Digging up those memories would not do her any good. She was trying to put it back into the deepest part of her memories and wished that she did not dig it up again.

“Takashita-chan,” Yashiro called her again when she did not respond to him.

Aki looked up at Yashiro, “Sorry, I wasn’t pay attention.”

“It’s ok. How was the audition?” he repeated his question.

“It’s fine, thank you,” Aki replied with a smile.

“I hope you will get your first job,” Yashiro told the girl.

Aki smiled and prepared a bottle of water for Ren. Yashiro watched the girl who seemed to be always on standby mode. Aki gave a warm smile to Yashiro, as she knew what he was thinking. She could read mind somehow.

“For you, Tsuruga-san,” Aki handed the water bottle to Ren. “You have a photo shoot session in an hour so we need to leave now. Traffic maybe bad.”

Ren nodded and headed for the dressing room. However, Aki led the tall guy to the car park direction.

“I got everything,” Aki held up Ren’s bag with a smile.

Ren followed the girl to his car.

“What would like for dinner?” Aki asked as she entered the house.

“Something light will do,” Ren replied and went straight to his room.

He was still not used to have someone sharing the house with him, especially a girl. Only one of his girlfriends had ever stayed overnight. But that was 3 years ago. Anyway, he could not ask her to go, as this was what Lory wanted him to do. He walked out of his bedroom after a shower. The soup noodle was already on the table.

“Eat while it’s hot, Tsuruga-san,” Aki said as she poured the ice tea into his glass.

“Itadakimasu,” Ren said and began to take his dinner.

Aki then got into her room for a shower. She was tired but she knew that her work had not finished until she made sure that Ren went to bed. Half an hour later, Aki came out in a white T-shirt and shorts. She cleared the table and cleaned the kitchen. After that, she got herself a glass of milk. She sat in front of the TV, watching the news, as she drank the milk. Aki then started to write her diary as per what Lory asked her to do everyday.

Ren walked out of the bedroom once again to check on the girl. He looked at the diary in her hands.

“By the way, where is your little scorebook, Takashita-san?” Ren asked.

Aki looked up and gave him the little scorebook. Ren stamped on it and went to bed. Aki looked at the scorebook in her hand. She got 80 points.

“I will do better tomorrow,” Aki told herself and finished everything before go to bed.
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