The day of the ranking had come, Fans had been polling in votes over the last week, choosing who they thought was number 1 to 100. It's currently the evening and it's not dark but I'm pretty sure by the time of the event the sky will be pitch black.
Am I scared, well not really. A lot of the Shoshina won't get in the top 100 poll full stop. My brother expects me to rank. However, the book has this weird figure out where your ranking, sort of maths thing. It made me answer all the questions with a 1 to 5 scale. The questions were like 'Are you center' others were like 'do you have a tattoo' which I said no. Then shoved all the values into a weird formula, with eigenvalues and stuff and It told me I would go unranked. Well that doesn't give me any feeling in particular it is quite a stupid measuring thing.
I have to get there a few hours before the event, so I can walk from my house which is good. It is not in the usual area. Apparently they used to hold it at concert halls but now they've started holding it at stadiums which are quite big. And apparently they always completely fill the stadium. It's the local baseball theatre normally with a capacity of twenty-seven thousand people. I occasionally watch baseball with my brother, however I would not say we are very big fans really at all.
Well it looks like a normal stadium is all I can say really about. I walked through the grand entrance. It looks like a normal stadium but Idolafied with the event in mind tonight. There's only a few people walking into the entrance and the security guards. I'm pretty sure there are Idols or some behind the scenes people for CX co. I walk through the entrance into the nearly empty hall. I kind of just follow the other people's directions. Some I recognise that I have seen before, before finally making it to the changeroom. I get directed to a room. It is labeled Shoshina, however after walking through I don't recognise half of them. However I recognise Hayate, Which I guess means that she has finally got back from injury, and Sayaki also looks like she has finally come back. We both give each other a frown.
"How are you feeling?"
"A lot better thanks" she says smiling.
"What do you think you're gonna rank?"
From my prediction Hayate should definitely get in the top 100. I have never been to this event before or even remotely knew about it. But considering that the book said I went unranked, I really have no clue.
"Hopefully below 90" She says in her annoyingly cute voice, which I still haven't deciphered if it is fake or not. The voice has got me in a lot of trouble, and her out of a lot of trouble. When she decided to steal carrots from the school garden, like why the hell would you want to steal carrots. And then when she got caught she gave the gardener a cute voice, and then I got detention for the next two weeks while she got off scot free.
"Hopefully I can be ranked. Also who are all the random people, I thought this room was only for Shoshina's"
"Yeh they are, it's just the other group is here."
"I forgot about them. They're seems to be a lot of chatter between the two groups. Aren't they our enemy?" I say eyeing Hosta and Liana as they chat away easily with people from the other group.
Hosta looks over and notices me.
"Hey Sanaka, Hayate, come over here." she shouts, waving her arms. Naturally we walked over to her and Liana and the other two girls. Both of them are fairly pretty looking girls. And people would say they have a more womanly body than either Hayate and I.
"This is Manny." she says using her hands to display Manny. I gave a confused look, because I thought Manny is more of a man's name in western cultures for Emmanuel.
"It's just a nickname," Liana adds.
"Nice to meet you." I say giving her a handshake. However the others look at me like I'm an idiot.
"A handshake?." they say looking at me.
"Okay but anyway these two are the center of us. Well Hayate was until she got sick. We say she probably is going to replace Sanaka again very shortly." Hosta says, shooting me a grin.
Hosta then continues to blab on for like 30 minutes. Some random person who is apparently part of CX co, someone who I think is more qualified than Yahiga. She tells us about where we go, and all the crap that comes with it.
And then it seemed the pre thing started and we started to walk out.
Do I know how I ended up standing in the stands in a completely empty spot, no I don't. I could see all the people down on the pitch sitting in chairs. There was a big stage set up in front of them. Where an announcer had started talking about how the year had gone so far, the fans seemed overly excited. It was a weird spot behind one of the large stadium lights. It seems I'm in a way almost outside of the stadium as I would have to climb over the fence to get in .
"Hey Sanaka what are you doing up here?" A voice from behind. I turn around to see Sunia.
"Well I could ask the same about you?"
"I was looking for you, because Yahiga told me too. So why are you up here?" she says in a matter of fact voice.
"The view is nice"
"You got lost didn't you" she says with a knowing face, I shake my head however I don't think she is very convinced. "Well anyway let's get back."
However when we turn around we see a few boys, one of them recognisable from somewhere.
"Jule, what are you doing here?" Sunia murmurs with slit eyes.
"What a coincidence." he says grinning in a very unpleasant way. Is this really one of those cliche scenes? Why am I thinking about how cliche his actions are. I start to panic. One person grabs Sunia from behind. A man far taller than my brother with big eyebrows with an almost neanderthal look. I go to scream however nothing comes out. Jule walks up to me now, my breath getting faster, my heart beat going up. I'm trapped. They close in around me. Jule walks up closer now grabbing my shirt.
Thump, I instinctively punched it right in the jaw. He limpers back, have I gotten strong enough to beat this guy up. However he reveals his face again smiling now. The very minute confidence I had before was gone. He approaches again restraining my arm this time even though I throw punches. I kick, he just grabs my arms and pins me against the wall.
"What are you going to do Sanaka, you've had a pretty good few weeks as the Idol at the top. You've become a bit too high and mighty for even me to support" His smile was mean horrible, his eyes seemed devoid of human behaviour. I don't know why but I close my eyes.
However one second he is grabbing my shirt the second he's let go. I hear a thump, I open my eyes to see Jule sprawled on the floor with my brother's foot on his head. I look up at his face, not the same face that I'm used to seeing at home. His eyes are cold, his hair waving around in the wind, Making me realise how dark the sky has become.
The two other guys walk up to my brother now, the one holding Sunia letting go. One of them throws a punch, my brother narrowly avoids it. Throws a kick into the guy's knee, the knee buckles sending the man tumbling forward. Jule now has gotten up and is standing next to the other tall guy.
They look like they want round two. However Sabiti smashes the two who were on the ground with his foot, with blood spraying out of somewhere from the guy's face. The guy stumbles up, revealing his disfigured nose. Their eyes turn from one of a fighter to a coward. They turn and run down the way that we came.
My brother turns to us, with cold eyes.
"What the hell did you do to get random people wanting to beat you up?" He says snapping out of that look, and he scratches his head.
"Nothing, I did nothing?"
"Then why were you up here by yourselves in the first place? And also with Sunia?" He glances over at Sunia, who stands there in a shocked daze.
"Do you know those people?" he says looking at me
"Sunia does" I say looking over at Sunia again.
"Well we need to make sure this doesn't happen again."
"I don't think he will show his face again." Sunia finally chips in.
"But you can't be sure"
"He's also moving over to America like tonight or something."
My brother looks at her with a 'that makes sense' face.
"Okay well hurry up and get down it's finally gotten to the countdown of the top 100.
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