Romeo Squared

Chapter 7: Juliet's Escape

"Wanna explain yourself?"

Tsugumi was giving her a sickeningly smug look.

She had been discovered, after all.

Ito swiveled her heels to view the huge group of her classmates behind Tsugumi.

Why had she answered to her own last name? How stupid could she be?

She was supposed to be a man here so she could graduate and prove her acting abilities. So that she would not have to take over the family business.

Had she really ruined her chances so early?

"What do you mean?" She tried asking. "You said my name, Mori."

"Nice try, Miura, but everyone heard exactly what I said."

"I misheard you," she replied. She gave the crowd a sweet expression that she would never do as herself.

Some people in the mob began to mutter to each other. This girl did look like Miura, but she also seemed to be a gentle girl and Tsugumi was absolutely insane. Perhaps it was just a coincidence.

Apparently the feeling wasn't carried throughout the crowd, because someone shouted, "Yeah right! You look like him and respond to his name but it's a coincidence?"

Makoto stared out at the crowd for a long time before sighing. "All right, let's tell them the truth."

Ito began to panic. "What?" He was giving up on her? No!

"Izumi and Miura are siblings," Makoto finally explained. The entire crowd gasped. "Izumi changed her last name because she wanted to pursue a modeling career and Mori sounded better than Miura."

That...made sense. The students began to introduce themselves, apologizing for accusing "Izumi" of such (true) things. Ito kept her sickeningly sweet smile on as she pretended not to know her classmates' names.

Eventually only Tsugumi and her goons stood there. She gritted her teeth.

Damn it.