Anime Reality

Episode 4

Walking out of the bus, Lena, Rose, Ellie, Devyn, and Caeli began to walk to their lockers. Coincidentally, all of theirs were in the same area so the five girls did not need to separate to get their things. 

"There you girls are." Looking to see the owner of the voice, they smile in seeing their other friend.

"Hey Jade" Rose cheerfully said before going to hug the shorter girl in a giggling embrace.

Jade White, student council president with a loud voice. The girl could not whisper if her life depended on it. Not only is she one of the few students that are top of her grade, but the girl was a trustworthy and genuine person, the type of friend every girl needed and every man wanted to date. Loved by all eyes, she gave love back. 

Jade smiles before hugging her friend back. "Hi Rose. Anything new happen?"

Lena laughs out loud as she looks at her friend in disbelief. "Yeah, a lot." She says. Jade raises her eyebrow as Lena turns back around to gather her things from her locker. 

"What is up your butt?" Jade asked the rest of the girls. 

"How about you girls come over our place today after classes to find out." Ellie suggested. Lena gives the girl a look. 

"Is that even a good idea?" She questioned. Ellie replied back with a shrug. 

"They'll have to find out at some point." 

"You girls make my head hurt." says Devyn as she holds the bridge of her nose. "Like seriously, what is the problem right now?" 

"Yeah you girls have been complaining all morning ever since you got on the bus." said Caeli. "What happened?" 

"A girl was in Lena's bed." Rose simply says, making the three friends' eyes widen.  

"Wait what?!" the three said in disbelief. 

"Dude! Why did you tell them it like that!" Lena whines. Rose giggles, giving Lena a cheesy smile. 

"Lena is getting some action or what?" Jade says with an eyebrow raised. 

"It's not like that." Lena replies before letting out a big sigh. "She wasn't there when I went to sleep, then bam! She was just there!" 

"Did a girl sneak into your house or something?" Devyn asked. The three roommates shake their heads. 

"No. She's not even real." Lena says without filter. 

"What?" Caeli laughs out. "What does that even mean?" 

"Do you know that one anime that Lena is obsessed about?" Ellie asked the three. Jade, Devyn, and Caeli nodded their heads, listening attentively to the girl. "She became real." 

It took a couple seconds of silence before Jade, Devyn, and Caeli began to laugh, but the three roommates stayed silent as their friends did not believe them. When the three laughing girls see the others being serious, they stopped their antics. "Wait, are you serious right now?" questioned Jade. Lena nods. 

"That's not even possible." said Devyn. "A girl from Lena's favorite anime became real? Not to sound rude, but that sounds like a fantasy to me. Don't be ridiculous." 

"But it's true!" Lena pleads with a pout. "She has her features, her mole, her voice, everything! Literally, Yumeko Hana was in my bed!" 

"We'll believe it when we see it." says Caeli. 

• • •

"...Okay, I believe it." Caeli says slowly.

It was finally the end of classes and the six girls rushed to the busses and headed to Lena, Rose, and Ellie's shared apartment. Before Lena could even open the door, the sound of glass breaking inside greeted their ears. Immediately unlocking the door, Lena pushes the door open and spots a sad Hana sitting on the ground with a broken glass plate of egg and fried rice on the ground. 

"What're you doing?" Lena had asked. 

Hana immediately looked up at the girl, her eyes starting to tear up. "I-I heard you coming and I-I wanted to w-welcome you home with s-some food! But I tripped!" She cries out with a pout. 

"Dude, she's cute." says Jade and immediately receiving a glare from Lena. The student council president raised her arms up in defense. "Hey, just complimenting her. She's all yours you Otaku."

The sudden nickname made Lena scoff before looking back at the crying Hana on the ground. Sighing, she goes to kneel down to her position. "Stop crying it's fine, I'll clean it up." Looking at Hana's hands, her eyes widen. "Hana! You're bleeding!" She says worriedly and takes Hana's hands into hers before examining them. The sudden action caused Hana to grow flustered and look down in embarrassment. She didn't notice her hands were bleeding until Lena had mentioned it. 

"That seems like a deep cut." Lena says softly as she examines the wound. "Sorry girls, could you clean this up? I need to bandage her hands." 

"Of course." Devyn says happily. "Now go take care of your girlfriend." Lena turns to look at the girl while Devyn looks else where to avoid the ladder's gaze. 

Shaking her head, Lena faced Hana.. "Come on, get up." She says. Nodding her head, the Japanese girl slowly gets up from the ground, her hands still in Lena's clutch as the girl brings her to the bathroom as the rest of the girls go to clean the mess on the ground. 

"Seriously, why couldn't you just leave it in the dining room?" Lena frustratingly asks. Hana frowns at the sudden aggressiveness. 

"I'm sorry. I thought it would make you happy senpai." She apologizes. 

"Please stop calling me that." 

"What? Senpai?"

"Yes! That!" Lena speaks back with a red face. "I don't like it." 

"B-but, you are my senpai!" 

"Do you even know what country you're in right now?" Lena asked. Hana shakes her head in reply. "You're in America, not Japan." 

"America? What? How?" Hana grew confused into how she went from Japan to the United States.  

"Nevermind, just get on the counter. I'll get the bandages." Nodding, Hana tries to get on the counter, but winces as she looks at her hands, struggling to support herself up on the table because of her wounds. Seeing this, Lena goes to help the girl up bridal style before placing her on the cold surface. "Thank you, senpai." 

"What did I say?" 

"...Sorry senpai."

"For crying out loud!" 

"We can hear you you lovebirds!" Caeli teasingly shouts from the other side of the bathroom door. . 

"Oh shut up!" Lena shouts back. "Just clean up the mess!" 

Caeli scoffs as she wipes down the wooden ground of the apartment. Jade and Devyn had already picked up the food while Ellie and Rose got the cleaning supplies for them to do so. "What a great hostess, making her guest clean her own home." She mutters before vigorously wiping down the floor until it was spotless. 

"I'm sorry if I'm troubling you." Hana says. Lena stops blowing on the girl's hand to look at the teary Japanese girl in front of her. "You sound irritated."

"It's not that." Lena replied before wiping down the blood carefully to not hurt the girl. "I just got worried. I don't want your hands to get infected. That can be bad for you." 

Hana simply nods her head, taking in the features of Lena's face with her eyes. The girl couldn't help it, Lena was indeed pretty. Sure she had brown eyes and dark brown hair like the majority of the worlds population, her skin a nice tan and no signs of acne, but the way she was built by god himself seemed to intrigue Hana's mind. She couldn't take her eyes off of her. "You're really pretty."  

Lena chuckles, smiling wide at the anime girl. "Why thank you, Hana. You're quite gorgeous yourself." 

Hana couldn't hide the red blush on her cheeks as she smiles wide at Lena's compliment. "Thank you so much." 

"Also, there is no need to feel so formal around me, or to do things so suddenly for me." Lena says. "You don't have to impress me with anything like meals or random but cute gestures. I like simple things." 

Hana nodded slowly, remembering back to when she made eggs and fried rice for the girl that ended up going to waste. Despite so, she trusts that Lena wasn't angry with her and gave the girl a wide gummy smile. "Okay!" She says. 

"All right, your hand is all bandaged up!" Lena says as she throws away the opened bandage packet used into the trash besides the toilet. "You're good to go." 

"T-Thank you!" Hana stutters, blushing once more. Lena couldn't help but laugh and smile at the girl's antics. This girl really was an anime character. 

"Did you cook any more?" Lena asked. Hana nods her head. 

"I did, but not enough for all of you." She says. "I didn't know you had girls coming over." 

Lena noticed how much Hana emphasized the 'girl' word in her sentence and chuckles as she sees The Japanese girl glaring at nothing but the walls. "Well my friends will probably cook something anyways. They do whatever they want in the house sometimes so you'll get used to it. Now, let's go. We've been in the bathroom too long, they will think we're doing stuff." 

"Stuff?" Confused, Hana knits her eyebrows together before tilting her head as she tries to think of what Lena had meant. The ladder shakes her head and laughs. 

"Don't overthink it." She says. Hana just smiles and nods her head. 

"Okay." She says and all of a sudden, she leans forward to lay a small kiss on Lena's cheek, dangerous close to her lips, before walking out of the bathroom casually to see what the girls were cooking in the kitchen. Lena on the other hand was caught off guard, not expecting the anime girl to do such a teasing act. 

With her face as red as a tomato, Lena shakes her head and slaps her cheeks before breathing in and out to get out of her own thoughts. "Gosh, what am I doing?" She says to herself before walking out, coughing to clear her throat before following behind an already gone Hana, not forgetting to smile like a huge i***t.