My Beloved Angel

Chapter 7

Sayuri Lapis: Sorry if you all were waiting for this chapter, but if you read Summer Crush, you'll know why.

After school came sooner than the trio had expected, and when they had logged onto Link VRAINS, it was crowded. Like, really crowded. It seemed that the entire planet Earth had the same idea as them.

"It sure is crowded today." Aoi, now under the alias of Blue Angel, observed. There were groups of people wandering around.

"Yeah, it is." Yusaku, now under the alias as Playmaker agreed. He was standing next to Blue Angel.

"We don't have to duel you know." A flame attired avatar stood next to Playmaker.

"Then what can we do Soulburner?" Blue Angel asked. She didn't want to stand up here all day, doing nothing.

The flame attired avatar now named Soulburner blushed a little. "Actually, I'm a little hungry." He confessed.

"But you just had a whole lunch earlier!" The blue haired idol noted.

"Takeru's stomach never gets full." Flame explained, popping out of the duel disk. "You could take him to the largest all-you-can-eat buffet in the world and he'd still want to go to another one!"

"Stop it Flame." Soulburner's cheeks were burning red. As embarrassing as it was, it was the truth. He couldn't do anything about Flame's taunting. The fire Ignis's teasing was the worst.

"Let's go to a nearby cafe then if Soulburner's hungry." Playmaker suggested.

Blue Angel and Soulburner nodded in agreement.

As they traveled to the nearest cafe, The three had run into Ghost Girl.

"Hi there." Ghost Girl sugarly greeted.

"Who is she?" Soulburner asked the two.

"Dunno." Playmaker sighed.

"Hey Ghost Girl." Blue Angel greeted.

"At least someone here recognizes me!" Ghost Girl did a wink. "How have you been?"

"I've been fine." The blue-haired idol replied.

The purple and gray-haired woman took another look at Playmaker and Soulburner and looked back to Blue Angel. She had a childish smile on her face.

"Are one of these boys your boyfriend?" She whispered gleefully in her ear. The expression on her face looked like a child that had just stolen something that he shouldn't have taken.

Blue Angel's face brightened red with embarrassment. She couldn't answer that right in front of those two. What if they judged her?

"You don't have to answer if you don't want to." Ghost Girl told her. "But I'm totally certain that one of them l-i-k-e-s you!" She spelled out the word like.

"Y-You think so?" The blue-haired girl stammered.

"I'm never wrong when it comes to love." The older woman winked and then performed a high jump. "I'll see you around!"

Within seconds, Ghost Girl had vanished and Blue Angel was just standing there, dumbfounded.

She didn't know what to do.

Did one of those boys really like her?

Was it the cool and calm Yusaku AKA Playmaker?

Or the so far nerdy but cute Takeru, AKA Soulburner?

Blue Angel sighed. It had only been a minute that she was thinking about it but it felt like her head was seriously going to split apart.

"Oi, are you ok Blue Angel?" Soulburner asked.

Blue Angel snapped out of her thoughts and turned to face the two teenage boys.

"Sorry about that. It's nothing. Let's go and eat." She put on one of her signature smiles to convince them both with a wink added for extra credit.

"She's cute…." Soulburner muttered quietly, but loud enough that Playmaker heard it.

Even though you couldn't decipher Playmaker's emotions by his, you could tell by his body language on how he was feeling, and in that moment, he was feeling rage. His hands were balled into fists and he was noticeably shaking.

Soulburner had only known Blue Angel for less than 24 hours and he suddenly had a crush on her.

Those were his words! Why couldn't he have said it earlier?

Why did he have to be such a reserved and shy boy?

"Are you jealous Playmaker-sama?" A sickishingly familiar taunting voice spoke from his duel disk.

"Shut up!" The hero had clamped the creature back into his duel disk.

He wanted to go to the café now.

When the trio arrived to the nearby café, they sat at the nearest table, waiting for their waiter to come and take their orders.

When one finally arrived, it was a woman. She had worn a scantily clad outfit with fishnet stockings and had a special interest for Playmaker.

Blue Angel pouted. It was clear that this waitress was making fun of her and that she didn't have a liking either.

"I'd like a hotdog with a tall glass of water." Playmaker requested.

"And you?" The waitress directed her attention to Blue Angel. Even though her eyes looked cute and enthusiastic, they looked stormy, which scared the blue-haired idol.

"Just a glass of water." Blue Angel replied.

"Are you sure you don't want the nacho cheese dinner? Or the triple deluxe cheesecake? Or that three foot tall hamburger?" She asked sweetly. "They are popular with the Link VRAINS celebrities."

"No." Blue Angel firmly replied. No way was she going to load up on the fat. She had to keep her image perfectly in order to keep her fans.

"Fine." She then took Soulburner's order.

After they all had made their orders, the waitress went away to get their orders ready, leaving the three of them in an awkward silence.

As they were waiting for their orders, two average-sized penguins waddled up to their table, much to their surprise.

"Are you really the Blue Angel that we see on TV?" The red penguin asked.

"Can we get your autograph?" The blue penguin asked.

Blue Angel sweated. These penguins were creeps.

"Leave." Playmaker stormed, glaring at them.

"EEEKKK!" the two penguins jumped. "It's Playmaker-sama!"

"We're sorry!" The red penguin apologized. "We won't bother you guys again!"

The two penguins then waddled as fast as they could.

The blue-haired idol smiled. What a relief.

She was in no mood to approach creepy fans like those two creatures.

Who were they in real life anyway? Oversized fat slobs?

The same waitress came to their table minutes later, holding a platter of three elegant crystal cups along with two platters of delicious looking food.

"It's here!" Soulburner's mouth watered.

"Here you go." The waitress sweetly said as she placed the food on the table. When she looked at Blue Angel, she glared at her and carelessly threw it on the table, spilling it all over, onto her dress.

"My dress!" The blue-haired idol complained. A small devious chuckle escaped the waitresses' mouth.

Soulburner began chomping down on the food while Playmaker took small bites.

Blue Angel just looked at them eating. She realized that their two personalities were like day and night.

Soulburner was just a laid-back guy while Playmaker was more serious.

But she should just wait and see.

After all, she only knew Soulburner for a day. Who knew what was coming ahead?

On a tall building, a figure stood at the edges, frowning down at Link VRAINS.

"This place is so disgusting!" The figure murmured. It had a male voice. "And I know just how to destroy it. I'm going to target Link VRAINS's most popular idol, Blue Angel."