cleaning up

I wake up to hear my phone ringing. “ Big brother, we're coming over to your apartment this weekend so make sure it’s clean.”

“ No way don’t you dare come here. Osaka is nice this time of year so just stay there.” I hung up the phone. They’re still coming aren’t they….

I run out to the supermarket to get some cleaning supplies.” Oh Ken-Kun what is thou doing her.”

“ Oh president Miku, nice to see you. I’m just getting ready to clean my apartment, my family is coming over.”

“ I see, do you want any help? Mineself is an expert cleaner for after each battle I must wash my blade of blood.” Miku smiled confidently. She’s the student council president and a huge fan of historical dramas.She keeps her hair tied back in a ponytail and her eyes seem to track everything. Her eyes are naturally black but she wears gold contacts…It looks extremely cool.

“ Sure I'd love help um if possible could you come during this week my family will be here over the weekend.” Miku smiles and nods her head rapidly; she then seems to think about something.

“ As payment I’d love a blade you know A katana and a Hakama you have money from being a model so you can afford all this right? I mean you’re living alone so you have to make solid money.” She starts to space out and blush seemingly thinking of herself being a samurai. She starts giggling then suddenly she picks up the broom I was buying and started attacking me with it.

“ Hey stop, I'll get you the payment but for that much you’ll be doing some extra work.” I dodge the broom strikes until she finally comes back to her senses

“ Oh great, I'll clean as much as I can, don't worry your family will be impressed with how clean it is. In fact I'm motivated so let’s head there now!” I pay for the cleaning supplies then bring Miku to my house. “ What the hell where is the floor?” As soon as I opened the door her expression changed from confident to horrified. “ You haven’t had your girlfriend over?”

“ I don’t have one…Me and Akane are just friends.” I try to laugh it off but I notice my body getting warm.

“ Let’s get started I guess… um do you wear all these shoes?” She started to push some of them to the side of the entryway.

No, these are from my manager. She says the clients don’t want my dirty worn shoes.” Just then a cockroach scurries out of the door.

“ Die.” Miku starts shoving the shoes outside with the broom while sweeping any roaches towards the door. “ I want a nice blade, not a cheap one. I hate cockroaches!” She starts sweeping faster after a cockroach touches the broom. “ Why do you have roaches!?”

“ Well funny story I was keeping some as pets but the enclosure broke so I just assumed they would die but apparently they started a family.” I chuckle and start spraying the cleaner on the cockroaches. I can’t give the unit roaches so I’ll just kill every last roach I see.” I crouch down to get a better vantage point and so more of the spray hits the roaches.

“ Aha I’ve done it I’ll take my… Why is the entire floor covered in clothes? There's no telling how many roaches there’ll be!” She holds the broom like a baseball bat and flicks the clothes back down the hallway.

“ Being fair I don’t have a closet for jackets.” I spray inside each shoe then place them all in a big plastic bin. “ We have all week so we can take it slower right?” Miku tosses jackets towards me.

“ Go back to the supermarket and buy a wall mount or something to hang up these Jackets.” I ran back to the supermarket to find a wall mount. I end up fighting a coat rack that holds ten jackets and bought it on impulse. I ran it back to my apartment and had to fight through the pile of jackets to even see Miku.

“ Does this work?” Miku looked back and gasped.

“ It’s absolutely perfect you have exactly ten jackets that need to be hung up here.” I start hanging up the Jackets then I place the coat rack in the corner of the entryway. “ We’ll need to take multiple trips to the laundromat to clean all these clothes. You'll also pay for this right?” I sigh.

“ Yeah I will but you’re stretching my bank account. Let's hope my family brings food with them.” Miku starts filling bags with dirty clothes. Apparently the roaches liked my shoes more than my clothes because she wasn’t finding any.

“ Just pick up extra work. I mean you’re trending right now, well you and your modeling buddies.” Miku pulls up Twitter and goes to the trending section. Surely enough we’re trending as the coolest models ever. “ Apparently you guys met some fan at Sukiya and it went viral because she was saying how kind you all were.” Miku cuts off her phone and puts it back in her pocket. “ Here’s the first load for the laundromat. If you wait just a second we could both go and then call it a day. I was hoping to wash at least two loads today.”

“ Okay I’ll wait, that fan was named Hikari. She was really sweet at first. She wasn’t going to jump in the picture but we asked her too. I'm glad she looks happy.”

“ Oh really well you can’t be like that forever eventually you’ll be too famous to do that right?”

“ No way even if I get famous I’ll still make time for fans. It makes me happy and it shows my work was good enough that people want pictures with me… Sorry that sounded mushy right?” I chuckle a little.

“ No, it was perfect. I hope more people are like you Ken.” She packed up the second bag and left my apartment. I closed and locked the door then we took the bags to the laundromat. “ Hey isn’t that Mikawa-san?” Miku pointed to a girl being surrounded by about ten teenage girls.

“ Yeah it is maybe I should go help her, she seems panicked.”

“ If you hover, won't you just be killing her potential to grow? Just sit back and watch for now.” We crossed the street and hid behind a corner to listen in.

“ Hey you’re one of the models that’s trending. Can we get a picture or an autograph?”

“ O-oh um yes I will g-give you both an autograph and photo. Um, what is it that I am supposed to sign?” The girls hand her a yearbook and flip to the last page.

“ I know you don’t go to our school but this is just too great an opportunity.”

“ Ah I understand… here you go.” The girls then crowd around for a photo. They thank Akane before walking away.

“ See what I mean she handled it just fine.” Miku whispered to me "I watched Akane sigh and fidget with her hair as she walked away.” Fate must’ve brought you two together to be randomly running into each other here.”

“ Yeah maybe it did.” I smile widely as I start walking again. We made it to the laundromat and dumped both bags of clothes, then we went to a hotel and took a nap. When it was time to pick up the clothes I let Miku sleep and brought both bags back to the hotel. “ I’m unusually tired today.” I fall back asleep and dream about what makes me and Akane so closely tied.