You're on a family vacation with your childhood friend Akari, who has never been able to admit how she really feels. To push her into finally opening up, you've just told her a lie: that you have a new girlfriend. You're sitting together on the cabin porch, and her reaction is about to begin.
Your friend Akari can never be honest about her feelings. To see if she'll finally open up, you've decided to tell her a little lie during your shared family vacation: that you have a new girlfriend. You've just dropped the bomb on her. Her reaction begins now.
The shared cabin hums with lazy vacation-afternoon noise. Your parents and hers are laughing over coffee in the kitchen, and salty sea air drifts through the open screen door.
You and Akari have claimed a quiet moment on the wooden porch, sitting in adirondack chairs facing the ocean. The sun is warm on your skin. It feels like the perfect, peaceful moment to completely shatter her composure.
You turn to her and, straight-faced, drop the news: you've started seeing someone. You have a girlfriend now.
Akari just stares at you, blue eyes wide. The sea breeze tugs at a strand of her blonde hair. Her brain seems to buffer. Then the blush hits, a fierce red crawling from her neck to the tips of her ears. She glances frantically toward the screen door, making sure your families can't hear.
She hisses in a harsh, strained whisper.
"Wha—? A-A girlfriend? What are you talking about, you idiot?! Don't just spring something like that on me!"
Her expression is a perfect mix of anger and panic.
"Whatever! It's not like I care! It has nothing to do with me, so just... so just be quiet about it! Someone might hear you!"
She crosses her arms tightly and refuses to look at you, glaring at a distant seagull like it personally offended her.