Imaginary Notes part 4

By the time they were casts in the same drama again even though their class were different, Sebastian started to consider the fact that people seem to regard them as a couple. Vanz has boys, even girls approach her all the time and she rather brushes them off as she didn't have the time or she doesn't like them enough or they're not handsome enough or whatever. At some points she stops telling him why and it was just a given that if Vanz gets a handsome boy's number, she was not going to call him.
“Well, can I try to call him, then?” he asked and Vanz laughs as if it's the funniest joke.
He was not really joking—he like to play pranks on nice looking guys—but maybe he should be, and he smiled awkwardly and reminds himself to cancel the date with Holly next Saturday. Maybe he should hang out with Vanz instead.

It is really fine, Sebastian was sure. Vanz will become famous and even get into the entertainment world, so he will just be a friend as usual. But it is not usual, and he thought Vanz know it as well. Since they met, Sebastian knew they were meant to be and it is true. They got this project to become a couple and they did.
Both Sebastian and Vanz never thought that it would be so unusual for both of them to not touching each other or calling or whatever, they just never thought that it would be hard. Or simply, they never even thought that it would ever end.
It's not like they were not together at all anymore. They didn't see each other as often, true, and they follow the guidelines—keep a distance, no touching, and no subtext here and there if they can avoid it.
Stopping the public Vanz Mezuella all together was much harder than either of the two had expected. They did—plenty in act—went through days without seeing each other before their special mission. Sebastian could go for days without seeing Vanz and Vanz could do the same, only that they ended up texting each other from the third day.
But those texts from Vanz that said, “I’m worried~” were just jokes, right? And those texts that Sebastian sent himself that said, “I’m okay, miss you~” were definitely just jokes too, right?
Without them realizing they’d grown accustomed to the little touches and passing glances, took them for granted, really. Sometimes it was all that got them through the ridiculously long, busy days. Treating the other like just another band member, another friend was hard.

Sebastian’s only night off the other drama training was today and he texts Vanz, “Going out for dinner, want to join?” and immediately realizes that Vanz has a late training at night because of the very close performance with Reo and class in the morning. He sends back hastily, “Never mind.”
Vanz sends back a smiley. Always smiling, as if she has to pretend to him that she's not exhausted and tired.
No, just smiling.

Vanz woke up and crawled out of bed, slipping to her bunny slipper and opened her cell phone.
No new message.
Oh, right. She really needs to get accustomed to this now. As the leader say, Vanz Mezuella was over. So there’s no way Sebastian would still texting her this morning. She turned on the laptop and checked her email.
Ten unread mail.
She was not really excited. Most of them are probably from the people that love her performances and so on—she never really interested to read even one of them. She sighed and scanned the mail quickly, reading it.
One was from Reo.
It reads, "Good morning, Senior Vanz. I do hope that I'm not bothering you; I just want to remind you of the rehearsal this morning. See you at school!"
She sighed and nodded unconsciously.
She started scanning again. One of them is from Sebastian!
It reads, “Rise and shine, sweetheart! Ah, I almost forgot that we’re not couple anymore. Fine with me, though, I don’t care anyway. My phone just died, so I gotta mail you today. Don’t forget to eat breakfast! >.< Song of the day: Boundless Love by Kim Jung Min!”
She laughed at the mail. Really, typical Sebastian. But really, he knows her too well to know that she had planned to skip breakfast today.
Yawning a little, she reply his mail, “Don’t worry, I will. ^^ Good luck on your training today!”
This kind of awkward conversation really brought her back to half years ago.
Vanz’s cell phone suddenly vibrates when she woke up. She yawned as she look at it and realize there’s a message from unknown number. She opened it and read, “Morning, new girlfriend, rise and shine already, we have an amazingly full schedule today. Song of the day ’10 Minutes’ by Lee HyoRi.”
She quickly saved his number. She remembered replying, “Erm... Flower boy. That’s cute, but... What do you think you’re doing?”
And she also remembered laughing to the answer “Isn’t it what couples do? If not, my bad.”
Vanz smiled. She wished everything were like old times. Oh, how much he care for her that time. He just cared so much.
Wait! Why would she?
It was just fan service, them standing together, them holding each other, grinning and posing. They wanted them to get attention and they got attention, and it didn't mean anything.