How Improper! (Lala x Pauper 45)

[Pauper45]

Yuuki Rito sat bored in class, spacing off and staring out the window at the sun and all of the birds that flew by. Though Rito was generally a happy, responsible, helpful kid, his life was far from without it's own problems. And all of those problems stemmed from one person: himself. For a while Rito liked blaming Lala, his "betrothed" and former roommate and alien princess of the planet Deviluke, but though she had caused a bunch of adventures and aliens to come into his life, that wasn't really the source of his problems. The source of his problems was himself, and his bad luck with women. Before Lala, Rito wouldn't have known how to even think about approaching girls, and now that his life was filled with women of various sensibilities, all he did was get into troubling, groping situations.

And still, he had no girlfriend. Rito had a crush on the class president, Sairenji Haruna for the longest time, but those feelings had become confused by his growing attractions to Lala herself, and when he confessed to Lala how he felt, she had implied... poly- he couldn't even say it. The point was, though he felt as if he'd gotten one step closer to finding a girlfriend, in fact he was still as far away as ever. He liked Haruna, he liked Lala, and he had thought many other girls were cute as well, so what could Rito say? He didn't know what he was doing. All Rito wanted was to date a girl... "in a normal setting and date" whatever that would mean.

Rito stared out the window and sighed again, wanting to put his head down and just take a nap, dream away his troubles....