Kotanami Kanae, or Moko-san as her best friend so lovingly called her, was finally back in Japan. She had been overseas in the United States for two long weeks finishing scenes for a movie that she had a small role in. For those two weeks she had been completely cut off from Kyoko. She didn't get a phone call, an email, not even a text message from her best friend! And although Moko-san hated being separated from Kyoko even more than she hated being around Kyoko, these separations were unfortunately to be expected. The roles were pouring in left and right for both of them, but especially so for Kyoko after Dark Moon premiered. So of course the time they wanted to spend together was often taken up by filming or any Love Me chores given to them.

"But none of that is a problem today!" Moko-san thought to herself as she walked down LME's crowded midday corridors. "I have the day off since I just got back and when Kyoko is done with Box R she should be done for the day too." Moko-san silently thanked her photographic memory for allowing her to remember Kyoko's schedule. "And I guess I should be grateful to the President, too, for giving me her schedule in the first place." She shivered in distaste, remembering what the President had made her do in order to get the schedule. That memory was best locked up forever. "I hope the President and his stupid ideas about love bite him in the butt one day," she thought angrily.

But to her, the ordeal was worth it. She had Kyoko's schedule and had come up with a plan that would make Kyoko ecstatic! First, Moko-san would surprise Kyoko by showing up at the set of Box R and asking Kyoko to come hang out with her for the rest of the day. Kyoko would be very, very happy about that. "And that man who keeps hogging my best friend won't be invited," she thought with some wicked glee. That Tsuraga Ren was going to get what was coming to him if he kept that up. But after showing up on her set, she and Kyoko would go window shopping, all the while Kyoko would be trying for the millionth time to get Kanae to play along with her odd friendship drama…thing. "Who knows where she got those stupid ideas! No friends would ever act in such a way!" she thought. But one learned not to be surprised with Mogami Kyoko's antics, and oh how she had learned. But then, after window shopping, they would go to their favorite ice cream shop, try all the new flavors of ice cream, and catch up on all the things that had happened while they were apart…and of course Kyoko would have that goofy smile of hers on the entire time…

While Moko-san had become lost in her reverie and daydreaming, a small smile had crept up on her face. Suddenly realizing what her face looked like, Moko-san stopped dead in her tracks and slapped her face with both hands, ridding her face of that happy expression. She slowly peered to her right and left and then quickly twisted around to look behind her. Seeing no sign of a neon pink uniform or a flash of short red hair among the masses that were walking down the hallway, Moko-san assumed she was safe. Dropping her hands back to her side and restarting her journey to the Love Me room, Moko-san angrily thought to herself, "Mo! What were you doing just now! If Kyoko had seen that face…" Kanae shuddered at the very thought. Knowing Kyoko, she would have seen Kanae in that state and assumed that Kanae had missed her. Moko-san would have then been hug-tackled by a teary, pink blur that was screaming "Mokooooo-saaaaaan!!!". In front of EVERYONE. Moko-san loved her friend, but she just wasn't cut out for that kind of embarrassment or affection, not even in private.

While lost in thought, she had arrived at the Love Me headquarters and had actually been standing in front of the door for several minutes. She shook her head, coming back to reality, and reached for the doorknob. As she touched the door she heard Kyoko yell something loudly inside the room and another group of people yell something unintelligible back. Moko-san stood frozen, her hand still on the doorknob. "Nooooo!!" she cried in her head. "Why is Kyoko back at LME already??"

Quickly jerking her hand away from the door, Moko-san pulled out her phone and checked the time. It was 12:06 and Kyoko shouldn't have gotten out of Box R until 1:00. "She must have done all her scenes without any NGs and left early! Well, there goes my plan…" a very peeve Kanae Kotonami thought to herself.

Well, Kyoko being in the Love Me room wasn't that surprising… "She is a member of Love Me after all," Moko-san thought. But who were the other people? Moko-san grabbed the doorknob again and, as slowly and as quietly as possible, cracked the door open. Peeking through the cracked door, she saw the most horrifying combination of people she could think of sitting in the room, happily chatting away about some unknown topic.

"Oh, Kami-sama…What are they doing together?!?!" Moko-san whispered with horror.

Kyoko had been talking when Moko-san whispered to herself. If Moko-san hadn't been in complete and utter shock, she would have heard Kyoko say, "So, let Operation Bir...". Or at least Kyoko started to say it. Kyoko was very tuned into Moko-san, as Moko-san was Kyoko's first friend. And because of this, Kyoko heard Moko's tiny whisper and stopped speaking just in time.

"Mokoooo-saaaaaaaan!!!" Kyoko joyfully shouted as she sprinted towards the shell-shocked actress.