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Chapter 2
The next morning, Luchia got up bright and early along with Hanon and Rina. Coco was already downstairs, looking rather tired. "Well, it's time to go to sleep...good morning!" she rushed upstairs and into her room.
"She's been acting so odd lately..." Luchia began. "Have either of you noticed?" She turned to her two friends.
"I haven't really seen her much until now," Hanon replied.
"Neither have I. But she does seem a little different," Rina added, and headed towards another room with Hanon.
Tons of customers were lined up at the desk that day, waiting to get a hotel room and tapping their feet. Nikoru brushed her tired fingers through her purple hair. "Luchia, work faster! There's a bucketload of people today and we need all the help we can get!"
"Geez, where is Noel, Karen, Coco and everybody?" Luchia moaned.
Hanon's head popped out from behind a wall. "I'm carrying plenty of suitcases!"
"Same!" Rina's voice called.
Luchia crossed her arms and looked around for any sign of Coco, Noel, or Karen. She took a step towards the hall, wondering if they were just lazing about as usual. She continued walking, then started half-jogging up the stairs. Once, on another particularly busy day, when the trio was visiting, they had been tanning while all the time Luchia was slaving away for each and every customer. She wished she could get away with something like that, but of course, Coco, Noel, and Karen didn't really work there to begin with, so she supposed it made sense. Still, they were obligated to help out. They were probably off doing something similar now, but she decided to check their rooms first, just in case they were doing something inside, and she might as well make sure while she was in there.
"Coco?" Luchia knocked politely.
No answer.
"Are you in there? We need your help, so you'd better not be trying to hide or anything."
Still no answer.
The dirty blonde creaked the door open slightly and peeked in. She couldn't see anyone, but she certainly heard something. It was somebody singing in a very high pitched voice.
"My gaze excites your heart!
Ah~…I knew it…you're nailed down by my gaze~
With the melody you hummed,
I want to make you fall in love with me!"
"Coco? Why are you singing that?" Luchia asked.
"Me? Oh! Wait, I thought the long, blonde haired girl was Coco. I'm not Coco. And I was just imitating that fairy! She has a pretty good singing voice, you know! Plus, she is a really popular idol!"
"Uhh...ok, then...actually, you sound like Karen...why are you in Coco's room? I hope I'm not interrupting anything important. Where are you, anyway?" Luchia's eyes scanned the room. She heard running water. Then it hit her. "Are you taking a shower?" Luchia freaked.
"Yes...and you better not look!" Karen responded.
"I won't! I promise! I wouldn't do that! Come help us out down there when you're done, bye!" She dashed out of the hotel room and into the one across the hall, which omitted blaring, as well as some very familiar music.
"Why did I go into here? Oh, wait, I'm looking for Coco and Noel now. And this is Karen and Noel's room. But I guess Coco and Karen needed to switch rooms for some reason. I don't know." As soon as she entered the room she began to feel drowsy.
"What do you want?" Noel was lying sprawled out over the covers of her bed, and was wearing earmuffs. She looked up from a magazine.
"First of all, why are you wearing earmuffs if you're trying to listen to music? Just take them off so you don't have to turn it so loud."
Noel lifted one side of the earmuff. "It's annoying. And I'm not listening to it, Coco is."
Luchia yawned. "Oh. Well, how and why is she listening..." her eyelids drooped. "...to...Lady...Bat's...song...?" she toppled over in the sleep-like state, -too tired to hold herself up any longer- smashing into the radio playing the music, which cut it off.
Luchia woke up immediately.
CRASH! And so did someone else.
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