I managed to get this chapter up. It's late, and enjoy the chapter!
The next week, Yuni was at the TV Tower. While she was in the other room, standing in front of the microphone, Gus and a News Reporter were recording Yuni's new music video.
"Falls right into place, your all that it takes..." she sang. "Crystal Clear it becomes when I'm Kissin U!" After singing those lyrics, the song ended. "How was that, Gus?"
He gave her thumbs up. "Perfect, girl!"
When she came out of the room, the news cast started recording. "So, Miss Verse," he said, holding the microphone to her mouth. "How long did you take to come up with this song?"
"Well," she said with pride. "It takes me about a month to write a song, but I was laying in bed one night, and I said "I'm going to write a new song!"
"Wow," he said. "Maybe this will help you earn your very first kiss."
"Yeah-" she said, then her eyes widened. "Wait, what?"
He took the microphone back. "There you all have it. This was Yuni's new song!"
We walked out as the cameras were turned off. Yuni was confused. She wondered what he meant get her first kiss. When she came down to the lobby, she noticed that there were hands full of security guarding the doors. Yuni ran to them to see what was happening.
"What's going on?" she asked a guard.
"Miss Verse, get back upstais. Now!"
"Yuni!" a deep voice called. "We gotta go!"
She turned around, and saw a man with a black afro. "Disco?"
"No time to explain! Let's go up to the eleventh floor!"
A crowd broke through the security, and charged for Yuni. Disco grabbed Yuni's arm, and they ran for the elevator. The doors closed, and the machine was taking Yuni and Disco to a different floor. They stepped out of the elevator, and met Alice inside her room to hide from the crowd and paparrazzi.
"What's going on!" Yuni yelled. "Can somebody just tell me!"
"Yuni, have you seen these, yet?" Alice asked her, handing her a couple of magazines.
Yuni took them, and found herself on the front page. There were pictures of her with articles like "Miss Yuni Verse says that she never had a real kiss in her life" or "Yuni Verse says kisses in movies were fake, and wishes she had a real kiss by her secret crush." She threw down the magazines.
"No way!"
"Don't worry, Yuni," Disco said. "I'm sure we're gonna put a stop to this."
"How did this secret get out!"
A knock was made at Alice's door. Alice went to it, creaked it opened, and let Emi in.
"Yuni, I promise you that I didn't tell anyone about this!" she said sincerely.
"I believe you, Emi."
A bang was made at Alice's window. They jumped, glanced at the window, and saw Devil Zukin wearing her regular bat hood and wings that seemed to be attached, and she wore her dark violet dress with knee high boots. Yuni went to the window to let Zukin in.
"Yuni, thank goodness." she said. "There's-"
"Paparrazzi outside. I know."
"And, the reason why is because-"
"They know my secret."
Zukin blinked. "Know anything else?"
"That's all we know." Disco added. "If Emi didn't tell anyone, then it has to be someone that already did know that told them, or the paparrazzi was hiding and listened closely."
"Actually..." Zukin started. "I know who told them."
Yuni's eyes widened. "Who, Zukin?"
Her head was still facing Emi, Alice, Disco, and Yuni, but her ruby eyes looked to the left. She was afraid Yuni was going to get hurt if she told her that it was her crush.
"Zukin, we need to know." Disco said.
She sighed. "Okay, last week, Kyo-fU and I were flying and when Kyo-fU bumped into something, he lost his metal part, and we went into the alley to look for it. We digged into dumpsters and other stuff to find it, then I heard a familiar voice telling someone else something, and it had something to do with Yuni..."
"And?" Yuni asked. "Come on, Zukin!"
"I ran to see who it was, and after a group of paparrazzi left, Kyo-fU and I came out of hiding, and we saw..."
"WHO!" Yuni yelled, getting impatient.
"... Rage. He told them your secret."
Yuni's heart sank when she heard that Rage was the one who told them her secret. She had been crushing on him for a while, and was wanting to try and date him at the right time. Zukin knew that Yuni liked Rage a lot, and she kept that a secret for a while now.
Yuni shut her eyes and shook her head rapidly. "No, it couldn't have been Rage!" she said, crushed.
"I'm sorry, Yuni." Zukin said. "I shouldn't have-"
"No, it's not your fault!"
There lots of knocks on Alice's door. They were yelling for Yuni. Alice was afraid to open the door, because it was the paparrazzi. Zukin had an idea.
"I'll fly Yuni out of here! Buy us some time to get out!"
Disco, Emi, and Alice went to hold the door closed while Yuni climbed on Zukin's back and they flew out of the building. Yuni didn't like heights, so she kept her eyes closed until they reached the ground. When more paparrazzi showed up, the girls started running north to find shelter away from them.
Yuni saw a familiar figure wearing a tuxedo. "Akira, help us!"
He looked at them, saw that they were being chased, then pulled out his gun, ready for anything. Yuni and Zukin hid behind him while he had his gun pointed at the paparrazzi. They all stopped when they saw him.
"Come anywhere near these girls or take pictures of them, I will shoot you! Now, get out of here!"
The paparrazzi scrambled, and left the three alone.
"I'm glad I found you in time, Yuni." he said. "When Sa-Ja and I heard about the secret of your fantasy kiss getting out, we immediately went out to look for you. Now this has me wondering how did this get out?"
Yuni's eyes turned watery, and looked away. "Zukin, can you tell him?"
"Tell me what?"
Zukin looked up at him. "Rage told the paparrazzi about this. I guess he was listening close to Yuni saying something about that."
"I should've known. He gave out the wrong kind of revenge."
Zukin blinked. "You mean Yuni and Rage were pulling pranks again?"
They both looked at Yuni, who had her back turned. She was at the brink of tears. Yuni faced them, and Akira saw Yuni's eyes.
"Zukin," she croaked. "When you see Rage, can you tell him that I never want to see him again?"
"Now, Yuni wait a minute-"
It was already too late. Yuni ran away to her mansion with Zukin and Akira chasing after her. When they reached the mansion, Yuni slammed the door behind her, landed on her bed, and cried on her pillow. Her heart felt torn and her breaths came out as sobs and quivers. Zukin felt Yuni's pain. She was angry that a young celebrity's reputation was ruined because someone told Donna Burke's paparrazzi Yuni's dark secret. She suddenly remembered that there was a DDR Tournament the next week, and if this kept going on, Yuni would miss out on everything because of Rage.
