If you have to make an important decision, take a second to look at the environment where you have to make it.

Are you alone in the decision-making process or are there other people in it too?

What personal relationship do you have to the other ones?

What are their aims? Are you on the same side? Do you even need different sides?

What are the strengths of the different people? Who is more of the creative free mind? Who keeps an eye on it if it is makeable? Who is the mediator?

At what point of the decision-making are you? Are the choices clear or are you still in a creative process?

How comfortable are you and the others in your direct surrounding?

What time of the day is it?

All this and more are important factors to consider when you have to make a decision. Once you know all this you can try to change the environment to secure that the odds are in your favor. Your aim is, that there shouldn't be a decision today? Leave them hungry. It makes people aggressive and less likely to make a compromise.

If you want a decision, give them food. If you want them creative, give them some light snacks, nothing too heavy. You don't think with a full stomach.

And there are one hundred more things that are notable, but it would take too long to mention all of them here.

Why do you read this?

Well, first so that you, dear readers, can have this comfy feeling of not having waste your time procrastinating. No you've learned some kind of useful stuff, so no reason to feel guilty. You can thank me later. Apart from that it should show that making a decision is not an easy task.

Oh, and it shows, if you have the opportunity, always choose flipping a coin or drawing sticks. It's much simpler and half the time it leads to as good results as all the other stuff.

One look at the LoveMe lounge makes one thing painfully obvious. Whoever was in charge of designing the lounge didn't actually seem to have thought about any of those previous advises. To be precise this room didn't seem as there had been any thinking involved at all. It has been a recently new idea from the president, that LME needs a love headquarters. This room is the (in)glorious result.

The room was big and divided in three areas. The right side was a small area separated with a curtain from the rest. Behind it were the bright pink lockers and the changing area had a small bathroom. There were 8 lockers by the way and this single fact creeped the hell out of the LoveMe girls and gave nightmares to Sawara, because they suspect, that this represents Lori Takaras developing plans for the LoveMe section. (And when it says nightmares, that's completely true. There have been nights when Sawara woke up in a cold sweat and started mumbling something along the lines: 'There are eight. Eight...' This happens often enough, that Mrs. Sawara by now takes care of avoiding the number eight in their daily life.) Each locker had a heart-shaped nameplate. Nobody dares to look at the five empty ones. Artists are naturally superstitious and they really don't want to provoke bad luck. The curtain is the only black thing in this room, due to the fact that it was installed by the girls and sponsored by Sawara two days after the opening. The idea that a sign, that can be switched between 'come in and let us help you 3' and 'just a short moment and we will help you' is the only thing to prevent somebody from walking in on them changing, sounds like a catastrophe waiting to happen or worst a matchmaking plan.

Directly opposite of the door were three desks. They were white with a big pink heart with the LoveMe logo on them. Every single piece of office equipment was in the same screaming LoveMe pink as the uniforms. Where those were found will hopefully remain a mystery to humanity forever and ever.

The last part of the room was a living space with a pink plush sofa and armchairs with plush hearts as cushions. In the middle stood a pink heart-shaped coffee table. All this furniture was the reason it took so long to set this room up. They were all special ordered and made, because no-one had this kind of...of abnormal things in stock, anywhere in the world. This was the part of the room the LoveMe troop stubbornly tried to make comfortable, which mostly involved throwing white blankets (they were forbidden to use black again) over everything. And putting iconic movie posters on the walls to cover up the rosé wall paint that had 'I love you' written in every language known to mankind on it and some they suspect that he made up.

All in all the room was, with its penetrate single-mindedness, more fitting as a love hotel room (and before somebody mention the lack of a bed, there is enough space on desks, sofas and against walls, be creative) than a workplace. But the specie of man can fast adapt to even the most hostile environment. By now they set a bowl with fruits on the table and keep some water bottles and different kinds of juice next to the sofa.

'Mo, if he wants us to decide on those training spots he shouldn't make us run around this building all day.'

The trio flopped down in their sitting area and stretched quit passionately. None of them looked the tiniest bit motivated to do much of anything, least of all make any important decisions.

'I don't think I can feel my arms anymore.', Chiori whined, while hanging over the armrest like an old sack of beans.

'Hmm.' Kyoko nodded in agreement and tried to rub her own neck.

In this moment the trio looked like death (and they felt like cheap takeout that was three days old and heated up again) and they didn't do much of anything apart of existing for the next ten minutes or so. Please notice, they are still actresses and should somebody open the door they would look presentable within half a second, well as presentable as you can, while wearing shocking, eye-cancer causing pink uniforms. But that's not the point.

'We should look at those papers.' Chiori's voice was muffled from speaking into the cushion of her armchair.

'Yes, we should.' Nobody was moving.

'I mean like, we should really do this, like now.' Still, no high body-function than the purely life-preserving ones were observable in this room.

They spend ten more minutes in this vegetative state, until Kyoko righted herself up with a loud and pathetic groan. 'You want something to drink, too?'

'Uh, yeah.' Was the long drawn answer she received.

Each armed with a glass of water they returned to the land of the living.

'Uff, we really have to do this now. Ok let's do this.' They took out the papers and slowly, slowly started reading them.

'Mo, give me something to eat. NO! Not the stupid banana, you bought them, you are going to eat them, I'm not going to get fat from them!' Kyoko giggled a bit at her best friend outburst and passed her an apple, then peeled the banana for herself.

'You want something, too?'

'I'll get it myself don't worry.' Chiori took some grapes and they all chewed silently while finally reading.

Kyoko only took a quick glance at the paper for the tea ceremony classes and put it away. She contrasted on the other two papers, well one of the papers still didn't offer any real information, but she at least tried. She unsurprisingly didn't find any more hidden info on that piece of paper.

'Are you guys done?', Kanae asked. She had finished after just one or two minutes and waited for her friends to get there.

'Yeah.'

' Yes.'

'Oh, but you didn't even looked at that offer, Kyoko-sama.' Koyko blushed a little bit, as she always does when Chiori called her Sama or Sempai.

'I already know the tea ceremony and all the other stuff they offer to teach in that class. So I'm not really interested in it.'

'You know all that? Where and when did you learned it?' Kyokos comment had peeked Kanaes interest. She was Kyokos best friend, why the hell didn't she know this? She should know about something like this, probably, maybe, she wasn't completely sure. This whole best friend thing and knowing everything about each other was confusing sometimes. She was sure she should know the important stuff, was something like this important?

'Oh, I started learning this when I was very young, maybe four or five and for a couple of years.' Kyoko replied uneasily. She didn't want to talk about how that idiot's family took her in and taught her how to be his bride.

'Oh really, I wouldn't have thought you knew something like this. Does Sawara-san know this? He didn't comment on it earlier.' Chiori replied cheerfully.

/It was long ago. It's probably not that important./

'Hmm. I'm not sure. I don't think we ever talked about it. Maybe I should do that sometime. Or maybe Yashiro-san or Tsuruga-san already told him.' Kyoko tipped against her chin when she answered.

'Why does Tsuruga knows about this?' /Before me? That's not ok! I definitely should know this, if he knows it. I'm her best friend, he shouldn't know more about her than me, mo!/

'Oh, it was on one of my first LoveMe jobs, before you guys were here. I was on one of his sets and there was a tea ceremony and yeah... it came up.'

Kanae only got more pissed when being reminded, that he technically knew Kyoko longer than she has. She knew it was irrational to feel this kind of rivalry towards him, but she couldn't help it. And snowball chance in hell, that she will lose to him.

'Hmpf, enough of that. So you don't want or need it. So one of us', she pointed to Chiori and herself,'is going to do it. We just have to figure out who. Let's start with that.'

'Good idea, Kanae-san. Do you really want it? Because I don't really care.'

'Me neither. Do you think it will benefit you in the future? For what kind of roles do you need this training?'

All three shouted out the first things that came to their mind.

'In historical dramas and movies.'

'Rich, traditional Ojou-sama from an old family.'

'Family drama.'

'Culture crash dramas.'

'Horror movies.' This earned Chiori a strange look from the other two.

'Ok, ok. So who of us is more likely to get one of those roles? I mean, whose type does it suits more?'

'Hmm, Chiori-san is the sweet and cute type of girl and you, Moko-chan, are a traditional Japanese beauty. I could see both of you in some of the roles.'

'Not helpful. But who did it fit more?'

'Hey, but fitting best into the role doesn't mean that one of us should get it. When fitting a role very well, the director maybe would give us time and instruction to learn it.'

'But our types aren't so uncommon in this industry. I mean, being beautiful or cute is a prerequisite to become an actress.'

We will cut this discussion a bit short, because it kept going for twenty more minutes. They listed everything that could be important in this and looked at all the points from different kinds of angles. It was a very reasonable and friendly discussion in a well-known environment. And it was completely and totally unproductive. It kept going until:

'Mo! Shut up, both of you. We are running in circles here.' Kanae had jumped up from the sofa, when she shouted at her surprised friends. With some hectic she searched her pockets, until she held something directly in front of Chiori, whose eyes crossed when she tried to look at it.

'Heads or tails?'

'Um, heads?'

The raven-haired beauty flipped the coin powerful enough that it nearly touched the ceiling, caught it skillfully and smashed it down on the table for all to see.

It was tails.

'Ok, I will do this one and you decide on the other two.' She grabbed her paper and fell back into the sofa. Said other two still looked a bit shaken from the forceful display of their fellow LoveMe worker.

' Oookay... we have here the whole voice and music training and those motorcycle and stunt classes. What do you prefer, Kyoko-sama?'

Kyoko observed how for a short moment an uneasy look crossed her friend's face and how her hand unconsciously went to her neck, when she talked about the stunt part, even when she tried to sound cheerfully.

'Ahm, I think, the stunt classes seem interesting. Music never really interested me. If that's ok with you, of course.' You see, there was really no choice, at least not for Kyoko.

'Yeah, I thought the karaoke parts in Box-R were actual a lot of fun.' the petite girl answered relieved.

'We still have half an hour before we have to go to Sawara-san.'

They didn't say anything else, but silently agreed, half an hour sitting around and relaxing would be heaven for their abused arms and shoulders.

A.N.

Thank you XxLovelyStoryxX for being my betareader. You are the best.