After breakfast, everyone filed into the bus to head to the recording studio. Gumi's hear was racing with excitement. It was her first time ever recording a song with the other vocaloids. They had received directions from Master the night before. Gumi was to be grouped with Miku and Meiko. She was happy with that. She had heard high praise about Miku from Master. Meiko seemed nice enough. The song they were to sing was 'Melt'. Gumi was very familiar with it. It was the kind of cute sappy song she was best at. Humming it lightly in the back seat, suddenly, she was interrupted by Miku's shrill, cheerful voice.

"And when I walked in, he was right there, asleep on the couch! How cute is that?" The whole bus erupted with "AWW!" and Gumi jumped to her feet and said

"Miku! You promised not to say anything about that!" Miku laughed and said nervously

"But it was so cute I just had to tell them! Sorry Gumi-chan!" Gumi sat back down and smiled slightly. She glanced over at Nigaito who blushed a little and stared out the window. Pulling into the recording studio, everybody impatiently made their way out of the bus.

Gumi's POV

I stared up at the tall building. From all of the commotion on the bus, I hadn't noticed that we had entered a rather large city. Being from a small town, I wasn't used to all of the buildings that had roofs stretching up to the sky. I followed everyone into the building and we went up in a crowded elevator. Entering the room at the top, we all ran through our songs a few times and then we stopped for lunch. Rin and Len walked up to me.

"How are you enjoying your first day?" They asked simultaneously. I smiled and replied

"It's been really fun!" Miku came over and said

"You two trouble-makers better not give Gumi any trouble, understand?" They grinned mischievously and said

"Now, why would we do such a thing?"

The three became lost in conversation with each other, so I wandered off down the hallway. A beautiful noise touched my ears, and I followed it. Looking through the window of one of the doors, I saw Kaito and his brothers singing together. I cracked the door so I could hear well. Kaito was a surprisingly good singer for his goofy attitude. I looked to the right of him and saw Akaito and Taito, his brothers that I met on the bus this morning. Their voices were all similar, but varying in pitch. Then my gaze drifted to Nigaito. His soft, high pitched voice was adorable…

Wait, why am I thinking this? I wondered. I just met him!

But his voice really did enchant me. I recognized the song they were singing. 'Last night, Good night'.

They ended the song beautifully.

"Oyasumi…"

I found myself clapping without meaning to. They looked over and Kaito glared at me.

"It's not nice to eavesdrop! What if this was supposed to be a private conversation or something?" he said unhappily. Nigaito stopped his brother.

"She wasn't eavesdropping, she was just listening, and she clapped for us, so we should be t-thankful…" he stammered.

He is so sweet… I let my thoughts drift off again. I smiled.

"Thank you, Nigaito!" I said. He smiled back.

"You're welcome! So, where is everybody else?" he asked

"They're eating lunch in the other room. You want to come too?"

"Sure!" He said, and followed me out of the room.

Nigaito's POV

Gumi invited to go to lunch with her, so I followed her. I hoped she was having a nice first day. I hated that I was shorter than her despite being the same age. I looked up at her and said

"Hey, Gumi?" She looked down and smiled.

"Yes, what is it?" I started thinking then.

That's what I like about her… she's always smiling no matter what, and she's so pleasant to be around. There should be more people like her…

I realized I had become lost in thought and I laughed nervously.

"Ha-ha. I was just wondering how your day was going."

"It's been wonderful! I'm looking forward to walking downtown with everyone later." I tilted my head to the side at that statement. I hadn't heard of this. She saw my look of confusion and said

"You're welcome to come along. I'm sure they just hadn't told you yet since you were still singing." She looked the other way.

"Also, um… You sing really well." I couldn't help but stand there and blush. Feeling somewhat stupid, I stared at my shoes and replied

"You too…" we walked in silence for the rest of the way.

When we met up with everybody, we all walked downtown together to look in the shops. First we stopped at a candy shop. We all looked through different boxes of chocolate and taffy. There were gigantic lollipops on a stand by the door that were as big as my head! Gumi looked about the shop, and eventually turned to the manager and asked eagerly

"Do you have any Carrot cake? Or anything carrot flavored for that matter?" The manager laughed at her and said

"No, I don't believe we do. Perhaps they would have something at the bakery on the next floor?" Gumi rushed up the stairs and was back within a minute holding a box labeled "World's best carrot cake"

She happily walked out of the store with the rest of us.

Wide-eyed, I looked at her and asked

"Wow, Gumi. You really like carrots, don't you?" She nodded; too busy eating to give an actual response.

The next place we stopped at was a clothing store. All of the girls rushed in the store all excited, but the rest of us waited outside. Mikuo mumbled something that sounded like

"I don't understand girls…" Kaito laughed and then looked over at me.

"By the way, Nigaito," He started, and I didn't like the sound of his voice.

"You and Gumi seem to be getting along rather well." Everybody started staring at me, and I felt very uncomfortable. I hate people staring at me.

"I… um… well, I g-guess… she's n-nice." I stammered. They all focused their eyes on my and laughed.

"Yeah, I bet that's all." Akaito said.

"Onii-san…" I pleaded, blushing.

Right about then, the girls walked out of the building. Suddenly, I found myself standing behind Gumi.

Great, now I seem helpless. I thought. I sighed.

"Gumi… Please do something about them." I said quietly. She looked confused and then stared at my brothers.

"What did you guys do to him?" She asked. Akaito just said

"So now you have to protect him?" then he laughed and walked away. I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks, Gumi." I was very glad they didn't mention what we were talking about. She smiled and said

"You're welcome! Just learn how to stand up for yourself. Don't let them pick on you." I sighed again.

"Okay…" I said.

Gumi's POV

Walking through all the stores today was fun. I wonder what Akaito and the guys were bugging Nigaito about. Oh well! When I walked through the door of my room my cellphone lit up and started ringing. I answered it.

"Hello?" I asked. A person whose voice I didn't recognize said

"Gumi Megpoid… Tomorrow night, at 9:00, come to the park. Come alone. Don't tell anyone about this." Before I could say anything, the person hung up the phone, and I was left in my room, shaking with fear.

Ooh! Cliff hanger! I'll try to get chapter 3 up tomorrow, so look forward to it!