Meanwhile at the shrine's stairs where they usually practice.

"Two of them late again…" Umi said with irritated face.

"Calm down Umi-chan" Kotori tried to calm Umi down.

"everyone I'm sorry! I overslept ;p" Rin shouted while she run up the stairs

"You're late again Rin!" Umi yelled at her junior.

"Sorry…"Rin said without feeling guilty for usually late.

"Calm down Umi-chan, its happen almost to our morning practice, you gonna be old faster, you know if you always mad like that." Nozomi said with teasing smile.

"Nozomi..!" Umi retorted.

"Now..now…calm down a bit Umi, we just have to wait for Honoka now." Eli also tried to make Umi calm.

"It seems we don't need to wait for her, I met her on the way, she said there's council work she need to work out. Also she seems troubled by something that make her so down…" Rin said.

"It seems more serious than I thought." Umi said while sighed

"What do you mean Umi-chan?" Hanayo asked.

"There should be no work left that need immediately concern till next week, also Kotori and I already sorting things so we can focus on practice since its already close to the final." Umi explained to them.

"For Honoka to lying… I cannot imagine what kind of thing troubling her…"Maki said while twirled her red hair.

"Since when you start noticed Honoka acting strange?" Nico asked her juniors.

"She acted strange start yesterday…"Kotori answering. "She was not focused to any conversations also instead of sleeping through class she stared at the sky."

"Since she acted like normal day before that, so I believe its family problem…" Umi trying to give her opinion.

"But Yesterday I asked Yukiho-chan about Honoka-chan, she said nothing happened at the home." Kotori said.

"Ma… maa… everyone, when we gonna start practicing if we just standing around here." Nozomi cut off speculation talks.

"Why are you so calm about this Nozomi… It's Honoka you know, and it's very serious!" Nico raised her voice toward Nozomi.

"I'm sure she will come to us when she need our help, we should not make speculation what her problem is, it is rather rude to her, nicocchi." Nozomi calmly explain her reasoning.

"Well, Nozomi has the point Nico-chan" Maki trying to calm her senior rather than making usual fight. "We also need to respect Honoka…" she continued.

"But…" Nico looks down with dejected face

"Do you not believe in Honoka-chan, Nicocchi?" Nozomi asked Nico.

"I..."

"If we can't put trusts in someone in our group, my card say that we will not able to win Love Live! final."

"Of course I trust her, but..."

"But is a sign that you still can't put your trust you know..."

"I believe in her. Satified Nozomi?"

"But, if she like this we can't practice the song for final, she's the center after all."

"How about this, we cancel today practice since it's quite impossible for Honoka to cheered up at school since her problem involved her family. If she still like that tomorrow we will force her to speak so we can offer our help." Nozomi give her advice.

Everyone nodded toward Nozomi.

"Now that's settled, let's start with warming up everyone or we gonna late for school." Eli started to rally her friends.

"Ooooh…" Everyone shouted


Honoka arrived at school very early though there few students already there for clubs practice, she walked through the front gate, exchanged her shoes for the indoor one then straight to student council room.

Upon arriving she quickly took out spare key she has and unlock the door then quickly move herself inside. She examine stack of papers in her tables, it's the work that they already finished few days ago and no real work need to be done at the moment. She took a seat at her chair and start gazing to sky again, mostly thinking about what written in her birth certificate and why her parents keep it a secret from her. Honoka started thinking the reason why her parent never told her about it until her thought interrupted by bell ring.

Honoka start walking weakly toward her class. She is really grateful to Kotori and Umi by giving her time alone at student council room, because usually the trio would arrived there half hour before the bell rang to planned the weekly meeting or sorting documents so they would have more time to practice after school.

Arriving at the class, she found her childhood friends already there, giving her small smile while greeting her. Smiling wryly, she return their greeting as she waved her hand while she walking toward her desk.

After school,

"Honoka…" Umi called her softly "It's about today practice…"

"What about it Umi-chan?" Honoka asked.

"Today will be no practice, it seems everyone has plan" Kotori answered her.

"Thank you for telling me, Umi-chan, Kotori-chan." Honoka thanked them. "I'll go straight home okay… also sorry and thank you…"

"Sorry and thanks for what Honoka..? You're always troubling us and we just support you as always, so there's no need for that…" Umi said something sarcastic in worried tone.

"Umi-chan's right, Honoka-chan…"

"Just… sorry and thanks for many things okay… bye" Honoka said while prepared to run when seeing a chance.

"Okay… be careful on your way back Honoka-chan." Kotori said as a sign that they will not stopped her from running.

Honoka walked out in hurry from classroom leaving her childhood friends behind.

"What happen to you that make you like this Honoka…" Umi sighed.

"She will be fine Umi-chan, she will return just like she always did…" Kotori reassures Umi.

"I hope so too.." Umi sighed once again.


Upon arriving at home, Honoka saw their car already parked at the side of house, meaning her parent already home from their trip. Honoka steeled herself to ask her parent about it as she tried to contain her tear not spilled just yet.

She's trying to be normal as possible and opened the door.

"I'm home…"

"Welcome back Honoka." Yukari welcomed her daughter.

"Mom, can I ask you something?" "Am I not your real child?" Honoka said with cracked tone.

"..." Yukari fell silent as she heard Honoka's question.

"Yes, you're right Honoka, you're not our real child, you were adopted…" Yukari said as she decided to tell the truth.

Honoka bit her lips as she trying to contain her tears before asking again.

"Why… you… never tell me… about it.. mom?"

"I forgot ;d" Yukari tried to lighten the mood with teehee pero pose, but have reverse effect.

If it's usual Honoka maybe she will just laugh it off, but now only stream of tears that can't be contained anymore flowed from her eyes.

"I see… so all this years… we live together… just a joke… for you?" Honoka said as she ready to snapped any time.

"Honoka…?" Yukari called her name.

"Mom… you IDIOT!" Honoka shouted that loudly, turning around and run from the house.

"Honoka! Wait!" Yukari shouted but it can't stopped her child from running.


This is it for chapter 3.

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