Chapter 4

Tossing her bag into the nearby corner of the floor, Gumi flopped onto her bed. She buried her face deep into the pillow and laid there still for a while. Until there was a knock on her room door.

Opening the door her mother entered the room only half way, still standing beside the door in case she needed a quick exit.

"Gumi," Her mother began "About this summer, Did you hear me this morning? I'm not sure you did cause you were running late." Somehow she could tell something was up, she heard the tone of her mothers voice. The excited but very comforting, as if to lead up to something bigger.

"You'll be traveling up to Tokyo for work, I managed to secure you a summer job." Then that tone disappeared and became more serious.

"Um...the second thing is about your father..." She knew it. The only thing her mother ever brought up was her dad when she was acting strange of any kind. Like it was the cause for all her problems, even the non relevant ones. Still even if it was the reason, she didn't have to go bringing it up like it was some light topic for conversation.

"Mom I don't wanna talk about dad why can't you understand that..."

"But Gumi I have something to tell you I-"

"MOM!"

Silence filled the room, a silence heavier than any death, and worse than any embarrassment.

"I'm done ok... no more of this. Get out." She said in a perpetually tired voice, before proceeding to hide her head under her blanket. Only shortly having done this she heard the door close, the quiet sealing sound of the lock, and the slow footsteps of her mother leaving. She was just so tired, so tired of that topic, an inherent tiredness that couldn't be cured by any amount of sleep. One that always followed her about clutching tightly to her never losing its grip for a second.

Getting up from her bed she sat down at her desk and opened her laptop, beginning to surf the web doing anything to get her mind off just now. She remembered what had struck her interest on the walk home, and decided to dig into it more.

Having been searching for a while she finally found a suitable site which had info on the band Yuina. Beginning to scroll down she read the articles. Coming to a picture of the band at a concert next to some people who looked like fans of theirs.

The first girl was an unearthly kind of beauty. With her bright mass of long locks, shimmering like gold causing her almond shape blue eyes to look more enchanting than they already were.

The next girl also had long hair but hers was pink and her eyes glowed an electrically seductive purple.

The last girl was the most astonishing though, with a book in hand called Satune, thick blue hair fluttering all the way down her back caressing it eyes a dangerous blue.

Each member was slender as well as tall, along with their thick long eyelashes, smooth skin and pale complexions. All making liquid gold seem drab in comparison. Of course this is what you saw of them at first glance, there was more to them but Gumi was concentrated on something else other than how gorgeous each member was. What it was exactly was their band break up date.

Friday, August, 18, 6 years ago. Exactly one day after Gumi's dad went missing.