(Author's note: in the first version of this chapter, Kyosuke Kamijou was Sayaka's brother. And a few days after uploading this chapter, I finally noticed that he's Sayaka's childhood friend. I've made some fixes about it, so I recommend you to read it again... though I've only changed only three words. xD)
After school, Madoka, Sayaka, Homura and Kyoko were reuniting in the entrance of the school and they were talking a bit before of going home.
Then, Hitomi arrived there.
"Hey Hitomi, you come with us to Kyoko's house?" Sayaka suggested.
"You're calling her by her name instead of her surname..." Hitomi began to being hysterical... again "Am I an exception for all of you? A fifth wheel?"
"Wait, Hitomi-chan!" Madoka tried to say "It's not what you think..."
"I'm jealous!" And Hitomi ran away.
"I told you that...!" Sayaka exclaimed "Ah, never mind, she's far away to hear me..."
"What I said: a strange girl." Kyoko said.
"Hitomi's acting a bit strange today..." Madoka said "What happened exactly, Sayaka-chan?"
"I don't know... She was saying things about forbidden love or something like that..."
"Okay, well, see you tomorrow, gals!" Madoka went with Homura to her house.
"See you!" And Sayaka went to Kyoko's house with her.
"Whoa... Do... do you live here?"
"Sure I do!"
Homura was so surprised when they arrived to Madoka's house. It was a big house, beautiful with a very modern architecture. Homura didn't see anything like that in her life.
"I'm back!"
Madoka entered at home with Homura. After that, they found a man in the kitchen preparing the meal.
"Hi, dad!" Madoka said.
"Hi, Madoka, how are you?" Madoka's father said, and he saw Homura "Another friend?"
"Yes, she will eat with us."
"I-I'm Homura Akemi..." Homura was a bit nervous "Sorry for the trouble..."
"It's okay." Madoka's father said "Any Madoka's friend is welcome here! Right, Madoka?"
"Yes!" Madoka said "Homura-chan, would you help me to put things on the table? We're going to get the lunch soon."
"O-Okay..."
As soon as they set the table, they were beginning to eat, but there's missing someone.
"Tatsuya!" Madoka's father exclaimed "Time to eat!"
"Okaaaaay!"
From the living room a child was coming to the kitchen (and as Madoka said before, there were many pancakes with chicken), and Madoka's father was helping him to sit at the table, then that child looked at Homura.
"Tatsuya, she's Homura, my friend." Madoka introduced themselves "Homura-chan, he's Tatsuya, my little brother."
"Hi hi!" Tatsuya exclaimed.
"H-hello..." Homura said.
"Okay, let's have a good meal!" Madoka's father said.
"Yes!" Tatsuya exclaimed.
Then they started to eat. When Homura took the first bite, she began to taste it. She smiled.
"They're nice..." Homura said and asked to Madoka's father "You made them?"
"Of course! And thanks for your opinion, this is one of my firsts times that I make pancakes with chicken." He answered.
"Papa cooks great!" Tatsuya exclaimed.
"So, Akemi-san, what are you doing right now?"
"It's... I don't know..." Homura tried to answer "It's my first day... today."
"Don't tell me!" He was a bit surprised "And you befriended Madoka so fast? That's impressive!"
"Hey, dad." Madoka said "When mum comes back?"
"She'll be back here tonight. She has a lot of extra work to do..."
As they were talking about the topic, Homura was watching all them while she was eating.
"A happy family..." Homura thought "They're talking happily like a family from movies or something, but... It's real... If only I could be with dad and mum... But... It's not possible any more. How I miss you both, but... I don't even remember you..."
While they were eating, Homura was still thinking about that...
"Homura-chan." Madoka said.
"Y-yes...?" Homura answered.
"Are you coming to my bedroom?"
"Eh... What...?" Homura noticed something: time has passed fast while she was lost in her thoughts, and she realized that everyone's finished with the lunch "Oh, yeah, but... Can't we help with the dishes?"
"Don't worry, Akemi-san." Madoka's father said "I do this alone everyday, and it's okay for me."
"Uh... Okay..."
"Come with me, Homura-chan!"
Madoka picked Homura's hand and they went to upstairs and entered then to Madoka's room.
"Here's my bedroom!"
"Oh..." Homura watched the bedroom and she noticed that there's almost everything she could imagine, even a computer "Wow! You've got a computer!"
"Yes, I use it for connecting to social networks, do homework and even playing some games." Madoka said.
"That's... great..." Homura didn't stop of being surprised "Your family is great, Madoka... You're living perfectly... You have a perfect life."
"Oh, that's... Well, I admit that a few people can get this kind of life since being a child. Tell me, what're your parents doing?"
As Homura listened these words, she stared at the floor, having nothing to say; then, she started to tear.
"Homura-chan...?" Madoka couldn't see her face clearly.
When Homura got many tears in her face, she brought her hands to her face and began to cry in silence.
"Homura-chan! You're crying!" Madoka was looking for a handkerchief quick in her desk, and she found it next to her computer "Here, Homura-chan..." Madoka passed the handkerchief by Homura's face for clean her tears.
"Sorry... that I'm crying..." Homura tried to say.
"No, forgive me, Homura-chan, for bringing up the topic..."
"It's... a bit complicated... I got awake recently in a hospital... and doctor told me that I was in bed for 6 months for a car accident I had..." Homura explained " ...and he told me that my parents..." In that moment, Homura dropped some tears "Even I can't remember them..."
Suddenly, Madoka hugged Homura very tight. Homura felt a feeling that she couldn't describe perfectly... She didn't remember a hug like that before...
"Don't say anything..." Madoka whispered "I don't want you see you sad..."
"I... don't even know if that's amnesia... or something..." Homura said "I'm failing in classes, I'm failing in gym... In which thing I'm good, Madoka...?"
"Don't say that, Homura-chan... You're a good friend for me, though it's the first day, but you're my friend... You still need some time to get used in the school, and sooner or later you'll be one of the best students."
"Madoka..."
"Don't ever give up, Homura-chan." Madoka said "I'll help you with everything."
After that, there was silence in the room, and Madoka broke the hug finally. "Do you feel better?" She asked.
"Yeah..." Homura answered "Thank you..."
Sayaka and Kyoko went to this last one's house... or her apartment, better said. Kyoko opened the door. The apartment hasn't nothing special, it was a apartment like any other. When Sayaka noticed that nobody's home, she asked:
"Do you live alone?"
"More or less." Kyoko answered "My parents are travelling for job issues, so they left me this apartment they rented. And occasionally they send me some money to buy things for me."
"Oh... I see..."
"You're the first friend who enters in my apartment, you know?"
"Really?" Sayaka didn't expect that Kyoko was, really, really alone.
"Believe me... I had so much trouble for making new friends... No one wanted to play with me, no one wanted to talk with me... Imagine how is my life..."
"Kyoko... Sorry to hear that..."
"Nah, it's okay. Now I've got a friend, and soon another one, thanks to you!" Kyoko said, referring to Madoka "Does she play to DDR?"
"That dancing game? Well, I don't think so; I didn't see any DDR pad in her house."
"Okay. She can come here if she wants for learning to play the game."
Then, they went to Kyoko's bedroom, and Sayaka saw that it's a bedroom like any other... except the fact that there was a PC in front of a pair of DDR pads.
"Two DDR pads?" Sayaka was surprised that, without any friends, she has got two DDR pads for two players "Why do you have two DDR pads if you didn't have any friends?"
"Well... I expected that someone would play with me long time ago, but you know what happened to my social life." Kyoko referred her loneliness.
"Oh... Okay..." Sayaka tried to search the words to make Kyoko happy, at least for a while "Well, I would want a song to play with."
Then, the Kyoko's serious face became into a happy face.
"Whoaaa! Reallyyy?" Kyoko exclaimed "That's cool, I'm gonna turn on the PC right now!" Kyoko pressed the power button of the PC.
"Yeah, of course." Sayaka answered, kinda surprised for Kyoko's reaction and then she thought "Damn, everything went better than expected..."
A pair of minutes after, the PC was completely operative, and Kyoko was still hopeful for playing with Sayaka to DDR. Kyoko clicked on "" and the game started seconds later, she was too quick arriving to the list of songs.
"What do you want?" Kyoko happily asked "Kotoko? Dj Taka? Mami Kawada?"
"Hey, do you have Kotoko's songs?" Sayaka asked "I know some of her songs!"
"Great! I have Re-sublimity, Agony and..." Kyoko made a short pause "I don't have more, but I can download some later."
"Re-sublimity is okay. Can you give me the short level of difficulty?"
"Sure! And I'll teach you how!"
Afterwards, Sayaka played then with 3 songs. She was very tired for playing many songs in a row.
"Wow... That's..." Sayaka was trying to breath "I'm really tired, Kyoko..."
"Heh, and you played on a easy difficulty." Kyoko laughed a bit "You still need some practice to domain the game."
"Yeah, I guess so..." Sayaka saw her watch "Oh! I'm late for visiting my childhood friend!"
"Your... childhood friend?"
"Yes, he's on hospital and I have to take care of him sometimes. I have to go for him."
"Oh, I see..." Kyoko said, a bit sad.
"Sorry for not playing all day..."
"No, it's okay. Staying with your friend is more important than games."
"Can we meet tomorrow in a place for going to school? I can talk with Madoka about it, maybe she brings Akemi-san, that new girl."
"Good idea." Kyoko nodded "Where are we going to meet?"
"Give me your number and I'll call you tonight, when Madoka and I talk about it."
"Okay. Here's my number..."
Tonight, Madoka and Sayaka were talking by phone.
"...and I escorted Homura-chan to her house." Madoka said "I didn't want to leave her alone, like this."
"And why? She could have went to home alone." Sayaka answered.
"It's... complicated."
"Well, nevermind... So, where we meet tomorrow?"
"In the usual place. In the market."
"Cool! Kyoko lives near over there!"
"Really? Homura-chan lives over there too." Madoka was surprised.
"Okay, that's really a coincidence. Even when they both started in the same day in school."
"Probably... But it doesn't matter for me. I'm calling Homura-chan for tell her the meeting."
"Okay, I'll do the same with Kyoko. Good night, Madoka!"
"Good night, Sayaka-chan."
