Chapter 4.

"G-G-G-G-Gakupo?" Luka was almost jaw on the floor stunned,

"Like a said... Drama..." Miku whispered to Rin who was almost as shocked at Luka was but not quite.

"How did you get this number, I've changed it since we last time we talked..." Luka said looking at Rin and Miku, she put it on loud speaker, just because that's what you do to save explaining the whole conversation out again later,

on the phone.

Yeah, so Luka I got it off... Neru the other day when I saw her passing in school, she hasn't changed a bit, then again neither have you...

His voice sounded dreamy and not all in focus of what he was saying but right now Luka like she was about to start to sound the same,

I saw you the other day in that restaurant with your friends and realized how much I actually missed seeing you everyday, no one was really the same after you, we were best friends after all weren't we?

"Y-Yeah we were... Sometimes I think of if we still were." Luka was about to tear up, it's true though, they were really close and went to each other for absolutely everything and it was never one without the other with those two but you never really could tell how much longer they were going to last, everyone thought they would end up going out and getting married and having kids and everything like that with the big house and fancy sports car but Gakupo moved away and Luka was heart-broken, she wouldn't ever admit that now, she didn't admit it those years ago either,

Well that's what I'm calling about, maybe, well that's only if you want to that is, we could... erm... Pick up where we left off? It's up to you though, if not it's fine, I'll understand you have other friends and every-

"Yes. Of course." Luka interupted him, just as Rin expected she jumped at the chance of getting him back,

Oh, that's good then, I'll see you at school and we can arrange to meet up after school and talk and stuff. That sound okay?

"Yeah that sounds fine, I'll see you then okay?" Luka was smiling more than she herself could handle right now but she was so happy I don't think she could care. Without another word she hung up the phone and put it down waited a second before squealing like a fan girl and Rin and Miku giggled their way through it all before Miku's Mom called on them,

"Sweetie, someone's at the door for Rin..." she shouted up the stairs,

"Eh.. Okay I'll send her down." Miku shouted back at her opening the door as Rin left and Miku followed behind her, just to be nosey, before she left and Rin was about to go down the stairs she turned to Luka and whispered,

"Start practising that song we were going to do, if she's going we might as well get an extra practice in if not then... I guess we can always include her in the song right? You're smart you can add another vocalist right?" Miku said walking out, evidently not expecting "no" for an answer didn't see much point in hanging around, so Luka did as she was told and played away to herself getting out the paper from the drawer to take noted on chords and melody changes she couldn't remember by memory and working out, places where Rin could sing with Miku and planning it all as Miku explained.

It was a good ten minutes before they came back up with Len,

"Hey Luka, didn't know you were here." Len greeted smiling,

she smiled back as he could see she was in the middle of playing and planning, still, it was taking a while to write it all down,

"Finished Luka?" Miku said looking at her,

"Yeeeeeeeeees" Luka handed her the paper,

"Good Rin and Len can just work out between them who is singing where, that works better. Hey Len... Have you hear Luka singing before?" Miku asked changing her tone when she got to talking about Luka,

"No as a matter of fact I haven't." Len said smiling looking at Luka,

"She's really good." Rin put in smiling at her,

"On you go Luka, play the one you and Gumi were singing, Rin can do the first verse." Miku said hinting Rin to go next to her,

"Okay. I think I remember it." Rin said standing next to her,

~Waking up in the morning,

I only had one thought inside my mind

Yes, it was you

Had a haircut the other day

So you could notice and then say to me "Why the new style?"

I put on my pink skirt and flower hair clips

I step outside and tell myself, today, you will see how cute I can really am! ~

Rin started perfectly and Len certainly like her voice to Luka playing but was left speechless when Luka came in and joined her with the chorus,

~Melt,

I'm melting as I think of you,

And even so, I'm too shy to say that I love you,

However, Melt,

I can't even look at your eyes,

However will I get my feelings across to you?

It's you that's holding my heart still, after all.~

"Hold it right there Luka." Len said standing off the bed causing her to turn to him, after he noticed he had her attention he continued speaking, "Since when did you sing like THAT!?" he was pointing at her now,

"Like what?" She answered, how would you answer that sort of question?

"Like an amazing person with natural born talent, you wouldn't need auto-tuning if you got famous you're already amazing and tuned without it and you wouldn't need to get surgery because you're beautiful and... You should be... How do I... How do... You're going in for the talent show right?" Len couldn't get the words out until he had a sudden thought about the talent show.

"Well no." Luka said,

"It's okay to steal the show Luka. I'll go in with you." Len suggested,

"No way, you want to go with her because you want to win and can't do it on your own." Rin put out there,

"Rin I'm sure he's not like that." Luka sticking up for Len as always,

"Luka... Seriously... He has no talent." Miku added,

"You guys are so mean, let me speak to Luka... Alone please." Len grinned at Luka who was just nodding and going along with it,

"Okay, ANY trouble you call me, got it Luka?" Rin said,

"Got it Rin." smiling as they left,

"Luka seriously, they have a point, people, almost everyone in our year is going to want to perform with you with a voice like that to win, especially if they know you would agree to anything, I'm just looking out for you, you have to understand that." Len said putting a hand on her shoulder,

"You really think I'm that good?" Luka was filled with joy, she wasn't that good surely,

"Yes Luka, I do, you are really good, you could win on your own with that talent, even without the ability to play the keyboard and other instruments like you do, you could win just with your voice and that's what I want you to do, to prove to Gakupo, Neru, Gumi, me and yourself you can do it. You teach me the keyboard parts and I'll teach you the confidence you need to win." Len was so convincing and looked really serious, his beautiful blue eyes were pulling her in, making her want to agree, making her want to do it, go in the show with him and let them all see she has talent... Until something in her mind clicked,

"Miku wasn't on that list. Why not?" She asked him,

"Miku already thinks and knows you can do it, as do I but we all know you are shy and nervous around a lot of people. We can work on that together, you and me." Len said once again pulling her in with his gorgeous face and smooth voice louring her in,

"If that's what you think is best. Then that is what we shall do." She said smiling, she couldn't resist him, he was so nice to her, he always was, she got off the stool she was sitting on and hugged him bending slightly to get to his height until he fell backwards pulling her with him, she was lying on him and they were both laughing hysterically at this, this of course would be when Miku and Rin walk back in,

"Len what are you planning in here with Luka?" Rin said putting her hands on her hips in the process,

"Don't worry Rin, I fell that's all." Luka said blushing,

"That doesn't explain why Len is over you." Rin said taking a step towards them,

"Hey hey hey, she did fall but I was checking she was okay so I lay her down, calm down Rin." Len was looking back down at Luka who was redder in the face than pink in the hair,

"You're blushing..." He whispered in her ear playing with a bit of her hair,

"Yeah and you're getting off her! NOW!" Rin stormed over and basically threw him on the ground in front of Miku before sitting next to Luka, "Ohmaigawsh are you okay Luka? Did you get hurt?" her tone was less "I want to kill you Len" to more "I care, understand and am genuinely concerned about you." It was weird how quickly her moods changed now a days.

"I'm fine, really, Len are you okay down there?" Luka said sitting up looking down at him,

"Yeah I'm fine, thank you, someone who cares." Len said getting up wiping himself down,

"Glad you're okay." Miku said sarcastically smiling at him,

"Glad you care." he answered her back,

-"There was a song me and Luka were working on and we decided to include you guys in it, sound fun? For that new dinner place, they are looking for entertainment certain nights, we would get paid so I think it's worth it, getting paid to sing while people eat and love us. We can do that right? It needs to be a minimum of 4 and maximum of 6." Miku explained,

"Want me to play and Miku to sing it so far?" Luka offered,

"Yeah sounds cool, Luka you'll be singing right?" Rin asked,

"Nah, I'm just playing in this one." Luka explained smiling,

"No you're not." Len said walking over to her whispering in her ear, "I know it's going to be hard and embarrassing singing with those two but think about it, don't need to do a solo, just join in at some places to add background tone and dynamics and stuff, it's a small step to more confidence?" Len reminded her,

"Suppose." Luka said loudly not bothering to whisper,

"What's he saying to it Luka?" Rin said whilst glaring at him,

"He's suggesting I sing in the chorus only or maybe two or three lines in the whole song but not solo to make us sound like there are more people than there actually is." Luka rephrased it and made it sound less selfish that it actually was,

"Hey that sounds good, first actual idea he's had all day." Rin said when they were sitting down and Luka started playing,

Miku started off and Luka improvised at the chorus as Len suggested and it sounded fine, Miku was better than perfect to start the song off,

~Glory turning into ash, swooping down to the darkness,

Crimson dyed karma falls,

Lost in sadness, I'm still trying to get up,

We're at the end of rivalry, even so nothing can be seen,

I'm always alone.~

Luka joined in still playing her chords and Len was smiling because he loved her voice, who didn't it was soft despite the song wasn't originally meant to be slow and relaxing it worked well for both their voices together,

~Decadent flowers, bloody memories,

As if they would go round and round forever,

Lamentation of flowers, graven miseries,

Silence that will never return,

Repeated roots, what I dreamed in my last dream was~

Luka held on the last note on the word "was" when Miku sang over her,

~A monochrome vision without end,

And fading vows left unanswered,

Even reason is sinking down to the farthest depths. ~

Rin quickly caught on and joined in the next part reading the lyrics off of Luka's paper she was playing off, this left Rin singing solo for once,

~Pitch black flowers, memories of oblivion,

Unprecedented flowers that keep blooming and dying~

Considering she didn't know the song all that well she though two lines was enough and evidently so did Miku because she started off the next chorus and much to her surprise Luka was joining her,

~Flowers of chaos, repeating miseries,

In this eclipsed garden~

There was another pause, not for long but Luka decided to improvise on the keyboard a bit and see what she could do to make it sound really good,

"That's amazing how she does that" Rin mouthed to Miku she wasn't going to speak and then distract Luka, she wouldn't dream of doing that, Len was sitting smiling away glancing between Luka playing and Luka singing and thinking away, you could see the concentration on her face, it was evident she was about to get back into singing with the next line that Len decided he was joining in on,

~Decadent flowers, bloody memories,

As if they would go round and round forever,

Lamentation of flowers, graven miseries.~

Len left Luka to solo this bit out, it suited her voice best,

~Silence that will never return,

Please lead the rotten mistakes of this world to an end,

Now, before this world is gone.~

Her fingers slowed down and it sounded almost softer, this was an instantaneous thing Luka decided she was going to try,

~What's left in my hand, are the ashes of a flower...~

"Hey we could all still do it. I mean minimum of four and maximum of six? Miku, Luka, Len and me?! That's four people right?! What do you say?" Rin put it out there is was a good idea,

"Yeah I think we should." Len was totally up for it,

"I agree we're amazing and we can totally set the mood." Miku was grinning away to herself,

"I could totally eat a steak to that song." Len was now completely off topic, "Or Beef, or lamb, or haddock, or ramen, or..."

"LEN FOCUS!" Rin shouted whacking him on the head,

"Ouch! Rin that's sore." Len said pouting at her,

"Good it was meant to be. Luka again from the start." Rin demanded,

"Len are you okay?" Luka asked turning on her piano chair to face him,

"Yeah, I'm fine don't worry about me Luka, let's take it from the start." Len said before the song started again...

It was a good while later after they played the song so much Luka was starting to get sore hands from playing it, it wasn't as easy as they thought it was to play that whole song that many times for that amount of time either,

"Guys, my hands are killing me can we take a break." Luka said before moving from the chair to the bed sitting next to Len,

"Yeah I vote break." Len said falling side ways onto Luka's lap,

"LE-" Rin was about to yell at him to get the hell of Luka but Miku stopped her?

"What the hell Miku?!" Rin said turning round whispering for some reason,

"Look at them though..." Miku was staring at them like you look at those really hot people in movies that you wanna marry and steal away to yourself,

"What about them?" Rin said totally breaking the mood,

"Aren't they cute together?" Miku was not playing games she was just saying it,

"No, besides it's Luka and Gakupo." Rin said putting her hands on her waist,

"Not for long." Miku said spacing out,

"What's that supposed to mean?" Asked Rin,

"Wait and see Rin, wait and see." Miku said staring at Luka and Len, this wasn't just Len lying on Luka now, she was going along with it, stroking his hair and staring at him but in a gentle way and to be honest she didn't want him to move, she liked him there, he wasn't causing any problems or bothering her in the slightest, it was silent for a while now, this wasn't right, someone had to talk there were four people in that room, why the hell was no one talking?

"Hey, Miku can I get a drink?" Luka asked her,

"Yeah sure I'll go get you one..." Miku was about to walk out the room when Luka felt Len getting up,

"It's fine I'll get her it, I'm getting one anyways, you two want one?" Len said walking towards the door,

"Please." Rin and Miku said at the same time and not another word was said and Len left the room.

"He likes you." Miku said,

"Nope you're crazy." Luka said,

"No I'm not he totally likes you." Miku was singing back to her now,

"No he doesn't. Rin tell her." Luka was speeding up her speech now,

"Well..." Rin wasn't so sure anymore,

"Rin?" Luka was getting worried,

"He's never done anything like that for another girl before." Rin pointed out,

"Told you he likes you." Miku repeated,

"No... He... I..." Luka was lost for words, this wasn't right, they were just winding her up a little like all friends do,

"Luka likes Len too huh?" Rin said turning round,

"No of course not... Don't... Be... So... Silly..." Luka said slowly staring at the door frame,

"That took a while to get out there Luka, how sure are you?" Miku teased,

"100%. I don't. He doesn't. You guys are wrong." Luka said then again now thinking about it, they did have a point, Len wasn't like that to most people, let alone her, usually he never even talked to her, never mind talk, he never looked at her unless he needed something, in fact he was like that this morning, now he's running around getting her a drink and singing with her and lying on her lap and... What on Earth was going on with him, that wasn't the most confusing thing, it was when Gakupo phoned her it all got so much more complicated.

And End of Chapter,

I'm sorry it took so long, thing is,

I typed it all up and then it deleted and then I couldn't find it and then I had to start again and then school and then internet and cosplay and music and I forgot stuff.

I did it though. Eventually. Sorry! •-•