Haida rushes on the computer and calculates quickly on his laptop and transfers the numbers onto his own, Retsuko's, and Suko's paper work.
Ton screams,"Haida! I want those papers done now!"
Haida stands up and freezes for a second in fear and then nervously shouts,"Yes sir! Almost done!" He writes down the last number and runs over to Ton and hands the papers to him. Retsuko and Suko enter the room and walk up to the desk as Haida goes back to his desk and grabs his lunch. The two Red Pandas give Ton their teas.
"Enjoy, sir," Retsuko says and grabs her lunch off of her desk and heads out to the lunch room. Suko follows them to the lunch room and walks next to Haida, directly opposite of Fenneko who glares icily at Him.
Retsuko says to Fenneko,"It's ok. He's actually really nice." Suko blushes and looks away towards the lunch room and keeps his eyes on it. "He actually is on our side... not Ton's."
Fenneko Looks at Suko and asks,"Is this true? You helped Retsuko fight against Ton? You hate him just as much as us?" Suko nods 'yes', then shakes his hand as if to say sort of, and then nods 'yes' again. "Maybe you and Haida are right. He is a nice guy... and not a threat," Fenneko says.
"Anyone figure out why he won't actually talk?" Haida asks.
"No," Retsuko answers and says,"but he can't use his voice. Something permanent must have happened." Retsuko looks at Suko and asks,"Why can't you speak?" Suko pulls out his phone and Retsuko repeats his action. Suko texts to Retsuko 'It's really embarrassing. I've never told anyone why my voice is dead. I really don't want to tell, I'm still in shock by it and in denial.' Retsuko nods 'yes' as if to say ok while Fenneko and Haida look over Retsuko's shoulder to see the text. Retsuko looks up at them and smiles nervously,"This is my personal phone, it has private stuff on it."
Fenneko and Haida look at each other then look at Retsuko and say,"Sorry!" Suko shrugs as the four of them enter the lunch room. They sit down at the first table on the left side of the room and set their lunch bags on it, except for Suko who doesn't have lunch at all.
"Um, you hungry, Suko?" Retsuko asks him, as she notices that he has no food. Suko shakes his head 'no' and takes his expensive black leather guitar case onto the floor beside him. Retsuko looks down at the guitar case and thinks how did I not notice that?
"Ahem!" Haida tries to catch his friends' attention and does it successfully and asks Retsuko,"You going to introduce us all?"
Retsuko looks at him blankly and then exclaims,"Oh! Sure! Sure!" She points to Suko and says,"This is Retsuko, but he wants to be called Suko so that others won't confuse our names." Retsuko points at Fenneko and says,"This is Fenneko, one of my best friends here at work."
Fenneko says,"Hello Suko," and waves at him. Suko waves back.
"And this is Haida," Retsuko points at Haida as he waves at Suko. Suko waves back.
"Hello Suko!" He exclaims and smiles.
They three friends eat together as Suko thinks to himself no one must know what is in my suitcase. It is my darkest secret that I have. My guitar is my voice. No one, not even my new friends must know about this.