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"Miku, I just learnt that phones had applications in it." Neru said from nowhere.

"And…?" Miku answered half-heartedly, she continued sipping on her green onion flavored drink that she got from her experiment of blending that green-white vegetable in the blender. Who knows that the result would turn out so good? Well, for her, it was good.

"Maybe I could make one." Neru said straightly like it was nothing.

And for Miku, it was nothing as she took another gulp of the strange but delicious vegetable juice. The juice will finish in one more gulp. She thought about making another one. "For what?"

"To summarize it, let's just say that I want to get back after I got the phone, but the annoying and troublesome task is still not done. So, making something to track Len down would be good. So let's name it 'the annoying Len tracker'."

Miku spitted the last gulp of juice, successfully wetting her teal-colored t-shirt. "What… the hell is that 'annoying Len tracker'…?"

"As I said it, annoying. Anyway, who wouldn't be annoyed when a single person missing and a person who wasn't even involved is forced to find that person…"

"Neru, you're involved." Miku said straightly.

"Nah, I'm not. By the way, I noticed that you started to be used to call his strange name like… Len-Len."

Miku widened her eyes, realizing her fault. "Th-that's the name you said!"

Neru eyed Miku with annoyed look, "You got it. It's the name. Why no one allow me to say the name. Hey, it's the name! Nothing's wrong with that!"

"It's wrong!"

"Not!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"SHUT UP THE TWO OF YOU!" Suddenly Meiko roared from inside the café, "I'm giving you two a break and you're shouting to each other? All the waiter and waitress and the cashier are working hardly and you are shouting hardly? Come on, respect the other!"

"Sorry…" Miku muttered an apology while bowing, pushing Neru to bow with her. Miku knew that behind the devil horn (oh, she'll be so dead if Meiko know this), Meiko was a good person. Miku noticed something strange. Usually Meiko was out at that time, from 2-4 pm. But the reality was, she was there. "Meiko-san… You usually out at this hour…" Miku commented.

"Well," Meiko grinned, "You do care about me! Thanks a lot! If you were a boy, I'll prefer you over Kaito!" Returning to her usual self, she spoke, "I'm waiting for someone, you know…"

Chapter 14

Since receiving the message the night before, Rin noticed that something was indeed, strange on that day.

When she woke up, she found out that she was alone in her house. No Len. Though he left something on the table for her. Breakfast.

On school, Gumi avoided her whenever she tried to talk to her. Strangely, she talk to Teto like nothing was going on. And the strangest part was: Gumi was talking to Len. At first she thought that her ears were failing her, but it didn't. Gumi was avoiding him like he was a plague or a ghost for… 5 days and now she was talking to him?

Something must be happened.

"Hey, Gumi!" Rin tried to greet her for the sixth time in that day.

And what Gumi did? Looked at her, and quickly walked away to avoid her.

Ah, wailing time.

"Teto-chan!" Rin playing hurt, spreading her arms out to hug Teto.

"Rin-chan!" Teto copied Rin's expression and hug her. "What's wrong?" at this point, she began to pat Rin's head—literally, her bow.

"Gumi doesn't want to talk to me!" Rin said the truth still with the playful hurt face.

Teto, didn't know how to cope with this just said, "She talked to me…"

Rin's eyes lit up, "Is she talking about me?"

"…No at all…" Teto said the truth.

Well, Teto and Rin were still the good kid that always tell the truth…

"So she doesn't hate me after all…" Rin said casually. "Then, what's wrong…?"

"Uh, maybe something happened?" Teto really really didn't know how to face this problem.

"Maybe…" Rin pouted, looking away. "And you know… Len-kun is avoiding me as well."

Teto froze as Rin's words reached her ears. "Something was really happened yesterday."

"Yesterday…" Rin put on her thinking pose, "We went shopping together."

"You show me an orange plush that you want really much, then you pulled me to show a road roller miniature, then you pulled me to help you to choose a new bow for you." Teto continued for her.

"Then we eat some lunch and…" Rin trailed off, "Go to a showroom to see a new road roller. Then we went to the bread shop." Noticing nothing was wrong from the 'story', she put on confused look. "Nothing was wrong."

Teto released Rin's hug, "At least for us. Nothing was wrong for us." Teto eyed Rin strangely, in her head she knew that the cause was Rin but just deciding like that isn't good… "Well, do you know what happened with them yesterday?"

"I think no…" Rin said truthfully.

It hit Teto. They must be going somewhere together. But seemed like Rin didn't realize it. "Well… Then what you're going to do for now?"

Rin grinned, "Getting ready for the next lesson because I'm sooo going to get a detention!"

Rin was made to be like that, unaware with her surrounding. Never be troubled… And was seeking for trouble.

But once a trouble stuck her, she didn't realize it at all.

"You avoided her." A soft, airy voice of a girl entered his ears. Standing up from the chair he had been sitting on, Len saw Gumi.

"I… guess I do." He replied.

Gumi smiled, "I do as well." She spun a bit, "But you're living with her, how are you going to do it?"

"I've found a way… Somehow."

Gumi was… amazed with this. Then she sat on his chair. "Well… I'm going to buy some carrot and eggplant and cabbage and leeks and… Vegetables…" Knowing that she was saying awkward things, she asked him back hurriedly, "What are you going to do?"

"…I… have to meet someone. I guess."

"Why you're guessing it…?"

"I'm not used to do something like this…"

His statement left Gumi in a thought.

"What's wrong?" He asked her, head titled to a side.

"Nothing. It's just… I think I need to go to somewhere after shopping…"

The café was strangely empty.

And he thought strange because… it was. The café was strange already from the location, the name, 'Rainbow Ice' was strangely normal. And the menu? More than strange.

"There you are!" A sudden yell from the café startled him. "Hurry in!"

Strangely, that woman's voice carried that 'Hurry or I'll kill you!' in her voice, so he just stepped into the café.

Nothing changed from the café. Of course, nothing will change just in a day… Well, maybe something did change, but it would be really unnoticeable… The order of the couches and the table was still perfectly the same and everything was normal. Apparently that supposed-to-be-Meiko woman had gone somewhere so he just stood there near the door alone.

"Hey you yellow-haired boy! Here!" Her voice just heard from nowhere, and when he spotted her, she was standing near a door that seemed to be a door to the office.

Yellow? He always thinks it was blond or gold…

When he got there at her spot, she pushed him hardly to the room, made him almost stumbled over a… Katana? He turned back to see Meiko but she just grinned and said, "Have a good talk!" After that, she slammed the door on his face. Luckily his face wasn't harmed at all.

Inside the room, there are some couches and a desk. Someone was sitting on the chair behind the desk, on his hand was a bowl of ice cream.

The person's blue eyes met his green one and he sighed, somewhat in relief, "I'm glad you arrived here safely…"

"…what?"

"First, from what I've heard, you came here to give an answer to Meiko's offering, am I correct?" He pointed the ceiling with the ice cream spoon that was on his hand.

"…yes?" Len answered slowly and cautiously. Everything was suspicious and fishy there…

"Second, you came."

"…then?" He just didn't get where this conversation will go.

"Third, you got in because Meiko asked you to do so."

"…" Actually what was this blue haired man getting to?

"Fourth, she pushed you into this room and you're here."

"…yes but I don't think I get what you are getting to…" Len said truthfully.

"Well, for the starter, let me introduce myself as Shion Kaito." That man said, "Meiko's friend. You must be guessing, how a person like me can befriend Meiko. No one know, even myself."

No one asking that…

"And I'm congratulating you on passing Meiko—I'll dead if she hear this, though…" He continued. "She could kill you anytime… Too bad the 2 new waitress don't know about this…"

Actually what was he talking about…

"Ah, about the little business…" He brought a spoon of ice cream into his mouth. "Well, what do you think about the job? You're just going to give the order to the customer…"

"Waiter?" He asked back, though he was still unsure about his own word. Isn't a 'waiter' is the one who… well, waits?

"Exactly! You're smarter than what I've thought!" Kaito said, scooping more ice cream into his mouth. "Ah, sorry about that, guess I got the craziness virus from Meiko…"

Was that even existed…?

"Oh, yeah… I should stop eating too much ice cream…" The last part was said to himself, but Len still heard it, of course. "And that's also the reason of the 'the-most-delicious-ice-cream-ever-like' salary. I must appreciate anyone who still managed to be able to have a peaceful life through Meiko…" He looked to the ceiling, "You know what? There are waitresses who seem to be lost in America, and Meiko found them. She brought them here without harming any of them, can you believe it?"

"…" Commenting wasn't a good choice at that time.

"Um, you look pretty uncomfortable there, how about make the decision?"

"O-oh, yes…" He looked up to the blue-haired man, "I accept it." Wait, wasn't the role was like, reversed?

"Good!" Kaito squealed—seriously, squealed? "I'll wait for you tomorrow at 3 pm~!" Regaining his sanity, he spoke in his manly tone, "You're excused now."

The best thing he should do was getting out from the room. Now he had learnt that eating too much ice cream won't be good for your health and your head…

"Wait a moment!" Kaito called out suddenly when he almost turned the knob. "Whats's your name, anyway?"

Oh yes, name. They didn't talk about that before.

But he didn't really like it when people asked for his name. Luckily, no one does… Wait, no one did. That was until Kaito interfered.

…he really felt sorry for Kaito at that moment…

"Ka… Kagamine… Len?"

Kaito eyed him suspiciously, "Now you're questioning about your own name…"

"I… am not questioning it—so-sorry for that!" With that he turned back to the door and turned the knob as fast as he could. He sighed in relief when he was finally out, but he met someone else.

Sakine Meiko.

When her eyes met his, she smirked, "Well, your business with him had already finished, right? Well, now's mine…"

What was Meiko's business with Kaito? He and Kaito had talked and Kaito was telling about Meiko this and that… Was she really had a business with Kaito when their relationship was that… scary?

"I heard all of that."

She… heard that? Well, that was bad for Kaito…

Before he knew it, screams and the sounds of violence was heard from the room.

Arriving at her very-own house, Rin did her usual routine. Slacking off on the couch, eating orange. However, something was missing that day.

The sound of piano being played wasn't there. That was what was missing.

Rin buried her face on a nearby pillow, 'He just disappeared after school, not even telling me at all…'

Then a thought struck in her head, "Yeah, yesterday he texted me."

'From where he got the phone?'

'Why he texted me—wait, because he's coming late, right?'

'What's the reason?'

A sudden vibration from her yellow cellphone broke her thought. She grabbed it fast, like it was going to disappear if she didn't grip it.

From unknown:

" "

'Blank message?' Rin thought as she scanned the screen of her phone once again. That was when she realized that the sender was the same from yesterday's message. She pressed the buttons quickly, saving the contact. After that, she called the person instantly.

"Come on pick it up pick it up…"

Once she knew that she had been connected to the other person in the phone, she said—almost yelled into the phone, "Len-kun where are you?"

There was no answer from the other line. Maybe it wasn't Len?

"I'm… walking." He answered. Somehow it made Rin felt relieved.

The call ended. Less than 10 seconds.

It was strange.

Rin felt strange.

Really strange.

"What…?"

A bunch of flower was held on a hand of a girl, who had a green, silky hair. Her eyes reflected everything she felt at that time.

Lonely.

With that lonely feeling, she walked to the grave yard. Why did she felt lonely, after all? Nothing happened after all…

Once she reached the graveyard, she looked for a certain grave, then she put the fresh flowers on top of it.

"I… just realized that I miss you." She muttered to no one more than to herself. "Sorry I haven't visited you for… more than 5 years."

Then her face lit up, just a bit, "Sorry, it's me, Nakajima Gumi…"