Kome turned on her iPod and also began writing her journal.

Kome's Journal, Friday, March 22,

Yes! Spring break is finally here! It's finally time to kick back, and relax. Usually, I hang out with Sayomi for spring break because she's shy and doesn't have all that many friends, but this spring break...well I'm still spending spring break with Sayomi, but we're going to her home town to visit her old friends in Canada! In fact, we're on the plane right now! First class!

This trip is me, Sayomi, Ryoma, and his dad. Ryoma and his dad were the ones who payed for the plane tickets. But why would Ryoma want to go to Canada? With Sayomi? She said it was only because Ryoma was paying for the plane tickets, but I think there's a little more going on....I mean, if Ryoma was only paying for the plane tickets, why would he get one for himself?

There's more that just a classmate relationship between Sayomi and Ryoma, I just know it. I have to find out for sure. Sayomi would hate me if I spread rumors about her! I've got to stay on top of this. I'm the girl who's always caught up on the latest gossip, and I won't stop now. The girls are counting on me to know all the gossip, and I can't stop just because Sayomi is my best friend.

I have to know everything! I've got to know when it started, where it started, how long it's been going on, why it's happening, but more importantly, if anything is going on at all! It would be best if I asked Sayomi, because I don't think Ryoma would tell me. And the only other person who would know about Sayomi's personal life, it would be me. But I don't know! It would be easy to just watch them for our 13 hour flight, but I'm in front of them instead of behind! And it would be kind of hard if I had to be turned around for this whole flight. And pretty obvious.

It's only been about half an hour since we left, 12 and a half more hours to go. 12 and a half more hours until I get to meet Sayomi's old best friends! I can't wait, it's going to be so much fun! I wonder what they're like. I wonder if we'll get to meet some of Sayomi's other friends.

I wonder if Sayomi's plan will go smoothly. I hope it will. It sounds like a lot of fun! I wonder what we'll do when we get there. Maybe we'll play some tennis with her friends. Well, maybe they'll play and I'll watch. I'm not going to embarass myself in front of Sayomi's friends! With any luck, Sayomi's old friends will be my new friends!

I wonder what Canada is like. I did some research and found out that there are 10 provinces and 3 territorries. I'n not really sure which one Sayomi's from, because she never really told me. Or did she? You'd think I'd remember something like that. Hm...I wonder what the weather will be like too...

She turned around and looked at Sayomi, who was talking to Ryoma about her life before she moved to Japan.

"Something you need, Kome-chan?"
"Which part of Canada are you from?"

"It's a city in the southern part of Ontario."

"One more thing."

"Hm?"
"Is there anything going on between you and Ryoma?" she whispered.

"That's so random, why would you even ask that?"

"Well is there?"

"No. Nothing at all."

"Okay..."

Kome decided that she would have to find out for sure if Sayomi was telling the truth or not.

"Hey, could you do me a favor and pretend to sleep?"
"I was about to take a nap anyway."

Nanjiro drifted off to sleep as Kome got out her compact to inspect her hair and makeup. Ryoma heard his father snoring and nudged Sayomi.

"Hey, my dad's asleep. Wanna make out a little?"

"But what about Kome?"

"She's too busy with her vanity at the moment."

"Are you sure? Knowing her, she's probably spying on us."

"Well, you know her better than I do. Wanna play poker then?"

"Sure. But you know me, always playing for a prize."

"For secrets?"
"Kome's right there y'know. Probably listening right now."

Kome turned around to face them.

"I am not!"

The two rolled their eyes at Kome.

"Are you sure about that?"
"Okay, fine. I was listening. But is it still eavesdropping if I didn't know what you were saying?"

"Well even if you couldn't understand it, you were still listening when you weren't supposed to."

"Okay, okay. I'll stop."

"So Ryoma, what do you want to play for?"

"How about for once, we just play for nothing?"

"All right, fine."