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"Ano," Kiyo suddenly spoke, shattering the melancholic silence as he stood, his eyes almost pleading as he looked around at the table around him and took a deep breath, preparing himself. "Have any of you tried acapella?"

"And this is how we're staring it?" Takao asked in confusion as Honey fiddled with the tablet in her hands.

"It's easier to start with something familiar," she answered him and Takao noticed she was smiling as she spoke- a real, wide smile that made the honey-gold of her skin glow. It was a surprise to see and he wondered if this was something that she had dreamed of doing for a long time- her whole life maybe? Was it her dream?

"Is something wrong with my face?" Not wanting to step on any land mines with the beautiful woman across from him, Takao simply smiled at her his secret dimpled smile that he had Himuro teach him to use as a weapon in case of emergencies.

"Not a single thing."

The odd balance of the smile and the words, and maybe the good mood she was in already, helped to ultimately get him a simple shake of the head from the usually fiery vixen across from him.

"Go sit down, you idiot, the movies are about to start."

"Yes, ma'am," Takao saluted and gave her a wink before trotting off of their Karaoke Live stage and taking a seat in the rows beside Kasamatsu, who was tapping his finger on his knee impatiently. The rest of the teens sat in the same row as him and he knew that, if he turned, he would see Tino and the staff from the studio sitting some rows behind them- all of them too nervous to not watch the experiment and its results.

"What movies are we watching again?" Takao asked Kiyo, who sat on his other side.

"We're looking at both of the Pitch Perfects to show you guys a closer view on acapella- which I'm surprised none of your really know anything about at all." The older teen still sounded as shocked as he had just last night when they had all answered a negative to his question of any of them trying acapella. But it wasn't like people were born singing a note as they came out for the first time. That would help a lot of surprised mothers if, before their water broke, their babies sang "I'm coming out," right before the pain- but that stuff didn't happen.

"After that, we're looking at some videos on YouTube for Pentatonix and other acapella groups, just to get some more reference." Kiyo continued, as if knowing he had lost Takao somewhere in his pout and the male in question nodded as the auditorium lights switched off and the large screen came to life with a menu and a cast of girls who he suddenly knew would probably make the movie very interesting.

He wasn't disappointed and worried, for a while, that he would laugh so hard that he wouldn't even have a voice left for singing, or breath left for even dancing the Polka. The movie was fantastic! If the first one left his side hurting, the second one had him almost going to the hospital with how painful it got as he laughed and laughed.

He heard the others enjoying it as well and found a heavy burden coming off of his shoulders- at least for a moment. He was also suddenly really excited to try out the acapella that Kiyo and his group seemed to love more than anything as he noticed Shiro's actual laugh echoing with everyone else's in the auditorium. The entire experience seemed like a dream as he continued to watch the best movie he had seen in a while as Kiyo whispered to him excitedly about who was in the competition and about things he probably would have realized just by watching, but he just listened happily and watched as the dream carried on and he let himself forget reality.

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Riko blinked in surprise, the toothbrush in her hands falling to the sink below it with a tinkering sound. She almost couldn't believe what she was seeing on the tiny screen shaking in her trembling hands. Her scream ricocheted throughout the house, frightening her father into flinging himself out of his warm covers and grabbing a nearby bat, as if some kind of terrible beast had jumped in the bed with him and thrown him out of it. He charged up the stairs maniacally, intent on rescuing his little girl.

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Koganei choked on his rice as he held his phone in front of his face. His hiccupping coughs were so bad that his older sister had to thwak him on his back to save his breath, but it was worth it even as he grabbed his bag and shouted bye to his confused family before running out the door excitedly, chopsticks still in his hands. A huge smile brightened his face as he ran, the phone clenched in his fingers.