I'm sorry about the fact that it seems now chapters 37, 38 and 39 are missing but I wrote them down on a notebook on my summer holydays and now they have to be rewritten to the computer. As a brief summary I'd say they tell how things are in the hospital for one of Blast members and… that when it gets out all of them go England to record a new CD and promoting around Europe. And… here we got with the rest!!!

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CHAPTER 40: FIRST DAY AT ENGLAND

(Isa's voice)

"Isa, we are arriving." My brother's voice said at my ear. "Welcome back home, sis..."

"Isa?" Shin said.

"Sorry, I think I got sleep." I apologized. "Anyone with jetlag?"

"No." He said. "Yet... I think Nobu is not too well either."

I then looked at him. He was white as a sheet, that was right. But I bet it was he was not flying on a plane before.

When we went down the plane, we had some problems again. First thing was some fans that heard, I don't know how or where, that Shin and I were going back. And then...

"You should relax a bit." Yasu said when he saw me so serious.

"Ask Shin if he recognises someone." I just told him.

"What's wrong?" Shin asked me while we signed some papers to fans smiling.

"Don't turn all for sudden." I told him. "The man with black suit and sunglasses. Did you remember I changed robes into this? Well, I knew he could not miss the chance of keeping an eye on me."

"One of your dad's men?" Yasu said.

I just nodded as I signed another autograph. That didn't seem to affect the rest as it affected me. Anyway, soon we were off their sight.

"Marion!!" I said running towards a blond girl wearing a white hat and smart robes and hugging her.

"Hey!" She said. "It's good to see you again!"

"Miss Okanzaki." A man that was holding a big paper with our names up told me. "It's a pleasure to see you came back."

"I'm so happy too, Robert, wasn't it?" I said smiling as I shook hands with him after having kiss Marion's both cheeks.

"Yes, ma'am." He said. "And don't worry, your friends and you will be treated as real royalty."

"Mr. White?" Our manager said at him. "Nice to meet you. We have spoken by phone."

Then both began speaking fast between them about technical matters, costs… meanwhile, we went to take our luggage and Marion went with us.

"The rooms had been settled according to all the preferences you told us." She began telling us. "And of course, you room has been also settled up for you, Miss Okanzaki."

"Nice." I said smiling. "Hey, I want the one at the end of the corridor."

"I meant the top one." Marion said softly. "The boss specified it must be like that and just like that."

"Is there no other choice?" I asked. "Ok, I'll take that then."

"You are not sleeping with us then?" Yasu asked.

"No, you will be on the floor 17 and 18." I said questioning Marion with my sight. "And I'll be alone on the flat 19. But you can come my suit whenever you want."

"I want to sleep there too!!" Shin said smiling. "Please!!"

"Sorry, that's… let's say the room is too much my style." I said. "In fact all the room is too much my style because I designed it. But you are always welcome there."

"Ah." Marion said while the bus took us to the hotel with all our luggage. "Mr. 'Vicious' said he wanted to speak to you again yesterday night."

"I'm happy you didn't allowed him. We were on the plane and our phones were off." I said.

"That Vicious is relative of Sid from Sex Pistols?" Nobu asked.

"No, no." We said laughing.

"That's a nick-name one of our customers put himself so as to hide his stance there." Marion said.

"Some of the most important customers can choose to book with a nick-name so as not to be recognised by press or paparazzi or just fans that could sneak into our computer system." I explained. "For example, my favourite is Miss Lily Evans. From Harry Potter, one of my favourite books when I was little. Or also Miss Mulán, or Lady Juliet Capulet."

"Don't forget your favourite, favourite." Marion said.

"Shhhh… that's a secret." I said smiling and laughing.

When I saw how confused everyone seemed I decided to explain better.

"Marion is the young personal assistant of the family." I said. "She was once my friend and now she keeps being. Ah, and she is a really good ally concerning my father and brother's matters."

"So we are going your dad's hotel in London." Nobu said.

"We must have known when you booked it with such ease." Yasu said.

"It's going to be a bit weird to get here and sleep at the hotel." Shin said. "I was used to your manor."

"Yeah, but it will be easier to get the record house from the hotel than the family house." Marion said. "By the way, I must advise you Mr. Portrait finally was retired and now Robbie is the second one while Mr. Charles took Mr. Portrait's place."

"What about Kimberly?" I asked.

"Oh, she is the maid's head now." She told her. "And Yun was dismissed but Miranda took her."

"But that's good too!!" I said.

(Shin's voice)

"I think they have forgotten we are still here." Nobu told me.

"Well, she has been out for long." I told him. "Marion is friend so she is telling her about all the staff. She is really friend with it. Hey! Robbie is now so high?!"

"He got it recently." The blond girl said. "He is still getting used to it."

"Nobu, maybe now we are here I could introduce you to some girls I know." Isa said then. "They are good girls so I promise I will not say anything if you fall for one."

"I already have Yuri, thanks." He told her.

"Ok, as you want." She said. "I know models, actress of TV, maids, journalists… and of course some snobs from the English Nobility."

I just smiled as Nobu and Yasu went surprised on how much contacts Isa had.

"Say Shin." Nobu asked. "Is there Yakuza here and she is part of the heads of it?"

"No, here they are called Mafia, and tycoons are really as a kind of that but with prestige." I told him.

(Isa's voice)

"Ahhh!!" Shin said when he got in the bedroom he was having. "What a great bedroom!!"

"I'm happy you like it." I said smiling. "I asked them to specially give us this wing of the hotel. It's usually kept for deluxe guests, and then from floor 15 to 18 is for important guests taking staff. Then… 19 is mine, and the rest are ordered from normal bedrooms on floors 1 to 3 to the deluxe ones to 11th floor and then from 12 to 14th are the suits. As you can check, I tried to book the best bedrooms in the building and I took care of them being much cheaper than usual for us and just for us." I added winking. "And, I suppose I'll leave you to enjoy your bedroom and I'll go down to say hello, right?"

"If you don't mind I'd also like to go with you." Yasu said. "To help you with the owner in case you find him."

"The lord will be off for two months and the young lord is off during this week but will come back for the following one." Marietta said bowing.

"It's ok Marietta." I told her. "You can act normal with these dudes, they are friends of me. So… can you tell I'm back around there? Just try Jackson not to hear you, right?"

"Sure, Isa." She said smiling. "By the way, we are happy you came back." She added before closing.

"Marietta, one of the floor maids." I told my friends. "Really nice, if you need anything just tell her and she will do it the sooner she can. So, coming Yasu?"

"Yeah, maybe I can help with the boss in here now." He said.

"I'm the boss now here." I said before closing the door behind us. "Yet the 'first mate on this ship' now is probably to be Mr. White or Mr. Smith. Tough and sever men so try not to make anything that could make them or Jackson, the head of bedroom staff. They are the heads of staff."

(Yasu's voice)

"Isa!!" A pretty woman with earphones told her running down a corridor to hug her. "Oh, Isa, you've came… Excuse me, Miss Okanzaki." She added bowing gently.

"It's ok." Isa said smiling. "Ya-san is trustable. He is friend of me. Yasu-Evangeline, Evangeline-Yasu."

"Nice to meet you, Yasu." She said shaking my hand.

"And wait to meet the rest of staff." Isa told me.

(Nobu's voice)

We've been at the hotel for the whole afternoon now and after having some dinner and being welcomed by the one in charge of the hotel now the owners are not here, we went back up our bedrooms to rest.

"I'm feeling dizzy!" I complaint.

"It must be jetlag." Isa said smiling. "Try to sleep well this night and tomorrow it would have disappeared."

"Furthermore, you have some work tomorrow early in the morning." Gimpei-sama said.

"Early for you or us?" Isa said kidding. "Ok, you old people; I'm going down to relax a bit. Furthermore, knowing the staff here I know there will be something else later. Do you want to go too? Yasu? Shin?"

"I'm tired Isa." Shin complaint. "I think I prefer resting a bit, perhaps a bit of jetlag too…"

"And I think I prefer resting a bit for tomorrow." Yasu added.

"And you should also rest." Our boss said at our back. "You need your precious voice on good conditions for tomorrow."

"Ok, ok." She said. "As you want… I'll go up to my room and stay there. Just being a good girl and… Just a second, please." She added while she was rung on her cell phone.

"I bet it takes her less than five minutes to go back down to wherever the pool is." Shin told us two whispering.

She seemed to be speaking at the phone as she put a finger on her other ear.

"Kawano-san." She then said. "From Keltic records, they want to know if you prefer them coming to look for us or we go there alone. I personally think that for the first time it would be better if they came to look for us."

"Yeah, it will be better." He said. "If they don't mind."

"They will not." She said smiling to keep on speaking on English through the phone.

For me it was more than amazing to hear her speak through it so easily.

"Nobu." Shin said. "Do you want us to use room-service?"

"Wouldn't it be expensive?" I asked to the smile and hold the phone.

(Ren's voice)

I was just coming from having some drinks with Naoki and Takumi when the receptionist called me.

"Mr. Honjo" She said coming fast towards us. "Excuse me but… the guests on the attic room asked me to tell you she would be at the pool till she gets tired and that then she would be at the bar. And Mr. Ichinoise got a call from his wife again."

"Ok, thanks, Miss... Parkinson." I said smiling. "We now both know."

"You shouldn't flirt with all the woman you came across." Takumi told me off as she left.

"Well, at least I don't do them." I said. "Furthermore, I'm trying to be polite with the staff."

"Oh, Ren." Naoki said. "Shall we meet that mysterious lash, please?"

"Oh, no!" Takumi said. "You are going to go straight your bedrooms!"

"Sure, sir." I said.

Anyway, ten minutes later after having gone in our bedrooms I opened the door silently and sneaked along the corridor to turn the corner and face our bodyguard.

"Hey, sempai." I told him. "I forgot asking for something down so… I'll be out for a while. Cover me up, ok?"

I then literally ran away from him and got in the lift to go away by the very skin of my teeth. However, when the doors were opening on the ground floor I faced a black man wearing hotel security uniform.

"Going somewhere Mr. Honjo?" He said holding my shoulder.

"Damn…" I said.

"You should have known we would catch you again." He said. "Ok mate." He told through the speakerphone attached to his ear. "I got him… No, he will not put a toe out of the hotel, don't worry, we will take care of it."

"You are not handing me to them?" I asked.

"I'm just off my turn so… as there's someone requesting us to guide you to her I will reconsider the order and cover you up." He said smiling as he guided me still holding my shoulder.

He pushed me softly through corridors till we reached once again the place I first saw an occidental red haired angel: the hotel's indoors swimming pool.

There I saw the same shadow once again, going from a wall to another along the longest part; come and go back and come back till she jumped out of the water with her hair stuck at her back.

"Hey, hey." The man said. "I bet she has not told you but it'd be better you kept your manners when together. Here she is one of the bosses and the boss daughter and sister. No scandals here, please."

"I know." I said releasing myself. "I just want to hug her for a while. It's really long since we have not seen each other and… I've been worried cause she was ill all the time I've been here and before."

"What?!" He said. "You must not joke with that. If she had been we would have heard something about."

"She has not told anyone, I knew of her being operated due to a friend." I said. "So don't spill the beans." I added opening the door to get in.

"Julie, could you take me the mulberry when you can, please?" she was asking as she wrapped her hair on a towel to dry it up. "No, nothing special, I want to feel back home again. Thanks." She then fell silent for a second and again spoke. "Robbie, hey, yeah, good to hear you too. I was wondering… could you make me a favour, please? No, I just want you to turn the cameras off for some minutes, please. I'm on the Indoors Swimming pool and I'm going to wear some of my favourite robes of commoner so I'd rather my dear dad not to know I'm not walking around wearing as a dolly."

Then she stopped speaking and smiled at me as she took the microphone away from her face towards the top of her head.

"Hello, Mr. Vicious." She told me smiling.

"I think 'm dreaming." I said. "Because I can't believe you are finally here." I added hugging her.

"Surprise, surprise." She said smiling. "We have come here for dealing with some things."

"So soon after the operation?" I asked confused.

"Yes, have a look." She said caressing a spot at her chest over what was supposed to be her lungs. "They told me no scar will be remaining after some time."

It was something a bit incredible because she still had a whole sewed and covered with a plastic aid band. I caressed it softly, but I smiled trying to make her think I was not so worried.

"Ok, so… again, why did you come here?" I asked.

"Work." She said. "Nah, to be serious holydays disguised as work, he he. We will go to a super party a friend of me will be holding here in London to honour her mother and then the following day we will go to Paris and I'll go to Versailles to attend to Dior's mode celebration to commemorate he's being 50 years at that profession."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. That party of Dior's was really exclusive and the one held in London the day before was promoted for Lady Di's birthday memorial after death.

"I… you are going to such deluxe parties?!" I asked. "Yep, but the most important is the one being held tonight." She added going out wearing a cool punk mini dress.

(Isa's voice)

It was another mad night dancing and laughing at the party the staff held to welcome me and my friends back London. It was a pity that just Ren and I went there. Anyway, the party was really wonderful and all the time at the hotel.

Maybe there was not fun on the place cause of the strict laws and rules my dad and so, my brother, had put the whole staff under and that made our hotels one of the best on the world.

When the party ended, after having been thrown up at the air by the men, hugged till my ribs were about cracking, kissed till my skin was itching, dance with till I was about being sick of so many turns and tired of non-stopping dancing… then was when the party ended about 2 in the morning. I wanted to give a hand to clean but I was not allowed.

While I returned my bedroom Ren made the lift to stop and we began getting all the time away back till I was called by the earphone.

"Didn't know you had such a passionate boyfriend." The old security man said. "I know, I know… This has never happened."

"Make sure this is not seen by the wrong people, please." I asked him.

Then I made the lift keep on going up.

"Ren, I suggest repeating but away from the surveillance cameras, right?" I said smiling at him.

"We can not go out of here." He told me.

"Believe me, I'm the run away queen." I said joking while we reached his room area and he put his lips over mines for some more seconds before leaving. "If nobody caught me when I was littler they are not going to do it now. Good night." I added smiling before making him go out.

"Where can I find you again?" he asked me.

"I live on the only place of this building that the stars are seen as if you could touch them." I answered him smiling before the lift doors closed.

I had missed that a lot. And suddenly when I was changing clothes I heard how the doorbell rang and I went frozen as I remembered the last time this happened was with Renato. Same words on different floor and when I was changing robes he rang on my door. I then ran to open the door.

"Hello!" Shin said.

"Oh, hi." I said finally smiling. "Did something happen?"

"I just couldn't sleep so… I came to remember how was when we spent time together when I was still little." He said.

"Ok." I said smiling. "Come in, but get sure you leave to your room early in the morning, ok? Please, I don't want to be told off cause of this all, ok?"

"Sure!" He said smiling and getting in. "Wow!! What is this room?!"

"Er… I think you have never been here before, but this is my personal room in the hotel. And this is just the living room, my wardrobe behind those doors… and the bedroom is here."

(Shin's voice)

I couldn't believe the huge room resembling a whole big studio at the very top of the hotel. The living room was certainly bigger than our bedrooms. And when we reached the bedroom I jumped over the bed. It was so big that maybe all of us could have being able to sleep there.

"I think my dad overdid with the bed size." She confessed. "Ok, make yourself as home while I end on putting my sleeping robes."

"I thought you were wearing just that gown." I confessed surprised on that all.

"Yes, with a pair of short-knickers under it." She said putting them on behind a screen. "I could wear something else but as I don't know who is coming to wake me up I can't risk to be discover wearing just a t-shirt and knickers."

That made me laugh a bit. Certainly I was missing those times we met once a year.

"Ok, now… lights off and let's sleep." She said turning them off and getting in bed. "Tomorrow we have to wake up early, so at least let's avoid circles tomorrow."

I have always felt warm when we slept together when I was still a child. She didn't know it, but I always loved her, maybe even more than being family. And now I just got that call… I really needed to feel warm at someone's arms, not minding if it was my cousin's ones.

No, I have never been able to see her as cousin; she has always being my friend and a woman.

I didn't cared she was my cousin who was wrapping me with her arms, I always felt warm when it was her who did it. Maybe even warmer than when it was any other woman.

I hug her on a soft grip and buried my face at her chest robes looking for her warmth.

"It's ok, Shin." She then said kissing my hair. "Try to sleep, I'll be here when you need me…"

All of sudden I couldn't help to let out some tears in silence. For any reason, she was the one always knowing how I felt before I could have told her anything. She always seemed to feel when I was in need of that protective and loving-need state.