Far From The Spotlight
Cast:
Cure Lemonade, Kasugano Urara - age 21
Syrup, Amai Shirou - age 20
June, 2014
Urara is famous, but not world famous. She is successful, but not yet wealthy. Shirou is training to be a pilot, but lacks the license needed to freely fly his new wife to any place she might desire. Because of this, there are some practical limits as to where they can have their honeymoon.
Fortunately, Urara's father is French. He has lived and worked in Japan from around the time he met Urara's late mother, but it is not as if he is an orphan. His parents, Urara's grandparents, live in a townhouse in Bordeaux. She has been told that it is a beautiful city, and what little she has seen so far suggests that to be true. And the only price of staying with family is...
Staying with family.
"Urara! Come in, come in! Why, I haven't seen you since you were just this tall!" Her paternal grandfather places his hand at a level that suggests she was very young indeed.
"What a beauty you've become," her grandmother adds. "And so talented. Your father sends us all of your videos, you know. The Japanese goes right over our heads, sorry to say, but your Eponine! Les Mis is Les Mis, after all. In any language, it is always French!"
"A timeless classic, it is," her grandfather insists. "I was in a production myself once. Secondary school, you must understand. None of this fancy show business stuff. But still, I had a part!"
"You were an actor? Grandfather, what part did you play?"
His wife cackles. "Sweetie, he played the trombone."
After climbing up a staircase, the old man opens a door. "Now, this is the room you'll be staying in. It used to be your father's room."
"My father's room?" Urara stares, drinking in the details.
"Oh, just so," her grandmother answers. "And you needn't worry about the insulation, sweetie. You may have been conceived in this room, but we never heard a thing!"