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Hello everyone, welcome back to TMBC! I hope you guys enjoy the read. I'm planning on constructing a meeting within one of the next three chapters. I'm debating on the if I should hold off a bit longer and make it subtle glances or should I just make them meet face to face and be done with it. :D

-Also, to the person who sent this review "Please, stop doing that. It's annoying, and only bad writers do it. The story is good, just keep doing a good job and public the capther when you have it." since I couldn't send a reply here is my reply.

I'm sorry it's bothering you, but this is how I'm choosing to keep my fans posted on what's going on with the series. If you don't like it then feel free to unfollow me. I'm doing this because people have in the past texted me that they got themselves into trouble because they waited on updates that didn't happen due to life happening. This is my way of keeping such things from happening and if that makes me a bad writer then I guess your right, I'm a bad writer.

Lucy looked on in boredom, "Why are we doing this again?" she questions her manager who had Nina, Mary and Lucy trying to dance as a unit, but their coordination was so out of place that they'd end up bumping into each other.

"I want the three of you to take the stage together so you can learn from girls who've been in this line of work longer then you have." Kylie reminds her cringing as the girls collided again this time Lucy goes stumbling backward, falling back on her butt with a surprised yelp. Kylie rushed over, "You alright?" she asked concerned as she held out a hand to the younger girl. Lucy nodded she was a kind of thankful that Kylie had taken her off the schedule these few days to help prep her.

She'd learned so far that she had literally no idea what she was doing at all! In fact, if she hadn't been blindly going through the motions of what she'd seen the other girls doing when they were up on stage, she was pretty sure she would have tanked. Lucy gladly took the aid to get back on her feet and nodded, "Yeah," she frowned letting go of Kylie's hand to dust herself off.

Nina and Mary smiled slightly, "Say Lucy, I might be overstepping but are you a virgin?" Nina asked despite her sister Mary jumping in to try and hush her immediately as she heard the beginning of the question.

Lucy blinked twice in confusion, "Yeah, I am." She told them confirming what all three of them had thought.

Nina looked at her amazed, "No masturbating either?" she questioned only to get a confused head tilt as an answer.

Kylie and Mary groaned slapping their hands over their faces, "Nina that was way overstepping!" the manager growled at Nina.

Nina merely rolled her eyes, "You know you two were every bit as curious." She huffed walking over to Lucy and putting her arm around her shoulder. "Anyways, the fact that you're a virgin explains a lot about why your dances look so innocent. I'm guessing that first time you were just copying what we were all doing at the time?" she continued.

Lucy smiled sheepishly and nodded, "You just haven't had the opportunity to learn the art of seduction and grow comfortable with your own body yet, but you'll get there at some point so no worries." Nina told her while flashing her a smirk. "Although, even I have to admit for merely imitating things you seen you did really well!" she complimented bringing her free arm around to rub her knuckles into Lucy's head.

Lucy ducked managing to slip out of the hold easy enough, Nina making sure to give her the room to do so. Lucy grinned playfully ready for payback for ruining her hair, jumping at her Lucy latched onto her like a monkey using her legs to keep Nina's arms down as she put the older woman in a headlock rubbing her right hands enclosed knuckles over her head. Lucy heard a mumbling sound, "Um Lucy, your abnormally large boobs are kinda suffocating my sister." Mary pointed out causing the young blonde to look down at her captive.

Lucy chuckled with a lightly powdered blush on her cheeks, "Oops, sorry Nina!" she apologized as she quickly detached herself from Nina. Nina's face was a bright shade of red having not expected the younger girl to latch onto her in such a way. This girl was a force to be reckoned with she concluded…

Mary shook Nina's shoulder a bit as she took in a few big gulps of air, "You okay sis?" her little sister asked to which Nina nodded.

Nina's face still bright red from the unexpected ambush, "Okay, I have to admit that was pretty hot, but I wouldn't try that on the customers. It might give them other ideas of fun…" The older sister warned.

Mary sweatdropped, "No kidding, then we'd have no choice but to beat them away from you with a stick!" she joked.

Nina tapped her chin thoughtfully, "Plus, if you held them as tight as you held me in there… they might suffocate." She continued.

Kylie jumped in, "Yeah, please don't do that…" she began rubbing her temples as she remembered when she herself had first started here. During her very own performance, a man suddenly fell ill and passed out as she was dancing on his lap. From that moment on, they'd called her the 'heart stopper'. It was a good thing she knew CPR if not the guy would have been dead before the ambulance had gotten there. Amusingly enough the guys still frequents the place and even brings new people with him every time he comes by.

Nina snorted pointing her thumb back at her manager while trying to force back a smile, "Then she'd be in league with the heart stopper here." She replies.

Kylie blushed madly, coughing as she tried to recompose herself into professional mode, "I thought we promised not of speak of this." She hissed shooting a glare at the older of the two sisters.

Nina looked at her with a smirk, "I don't remember ever agreeing to this!~" she replied with a beaming smile.

Kylie smiled back lifting both arms to show her fists, her middle fingers shot up and she mouthed off a quick fuck you under her breath. To which Nina snickers, "Hum, gotta say that sounds nice!~" she hums watching as Kylie's face turns darker shades of red with amusement.

Kylie looked away quickly crossing her arms over her chest, "Oh, fuck off!" she growled out lowly.

Nina blinked, touching her index finger to her chin thoughtfully, "That sounds like an excellent idea actually!" she replied with a straight face.

Kylie's brain explodes at her answer, leaving her cheeks sizzling like bacon in a skillet, "Ugh, you're such a perv!" she roars with a twitching eyebrow. Nina just shrugged with a smug smile as she strutted over to her gym bag.

Lucy just stared between the two for a long moment before turning to Mary, "Say, Mary," she started. Mary who'd slapped her hand to her face moments earlier at her older sisters open flirting, "Is it just me or does your sister…" she began but was stopped as Mary held up a hand.

"Love Kylie? Yep, hit the nail right on the head." Mary mumbled back as she rubbed at her head watching as her older sister downed a drink. Not missing as Kylie occasionally stole glances, 'What a bunch of idiots… I thought she said she'd already talked to her?!' Mary groaned wanting to smack her older sister upside the head for procrastinating.

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Natsu beamed it was great having Happy back home. Though he felt bad for his little buddy who had to wear that annoying cone around his neck. Happy stopped attacking the plastic cone to look at him like… Darn it, stop staring and help me! Natsu smiled sadly, "Sorry little buddy, but this needs to stay on for now." He told him running his hand softly over his back.

Happy just looked at him even more annoyed before getting off his master's lap to go pout in a corner. Natsu sweatdropped, 'Poor guy.' He thought watching as Happy's white-tipped tail smacked at the ground rapidly in annoyance of the cones presence.

Everyone came out of the spare rooms their luggage all packed, "We'll be back to visit on our days off." Erza announced. Upset that they had to leave, or they would lose their jobs. Erza fisted a hand to her hip standing in front of Natsu who was seated at the couch in the living room, "You sure you know what you're doing?" she questioned.

No… He had no idea what he was doing. He'd intended to just stay here and chill out for a few days then go back to running his father's company, but now he felt like he was chasing after an afterimage of that girl. But how can a mere afterimage make a cake? Even more so the cake that had been made was a cake that had been made in front of only one other person. Everyone else who knew that recipe was dead and gone save for him… but even he'd never gotten it to taste right! So, she had to be real… right?

"Yeah, I just-I just need a few more days," Natsu told her rubbing at the back of his neck, "Think you can stall for me for that long?" he questioned. He'd lost many things… the last thing he wanted to do was lose his parent's company too, but there was something-something telling him he had to stay.