Chapter 22
"Yuki!" shouted Keita from the living room where he was waiting for the girl, "Hurry up!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming," said Yuki as she made her way downstairs. She was dressed in a red plaid skirt, white top, denim jacket, and knee- highs. The small necklace on her neck was her only decoration. Keita looked at it and grinned teasingly at Yuki.
"You wear that thing everywhere huh," guessed Keita. By Yuki's red face he knew he was right.
"So where are we going?" asked Yuki when the two were walking in the sidewalk. Keita grinned.
"A concert," he said vaguely.
"Oh?" asked Yuki, "Who's playing?"
"It's a surprise." When Yuki and Keita reached a large concert dome, Keita led Yuki backstage.
"Did you get backstage passes?" asked Yuki, "I didn't know you knew the singer."
"Of course I do," said Keita, "She's doing the opening act. Let's go to her dressing room." They walked into a large room. Yuki was impressed.
"Wow," commented Yuki, "This girl must be pretty popular if she's doing the opening act and has such a large dressing room." Keita now laughed.
"Yuki," said Keita, "You're doing the opening act for the concert."
"Nani?!" exclaimed Yuki in surprise before blowing up, "Keita, you bastard! I'll kill you!" Keita tried to calm Yuki down.
"Yuki," said Keita in a pleading voice, "I thought you'd be happy with what I said." Yuki gave Keita a stony stare. Keita gave an aggravated sigh. "Come on Yuki, I know how much you love to sing on stage. You have to be a little happy." Yuki faltered.
"You did this for me?" asked Yuki in surprise.
"Why else would I be here in Japan?" asked Keita. Yuki smiled.
"Maybe this marriage will work," said Yuki, "All right, I'll do the opening act. Time for Lumier to get back on stage. Now get out of here so that I can change."
"Gotcha," said Keita walking out of the dressing room. Yuki looked critically at herself in the mirror turning this way and that. She sighed before applying the make up on the table and then putting on the short dress and knee high boots Keita had put next to the make up. When she walked out she looked like a star should. The lights in the concert hall darkened. Yuki walked out on stage with the fog lights with a genuine smile on her face as she started singing the upbeat tune that made her into an idol. When she got backstage she was surprised to see a legion of magazine writers and newspaper reporters outside.
"Miss Yuki, now that you have finally reappeared in the singing world, what are you doing in Japan?"
"Miss Yuki, we have heard that at the same time you disappeared, your cousin and actress Kazumi Kiyoko also vanished and later your other cousin and model Akuma Rei. Have you all been hiding in Japan?"
"Uh, no comment," said Yuki before going back into her dressing room.
"Yuki," said Keita suddenly appearing, "Follow me. There's a back exit."
"Oh no," said Yuki, "This'll all be in the morning news tomorrow. I shouldn't have done that opening act."
"Don't worry," said Keita comfortingly, "At least I'm here. Good thing I came here to confirm our marriage arrangement, right?" Yuki froze outside the concert hall.
"You were just here to make sure I wasn't going to reject the marriage?" asked Yuki, "I thought you came to comfort me." Keita was now sweating.
"That too but," said Keita. Yuki cut in.
"I should've known," said Yuki, "you know what, the main reason I came to Japan was to get away from you! Right after I fell in love with you I found out it was all an act so I left! I can't believe I gave you a second chance and the same exact thing happened." Keita looked at Yuki strangely.
"You fell in love with me?" asked Keita.
"Fell being the key word," said Yuki before taking off the necklace Keita had given her before she went to Japan. She tossed it over to him before walking away.
"Before I forget," said Yuki about to round the corner, "The marriage is off." She ran off back to the house and into her room.