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Chapter 7 Getting Ready

"Brrrr." Why does he have to take so long? Yashiro was waiting outside for Ren to come pick him up. He could handle the cold but he was more impatient to learn whatever it was the president had wanted to talk about to the two stars the night before. He was just itching to pester Ren.

As Ren drove up in front of Yashiro's apartment he could tell just how anxious his manager was. Ren had already resolved to tell him that the president had asked them to baby-sit, and if possible he wouldn't even mention the part about going out into the country.

"Good morning Ren," Yashiro got into the car with a cheery expression on his face. For five minutes he just sat there with a huge smile on his face waiting for Ren to talk. But he wasn't about to give any information that he didn't need to. "Soo, what did he want?" Yashiro finally asked.

"Who?"

"Ren! The president!" Yashiro couldn't remain calm anymore.

"Oh that, it was no big deal." Ren was trying his hardest to avoid Yashiro figuring out what he had last night.

"What do you mean? If it was no big deal then you should have no issue telling me what it was and why your schedule has been cleared for most of the day." By this point Yashiro was almost standing up in his seat.

"He wanted us to baby-sit Maria-chan today. He said she has felt neglected by us lately and asked us to do the favor of hanging out with her." Ren kept his eyes on the road the whole time trying to act like it was no big deal.

"Oh…that was it?" Yashiro slowly started to settle back into his seat with a disappointed look on his face. "Well what will you guys be doing?"

"The president told us Maria-chan has the day planned out for us so I'm not sure." Well that was the truth, there was no need to mention where they were going.

"Well that's boring." For the rest of the ride into work Yashiro pouted.

"Sho are you ready?" Shoko yelled at her charge.

"I'm coming, a better day off would be to let me sleep all day, not get me up early in the morning to drag me off to some God forsaken place." As usual the music star was grumpy in the morning. But he got on the bus with Shoko and the other people they were working with for the long drive.

"Hey Kyoko-chan, would you like to hang out tonight?" As usual Hikaru from Bridge Rock was asking to hang out with her again. Every time so far she had been busy and this time too.

"Sorry but I have to baby-sit today and I'm not sure how long it'll be." She felt bad, she didn't like always declining his offers. Maybe next time she had some free time she would let him know. She always had fun at work with the band members from Bridge Rock, so out of work should be fun too.

"Baby-sit? Who?" Hikaru wasn't aware that Kyoko-chan knew any little kids, granted she didn't talk much about her personal life, but he still never would have expected her to be a baby-sitter.

"Maria-chan, the president's granddaughter. Well I better get going so that I'm not late, maybe next time I can come hang out." She left him looking after her in shock.

Okay so this chapter is not that long but that's because I put Sho into it thanks to the urging of Cherry Blossom0994.