Okay, I'm going to get better at updating my stories if it's the last thing I do, but for now please settle with this short chapter. Is it just me or are they progressively getting shorter in this one and getting progressively longer in my other series? ... Oh well, please ignore me and enjoy the chapter!
Before Kyoko could even ask Jin, though, she had to find a way to contact him. Plus, she was busy thinking of away to convince the producer and director to leave her name out. Her real reason wouldn't be very convincing. Maybe she should say that it would be embarrassing. It's not quite a lie… and it might be more believable than not wanting Ren to find out. She'd try it and if it didn't work, then she might just give up on it. She didn't know why she was taking all these precautions anyway. It wasn't like Ren was actually going to seduce her or something.
While Kyoko was pondering this, she happened to be pacing up and down a hall. Which led to some interested stares, one of which belonged to the very man that was causing all this trouble in the first place. Ren had only been watching her for a minute or so now, and had already seen a whole range of extreme emotions play across her face. He was starting to get worried and tapped her on the shoulder to break her out of her trance. She halted in her tracks and looked around in a daze before she noticed that Ren was standing next to her with Yashiro in tow.
"Oh! Good morning, Tsuruga-sempai!" Kyoko bowed and smiled at him, but Ren just looked at her with a confused and worried look.
"What's troubling you, Mogami-san?" he got right to the point with his blunt question.
"Huh? Uh… Um, nothing's bothering me! I was just going to get something for the party and forgot what it was," she tried to worm her way out of the question, but Ren wouldn't let her.
A brilliantly bright smile crossed his lips as he said, "So you were pacing here for ten minutes because you forgot what to get?"
"Uh, um, yeah?" her voice was wavering and he angry sensor was going crazy. She needed to get out of there right now!
"And you didn't ask somebody because…?" Ren inquired, but he already knew that she wasn't telling the truth and wouldn't have an answer, so it was more like a rhetorical question.
"Um, well, you see… it's because… uh… th-there wasn't anybody to ask! Because I had thought of this great idea myself, so no one else knew it, and then I forgot it!" You could almost see the light-bulb when she had thought of an excuse. It was truly pitiful. She even knew it was, but if she admitted that it was a lie now, then they'd demand what the truth was. Then she wouldn't be able to tell him because she'd be so embarrassed in front of so many people! There was no way out of this! So she Ren even knew what had happened, Kyoko was gone without a trace. He sighed in resignation and decided to just wait for when she would decide to tell him.
Kyoko had run all the way to the other side of the building where Lory's office was located. She stood there wondering what to do now, when Lory burst out of his office and consequently ran into Kyoko. Lory was on his feet again within seconds, but Kyoko just sat there looking dejected. When she sighed, you cold almost see the life force leaving her. "What is wrong with my little LoveMe member?" he mumbled to himself.
"Mogami-kun, would you like to talk to me about something?" Lory said in an unusually straight face. It didn't seem to fit in his "wild man" theme. When Kyoko actually looked up into that face, she burst out laughing. Maybe that was one of Lory's mysterious powers. No matter what, you immediately get swept into his world of carefree lives. It helped her ease p and find the solution to all her problems, or worries.
This was why when she said, "No, I'm okay," there was no doubt that that was the truth.