Sorry for updating so slow. I have work and school going on and now I started a new story. Hope you guys check that one as well. But it's mostly that when I am not at school, I am at work if I am not at work I am at school and if neither is going on I am asleep. I barely manage to do anything else. So Sorry and hope you enjoy the new chapter. Thank you for your support.

Disclaimer: I don not own Skip Beat and I am glad though owning Ren would make me ecstatic ^_^

At the same time the women called out the names "ren and kanae" the two famous actors on the set looked up from whatever they were doing.

Yashiro's POV

I was watching my charge, the famous actor in show business Ren Tsuruga when suddenly he looked up and looked around. I thought of this as strange, after all he never took anything in consideration and he never paid attention to anything besides acting. He stared at me and I became self-conscious.

"What is it Ren?" I asked him a little taken aback. He stared some more and finally asked with a hopeful voice.

"Did you hear that?"

I strained to hear whatever made him look up and couldn't hear anything except for the shouts and bustle of the crew that was setting up the cameras and everything else for the next scene.

"No. What?" I asked curious though I should have left it alone.

"I thought I heard her calling me." I froze while my heart was going a mile a second. "Her" can only mean Kyoko I thought, desperately whishing that maybe he meant someone else. He hasn't said Kyoko's name since the hospital and even when a drama had that name as their main character he would not accept it and then the directors if they really wanted Ren which most of the time they did, would change the girl's name though there were some objections from the writer sometimes, but Ren always got his way.

"I a-am sor-r-ry Ren I d-d-i-in't he-a-ar-r any-tthing." I answered stammering.

"Oh!" he exclaimed going back to whatever he was doing before he looked up.

I turned my back to him and let out a reliving breath that I didn't really know I was holding. I also let my heart calm down. I inhale and exhaled a couple of times. If this happened a little while ago, especially with the day Kyoko disappeared (nobody really wanted to admit she was gone) approaching this would have been the worst day of my life.

I turned and looked at Ren. It's not that I wasn't happy that he might move on but it seemed so sudden. I kept staring trying to figure out if he found somebody else or he is willing to let Kyoko go when his sharp gaze fell on me and asked annoyed.

"What is it Yashiro?"

"N-nothing." I answered "I am going to get some water." I said trying to get away from the sharp gaze and the man who most times I had a very hard time understanding especially when it came to Kyoko. It has been like that since the two of them met. I smiled at the memory of him saying that he doesn't hate her, he just dislikes her. That same girl became the most important thing in his life not only he started liking her but he also fell in love with her. I smile wider but then I turned sorrowful, that girl I really wished she was alive and near him, like they were supposed to be and instead of being sad on this month they would have been happy because they were finally together and married. I looked at the schedule and sighed. I have to clear up the two weeks that were coming up because in one of those days was the day she died. I was the only one who thought she was actually dead.

As I was staring at the planner to make room for that day I could feel someone coming closer to me trembling I raised my eyes and I could see Kotonomi-san's manager near me. She was a petite woman about 5 feet 4 inches who had a lot of spunk and she was an incredible manager to put up with as difficult a charge as Ren.

"Nami-san what's wrong?" I asked her concerned. I was a little bit attracted to her but I didn't know how she felt about me and we barely had time to interact with each other when we were on shoots. There was also the fact that our charges barely acknowledge each other. Kotonomi-san resented Ren for losing her best friend and Ren felt guilty about it so much so that she hated Kotonomi-san for making him remember every day that he lost the love of his life. Though it was a miracle that they had so many movies that starred opposite each other.

"Kotonomi-san" she leaned towards me as I lean towards her and whispered barely audible "mentioned her."

I gasped while Nami-san nodded on the verge of crying. I was going to have a heart attack today. "Her" again can only mean Kyoko. Both actors stopped saying her name since that fateful day and they were the same when Kyoko was involved. A couple of years ago just the fact that they might have heard her drove both actors to look through the crowds for her making a big problem for anyone involved but they were the best actors in the industry and those things were never held against them.

"What happened?" I asked fearful while she was getting herself under control.

"She asked me if I heard" the name was said in whispered too "Kyoko calling her." My heart was again going a mile a minute.

"And?" I asked eager to know if Kotonomi-san started running and will be causing delays today.

The manager shrugged "When I answered no, she took out her phone and dialed Hio-kun's number so they could talk about Hime's upcoming school festival and if both of them are going to attend or just one, or skip it all together."

I started dumfounded "That's it?" I almost shouted.

"Yes. I know what you are thinking Yashiro-san and I was thinking the same that's why I started to tremble but when she made no move I was even more fearful that maybe something even worse will happen, cause I could see she wasn't immersed in her character enough to not react."

"That's what happened to Ren!" I exclaimed.

Nami-san looked at me questingly.

"Ren thought he heard Kyoko as well" I said urgently though in a whisper as well, for fear that the actors might hear us "but he didn't react, he went back to staring or memorizing his lines in his head, either way he didn't react at all."

"Do you think they are trying to get over her?" She asked a little hopeful.

I shook my head to say I don't know and went back when I heard Ren being called while Nami-san went back to her charge.

It was unbelievable to hear that Ren as well as Kotonomi-san heard Kyoko calling for them. Was that a coincidence or something else? I scanned the crowd. Then shook my head 'I must be going crazy, since they aren't' I thought.