Note: Hi, everyone! Thank you for all the reviews, I really appreciate it. Now I guess I really know the feelings and it makes me submit more reviews for the stories I have read and liked.
There's one question in the review asking why Madoka is in SEED Record because actually she was in REAL Record, if that's how u call it.
Madoka moved from REAL Record to SEED Record, and her style was changed from Pop to R&B, making her more successful.
And if you're wondering why is Suzu-chan still Madoka's manager, it's because this is a fan fiction, and I do not want to make many new character, I do want to keep the originality of the story, somehow. But anyway, I have to make some.
Chapter 2: Work, Fight, Win
A week later, early morning
A girl walks along the clean, empty pathway. With her right hand holding a cup of coffee and her big bag that was too heavy and her left carrying a small pet cage. Gut-chan was inside. He doesn't like to be in a cage. But the company doesn't allow her to bring it here without a cage.
"Good you're in a cage, so you'll just keep you mouth close." She talks to the small pig
This is how she always talks to Gut-chan, her chibi pig, though he meant a lot to her. After she gave him some carrots, she sits next to the cage and drinks her coffee, waiting for Suzu-chan.
Why do we need to work so early? And where's Suzu-chan?
She heard the sound of the elevator turn open, then sound of footsteps heading her way. With the thought that it was going to Suzu-chan, she suddenly stand up. But to find out that it was Nachi makes her sit down and look at her pig, to intentionally pretend she doesn't see him. Also feeling ashamed and stupid about herself, she tries to mind her own business. Of course, it won't work.
"Hi, miss got-to-beat-you-anyway-I-can" He tapped hardly on her shoulder, like what she saw him did with his pals.
"Hey! Don't you dare tease me!" She shouted, looking at him who put down his bag and sit next to her.
Madoka crossed her legs and put her chin on her palm, looking the other way. Silence rule, and she just prefer it to be that way, until the guy next to her breaks it.
He sighed. "I must say, I've never seen anyone that dedicated to anything before."
The girl thought. Is he feeling guilty now? At last, he started to know I'm serious. So he's feeling bad about it right now. See? This is what you'll get, to underestimate me, this Wakamatsu Madoka.
She didn't answer, probably because she was keeping her smile from showing up on her face. She acted still.
"Good." He speak again. "That should make our bet fun."
Madoka was confused, very confused. Isn't it that he was feeling guilty and was going to apologize to me and make everything I said yesterday nothing? But Nachi have something in his mind that he didn't realize the change of expression on the person next to him.
"But if u lose, you do whatever I told you." Nachi finally come up with a bargain.
"Deal," He grinned. "Seems like fun."
All of this, he think it was a game!!? It's wasn't a game! Though it was a game to you, it was life to me!!
Anger rise in her body. She suddenly stand up, then walk away in a stomping way like usual. Nachi shouted, calling after her back, doesn't understand which part of their conversation makes her temper goes up again.
She's the one starting the deal, and why is she angry now?
He told himself, quite frustrated. Though he started to get used with her anger now, because that's always her reaction toward him.
In a room with lights off and projector turn on
"This shuffle unit is called 'A-CROSS', from the word across." The designers came out to explain about the concepts. "Because we have one guy and one girl, their image would be opposite, like black and white. Nachi would have the concept 'Dark Liqueur', while Madoka-san would have the concept 'White Dress'." Our debut single 'A-CROSS' would be released on the 3rd of August."
Madoka concentrated on the display showing on the projector.
While Nachi was not even looking at the projector.
"We'll do sound check and fitting today." Suzu-chan concluded to Madoka.
Sound check is when the singer of each part, sometimes even the back-up singer, goes into the studio and try to sing some notes the music producer ask them to so that they could change some of the keys for the song if it didn't match the singer's voice.
And fitting is to actually wear that same clothes and accessory so that the designers can have a preview of how it would look like. This fitting often have problems if the preview is too earlier than the real date the artist would be wearing it. Sometimes the artist became thinner or might gain some more weights. SEED Record doesn't want this problem to happen, so they usually schedule the fitting day today, and the single cover will be shoot tomorrow. (Of course the designers would have to work hard.)
"Work hard to earn it, ok, Madoka?" Suzu-chan softly pat her head.
"Hai!" Madoka answered with a bright smile.
Suzu watched after Madoka's back as she quickly walks away.
Chisato Kurebayashi. You should know you're just not facing all the big problems alone.
"HI, Madoka-san!!" A sweet voice called her from behind.
"Mitsuki? Why are you here?"
"Oshige-san told me there was going to be a welcome party today, so I was going to ask whether Madoka-san is going or not." She answered with an innocent smile like usual.
"A welcome party?" Madoka asked. She doesn't even know about this party yet.
"Yes, it's for the Nachi-kun's new manager. President Kijo thought it's time for Nachi-kun to have his personal manager, because his manager now is Takamura-san, the manager of OZ."
… TO BE CONTINUED
QingZi: I find this chapter not really into much of the story, mostly was details. Anyway, please wait until the next chapter. I promise something interesting! (Smile)