"Okay, babies!" Anna-sensei yelled. "It's time for... Valetines Day self-producing!"
Whispers flittered around the room.
"Anna-sensei."
Laura raised her hand.
"Yes," Anna-sensei called.
"Valentines day is next week."
"Your point?"
"Umm... is that really enough time?"
"What do you think... Yume?"
"Huh?" Yume asked, startled.
"Is one week enough time to self-produce a performance and present it?"
"Of course!" She yelled. "Self-produce is all about soul! If there's a will, there's a way!"
"Correct!" Anna-sensei yelled. "The winning team will get to perform a duet with the winning boys team, which will be on both S4 and M4's shows!"
"Both the most popular girl idols and boy idols' shows?" Yume's asked, her eyes shining.
"Correct!" Anna-sensei said. "Your team can have a maximum of four people. Your teammates must be the same gender, but can be in any grade or class. The performance will be in the grand hall, on February 14."
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"Us four, right?" Laura asked.
"Yeah!" Yume cheered.
"Sure," Mahiru replied.
"Only because you insisted," Ako said rudely.
"All right! That gets me going!" Laura cheered.
"Let's go practice!" Yume yelled.
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"Okay," Mahiru said. "So the song will be Animal Carnival..."
"...and we'll wear the the coords that match," Laura finished.
"So," Ako said," you-" gestures to Yume "- and I will wear the Hopping Animal coord."
"And us two," Mahiru said, pointing towards herself and Laura.
"Will wear the Night Safari coord," Laura declared.
"All right!" Yume said. "Now that the details are settled, let's get practicing!"
"Yeah!" The other girls replied, smiling.
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"Let's take a break," Ako panted. "We've been going at it for two hours nonstop."
"I can still keep going!" Yume said, determined.
"We can't!" The others yelled.
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Yume sighed as she walked around the track.
"This is my last chance to beat S4!" She yelled. "I've gotta work hard!"
"Those are pretty much S4's thoughts," a voice behind her said.
She whirled around.
"Yo, Tomato," Subaru waved.
"What do you mean? Those are S4's thoughts?"
"It's there last chance to win. Except for Yuzu, of course."
"Oh, yeah," Yume said. "This is M4's last year, too, right? Besides Asahi-kun?"
Subaru nodded.
"Really? I'm going to miss you."
Subaru blushed.
"H-hey, Yume," he started.
"Yeah?"
"I... like you!"
"Really? I like you, too!"
He blushed even more.
"R-really?"
"Yep! You're rude, but kind when it counts. I really admire you for getting to the top of the boys division, too!"
Oh, that kind of like, Subaru thought, depressed.
(Now I'm making Yume like Hikari from the Special A/S.A. anime/manga. I might make a FanFiction about that later, too.)
"Hey, where are you going after you graduate?" Yume asked.
"Four Star High," he replied.
"Really? Where is it?"
"About... ten thousand miles to the south of here."
"What? That's far! How am I going to visit you?"
"Visit me?"
"For inspiration! I need help from a top idol occasionally!"
"Oh..."
"Hey, Boiled Octopus."
"What?"
"Are you going to win the contest?"
"Yep!"
"All right! Then I'll win, too! I want to perform with you!"
"R-really?"
"I wanna perform with a top idol!"
"Oh..."
"Well, see ya!" Yume called, running off. "I needs train more!"
Subaru waved half-heartedly.
She can't seem to understand my feelings...
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I realize I said before Episode 39 and no later... but I mentioned an Episode 42 dance/song so... I changed the description! (I'm so selfish...)
