I'm happy. Why? Because I saw that I have over 1K hits on this story. Yes, I have a lot of chapters, and yes, I know that some people have 1K reviews, but I feel like it's a satisfying number. It means a decent amount of people are following my story, right? :D
So as you read this chapter, you may be thinking: "What in the world is this!"
I mean, I was. I have no clue what was going through my head, I just enjoy writing about lighthearted stuff, and besides, it has a purpose. Sort of? Yeah, whatever, just enjoy the happy mood xD
"Two weeks until the concert...I can't deal with this!" Miku exclaimed, pacing her room as she threw her hands up in the air. SeeU watched her nervously.
"I told you, I'm really sorry for lying about us," SeeU said weakly.
Miku threw her a sideways glance. "Well, not just that, but poor Rin and Len. I made them promise to sing a song that embarrasses them, and even worse is the fact that I don't know if they've gotten past their little 'best friends' phase or not." Miku squinted out the window at the morning sunlight glinting off of buildings. "I don't want to ask them. It could even be one-sided."
SeeU got up and stood in front of Miku, staring her down. Miku gave up trying to get around her and stared back. "What?" she asked the blonde.
"Relax. Rin and...Len are no different than when you first met them. You're just getting too worked up about it. You're making this hard on yourself," SeeU reassured.
"Do you really think so? How would you know they're the same? You didn't know them since they were created," Miku retorted, somewhat insensitively.
SeeU put her hands on her hips and tilted her head. "Tell me what you think has changed," she said.
"Well, Len got more mature, Rin got a little bit more subdued and more clever, they both are more dependent now that I'm gone, they stick together more, they act older..." Miku stopped, realizing she was starting to run out of things and she really was just repeating the same thing. "They're just more mature."
SeeU looked unfazed. "Do you think maybe they just needed to stop being babied...by you? Have their personalities, their inclinations, or ideas been changed?"
Miku thought for a moment. "No..." she started quietly, her gaze dropping to somewhere off in the distance to avoid looking at SeeU's expression. Then she looked back up fiercely. "But how do I know you're not trying to reassure yourself? That you don't want Len and Rin to be together, because you're in love with Len?" she nearly shouted.
SeeU pursed her lips before a smile crept onto her face and she let out a small laugh. "Heh, that wasn't really...I mean for a little while I sort of..." SeeU paused. "I don't like him like that anymore, and I really just want to help you, OK?"
Miku felt guilty about her small outburst. "Ah...sorry," she said, taking a step back and looking down. "So I should stop trying to pair people together in my head?" she asked in a small voice.
SeeU laughed for real. "Is that what you've been doing? Is it because of Haku and Kaito?"
"I guess it is," Miku admitted, realizing that SeeU was right.
"Well, just push every suspecting idea out of your head then. Kaito and Haku are the only ones madly in love," SeeU said with an airy giggle.
Miku laughed. "I always knew they were in love. Every since they were holding hands. No lie can deny that," she said, and retreated to her bed so she could be comfortable.
SeeU lay down on the bed next to her, with her hands behind her head. Miku playfully pushed SeeU, but accidentally shoved too hard. SeeU rolled off the bed with a loud thump.
"Ow," she said, laughing on the floor at Miku's worried expression. Miku realized SeeU wasn't hurt and threw a pillow at her, faking annoyance. SeeU, who was on her knee, trying to get up, was knocked off balance and rolled backwards again.
Miku pounced off the bed and started whacking SeeU with the pillow repeatedly. SeeU held her hands in front of her face to block the pillow. "St-stop," she said, between laughter.
"At least it's not my leek," Miku said, throwing the pillow down to join SeeU's laughter. She lay on the floor for a while, trembling with inexplicable giggles. She finally stopped and glanced over at SeeU.
"This is kind of how I used to play with Rin and Len," she said, a hint of sadness in her voice. SeeU stopped laughing.
"Oh...do you want to stop?" SeeU asked, looking concerned.
Miku looked thoughtful for a moment. "Nope," she said, breaking into a smile before she picked up the pillow and tossed it onto SeeU, who snatched it and threw it out of reach.
SeeU stuck out her tongue and dove into her own bed. Miku leaned against a wall, tired from laughing so hard.
"You really shouldn't leave your door open so often."
Miku's head whipped around at the familiar voice, and she saw Len and Rin standing in the doorway, surrounded by a couple of other Vocaloids and Utauloids. Rin was stifling laughter and Len had a quizzical smile on his face, not unlike the one Kaito often wore.
SeeU crawled to the end of her bed to get a clearer view of the doorway. Len glanced at her quickly, his smile momentarily faltering, before looking back at Miku.
"So...how long have you been here exactly?" Miku asked, slightly embarrassed, moving her finger around to indicate everyone standing at her door.
"Well, Rin and I were walking down this hallway when we heard our names. The rooms are always so soundproof, so we figured a door was open. We were going to go see if it was intended to be open, when we saw it was you," Len explained.
"We didn't say anything, but I think this crowd here decided it was OK to watch too," Rin added, pointing her thumb behind her.
"Ah, and why didn't you say anything?"
"We sorta got here when you were talking about our 'little "best friend" phase' and we really wanted to know what you were talking about. Of course you wouldn't have continued if you knew we were here. It's a surprise you didn't notice until I said something," Len replied.
Miku felt the urge to glare at the two but she really couldn't imagine doing anything differently if she had been in their position.
Len saw Miku's expressions changing as she thought. "Was my one-sided attraction to Rin too obvious?" he asked, faking concern, and Rin gave in to giggles. She leaned over and kissed Len rather abruptly and he raised his eyebrows at her before looking back at Miku to continue with jokes that he apparently had planned for this moment.
"See, only non-attracted friends can do that," Rin interrupted, pointing at Len, who was in mid-sentence about Miku babying Rin and him.
Len rolled his eyes. "Maybe I just think you're a bad kisser," he joked, repeating what Rin had said when Miku and Kaito had been in that situation during Christmas. Apparently Rin didn't remember it, because she looked slightly hurt. Len saw her expression. "What, were you trying to kiss me well?" he asked in a skeptical tone.
Rin's expression changed to defiant. "No," she defended. "You just don't tell a girl she can't kiss well."
"Yet you can say that about a guy?" Len asked, forgetting other people were still watching. Rin nodded. "Fine then, you can't say that about this guy," he said, making it obvious he was joking. He still kissed Rin back though, and dramatic claps resounded from inside the room and outside in the hallway.
Len pulled away quickly, embarrassed, realizing a bunch of people just saw him do that. Rin had an evil smirk on her face. Len looked at her incredulously. "Don't tell me you planned that too."
"How would I plan such an elaborate conversation just to lead up to that?" she asked, the innocence in her voice also taunting.
Len shook his head. "You have an unhealthy obsession with tricking people into kissing," he said, annoyed.
"Two times! That's it," Rin defended, shaking Len roughly by his shoulders.
Len finally glanced at Miku and SeeU, both appearing to be thoroughly interested in the scene that was playing out. He glanced in the opposite direction at the random Vocaloids and Utauloids that had decided to stay, and they quickly walked away. He looked back at Miku.
"You really shouldn't leave your door open so often," Miku mocked, knowing it didn't fit the context.
Len sighed. "Whatever. Rin and I aren't dating, we never have been, we never will be. End of story, I'm leaving."
He started walking off and Rin glanced at him before waving childishly and skipping off.
Miku looked at SeeU who was lying on her stomach, propped up on her elbows. "What just happened?" Miku asked, amused and confused.
SeeU stared at her with a straight face. "I have absolutely no clue."
They both burst out laughing again, Miku leaping up and scampering across the room to shut the door. When they had settled down again, Miku sighed happily. "Thanks for lightening my mood," she said genuinely.
"No problem," SeeU replied. "If I were in a concert, I'd probably be stressed out too."
"No you wouldn't," Miku objected. "You'd be so excited to sing in front of so many people..."
"So why aren't you?"
Miku was silent for a moment. "I don't know. I was at first, but then I realized I still couldn't ignore everything going on around me." She pointed to the large stack of papers she had to attend to eventually. "So now I just have to deal with more problems."
SeeU laughed shortly. "How is singing in a concert a problem? You don't exactly have to prepare for it."
"All this mental preparation...it's really getting to me," Miku said in a voice that was supposed to be serious but it was obvious she was joking.
"OK well how about you ignore the mental preparation and actually do something productive," SeeU responded, getting up and grabbing Miku's songs. "Let's go sing your songs." She walked out of the room.
"Let's?" Miku called after her as she followed. "As in us?" She huffed. "That would be incorrect. I will be singing my songs."
"Whatever you say."
Miku pretended to glare at SeeU. She stopped dead in her tracks when she realized she was being observed by some other Vocaloids and Utauloids in the hallway. She groaned.
"SeeU, they still think we're dating," she complained, lowering her voice. "I can't live with this."
SeeU continued walking. "OK, then how about we break up?"
Miku laughed. "Wouldn't that be too cliche?"
SeeU thought for a moment. "I don't really think they'd care," she said, still keeping her voice low as they entered the outside room of the recording room.
"But I'd feel so awkward doing that," Miku started complaining again. "I don't think I'd convince anybody."
"Well what if you pretend that you found out I was using you to get to know Len and that I was going to break up with you eventually, so you got mad? Then we'd be saving Len from any accusations that might arouse about Rin and him, and we'd be ending any suspicion about ourselves," SeeU decided.
"Nobody knows about that suggestive video with Len and Rin in it yet though," Miku sighed. "What if they find out about it somehow and think Len's cheating on you?" Miku asked, her eyes wide.
"Oh my gosh would you just stop thinking about it so hard," SeeU said, laughing. "It'll work just fine, OK? Just don't worry about it, I'll do most of the talking. Now go sing your songs."
Miku reluctantly took her stack of papers and went into the recording room to sing. SeeU sat down on a couch and closed her eyes, anticipating Miku's lionized voice.
She relaxed as she listened to Miku's many songs, and didn't notice the door open and close next to her. She opened her eyes as she felt the couch shift. Len was sitting next to her.
"So, you plan to break up with Miku, huh?" he asked with a knowing smile.
SeeU looked at him quizzically. "How did you know that? Were you eavesdropping?"
"I am as good at hearing things as Rin is at planning things and Haku is at observing things," he answered, looking proud of himself.
"So where were you when Miki started spreading the rumor?" SeeU mumbled, somewhat to herself.
"Oh I don't know, trying to stop her until you said yourself it was true," Len said, slightly annoyed. He sighed. "So when do you plan to break up with Miku?"
"I guess right after she gets done singing," SeeU said, though it sounded more like a question than a statement.
"That could take a while," Len said simply, as SeeU closed her eyes again.
Rin bounced into the room, full of energy as ever. "Oh, there you are!" she said, looking at Len. "Hi SeeU," she added, noticing the cat-eared girl. She sat down right between Len and SeeU even though there wasn't enough space. Len moved over, faking disgust.
"So what are we doing?" asked Rin in a singsong voice. "Listening to Miku hold a concert?" she asked, nodding in the direction of the door to the recording room.
SeeU opened her eyes and looked at Rin. "I suppose that could be what it is," she said, smiling. "I'm sure Miku would argue otherwise though. She seems really worked up about that concert."
"I know, right?" Rin asked, faking agreed shock. "Actually, I don't know. I haven't spoken to her too much. But it definitely seems like something she'd do. I mean if you think about it, she just came off of being denied friendship by like...all of her friends. It'd make me really insecure," She asserted, then seemed to change her mind. "Actually, just kidding. I don't think anything could make me insecure."
Len glared at Rin. "That sounds about right," he mumbled. "Definitely not other people's embarrassment."
The three sat in near silence for the rest of Miku's songs, only humming along occasionally to catchy repetitive tunes. When she was finished, Miku opened the door and saw that Rin and Len had joined SeeU. A faint blush appeared on her cheeks. Rin noticed.
"Aw look, she pretends she wants everyone's attention, but when she really sings in front of people, she gets embarrassed," Rin said, in a maddeningly sweet tone. Len raised an eyebrow at Rin.
Miku pursed her lips and started to walk past them to the door. SeeU jumped up from the couch, making Rin fall over on her side. Len laughed.
"Wait," SeeU said quickly, and Miku stopped reaching for the doorknob. "We're going to break up now, remember?"
Miku's eyes widened. "Now?" she asked incredulously. "But I don't have any clue what I'm going to say! I didn't have any time to practice," she objected.
"Well, if you had time to practice, you wouldn't sound convincing at all. Now come on," SeeU said, as she grabbed Miku's wrist and pulled her out the door. Rin and Len looked at each other quickly before following them out of the room.
Oooo, what will happen next...
Ok I guess there's some sort of plot in this chapter. It's better than I thought at first. Unfortunately, after the next chapter, I will have caught up to my prewritten chapters (yes, I have been writing as often as possible, but eventually time caught up to me.) Since I have a lot of stuff to do for school, I won't be able to write a lot, so it might be a little while before I continue a normal schedule :(
Good thing the next chapter isn't a cliff hanger or anything.
