This chapter...was totally unexpected. Like seriously. I'm just as bad as Miku at writing speeches, so sorry about that xD But the ending of this chapter...

"I can't do this. I can't do this. Why am I doing this?" Miku paced back and forth in the hallway. Rin and Len watched her.

"Because-"

"Why do you look so calm?" Miku exclaimed, interrupting Len.

"Hey, relax. Just be normal. It's not really as big a deal as you're making it seem," he assured her.

"YES IT IS."

Len shook his head. "Well, are you going to go? Meiko's been waiting," he said, pointing at Meiko standing by a corner at the end of the hallway.

Miku glared at nothing in particular. "Fine, I'm going. You and Rin are supposed to come too, you know."

"We're coming, don't worry," Rin said, before bounding past Miku. Len and Miku followed Rin and Meiko to the stage, where an audience was gathering.

"Did you memorize your speeches?" Meiko asked, once they had arrived and a curtain had descended.

"Not like I wanted to," Miku grumbled under her breath before nod

ding reluctantly.

"Good! Rin, Len, is it OK if you guys go first?" Meiko requested.

"Yep. Definitely. They're going first," Miku answered. Rin and Len shrugged.

"I guess we're going first then," Rin said with a smile.

"Ah-" Miku started, but seemed to change her mind. "Good luck," she said weakly, before going offstage. Meiko left to manage the curtains, and Len and Rin were left standing in front of microphones as the curtains parted.

Miku ran out of the auditorium as fast as possible. It wasn't that she didn't want to hear Len and Rin's speech, she was just afraid that they would do really well, and make hers seem terrible in comparison. She ran straight to the recording room, the only place that didn't have speakers emitting Rin's introduction.

"I'm a terrible person," she said aloud. "I should be supporting Rin and Len, but what am I doing? I'm hiding from them." She sighed.

"Eheh, you're not terrible."

Miku looked around for the source of the small voice. She spotted a girl with pink hair sitting on a couch.

"Do I know you?" Miku asked. "And how would you know what kind of a person I am, anyway?" she added.

The familiar girl smiled shyly. "I'm Momo. Momone Momo. You met me when you were first created, remember? But I suppose your life is too filled with other exciting memories to remember something like that," she said sincerely. "You can't be a terrible person, otherwise people wouldn't love you."

Miku scowled. "They love my voice, not me. They don'

t know me either. Why are you here?"

"I felt like coming here."

"But everyone is gathered at the stage where Rin and Len are giving a speech," Miku said.

"You aren't there. Aren't you even giving a speech too?"

Miku sighed again. "I'm supposed to be, yes. I don't even know when Rin and Len will be done. For all I know, everyone is looking for me right now," Miku said in a reproachful tone. "But I don't really care," she added.

"Well, if it matters for anything, I thought it was pretty cool just to meet you again now that you're famous, even if you didn't remember who I was," Momo said. "If you don't give your speech, at least go acknowledge the others. Make friends with them. Take it from me, they idolize you."

Miku felt a little bit guilty. "What about Rin and Len? Aren't they famous too?" she asked.

"Rin and Len don't seem as...hard to reach...because they're really friendly. They seem like normal Vocaloids, but you're almost fictional, because of how famous you are and how little you actually interact with others as a whole. Maybe it seems like more of an accomplishment to meet you just because you don't go out and make an effort to meet a lot of people. I don't know if you'd consider that a good thing," Momo said seriously.

Miku suddenly remembered what SeeU had said. "You have to pretend you're just speaking to one of us."

"So, if I go do my speech, will you be there to watch it?" Miku asked Momo quietly.

Momo smiled and nodded. "Of course," she said.

Miku exhaled slowly before getting up. She went to the doorway before taking one more look at Momo, who gave an encouraging smile. Miku walked out the door and made her way back to the stage.

To Miku's relief, she found Len still finishing up the speech. She went quietly around the room until she was at the side of the stage with Meiko. Meiko looked at Miku, but didn't ask any questions. Len finished the speech, he and Rin bowed, and just like that, it was Miku's turn.

Miku walked up the few steps onto the raised stage and stepped in front of a microphone. For a moment she stood there, her shaky breaths echoing through speakers. Then she closed her eyes and started.

"My name is Hatsune Miku. I am a Vocaloid. My character item is a leek." Miku paused for a moment. "I have stage fright."

She paused again to regain her determination.

"I woke up in a white room. I walked through equally white walls. I didn't know how to talk. I didn't know who anyone was. I didn't know who I was." Miku scanned the room, looking for anyone she might know to reassure her.

"I stilll don't know who many of you are." Miku saw Haku and Kaito in the crowd. They smiled at her.

"But I want to change that now, and this is my speech." Miku tried to find her other friends in the crowd. She wondered if Rin and Len had looked for her, when she had been avoiding their speech. She felt guilt start to settle in, but she brushed it off in the few seconds it took her to gather her thoughts.

"Vocaloids and Utauloids are robots, right? So we can remember everything. But we can only remember what we know. My experience here is colored by how much I knew during each memory. No matter how much information I gain, my old memories are still the same.

"The first person I met was the lady with short brown hair. She taught me who she was, and where I was, and who I was supposed to be. I walked through winding halls that all looked the same, yet I could recall each direction as it changed. I sang one sound to open a door. There was a clock, and a fabric wall, and light beyond that wall. Everything was exciting.

"I learned how to sing different words, but my favorite phrase is and has always been 'ah.' I met two Vocaloids that I remember as Right and Left. I picked out my character item, but the only thing I can associate with it is embarrassment and pretend violence.

"My roommates urged me to go meet more people, but I regret to admit that I only paid attention to my roommates, so any memories of those days are fuzzy.

"I was Older Sister, but that didn't always go well. I was mean. I yelled at my favorite people in the world. I embarrassed myself. I looked out only for myself. The few teachers I had liked me, but because it never struck me that they would like other students, I decided I was special. This fact seemed to be confirmed when I started getting more and more songs.

"I met others. It wasn't because I wanted to, and it wasn't because I liked their personalities, at least at first. I'm friends with them now because they helped me. They helped me out of my selfish world, where only I existed. And even now, it may be selfish to remember them as if they earned the privilege by being helpful to me.

"The truth is, I was special. It's just a fact that shows itself as I'm standing here, in front of you all right now. But I've realized I can't treat others like they aren't special. There will be plenty of singers that are better than me. There are plenty of others who have better personalities than me. I've made so many mistakes. I've messed up in front of so many people, and I've hurt others at times.

"But all through this, everyone has believed I was amazing. People in the world outside here love me because of my voice. I can't control my voice though. I didn't choose to be created with this type of voice. If I had gotten to choose, I probably wouldn't have picked this voice. But people love it, along with my looks, which I also didn't choose.

"I guess what I'm saying here is that humans, and even some of you, have made me famous for what I can't control. I really want to be famous for what kind of personality I have. I don't know how that would work, but I want to start by getting to know some more of you."

Miku opened her mouth to say some more, but suddenly Rin ran over to the second microphone and started speaking in a loud voice. "For those of you who have no clue what she's talking about, don't worry, we don't either!" she said, motioning to Len and herself. "She didn't plan to say that," she added, smiling at Miku.

Len ran over and stole the microphone from Rin. "That was very impolite of Rin; ignore what she just said. Miku is doing very awesomely."

"Awesomely isn't a word," Rin mumbled under her breath.

"It is too a word!" Len defended.

SeeU stood up in the crowd and started clapping dramatically. "Yeah! Great speeches you guys!" Some people in the crowd giggled. Miku was blushing. She ran off stage hurriedly to go to SeeU, and the audience applauded.

When Miku found SeeU, she groaned. "That was terrible," she whined.

"Well, you're not exactly a natural public speaker," SeeU said with a giggle. Miku glared at her. "What?" SeeU asked innocently.

"Why did Meiko make me do that? There was no point to that whatsoever!" Miku said in an exasperated voice.

"Well, there might've been a point if you had said what we told you what to," SeeU said with her hands on her hips. "But I'm sure it had some point," SeeU said, upon seeing Miku's regretful look. "Is there anything from this day that will change what happens in the future?"

"Of course," Miku said.

"Anything good?"

"I don't know. I met Momo," Miku suggested.

SeeU looked confused, but kept talking. "And who's that?"

"An Utauloid. She told me I was harder to reach than Rin or Len. So I guess I'll make more of an effort to make friends?" Miku said, making it sound like a question.

SeeU beamed. "Good! Let's go pick a random door and say hi!" she said

excitedly, seeing that everybody was starting to go back to their rooms.

"Oh, right," Miku said. "You're like-"

Before she could finish her sentence, SeeU had grabbed her by the wrist and was pulling her out the door at a run. Miku had to sprint to keep up.

"Where exactly are we going?" Miku asked as they ran.

"To meet a friend!" SeeU replied.

"Why do we have to run to the opposite side of the building to do that?" Miku asked, exasperated.

SeeU stopped abruptly and Miku fell over. "Good point," SeeU said, and knocked on the nearest door while Miku got up.

"Thanks for helping me up," Miku said sarcastically.

"Anytime," SeeU replied, as the door opened. "Ooh, it's a boy," she said, turning to Miku.

"I can see that, thank you very much," said Miku.

SeeU lightly hit Miku on the shoulder. "You're being rude, say hi!"

Miku looked at SeeU in disbelief before turning to the confused boy with white hair in the doorway. "Ah, hi?" Miku said nervously. "What's you're name?"

The boy smiled. "Utatane Piko. This is my roommate, Nagone Makoto." He motioned to another boy with black hair. They stood expectantly, waiting for Miku to say something else.

Miku made a small noise before turning to SeeU in panic. "This is so awkward! What am I supposed to do now?" she said in a whisper, though the two boys could hear her just fine.

SeeU looked thoughtful. "Hm, that is a good point. All your other friends were just sort of forced upon you. So this would be hard for you."

Miku turned back to Piko and Makoto. "Do you know how to play Go Fish? I...SeeU's the only one who could play right now, and it's lonely to play with only one other person," she said.

SeeU gave Miku an encouraging pat. "That's it! Good job!"

Piko shook his head. "We don't know how, but we could learn, right, Makoto?" Makoto nodded.

"OK then, you can come to SeeU and my room. I think I have a deck of cards in there somewhere," Miku said, stepping back so Piko and Makoto could come out of the room.

As they walked down the hall, Piko sped up to walk next to Miku. "So, I've known who you were since I got here, which actually wasn't very long ago. And...the first thing I heard about you was that you were in a relationship with SeeU. I heard it from a blonde-haired girl, that I know now is Rin. Then, later, you and SeeU had some fight that I only saw the end of. But now, you two seem like best friends. What happened, exactly?"

Miku heard SeeU giggle. She sighed, then laughed a little herself. "Being famous is hard sometimes," she said dramatically. "It's kind of a long story, though. It almost seems like a secret, because if the truth got out to everyone, they might be disappointed. I guess I could tell you though," she decided.

As Miku told the story, she found herself enjoying herself more and more. The group rounded the last corner before arriving at their room before someone ran into them, breathing hard.

"OK, my name is Gumi, but that doesn't really matter right now, because Rin isn't talking!"

Miku was confused. "What?" she asked cluelessly. Gumi shook her head in panic.

"Just come with me!"

WHAT HAPPENED TO RIN? We may never know.

Just kidding, you'll know on Monday. Don't lose any sleep over it.