Trucy was in here room, lying on her bed, just thinking about Pearl. She was just so amazing that Trucy couldn't help it. Phoenix wasn't home at the moment, he was out shopping for groceries so he wouldn't be back for a while. Suddenly, she heard the front door open and someone come up the stairs. She knew it wasn't her dad or Apollo as Apollo was working. She began to worry when Pearl walked in front of her open door. Trucy gave off a sigh of relief as she got up from her bed, "Thank goodness it's only you Pearls, I almost had a heart attack, anyway, what are you doing back here?" Trucy noticed Pearl looked like she was at the verge of crying, which she was. Pearl just ran up to Trucy and began sobbing into her shoulder. Trucy didn't know what had happened to her but right now she didn't care. It killed her to see Pearls like this so she had to get her to calm down. She hugged her and began gently stroking the back of her head muttering quietly, "It's ok, it's ok," repeatedly in a gentle tone. However, this didn't work as she continued to cry. Trucy managed to get the two over to her bead so she could sit down. Trucy just couldn't get her to calm down when she suddenly remembered something: when she was little she used to get nightmares, and whenever she did she'd always run crying to Phoenix in his room, and to get her to calm down he would always sing to her. He was bad yes, but it worked. So she figured it would work here. She began to sweetly sing the same song Phoenix would always sing to her, "I've heard there was a secret cord

That David played and it pleased the lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this

The fourth, the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah."

It worked, Pearl had stoped crying and said to Trucy, "You have a beautiful voice."

"Thank you," Trucy said holding her tighter.

"That song," Pearl said, "how do you know it?"

"Daddy used to sing it to me whenever I had a nightmare," Trucy said in response, "It's my favorite song, I guess for that reason."

"I like it," Pearl said, "It might be my favorite now too."

Pearl and Trucy let go of each other and Trucy whipped away tears from Pearl's eyes as she asked, "So why did you come back here and start crying?"

"Well," Pearl began to say, "when I got to the train station and Mystic Tiff was there because Maya is busy training, and well I asked her what the village policy was on homosexuality and well, she said it was a disgrace."

"Well she is completely wrong," Trucy responded as if it was reflex, "What we are doing is not a disgrace, even so why should what the village says matter, knowing Maya she won't care, she loves you too much to see you sad so I know she'll be ok with it.

"You don't understand," Pearl said beginning to cry a little, "if the village finds out I could be shunned and I couldn't live with that."

"Ok, fine we will keep it a secret from them," Trucy said, "I can still tell daddy right?"

"No you can't," Pearl responded suddenly, "if you do he'll tell Maya and the she'll tell the village and then I'll be shunned."

"Alright fine," Trucy said begrudgingly, "What are we going to do now?"

Pearl rested her head on Trucy's lap, "I don't know, we'll think of something." Peal began to cry again.

"Ok, sweetie," Trucy said as she stroked Pearl's hair, beginning to cry herself. Pearl fell asleep there as Trucy sat there, worrying about what was going to happen, quietly signing Hallelujah to herself to help her feel better.