A/N: Nothing to do on a sunday. Here's another chapter. XP

Chapter 3

I woke up to the smell of eggs and bacon. My eyes snapped open and the only thought in my brain was food. My nose lead me to the kitchen and I busted out in laughter. Yuu stood in the middle of the kitchen in pajama shorts and a tank top for her spare clothes she always had over here, but what got me was the apron that she wore. It had a picture of Daffy Duck on the front and next to him it read "Seriously I don't know when that UFO landed here & dumped all these stupid people, but apparently they aren't coming back for them."

Yuu grinned at me as she held up a spatula. "I'm spending the day with you today!"

I snorted, "You're just avoiding your editor."

She shrugged her shoulders as she dished me up a plate. I wasn't aloud near the stove. "Eh, maybe I am avoiding him because my next book is due the day after tomorrow."

I nearly dropped the cups I had grabbed, "Yuu!"

She shrugged again. "He'll live. Let's eat!"

I shook my head at her and filled the cups. I sat down at the table with her and I heard the phone ring. I rose to answer it but Yuu waved me off. "Don't bother it's been ringing since five this morning." She shoved a bit of egg in her mouth.

I sat back down. "Who is it?"

"The media." Another bite. "They want to interview you. The papers just want you to answer some questions but there have been some requests for live interviews on a few news channels."

I took a bite of the eggs. Mmm. "How do you know all this?" I added some salt and pepper.

Yuu swallowed, "That little girl you made? She's really helpful. After the first phone call I had her check your emails and she sorted out all the ones that were requesting an interview. It seems a lot of people want you there in person. They're trusting electronics less and less. It's chaos."

"Kat told you that didn't she." I deadpanned. Yuu could barely manage anything other than writing and emails.

"Yeah, she did."

I shoved the rest of the eggs in my mouth, chewed and swallowed before slamming my head on the table. "Could you just handle setting everything up for me? I'm really not cut out for this."

"Do that anymore and you'll get a headache. I'll start making the calls right after this."

An hour later I was in my computer room and Yuu walked in talking a mile a minute. All I got of it was papers, websites and that she was very, very, very sorry. She kept blabbering on about some interview until she realized I wasn't listening. "Are you listening?"

I snorted, "Well I hear you talking."

She groaned, "Listen, I set it to where you don't have to answer any questions for the papers, but the TV interviewers were pretty insistent. It's up to you on whether you can do them, but I think it's a bad idea. You freaked out yesterday with only six people in the room."

"It was seven, for the record." I rubbed at my temples.

"Still," she pushed. "It's not going to be just a few people, there's going to be tons of people there. Have you seen how many people work backstage on these things? Tons, it won't even take a minute-"

"I know that!" I snapped. I paused and took a breath in an effort to not snap at my adoptive sister. "I… I don't know…what I'm thinking. I know that I can't handle that many people but… I'm going to do it." The finality in my voice kept Yuu from arguing. I was thankful. It was painfully obvious to me that I wouldn't be able to handle being indoors with as many people as there were going to be in that building. I shoved the keyboard forward and my head met my desk. Why would I want to go to a place that I knew would be packed with people? Why would I willingly put myself in a position where I would have a panic attack?

I sat up and shook my head. I didn't have time for this. Maybe I should just go see a psychiatrist or something. Whatever, I needed to get back to work. "Kat, scan for any ways into the program from here. I'm going to go take a shower."

"Alrighty!" Kat chirped. "You're the boss!"

I shook my head and stood up. "If there isn't anything you can go ahead and shut down." I left my computer room and slowly made my way to my room.

I paused in the living room where Yuu was talking on the phone. She waved me over and covered the mic, "Where you going?"

"Shower," I told her.

She nodded, "Want help with your hair afterward?"

I smiled, "That would be amazing." She nodded and I proceeded to the shower.

The next hour and a half was heavenly and only came with one interruption.

Yuu popped her head into the bathroom, "Do you want to get it over with? There's an opening on tonight's news show if you want it."

I sighed and leaned against the wall. "Yeah I'll take it. But only if you set out some clothes for me."

She snorted, "With your wardrobe? I'll need to go shopping."

"Ha ha," I said dryly.

Her head disappeared from the door. Another forty-five minutes in the shower and I was a prune. I stepped out of the shower, dried myself off and got dressed. After wrangling with my hair for the next twenty minutes (I'm not kidding), I gave up and stared into the mirror. Silver-grey eyes stared back at me, and my wet jet black hair dangled below my knees. I really liked my long hair, that or I was too lazy to go get it cut. It was one of those. I sighed; we would have to do something with my hair. Ugh, maybe I should just cut it. I draped the towel around my shoulders in a half-hearted attempt to keep my clothes from getting wet and left the bathroom.

I stepped back in shock when I opened the bathroom door; this was a war zone. Yuu had my closet torn apart, my clothes were everywhere. The bed, the floor, even on the ceiling fan. Jezz, this lady is insane.

"You have nothing in here! Nothing! Do you understand me?" Yuu screamed from the closet. I dogged a flying sweatshirt. She walked out of the closet holding a hanger, a hanger that held a dress I had hoped I had hid, damn. "What is this?"

I shrugged, picking up some clothes from the floor in bad attempt to ignore her.

"Don't you just shrug at me! This is exactly what we needed!" Yuu cleared a spot on the bed and laid the dress down. It was a dark purple, with long sleeves and a lace on the rim. Thankfully it wasn't the itchy kind. It went down to about my knees when I had it on. I don't know why she wanted me to wear it, it seemed like it wasn't suited for an interview but Yuu insisted and who am I to deny a crazy woman her chance to dress me up? …I hate this.

Another two and a half hours filled with hair driers, brushes, makeup and a bunch of other thing I didn't know the names of. Though she did give me food and let me have a couple sodas so I lived through the torture. I don't know what she did to my hair to get it all on the top of my head but she did and it looked good, so I knew it was going to be a pain to get out.

Sadly we couldn't take Yuu's bike due to the fact that I was in a dress (damn it), so we had to take the jeep that was sitting in my garage collecting dust because I couldn't drive yet. Now let it be said that Yuu drives like a maniac and I was already nervous about being around so many people. Her driving did not help. By the time we got into the studio parking lot and out of the car I was stiff as a freaking board.

I plugged my ears in and followed Yuu through the parking lot; we flashed our visitors ID at a security guard and he let us into a building that I'm assuming was where the news took place. My brain went on autopilot as it attempted to tune out the awareness of all the people in the room.

Someone bumped my arm and my brain nearly shut down on itself. I kept my eyes trained on Yuu's ponytail, ignoring all of the chaos in my peripheral vision.

Basically I had to rely on Yuu getting me through this crowd of people. Of course for most it wouldn't feel like that many people but I was having trouble staying calm. I ducked my head, turned up my music and tucked my arms in, trying to keep from bumping into people. I watched Yuu's heels as I walked and ran into her when she stopped. Of course it didn't faze her, love this girl.

Yuu began to walk again and I followed after her like a little puppy and she led me through a door way. I watched her feet turn and felt her tap on my shoulder. I flinched and internally yelled at myself for doing so.

I peeked through my hair at her and nearly jumped when I caught her frowning at me. Idiot! I yelled at myself. It's just Yuu! Why the hell are you flinching? I thought I was over this! At least with Yuu, DAMNIT!

I pulled out my ears, and put them away. I could make it without them for now. I looked around; it almost looked like a last minute throw together of a dressing room.

"I had this set up for you." My head whipped back to Yuu, her face held no expression. "It took a little bit of explaining but I got it set up. You'll be staying in here until you go on. If you feel like braving the room with the rest of them then go for it."

I closed my eyes and tried to control my heart rate. "Sorry, I'm just a little jumpy."

She snapped her fingers at me and I looked up. She gave me a smile, "I know but you can handle it."

"And if I can't?"

Yuu grinned, "Don't pass out on stage."

I socked her in the shoulder, "Jerk!"

She let out a laugh, "But you feel better now right?" I smiled.

"Knock, knock!" called a cheery voice.

I jumped, and turned to the door. A blonde haired woman had poked her head in the door. She smiled at me. "Hi, I'm Claudia Jentrie, the newswoman. I'll be doing your interview. I just wanted to talk with you before things start to get crazy around here."

That wasn't crazy?

"Hey," Her hands dropped onto my shoulders and I flinched. She looked me in the eye with a serious look. "You are an amazing girl. Trying to help all those people stuck inside that game. Having that much weight on your shoulders and being so young, makes you amazing. And don't let anybody tell you otherwise."

"T-Thank you." The words barely made it out of my mouth before she started to talk again.

"Oh and by the way, you look amazing in that dress. The color really suits you." She smiled at me as she headed for the door, "Somebody will come get you when we want you." She left and the door shut.

I blinked, "Wait, what just happened?"

Yuu laughed behind me, "You got a compliment, several of them actually."

I shook my head. "Nope, that was just weird." I sat in one of the chairs and began to fidget. I think Yuu got tired of my nervousness and she told me to pull out my iPod. I did and I plugged in my head phones. I leaned my head back and tuned out everything else.

Next thing I know Yuu's tapping on my shoulder. I pulled out my ears.

"They're ready for you." She said.

Crap.