Bonjour!

Violet here, and once again, I am ever so sorry about being late. It is just not acceptable, however, with the amount of schoolwork and music work we have it is so overwhelming and we almost forgot about this story! Luckily Erin reminded Dom about it and we got to work.

Dom: This is the new chapter, the next one will be much more exciting, i can assure you.

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23.

"You did? Thank you ever so much, Ritsu," Tsumugi's voice weaved it's way through Ritsu's ears as she recounted that night's events. The drummer was sitting on her bed, twirling a drumstick in her hand with her phone in the other. She grinned slightly as she stared at the gun on her desk.

"No problem, Mugi, but what exactally are you planning to do with this?" Ritsu asked in a careful voice, she didn't want Mugi to snap at her again. There was silence on the other end of the line, until Ritsu spoke again in an uneasy tone.

"S-Sorry, did I offend you in anyway?"
"No, you did not, I was just thinking about something else," Tsumugi responded in a dreamy voice. Ritsu rolled her eyes as the blond started speaking.
"That card is yours to keep. I will let you know when I need you again, good night, Ritsu," after that, Tsumugi hung up, leaving Ritsu to stare into the phone like a stunned mullet.

"Keep the card? What the hell am I going to do with it?"

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The morning was quiet for Mio. She woke up, ate breakfast and worked on some songs, even though the group hadn't practised for some time. As she sat at her computer, staring at the composition she had just done, until a gentle, muffled tweet came from the left of her desk. Looking up, she saw a beautiful bird chirping at her, the melody passing through the locked window. Mio smiled, then reached over and opened the window, allowing the fresh air and melody to enter the room. She smiled, then looked back at the composition, and rearranged the bass line to the melody from the bird.

"That's much better," she said in a soft voice, reading over the notes. They blended with Tsumugi's piano part, and her heart sank at the thought of Tsumugi.

She hadn't heard from her in a while, and she was getting worried that she was up to something. She also hadn't heard from Ritsu or Yui. However, she did get news from her mother that Azusa would be out of the hospital in two days, so she was relieved about that.

"At least she's safe," Mio thought as she got back to work on the composition. However, there was a light knock on the door.

"Come in," Mio said, knowing who it was anyway. The door opened, and in walked Mio's father, Omezo. He was a tall, strong built man with short black hair and goatee with metallic grey eyes and a tattoo on his left arm of a dragon. He smiled at his daughter, walking over to her as Mio stopped what she was doing and looked up at him.

"Morning," she said, returning the smile. Omezo looked at the window, and noticed the little bird, who had gone quiet when he walked in, but stayed in the same spot.

"I just got a call from mum, she had to go in early for a particular reason."
That caught Mio's attention. She perked up and blinked at the words, hands resting on her jeans. Omezo put his hands in his own jeans pockets and continued talking.

"It's about Yui."
Mio jolted out of the chair with anticipation. She was no where near as tall as her father, but she looked into his grey eyes with emergency.
"What is it? Is she okay? Will she need to be in there for longer? Is she getting better?"

Omezo took his left hand out of his pocket and placed his palm against Mio's forehead. It was a method he used to tell her to calm down. Mio immediately fell quiet as her father sighed.

"She'll live, but she's anaemic, so she can't leave the hospital just yet."
Mio sighed in relief, more good news about her friends. Omezo looked down at his daughter with sad eyes, then gave her another hug.

"Mind you, she will be in there for some time until she gets enough strength to get back on her feet," he said, looking at the top of his daughter's head. Mio stepped back from her father and pushed the raven hair behind her ear and looked up.

"Thanks for the news," she said in a soft voice. Omezo smiled, kissed her forehead and left the room.

The day rolled on, and Mio found herself to be doing things that she normally didn't do. For starters, after her father left, she spent half an hour rearranging her room. At lunch, she spent more time playing with her food than eating it. The most bizarre was at 2pm, when she sat on her bed picking at her fingernails.

"Woah, I need to get out before I do anything else obscure," Mio thought, sitting up and looking down at her fingers. She had picked most of the sides off, and she squeaked in fright. She put bandaids on and rubbed her temples. She had nothing else to do, and she didn't want to call Tsumugi just yet, she would wait a little bit.
"Maybe I should call Ritsu, we haven't hung out in a while," She thought to herself, looking at the paper on her desk. The school holidays were upon them now, so there was no school to hold her back, only holiday work, but she had already completed it. Looking at the clock, it was 6:30pm. Thinking about her stomach for the first time, she stood up and got ready to go downstairs. However, as she walked to the door, her phone rang. She recognised the ringtone, and practically dived onto her desk to answer the jingle.

"Hello?" she said in a lively voice, even though she already knew who was on the other end.
"Mio? Hey, it's Ritsu," came the drummer's voice through the line. Mio sat back down in her chair and smiled. Ritsu right now was the most "normal" person she knew at the moment. Gripping the phone, she started to speak.

"H-hey Ritsu, how have you been?"
"I'm tired, groggy and not keen for anything," The drummer responded in a flat voice that made Mio sigh. She's was happy to hear Ritsu's voice, but she wasn't keen on listening to her problems.

"So what does that have to do with me?" she asked in a bitter voice, getting annoyed at her old friend's tone. There was silence for a bit, until Ritsu's voice came into earshot, however, it was different than before.

"I need you to come with tonight."
The voice sounded almost worried, and not whiny or annoying like Ritsu's normal way of asking Mio to hang out with her. Mio sat back in her chair and looked out the window and raised her eyebrow.

"For what?" she asked in a sceptical voice. Ritsu responded after a few seconds.
"Mugi asked me to get the address of Norimi's place. She owns a club like thing called "Maddy Candy." I got a message from her just now for me to go there and I need to bring you along."

Mio froze as Ritsu finished talking. Why would her girlfriend ask Ritsu to do something like that? And she needed to go with her to this place?
"Out of all the batshit crazy things she's done, this is by far the craziest, I reckon," Ritsu said as Mio was still lost in thought. She was aloud to go out, but she didn't even know if this place was safe. It was Norimi, after all. Sawako's old band member, Norimi was known for having a tough presence, and the images of this club were bikers with studs and cigarettes beating the ever loving crap out of innocent girls and not so innocent prostitutes.

"Do I really have to go with you?" she asked, wincing slightly at the thought of going to such a place. Ritsu spoke through the phone, trying to provide something.
"Well, Mugi did ask you to come, and who knows what she might be doing there?"

That thought froze Mio. An image came up of her insane blonde being surrounded by thugs and getting beaten up. Tears in her eyes and fear written on her face.
The image caused Mio to hold the phone up to her ear and take a deep breath.

"What time do I meet you?"

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