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Chapter 15: I Don't Want To Sing

Sonia woke up in a bed of a hospital room. She raises her upper body with her body feeling groggy for some reason. She wonders how she got into this room, but she then recalls that she collapses during her rehearsal for her upcoming concert. She figures that the cause of her collapse is possibly due to her lack of time to relax and some nights where she studies and such. Despite her little day off a few days ago, her manager has made her schedule a living hell that she doesn't have time to sleep at least. She was okay with her schedule to be like that before, but the accumulation has finally taken a toll on her.

"Sonia! You're awake!" Nao enters the room with a happy smile on her face. "Thank goodness! I was so worried when I heard you were sent into the hospital a few hours ago! How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine," she answers with a smile, "I'm sorry for worrying you."

Nao also explains to Sonia about the events during her sleep in the hospital bed. Gen, Nao's producer, also heard about Sonia's collapse and he went to talk with Chris Gold about this problem. She remembers how fiery mad Gen was before he left to confront with Sonia's producer. Nao has no idea where Gen took Chris for their small talk, but she believes that talk would result in failure for Gen since Chris is kind of a pig-head when it comes to his job.

"I still can't believe that now you collapse after dealing with Chris's scheduling management," said Nao, "though not as much as how Chris is managing your health and such. I even heard rumors about him stealing money from the company through your jobs, but I'm not entirely sure about that."

Sonia made a sad face as she looks out the window. She remembers why she started singing and becoming an idol, but she wonders if her songs are doing anything besides making money. She wanted her songs to touch the hearts of people like how Ayane's songs touch hers and for her mother to know that she's doing okay.

"What are you going to do now, Sonia?" Nao asks and that confuses her. "Your producer's management has put you here in the first place and this is concerning for everyone. I mean if you're boyfriend hear about this, I don't know what he would do!"

"Yusei's not my boyfriend!" Sonia is lucky that no one is in the same room with her has heard that. Her face becomes so red that steam is actually coming out of her face.

Seeing her reaction has made Nao giggle. "Not yet exactly. But seriously, what are you going to do?"

The red hair idol doesn't know what to do. Deep down in her mind and heart, she feels like she's growing tired of her idol status and the sort of "treatment" that she has been getting from her producer. She wants to get away from this idol life and to become a normal girl again, but she couldn't since she would disappoint her fans, friends, and her late mother. Speaking about her friends, she does feel like she's a normal girl again from them, especially when she was talking with Yusei.

"Wait! That's it!" Sonia exclaims out loud as if something dawn on her. "Nao, I need to talk to Yusei! I want to hear his opinion about my decision!"

"Your decision…?"

Ayane is sleeping in her bed as she dreams of a very nice dream where she fights a bear in close combat for some odd reason. Then her Transer starts beeping so loudly next to her bed, which wakes her up from her dream. It's still too early in the morning because the sun isn't out yet and the clock shows that it's three in the morning. She checks her Transer and it turns out to be an email from Sonia.

"What does she want?" Ayane murmurs as she checks the contents of the email. She quickly reads over them and she is quite surprise at Sonia's request. "She wants to meet Yusei at Vista Point today at ten in the morning…? Doesn't her concert start at an hour after that? Oh well… it's her life and she is old enough to make her decisions."

She gets up from her bed and out the room. The young woman walks over to the door of a room that Yusei has been using as his workshop. Ayane knows Yusei's habits pretty well as she believes that her little brother woke up earlier to work on some other projects since Nicole is back and all. He does have some left over junkyard parts for creating Nicole's Matter Wave body. She knocks on the door to only see that Nicole to be the one who answers it.

"Ayane!" Nicole exclaims. "Yusei is busy right now… if you have anything to say to him, I'll be sure to relay the message to him as soon as he took his break."

Still feeling drowsy, Ayane just tells Nicole the message she got from Sonia's email. After telling her that, she heads back to her room to go back to sleep until her alarm wakes her three hours later.

Nicole closes the workshop's door and she is alone in the room as she places two fingers over her right ear. "Yusei, did you hear that?" she said as if she's talking through a headset microphone.

"Yeah, I can hear my sister's voice from your end," Yusei responds.

At the Wave Road outside of Yusei's house is Yusei in his Mega Man form. He is talking to Nicole via Transer and he heard their conversation from his Matter Wave partner's ears. He built in wireless communication into Nicole's system during the development, just in case of situations like his sister looking for him while he is away happened.

"I'm quite surprise that Sonia has sent an email to my sister saying that she wants to meet with me," he said, "I wonder what could be important that got me involved…"

"Could it be about the concert?" Nicole asks because she is concern about Sonia's reason.

Yusei shook his head. "I doubt that. That girl has experience about being on stage in front of thousands or millions of people. I guess I should go meet her and see what's up." Then he change the subject by saying, "By the way, the test was a success."

Nicole knows what Yusei is talking about as she talks in a more happy tone. "So your under-armor works? You didn't feel any pain in your EM Wave form?"

"Nope! My under-armor was able to transfer the pain that I received into my stamina. I may feel exhaustion after a few numbers of battles, but I won't be showing any visible signs of pain whenever I'm out of my Mega Man form."

Yusei uses some of the left over junkyard parts to create a special under-armor so that his body won't be harmed during a fight in his EM Wave form and human form. The under-armor protects his body from EM Wave attacks with the exchange of stamina; however, he still feels the sensation of pain, it's just that his bones won't break, his internal organs won't be punctured, and his skin won't show signs of injury because of the under-armor's protection. He still needs to figure out how long his under-armor would last in battle, but due to the weak viruses in the area, he has a hard time to find out. Yusei is okay with the results and even though he doesn't know long his under-armor would last in a fight that he should be careful, as he doesn't want to take a risk.

"That's good!" Nicole shouts through Yusei's Transer. "Don't you dare risk your life just because of your curiosity! If you do, then how will I explain to your sister if you die, huh?"

Yusei made a slight chuckle and he spoke, "You make it sound like I always put my life in danger before I've become Mega Man."

Nicole responds to his word by saying that he does. Apparently whenever he has an experiment and/or invention that requires a human help in order to be test their safety he always puts himself as the guinea pig. The reason for that is because he couldn't risk other people for the testing since he doesn't like to be responsible if something were to happen to them. So Yusei tests them on himself and some of the testing does harm him, which causes Ayane, Nicole, and some of Yusei's friends to worry.

Hearing this has surprise Omega-Xis as he comments, "Guess that explains why Yusei's thought process is weird."

"Shut up, Mega!" Yusei retorts, "We don't need your snarky comment."

"Just promise me that you keep yourself safe during your fight, okay?" Nicole asks. "Also come back inside since you're done testing."

Yusei warps back inside the house and out of his Mega Man form. Nicole disappears into the Mini Terminal and the teenage boy grabs it as he went back to his room for a short nap. Two hours later, his alarm woke him up and he went to the kitchen to make some breakfast.

As time passes onto ten minutes before Yusei's meeting with Sonia, that said teenage boy arrive. He is standing in front of the stairs that leads up to Vista Point. He becomes hesitant to walk up the stairs because he's afraid of what Sonia wants, thus his hesitance turn into his nervousness. He paces back and forth, pondering on the thought if he believes it's okay for him to meet her without Luna and the others. Yusei felt that it's unfair for him to be the only one who is talking to a famous idol and he wonders if his friends would hate him for that.

Then someone covers Yusei's eyes from behind. "Okay, now who's covering my eyes? I swear this sort of cliché is getting really old." That causes the perpetrator to remove his/her hands out of his eyes.

"Someone use that cliché on you before?" a girl who speaks in a familiar prideful tone asks.

The teenage boy turns around and he sees Luna with Bud, Zack, and Geo standing behind her. He is surprise to see them here and he wonders why they're here, so he asks them. Apparently they were about to surprise Yusei by going to his house and they happen to see him walking out of his house. They follow him out of sheer curiosity and they watch the way he is acting.

"So why are you here?" Bud asks.

Yusei explains to them that Sonia has sent an email to her sister asking for him to meet her in Vista Point. He even told them about his nervousness of what Sonia wants and he worries if Luna and the others would hate him for this meeting without them.

"Of course we don't hate you," says Luna to reassure him about their friendship. She turns to her male friends and asks, "Is that right, guys?"

The boys agree with her, which made Yusei felt relief. Yusei decided to bring them to the meeting since he no longer feels nervous with them around. When they got up the stairs to Vista Point, they see Sonia and Nao, who are in their disguises and Sonia is the only one with a bag, sitting on a bench together. The two idols notice Yusei with the others and they just greet them.

"Yusei!" Nao calls out his name. "I'm glad you came, but who are they?" After a brief introduction of Luna and her friends, Nao couldn't believe it. "Why you brought them here? You were supposed to come here alone!"

"But the email that Sonia sent to my sister didn't say that I have to come alone." Yusei points out and Nao asks Sonia for confirmation.

Sonia confirms the email stating that she didn't write in about Yusei being alone to meet her. Nao isn't pleased with the situation that is happening, but she lets it slide because of a bigger issue. That issue is about the reason why Sonia wants to meet with Yusei.

Everyone looks at Sonia and they listen what she has to say. She says, "I don't want to sing."

Yusei nods his head. "Yeah, and…?"

"Um, that's it. I don't want to sing anymore and I want to hear your opinion."

"Oh, you don't want sing, eh." He chuckles for a bit, but he quickly becomes silent.

Everyone screams in shock to hear that coming from a world-famous idol. They couldn't believe that an idol doesn't want to sing, especially the one who has a concert that is coming up soon. Zack asks about her reason, but Yusei stops the conversation because he doesn't want to continue it out in the open. He points out if they continue the conversation here, word would get out to the public and they would be taken out of context. Yusei suggests that they should continue the conversation somewhere they're not outside and Geo spoke about his home.

"My home?" Yusei tilts his head. "What about my home?"

Geo answers, "Your house is close to here and it's an ideal place for us to continue our talk. Bud, Zack, and my houses can only be reach via bus travel, which a lot of people ride nowadays. And Luna's place is not a good idea since her parents don't like any visitors for some reason. Trust me, they don't even let us study together in her place."

Luna made a sad face when she heard Geo say that, but she agrees with him. Her parents aren't exactly sunshine and rainbows due to them being successful in their business. Despite her strained relationship with them, she still loves her parents and she would become their wishful, perfect daughter who would succeed them when she grows up. Yusei knows about Luna's parents via from his friend, Sophie McDowell and he understands what Geo means.

"Fine, we'll go to my house to continue this topic. Is that fine with you two idols?"

The two idol girls nod their heads with Nao saying, "I've heard that Sonia once come to your house and this would be my first time being in a boy's house."

Sonia turns to Nao and said, "You don't need to admit that."

Everyone leaves Vista Point and head towards Yusei's house. During that time, Nao and Sonia try their best to cover their faces from the people that they're passing by. They enter his house and sitting on the chairs and couch in the living room while Yusei serves them drinks. Before the conversation from earlier, Yusei checks around the house to make sure no one outside is listening in on them, but that shows how paranoid he is. He's done checking the place for a few minutes and the conversation continues.

Luna politely asks, "What do you mean that you don't want to sing, Sonia?"

Sonia explains to them about her collapse before. She told them that she hasn't been getting a time to rest due to her producer's management. It's pretty much recent that her schedule gotten an overload with work, which she believes comes from that day off of work earlier. But her collapse has made her think whether she wants to continue her fame or just quit. The reason behind the meeting is to ask Yusei for his opinion and maybe to give her an answer.

Hearing her explanation has made everyone silent. No one can say a word to Sonia, even though they want to give her their answer or opinion. All eyes turn to Yusei since he is in his deep thinking mode. But Yusei is a bit hesitant to say anything; he usually says some provoking words to make people realize something, but upon her explanation he has nothing to say including kind words. He tries to think some words on the spot, which is difficult for him. That is until he remembers his sister's idol days and thought that he should use that to help Sonia to find her own answer.

He broke the silence by asking, "Is your idol job fun?" Everyone is confused by that question. He continues, "My sister long time ago became an idol because she finds it fun. She never took her job too seriously and just straight up enjoys it. Ayane as Shooting Star Heart enjoys making people smile and happy; she has this some sort of shine that got people to act like that. So I wonder if you find your job to be fun just like my sister did."

Sonia is surprise to hear that information about his sister. Though she does remember that shine Yusei talks about in one of his sister's live concerts. "That's an interesting thing to ask of me, Yusei. I thought you're going to say some provoking words, telling me that I'm an idiot of some sort."

"I'm not that mean…!" Yusei pouts, even though he knows that is true. "I do use harsh words on people like Luna before, but your story dumbfounds me. But I don't want you to ask me for answers! So that question I gave you would be your homework and I hope you can find your answer."

"But aren't you at least upset about me thinking of quitting my idol job? Aren't you looking forward to my concert?"

Yusei flicks her forehead without hesitation. "Don't make me repeat myself! The person I'm looking at is you as Sonia Strumm the person not Sonia Strumm the idol! No matter what is your decision, I would always support you as your friend!"

Sonia's cheeks flush a bit red, as she felt happy to hear Yusei say that. But deep down, she feels something more with Yusei, though she doesn't want to say it. If she did, Nao would just tease her. Too late for that since Nao's eyes are sparkling because of what Yusei had said.

"Isn't that great, Sonia?" Nao happily asks. "Now I see why you have your eyes on him!"

The red hair girl's face flush bright red that reach up to her ears. Feeling embarrass, Sonia retaliates by covering her friend's mouth, which Nao keeps avoiding. Everyone in the room sees Sonia's reaction and they gasp in shock; Bud and Zack are heartbroken, Geo develops a desire to hit his friend, and Luna wants to know the details. Yusei is silently watching what is happening and he finds what he sees as entertainment. But he needs to stop this because they're getting off subject on the whole situation.

"Can we get back on subject, please?" Yusei asks and everyone goes quiet to listen what he has to say. "What are you going to do now, Sonia? You said that you don't want to sing and I'm worried if you're producer would start going on a rampage through the city looking for you."

Nao becomes the person to answer Yusei's question. "Sonia was hoping that she would hide in your place for a while."

"Are you pouring oil into the fire that you started?" Yusei glares at Nao as he feels displease. Sonia didn't say anything as she felt embarrass that her friend says those things.

Everyone wants to retort Nao's statement, but they couldn't since Nao doesn't know them very well. Even though Sonia told her about them, she didn't meet them directly like she did with Yusei. Her eyes can tell that they're good people, but she knows that she couldn't trust them very well.

"Why can't she stay at your place?" Luna asks, hoping to convince Nao to reconsider the offer.

Nao shook her head. "My place would be the one of the top ten things that Mr. Gold would look! And I can't risk my grandmother dealing with him!" Nao lives with her kind grandmother since she was five-years-old. Her parents are military people and they sometimes come for special family get-togethers like birthdays, holidays, etc.

Yusei wants to suggest one of his friends to take the offer, but he stops and thinks about them for a second. He couldn't trust Bud and Zack into taking care of Sonia due to them being fans of her and he has no idea what they would do with her if they're alone with her. Luna's place is out of the question since her parents are a bit, in his words, "snobbish." So the only option is between him and Geo, which he trusts Geo completely since he knows him very well.

However, Geo knows what Yusei is about to say. At first he does feel a bit happy, but he doesn't want to take the responsibility of hiding the famous idol in his home. Also seeing Sonia's reaction has made Geo to let his friend to take responsibility instead of dumping it on him.

"Yusei, I know what you're going to say," said Geo, "but I can't have an idol at my house, there's just no room. Your house though… it has plenty of rooms for her to stay. Also you can't simply ignore a lady in trouble now, do you?"

Yusei sighs in disbelief. "I understand that you don't like me dumping the responsibilities onto you, but…" He looks at Nao and he remembers their conversation about how she would be placing her trust into him being friends with Sonia. He knows that he couldn't break that trust. "Fine, she can stay. But does she have any spare clothing?"

"Y-Yes!" Sonia responded as she shows Yusei her backpack. "My clothes are in this bag, so you don't need to worry." Nao is giving Sonia a thumb up and Sonia reacts by feeling embarrass.

Yusei ignores what's going on to Sonia's side and he said, "Since the concert is cancelled today, what are you guys going to do with your free time? I'm going to spend my time helping Sonia to get adjusted in my care."

"What do you mean by that?" Bud asks.

"I want her to do some work for me in the house. I don't like random people, even though they're my friends, living in my place for free. At least it lessens the workload that Nicole and I have been doing."

Nao told them that she has to go since she has work soon. Luna decides to take the boys with her shopping spree, but since Yusei is busy, she has to take the other boys. Geo and the others felt a bit angry with Yusei because he has found an easy way out of Luna's offer. Everyone has left the house, leaving Yusei and Sonia alone.

"Now that was interesting," said Nicole who appears next to Yusei, which surprises the idol.

"Where do you come from?" Sonia asks as she looks around to see where Nicole was hiding.

Yusei explains to her about Nicole and he decides to tell her the truth since she will be living in his house. He doesn't want things to be awkward between his friends because Nicole can appear like she did earlier. Sonia couldn't believe that Nicole is not really a person, but an artificial intelligence program that is given a body made of Matter Waves. However, after showing how she appears, the idol ends up believing it and the fact that he and Tama made the parts for Nicole's Matter Wave body. She also wonders if it's okay for her to be the only to know the truth about his Matter Wave friend.

"Well, you're hiding here for a while," said Yusei, "Just keep it a secret because I don't want the school to think I'm a genius despite how good I am with machines and programs."

After their discussion, Yusei and Nicole take Sonia to the guest room. That room was supposed to be a spare room just in case if Yusei or Ayane's room are renovating due to unforeseen damages. When Sonia dumps her bag in the room, Yusei asks her if she's good at doing some housework, which she responds that she use to help her mom before she becomes an idol. He felt reassure that she can help him and Nicole with the housework when they're gone to get groceries. Yusei then notice Sonia's reaction when she mentions her mother, but he chose not to explore it as he decides to find some housework for her to do tomorrow.

Sonia watches Yusei leaving the room as she notices that she is alone with Nicole who is watching her with a smile. She feels awkward being alone with someone that she finds out that person isn't a real person. The idol has no idea how to deal with a person like Nicole and wonders what she should do to break the ice between them. She looks around the room to notice that there's a TV with a DVD player at the opposite end of the room where her bed is, but she can't use that as a topic to talk about. That is until she decides to use Yusei as a starting point to be friends with the Matter Wave girl. She also hopes that she may learn something about the boy so she can get close to him.

The idol asks, "How long have you been with Yusei?"

"Since his seventh birthday," Nicole answers, "that is after his parents' death."

Sonia reacts sadly from those last words. She remember when she found out that Yusei lost his parents and he never wants to talk about it with her or any of their friends, besides Geo. It doesn't feel right for her if she pries the information from Nicole without Yusei's permission. Her curiosity about Yusei's parents is causing her stress as she wonders why Yusei doesn't act like her when he told her that he doesn't want pry any information.

Nicole notices her stress as she quickly changes the subject to help her to relax. She said, "Yusei has listen to your songs and he really loves them."

"Huh? He did?"

Nicole nodded. "Since I'm connected to Yusei's Transer, I know the data he stored in it and some of those data are your songs. When I ask him about it, he told me that he felt bad of not knowing you and he listens to your songs. He even plays your songs when he's busy with the housework or projects."

Sonia is happy to hear that Yusei likes her songs. She wrote most of the songs and she does got a lot of praise from people, but praise from Yusei is different. She doesn't know why it's different, it just is.

"However," Nicole spoke, "your recent songs have gotten him worried about you."

"My recent s-songs?" she stutters in confusion.

Nicole explains to her that Yusei listens to her recent songs and he notices a hint of sadness underneath the upbeat music. Since Ayane was an idol, she often takes the young Yusei with her to her rehearsals and recordings. It was because of those experiences have develop Yusei to understand the singer's emotion when they're singing to know that they truly express themselves. This sort of technique helps Yusei to understand more about the singer and their reason why they're singing they make music. Ayane also develop this sort of technique because of her experience and she used it to help the idols she works with before.

"So Yusei found sadness in my songs," Sonia pouts when she says that.

Nicole responds to the sad Sonia by petting her head. "Take your time… You don't need to tell him now."

Seeing her smile has warm Sonia's heart as she smiles out of reassurance. Then Nicole heads up to the closet and open the door to find a few numbers of boxes. Among those boxes has a label "Idol Stuff" and she opens it to find hardcover DVDs of Ayane's idol days. She takes one of the DVDs out and gives it to Sonia. The idol wonders what DVD she gives her as she looks it to see that it's a compilation DVD of Ayane's live concerts. Why Nicole is giving her this?

"Remember the homework that Yusei has given you," said Nicole as if she's reminding Sonia about the conversation earlier. "Watch this as a reference point of your homework. Good luck!" Nicole leaves the room, leaving Sonia to watch the DVD by herself.

Nicole enters Yusei's room to find the boy on his computer. Yusei notices her entering his room and greets her.

"What are you doing?" she asks. "I thought you were working on what sort of housework Sonia needs to do."

"I already finish it," he answers, "I'm just looking up on this Chris Gold person. It seems like this guy has a history of having idols quit their jobs due to his management, but Sonia is the only one who can handle it until now. I wonder why this guy create such an insane schedule."

"Have you sent a message to your sister about the situation?" Nicole asks.

"I did and she replies that she's going to give me the full story about Sonia's problem. To think that my sister has know something before the situation happen… She has an amazing luck…!"

Then the two start debating on what the course of action they should take to help Sonia. Yusei suggested hacking into Chris Gold's personal life to find out the reason behind Sonia's schedule, but Nicole retorts that it's risky since they don't know what kind of security program that the producer is using to protect his personal information. Nicole suggests that they should ask Alan for help, but Yusei doesn't want the Satella Police to be involve in an impossible goose chase, especially where people need to find evidence and they don't know how careful is this Chris Gold person. They argue over their suggestions with both sides not backing down and during their argument is Omega-Xis sleeping in the Transer because he doesn't care what they're talking about. An hour of arguing has gone by and they decide to continue this debate another time because Yusei has to make lunch.

Meanwhile at the guest room that Sonia is occupying, that said idol is watching the DVD out of curiosity. When she watches the video of Ayane singing in front of a small to large audience, she sees this inspiring shine that she first saw a long time ago. She remembers that Yusei points out differences between Ayane's performances with Sonia's current performance and she does see it, feel it even. Ayane does look she's having fun performing in front of people and she expresses her feelings into each of the songs no matter the genre; she can express happiness in a cheery song and then express sadness in a melancholic song. She pauses the video to listen to her recent songs because she remembers that Yusei has found a hint of sadness in those songs. She listens to them, but she didn't find the sadness in them because she only hears her upbeat singing voice. The idol felt confuse about why Yusei has given this sort of homework to her, as she wants to know the answer of her problem of continuing to be an idol.

"Mom…" she mutters. "What should I do? If only you were here…" She lies on top of the bed and sadly looks up at the ceiling as she thinks of what her late mother would say to her.

Then a knock on the door has got her attention. Following from that knock is a voice that said, "It's me, Nicole. I came to tell you that Yusei has made lunch. Please come down."

Sonia complies as she follows Nicole down the stairs. She becomes surprise to see the food that Yusei has served, which is potato soup with bread on the side. Yusei told her that he has this sort of craving for soup and he decides to make it for their lunch. The idol thanks him for the meal and they begin to eat. When she tastes the soup, her eyes become wide in surprise of how good the taste of the soup is. She felt that her taste buds is bursting like fireworks because of how good the soup is.

"This soup is amazing…!" she unintentionally spoke out loud.

"I'm glad that satisfies your taste," said Yusei who is just casually eating his food.

"I never have soup this good before! I feel that my wasted, sad life have been rejuvenated by the power of your soup!" she said in an exaggerated tone that she musters quickly.

Yusei smile twitches, as he didn't expect his cooking to be that good. "My friends complimented my cooking before, but I never have that sort of compliment being said to me. The only one who acted normal to my cooking is my sister… Well, as long as my food make you happy, then I'm okay with any compliment no matter how ridiculous it is."

They finish their meals with Sonia finishing three bowls of soup and Yusei only finishes two bowls. Sonia is watching TV in the living room with a satisfied look on her face and Nicole sitting next to her, while Yusei is washing the dishes. Then the house phone rings and Nicole quickly picks it up.

"Hello," she politely said, "This is the Light's residence. My name is Nicole and who is this that I'm speaking to?"

The person at the other end of the phone said, "My name is Kevin Stelar. Can I speak to Yusei Light, please? It's an emergency."

"I understand." She covers the speaker with one hand and calls Yusei's name. She hands him the phone as soon as he approaches as she tells him that it's Kevin and he wants to speak with him.

"Hey, Kevin! Why are you calling me?"

Kevin answers, "It's about the anti-gravity machine…"

"You want me to fix it, is that true?" he asks in a groan tone. Kevin did tell him that it's true, which made him groan even more. "I swear your coworkers are… Fine, I'll be there as soon as I can. Just be sure to shut down the exhibit and remove all of the innocent bystanders." He hangs up the phone and he made a dissatisfied face that causes Sonia to worry.

"What's wrong?"

Yusei looks at Sonia as he musters up the strength to put on a gentle smile on his face. "It's nothing. Geo's dad calls for my help and I have to go. Sonia, I want you to stay here and—"

"I'm coming with you!" she exclaims without any hesitation.

The teenage boy tilts his head. "You have no reason to come with me and it's not like you'll be alone since Nicole is staying here. Also, aren't you supposed to be hiding from your producer?"

"I know, but I feel that I'm not safe without you. Even if Nicole is with me, that feeling would never go away and…" She pauses her saying as she realizes what she spills in front of Yusei and Nicole. The idol couldn't believe what she has said and she covers her red, embarrass face in her hands screaming, "Please forget what I just said!"

Yusei blankly stares at the embarrass idol and Nicole is holding back her laugh because of the idol's unknowing confession. "Fine, you can come," said Yusei with a smile and that made Sonia happy, but she is still embarrassed. "But you need a better disguise. A disguise that no one would expect that it's you."

Then Nicole suggested, "Why not Elena's costume that she wore for Halloween last year? I'm sure that costume would fit Sonia's current size."

Yusei agrees with the suggestion and Nicole takes Sonia upstairs. After about thirty minutes, the two girls came down with Sonia in her new clothes. Sonia looks like a newspaper boy with cap the covering her hair. Looking at her would make people think that she's a cute boy and not a famous female idol. The idol blankly stares at the teenage boy as if she's judging him about how he has a costume that belongs from a girl named Elena in his possession.

He responds by saying, "Blame Sophie…"

During the thirty-minute time gap, Nicole explains to the idol about how he got the costume. She told her that Sophie has sent a package to him and that package contains his friends' costumes from last year with a letter explaining why this package was sent to him. The reason why Sophie sent him the costumes because she wants to make sure that Yusei won't forget his friends from Harmony Town. Yusei and Nicole couldn't believe this sort of randomness from their rich friend, but they shouldn't be surprise since they know her very well. Even after hearing this, Sonia is still being judgmental.

"Will you stop looking at me with judgment in your eyes?" Yusei asks with a face that shows he hates someone judging him because he has these costumes in his possession.

Sonia stops judging him and she started giggling because she finds it amusing to see his reaction. "I'm sorry about that, Yusei. Let's just say that's payback for the things that you've done to me."

"What have I done to you that you would act like that?"

"That's a secret!" She winks at him and that causes him to sigh in disbelief.

Yusei takes Sonia out of the house with Nicole following them. The reason why she follows them is because "the more, the merrier" and she want to make sure that the general public doesn't recognize Sonia in her disguise. The teenagers allow her to come as they all get on the bus to AMAKEN.