This was long overdue but alas, I'm horribly irresponsible
Anycase, enjoy
Hear My Song!
Chapter VIII
Date and Party
Len wondered if it was okay to simply leave Miku and the other three behind—but not for long, as Ritsu started dragging him quickly in the opposite direction. Rin and Teto followed suit, walking side by side without holding hands, simply talking.
"Oh, so you go to a music school? I didn't know those existed." Teto wasn't too interested in the actual subject of going to school. She wasn't a great student and could sense Rin wasn't either. At least not in things like math or history.
"There aren't really that many. It's kind of a special deal, built a few years ago when some rich guy donated a lot of money for it. Don't know the details, really." Rin was all but interested in continuing this conversation about school. "So you work in a coffee shop? How'd you end up there? Don't you go to college or something? Come to think of it, how old are you, anyway?"
Rin was having a hard time figuring out exactly how old Teto was. The girl was a bit of a mystery and generally difficult to figure out. She was quite an awesome kisser, though.
"Everyone needs money to live. That's why I work with Ruko and Ritsu. I still haven't picked a high school for next year. I'm actually turning sixteen in April," Teto explained briefly.
"You're only a year older than me?" Rin stared at Teto as if she were some sort of walking offense to her eyes. She couldn't believe how unfair the world was. Teto was much better built than she was and there was only one year's difference between them! Rin wanted to drop something heavy on her. Like a concrete donkey.
"I had a real growth spurt since last year. It's gonna happen to you, too." Teto found it easy to read Rin. She was very obviously jealous of Teto's cleavage and wasn't hiding it well. That was the main reason Rin hadn't bothered to try and grope her. But it was kind of funny. Teto found it particularly easy to say things to calm Rin down or take her mind off the silly idea that she needed to have big boobs to be attractive.
"You think so?" Rin couldn't decide how she felt right now. One second she wanted to drop Teto, the next the drill-haired girl said something nice and Rin felt bad for her thoughts. It was like Teto could read her thoughts. That was a silly idea, but still…
"Yep. I think you're plenty attractive as you are now, though." Teto chose to not say "cute" on purpose. When a girl had a complex about a flat chest, calling her cute was essentially the same as calling her flat. At least in her mind it was.
Rin blushed a little and looked to the other side, not sure what to say to that. She didn't even notice that Ritsu was secretly watching her from the corner of her eye.
"Teto and your sister are really hitting it off," Ritsu said.
Ritsu was still clinging to Len, who had managed to get a little more used to that soft sensation around his arm. He looked back a few times as well, watching with great interest at how Teto managed to keep the tiger in its cage. He didn't know of any person beside Miku who could stay around Rin this long without making a fatal mistake. He was quite happy for Rin.
~~~ Hear My Song! ~~~
Silence. People came into the room, warmed up and left. All of them ignored the four girls who sat in the back, quietly looking at each other. Gumi had panicked a little at first, but Sonika kept her cool and waited for her sister to calm down. Miku and Luka didn't even pretend to be shocked.
They already sat there for about ten minutes in total silence, just looking at each other, trying to figure out how to best resolve this.
Miku and Luka knew about Gumi and Sonika's relationship. But the other two didn't know that they knew. Miku and Luka couldn't exactly tell Gumi they had stalked her, either. Luka didn't know if she should simply tell Gumi they knew or not. Maybe she could just say it was intuition that there was something between them. But that wasn't very believable.
On Gumi's side, a thousand excuses were running through her head, none of which would make any sense. Maybe to a stranger, or someone a bit dense, but Luka definitely was ultra sharp about things like this. She would smell a scandal a mile away. That was the type of horrible person Luka was. Gumi was starting to sweat a little, but at least she could blame that on the room being so warm.
Sonika thought hard on her own how to fix this. She was usually a rather carefree person who didn't care about scandals and such, but she didn't want to ruin Gumi's career or make her subject of Luka and Miku's harassment because she was in love with her sister. All of this wouldn't have happened if Sonika had had more self-control or simply told Gumi off. Maybe this was just the chance she needed. Gumi couldn't stay in love with her sister forever.
"So how long have you two been together now?"
Miku was the one to finally break the silence. She had come to the conclusion that it would be best if they made it clear that they weren't really bothered by this. To be honest, they were a little bothered, but their friendship to Gumi easily overruled that.
Gumi was totally caught off her guard and didn't know what to say. Miku didn't look like she was judging her or anything.
Sonika saw it as a chance to set things straight for now. "I can't really tell you. We just started doing this at some point."
"It's that you two grew up in different places, barely knowing each other and stuff, right? They always have that kinda stuff in anime and mang—" Miku elbowed Luka in the side and silently told her to shut up with her eyes.
"Something like that. Except this isn't a manga." Sonika wasn't exactly big on anime or manga. She preferred fashion magazines and stuff like that. "So, I guess you two are a couple too? I'm getting that kind of feeling from you."
Miku knew that they might as well come out with it. Sonika knowing wouldn't change anything at this point. If anything, it could improve the relationship between the two couples.
"Yes. Actually, Gumi knew, but we asked her not to tell anyone. It's not exactly something we can just tell anyone," Miku explained.
"Oh, I think you can. You look really cute together." Sonika smiled, which made Miku blush a little.
Luka smirked and laid an arm around Miku, only to be pushed away by the green-haired girl.
"I told you, keep your hands to yourself in public." Miku glared at her lover while Sonika laughed at the little routine of the two.
"I'll ask you two not to tell anyone about this," Sonika said. "I'll keep quiet about you two, too. I guess they're not too keen about lesbians here in Japan either."
While Sonika was pretty good at speaking Japanese, her writing and reading were horrendous—but not as horrendous as her knowledge of the culture. As far as that went, she was only a bit better than the stereotypical European.
"That'll work for us. I'm surprised about Gumi, though. I totally thought her straight." Luka earned a laugh from Sonika. Gumi was so embarrassed by now that she had simply looked at the ground the whole time.
"Oh, the great Luka was wrong? How could this be? Quick, someone tune the universe right!" Miku exaggerated, rolling her eyes while Luka looked a little annoyed.
"You don't have to go that far. I'm a pretty good judge of character. I picked you, after all." Luka knew that Miku could not argue against that.
"You mind if we tag along with you?" Sonika wanted to get to know them a little bit better. They seemed like nice people and if they knew about her and Gumi anyway, she didn't have to pretend to be something she wasn't.
"Fine with me," Miku and Luka said at the exact same moment. There was a short pause before all three of them laughed at the coincidence. Gumi was still looking at the ground, thinking about the mess she had gotten herself into.
Luka and Miku got up, followed by Sonika and Gumi. All four of them finally headed out. The outside air seemed so much fresher than before.
"Can we grab something to eat first?" Luka interrupted their enjoyment of the clear sky.
"I'm up for it," Sonika agreed, and so did Miku. Luka and Sonika seemed to be on the same wavelength as they got along really well right away. The two adults were walking in front while the girls were behind.
"Don't worry, you're still just Gumi to us." Miku smiled and took one worry off Gumi's heart. "It's a bit surprising that she's your sister, but I don't really mind. She seems to really like Luka…don't tell me Sonika's like her? Irresponsible, pushy, perverted, practically an old—" Miku got hit on the head by a hand.
"I heard that! Don't you go and fill her head with nonsense about me again!" Luka complained, much to Gumi's and Sonika's entertainment. Miku simply smirked and gave Gumi a knowing look.
"She's a lot like Luka in that aspect. Even more irresponsible, impulsive. But her English is much better, and—" This time, it was Gumi who was hit by her partner.
"Don't give her those weird ideas! I'm not like that at all!" Sonika defended herself, and Gumi had the same knowing look on her face that Miku had before.
Luka and Sonika, both in unison, turned around, gave their partner a grim look and muttered a faint threat. They wouldn't forget this. They'd have their revenge.
"I can call you Luka, right?" Sonika remembered that it was unusual to call people you just met by their first name, even if they were friends of someone you knew. That was one of the weird things in Japan. Calling her Ms. Megurine would be definitely weird.
"Yeah, sure. I'll call you Sonika then." Those two really were getting along well—just as well as Miku and Gumi did. Miku, in fact, was pressing Gumi hard for details on her relationship with Sonika. Miku was just too curious.
Sonika came a bit closer and whispered a few things into Luka's ear, whose smile turned into a diabolical grin quickly. Luka quickly nodded and threw a quick look at Miku. Miku would regret badmouthing her like that. Sonika grinned the same grin and was happy to have made a friend around her age, even if it was the girlfriend of Gumi's friend.
They stopped at one of the small restaurants. The weather was so nice that they decided to sit outside and enjoy the sun. Luka and Sonika both sat down while the other two went to get food. They just didn't trust their older partners to not pull some sort of prank on them. Luka alone was already mischievous, but with Sonika thrown into the mix, it became a real possibility. Miku had already made an alliance with Gumi to survive the day.
Miku ordered fries, hamburgers and Cokes, while Gumi went with sandwiches and Sprites. Miku usually wasn't into junk food, but she had lost a bit of weight lately so she could sin a little. Luka and Sonika had scored a pack of cards from somewhere and were trying to outsmart each other in poker by the time Miku and Gumi came back.
"Took a bit longer than I thought. There's a big crowd trying to get lunch." Miku sat down next to Luka, who sat across Sonika. The table was simple, with two benches, one to each side.
Luka and Sonika munched away at the food while still playing cards. After Luka won the fourth round in a row, Sonika couldn't take it anymore and concentrated on her lunch.
"Where did you get those?" Miku was looking at the cards. They were all printed with all kinds of anime girls.
"It's my trusted card deck." Luka grinned and scraped the cards together, putting them in a little package to protect them from being ruined. She took one of the hamburgers and took a large bite while trying to explain the rules of poker to Miku.
"I know the rules, thank you." Miku put her hand on top of Luka's mouth, forcing her to shut up. "But maybe I need to explain the rules of eating out to you." Miku laughed along with Gumi and Sonika while Luka simply stuffed a handful of fries into her mouth.
"How long have you two been together?" Sonika had finished her lunch and felt rather full. She was leaning against the table, stealing a single fry now and then from Luka's tray.
"How long has it been, Miku? I haven't really been counting." Luka knew that Miku too didn't keep track of it. They had arranged for their anniversary to be whenever they had free time. They were easygoing like that.
"I don't know. I'd need to check my calendar to see when I first met you. You asked me out almost right after that." Miku munched a few fries, then pulled her cellphone from her bag and looked at the date. She really had no idea how long exactly it had been, but that wasn't important to her anyway. That she was with Luka now was important.
"You two really trust each other, don't you?" Sonika was amazed at how well coordinated their tastes were.
Miku and Luka answered in perfect unison. "We do."
Luka almost felt bad for what she had planned for later, but Miku had brought it upon herself.
They finished eating and headed off again, this time in a different formation. All four of them walked in a single line, Luka and Sonika next to each other, Miku next to Luka, and Gumi next to Sonika. It was not obvious to most that they were indeed two couples. They held hands and kept close together.
Luka was rethinking her plan again. Miku would probably not take it very well, and it wasn't all that bad anyway if they teased each other a little. It didn't look like Sonika had any intentions of going through with it herself. It was amazing how similar the two were in how they dealt with their partners.
"Let's get on that!" Sonika stopped the group in front of a swing boat attraction. Miku immediately felt a little weak and Gumi took a step back. Luka, on the other hand, was already pulling Miku with her towards the entrance.
It took them five painful minutes of waiting to get on the ship. They all sat next to each other in the same way they had been walking. Miku pressed herself in her seat, grabbing Luka's hand so tightly that the pink-haired woman was a little worried that the ride might be too much for her. Gumi was barely any different, except that she was already looking pale.
The ship started to move slowly. It went back and forth, going up and down only slightly. Miku relaxed considerably when the ride moved much more slowly than she had anticipated.
"This isn't as bad as I thoooooooouuuuu—" Miku screamed when the ship suddenly went far up and dropped like a rock before moving even further up at the opposite end and dropping again. Luka and Sonika cheered like idiots while Miku screamed for her life and Gumi tried not to pass out from lack of air.
Miku could barely walk when the ride finally stopped, and her throat hurt. That had been one horrible experience. She couldn't deal with that sensation of falling; she was actually really bad with it. Luka looked a bit sorry and helped Miku walk. Sonika carried Gumi on her back. The poor girl had passed out when the ship went to its highest point and they could look up and see nothing but the ground.
"Let's get on that next." Luka pointed at the monorail attraction that had just stopped. There was one long drive every thirty minutes, and they still had five minutes to board. It would be a nice chance to relax. Sonika didn't seem to excited about it, but with Gumi in her condition, she approved.
The inside was just a lot of seats in the middle of the monorail. It looked a lot like an ICE train, but it was a lot smaller. Luka and Miku sat down, with Sonika and Gumi to the other side so that the adults sat back to back.
Miku leaned on Luka and felt a little like throwing up. "That…was horrible. I'm never gonna do that…again." Miku was dizzy.
"Is Gumi okay over there?" Luka turned her head a little to look over the seat. Sonika had laid Gumi down, resting her little sister's head on her lap. It looked a little like she was just sleeping.
"She'll come around. I guess that was a bit much for her. She's never liked attractions like that. Or was any good with them for that matter."
The monorail started up and slowly went along its line, a long round trip through the park. The four passed a few minutes by just resting, or more accurately, letting Miku and Gumi recover from the hellish swinging ship.
"I'm kind of jealous of you two." Sonika looked down at Gumi and tried to fix her sister's hair a little. It had gotten pretty messed up from the wind on the ship.
"I would be jealous of me, too! After all, I'm gorgeous, successful, have a beautiful girlfriend and—oww." An unerring poke right in Luka's side forced her to shut up quickly.
Sonika giggled at the sudden display of ego from Luka's side. "You two really seem to love each other. I can tell just by seeing how honest you two act. Gumi loves me and I love her, but I don't think it's something we should or can keep up forever. I'm her sister, so I'm a little worried about her future too."
"You seemed really smart, but that's the dumbest thing I have heard you say all day." Luka stopped Miku's elbow with her hand, making clear that she wasn't just joking around. "It's not like I or Miku never worry about losing our jobs, but that's never gonna be the thing that decides if we break up. Doesn't matter if she's your sister. If you like things the way they are, keep them like that. How many people beside us know, anyway?"
Sonika was baffled by Luka's serious tone and way of speaking. She didn't think that her fellow songstress had a side like that. It did explain a little how Luka managed to snatch Miku. "Less…than a handful of people. I don't think Gumi's told anyone."
"So isn't it fine to keep it that way? We sure as hell won't tell a soul if that's what you're worried about. The whole thing about worrying over her future is just an excuse, isn't it? You're worried that your relationship will ruin your lives. Well, I'm sorry to tell you, but pretty much any relationship can do that to you. Loving your sister is a bit rare, but that's all there is to that." Luka took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, a signal she was done scolding Sonika.
Miku glared at Luka. Even though she was right, there was no need to be vulgar about it.
"I have to agree with Luka, Sonika," Miku then said. "It was a bit harsh how she said it, but basically, she's right. There are examples in history about stuff like this. People have done the craziest things over love. Gumi is a great girl, so I think you'd be doing yourself and her a great misdeed if you broke up."
"The only thing I'm really scared of is that we'll regret this at some point." Sonika looked down at her sister's face. What was she doing, getting relationship advice from two almost-strangers she had just met that day? But what they were saying rang undeniably true.
"How could I ever regret being with you, sis?" Gumi had long come to and simply kept her eyes closed and listened in on the conversation. She wasn't going to tell them she had heard most of it, though.
"Are you really sure about this, Gumi?" Sonika was not in the least shocked that Gumi had suddenly joined the conversation.
"If she wasn't, I don't think she would still be sitting like that." Luka leaned over the back of her seat and pointed at Gumi's flushed face, still resting on her sister's lap. Her grin only lasted until Miku literally pulled her back into her seat by her neck.
"Have a shred of delicacy, Luka!" Miku whispered under her breath and sighed.
"I don't want to break up with you, sis. I don't really care if we have to hide this our whole lives. As long as I can be with you, I don't mind. I love you and that won't change." Gumi's face was now as red as a tomato. To be confessing her love for her sister in front of Miku and Luka!
Sonika had to resist with all of her might to not go and kiss Gumi right there. "If that's so…"
Sonika shed a single tear out of happiness, knowing that her worries had been for naught. She also felt thankful to Luka and Miku, who had come straight out and told her what they had really thought. Sonika was used to people saying one thing and meaning another, just to maintain healthy relationships to others, but those two didn't seem to mind the risk of saying whatever they thought.
"Doesn't this call for a celebration?" Luka was a real party animal, so there was no way she would pass up a chance like this. And Sonika was supposedly raking in the cash from her job, so she was speculating on getting a real party going.
"Yeah…yeah, it does." Sonika smiled and saw Miku's terrified face out of the corner of her eye. Her assumption proved correct—Luka must get really crazy when partying. She didn't know that both Miku and Gumi had had plenty of their share of having "fun" with Luka.
"I'm not exactly sure how you came to the conclusion that this deserves a party, but I've already resigned myself to this. I knew it'd happen sooner or later. Still think you're just looking for the next best excuse to get me and Gumi drunk again." Miku shrugged and sighed. Even with Sonika present, chances were rather slim that she would act as a balancing factor to Luka. If anything, Luka'd be even worse than usual.
"Gumi, are you still sick from the ship? You're really pale." Sonika was a little concerned.
"No…just remembering something unpleasant," Gumi said and turned to the side. She looked out the window, still lying on her sister's lap.
"Say…how long exactly is this monorail gonna go on?" Luka felt bored already. Seeing the outside move at a snail's pace wasn't exactly something she'd describe as exciting.
As if to answer her, the monorail slowed down even further and then stopped completely.
"Seems we're done. Let's get out of—"
A tune started playing through the monorail and the driver's voice followed it for an announcement.
"Due to a technical problem, there is a delay in the continuation of this drive. We ask our passengers to remain in their seats and not open the windows or try to leave the monorail."
"What do you call this again? The thing where 'everything that can go wrong, does go wrong'?" Luka covered her face with one hand and sighed.
"Usually it's Murphy's Law, but in your case, it's definitely karma." Miku grinned widely and looked over the seat to Gumi and Sonika. "I think I'll regret this, but should we play cards? I need something to keep Luka occupied before she starts doing crazy things."
"Fine with me. Maybe one of you two can beat her," Sonika said. Gumi simply nodded, agreeing with Miku's suggestion.
Luka had a diabolical smirk on her face. "Winner gets to skip out on cleaning up after the party."
~~~ Hear My Song! ~~~
"Got it again! We're invincible!" Rin and Teto jumped up, giving each other a high-five in mid-air.
They had, by complete accident, stumbled upon a treasure hunt event. The park staff had put up a mirror maze and the goal was to get to the end before a time limit. Prizes depended how quickly people made it to the end. The duo had already finished the hunt four times now, much to the dismay of the staff. Rin and Teto were systematically grabbing every single limited prize.
Len walked back from a soft drink booth, carrying a drink for himself and for Ritsu, who sat on a bench not too far from the event site.
"They're still at it," Ritsu said. "I've never seen someone keep up with Teto like that. Is your sister a monster? Thank you."
Len handed one of the drinks over and sat down next to his crush. He was a lot more relaxed now that she wasn't constantly holding onto his arm.
"Rin is…unique. I could say the same thing about never seeing someone keep up with her. What amazes me even more is that they get along despite…well…" Len wasn't sure he could actually talk about Rin's complexes, but Ritsu would find out eventually—if she hadn't already realized it from Rin's harsh glares.
"The difference in their chest sizes, huh? Well, not surprising. Your sister would probably pass as a guy if she wore your clothes." Ritsu took a sip from her drink and continued to watch the two hyper girls as they argued with the staff. Apparently the staff was fed up.
"Don't let her hear that. She'll go really crazy. I'm amazed Teto hasn't slipped up even once until now." Len leaned back against the bench and closed his eyes. Being with Ritsu involved a lot more excitement than he could handle.
"Teto has a crazy amount of insight when it comes to stuff like that. She's a lot like Ruko in that way." Ritsu would never forget the day she first met Ruko and the months that followed—months Ritsu would never have endured if not for her.
"Ruko is the owner of the coffee shop, isn't she?" Len only went to the shop when he was brought along or when he went to see Ritsu. The actual coffee or the people there beside Ritsu were of little interest to him.
"You actually know who she is? And here I thought you wouldn't even know it was a coffee shop, seeing how your eyes are always glued on me." Ritsu turned on the bench and looked straight at the massively embarrassed Len.
Ritsu moved closer and closer, then pressed one finger to his shirt front and drew a line upwards. "I'm really attentive about that sort of thing. A lot of people come to the shop just to watch me, you know." Her finger moved over Len's chin and her hand to his right cheek. "I get asked out on dates like this about a dozen times a week. But I always reject them."
Ritsu was so close now that Len had no choice but to look straight into her beautiful face.
Nervous was no longer cutting it, not by a large margin. He felt like jelly in her hands, ready to be shaped into anything. He couldn't even stutter anymore. He suddenly trouble breathing and he felt like he was sunbathing in the Sahara on a sunny day.
Ritsu heard the other two girls approaching and quickly decided to maximize embarrassment for the poor guy. Grabbing his neck, she pulled him in and quickly kissed him, right there in public, in front of Teto and Rin.
Rin rolled her eyes and turned around, a very annoyed look on her face. She then grabbed Teto's hand and pulled her away. Rin was generally uncomfortable around couples because of her unrequited love for Miku. Right now she was sick of Ritsu, her big boobs, and her own horny brother.
"Just get a fucking room already!" Rin shouted before she ran off with Teto, who seemed to understand perfectly what was going on.
Len didn't even get to shout anything back. His brain had short-circuited from the kiss and Ritsu had a devilish grin on her face when she noticed the two disturbances were now out of the way. The boy was so easy to tease and excite that it was a tremendous amount of fun to see how far she could push him before he broke down.
Teto didn't say a word until they had run almost for five minutes straight. Even Rin had to stop to catch her breath.
"Wanna go to my place? I've got something I think you'll really like." Teto had planned to pull this card later on, but now was as good a time as any.
"Something I'll like?" Rin's curiosity was easily piqued and she wasn't particularly interested in staying in the park when there were stupid couples and her brother all over the place. The whole park seemed to piss her off all of a sudden. No matter where she looked, there were people walking hand in hand and shit like that.
"Sure. Better than this place anyway." Rin pulled a displeased face and walked off in the direction of the exit.
It was no secret that Teto wasn't entirely pleased with how Ritsu handled certain situations. Ritsu knew this and still went ahead and did what she wanted, even when Teto was having fun. As Teto walked after Rin, she figured that what she was about to do was an all-or-nothing gamble. If it worked…
Further back, Len was even more uncomfortable than before. There would be real trouble tonight when Rin came home, that much was a given. He was surprised she hadn't caused a huge fuss right there. If he got off with only yelling from her, that was nothing.
"Your sister's idea isn't that bad," Ritsu said. She was now sitting on Len's lap. "Maybe we should just get a room."
Ritsu could see the change in Len's face quite easily. A tomato was almost colorless compared to the level of red his face showed. It wouldn't surprise her if he'd get a nosebleed any second now.
"I'm…I'm…we shouldn't…I mean, if you…really…err…" Len was just babbling nonsense at this point, his brain no longer functioning normally.
"Oh, you thought I was serious there, didn't you? Silly boy." Ritsu smiled and moved off of Len's lap before standing in front of the bench and waiting for his blood to return to his brain.
"There are a couple more attractions I'd like to see," she continued. "Are you coming?"
Ritsu chose those exact words on purpose and thought it wouldn't be odd if Len's sister caught him furiously masturbating later that night.
~~~ Hear My Song! ~~~
"Argh, how much longer are we going to be stuck here?" Luka threw down her cards and raised her arms in the air, flailing around. "I can't stand this anymore. I can't stand it anymore!"
"Will you calm down already?" Miku was trying to fan herself with the few cards she had at hand. Gumi was doing the same to Sonika, who dealt with the heat worse than anyone else there.
The monorail had been stuck for over fifteen minutes now and while the driver continued to ask for their patience, the train got hotter and hotter in the sun. The car was slowly turning into a sauna. Miku had already stopped Luka from shamelessly undressing down to her underwear twice, but now felt like that wasn't such a bad idea…except for the whole public indecency part.
"Ah…I'm gonna diiieee." Luka threw herself into one of the seats and acted as if she were melting away.
"Stop it already, you're making me feel even hotter than it is. But seriously, how much longer are they going to let us wait?" Miku was at the limit of her patience as well.
"I can't wait anymore!" Luka pushed one of the windows wide open and attempted to squeeze herself through it. The monorail was only about six feet over the ground at that point, so she could take the jump.
"Oh no you won't!" Miku dropped her cards and jumped at Luka to pull her back. The impact of both of them hitting the floor shook the wagon a little. "Think about things before you do them. You're gonna squeeze yourself through that window? Even I or Gumi won't fit through, so how are you gonna do it?"
"Hold my breath?" Luka answered the first thing that came to mind and started to struggle like a little kid. "I need to get out of here, I'm not good dealing with the heat."
Miku saw no other way and slapped Luka to get her to her senses. "Will you cut it out? We're all hot and want to get out, but we can't exactly jump down two meters out of a monorail car. Imagine if one of us came down wrong and broke something!"
Luka rubbed her cheek. "So we just wait? We'll be roasted alive if we stay in here much longer!" Luka continued to argue with Miku, both of them still on the floor.
"Will you two cut it out already?" Gumi's voice was low. It carried a hint of danger.
Miku and Luka immediately went quiet, shocked by the girl's sudden outburst.
"I guess even Gumi is feeling the heat…" Luka whispered and Miku nodded.
Only a few seconds passed before the wagon shook violently and they could feel it moving underneath them. Seconds later, they were gaining speed. Miku was lying on her back with Luka right on top of her, but neither of them felt any kind of embarrassment or romance. They were much too hot.
As soon as the door opened five minutes later, they didn't even wait for the apology of the driver but instead left the monorail as quickly as humanly possible.
"I thought I'd end up like a roasted potato."
"That was horrible. I'm never going to ride a monorail again." Miku was no less annoyed than the other three.
"I want to go somewhere cool." Sonika didn't have the energy to complain as much as the others.
"I'm done. Just call a meat wagon to ship me off when I start rotting." Luka threw herself on a bench in the shadow of a big tree and leaned back, closing her eyes. Occasionally she made a heavy breathing sound.
"I'd usually smack her up the head for stuff like this, but I haven't got the energy left." Miku sat down on the bench as well, close to Luka but not close enough to actually feel her warmth. Gumi and Sonika both followed their example—sitting down, leaning back and just trying to shake off the heat.
It was not that it was exceptionally hot that day or that the sun was especially strong. It was being in that monorail car that acted like a microwave that made them feel like roasted chickens.
They sat there silently, ignoring all the people who walked by, for about ten minutes. It was then that Luka jumped up and ran away at a speed like something had just stung her. Miku didn't even bother to look or make sense of it. Luka had her quirks, and Miku had long since accepted most of them. Extreme situations aside, Luka knew what she could do and not do before Miku got really angry.
Almost drifting off to sleep, feeling a lot more comfortable now, Miku's cheek was suddenly touched by something cold. She jumped up and looked for the source of the cold, and it was Luka, holding a couple of popsicles.
"They only had a couple flavors, but it's better than nothing. What do you want—chocolate, vanilla or strawberry? I got one for everyone."
"Where did you get these from, anyway? The only booth selling ice is near the entrance. Give me the vanilla ice." Miku took the white ice and immediately started licking it. The sheer cold entering her body felt like a blessing from above. It was heaven on earth after almost being roasted.
Gumi took strawberry and Sonika chocolate, leaving the second chocolate for Luka. They spent a few quality moments in silence, cooling down and enjoying some cheap popsicles, watching other people walk by.
"Let's play 'what's her secret fetish?' for a bit." Luka sometimes came up with the weirdest games. Miku was long since used to it, but it still stunned Gumi occasionally.
"Play what?" Sonika was interested in anything that prolonged their stay in the shadows.
"It's simple, really. We sit here and take guesses at what kind of secret fetish a girl or a guy who walks by has."
Luka earned weird looks from the other three.
"You really don't care much for others' privacy, do you?" Gumi had always had that feeling about Luka, but this latest game of hers really cemented that fact down.
"She's got none whatsoever," Miku said casually. She didn't even looking at her partner, who was now pouting.
"Fine, then. Should we get going? I don't want to spend the rest of my life on this bench, no matter how much you people love her." Luka watched their annoyed faces as they got up and smiled to herself.
"Where do we go, though? I don't feel like waiting in any long lines anymore." Miku was very undecided and neither Gumi or Sonika had any specific wishes either.
"I should enter you three as Party Pooper One, Two, and Three somewhere. It's nice outside, we're in an amusement park, we're in love—don't you feel any kind of urge to live out on that?" Luka rolled her eyes when none of the three said anything. They all just stared at her.
"Fine." Luka pulled two small dice from somewhere. Only Miku knew where, exactly, and she had always thought it was highly weird to carry around a pair of dice in one's cleavage. It was something Luka had seen on TV and ever since then she'd carried them around. She was horrible at dice games so Miku didn't really understand why she did it.
"Each of us calls an attraction and then decides on a number." They could already see where she was going with this. Luka had just too much energy.
"Haunted house, five." Sonika was the first to place a number.
"Whatever is around the next corner, twelve." Miku wasn't fond of Luka's arbitrary way of deciding things.
"Pond boats, two." Gumi thought that something relaxing would make Luka calm down a little.
"Then I'll go with roller coaster, eight." Luka placed her bet last and suddenly everyone was hoping that the number eight wouldn't come up. Miku secretly planned to accidentally kick the dice if it did come up.
Luka rolled the dice on the ground. "Twelve. Miku wins." Luka grabbed the dice and the two cubes went back where they'd come from. Sonika found the idea interesting.
"Why do I have the feeling that this is going to horribly backfire?" Miku lamented, but it was already too late. Luka took her hand and dragged her away, followed by a slightly excited Sonika and a somewhat cautious Gumi.
What they found around the next corner made them curse Miku's luck in many ways. Even Luka wasn't that eager.
Sonika seemed oddly excited, though. "They have one of these in a park in Germany. It's called Freedom Fall. It's the highest of its kind and there's always a long line for it."
"The Germans must be crazy to enjoy that." Gumi's voice was very quiet compared to what it had been before. She wasn't especially good with heights.
"I want to get on it." Sonika only needed to take one look at Gumi to know that she was not going to be okay getting on it—never mind getting off in one piece. "Luka, you wanna test your courage?"
"I think that'd be testing my gag reflex more than my courage. Sorry, this one is a little too hardcore for me." Luka couldn't help but notice Sonika's disappointed face, but Luka really didn't want to test her stomach with a thirty-meter free fall.
"I'll go."
Everyone looked at Miku with big eyes.
"Just shut up and come on." Miku felt sorry for Sonika. Grabbing Gumi's sister by her hand, Miku dragged the woman away to the relatively short line.
"Is she gonna be okay?" Gumi stood next to Luka, who was making a worried face. "Your face tells me you'd rather have gone instead."
"Miku's a really caring girl deep down—that's why she's getting on it with Sonika. I don't think she's gonna be okay, though." Luka was really worried and it was showing on her face. Gumi didn't know Luka had a side like that.
They stood there, waiting for their partners to reach the end of the line, worried what was going to happen. Sonika was tough, but Gumi has a feeling that she didn't know what she was getting into.
The seats rose higher and higher—Luka could see Miku's long hair from the ground—and then the drop came. All the people on the attraction screamed like they were going to hell. Luka could barely watch.
"Let's go get our adventurers." Luka had a trace of cynicism in her voice and walked towards the exit. People dispersed in all directions, and the last few all shared the same characteristics—pale face, unable to walk straight, leaning on someone else.
One of those people was Miku. Sonika was a little pale, but she could still walk straight. Miku looked like she'd been hit by a ghost.
Luka didn't say anything. No cynical remarks, no sarcasm, no teasing. She just took Miku's hand, gave her a specific look, and waited for Miku to wrap her arms around Luka's neck, carrying her piggyback. It was a little embarrassing for Miku, but she feared if she talked, she'd throw up.
"If I had known she'd end up like that, I wouldn't have gotten on it. I'll apologize later." Sonika said guiltily to Gumi as they walked in front of Luka.
"You don't have to. She knew what she was getting into. Miku is really nice like that." Gumi looked back and found Miku literally passed out on Luka's back. Gumi was so incredibly relieved she hadn't gotten on that free-fall thing.
~~~ Hear My Song! ~~~
"You all live here?"
Rin looked around a very chaotic apartment—a couple rooms, a small kitchen, a bathroom. The apartment didn't amount to much, and what was worse, each room was chaos on an individual basis. Rin only needed to walk past doors to know right away whose room it was. Ritsu's room was filled with fancy clothes and it was overly girly as well. The other room was literally filled with all kinds of things. Rin couldn't imagine what kind of person lived there.
Teto's room was in dire need of a vacuum. There were bread crumbs everywhere—on the bed, on the floor, on the small desk. Rin brushed a few away and sat down on Teto's bed. It even smelled like bread. Just how obsessed was she? It was borderline insane!
"This isn't much, but be comfortable. I'll be right back, gettin' the thing I told ya about." Teto's accent changed a little. It sounded a little like a Kansai accent but not quite.
Teto left her room and Rin behind and walked down the hall. She knew Ritsu kept some of her old stuff from before in her closet—Rin could use them. Teto wasn't a hundred percent sure Rin would take it nicely, but after spending the day together, she thought she had a pretty good idea of what kind of person Rin was.
Going through Ritsu's closet, she quickly found what she was looking for—an old cardboard box, big enough to fit a small dog into. When she opened it briefly, she found everything was still there. Taking stuff from Ritsu without permission wasn't something she usually did, but Ritsu would likely never even notice. She had no need for these things anymore.
When she walked back into her room with the box, Teto found Rin looking through her manga and anime collection.
"I usually can get a pretty good idea of what someone likes based on the manga they read…but I can't figure you out. There's yuri, yaoi, and all sorts of weird stuff. Heck, I didn't even want to look at that one." Rin pointed to a DVD set with black cover named Schwarze Bibel.
"I think that's a little too hardcore for you anyway. Here." Teto almost shoved the box in Rin's hands only to turn straight around, leave the room, and close the door. "Don't worry, it's all clean."
Rin didn't know what was in the box but she knew to be suspicious when someone handed her something and said "it's clean."
When she opened the box, Rin didn't quite know what to think. On one hand, she wasn't dumb enough to just assume Teto hadn't gotten wind of her being over-conscious about being flat. On the other, she wanted to be angry and throw it all out the window in retaliation for Teto's sheer audacity in handing her something like that.
In the box was something like a black top and two silicon breasts.
Rin stared at it. She knew that it was time to get over herself. She would have bought some herself already if she'd the money. If she could get these for free, then…
Rin's mouth was left wide open when she grabbed one of the fake breasts. The surface felt clearly too smooth to be real, but other than that Rin couldn't believe it wasn't real.
She turned it around in her hand, impressed. Rin had settled for a moderately expensive pair that wasn't anything special. What she was holding now was something far, far outside her price range. These things had a special glue that could be applied so that they could be worn even without a bra. They were really expensive.
Rin tried to guess the cup size they were, but had difficulty. She felt excited. Her heart was beating way too fast for her to think clearly and she sort of felt horny too. So this was what Teto meant when she'd said it was something Rin would like and that they were clean.
Rin positioned herself in front of the mirror and held one of the fake breasts up to her own chest. They were way too big for her. They were so big that if she wore them she'd end up looking almost like Ritsu. They must've been at least an F cup. But thinking and realizing that only made her want them more.
Rational thinking had never been Rin's best trait and right then, her brain was completely out of control. After seeing Ritsu make her brother dance to her every single whim, Rin wanted to be able to do the same.
"I'll even be able to compete with Luka…" Rin said quietly to herself. She had planned to go for more realism and only get bigger ones one at a time every few months, but that plan had gone out the window minutes ago already. She couldn't wait any longer.
"Screw it," Rin cursed, but still made a happy face, quickly undressing. She wasn't wearing a bra and even if she had been, there was no way it would be any use to her now.
Standing half naked in front of the mirror on top of Teto's desk, Rin took one, then the other, and put them on her skin. The silicon was cold and it felt a bit nasty for a bit, but then the excitement took over.
Teto knocked on the door, having realized that just the black top wouldn't be enough to support Rin's newfound cleavage.
The door opened just a tiny bit and Teto dropped a bra in the room that was a size Rin had never even looked at before. It was entirely black and seemed quite fancy.
"Take this," she said from behind the door. Teto was smaller than Ritsu, so she'd borrowed one from her. If Teto took one or two, after all, the girl wouldn't notice. Ritsu was a catastrophe with clothes and being clean.
Rin stared at it. It made sense that Ritsu would own something like that, but what exactly was someone as busty as Ritsu doing with silicon breasts? Rin didn't think further on it, grabbed the bra, and put it on. She needed a few tries. Just walking was a completely different experience. It was…almost tiresome. Breasts were a lot heavier than she'd thought.
When she looked more closely at the black top, Rin found it to be some kind of sports top that had a separate layer of cloth in front to support big breasts. All these things together must be worth at least twenty thousand yen. Rin felt a little dizzy from the sum. And Teto was just giving this stuff to her?
Putting the top on was more of a challenge than the bra. As Rin wasn't used to having any cleavage, she struggled to pull the top over her now-big breasts. After she was finally done, her face was red and she was breathing heavily, exhausted. She hadn't imagined it would be so hard. But the result was worth it.
Rin looked in the mirror and a different person looked back. The flat tomboy was gone. What looked at her was a busty teenage girl with nice, firm breasts. Without noticing, Rin started to drool. She was lusting after herself.
The bra and the top kept the large pads in place, and yet, when Rin walked left and right in front of the mirror, she could feel them bounce up and down. The glue did good work. Rin leaned forward, towards the mirror, and made a seductive face, grabbing her own breasts at the same time.
The sensation seemed so real through the cloth that Rin just stared and kept groping herself. She felt the pressure of the groping still on her skin. It wasn't quite like they were real, but she wouldn't get any close with fakes than this.
"Like it?" Rin almost had a heart attack when Teto suddenly laid her arms around her. The other girl leaned against her back, pressing her chest against Rin's back. While it looked weird for Rin to have such huge breasts, most people wouldn't doubt they were real. The world saw stranger things every day.
"Why are you giving me these? This stuff is really expensive, I know it." Rin looked a little embarrassed that Teto had seen her grope herself.
"So I can do this." Teto started to nibble on Rin's left ear and her hands moved to her front, grabbing her breasts, slowly moving them up and down, massaging the fake breasts. Rin could feel it and lost herself to Teto's touch right away. If there had ever been any resistance, it had melted away already.
Teto had known that she could never really have fun with Rin if she kept being overly self-conscious about her lacking chest area, so she'd remedied the problem. Now Rin was the one who sported the larger breasts of the two. And it did wonders for her self-esteem. Teto could only imagine the tantrum Rin would throw if Teto tried to grope her without the silicon things on.
Rin moaned, unable to say or do anything while Teto got a little rougher. The silicon did feel real and Teto was good at blocking out things she didn't want to think about too much. To her, they were real. To Rin too, they were real. But Teto instinctively knew she could never take off that top if she slept with Rin or Rin's world would come crumbling down.
But that was fine. Teto was a sucker for weird people and those with issues. It was something that attracted her. Ritsu and Ruko. Rin. They all had their own set of problems. Teto felt that she had made Rin horny enough for now, so she let her go and pushed Rin on her bed.
Teto was on top of Rin right away, her left knee right between the other girl's legs. She could tell that Rin had lingering affection for someone else and Teto had to crush that. Rin was hers and hers alone. Despite how she acted, Teto was extremely possessive and got jealous easily.
To make it seem more natural for Rin, Teto had changed into a skintight black top under her normal clothes when she'd been waiting for Rin to finish trying on the breasts. That way it wouldn't seem odd that only one of them kept their top on. Teto was a master of playing with people's minds.
Rin gasped for air when Teto pushed herself on top of Rin, their faces only millimeters apart, their breasts pressing against each other's. Teto's fetish was the psychological issues of her partner. Rin was overly conscious of her breasts, so Teto got off making her feel good with them.
And still, Teto got a little lost in doing so. She had never done it with someone wearing silicon pads before, but if she didn't know they were fake, she could have sworn they were real.
Rin pulled Teto down, kissing her passionately, slipping her tongue into the redhead's mouth right away. She wanted to sleep with Teto so badly. She wanted for her to feel her up more and more and more. Not a single thought of Miku remained in her head at the time. Her world rotated around Teto now.
Teto felt Rin's hands on her butt. The girl was really impatient. Teto could tell that she'd never done this with another girl before. Rin was clumsy, and even though she wasn't bad at kissing, all her other moves were very simple and unskilled.
Teto broke out the kiss and watched the lust glimmer in Rin's eyes. With a single incredibly smooth move, Teto took off Rin's shorts and pants at once, not even looking down at them as she did. She then backed off a little, taking a little less than a few seconds to get rid of her own clothes. It was a bit weird to have sex like this—both of them with their tops on—but the small line between being hot and Rin having a nervous breakdown if she took off her top turned Teto on even more.
"This will be fun." Teto smiled.
~~~ Hear My Song! ~~~
"You're late. Did you eat him?" Teto was leaning against the wall next to the entrance.
It was now past eleven in the evening, and Ritsu had only just finally come home. Teto had done it with Rin four times and she was aching all over.
"No way. His head would've exploded." Ritsu shrugged and took off her boots. She was exhausted after dragging Len around town all day. "What about you? You look awfully tired. How in the world did you manage to fuck that bitch without your face ending up like a cat's scratching post?"
"Watch what you say," Teto said sharply. "Mess with my stuff, and you know what happens, Ritsu. Ya better not try any shit, or you'll fucking regret it."
Teto could be incredibly intimidating when she wanted to be. Ritsu actually lost a little bit of color.
"I know better than that," she finally said. She put her boots away and walked past Teto. "Take a shower. You reek of sex."
Ritsu was about to vanish into her room when Teto grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her close. Ritsu stared right into Teto's eyes, afraid.
"Don't mess with her. She's mine. I don't care what you do with the brother, but she's mine. You fuck up and you're done for. I'm not gonna warn you again." Teto knew that the best way to deal with Ritsu was a very overwhelming preemptive strike.
"I get it. Stop it, you're fucking scary." Ritsu pulled herself free and went into her room to change into more comfortable clothes. "You want something else? I'm tired. Shower, food, bed."
"Are you actually serious about her brother? He seems like a nice guy. You usually date assholes, wring them for all they have, and drop them. I don't have a problem with that. But he seems genuinely nice." Teto wouldn't have cared if not for the fact that he was Rin's brother.
"I haven't really thought about it. I've been doing this for years now. I guess I'm getting a little sick of it." Ritsu pulled a brush from her desk and started brushing her hair.
"I can't imagine you sleeping with a guy, much less having a serious relationship with one. When was the last time you got laid, anyway?" Despite some differences, Teto and Ritsu were relatively close.
"That girl, Lily. The blond, tall one. The transfer student."
"I remember. Kinda creepy that I think that's what Rin is gonna look like in a few years."
"Don't tell me you're really going out with her. You're serious about her?"
"I really like her."
Ritsu had long since figured out that the more screwed up someone was, the more Teto liked them. This girl must have some serious screws loose for Teto to say that.
"Where is Ruko, anyway?" Teto was curious that the tall woman was not home yet.
"Probably drinking somewhere with someone. You know her." Ritsu finished combing her hair. "Take a shower before Ruko comes home. Seriously, you reek like a whorehouse. Just how many times did you do it?"
"Four times. She's got some ridiculous stamina. I'm too beat to take a shower. I'll get one first thing tomorrow. I'm going back to bed." Teto waved off Ritsu's comment and watched Ritsu go in the bathroom.
Rin was sleeping soundly in Teto's bed, naked except for the one top she'd kept on the entire night. Teto crawled into bed and snuggled up to Rin, wrapping her arms around her waist. A malicious grin was on Teto's lips. She had taken Rin, and now she belonged to Teto alone.
~~~ Hear My Song! ~~~
"Please reach you, Northern Lights!" Luka shouted into the microphone.
After Miku had calmed down, the group had decided to go for karaoke instead. None of them was too fond of the amusement park at that time.
They were all slightly drunk, having ordered almost the entire drink menu twice. Luka was on a roll, singing one song after another. Occasionally Miku or Sonika would join in.
"I'm gonna sing this." Sonika put a number in and didn't let Gumi or Miku see what she selected. Luka's current song was the opening to an anime that she liked.
"No need to waver / Though without any strength / You can find answers that you're looking for / After you've moved on!" Luka was singing the English version of the song. Miku's English was average, so she didn't understand all of it.
"Toilet," Miku said to the others. "Stop her from killing herself, will you?" Miku left her bag and everything and headed for the girls' bathroom, not drunk enough to stumble, but not sober enough to look sober either.
"You can put your goddamn fucking vocals up your ass, you insufferable asshole!"
Miku was startled by a screamed argument from the room next to theirs. A tall, beautiful blond girl stood in the doorway, wearing a fancy outfit and screaming at the top of her lungs.
She slammed the door closed and stomped off, right past Miku, into the girls' bathroom. For Miku, it was a really awkward situation. The girl undoubtedly had seen her standing there and witnessing her outburst. But Miku needed to pee. There was no helping it!
In the bathroom, she could hear the girl crying. Sometimes, there were things more important than bodily needs, so Miku stood next to her.
"Hey. You okay?" she asked. Miku hated that she couldn't hide the fact that she was a little drunk. It always showed in her voice.
"What? Who're you?" The girl stopped sobbing and looked at Miku. "Ah!" She pointed at Miku and seemed extremely surprised. "You're Miku. Hatsune Miku, aren't ya? Holy shit, you must be. I'd recognize that voice anywhere!"
Miku was really uncomfortable with the fact that a fan had just recognized her at a karaoke bar, but at least the girl didn't seem likely to start crying again any time soon.
"What was going on outside?" she asked.
"That? My dick of a band leader's constantly changing the fucking lyrics of our songs around and expects me to just remember them top off my head all the time. So I quit. Serves that asshole right." The girl was pretty vulgar and straightforward. To top it all off, the girl pulled a pack of cigarettes from her handbag and lit one. She took a deep drag but was careful to blow the smoke away from Miku's face.
"I'm Lily Storm. 'S my stage name. Since it's you, Miku, I'll tell ya my real name—it's Yuri. Yuri Kaze. Nice to meetcha." Lily held her hand out and grinned.
Miku was used to a lot of weird stuff because of Luka, but this girl was definitely one of a kind. Nevertheless, she took her hand.
"Ya know, there's a hot rumor on the net about you sleepin' with Megurine 'n Gumi. Some say 's Luka, other's say 's Gumi. Can't see Gumi being yer type, seriously. Hahaha!"
Her mood definitely swung around fast. "I would've told ya to listen to me sing but I just about 'n quit my band, so I guess back to workin' shitty part-time jobs it 's. Hey, are ya here 'lone?" Lily took another deep breath of the cigarette, and Miku finally decided to give in to her need to pee.
"Sorry, gotta pee." Miku vanished into a stall with Lily waiting outside.
"I love yer song, 'u know. 'S just friggin' awesome. Love is war…should've made it rock. Give it some power." Lily was clearly someone who moved at her own pace, and that pace was two hundred miles per hour.
Lily was still there but had finished her smoke when Miku came out of the stall and washed her hands.
"Ya didn' answer my question. Are ya alone here?" Lily leaned against the wall next to Miku and viewed her, looking relatively relaxed. Miku found it refreshing that the girl wasn't fawning all over her.
"No. Luka, Gumi, and Sonika are here with me. I can introduce you if you want." Miku felt sympathy for Lily, for no particular reason. Maybe because she was a little like Luka.
"Are ya kiddin'? Thanks a bunch, Miku. 'S okay callin' ya Miku, right?" Lily opened the door and held it open for Miku.
"Yes, just give me a minute." Miku felt a little overwhelmed by the blond girl's attitude.
When she opened the door to their room, loud symphonic metal music blasted out and Lily tried to peek past Miku at all costs to see who was singing her favorite tune.
"Gods of old / Fighting the spawn of devils / Heroes of might 'n magic / Hear my chant, hear my song, aid my cause, fight for glory, die for blood!" Sonika pronounced the lyrics flawlessly.
Luka was completely taken and acting like a teenage girl at a visual kei concert. Gumi was holding back a little more, but was pretty much doing the same thing. Sonika put on a real performance—striking poses, flailing her left arm around, pulling face,s and shouting in the mike at full power.
"'Valkyries of Odin,' one of my favorite songs! And damn, she's bloody awesome," Lily commented, while Miku simply went into the room and sat down, unable to resist the mood, and joined Luka in her wild behavior for once. Lily just stood there in the entrance, waiting for the song to end.
"Miku you've got to tell me how you manage to go to the bathroom and come back with a hot girl," Luka said, eyeing the newcomer to their little party.
"Do you have a death wish?" Miku asked, and pinched Luka's cheek. "I thought I made it clear what's gonna happen if you cheat on me again." Miku always lost some of her formal speech when she drank.
"Miku, who is she?" Gumi tried to bring some order back into the room.
"Her name's Lily Storm. Had a falling out with her band and I met her in the bathroom," Miku explained.
Lily slowly walked over to the free seat next to Sonika and sat down. "Nice ta meetcha al'." Lily had a really heavy accent, but none of the others could place which kind.
"Jus' now th' was 'Valkyries of Odin' by Luring Angelwhispers. You were awesome. Th' was better than the original vocalist. Holy shit, now I recogniz' ya! Sonika Lyoid! Miku wasn't kidding. Awesome. Can I shake yer hand?" Lily seemed pretty excited to meet some of the stars of the music world so randomly.
"Sure," Sonika said. "You've found a really lively one, Miku. I like it. You and Gumi aren't much for partying."
Luka blinked. Sonika had just said something that Luka knew she shouldn't have.
"Just wait and see. Gumi, get up here." Miku was easily provoked, even when she'd had only a little to drink. The song that came on was instantly recognizable—it was Miku's "Love Is War." Gumi and Miku's voices blended easily together.
Luka, Sonika and Lily were quickly caught up in the song and the mood got even wilder. The next song was a cover of another anime song that Luka sang together with Sonika.
"A night sky full of cries…" Luka looked at Sonika.
"Hearts filled with lies…" Sonika looked back at Luka.
"The contract, is it worth the price…"
"A soul pledged to the darkness…"
And then they joined together. "Now I've lost it, I know I can kill, the truth is just beyond the gate!"
Miku recognized the song from the radio and she liked it quite a bit. Gumi did too. Needless to say, Lily was happy just being there with these famous people. Luka and Sonika were especially famous, so to meet them like this and to even sing karaoke with them was like a dream come true.
"So we rise, close your eyes, we're falling!" Sonika and Luka locked hands and pointed together at Lily, just before they went into the chorus.
Miku ordered a couple more drinks while Gumi was busy competing with Lily to see who could empty a full glass of vodka diluted with juice faster. They both moved back and forth with the music while Luka and Sonika had started to perform a real show on the "stage" in front.
"Just howling in the shadows!" Luka and Sonika were sweating but not showing a single sign of exhaustion. They were pros, much tougher than other people when it came to singing.
"You said your name's Lily, right?" Luka moved over to Lily and leaned over her shoulder, pointing at a specific song. "You know this one? Hey, Sonika, you know 'Resonance,' right?"
Luka grinned and grabbed Lily by her wrist, pulling her up front between Sonika and herself. Lily was really tall, only a little bit shorter than Sonika and taller than Luka. There were only two microphones, so Luka laid her left arm around Lily's shoulder, pulling her so close than Lily could smell the alcohol on Luka's breath.
The music started to boom and the three started to move with the beat.
"Tsunaida tamashii no hi ga, mune wo sasu nara!" The three sang together, but surprisingly Lily's voice was the most fitting. It was a fast rock song and her voice simply fit it perfectly.
The drinks came and Miku saw the shocked face of the guy bringing the drinks. He recognized all four of them but had no idea who Lily was. He looked really envious of the girl who got to party with the four stars.
"Deatta wake wa dou datte ii, mikitsukerarete! Fureta shunkan no kizu no fun dake, tashika ni nareru!" The three continued to give it their all. Especially Lily seemed to be really getting into it. They stepped around, pointed at each other, and put on a real show. Miku was amazed that Lily could keep up with the two.
And finally the song ended. Lily was so out of breath that she just threw herself in her chair and took a long sip of her Coke with rum. "They're monsters, I tell ya." She'd only sung in a small band until then and had never performed live before.
"Miku, let's do 'Magnet.'" Luka pulled her lover from her seat. The music had already started—Gumi had put the song in for them. The two stood in front, locked their hands, and waited for the lyrics to start.
"Are they really going out?" Lily leaned over to Sonika, who was downing a glass of pure sake with ease.
"Just look at them go. Should be pretty obvious." Sonika pointed at the "stage" and Lily caught a few seconds of Luka and Miku seriously kissing, not even a bit embarrassed.
"What about you? Anyone special?" Sonika grabbed Lily's chin and leaned really close, making Lily blush.
"Sis!" Gumi voiced her complaints. "I'm right here, you know!"
"I was just joking, Gumi. Don't get all flustered. You get jealous so quickly, it's fun to tease you a little. She's not my type, but I saw how you were eyeing her." Sonika grinned and Gumi opened her mouth, but nothing came out.
"Wanna kiss?" Lily smiled a broad smile and offered her lips to Gumi, who opened her mouth even further. It was so unfair, them teaming up against her. She would show them!
Gumi was a bit of a lightweight when it came to drinking, so maybe the alcohol clouded her judgment when she leaned forward, put a hand on the table to support herself, and pulled Lily by her neck, kissing her right in front of her sister.
"So daring!" Sonika knew that she had brought this about, so she wasn't angry. Gumi standing up for herself and doing something to get Sonika back was quite rare.
Lily stared at Gumi with wide eyes.
"How's that, sis? I can do it if I want to!" Gumi was not entirely sure what she was talking about.
The music went off and Gumi turned to look quickly through the catalog. "Do you know this one?"
She pointed at a rock song she had heard a few times on the radio. At first there was confusion as to whom she meant, but then Gumi stood up and put the catalog right in front of Lily.
"Sure do. Don' tell me ya want me to—" Lily didn't even get to finish her sentence. Gumi put the song on and it started almost right away.
Lily was still a little tired from singing "Resonance" with Luka and Sonika. Not to mention that all of a sudden Gumi had kissed her because of a joke gone a little out of control.
"Beatrix!" They announced together and the song started. Luka knew the song and that it was naturally a duet. She hadn't expected Gumi to pull Lily on stage though. The girl was more daring than Luka gave her credit for.
"What's going on?" Miku sat down next to Sonika, who seemed oddly amused for some reason.
"Gumi's teaching me a lesson. Go Gumi!" Sonika shouted over the music.
Miku was leaning on Luka. She had sung a little too much or maybe drank a little too much.
"Be right back. Bathroom." Luka vanished and Miku thought it was a good time to go to the bathroom herself. Again. Both of them were not able to walk straight anymore, but they weren't worried by it.
"I'm pretty proud that you could just talk to her like that and bring her with you. I'd have done the same thing."
"She seems nice enough. Even wilder than you, but nothing we can't handle. Wonder if she lives around here," Miku answered.
"I'd never thought we'd have a conversation like this in a public bathroom."
"Just don't think about it or it'll become embarrassing."
"She looks good with Gumi, don't you think?" Luka picked a different topic.
"I wonder what Sonika is gonna do. She wanted to break up with Gumi not even a day ago and now this happens." Miku wasn't sure it was the best thing to happen.
"I don't think she'll just drop Gumi. She really cares about her. If she wants them to hook up, she'll work towards it. I'll ask her later, maybe after you and Gumi have passed out."
"What kind of statement is that?" Miku wasn't very happy to hear that.
"Oh, come on. You can't walk in a straight line anymore. I know how much you can take. Two hours, tops." Luka smirked and left the stall to wash her hands.
Miku came out a little later, staring at her partner.
At that very second, Gumi came running in and flung herself into a stall. Sonika and Lily followed shortly after.
"I guess it's time to leave. She almost threw up in the room," Sonika said. She was the only one who still seemed mostly sober.
"Uh, 'cuse me, but any of ya got a place I could, uh, maybe crash at for t'night? I kinda need ta sort out my stuff, and yeah…" Lily didn't seem very comfortable imposing on the girls.
"You can sleep on Gumi's couch. I don't trust Luka to not secretly rape you in your sleep," Miku said, glaring at Luka.
"Hey!" the songstress shot back, then sighed. It wasn't that bad an idea.
"I'll get the okay from Gumi. She's a little out of it."
After Gumi had successfully emptied herself and entered depression mode, Sonika carried her out. Luka paid for them all, and they left, heading back to Luka and Gumi's building.
"Lily…" Luka took the blond girl to the side while the others walked a little further ahead. "You can't tell anyone where we live. You can't tell anyone about this evening. Is that clear? I will make your life hell if you break your promise."
Luka was scary when she was serious, and Lily quickly nodded. No kind of publicity or attention was worth giving up a friendship with these four.
Luka smiled happily and smacked Lily's butt. "You looked nice with Gumi. But don't try anything funny. If she comes on to you tonight, stop her. She's drunk. If Miku could hear me saying this, she'd probably beat me with an irony hammer, but still."
"I'm not that kind of person. I don't take advantage of drunk girls. Also, she's already kissed me twice, so that's plenty for me." Lily's accent was completely gone. It was something she kept up for appearances.
"See you tomorrow!" Miku and Luka waved the other three off.
"I want to go to bed…" Miku lamented.
"Bed sounds nice…" Luka whispered, and laid an arm around Miku, pulling her into an embrace.
"Pervert…" Miku complained just before kissing her love.
~~~ End of Chapter VIII ~~~