Chapter 7: Pool Side Vocaloids, Familial Violence

Rin sat on her bed, clad in a rainbow striped swimsuit staring at herself in the mirror. She was questioning her looks, something she wasn't quite used to. Should I put up my hair? I can't wear a push-up bra… Stupid model restrictions. Maybe the stripes make me look flatter? Or maybe that's good. Or, should the stripes be horizontal? Dots? UGH! Why does this matter! I don't need to impress anyone, and especially not Len! He's not impressive! Rin silently cursed out Len and her own mind for being worried about something she considered silly. Perhaps having so many emotions was a bad idea. But waterproof eyeliner…

Lily entered the room to check up on Rin. Rin was finally putting her hair up in a ponytail, a ribbon in her hair. Lily raised an eyebrow, silently watching the girl. Lily was in a strapless yellow and black bikini herself. She saw Rin check herself out in the mirror and begin to question if she needed padding. Lily decided now would be a good time to intervene.

"Rin, are you okay?" Lily walked over to Rin, setting her hands on her shoulder, "Don't-don't pad yourself, you have time even with model restrictions…" Lily sighed, wondering what was going through Rin's mind. Rin often reminded Lily of her younger self, especially now. She too had padded her bras in middle school, until freshman year, though, it was around then she arrived at the estate.

"I'm fine," Rin sighed. She was about to walk away when she remembered her thought from earlier, "Lily. I don't understand boys. I mean, I've never really hung out with boys, aside from my master." Lily nodded, realizing this would be a difficult thing to explain.

"Sit down," Lily led Rin to her bed and the two sat down together. Lily was the closest thing to a big sister that Rin would have since Meiko was more like a mom and Gumi was too irresponsible. That, and both were yellow-coded, "Boys-boys are tricky. Sometimes, they're blunt, like Len. Or snarky too, like Len. But, they tend to be sneaky, and tend to hide when something's bothering them, or act like a pain in the ass," Lily paused, "Some are jerks, just like girls can be jerks… But, boys tend to be easy on forgiving others, not all the time though."

"I see," Rin nodded. She somewhat understood what was being said.

"They don't like to talk about their feelings, except when they feel like it," Lily then asked, "Why are you so curious about boys, Rin?"

"I was just curious, that's all." Rin insisted. Lily simply smiled.

"Well, let's head down to the pool together," Lily got up, smiling at Rin, "Okay?"

Upstairs, Mayu sat alone in her room with all of her stuffed animals, and a picture of Len, having tea time while plotting. Mayu had begun her plotting tea time dates since her run-in with Rin. She had no idea why she was compelled to exact revenge on the girl, since she recalled Rin being rather nice and fun to be around, though, Mayu only knew that she wanted Rin to pay now. Oh well, it didn't bother her that much that she forgot. It happened a lot, so, there was no point to worry.

"Len, should I poison her?" Mayu sipped her tea as she stared at the photo, sighing, "Oh, if only he was here right now…"

"M-mayu, can I come in?" Una was at the door.

"Come in…" Mayu sighed.

Una entered the dark room, relunctantly closing the door behind her. Una had dark blue hair in braids and wore a very stylized hat, while wearing awfully casual clothing.

"I'm going to the store to get some books, wanna go?" Una asked. She tried to be friendly with Mayu, despite absolutely being terrified of her.

"No, I'm plotting revenge," Mayu decline. Una frowned at her.

"You can't plot to kill one of the guests, Mayu," Una tried to reason with the girl, "You know that mother and father would be upset if you did."

"Yes I can, and I will." Mayu told her firmly, "Len's photo will help, and so will Usano Mimi, Neko Mimi, and my Miku Miku doll," Mayu gestured to each of them and the other toys at her tea party. Una realized there was no reasoning with this girl. Mayu daintily picked up a cup.

"She's done nothing to you, for crying out loud," Una turned her back. Mayu snapped the cup's handle.

Rin and Lily made it down to the pool where everyone else had gathered. Rin felt her face get red as she saw all the boys shirtless. Kaito and Meiko stood with each other, acting all lovey-dovey. For being someone who loved sweets, he was well defined and skinny, as most V1 models tend to be. Yuma was in the water, chasing the others with a squirt gun. Kyo was sipping soda in cargo pants. Arsloid was in the water, while Gumi looked on sadly. Piko and Fukase were wrestling in the water. Fukase was nearly bones, but Piko had well defined arm muscles, for some reason Rin couldn't figure out. Oliver was out of the water talking to Flower. Lui and Merli had their feet in the water away from the rough housing, acting just as lovey dovey as Kaito and Meiko. Then, there was Len being ganged up on by Arsloid. Rin couldn't help but stare until Lily sat her down. Meiko and Uni noticed and came over.

"Something wrong?" Meiko asked Lily.

N-no, it's…the pool's big." Rin lied. It was obvious that Rin had stared at Len, but the three girls decided to not press Rin on it.

"Rin!" Gumi and Flower ran over to her, "We're going into the smaller pool over there while the boys roughhouse!"

"O-okay," Rin was dragged into the much smaller pool. It was much warmer than Rin had expected, "Why is it warm?"

"It has a heating system." Flower sighed contently, "It feels great…"

"Soo, Rin, you have a fever?" Gumi teased, "Your face is red!" Rin's face only got redder as Gumi pointed it out.

"Wh-what? No…" Rin turned away from Gumi, "You're seeing things."

"Or maybe…?" Gumi smiled smugly, "Are you…?"

"Am I what?" Rin glanced over, "At least finish what you're saying."

"Are you in love?" Flower bluntly asked.

"N-no! Why would I be!" Rin hissed at them. Gumi laughed.

"She's in denial!" Gumi laughed harder. Rin tried to shut her up.

"Wow, she's bad at this," Flower turned to Ruby who sat nearby, "I have an idea,"

In Mayu's room, the room had been torn asunder during a rather one-sided fight. Mayu had Una pinned to the bed and was screaming incoherently into her face. Una tried to kick Mayu off of her, but it was to no avail. It was hard to say what would make Mayu snap, but apparently the new girl Rin was one way for it to happen. Why, Una wasn't sure.

"SHE TOOK HIMAWAY! AWAY! She'll take them ALL AWAY form me!" Mayu slammed Una against the bed a few times, "SHE'S A BITCH! SHE SHOULD DIE! SHE SHOULD BE DEACTIVATED!" Each slam didn't hurt, but was rather unnerving to Una, "I'll do it! You can't stop me!"

"Stop it! Stop it Mayu!" Una screamed back at the girl, still struggling underneath her.

Finally, Una was able to kick Mayu in the stomach, hard enough for Mayu to back away. Una sat up, panting out of shock and exhaustion. Mayu collapsed to the floor, panting as well. It appeared her yandere episode was over. Mayu suddenly stood up, dusting her dress off and went to her closet. She grabbed a red outfit and changed into it in front of Una. It wasn't the weirdest thing, but Una looked away, giving Mayu privacy to some regard.

"I'm ready," Mayu told her, "Let's go to the mall! I need new cups!" Mayu sweetly said.

"R-right," Una got up as well but more warily, "To the mall…"

"I'm not old, so you better believe it now!"

Yuma had owned the boys and proven that he wasn't old or letting himself go with each head dunk he gave them. The boys in the pool had given in just now, since they were afraid of being tackled.

"Did you see Tokyo Teddy Bear walk in, Len?" Piko asked him. Len shook his head.

"She arrived?" Len asked in shock, "I didn't see."

"Yeah, probably because Yuma was dunking you." Arsloid smirked.

"…Right," Len muttered as he scanned the room for her, "I don't see her though,"

"Oh, she's-" Fukase got quiet, his eyes wide. Len, Oliver and Piko turned to Fukase.

"What is it?" Oliver was the most impatient to find out.

"Oliver, close your eyes," Fukase turned Olivera around, much to his disappointment.

"…I'm 13." Oliver crossed his arms, "This is unfair!"

"Holy shit…" Piko swore as he figured out what Fukase was staring at, "That's…wow."

"WHAT IS IT?" Len was still trying to figure out what they were staring at.

"A fan service train wreck." Fukase mumbled out, "You can't look away even though it would be for the best, you know?"

"No, I don't because I don't know where to look." Len snapped.

"But, but this is different," Piko offered, his jaw dropped in awe, "This is real life fan service Fukase, not 2D anime fan service…" Len finally figured out what they were staring at, and now, it made sense.

Rin, was pinned toe the ground by the smaller pool by Ruby. Rin was hysterically laughing while Ruby tickled Rin's exposed stomach. Gumi was holding Rin's wrist above her head so she couldn't fight back, and Flower was simply smirking at their plan working.

"Say it Rin," Flower demanded with a smile.

"N-N-ne-never…!" Rin got the words out, but they died in laughter as the tickling increased.

"Oh. My. God." Len's jaw dropped. This was probably one of the most interesting things he'd seen in the last few months.

"Hey, Uni, can you take over?" Ruby asked her, "I need to use the bathroom." Uni walked over, gladly taking over for Ruby. Lily and Meiko were ignoring what was going on, mostly because they were excited to have a pool out.

"Rin, you're making this difficult…" Gumi sighed, "Uni, I got this. Watch a pro." Uni backed off as Gumi only did what the boys didn't expect, "Alright, Rin," Gumi pinned Rin to the ground, tickling the girl relentlessly, "Say it!" Oliver finally got a peek.

"I know what they're doing!" Oliver shouted. Fukase looked the most worried, while Piko and Len were mildly curious, "They're trying to outdo us with poses!" The worry vanished immediately.

"…I doubt that." Fukase simply said, "I don't think that's what they're doing, Oliver."

"Let's do stretches! And outdo them!" Oliver suggested excitedly, "Don't girls like flexible men?" Len and Piko again exchanged confused looks.

"Fukase, what the hell are you telling him?" Len asked. Fukase glared at him, "Just asking…"

"We're stretching?" Lui asked from where he sat, "I'll join!"

"Are you going to impress me?" Merli joked. Lui turned back to her.

"No," He smiled, "Unless you want to be." Merli blushed and found herself unable to speak.

"Okay, okay…" Rin finally gave in after almost 15 minutes of being tickled to death. Rin heaved as Gumi finally stopped. Flower smirked at her results.

"Gumi, get off of her." Flower gestured. Gumi got off of Rin, and helped Rin sit up.

This had all began since Rin refused to admit that she was in love to Flower. Flower was more than certain to have Rin admit it, for one reason or another. Uni and Gumi were hoping to figure out – or confirm – who it was that Rn had a crush on at the very least. The anticipation was figuratively killing them.

"I-I'm in love…" Rin admitted in a quiet voice.

"With…?" Gumi excitedly asked. Rin blushed. Do I really know that for sure?

"Well…" Rin's voice trailed off as she looked around the room for an excuse. She quickly found one that Uni, Gumi and Flower were staring at as well.

Lui, Len, Fukase, Piko, and Oliver were doing some stretches by the pool Well, Oliver was more or less coaching everyone since he had no idea what to do, and Fukase didn't want Oliver to fall on his face. Rin felt her face get warm again as she stared at them doing their stretches. Gumi seemed a tad unimpressed, but Flower and Uni were rather interested. Merli was interested in solely Lui, smiling and blushing as she watched them. Oliver caught the girls' stares.

"They're staring!" Oliver said in a hushed voice, "They're impressed and are watching you guys in awe!"

"Really now?" Fukase asked as he did toe touches, "Funny way to word it."

"I'm SURE they're staring because of that," Len sarcastically mumbled while doing lunges, "Ugh, are we done yet? My legs hurt…"

"Keep going!" Oliver cheered them on much to Len's disappointment, "You can do it!"

It was around then that Lily finally walked over to Kyo about this weird scene.

"Kyo," Lily asked, "Do you want to intervenen, or?"

"I could, but," Kyo smirked, "Rin was man handled and tickled relentlessly, so,"

"Fair enough. Oliver's pretty happy so it would be rude to stop," Lily agreed, before whispering, "Did you find out about Meiko and Kaito's secret?"

"Well…"

Rin laid in bed that night, tossing and turning with a bright red face while asleep. She was mouthing something while she turned, and sweating profusely. She finally awoke with a gasp and sat upright, panting and heaving. Rin ran her fingers through her short hair. That was not a dream I should be having…Not at all… Ughhh I hate him so much!

"I need something to drink," Rin decided, "Then I should be able to sleep without any issues."

Rin quietly came down the stairs and slipped into the kitchen. She poured herself a nice glass of water and drank it all in one gulp. …Did Len notice me being tickled to death? Rin glanced at the ice inside the glass as she mulled it over.

*CRASH*

The loud noise made Rin jump, and she looked around the room, wondering if she had caused it. However, the room was oddly still. It had to have been from upstairs. Rin quickly set the glass in the sink and looked out into the foyer, trying to find the source.

*BAM*

"L-l-let me go!"

Rin faintly heard Len's voice before it was cut off. She looked to the middle staircase.

Oh no. Please. Please not Mayu…

This chapter's actually less words than the original Chapter 7, but I removed Kaito and Meiko randomly bringing down Haiyi (srsly me from a few years ago?) and had to remove a few things related to Ring or Mikuo, since obviously Arsloid and Gumi do not have the same dynamic going on. I already previewed Chapter 8, and it'll be a lot different, well, kinda. You'll see. – KingdomMitsumi