Chapter 1:
Risako Sugaya woke up to her alarm clock playing the latest Berryz Koubou song. She had just woke up from the weirdest dream she had experienced in her young life. She didn't know the person in her dream, nor if she saw her before. The only people she had grown to known was her fellow members and the people she worked with since she started a couple of years ago.
She wanted to go back to sleep, but she had to get ready for rehearsals in less than an hour. She was in her own house, which was slightly cluttered with schoolwork. She got out of bed, got dressed, and went outside to wait for the taxi to take her to rehearsals. She couldn't help but wonder about the dream she had just had. She hadn't experienced a dream like it before. Should she tell her friends about it? They wouldn't believe her anyway.
The dream was tragic, yet bittersweet. It hit every emotion that she had felt, and more. It was like the unknown person knew her all along, even though she never could identify the person. She closed her eyes, hoping she can go back to her dream just before the taxi pulled up to her house. She brought herself back to the place in her dream, hoping to find the person that was calling her.
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"Where are you?" Risako called out into the distance.
She looked around into the distance, which formed into an empty room, almost similar to her room. She walked over to her door, hoping someone was behind it. She opened it, to see no one there. She then saw the person walking away. Risako ran as fast as she could to catch up to the person before it disappeared into the distance. Risako began to cry wondering why the person left her. She went back to the empty room and closed the door, only to see someone standing in the room...
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"HONK!" the taxi horn shouted.
"Huh?" Risako woke up to see the taxi driver getting impatient for her. She went inside the taxi as it pulled away from her house. She felt a tear stroll down her cheek as she watched the city passed by. She sighed, wishing she could talk to the person in her dream before she was interrupted. To her, it was the only peace she had for the past month. She wished she didn't have to go to rehearsals, but she had no other choice. She wondered if the person was someone from her past or someone she really cared about.
"No," Risako said, "it couldn't be anything like that."
As the taxi pulled up to the rehearsal building, Risako was hesistant to get out at first. She got out of the taxi and went inside. As she walked down the hall, she was surrounded by voices, telling her all sorts of jibberish. Suddenly, she began to hear a voice that calmed her down. Was it a voice from her dream, even though Risako never heard a voice from the person?
Unfortunately, it was her bandmate Momoko, talking to her. "Risako, are you okay?" she asked.
"Huh?" Risako asked.
"Come on," Momo said, taking Risako by the hand, "we gotta do rehearsals now."
"Um...okay," Risako answered.
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"Risako!" the choreographer shouted. "That's the wrong move again!"
"Sorry.." Risako replied.
"That's enough everybody!" the choreographer said. "Let's call it off for today. I expect everybody to get the dance done right, understand?" She left as the group looked in awe. Risako went to her dressing room and shut the door, hoping not to be disturbed. she closed her eyes, hoping to go back to her dream from this morning.
Unfortunately, someone was at the door knocking. "Risako, can I come in?"