Well, hmmm about the "why Korea?" thing... you'll have to wait a lot to understand it
This chapter will answer some questions... but it will leave another ones
CHAPTER 3I woke up really early, so I’m in the dance room, all alone. I will try hard to not cry, at least not in front of her. I don’t want her to see hurt I am… Suddenly I feel someone behind me.
“Hi, Tanaka-san!” She says in her standard cheerful tone.
“Oh, hi Lin. What are you doing here so early?”
“I thought that it was a good idea to practice a little more the dance… Since Kusumi-san graduated, I’ve got more protagonism in the group so… I’ll be better improving…” So that’s why she seemed so worried about the dance. “And what about you? Why are you here so early?”
“Humm, well, because…” Come on Reina think faster! “Because, I couldn’t sleep, and I was bored at home.” Well, in fact it's true... my mom was right.
“I see… Well, I’ll go to change my clothes. I’ll be back in a minute!” She says as she leads towards the door.
We never told anyone about our relationship to avoid problems. Gaki, Sayu and Ai knew about it because they caught us kissing… I felt guilty in some ways, but Ai told us that we shouldn’t say it since if someone of the UFA founds out, we’re dead.
Ai-chan and Gaki-san never told anything of their relationship either. They started to date about eight months ago, just two months after Eri and me. They told it just to us… I hope that they have better luck than me.
“I’ve come back!... Tanaka-san? You ok? You are crying…” Damn, it’s true, I was so lost in thought that I didn’t even realized it.
“Oh, yes, I’m fine… Emmm, I’ll go to the bathroom, give me a sec…” And I rush to the door.
But as I’m running I see through a door’s window to Eri and Gaki talking peacefully inside a room. I don’t really want to know what they’re talking about, but maybe this will answer some of the questions that need to be answered… So here I am, eavesdropping them…
“Risa, you have to give this to her when the right time comes…” Eri whispers sternly. She’s really serious, and Gaki has pain written all over her face.
“Eririn… you really want to go? Is this what you really want?” Eri smiles at her, and I feel my body trembling with jealousy. I hate when she looks at her like that…
“How many times I’ve got to say that I don’t really have another option? Of course I don’t want this, but well, I believe that a time in Korea is not going to be that bad, haha.” And she starts to giggle.
“Eri, please, this is serious, don’t start to laugh…”
“And what do you want me to do Risa?” Suddenly she’s angry, but wait… is she starting to cry? “If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry… I want to stay here… but I can’t!” And she breaks down and starts to cry hysterically. I want to go and hug her… but I won’t do it, after all, she’s the one that is leaving me, I’m the one that she should be hugging. But just see her like this, hurts me even more, and I start to cry again…
“Damn! Kamei!” Has Risa just say “damn”? “You can stay! Don’t say that you can’t! You’re going because you don’t want to face the problems, and that’s all!” She yells as she starts to cry too.
I can’t hear anymore, I’m crying too hard again and they’d hear me, so I run to the bathroom...
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Everyone is in the dance room, except Eri, I wonder where the hell she is…
“Hi girls…” There he is, with his stupid face.
“Hi Tsunku-san.” The others respond politely. And suddenly Eri enters in the room too…
“Oh, there you are Kamei. Come here.” She looks happy right now, and an hour ago she was crying like mad… She’s a good actress. “Well girls, I guess that you all have heard a rumour about Kamei-san leaving the group…”
“Yes.” And everyone starts to look sad…
“Well, I have to say that it’s true. Eri is leaving Japan to start to work at a Korean agency as a solo singer…”
What?! I don’t believe this! I’m sure that he’s inventing all this!
“Yes, that’s it.” She says in a fake cheerful tone, I know her to well… But damn, if she wants to be a solo singer she can be it at Japan, maybe not at Hello! Project, but yes inside the country…
This is all too weird… I have to leave the room, or I’ll start to cry in a few seconds. I leave while the other girls are hugging and saying their goodbyes to Eri. But as I rush my way to the bathroom again, a voice calls me…
“Ren…”