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"Well, I would say just interacting and caring for the people we will be working with from now on. Feeling the need to care for or look after one another. Or maybe to befriend the stars, or perhaps become one. And if we do rise to the top, we will need to know how to love our fans, as they will love us. I guess it's just a never-ending cycle of person-loving-person. A handfull of us just got lost.." Amaya said without hesitation. She had never given previous thought about how, but she assumed that it was obvious.
"Love and be loved. Maybe we can't love because most of us aren't loved back..."
She paused for a while and then returned the question to Kara, "You?"

Arina saw a familuar car outside the door she smiled lightly. Running out the LME doors and up to a woman who got out of the car. "Hello Ms. Ichiko" Arina said as she bowed. "Great to see you again where to next?!" Arina started for the car but Ms. Ichiko stopped her. Her voice was very soft and despairng, "Arina, have you talked to your mother lately?" Arina looked down and then up to Ms. Ichiko; she motioned her hand to the car door. "She was sleeping again when I called I guess she sleeps most of her day and eat at short periods and I just call at the wrong time." Ms. Ichiko put her arm around her and Arina just looked up to her. "Is it possible to go to the hospital and see her on the way to the photo shoot? Please I need to see her!?" Ms. Ichiko smiled, "Well there is some time after your photo shoot to that commerial audition we an go see her then okay?" Arina just sighed. "Okay but we need to see her!" Ms. Ichiko laughed slightly. "Well we will, we will! Get into the car or we'll be late." Arina smiled lightly doubting herself if they will even let her in the building. As the car leaves a cell phone goes off. Arina jumps up because of the vibrate on the phone. Answering the phone, "Yo!" An indisictive voice is heard on the other side. "No, I'm sorry I can't stop by-" Arina stops and listens. "I can't, I just can't right now later today okay-" Arina hangs up and lays her head back sighing deeply. Mother, I hope to see you today. Even if can't I will break down all walls to get by your side to see if your okay.Arina looks out the window. After dad died I wasn't able to gather enough strength to pull myself out of this hole

((No problem. Happened to me too.))
Hikari turned and followed Azumi through the hall. "Oh, okay!" she replied to Azumi. "The music industry isn't really that complicated. First you reccord a song and send it to a company, in this case LME. If they like it they will offer you a reccord deal. Then you may reccord your own songs and release CDs of your work for the public. Your manager makes sure to advertise the CDs. Then its up to the public if you become popular or not. Get it?" she finished slightly out of breath. She had spoken fast because it was the first time she had been asked to explain her work and that made her excited. 'Maybe I wasn't very clear...' she worried to herself.

Azumi smiled brightly as she listened to Hikari telling her about the music industry. Though inside she was simply bored, she already knew how the music industry worked. She had been sure to know since she knew of many different singers and actresses that switched from one to the other. If she was ever given the chance, she definitely intended to sing in order to increase her fame.

"Oh, yes, I understand perfectly Sai-san," the young Love Me member replied happily, "You make it all sound so easy though. Oh but of course for someone that's as great a singer as you are it must have been very easy, right?"

'Oh, good. She understood.' Hikari thought with a sigh of relief. "But it wasn't easy for me," Hikari explained to Azumi. She thought back. There was a while when no agency would even consider her as a background singer. "I was turned down multiple times, in multiple places. But I won't bore you with the details. What about you Azumi? Did you have trouble getting into the show business?" Hikari finally finished, her curiosity getting the better of her.

Azumi was silent for a few moments after after she was asked if it was difficult for her to get into show business. She started fiddling with one of her pigtails, looking thoughtful for a while. "Well..." she finally began, frowning very slightly, "I'm still not technically in show business, but up until now everything has been quite easy I suppose, I've been lucky."

She took a few more steps, staying silent. "Or...really I guess it wasn't exactly easy. It took me a year to be able to convince some people to let me audition. I'm still pretty young and everything," she explained quietly, "Last year when I first tried I was only 14 actually...this year I was fifteen when I went to the auditions. I was able to get them to let me audition because my sixteenth birthday was just a couple of days after."

She let out another sigh as she tugged on her pigtail, "I never thought that I'd have to join something like this group in order to be able to debut for real." She stopped walking for a moment, finally remembering that she was supposed to be making a good impression. "But I'm sure it might be fun," she said, forcing another smile onto her face.

Hikari nodded as Azumi explained. She noticed that Azumi seemed a little uptight, frowning and playing with her pigtails. 'Maybe she isn't as happy as I first thought. Now she's beginning to act more like the Love Me members that I heard about. Full of hardship and in need of love...' she thought to herself. Hikari followed silently for a moment. "Well, you have a good start, helping me out! And I hope you have fun. I understand this isn't the most entertaining of jobs..." Hikari trailed off, remembering another piece of her past.