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Lights flashed here and there and just about everywhere. The room was only lit by those coloured lights. The jet black walls seemed to make the place look more like an abandoned warehouse than any decent club, but the pay was decent and well known to those who wished to find them. The night was young but the dance floor was already half full of people who were dancing. or at least that's what it looked like... Peoples' bodies moved left and right as waitresses and waiters suffered through it all as they handed a drunk person another alcoholic beverage or a sober person a glass of soda water.

Puccho sat in Lily's from pocket in the masquerade. It wasn't the most exciting thing, but Lily, his guardian, had a part-time job at the club. Everyone wore masks and all the waiters and waitresses wore the same thing to fall into the crowd from the others who wore either flashy clothing or neony coloured clothes. No one noticed the little ferment sitting in the pocket of a small figured young waitress. Puccho hadn't seen any other Gogos since that meeting with Philly which was more of a light chat than anything. He just wanted a companion to spend his days with and keep him on his toes.

Lily, not being of age of drinking yet, was offering people fruity soft drinks to those who were in the mood for it. She carried the tray in one hand as she pushed with the other, ever so gently. Puccho, almost dying in the pocket, started to complain about the dance party.

"I wanna go home" He whined as he tugged on the girl's black vest from the inside. Lily pushed his head back into her pocket and told him to keep quiet. He didn't like the noise or the people or the pushing. He just wanted to be home where it was safe or at the small cafe that Lily loved going to. That place with the really good pastries and tea. He liked it there. There was none of this kind of junk.

"I need this part-time job to get the money." She said to him. "If I don't have money, who's going to buy you the snacks and drinks you like?" She told him almost sternly before quickly getting back to the participants in the so-called 'masquerade'. Puccho just crossed his arms and slunk back into her pocket without his security flower. He didn't want it to get ruined, so he left it in front of Lily's computer in her room.

Lily, after pushing her way towards where a small voice could be heard more as a squeak of a mouse than a call of distress. But it was still a call. Lily made her way through the crowd and reached where a small lady stood in a gown and dainty white gloves. "Wow." was all that Lily could say. One eyebrow cocked up as she noticed how this small figured girl (which looked pretty much like a doll), could go unnoticed by the many people here. She hadn't seen someone so small since Puccho! "Are you perhaps... a gogo?" Lily asked as she bent over and whispered to the chopstick height girl in the gown with her minty breath.

Puccho poked his head out of the pocket at the sound of Lily talking to someone without her usual air if she was talking to someone drunk. His green head peeked to see who was out there. To his surprise, it was a girl, and a pretty one at that. He dug back in out of shyness and hoped that she didn't see him.

"Lily. You can call me Lily. It's nice to meet you miss Powell." She said with a smile and returning the curtsy with an awkward one as she had drinks in one hand. She noticed a quick glance at the drinks on her tray from this girl and realized that she totally forgot about her request. "I'm really sorry, Miss Powell!" She said as she began to fret. "Please, have any one you like. They're all non-alcoholic." She said as a reassuring phrase towards Takoyaki.

Puccho was sort of despondent before she spoke, but with reassuring words from this girl's mouth, Puccho felt hope in his heart. He poked his head out fo the pocket slowly and looked towards the girl. She looked so pretty... But this was no time to be daydreaming about a girl he just met. He gathered courage to raise a hand and give a shy wave to her. "h-hi there." He said with a soft smile.

Lily smiled at the polite air around this little female. It was a totally different air around her own Gogo who was nothing but timid. "Sure," She answered as she picked up a sparkling orange and white peach soda and put a pink bendy-straw in it. "Here you are." Lily said while placing it beside the Gogo "You might like it. It's quite a nice drink." She said to the Gogo. Lily had enjoyed this many times and had grown accustomed to it's sugary taste and bubbly sensation.

Puccho peeked out again at the request from the girl. His head poked as she curtsied in her pretty gown. It almost took his breath away that a gogo could look so pretty. "Okay..." He said as he climbed down halfway before Lily just helped him onto the table where the Takoyaki girl had her drink. "I'm Puccho." He said in a soft tone of voice. "And you are Takoyaki Powell, right?" He asked to make sure. He had heard bits of conversation here and there inside the pocket, but hadn't caught everything, so he couldn't help but ask to make sure.

Puccho smiled shyly at this girl who seemed quite the character to be around. She looked like fun. "Okay, Koko then." He said sheepishly. "This is what this masquerade is. It's like a rave and a masquerade in one. Something new age." He said, making out what she had said beyond the hiccups that the soda had given her. He almost chuckled at the other Gogo as she made things work with her hiccups."But it's still going to be fun! It's the same except the people, the outfits, the music and the atmosphere." He tried to make things better.

Lily just smiled at her. "Do you want something to help you get rid of those hiccups?" She said as she looked on her tray to see if there was anything that wasn't fizzy or wouldn't be suited to the tastes of a teenager. Water, which seemed so common, was of short supply on her tray. She'd have to get some from the table across the dance floor to get some for Koko if she wanted it.