A yawn escapes me as I continue to work on the instruments that will bring life to this music. It's been 3 days since we've all went out separate ways of getting this to work. The boys have already separated the parts and are practicing now. Yukio says that he's nearly finished the costumes only meaning I'm the one left behind. Creating music isn't that easy. Especially when you have to add other beats to it. There's only a few more days left until our rehearsal, and I actually do wonder how this will turn out. Sighing, I place my headphones back on before playing the melody again while adding the other instruments in.

Finding that this time, the music isn't that bad, I take out my headphones. Burning the music on the disc, I head over to the other side of the studio I'm in. Placing the disc in the player, I head inside booth to see if this time the music will work. Clearing my throat, I try to imagine to have one of the boys' voices. Choosing Astrin, I use a female voice of his. Getting ready, I press the start button.

>> LOVE LIVE - START DASH (HONOKA SOLO)

I say

Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!!

Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!!

Ubuge no kotoritachi mo

Itsuka sora ni habataku

Ookina tsuyoi tsubasa de tobu

Akiramecha dame nanda

Sono hi ga zettai kuru

Kimi mo kanjiteru yo ne

Hajimari no kodou

Ashita yo kaware!

Kibou ni kaware!

Mabushii hikari ni terasarete kaware

START!!

Kanashimi ni tozasarete

Naku dake no kimi janai

Atsui mune kitto mirai o kirihiraku hazu sa

Kanashimi ni tozasarete

Naku dake ja tsumaranai

Kitto (kitto)

Kimi no (yume no) chikara (ima o)

Ugokasu chikara

Shinjiteru yo... dakara START!!

Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!!

Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!!

Ameagari no kibun de

Takamaru kitai no naka

Tsumazuita koto sae mo

Omoide ni shiyou

Ashita ga saku yo!

Kibou ga saku yo!

Tanoshii Merodii kuchizusami saita

DASH!!

Yorokobi o uketomete

Kimi to boku tsunagarou

Mayoi michi yatto soto e nukedashita hazu sa

Yorokobi o uketomete

Kimi to boku susumu darou

Sore wa (sore wa) tooi (yume no)

Kakera (dakedo) itoshii kakera

Kanata e to... boku wa DASH!!

Mata hitotsu yume ga umare...

Kanashimi ni tozasarete

Naku dake no kimi ja nai

Atsui mune kitto mirai o kirihiraku hazu sa

Yorokobi o uketomete

Kimi to boku tsunagarou

Mayoi michi yatto soto e nukedashita hazu sa

Yorokobi o uketomete

Kimi to boku susumu darou

Sore wa (sore wa) tooi (yume no)

Kakera (dakedo) itoshii kakera

Kanata e to... boku wa DASH!!

Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!!

Hey, hey, hey START:DASH!!

And with that, the music ends getting me to finally open my eyes to find shocked faces at the other side of the mirror. I flinch before my eyes widen from this at their sudden appearance. That's when Astrin's shocked face turns into a full on huge smile. Opening the door, he heads over to me before jumping again towards me. Used to this already, I stay on my feet as he hugs me tightly.

"That was amazing! Is that our song? Is that our song?" he repeatedly asks.

"I'm not sure ⁠—" I try to talk as he nearly suffocates me.

"Astrin, calm down. You're going to squeeze the life out of her." Sei sighs getting the boy to do so.

That's when I notice the outfits they're wearing. They were all wearing the same concept of having a tie, vest, white collar shirts, pants, belt and white boots. The only difference was the colors. Yukio is wearing green, Sei has blue and Astrin is wearing.....pink?

"So what do you think?" Yukio asks obviously indicating the outfits.

"They're amazing!" I answer truthfully before looking over to Astrin, "Why is your's pink?"

"Pink is my favorite color!" Astrin chirps.

I don't know if I should be surprised or not.

"What do you mean when you said that you're not sure if this is our song?" Sei asks.

"Well, I've created many sounds to match with this song. But I'm not sure if this one might be the right one. I need to listen to it first. The other 42 tries didn't work that great." I answer truthfully heading back to the opposite side of the studio.

"42 tries?! Is that how many times you've done it?!" Sei asks in complete shock.

"Yeah, and none of them caught my attention." I sigh sitting don before placing my headphones on, "But this might actually work."

With that, I play the song along with my voice. My eyes close to concentrate on the contrast to the instruments of the melody. When it ends, I don't notice the smile on my face until I open my eyes. The boys were staring at me with their eyes widen in shock.

"What?" I ask wondering why they look like that.

Tears start to brim in their eyes as they all suddenly hug me, "You can smile!"

This gets me to be angered a bit, "Of course I can! I'm a human being! Yesh!"

They laugh at my outrage until a knock erupts from the door. Getting out attention over there, I find Hyuga standing there with a smile.

"I see you've been quite acquainted with them now." he states with his arms crossed.

"How can I not?" I ask sighing as his smile widens a bit.

"Well, I hope you're all ready. Hope your performance isn't bad. Especially your dancing." Hyuga states as silence replies back to him.

Our calm faces slowly turns into shock, "Dancing?!"

Hyuga blinks in shock at our sudden outburst, "Yes, there's suppose to be dancing in your performance."

"We didn't think of one! What are we going to do?!" Astrin panics as he runs around the place.

"Calm down. We still have a few more days left. We've already finished with the music." I try to reassure.

"She's right. You should practice the song with Yukio, you're the only one that's out of beat still. Melody and I will create the dance." Sei adds as I look up at him.

When did I ever volunteer to help create the dance?

"Good luck." Hyuga states before walking off.

Sighing, I wonder how I'm suppose to even create dance steps with Sei. I've never really like dancing.

~~~~~

"It's still not perfect yet." Sei frowns as we sit there panting heavily from all the work we did.

The whole day we've been trying to figure out dance movements for the song. It was extremely tiring. Sei is dressed in a red turtleneck shirt with a light blue sweater over and blue training pants. Me, I was simply in a simple sleeveless shirt with a hood and black gym shorts.

"It's because it doesn't match the music." I speak up getting him to look at me in confusion, "You're trying to do cool masculine moves on a cute hyper song. That's not going to work out that well."

"Then what do you suggest?" he asks.

"You know how STARISH songs are cheerful upbeat music? They also have cute hyper dances with it. The same goes with QUARTET NIGHT. Their songs are more...sexy and mature so they have more masculine dances to it." I give out examples as Sei watches me attentively.

"You're right. Why didn't I notice that?" he mumbles as I stand up from the ground.

"You were too stressed out about this audition." I answer for him, "That's normal since you just did become an idol recently."

"You're right." He lowers his head getting me to sigh silently to myself before heading to his side and patting his head.

"But good work. I have never seen someone as hardworking as you." I compliment.

He looks at me in shock before smiling, "Thanks."

Looking away, I face forward back to the mirror, "Come on. We should try our hardest in finishing the dance. The other two are also probably working their best."

He nods before we face forward ready for hours of dancing that will soon give pain to our body.