Chapter 4

“What’s a heartbeat, with the heartache? What’s a hurricane without the rain, what’s the moon without the stars?” –Moon without stars (Deemo)

1:00 pm

Hatsune Mansion

March 26

It was already afternoon and no one dare knock on the young lady’s door to wake her up and inform her of the time. Even if the gala was 6 in the evening, it would probably take two hours to style her long teal hair that reached her knees without her ponytails.

No one dared to wake her up.

Except Luka Megurine.

“Miss Luka, what may I do for you?” A maid asked her upon her arrival at the mansion’s waiting area.

“Get me the spare key to Miku’s room and a bucket of ice cold water and ten towels. Get ready to change her beddings too.” Luka said and folded the sleeves of her blouse and tied her hair in a high ponytail.

After getting what she requested, she asked the maid to show her Miku’s room and Luka asked the maid to leave her alone for her ‘buisness’ with Miku that afternoon.

After silently unlocking the door of her chamber, she had no time to gawk at the large space of the room and hurried to Miku’s bed, laid down the towels by her nightstand and checked her watch.

1:18 pm. Less than three hours.

She grinned like a mad man before…

SPLASH!

One whole bucket of cold water on the face of Miku made her wake up like a baby.

“Oh…that’s c-cold, bold and suicide.” Miku muttered and shot up from bed with her whole body dripping.

“It’s already afternoon, you twat! Get up!” Luka shouted and threw a towel at the girl.

“LUKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!” Miku shrieked at the top of her lungs and started chasing the pinkette all around her room while she was dripping wet.

“It’s your fault because slept in the morning! Go and get a shower already! We have to go to Rin’s birthday party, remember?” Miku stopped running and blinked twice.

“Oh, right. I forgot about that.” She muttered and ran to her shower.

“I’ll go home for a bit. See you at the gala, Hatsune!” Luka shouted from outside the shower room’s door and left the mansion to go back to the Megurine manor to fix herself.

After 4 hours…Exactly 5:50 pm

Miku came out of her room fully dressed with make-up, a matching chocker and stunning high-heeled shoes and grabbed a massive paperbag as her gift to Rin.

Luka came out of her manor fully dressed like Miku and she had a gift for Rin at hand.

Usually you go to galas with your chosen dates or partners but these two girls know how to keep their flair and went to the gala without any guy and rode their own limousine to the dock.

“Sir Luki, the girls have arrived.” A bell man informed the four special guests seating at the box up above the ship’s ballroom.

“Do not, at all cost, let them inform the twins that we are observing them in this event. If they wish to see us, please tell them that we decline.” Luki Megurine said and ruffled his hair and leaned forward to see the whole ball room below them.

“And please send us a bottle of wine here.” Lenka Kagamine requested and dismissed the bell man and left them four alone.

“Wel, Luki, it seems that you have something up on your sleeve.” Rinto Kagamine smugly smiled at his dear friend.

“I have and I’m about to find out something interesting for both our twins. You say that this is their 17th birthday?” Luki replied and took his binoculars and peered down the ballroom.

Meanwhile, Miku and Luka entered the hall and eyes were glued to them. People were wearing their masks and they were not informed about that so they both entered with pink tinted cheeks.

“How come we were not informed that this is a masquerade gala?” Luka complained and tried to hide behind Miku and this made the tealette smirk and pulled her deeper in the ballroom which placed more attention to the both of them.

“Is that-“

“Yes. The famous twins of the two most influential people in the industry.”

“The twins of the Megurine couple?”

“That’s them.”

“My word they are beautiful!”

“Those dresses are stunning.”

“No doubt the dresses were made in Paris and fresh.”

“I heard something about this party. The Megurine and Kagamine couples have planned this out.”

“I have heard the same.”

“They must be observing from somewhere.”

“The box seats up above.”

“Ah, there is no better place.”

Miku and Luka heard these things and made them question themselves.

Whose party is this again? What are they even talking about?

“Miku! Luka! Goodness!” A masked girl with a gold and black dress approached them and confused the two of them.

“Who are you?” They asked at the same time and tilted their head to the right.

“Oh.” The girl removed her mask and it revealed Rin’s face. “It’s me. Sorry for the late info but you were supposed to wear masks so it would be a nicer effect but anyway, I guess you didn’t get the memo.” Rin scratched her head and took out a pair of masks of silver for the girls.

“We have the same masks?” Miku raised her eye brow at the blonde birthday girl.

“Yeah. I didn’t know what you would be wearing but I do know for a fact that you both like silver so I got you the same thing, it also matches your clothes. You shopped together for it, right?” Rin said so fast that Miku and Luka almost didn’t understand what she was saying.

“Well, thanks, I guess. Wait, where did you get the information that we shopped these dresses together?” Luka asked but before she could finish, the blonde got pulled away by her twin to the stage.

“I guess they were at fault for the whole thing.” Miku said and shrugged before she left the pinkette to her own.

“Wait, where are you going?” Luka asked and she didn’t even know that she grabbed the wrist of the tealette.

“Hands off, Megurine. I’m going to get e drink. Go on with your own.” Miku said with her signature glare and yanked her arm away.

“Well, I guess we have to go on our ways from here.” Luka whispered and went to the buffet to get something to eat.

Up in the box seat, their parents were enjoying a good bottle of wine.

“Well, they do hate each other. I felt Miku’s glare till up here.” Mrs. Megurine said and sipped wine from her crystal glass.

“Why do they hate each other? I have no idea why they became like that.” Luki complained and took a sip from his glass.

“Well, it was you fault with separating the both of them from birth. Why did you have to anyway? They have to know before they could even destroy each other.” Lenka told the couple off and poured more wine in her glass.

“Well we planned to get them together but it has been so long and they don’t even know that they have siblings.” Luki replied and sighed.

“Well, it would be your fault. Why did you have to sign our deal at Paris and leave Ariane (Mrs. Megurine) at Japan? You brought Miku with you, as I remember.” Rinto told him and pointed at Luki accusingly.

“Well, I have to bring one of our daughters with me because if I didn’t, Ariane would be stuck doing the stocks herself.” Luki reasoned out and sighed once more.

“Well, I could have managed, love. Besides, I have maids to spoil the girls with whatever they need.” Ariane replied.

“I can’t let you do that, could I?” Luki asked and looked down at the girls.

“I suppose so.” Ariane joined him and so did the Kagamine couple.

Back down at the ballroom, Miku was already having a chat from one of her fans that was in the crowd and Luka was doing the same at the other end.

“I heard your songs and they were all awesome! I also heard that you will be having a single album going out in the market, is that true?” Miku’s fan asked and batted her eyes to the vocalist.

“Well, yes but after that, I’ll be having a long break before my worldwide concert.” She said and sweat-dropped at her fan’s attitude.

“I also saw your dress is the same with Luka Megurine, the famous ikebana performer! Do you have something in common? Where did you buy the dresses? Did you know what you two are siblings?” Her fan hurriedly covered her mouth because of the last question.

“WHAT?!” Miku screamed and made her cover her mouth as well.

“Sorry, that last one slipped. I wasn’t supposed to tell you that. I suppose you still don’t know.” Her fan hurriedly went away.

Miku was left confused and made her call her father the second she was out at the deck.

Luki panicked when Miku called him.

“H-hello, Miku, my lovely daughter?”

“Dad, what is this thing that I’ve been hearing from people? That my sibling is Luka Megurine?”

“…”

“Dad, is that true?”

“*chuckle* W-why did you say that? Of course not!”

“I see. It’s just bothering me.”

“Well, do you want to talk about it?”

“Do we have to? Do you have something to tell me?”

“W-well, I want to see you soon.”

“Wait, why do I hear a large crowd from where you are?”

“I’m at a crowded place.”

“I also hear…wait a sec…are you at a ship?”

“Well, I’m at a party but at a ship? No…”

Miku smirked and went inside the ballroom again and hurried off to the orchestra.

“Miku, you seem to be in a party too, what are you doing?” Her father asked over the line. Miku didn’t reply to her father’s question but placed the phone further away from her mouth as she made a request at the orchestra.

“Please play ‘Swan Lake’.” She requested and placed her phone close to her ear again. She listened to the background of where her father is and found what she was looking for.

“Dad, can you just stay on the line?” Miku requested and pulled Luka from her mingling session at the ballroom and started climbing at the box seat.

“Sure, Miku. What are you doing? It got silent all of a sudden, are you in the bathroom?” Luki asked and didn’t know what was coming.

“Yeah. Can you just keep talking? What’s the party you are in?” Miku requested and glared at Luka when she attempted to ask something.

“Oh, I’m in a company party.” Luki replied and smiled.

Miku and Luka made their steps silent and ran up at stairs.

“What a coincidence! I am too.” She answered and stopped at a mahogany door.

“Really?” Luki took a sip from his wine and ‘Swan Lake’ was playing behind him.

“Do you happen to be wearing a mask?” Miku asked and raised the tail of her dress.

“Yes.” Luki replied and poured more wine in his glass.

“Well, let me guess where you are.” Miku said and took a momentum.

“Love, I don’t see the girls down at the ballroom.” Aria told Luki. All of them had their eyes widened.

Miku kicked the door open and ended the call.

“I think I found them.” Aria said and all of them had their eyes as wide as dinner plates.

“Mom?” Luka called.

“Hi, sweetie.” Aria replied and made a shy wave with a sweat drop.

Boo yeah! Hahahaha!!! Their parents are busted! Hahaha!!!!

What do you think? Hey! I’m making this less cliché than twilight!

No offence.