19 already!
I wonder if I should do something special for the next.... :P

When Love Hurts 19
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Maki was in her way to home when someone called her.

“Goto-san, wait!”

She turned to see who was calling her and saw that almost all Morning Musume was running towards her. Just Koharu, Sayumi and Reina were missing.

“Wha..at?!” asked Maki surprised.

Makoto, who seemed to be leading the other girls, approached her and made the big question without hesitation.

“There’s something going on between Yoshizawa-san and Ishikawa-san?”

“Wait, wait… Why are you asking me that?” Maki tried to avoid the question.

“You’re her friend. You should know something” insisted Makoto.

“Mai and Ayaka are her best friends. Why you don’t ask them?” Gottsan tried to hide that she was feeling uncomfortable. How the hell the girls knew about all that? She was sure that Rika did something already…

“We’ve asked them already and they were as surprised as us” answered Risa “But you’re not surprised at all. You seem to be hiding something…”

Maki felt trapped but she still managed to act coldly.

“And why do you want to know it? If she’s doing something it’s her problem.”

“No. It’s our problem too” said Konno “If she’s doing something that can damage the group we should know it”

Well…, that’s fair.

“So, you know something?” demanded Ogawa again.

Seeing how worried the girls were, Maki didn’t know what she should do and she just prayed for something to save her.

“Goto-san, can we talk a moment please?”

“Of course”

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

“But…” Makoto complained.

“Girls, you shouldn’t go home already?”

“Yes, Tsunku-san”

The Morning Musume members left Maki alone with her boss.

“It’s something important?” asked her.

“Hmm.., not really. You weren’t at the music room some minutes ago, didn’t you?”

“No. Why do you ask?

“’Cause I’ve heard an amazing version of I Wish while I was walking near there” said Tsunku fascinated “I’ve never imagine that she could do something like that. But ou knew it already, right?

“Yeah” answered Maki with a smile.

Gottsan remembered how she and Yossi learnt that song together in the piano. It was the only song Yocchan could play ‘cause she wasn’t confident to learn another. She just wanted to play that over and over until make it perfect. And looking at Tsunku’s reaction, she did it.

So, that’s the special thing, huh? If you’ve shown that part of you she should be really important.

Maki couldn’t help but feel sad deep in her heart. She wanted Yossi to be happy, even if it was with another girl, but the pain would always be there.

To be continued...