Facing Phantoms, Pursuing Flowers

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Friday
February 5th
Evening
Men's locker room in the Cricket Club
Just before training...

Javi was back from Europeans and was immediately caught on with what had happened over the last week, thanks to Yuzuru and Nam, those gossip boys.

The three were huddled around each other in a circle, just, you know, chatting away, or more like, planning something mischievous...

'Sota and Dy obviously aren't going to make up unless we do something about it,' Javi and Nam insisted.

Yuzuru, being all don't-wanna-interfere-with-other-peoples-issues, was hesitant to go through with the plan, but eventually agreed to.

...

Melody strolled along the St. Lawrence River as the sun was about to set. She skipped training today, as she cut her foot on some broken glass earlier on, and was forcefully excused from training by Brian.

Gazing out to the large body of water, glimmers of light rays shimmered off the clear water, glowing it and enhancing the beauty of it. As the sun slowly dipped downward, scattered beams of the setting sun shone across the river and lit up the area. The reflection off the sun's rays glamorously shot out from the river. And the river itself was tainted with a tinge of crimson and chartreuse.

Too engrossed in the magic of the river, she never noticed him standing behind her, watching her.

When she turned around and went back, he watched her whisk by him, without even noticing him.

Just like a Phantom,

floating and falling,

and then completely disappearing into the shadows,

walking like a day dream,

and slipping in between,

how could you not see?

Drifting away with no one behind you,

To catch you, to call you,

Why have you transformed into being my Phantom?

Why couldn't you stay, and be my Christine?

His thoughts clouded his head even when he had headed back to the rink to start training. All through, he couldn't seem to focus.

And to add on to that, he certainly had not been expecting a special meeting with someone.
Someone he didn't know, but who knew him.

Celest came to Toronto for the weekend with her family.
And she took the opportunity to do this...

A very determined Celest Hollister came trudging though the Cricket Club uninvited. She went to the rink, which really wasn't that hard to spot.

As the four boys were taking a break, they saw her and wondered who she was.

Her booming voice yelled, 'WHICH ONE OF YOU IS SOTA YAMATOTO'

Sota snapped his head up and corrected her, 'it's Yamamoto'

'Whatever, do I care? Now listen closely to me'

Sota looked at her in confusion.

'How dare you break my poor best friend's heart! I'm telling you, you break Dy's heart, and I'll break you!'

Celest stormed off, leaving him standing there in deep thought.

...

Melody got up the next day thinking, 'oh yeah, today's the day! I will do it! And I will succeed.' She said with such control, it almost seemed as if she was willing herself to succeed.