Stage 11;
George and Yukari are still kissing, when George's cellphone rings. It's a call from his "sweetheart", who happens to be Arashi. The rest of the group is waiting for George, since he had promised he'd help choosing the tissue for the dress.
After Yukari and George reach Arashi, Miwako and Isabella, the dress fabric hunt begins.
Anyway after a whole day, they decide to make a ornamental needlework using beeds, eventually Isabella long-time collection ones. George likes the idea and runs away to make the base design for this, completely forgetting about the promised date with Yukari.
Everyone except for George reach back to the atelier, and Yukari asks if she could help working around the dress, but Isabella and Arashi remind her that she have to study for the exam. Once at home, Yukari tries to do some math exercises, but she can't concetrate; because of this the day after, Yukari completely miss the math surprise test.
Yukari say at the end of the chapter: "I just want to go to the atelier to meet George"

Stage 12;
It's sunday and Yukari goes to the atelier because she wants to help the others with the dress.
Yukari really wants to help, but Isabella tells her not to worry and to study. Meanwhile George arrives, and show to the others the design they should embroider on the dress; he says to Yukari to study and then asks her to bring back some book to the library. Yukari is angry because he forgot about their date, so they start quarrelling.
Then Yukari talks with Isabella, and she confesses that she just wants George to be more interested in her. She also says that she wants to help them with the dress because she's aware that she passed much of her life only studying and that now she wants to do more things than only studing.
Isabella says that she's glad for this and she was worried about Yukari, because Isabella though that Yukari would avoid the study, just "hiding" into the atelier.
Meanwhile, Miwako and Arashi are back, and George wakes up (actually he wasn't really sleeping and he heard everything Yukari said), and the chapter enda with the description of the embroidery designed by George.

Stage 13;
In Yukari class it's time for changing places, and Tokumori's place is far from Yukari's one; despite of this they find the time to talk everyday, so Yukari tells him that she will be the model for the fashion show. Miwako never mentioned this to Hiroyuki, and he says that Miwako is shy and they don't talk when she's with him.
Yukari is convinced that Tokumori can't talk to Miwako because he's still in love with her. At the Yazagaku, Miwako, George and Isabella are talking about Miwako's first love, which is prof. Kisaraji, also known as Kira-kira Seijiin.
Meanwhile, in another part of thhe Yazagaku .. Arashi is reaching the school and sees a girls. He mistakes her for Miwako but she's .. Mikako!
The main character of Gokonjo Monogatari and also Miwako's sister is at the YazaGaku to make a special lesson since prof. Kisaragi couldn't come.

Stage 14;
That night Yukari and George spend the night together, but once in George's flat (they go there to "have their first sexual experience", like George says), the quarrel about Yukari's bad habit: she always try to give to the other the responsibility for her actions.
Yukari leaves George's house and she calls Miwako asking her if she can come and take her home, since she lost the last train.

Stage 15;
Miwako reaches Yukari and takes her to her sister's home; there Arashi has fallen asleep with Alice (Mikako and Tsutomu's daughter), so Miwako and Yukari have to sleep into Alice's rooms.
After a while Yukari receives a phone call from her angry mother, yelling at her because she wouldn't come home (Yukari told her that she'd sleep at Miwako's home, because Miwako was sick).
Back to George's flat, he's talking with her mother, and when falls asleep, he goes out looking for Yukari.

Stage 16;
Yukari is still on the phone with her mother, and finally decides to go back home. While Yukari is leaving, George calls on her cellphone, saying that he's waiting down at Miwako's. George and Yukari talk, and George carries her home. There, they kiss and Yukari says: "You temper .. makes me mad, but I like it very much.".
Yukari enters her home, just to find her mom angry and being slapped by her.

Stage 17;
The day after at the atelier, Isabella, Miwako, George and Arashi are commenting what happened the day before, when Yukari arrives carrying two suitcases.
She tells that the night before she tried to explain her mother about them and about her decision to pass on the exam, but he mother totally didn't care. So she decided to go away from her home.
First Miwako offers her hospitality, into her sister's home, then Yukari asks if she can live into the atelier just for a couple of days, but George refuses.
Yukari says that she wants to leave the school, and everyone is shocked. George says that Yukari should do what she thinks it's the better for her, then he says that she could live with him in his flat. The chapter ends with Yukari's mother readind Yukari's message: she won't come back home until she accepts to talk with her.

Stage 18;
Instead of going to live with George, Yukari decides for Arashi's flat, while he go back to his parent's house (Arashi lives in a flat but every bill is payed by his parents).
The morning after, Miwako goes to Arashi's flat to tell Yukari that she can work as a shopgirl in one of Mikako's shops... and Yukari accepts. Meanwhile, Hiroyouki notices Yukari's absence at school...

Stage 19;
"I asked myself what kind of girl could be Miwako's sister. I would like to know how are the adults who realized their dreams .."
Yukari talks with Mikako about the shopgirl work, but it turns out that Mikako has yet gave the place to another girl. Anyway, she asks Yukari if she'd want to be a model in a photo set.
Meanwhile at Yukari's school, Hiroyuki asks to Nakayama (Yukari and Tokumori classmate) if she knows why Yukari missed the first test day. Nakayama doesn't know why and tells him that she had started to miss the after-school too.
Nakayama also says: "I don't have the time to worry about her. Exams are hard for everyone, so why she should be privileged?".
Meanwhile at the atelier, Yukari tells the other how Mikako asked her to work for her as a model the following day. Also George says that she has nothing to envy to the other models, and that all of them trust her.
The stage finishes with Yukari thinking: "I always thought I was a failure, but now, if my over average height could help me to work maybe I should thank my parents who made me with this body..".

Stage 20;
The day after Yukari receives a call on the mobile from Tokumori in which he asks her why she's not at the school. Yukari answers that she think she'll leave the school and she flet from home. She says to him she wants to take the chance she had (working as a model); she gives him the best whishes for his exams, and closes the conversation. After a while, Yukari meets Mikako who takes in the restaurant that is the set for the photos. There Yukari meets the staff: Tanabe, head director of "Zipper", Higasa, press agent of Happy Berry, and the photographer: Yamaguchi Tsutomu .. Mikako's husband! And, lastly she meets the hairdresses which is Seiji ("It's him! The sparkling Alien!"). Seiji starts to work around Yukari's hairs, and makes her notice how much she has changed since the first time they met. After a while, Yukari is ready, and Tsutomu can make the photos..