Paradise Kiss vol.3   

Stage 21;
The chapter begins with Yukari thinking about her conflictual relation with the school and about her life until she met George, Miwako and the others.
Then we come back to the restaurant where Yukari is completing the photos with Tsutomu and Mikako.
When the works is done, Yukari goes to the atelier, where the others are waiting for her; but before Mikako says her she'd like to wok with her again, and so does Seiji; Yukari is very happy. Out of the restaurant two people ask to Yukari to sign an autograph, making her more happy.

Stage 22;
At the atelier, everyone comment on Tsutomu's Yukari photo and George claims it for himself.
Then George takes Yukari to Arashi's flat and they talks about the school festival which is due in two weeks. Meanwhile, after a little embarassing moment, Yukari invites George in the flat. Yukari feels sad, because she wants George to stay with her, but she doesn't know how to express her felings and starts to cry. Meanwhile, Arashi carries Miwako at home and then he goes back to his parents home, when her mother Lisa says him he has a visitor. This visitor is Tokumori which asks if Yukari will be the model for them if the fashion show. Arashi is surprised that Hiro knows Yukari and so Tokumori explains that they attend the same school.

Stage 23;
George is hugging Yukari who's still crying; they kiss and then George takes Yukati to the bed room, where they make love for the first time.
Meanwhile Arashi and Hiro are still talking, and Hiro accidentally reveals that he met Miwako sometime ago. Hir asks where Yukari is, because he wants to talk with her. Arashi says she's in his flat.
At Arashi's flat, Tokumori meets Miwako who take him away because "she's making some dirty games!".
They head to the park to talk and Tokumori says that he's happy 'cause finally they could talk.
In the end of the chapter Yukari moves to George's apartment, wanting to be with him every single moment of her life.

Stage 24;
The day after, George, Isabella, Miwako and Arashi go to their school, the Yazagaku, and Arashi seems to be really upset with Miwako. George reveals that Yukari will stay in his apartment from now on. Isabella is worried about the "hero image" that George should give to the readers.
Yukari wakes in George's flat, and decides to search a part time work.
The afternoon, at the atelier, Yukari is yet depressed because she can't find any work; because of that, George to cheer her up, gives her a little butterfly-shaped ring made with little pearls: Yukari is really happy and she is sure that if he goes on being so kind she will surely fall in love with him.

Stage 25;
That night, in George's flat, Yukari has a dream concerning her failing the exams and so making her mother sad. She doesn't feel prepared to see her mother or to talk with her now. When she wakes up, she discovers that George has made another butterfly ring to replace the previous one - which was made for the fashion show - and hugs him.
The day after Yukari has a date with Mikako, who wants to introduce her in a model agency owned by a friend. Yukari is happy, even is worried to fail. Mikako assures her that the people who try their best never fail.

Stage 26;
The stage starts at the Seiei institute, where Hiro has just finished the first day of the exams. Talking with a classmate, he discovers that Yukari's mother, to justify her absence to the exams, has said that Yukari is ill to the teachers. But, if the absence would last long, the teachers will go to Yukari's home to check if she's really ill. She could eventually attend the spllumentary exams.

Meanwhile Yukari is going to the date with model agency header; this header is Shimamoto -another character from Gokinjo Monogatari- who appears to find Yukari really amusing, and promises her that she'll become a great top model.

Stage 27;
At the atelier, Yukari is explaining to the others the only little problem that she have with the model agency: the header needs the Yukari's parents agreement to accept her as model. Arashi suggest that the only solution for Yukari, if she really wants to be a model, is to come back home and let her mother listen to her.
Yukari agrees and says she'll think about it.

Later that night, Miwako and Arashi are going home, and Arashi asks about her and Hiro and their "secret" date. Miwako explains that she didn't told to him because she knew he would get angry about it and that they did only talk, nothing else. Arashi seems to forgive her, and he invites her in his flat.
At George's flat, meanwhile, Yukari has finished sewing her part of the needlework; in the same time George comes back home, and he starts seducing her (after a strange arguing about the home keys).

In Arashi's flat, Miwako and Arashi are making love too; after a while, Arashi receives a phone call from Hiroyuki. This one, once her realized that there's Miwako with him, asks Arashi to talk with her. Arashi is a bit suspicious, but lends the mobile to Miwako. Hiro asks where Yukari is, explaining that he urgently need to talk with her. Miwako accidentally reveals that Yukari is actually living with her boyfriend.

George and Yukari are still in bed, and George asks what was the important thing that Yukari tried to say before they make love, and Yukari lies about it, saying that it was the fac that she finished her part of the dress instead of the truth, which was that she needs to go back home to ask her mother her agreement for the model agency.

The problem is not the model agency, I can easily find another one ... but this love, there's nothing I can do to keep it attached to me"

Stage 28;
The day after at the atelier...
George asks to Yukari to go home, since he cannot work with her present. While leaving, Yukari receives a phone call from Hiro, who asks for a small date with her.
At the bar choosen, Yukari and Hiro talk about Yukari situation, and Hiro says that maybe, Yukari's boyfriend doesn't care for her that much or else he would have tried to convince her to go back home. Also Hiro informs Yukari about what the teacher told him.
Meanwhile, at George's flat Yukino (George's mother) and Shimamoto are talking, while Yukari comes come back .. and with her surprise discovers those two in George's flat.

Stage 29;
After a while Shimamoto leaves Yukino and Yukari alone, and Yukino starts to talk about George's father and how he has ruined her life. Yukari gets angry hearing this, and she asks herself how can her blame like this; she now understoods that the type of girls that George doesn't like are the ones like his mother. Finally Yukari decides to go back home. Yukino tries to stop her, because she doesn't want George to think that she has forced Yukari to go away. Yukari says "George is really important to me, I can't stand you saying that's it would be better for him not to born!". Yukino says that's not true, that she loves him.
"Why can't she understand how children suffer feeling not loved?"

Yukari leaves George's flat and goes to the atelier. There asks George to talk with her for a while, and promises to Miwako, Isabella and Arashi that she'll be their model for sure.

Stage 30;
Out of the atelier George and Yukari finally talk about Shimamoto's model agency. George didn't know anything about that, if it wasn't for Isabella, Arashi; he's really angry for the fact that Yukari didn't talk about it, instead of making love with him. Yukari is really sad: "I can't stand your coldness anymore!"
At her home, Yukari meets her brother, and then his mother, who invites her to enter home. Yukari says that she'll enter only if she will listen to what she has to say. Her mother agrees.
When Yukari says that she needs her agreement to enter the model agency, she says that she'll probably agree, but at one condition: Yukari has to pass the final exam at the high school...

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