The summer festival on vacations

— «A-a-and post it!» A week ago, Mem-Cho happily uploaded a video to their official group. The girls finished recording a video invitation to the festival and can publish it now. Unsuccessful takes, sudden laughter, and forgotten phrases create cheerful and good memories of the group, but this is unacceptable during online broadcasts and live performances. Now there are few preparations left: the dances are ready, the songs are learnt by heart, the technical part of the music is prepared; all handmade bracelets and other jewelry are neatly folded into mini-blocks in boxes so that upon arrival they can just unpack them in a couple of minutes, drawings are laid out in files and are also waiting their finest hour. — «The next part is costumes and makeup», — said Aqua. — «What should we do? There won’t be any dressing rooms in the park.» — «We also need to take a lot of ice», — Mem-Cho said confidently. — «Let's take a thermal bag and stuff it with frozen bottles.» — «Frozen bottles?» — Kana was surprised. — «You mean, we'll make ice cubes and take them with us?» The three looked at the girl questioningly, puzzled. Mem looked back at them, realizing maybe they had never done this before, and explained: — «You fill the bottles with water, and put them in the freezer. They'll freeze, and while the ice melts, we'll have constantly chilled water! This trick, however, has a couple of drawbacks…» — she continued, shrugging her shoulders: — «at first there won't be any water at all, because the ice defrosts slowly, and when the ice runs out, the water will run out too.» The guys even froze at first, thinking about what was said. The idea seemed good, but something about it was off-putting. Perhaps it was the fact it was new to hear for them, no one had ever thought about something like this before. — «So, you're suggesting we bring along something similar to popsicles, but in a bottle and made of water?» — Ruby responded. — «It sounds… unusual, I mean.» Aqua was the first to come out of his light trance, knocking the others out of their stupor. — «Do you think that's a good idea?» — «Are you okay with being able to languish in the heat and wash it down with hot water?» He coughed and quickly disavowed that option: — «No, absolutely not. I don't think any of us have ever done that.» — «I've never thought about that either», — Kana said. — «But no one's stopping us from doing it.» — «So, we need bottles of water for your idea, Mem-Cho?» Ruby, sensing a possible argument, decided to move away from the unfortunate topic. And anyway, they already need to organize a meeting place in the park in a couple of hours. — «Yes. So, now we need to go to the store for them, you don't have a couple of bottles, do you?», — Mem asked. — «Aqua, won't you go to the shop now, please? We're a little busy», — Kana asked. — «Ok, I'll go now. Just a regular plastic bottle, right? Would you like to have some tasty water?» — «Any simple water, it's about forty degrees there.» — «Got it.» With these words, the boy went to get ready for the store, taking his wallet and a small briefcase with him. The girls, having seen him off with a look, continued to pack their stuff. — «So, these boxes contain decorations, and we will put them in these bags», — Ruby stated. — «The drawings are in folders, all that remains is to take them out and put them in place.» Kana and Mem put the folders in other bags, something with handles is easier to carry than just boxes, piling them on top of each other, especially since they can fall over due to the slippery material. — «We have three hours left before the official start, we need to decide on the makeup issue. Keep in mind that there will be no booths in the park», — Saito said, entering the room. — «We need to be there at least half an hour before, but we also need to be careful not to stand right in the sun for so long.» While applying makeup, each member thought about his own. There was very little time left until their second performance as a group, but, accustomed to this world of show business, they were more excited with anticipation, guessing in advance what results this festival would bring them, than wondering about possible failures. *** Upon arrival at the site, there were no problems while the girls were engaged in the decoration and arrangement of things, Saito set up technical equipment, checking its integrity. It would be very inappropriate to find that something was broken right before the performance, when there will be no time to replace it. Seeing his backpacks thrown in different places, and taking up their collection, Aqua did not really want for someone to steal their things. It won’t be sad the fact of the theft itself, things remained things that can be easily bought, but the fact that someone could do that and stalking the idols is the only thing he's doing in his life made him feel sad, reminding of the fact that one fan-stalker killed Ai. Having organized the space under the tables intended for the distribution of autographs, Aquamarine folded all the bags that could be confused underfoot there. Fans, although they are approaching them, they will not be able to get something out of them, which means for their bags it was a good place there. Putting the packed flyers on top in a specially purchased box so they do not scatter, he heard the manager's voice. —”Mmm, Aqua, are you very busy?» Miyako's anxious voice was heard. — «Is something happening?» Starting to worry with her, he began to sort out possible options for solving problems. On the laptop screen, everything looked frozen, but the movement of the mouse pointer using the touchpad showed a response, which meant the laptop was not dependent, which was good. — «I can’t guarantee its working state, but it seems the music is not played.» — «I hope it just hung. Let's try to open the program again.» Fortunately, the failure this time bypassed them, the unloaded melody began to play after the re-launch. Now it was required to check the lighting devices, the working condition of all sockets and the connection of all wires. These actions intended more for conviction the performance would not stop, did not take much time. «So the technique is in work», he thought. Looking around the neighboring sites, he noticed the presence of food on the tables. — «This could be excellent marketing stuff. Or it would even be possible to launch a video about cooking, hmm.» Aqua took out his notebook, where he recorded ideas for the future, there were no longer a few of them, and the girls may have to realize some of them to become more popular. If there were a clock in the park, it could ring through the noon, but here everyone has his phone. Despite the gradually assembled crowd around the B—Komachi scene, they decided to wait a little more so as not to coincide with the rest of the groups, and fans could come during this time. *** — «Good afternoon friends! We’re glad to announce to you about the beginning…» — «Our performance at this festival!» Ruby looked so happy, the number of red lightsticks accurately increased from their debut, this could be seen even before the hands of the fans were raised. Sound music from all sides does not prevent different groups from performing in fact in one place nearby, acoustics are a very interesting thing. — «The girl’s dance came up with a very interesting thing, what do you say?» Miyako stood behind the impromptu curtains, in other words — behind this small scene, which was collected by all groups exclusively for this festival. —”They really can ascend to the top, I'm sure. They just need more advertising.» Before noon in the park, a crowd already stood in the park, people examined the displayed accessories and other goods prepared by all participants in the event, and someone distinguished themselves so much that, in addition to organized by the chief manager and responsible for recording those who will become a participant in the event, tables with snacks and drinks, some idols brought their homemade cookies and sweets. The performance of the girls took place with a bang, the audience rejoiced, attempts were heard to guess the following phrases of the song. Many fans in their hands held not only a yellow lightstick, but red was added to it. There were still not so many white ones, it seemed someone out of sympathy added it in his hand, but Aqua did not notice the only one lightstick in the hand, standing apart. — «I see Kana still did not have enough fans being an idol. I only hope she won't get depressed after that.» — «Don't worry a lot about this, this is only their second performance. Maybe they need to release a single?» — «Hm, perhaps you're right.» Here the third song came to the end, and the fans impatiently began to approach the stage even closer, holding out the flyers taken out of his bosom in the hope of getting attention from the participants. They even came too close and too tightly, so much so the girls seemed to be a little confused, not knowing how to act, trying to go down now or to start distributing autographs immediately from the stage. Then Saito and Aquamarine went around the scene on the other side of the site to go to the crowd, and point then to the tables specially designed for this, and in order for the idols for them, they first needed to go down the stage. From the side to look at the endless crowd of fans who stood in line was strange, the girls signed the flyers, but the number of those who stood did not only decrease, but seemed even growing. After some time it became clear why it looked so, each fan wanted to receive a signature of all three members at once, but to have it they had to enter the line again. Aqua and Miyako watched this from the side, satisfied with the past event, and discussed the future of their new group. After signing autographs, fans occupied a prepared arch for photographs, hung with floral garlands. — «They look so happy.» — «I think this time the number of fans will be distributed in a new way, and Ruby and Kana will receive their share of fans.» — «Play the popularity of the old group? Your resourcefulness and determination continue to scare me», —Saito said softly smiling. Aquamarine, covering his eyes, also smiled out of the corner of his lips, answers: — «Who knows, maybe they will be able to fulfill the director’s dream and still perform on the Tokyo Dome stage.»