Reality

Two Japaese men, one much taller and somewhat older than the other, walk on-set. Ozu, the show Lilymu's producer (and the tall one), appears from nowhere, along with his toady, Yes-man.

Ozu: MIKEY SIMON!! How did you ruin this scene this time?

Yes-man: Time is money!!

Mitsuki: um, actually, it was me.

Ozu: You?

Mitsuki: Yeah. Sorry.

Mikey: I've never seen you mess up a take, even when your cell phone accidentally fell into your underwear set on vibrate.

Lily: Yeah, you're the second most professional person here, behind moi of course. What gives?

Mitsuki: W-well, i just...um, i...

Mikey: Waaaiit a minute. I see what's going on here.

Mitsuki: You do!?

Lily: You understand something?

Mikey: Yup. I've seen this kind of behavior on anime before.

Lily: We're not really an anime, we just act in one, Baka Blue-and-Red.

Mikey: W'ever! Everyone knows girls in real life act exactly like they do in anime. And this is a classic case of...

Mitsuki cringed, but not in the way people cringe now. Out of fear, not because something was vicariously embarrassing. Her crush on Mikey would be revealed.

The studio was suddenly a game show set. Lily looked at her sudden podium in shock.

Gonard: OO! I know, I know!!

Mikey: Gonard.

Gonard: She's trying to confuse the aliens watching her into thinking that on this planet, kissing is evil!

Mikey: Precisely, those fiends!

Gonard: Yay, I won the boat!!

Guano: There are no prizes, Gona-

Gonard: I. Won. The boat!

Lily: Have you two been eating paint chips!?

Gonard, with an orange and green 'milk' mustache: I don't see what that has to do with this.

He shovels a big handful of colorful flakes of paint into his mouth.

Guano: Gonard, stop that!

Gonard: Hey! I can stop anytime i want to! I rule the paint; it doesn't rule me!

everyone: ???

Mikey: Well, if she's not trying to confuse an overlord of some sort, what else could it possibly be?

Lily, eyeing Mitsuki knowingly: I wonder...

Mitsuki: Eek!

Ozu: In any case, the scene will not be shot if Mitsuki cannot keep a straight face.

Yes-man: Into the deadpan or out 'cause you're fired!

Ozu: All of you, go home. _Mitsuki! _Be ready to act knocked-out when you come back tomorrow, OR FIND A NEW JOB!!!

Yes-man: OZU SAID KNOCK YOU OUT!!!

Mitsuki: But, I... i'll try.

The cast entered Lilymu Towers, an apartment skyscraper that held their homes. A brief guitar riff played from somewhere.

Gonard: Hey, Mikey! Wanna come by and check out my new video game? I just got Gore-al Qombat: The Blood-Spillening!

Mikey: The game whose motto is 'if you and your opponent aren't both red splatters, get off your butt and make them that way, you little pansies!'!? Sweet!!

Guano: Shouldn't you two be learning your lines?

Mikey: Why? Blue-hair is the one who messed up the taping.

Gonard: Hey!

Mikey: I meant her.

Mitsuki: It's Mitsuki. You said it during rehearsal well over five-hundred times. Every time you did, I shivered a little in my heart!

Mikey: Pff. No, Mitsuki is your character's name? Duh.

Lily: It's her name too, spaz-matic!

Mikey: Your real name is Mitsuki? Get out!

Mitsuki: Yup.

Mikey: Wow. Man, our writer is la-zy!

Guano: What!? I'm the hardest working animal on Lilymu!

Gonard: Yeah, he works way harder than that skunk in the mail room!

Guano: I...don't think that's an employee.

Gonard: So you're saying she can't sue for harassment? Well, now I actually wanna go to work tomorrow!

Guano: Always see the silver lining, don't you?

Gonard: uh-huh! It keeps the werewolves at bay...for now. Anyway, wanna come play? It has vi-o-leeence!

Mikey: You had me at 'blood-spillening'!

Mitsuki: um...actually, Mikey, i needed to talk to you about something. In private?

Lily: Oh-ho!

Guano: Hubba-hubba.

Mitsuki: You guys, stop it!

Mikey: Yeah! You should both be nicer...

Mitsuki, thinking: He cares!!! Joy...

Mikey: ...to, uh...to...her.

Mitsuki: Mitsuki.

Mikey: Yeah, the girl with the lazy name.

Mitsuki: So, can I talk to you?

Guano, sternly: You need to learn your lines, Mikey!

Gonard, in the same tone Guano used: You need to rip off heads and slurp up guts like fettuccine, Mikey!

Mikey: Geh! This is like one of those choose your own adventure stories just before a choice comes up!