One Small Step

## Summary

While Chelsey is causing mayhem in the classroom, Liam offers to help Monica with her café. Monica goes to fix her mother's mistake while Lily tries to make amends with Chelsey.

## Plot

At classtime, Monica and Liam are talking. Liam suggests that he works with Monica at the café, but Monica replies that that is how she fell out with Raimu. Liam contests that by saying that, unlike Raimu, he has no other job or priorities that would get in the way of his time at the café. However, Monica denies his request regardless.

Meanwhile, Raimu and Lily are talking about where they can go to eat lunch since they can't go to Monica's café now that Raimu and Monica have fallen out. Lily says that they could get food from the cafeteria and then eat it at one of her shops. At this point, the girl in between them grows agitated and yells "Sir!", complaining about how loud Lily and Raimu are being. This infuriates Raimu and Lily, but when Chelsey makes a snarky comment to Lily about her melon shop, she jumps out of her seat and yells across the classroom, which gets Lily sent out of the classroom. Raimu tries to jump in to defend Lily but that gets her sent out too. As they exit, Lily and Chelsey exchange a look, as do Monica and Raimu.

In the hallway, Lily tells Raimu that Chelsey was the one who got them sent out of the classroom and got them detention by manipulating the girl on their table to call out to the teacher. Lily says that she can do this by threatening anyone to spread some lie about them around the school and then they'll give into the blackmail and do whatever she wants them to. She then says that Chelsey would probably also use real information as blackmail if she got her hands on it as she doesn't care about what the blackmail is, as long it's enough to ruin that person's reputation at the school if word leaked. Then, the teacher shows up again, allowing them back into the classroom.

Chelsey walks to Monica's table, claiming that Monica owes her for getting Raimu a detention, confusing Monica. Chelsey clarifies by telling Monica that Sundown High isn't like her "British school" and people don't have boundaries at Sundown. Kuroi then interrupts her by saying that people do have boundaries, however Chelsey just choses to ignore them. She also claims that there is a big difference between "smashing someone's face in with a bat" and threatening people with lies about them that they can do nothing to stop the spread of. Surprisingly, it seems that Chelsey agrees with her, but then the sharp words pounce at Kuroi as Chelsey calls her a coward for taking "the easy way out" whereas ruining people's social lives actually takes effort, according to Chelsey. Then, the teacher walks in from speaking to Raimu and Lily and tells the entire class to just leave, and everyone does.

Elsewhere, Shadow Hacker is typing on her computer, wondering how Shadow Robber got down to her so quickly. Robber claims that they were just upstairs and had an easy journey. Hacker makes sure that nobody saw Robber get down. The speaker in the corner of the room starts beeping, and then Hacker says that something interesting is happening at the café. She tells Robber that the bug they planted in the café the other day was a microphone that Hacker can tune into whenever she likes. Robber then suggests that they should plant more bugs around town, which Hacker likes the idea of, but reminds Robber to wait until night. Over the speaker, it seems Rachel and Stephen are having some difficulties at the café as Stephen can't figure out how to make an espresso. After, Robber says that they need to leave in case people get suspicious of their whereabouts. Before they leave, Hacker hands Robber a hydraulic piston, claiming that it will help them with their work life, or to be specific, finalising the "tube plan" that Robber had told Hacker about. Hacker then says that Robber is clever and will figure out how to use the hydraulic pistons on their own.

Rachel arrives home, meeting Monica in the kitchen. Rachel tells Monica that she was at the café with Stephen, but left him there to work by himself. This instantly worries Monica as she claims that Stephen is not capable of running the café alone when he can't even make coffee. Worried for the café's reputation, Monica dashes out the door claiming that she's going to go help her dad make coffee.

Back at the school, Lily heads upstairs, but sees Chelsey at the top with Amelia sat on the edge of the stairs, and she starts to turn around. Chelsey calls down to her, asking for her to wait and turn back around. Reluctantly, Lily obeys, but claims that she doesn't want to keep arguing with Chelsey anymore. Then, Chelsey hesitates, before saying that she wanted to apologise to Lily. Instantly, Lily shuts her down and asks Chelsey what she *really* wants, but Chelsey continues saying that she does truly want to apologise to Lily.

> "I hate saying sorry. But I feel like I should say sorry for what I did at your melon shop the other day. I shouldn't have blackmailed you."
>
>

Once again, Lily shuts her done, claiming that Chelsey doesn't mean a word she's saying, but again, Chelsey claims that she does really mean it. Lily takes a step closer to Chelsey. Then, Chelsey calls Lily up the stairs to get a hug. Lily dashes up the stairs and embraces Chelsey tightly. They enjoy a close hug, then in the blink of an eye, the view flashes red, and Chelsey shoves Lily down the full flight of stairs, hurdling past the classroom door.

## Cast

### Main

* Monica Felange
* Raimu Kara
* Liam Graham
* Kuroi Yurei
* Chelsey Gough
* Lily Sifira

### Recurring

* Shadow Hacker
* Shadow Robber
* Raimu's Dad
* Rachel Felange
* Stephen Felange
* Teacher

## Trivia

* This episode marks the last appearance of Lily's original skin. From Garden of Secrets onwards, she either appears bloody or in her new outfit.