Students now, Kristi and Bethany return to the festival to promote their manga. Kristi cosplays for the first time and prepares for an eventful first date - with Matt. Bethany steals the show by designing festival t-shirts, while facing her own problem when her mother decides to attend this celebration of Japanese culture. Meanwhile, Matt and Kristi discover that the safest way to overcome a love is to live it - or, in their case, to be within breathing distance. But perhaps the destiny of these two is never to be together;