"She kissed me!" cheered Fujino Shizuru as she exploded into the blandly furnished third-floor dorm room that had, somehow or other, become 'HiME central' over the last three months of painstaking research and mocking clashes with Nagi's 'dance'.
Tokiha Mai, the only other member of the group who had been present, cursed softly as the surprise sent her pencil scrawling across half-an-hour's worth of painstaking homework. She was having enough trouble readapting after having gotten used to being able to pick the brains of a native-speaker over her English homework, and erasing that mark without losing any of her work was the last thing she needed. Then what the older girl had said penetrated, and she dumped her text and notebook off her lap and bounced off the bed to give her friend a hug. "About time!"
Shizuru blinked. "You knew!"
That won a roll of the eyes. "She was fretting about it for weeks. Frankly we were all just sick of listening to her."
She had to take a mental step back to decide how that made her feel, and the internal pause was enough to let her regain control over the searing joy that had been bubbling inside her since Natsuki had sprung her surprise and taken the last step towards their having an actual relationship. It wasn't enough to take the beaming grin off her face, but she was at least able to stop bouncing in place. Eventually, she turned the smile a little sly and asked, "Did anyone get pictures? She's even cuter when she's flustered."
Mai laughed. "You're terrible. No, I don't think so, sorry."
"Mou," she pouted. "You're all so inconsiderate."
I have other places to take this conversation, but that seems like a good punch line for the time being.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"