A green-haired girl skips along the sidewalk playfully. She giggles when she sees a butterfly land on her nose. She looks at it intensely, going cross-eyed, and then blinks and shakes her head, causing the butterfly to flap its wings and fly away.
After a while of walking, she arrives at her bus stop. The bus arrives soon after, and all of the children gather into it, sitting on any seat they can find.
The girl takes a seat next to another red-headed girl with a red and white striped dress.
The greenette speaks up. "Hi! I'm Gumi, what's your name?"
The red-headed girl looks at Gumi and whispers, "Cul."
"That's such a cool name! What grade are you in?"
Cul blinked, her eyes showing signs of being surprised. After a second, she seemed to come to her senses. She blinked, and looked back towards the window. "Why do you care?"
Gumi giggles. "Because, silly! If we're going to be friends, I need to make sure you're in my grade!"
Cul blushes and widens her eyes, still looking out of the window, at the moving scenery. "F-friends?"
Gumi smiled wide. "Yeah!"
Cul turned to Gumi, still blushing, and smiled. "I'm going into third grade."
"Really? Me too! Now we can be friends forever!" Gumi squealed.
Cul smiled slightly as Gumi chattered away about who-knows-what.
Fast forward a few years, Gumi and Cul are best friends, now out of school and living with some other friends. Gumi loves carrots and singing, while Cul loves tomatoes and hitting her younger friend, Len Kagamine, upside the head with pillows.
No one would ever admit it to her face, but they'd much rather not have Cul live with them. Well, the guys, at least. She was very hot-headed, and while she held great respect for Gumi, Luka Megurine, Rin Kagamine and Miku Hatsune, she wasn't too kind to any males. She did care for them, and would never want any of them to get hurt, but she just didn't respect them all that much.
One cold, December day, Miku, Len, Rin, Gumi, Cul, Kaito Shion, Akaito Shion, Kaito's brother, Luka, Piko Utatane, Nigaito Shion, Akaito and Kaito's younger brother, and Mikuo Hatsune, Miku's brother, were sitting in the living room, lights off, hot chocolate in hand and covered in soft, warm blankets, watching a horror movie.
"N-No… No… don't… DON'T. DON'T. D-… DON'T, DAMNIT!" Kaito would scream, making Cul slap him.
"Shut up, you cowardly idiot!" The red-headed girl would say.
Towards the end of the movie, when everyone's hot chocolate was gone, and when the household was growing sleepy, something popped out behind the fridge in the movie, making everyone jump, and causing Gumi and bury her face into Cul's shoulder. At her best friend's actions, Cul blushed madly.
As Gumi was cuddling into Cul and the red-head was turning the colour of her hair, Rin looked over to the two, and noticed Cul blushing like mad. The blonde widened her mouth in surprise, and then covered it with her hand. Poking Miku, who was sitting next to her, Rin pointed over to Cul. The tealette looked over, her eyes widening. Rin nodded frantically, smiling. Miku smiled wide, matching her best friend's.
After the movie was over, all of the guys excused themselves and went to their rooms. As Cul was just about to go upstairs after comforting Gumi for a few minutes, Rin and Miku stopped her.
"Cul! What was that?!" Miku squealed softly.
"What was what?" The red-head stared at Miku and Rin, puzzled.
"Oh, come on, now! We saw you blush when Gumi snuggled you!" Rin said, the wide smile plastered on her face again.
At that, Cul turned the colour of her hair and her favourite food. "S-s-so? I-I-It w-was c-c-cold… Th-that's a-a-all…"
"Mhmmm, sure it was," Miku said, raising an eyebrow at Rin as she bit her lip in order to keep herself from laughing.
Cul turned even redder and stomped upstairs, leaving Miku and Rin giggling at the bottom.
When Cul reached the top of the staircase, she made a left, and opening a dark red door, walked into the fair-sized room it held, and then slammed the wooden slab, mumbling to herself.
"Pff… I-I d-don't li-like G-Gumi… Sh-she's t-t-too good f-for me anyways… N-Not that I'd c-c-care!"
Suddenly, there was a giggle from behind Cul, and the already blushing girl spun around and turned bloody red when she saw Gumi there, sitting on her bed, legs crossed, hands supporting her, head tilted slightly, a small grin on her face.
"Do… do you really feel that way, Cul?" Gumi asked, blushing herself.
"I… I-I..." Cul had no idea what to do. So, instead of saying something like "Sorry", or even "Why are you in here?", the girl did something she hadn't done in a long time: She fell to the floor, held her head in her hands, and cried.
Gumi, slightly confused, got up quickly and knelt next to the pitiful sobbing mess.
"Cul? What's wrong?" Gumi whispered, concerned.
"I-I j-j-just k-know y-y-you'll n-never f-f-feel-l th-the sa-ame way I-I f-feel t-t-towards y-you…" Cul stuttered out, between the sobs she let out.
Gumi blushed, and then touched Cul's arm gently. "I… I guess it kind of depends. How do you feel about me?"
Cul looked up at Gumi, her face stained with tears, and, while staring into her eyes, she said, "I… I love you."
As Gumi blushed intensely, and then moved forward to kiss Cul gently. Once the red-haired mess felt lips on hers, she stopped crying, and, when Gumi pulled away, she almost fainted when she heard what came out of her mouth:
"I love you too, Cul."
There was a huge gust of air outside the door that, almost, sounded like a gasp. Cul didn't care, though. She knew someone was probably listening. She knew someone probably heard her very loud sobs. She knew whoever was listening was probably shocked; yes, there were plenty of guy and guy couples in this household, but no girl and girl. But Cul didn't care. She was too happy to care.
Gumi smiled when she saw that her best friend and lover had stopped crying. She cupped the girl's face gently, wiping away the tears that were idling on her face, and then kissed her again, more passionately this time, though, and Cul greatly kissed back.
They kissed until they had to breathe, and then they kissed again. After repeating this a few times, Cul blinked sleepily at Gumi, who blinked right back. They both crawled up onto Cul's bed, where they entangled themselves in each other, holding hands, and snuggling.
After Cul went upstairs, Rin and Miku stared after her, smiling wide.
"Cul totally likes her," Rin snickered, and Miku nodded.
As the two were about to head upstairs a few minutes later, they heard a loud cry come from a room upstairs. They glanced at each other in worry and ran up to the noise.
When they got to the top and made a left, they saw Piko, Nigaito, Kaito, Len, and Luka already huddling around the door, unsure of what to do.
"What happened?" Miku whispered, as another loud sob came out of the room, followed by another.
Piko shrugs and Luka explains, "Gumi went into Cul's room to ask if she could borrow some pajamas, and then we heard a door slam, and we were about to knock when we heard a loud sob." After the pink-haired girl finished, Piko, Kaito, Nigaito and Len nodded in unison.
"Why is she sobbing?" Rin asked quietly, pressing her ear as close to the door as she could, hearing a final sob come out of the room.
"We're not sure," Kaito admits.
Suddenly, everything went quiet as Gumi spoke. Everyone outside could only make out a few words: "How", "you", and "feel". It sounded like a question.
After a few seconds of hesitation, Cul said, very clearly, "I love you."
Everyone held their breath, shocked, and waited for Gumi's answer. Suddenly, everything went silent, including Cul's crying. The people outside were still holding their breaths, and not even any kind of breathing was coming from the bedroom.
"Did Gumi kill her?" Len whispered, making Rin hit him. Len silently "ow'ed" dramatically and rubbed his arm where his twin hit him.
Finally, there was an answer from the green-haired female.
"I love you too."
The group gasped, rather loudly. After a few moments, they heard breathing stop, and then start after a while, and again, and again. It continued for a while, until there was just breathing, and ruffling of bed sheets.
The peeping Toms and Tinas stayed outside the door, listening for any movement, until they heard only peaceful breathing.
Kaito slowly and silently opened the door, and everyone looked in, only to see Gumi and Cul on the red-head's bed, entangled in each other, sleeping soundly.
Once everyone had processed what just happened, Kaito closed the door softly and left the two alone to sleep in each other's company.