"Parent's Day"
Mizore Shirayuki awoke from a rather interesting dream about raccoons with chainsaws to the sounds of urgent banging at her door. With a sleepy groan, she got up, shuffled to the door, and opened it to find a panicked Kurumu Kurono standing in the hallway.
"What are you doing here?" Mizore asked, sounding slightly uninterested due to her grogginess. "It's 2:30 in the morning."
"How can you sleep at a time like this?" Kurumu demanded, inviting herself into the room.
Mizore shut the door, watching her friend pace frantically around the floor.
"Well, 2:30 a.m. is generally a time that people choose to sleep," she responded simply. Ignoring the fact that Kurumu obviously had something urgent to talk about, Mizore crawled back into her bed and shut her eyes.
"Mizore! Pay attention!" Kurumu yelled. The snow woman waved her off sleepily.
"I am, I am. Go on," she reassured her lazily. Kurumu kept up her crazed pacing, watching the room whip back and forth as she turned around and around.
"Tomorrow is Parent's Day! What are we going to do?" Kurumu's voice got higher and higher as her anxiety rose.
"Uhhh, entertain the parents?" the sleepy snow queen answered with her trademark sarcasm.
"No Mizore, think! Parent's Day! As in your mom and my mom coming here to the school!" the succubus explained.
Mizore's eyes shot open and she rocketed upright in her bed.
"Oh," the purple-haired girl looked like a fish with her bugged-out eyes.
Kurumu rolled her own eyes, annoyed that it took her so long to get the point.
"Yeah, 'oh'. They practically destroyed the school the last time they were here, fighting over which one of us got to have Tsukune!" she reminded Mizore. "What are they going to do if they find out we're not after him anymore?"
"Who says they have to find out?" Mizore asked.
Kurumu stopped her pacing.
"We can't exactly keep it a secret!" she said with exasperation. Mizore raised an eyebrow.
"I don't know about you, but I have no intention of telling my mother that you and I are dating. She'll kill me where I stand," the yuki-onna explained.
"We don't have to tell them, they'll find out when they come here and see we're not rivals for Tsukune anymore."
Mizore miserably flopped backwards onto her pillow.
"I never even liked him like that in the first place. I just pretended that I did to get your attention," she said.
Kurumu made her way to Mizore's bed and flopped down next to her.
"We need a plan," she groaned, feeling the impossibility of the situation.
"We could still act like we're fighting over Tsukune," Mizore suggested. "He'll go along with it."
"No, our mothers will expect one of us to be with him already," Kurumu told her.
Mizore rolled over onto her side and buried her face in her pillow.
"Then I'm out of ideas. Mom will just have to kill me. Nice knowing you, Kurumu," the snow woman said despondently.
Kurumu rolled over too and cuddled up next to Mizore.
"No, I'm not giving up just yet. We'll talk to Moka and the others later. They'll help us out," she said hopefully.
"Mmm," Mizore mumbled, already falling asleep again. Kurumu closed her eyes too.
"I don't feel like going back to my room," she said, making herself comfortable under the covers.
"You never spend the night," Mizore informed her drowsily.
"Because your room is freezing, Ice Princess," she retorted. "But tonight I don't care. We could be murdered tomorrow."
"Good point…" Mizore was already half asleep.
Kurumu opened her eyes again to watch Mizore steadily breathe in and out as she slept. The sight calmed the succubus down tremendously, and soon she too started drifting off, the terror of Parent's Day lost far in the back of her mind as sleep slowly overtook her.