School had finally ended and Kyouko was walking back with Sakurako to the latter's house. Sakurako was going on complaining about Himawari when the two girls walked inside.

"I mean what's up with those giant-" Sakurako stopped mid-sentence and stared in disbelief. There in the living room was Sakurako's sister and another girl kissing.

"Nee-chan?" Sakurako squeaked in disbelief.

"Ah, Sakurako! I thought you said you had student council duties today... What are you doing back home?" Nadeshiko yelled giddily.

Reading the situation for once, Kyouko hastily turned and muttered "I'll just come back another time" With that Kyouko zipped out the door and started heading on home. Normally she would probably go hang out at Yui's on a day like this, but seeing that kiss had left a strange feeling in her. Kyouko decided it would be best to go on home.

On her walk she couldn't help but keep thinking about that kiss. Why was it bugging her so much? She was always joking about stuff like that with Chinatsu-chan and she had kissed Chitose once when the amusement club and the student council had stayed the night at the school together. All of those events were just Kyouko being exuberant though. Nadeshiko's kiss was different. It had something Kyouko never did. It had love.

Kyouko couldn't help but think "will I ever be in love?" Of course first of all Chinatsu came to mind. Kyouko pondered this idea for a bit. Chinatsu was cute and it was amazing how much she resembled Mikarun, but Kyouko just liked to tease her and couldn't imagine them sharing a kiss like the one she had just witnessed today. Then there was Yui. Yui was the closest person to Kyouko, but she saw Yui more of like a big sister. Kyouko cherished their relationship and didn't want it to change.

"There's Ayano" a voice in her head commented.

"What? Why did she come to mind?"

"Because she's cute" justified Kyouko.

"Akari is cute but she didn't come to mind?" demanded the voice in her head.

"Akari is too forgettable, so of course she didn't" Kyouko argued back at herself.

"You say she's too forgettable but you're arguing with yourself. Therefore you're the one who brought her up"

"Shut up. Also, damn I'm good at arguing!" Kyouko thought resigning herself to defeat. Kyouko- deciding she was too tired from summer vacation to deal with these thoughts right now- decided to drop it and go home to get some sleep.

While laying in her bed, Kyouko couldn't stop tossing and turning. Every time she closed her eyes Ayano would pop up. All Kyouko could do was remember their school field trip where Kyouko used the excuse of the darkness of the Tainai Mekuri to grope Ayano, or when she had fed Ayano her daikon. They bathed together in a barrel because Akarin had lost the other one and then afterward Kyouko got a peck on the cheek from Ayano.

All these experiences had just been Kyouko goofing off or else caused by some other circumstances, but at the time Kyouko could've cared less. She wasn't sure what she was feeling right at the moment but all she did know was that she couldn't and didn't want to stop thinking about all of the fun times she shared with Ayano.

*Sigh* "What's happening to me?"