Chapter 2
Nagisa opened her eyes from her sleep to see a babbling baby right in front of her face staring back at her with curious blue eyes. Nagisa yelped and sat up quickly, backing away in surprise. Tamao who was already awake went over to the bed and picked the baby up from Nagisa's bed unable to keep in her laughter, "Good morning Nagisa-chan." Nagisa blinked looking at the baby, "What is a baby doing in our room Tamao-chan?"
Tamao laughed lightly, smiling at her cuteness, "We are the firsts to take care of him, remember?" After a few seconds of trying to remember Nagisa's expression changed from confusion to understanding, "Ohh yeah," she swung her legs over the side of the bed and watched as Tamao sat down with Hotaka and began feeding him his bottle.
Nagisa then stood, still watching with curious eyes, "You make it look so easy." Tamao smiled at her noticing, "After he's fed we can go to breakfast." "Hmm.." Nagisa put a finger to her lips as if thinking, "Can I try?" Tamao nodded and stood, "Hai," she handed Hotaka to Nagisa and she in turn smiled goofily at the baby, holding him out in front of her, a little unsure of herself. Tamao smiled softly, "You can hold him closer, see," she helped Nagisa to hold him better then let her sit down at her desk where she was sitting and gave her the bottle.
Nagisa stuck the nipple of the bottle into Hotaka's mouth and smiled as he began sucking away. Tamao clapped her hands together with a small squeal, "My Nagisa is so good with babies." Nagisa gave a nervous half grin to Tamao while blushing vaguely then looked back at Hotaka seeing him staring up at her calmly while sucking on the bottle. Tamao squealed again and went to her things to take out her camera. "I want to take a picture of this precious moment," she lined the lens with Nagisa and clicked the button, smiling. Still keeping the camera focused, Tamao commented, "I think he really likes you Nagisa-chan."
Nagisa grinned at him then her smile faded somewhat, "So did Shizuma-sama bring him here?" Tamao's face fell as she removed the camera from her view then nodded, not looking as happy now, "He stayed with her during the night." Nagisa nodded, still keeping her smile. There was silence in the room until Hotaka finished his bottle and Nagisa stood with him and patted him softly on the back until he let out a small burp. Tamao looked amazed and her smile grew again, "Wow Nagisa-chan, you're a natural."
Nagisa looked embarrassed again, "Tamao-chan." Tamao giggled and held out her arms for Hotaka, I'll carry him while we walk to the morning ceremony. Nagisa hesitated, she was secretly hoping that she could be the one carrying the baby to breakfast so that maybe Shizuma would see her with him, she wasn't sure why, but that was what she was thinking about, but she couldn't just tell Tamao that.
"Hai," Nagisa agreed handing him over to her. Tamao walked ahead with Nagisa following her to the room where all the students gathered in the morning for the Morning Prayer and breakfast. It seemed that everyone turned their head to look at the two as they entered and there was a stream of girly awes and squeals surrounding the room. Nagisa blushed from all the attention and Tamao, trying not to look embarrassed herself, sat down at one of the tables.
As Nagisa started to follow her she looked over and saw Shizuma glance over at her and the exchanged their usual secret smiles before Nagisa took her place beside her friend. After breakfast, Tamao and Nagisa walked through the hall together to the cafeteria.
On their way there, Nagisa kept thinking about Shizuma smiling at her. It wasn't her usual smile, it was different to Nagisa and ever since then she was trying to figure out why it was different and why she felt different. As she thought deeper about this her nose filled with an unfamiliar bad smell that sent a message to her brain to quickly cover her nose.
She did so and looked around for the source of the smell, "What is that?" she asked. Tamao smiled softly, trying not to look disgusted herself, "I think it's time for your first diaper changing lesson Nagisa-chan." Nagisa blinked, "First diaper changing lessong." Tamao smiled with a giggle, she as so cute when she looked confused. Tamao led her back to their room and Nagisa watched as Tamao laid a silk lined baby blanket on her bed then took Hotaka from Nagisa who was holding her breath and put him on the blanket on his back to change him. Tamao then took Nagisa's hand and gently pulled her over to the bed to teach her.
Nagisa couldn't hold her breath any longer and instead covered her nose and mouth with both hands, making her voice sound deeper by doing so, "I don't think I can." Tamao took Nagisa's hands anyway and started helping her change the diaper by guiding her through it, not noticing Nagisa's face looking sick, "Rokujou-san taught me how to change his diaper when she came by this morning to see if Etolie-sama brought him by." Nagisa pressed her lips together and jerked away from Tamao, running to the trash bin and emptying out her breakfast in it. "Nagisa-chan!" Tamao finished putting the diaper on Hotaka and went over to Nagisa, kneeling down to her level on the floor, "are you alright?" Nagisa smiled weakly and nodded a bit, "..Gomen."
Tamao just smiled softly after realizing what was going on then got up, got a handkerchief and sat back down beside Nagisa. She started wiping Nagisa's mouth with the handkerchief, "It just takes getting used to." Nagisa blushed embarrassed then laughed nervously to brush it off, "I guess so, but Tamao-chan makes it look so easy and doesn't get sick or anything," and she looked down with a half pout, half sad look. Tamao stroked Nagisa's hair in comfort, "Nagisa-chan is good with Hotaka too, he's not calm with just anyone after all," and with that she smiled at Nagisa. Nagisa smiled back, feeling better about it now.
Tamao stood, helping Nagisa up with her then walked over to the bed and picked up Hotaka and handed him to Nagisa, "You can carry him to the cafeteria if you'd like, I'll get his bag so we can feed him there." Nagisa nodded and gave Hotaka a more confident smile then when she first met him and he giggled happily. Tamao smiled,"I told you he likes Nagisa-chan," she left the room carrying his bag of things. Nagisa smiled more and followed Tamao while holding the giggling baby.
