Saturday Morning
"Miss Kagari!" Professor Finnelan shouted. "What did I say the punishment would be next time you missed your classes?"
"But please Professor, don't make me singlehandedly do the entire schools laundry for this week!" Akko pleaded, but Finnelan wasn't going to change her mind that quickly.
"Akko… I was expecting." Finnelan calmed her voice to something more appropriate. "But, you too Miss Cavendish?" Finnelan turned her head to look at Diana, who was on Akko's right. Finnelan had a face of somewhat disappointment and some confusion.
"I express my upmost apology for my absence yesterday." Diana said, being elegant as usual.
"Normally, I'd let this slide, but you've been hanging around Akko ever since the missile incident. I don't want her foolishness rubbing off on you. I want you to straighten her out. You will watch over Miss. Kagari as she serves her punishment."
"For the entire week?" Diana surprisingly said relatively calmly.
"Yes. For the entire week." Professor Finnelan stated.
"…v-very well." Diana took a little too long to respond.
"B-but Diana!" Akko stutters out.
"Come on Akko, let's go." Diana said, grabbing Akko's hand and walking out of Finnelan's office.
"This is the first week that they let the students and the faeries relax and Finnelan is ruining it for us." Akko complained.
"Could you stop complaining?" Diana requested, dragging Akko to her dormitory.
Akko quietly whispered under her breath, "Anne Finnelan more like Anne Bitchelan"
"Akko…" Diana didn't really appreciate that.
"Sorry." Akko apologized.
It got quiet in the hallway. Akko looked down at her hand. The hand that Diana was holding. Akko felt… different… inside. She stared at Diana's hand. She thought about how alrhough her hand was being squeezed, it felt like Diana wasn't trying to hurt Akko.
"Diana." Akko said.
"Hm?" Diana asked.
"Our hands." Akko calmy pointed out.
Diana removed her hand from Akko's and said, "I-I'm sorry." Although Akko couldn't see, Diana's was blushing hardly.
"There's nothing for you to be sorry for. I should be the one who should be apologizing, since I roped you into my mess."
"It wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was." Akko sighed.
Diana stopped walking, which also caused Akko to stop. She yelled out, "It wasn't your fault! Stop blaming yourself."
Diana then looked up at Akko. She looked as if she was going to cry. "Nononononononono! I didn't mean that!" Diana tried to recover.
Akko, eyes tearing up, bursts into a sprint away from Diana, sobbing as she leaves her fellow classmate.
Diana reached out her hand, but retracted it after a quick thought.
She stood there, in the empty hallway, thinking to herself,…
"Fuck."
Lotte approached her dorm room and from the outside ahe could hear crying, "Akko?"
"She's probably just upset that she can't do something... again." Sucy accurately stated.
They both walk into the dorm . Sucy goes straight to her bed while Lotte walks towards Akko. Akko is laying in her bed, sobbing into her pillow.
"Akko?" Lotte shakes her. "Akko... what's wrong?"
Akko groaned.
"We've been through this before, Akko. We can't help you if you don't tell us what's wrong."
"We? Us?" Sucy quietly said in the background.
"The problem... is me." Akko said. Her face is still stuffed into her pillow but she stopped crying.
"You?" Lotte asked.
"Yes, me. I don't know when to stop talking. I kept on blaming myself for the potion incident: which is my fault, but she kept on saying it wasn't, after I consistently told her it was my fault, she then yelled at me..."
"Uh..." Lotte tried to say something, but she actually had nothing.
"She probably hates me now…"
"Atsuko Kagari. Stand up right now!" Lotte shouted. Akko did as ordered. She sluggishly removed her face from the pillow which was soaked in tears. She stood up, head down, and lazily said ohayo.
Lotte then slapped her. Lotte was obvious angry. Sucy's eyes widened to the max when she saw that. Sucy quietly whispered "wasn't expecting that".
"You need to apologize to Diana this instant! The potion incident was not your fault. Blame Sucy out of anyone! Diana knows it's not your fault and it's probably hurting her to see you blame yourself over and over." Lotte (basically) screamed.
Akko was stunned. She had never heard Lotte shout that loudly, like ever. Akko placed her left hand on Lotte's right shoulder and made a thumbs up with her right hand. "Thanks Lotte, for saying that." Akko was back to her normal self.
"Glad to hear it." Lotte started to walk towards her stuff in the room. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to pack my bags."
"For what?" Akko questioned.
"I'm going to visit my parents for our week off."
Sucy joined in on the conversation. "Oh yeah, they're giving us all 8 days off from school."
"Hm, oh yeah Sucy... what exactly did that potion do to Diana?" Akko asked.
"You really wanna know?"
Outside of Diana's dorm, Akko was about to knock, but something was keeping her from doing it.
Come on Atsuko, you can do it.
She knocked.
Thud.
"Diana? A-Are you okay?" Akko shouted at the door.
"Huh?! A-Akko! Don't come in! Just give me a seco-"
Akko could now here what could be best described as "a bunch of books falling onto the ground.
The noise of Diana's footsteps quickly crept up the door and it swung open.
Diana was sweating, her hair was a mess, and her uniform is also a mess... but, she was acting like her normal self.
"Good morning." Diana calmy said.
"Hi... Diana... what happened to you?"
"Nothing."
"O-kay…" Akko emphasized. Well, anyway… I'm sorry for running away like that earlier."
"No, don't apologize. It's my fault for yelling at you like that." Diana (somehow) managed to rush that sentence even though she said it in the formal voice she normally does.
Akko developed a huge grin on her face. "Yay! We're still friends!" she shouted as she jumped into Diana for a hug. Akko wrapped her arms around the neck of her friend.
The hug only lasted a few seconds. Diana had pulled away relatively fast, so it just made things awkward.
"Hey, Diana… do you wanna start with the laundry now?"
"Give me about five minutes to prepare." Diana said as she slowly closed the door.
As soon as the door was sealed, Akko could hear running (across the room, back and forth), things falling onto the ground, a door loudly open, then slam, then she could hear the flow of water. Diana's showering.
Akko, being the curious be she is, decided to place her hand on the door knob and turn it clockwise. She opened the door. She started to walk around the room until she saw the bathroom door. She stared at the door with immense focus, then her mind started to go on its own.
I wonder how Diana looks naked...
Wait! Why did I just imagine it?
Although, that was a nice image...
She does has all those curves.
She's pretty sexy.
Overall 9/10
Akko looked around the room and took a peek at her desk. The only thing there was the book she saw on Diana's desk that time when she was Diana. She looked closer into what's on the actual page.
The page was filled with words and spells, but also doodles and drawings. All the little doodles didn't seem like Diana's personality. Something's up with her, she thought.
Something was odd. Akko had to think about it for a second. The shower stopped. Akko wasn't entirely sure what to do. She still had time to leave… but she didn't.
She just stood there awkwardly.
The bathroom door hastily opened and Diana came running out. Naked.
Akko was standing in the center of the room, looking at Diana. Both Akko and Diana blushed.
"Heh..." Akko quietly said.
Walking to the basement to start on the punishment was quiet. Very quiet.
"H-Hey, Diana?" Akko asked.
"Can... can we never mention what happened back there?" Diana quickly said, looking forward and still walking. As she said that, a red tint formed on her cheeks.
"O-Okay." Akko rushed to say.
"Ah, finally, the basement." Akko said, stretching like she already knew the place. Well, she did. She's been punished a lot.
Diana found a wooden chair, pulled a handkerchief out of her pocket, wiped off the dust on the chair, then sat in it. "Do your thing, Akko."
"Alright, alright." Akko said.
The laundry area of the vast basement was relatively small. There were some barrels of water, a few spare bike machines in the back for when magic is down, and a few other essentials for laundry. There also was a relatively large pile of dirty Luna Nova uniforms.
"Here I go!" Akko said, confidently. She grabbed a handful of uniforms and dropped them into one of the barrels.
Akko got to work. Uniform after uniform she soaked the clothes and started to scrub them in with soap. After five minutes, she sighed loudly and looked towards Diana. She was reading a book with a light blue and dark blue cover. "Can you help me please?" Akko whined.
"No, you roped yourself into this situation." she firmly stated. Akko walked closer to Diana, up to the point where her face was right behind her book.
"Please?" Akko asked in her cutest voice.
Diana lowered her book, only to be presented with a pouting Akko. Her face turned awfully red and she mumbled out, "U-Um, you're really close."
"Am I?" Akko said, her cheeks became slightly pink, and she leaned in closer.
S-She's way too close! Diana thought.
Diana leaned farther back. "Okay, okay, I'll help you." Diana quickly blurted out.
"Yes!" Akko hastily pulled away from Diana and started to do a little dance.
"Ahem. But, I will not be using magic." she said. Akko stopped her dance and put on a pouty face.
Cute.
"Come on, let's work." Diana said.