K-On Daisuki!
Chapter 2. Note: Don't ever, ever do what Ritsu does. Really.
Disclaimer here. K-On! isn't mine. Duh. Enjoy!
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Tsumugi bowed to Ritsu as she sighed, "I'm afraid our ice trays haven't been in the freezer long enough. We won't be able to use ice cubes."
Ritsu started to grin before catching herself, "Oh, what a shame!" Crocodile tears streamed down her face, "We'll have to pick another dare! How disappointing!"
Truth or Dare had become a tradition when the Light Music Club were together anywhere overnight. Tsumugi had brought it up once as a funny foreign game her parents told her about after coming home from their travels…
Ritsu wouldn't admit she was so eager to play just because she wanted to see how "American" her friends really were.
Of course, Truth or Dare hadn't yet pushed their friendship farther than needed, and Ritsu was actually kinda happy about it. Her friends were hilarious and fun to be with and she loved them too much to make them do anything they didn't want to.
"Ricchan, snow is like ice, right? And there's plenty outside!" Yui yelled, dribbling a bit of hot chocolate she'd just sipped.
...And sometimes she just wished certain friends could keep their mouths closed.
Mio couldn't help but bust up laughing, "That's right! Go on, Ritsu, shove snow down your pants!"
"No way!" Ritsu was starting to panic. When Mio wanted something done, it got done. "The dare specifically said 4 ice cubes! You can't change it now!"
"'Put 4 ice cubes in your underwear while everyone watches and keep them there until they melt.' is what the card says." Tsumugi said matter-of-factly. To everyone's surprise, modest and innocent Tsumugi had no problem saying something relating to undergarments.
"Or maybe you just want me to do the dare for another reason, Mio?" Ritsu flamboyantly brought hands to her cheeks and pretended to be embarrassed, "Do you want to see if your blue and white striped panties match mine? Oh, Mio, I'm sorry, but--"
"Stop it! If you're gonna be a chicken then we might as well not play." Mio concluded, crossing her arms and trying to hide her victorious smile. She knew Ritsu's weak points and she knew how to use them.
Yui's eyes resembled snowballs as she glanced back and forth between the fighting girls. Through all the tension, Tsumugi just cocked her head and smiled.
"Fine." Ritsu spun around to face the front door, "If that's how it's gonna be. Whatever."
The girls watched silently as Ritsu dramatically grabbed the door handle, launched the door to the side as if throwing a frisbee, and stomped out. The rebound of the door hitting the log wall slammed it behind her.
"Oh, I'm sure that can be buffed out," Tsumugi beamed with her usual childish eyes, examining the dent in the wall, "I just hope Ritsu will be okay."
Mio pouted, "She picks the weirdest things to get mad over. Jeez."
"Ricchan is just going to get colder…" Yui gulped.
And just then, the door creaked open slowly to reveal a holy, blinding white light.
The door frame outlined a divine figure, with a glistening face and hair silky and smooth as milk chocolate to match her eyes. She almost moved in slow motion, eyes flicking from the ground to match the gaze of the envious girls, eyelashes fluttering like graceful butterfly wings…
And then Yui cleared some dust from her eye and saw that it was sweaty Ritsu.
"I made four snowballs," Ritsu spoke, determination in her voice and melting balls of snow in her hands. "I'm ready."
Ritsu stretched out the waistband of her pajama pants shamelessly to reveal a goosebump-laden stomach, trembling from the sudden temperature change.
"One, two, three, four!" she counted off the snowballs the same way as a song, dropping each into her floral-print panties and snapping the waistband back into place.
They waited.
The rest of the Light Music Club waited for some kind of reaction from Ritsu: a scream, a shudder... a moan of pleasure? But she just stood there with perfect posture, arms tight against her body.
"Well?" Mio finally said, "What's it feel like?"
"Actually," a smirking Ritsu chuckled as she began to walk to Mio, seated on the floor, "not so ba--AAAUUGGHH!"
"What, what?!" Yui panicked and stood up to try to help Ritsu somehow, but ended up needing to avoid the other girl's body as she doubled over.
Ritsu's expressions varied from just-ate-a-sour-candy to my-water-just-broke as she cried, "Aaauugghh, feels so weird! Ow ow ow, too cold, too cold!" while shifting her weight around and making things worse. "Get them out, get them out!"
She tried sitting down, but that just made her need to roll over to writhe on the floor. Any movement just readjusted the snowballs to freeze a new portion of Ritsu's delicate area.
"Sanctuarryyyy!" Ritsu bellowed, propelling herself toward another room. Arriving at Tsumugi's bare bedroom, her eyes darted around the room as she ran in place, trying to find something to ease the pain.
The closet was empty save for some old storage bins, so Ritsu just collapsed over the bed...
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Relief.
Somehow, some way, the way her body was when she kneeled at the edge of the bed took all the freezing pressure away and made her slightly less of an ice cube than she was a few seconds ago. "Phew..."
Ritsu clasped her frozen hands together, intertwining chilly fingers, and buried her head in the warm blankets Tsumugi had so neatly made. She exhaled. Finally, Ritsu was starting to warm up again.
"Ricchan." Yui softly said, being the first of the 3 girls who wandered in to speak up.
She turned her head just enough to see them out of one eye, keeping the other half of her face still against the bed, "Yeah?"
"Ricchan, are you... praying?"