A few days had passed, and everything was ready.

Hidden under her bed were the precious gifts she wanted to give Lotte: her declaration.

She had gone so far, so why was it so hard to just find the courage and do it?

She grumbled, refusing to get up from bed, not realising that the tiny sound coming from her had finished waking up an already half-awake Lotte.

"Huh...?" The freckled girl mumbled, rubbing her eyes and clumsily turning to find her red-framed glasses.

Sucy stared. "Ah... sorry, didn't mean to wake you."

Glasses on, Lotte gifted Sucy with a gentle smile. "It's fine. It's not like me to stay asleep for too long, anyways."

"...unless you spend the night reading Twilight?" The pucette smirked jokingly.

"Night Fall is far, far better than Twilight!" The ginger protested, then inmediately covered her mouth, realising that the small rising of her voice had made the messily sleeping Akko stirr.

The mushroom-obsessed witch stared at the brunette, wathing how she drooled, saliva pooling in her mouth and making her snore. It was hilarious, somehow tender too. But the point of today was... wooing Lotte? No. Explaining her feelings.

The thought made Sucy blush, and the shorter witch inmediately noticed, blue eyes now looking worried. "Are you feeling sick?"

Inmediately, the paler witch shook her head, standing up to use the bathroom. She needed to wash her face and get ready for such an important day.

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Classes and breaks passed, and before Sucy could notice, it was sunset. It wasn't that she had forgotten about her declaration: she just hadn't found the perfect moment to, with Akko fooling around and getting them involved in her crazy adventures. She couldn't complain, though, for it had been a good day, but...

Alone in the observatory, the slim witch stared at the bouquet of mushrooms in her hands, wondering just when would she finally be able to accomplish what she was determinned to.

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"Where's Sucy?" That question had been lingering in her throat for a while before she dared asking, blue eyes full of concern. "It's not like her to go away so often, usually she sticks with us and follows us around..."

Akko shrugged a pencil hunging from her mouth as she stalled on doing her homework. "She might be on the library again? She's been quite a bookworm for the last few days... more than you, Lotte. Maybe she's planning on another experiment?"

Lotte shook her head and sighed. "It never takes her that long... usually she brings the books here and starts working as soon as she can. Also, she seems to be holding something to herself, you know... she's usually quiet, but there's something she seems to be thinking about that botters her."

Akko spat the pencil and grinned when it somehow landed inside her pencilcase, then turned to Lotte with a big grin. "At least she's not experimenting on me anymore."

"...yeah, that's not like her either... You should be worried, Akko."

The brunette though about it and sighed. "I'll go find her and ask her. You know me, there's no way I can't cheer her up."

"No, Akko-" Lotte jumped off her bed, where she had been sitting. "I'll go. You fell asleep in class and now you have extra homework. You'd better do it if you don't wanna fail."

Akko jumped and inmediately turned to face the table. "You are right!"

With a soft, gentle smile, the freckled girl walked towards the door. "I'll be back. Don't get distracted, okay?"

"Oki!" Replied the japanese girl before hearing the door close. She hummed for a while, then facedesked. "Who's gonna help me with this now?"