On A Whim
Toujou Nozomi x Ayase Eri
A/N: Eri seemed like in deep thought. Although spiritual, Nozomi wanted to know about it, from her mouth.
Toujou Nozomi sat at the side of the Student Council room table, her usual spot. She was signing off papers she's directly handing to the President for a finally signing before it goes to the School Chairman, but she notices that the paper only started piling.
"But Erichi is writing…" Nozomi looked at her direction and watched her face. She hung her head to the right side, as if stuck on something. She then leaned her elbow on the table, then propped her head atop her hand. She scribbled something, and then hung her head again.
"Erichi?" She called, but was ignored. Nozomi raised an eyebrow, and decided that she will take matters into her own hands. She slowly stood up from her chair, making sure that the blonde female won't turn her attention to her. She walked behind Eri, and peeked on her notebook. "Kyoto?"
She slowly wrapped her arms around her shoulders and pulled her head to her chest. Eri reflexively covered her notebook with paper her shoulders stiffening. "N- Nozomi?"
"What are you doing, Erichi?" Nozomi asked, crossing her arms across Eri's front, her left grasping her right wrist.
"N-N- Signing papers?" Eri blushed as she looked away and firmly covered her hands on the paper before her.
"But the papers are piling." Nozomi spoke. She straightened her back and slid her hands on Eri's jaw, and slowly made her head turn upwards to look at her face. "Erichi, what is wrong?"
Eri immediately forces her head a front then looks to her side, a blush suddenly spreading across her space. "There's really… nothing wrong."
Nozomi sighed. "You worry me." Eri sighed and pouted. 'Worry' was the keyword.
"We- Well…" Eri straightened her back, and leaned her head onto Nozomi's body. "I wanted to go to Kyoto… I knew you'd like it there. But I can't think of a good reason to invite you…"
"Sometimes you worry too much, over the littlest things." Nozomi smiled, and then placed both of her hands on the blonde female's shoulders. She started slowly massaging them, smiling when the tensed muscles started to relax. "All you had to do was to ask."
"Really?" Eri quickly stood up and faced the violet haired vice president. "Th- Then, can you—"
"No." Nozomi answered playfully with a smirk.
She watched Eri hunch forward with a pout on her face, then sigh. She smiled again.
"We can plan about it, after finishing the paperwork, okay?" Nozomi answered, and watched Eri nod and smile like a child. Nozomi then sat on her place, propped a hand on the table her head atop it and watched Eri.
She moved with a smile, precise and fast. Nozomi enjoyed watching her work, how hard she works for the school, for the council. Now that the school won't have to be shut down, we have to arrange the next student council election for when we graduate this coming spring. Although it is a sad reality that the two of them would be graduating soon, Muse will still remain as is.
"Nozomi?"
"Mm?"
"What are you doing?"
"Waiting for you." The violet haired female grinned and moved her head left and right. "We're planning our trip today right?"
"R- right." Eri flushed and continued working. "I kind of can't concentrate with you staring intensely at me though."
"But these are my feelings for you, Erichi." Nozomi answered, her tone turning serious.
"G- Geez, Nozomi."
Nozomi smiled to herself as she watched Eri's face flame up, complementing her white skin and her blonde her. In no time, Eri was able to sign and segregate all the papers into order and piled them over Nozomi's desk for final checking that's due the next day at school.
"I'll go to the restroom for a while." Eri said and Nozomi nodded, telling her that she's going to be fixing their stuff.
Nozomi fixed paperweights on the stack of paper and noticed a small notepad sticking out from other one of the papers. She gently pulled it out and immediately recognizes the Council President's handwriting on it. She read the note and smiled to herself, quietly putting it in her pocket. "For keepsake for the President's cuteness~"
When the door to the council room opened and blonde hair peeked inside, Nozomi immediately tackled the unsuspecting female, wrapping her arms around her neck immediately. "North of Kyoto, is it?"
"E- Eh?"
"You're planning on taking me there, isn't it so?"
Eri's face turned red, she looked away, anywhere as long as it wasn't Nozomi's face. "H- How did you know?"
"Because I can just feel it." Nozomi teased, pulling Eri closer to her, speaking directly in front of her mouth. "Am I wrong?"
"N- No. I—"
"You could have just asked me, you know?" Nozomi spoke with a pout.
"We- Well, I've never done this before and you know I'm not the type of person to go into trips." Eri spoke, her face showed of frustration. "And I don't know of your plans for summer, so I don't know how to bring it up. It's my first time to ever want to go to a trip with someone and I—" then warm lips covered her own shivering ones.
"You talk too much, Erichi." Nozomi winked at her, sending the poor blonde over edge her face exploding into red. "Well then, aren't we going to plan when and where exactly in the northern part of Kyoto are we going?"
"Y- You're going with me?"
"Erichi, do we have to go over this again, or you'd want me to take you instead?"
"…ugu…"
Quietly stashed in Nozomi's pocket, the notepad had contained information of the trip Eri was previously solo-planning on. And most of all the words, "With this trip… maybe we can become closer."
(On A Whim/END)
A/N: Who would've thought Eri was capable of pulling a Kotori-Umi hetare quality. LOL