A/N sorry for the delay, midterms... that is all, enjoy.

Chapter 4

The next morning

"What!" Ayano shouted. Looking around she noticed herself as the center of attention between the amusement club, and student council. She didn't know why but her face was covered in a deep blush. The group was sitting in a circle on the floor of Yui's apartment. Ayano was trying to remember what Kyouko just said.

"I ask if you are gay" Kyouko repeated. Ayano face flushed to a further red. She looked around the group seeing Kyouko leaning forward, slightly pink in the cheeks. 'How did I end up here?' Ayano asked herself. 'Oh ya, it's the party Toshino Kyouko started, in the morning, and we're playing truth or dare.' Ayano felt her heart rate rise. Anxiety was showing through her face. She was contemplating either to tell the truth or not. She looked to Kyouko and locked eyes. 'I'm going to have to be more honest with myself, better start here.' Ayano gulped. Peered down and cleared her thought, bubbles bursting in her stomach.

"I, uhhh, ummm… do I have to?" Ayano ask, desperately seeking a way out. Kyouko shook her head violently, pink still dusted her face.

"No! You have to, that's the point of the game." Kyouko commanded, desperately seeking an answer to an aspect of her problem. 'How will I know if I have zero chance? If you reassure me that you are straight then maybe it'll be easier for me to get over this crush.' Kyouko thought. She looked to Ayano and wondered why it was taking her so long to say that she's straight.

Ayano looked down and breathed in trying to compose herself. "Okay" She started, looked back up and straight in Kyouko's eyes. Gulp. "I-I'm-ga-…" she tried falling short. "I'm Gay!" She pronounced proudly towards Kyouko. She took in a few breaths, recomposing herself. 'Wow that feels great… I can't believe I actually did it. I told someone other than myself the truth.'

Kyouko looked at her bewildered. 'Good now that I know she's gay I can get over this cru- WAIT! DID SHE JUST SAY SHE'S GAY?' Kyouko commentated. "There's no way your gay, I'm mean how do you know?" Kyouko gestured her hands to Ayano. Ayano shrunk back, not expecting Kyouko's boldness. Kyouko stood up and walk towards Ayano's position. Everyone watched, mortified at Kyouko's actions. "You don't look like the gay type, I'm mean look at you" Kyouko gesturing to Ayano's face. "You're too damn pretty to be gay. I'm gay and I don't look nearly as good as you do" Kyouko said in a verminous voice, not realizing the compliment spill from her mouth or Ayano's blush at catching it. "How do you eve-"she was interrupted when Yui grabbed her cheek.

"THAT'S ENOUGH KYOUKO!" Yui let go of the cheek hold and placed her hands on Kyouko's shoulders to calm her down. "What do you think you are doing, Attacking Ayano like that?" Kyouko still wasn't calm down. Yui noticed that she was on the brink of tears. Yui quickly reflected, and thought there's more to Kyouko's Actions recently than just being Kyouko.

"Attacking Her, I Was Attacking her?" Kyouko almost sobbed out, she sniffled. "What about every day in the amusement club, where she strolls in, and prosecutes me." Kyouko put her hand on her heart. "Me for not doing my work. She goes out of her way just to help me but how am I supposed to not like her? But it's so obvious that she despises me." Kyouko let a tear fall. "She made me vulnerable to these emotions that will never be reciprocated." Kyouko moved her hands to wipe the tears pouring from her face.

Yui finally understood what Kyouko was dealing with. Yui looked to her friend in a new light. 'Aww, Kyouko got a crush… and it's Ayano, a girl madly abscessed with you… that won't admit it…' Yui wondered how long Kyouko was dealing with these feeling 'She must have uncovered them recently, but beyond that I don't know'. Yui grabbed Kyouko's head and guided it to a resting position in the crook of her neck. Yui felt Kyouko slowly return the gesture by embracing Yui, slowly shivering as her body sobbed uncontrollably. "It's going to be okay Kyouko" Yui words comforted Kyouko. Yui was slowly rubbing circles into Kyouko's back.

"I want to go home Yui" Kyouko manage to say before another sob racked through her body. Yui nodded and moved to a position where Kyouko could lean on her.

"Let's go" Kyouko nodded. Yui turned to the others "I'll be right back". Yui and Kyouko left the apartment and left the rest in an awkward silence. Seeing the opportunity to show her expertise of the silent way, Akari step forward.

"I haven't seen Kyouko be so emotional like that in a while." Akari said to the group. Ayano seemed the most concerned for Kyouko, Believing that was her fault.

"D-do you know w-why s-she reacted that way? Is it something I did?" Ayano looked to Akari for answers, feeling guilt build in her stomach.

Akari shook her head in response, but when she saw Ayano visible drop she continued. "But I think Yui knows what's going on." Ayano seemed to revive a little at the comment. Chitose seem to be concerned for Ayano's wellbeing. So she decided to investigate into the matter.

"So what do we do now?" Sakurako spoke up.

"Can't you be patient? Yui said she'll be right back." Himawari scolded her.

"Why are you telling me to be patient? Your boobs are the cause of this whole mess." Sakurako argued back; making a stab to one of Himawari's breast.

"How did you come up with that idea, stupid?"

"I'm glad you asked, stupid" Himawari tensed up noticeable. "Now I can explain my genius." She waved her hands around in the air for emphasis. "So your boobs are the problem because they made Ayano gay, and as you saw Kyouko doesn't like gay people." Sakurako posed triumphantly.

"You're such an idiot, Kyouko is gay… and I can't turn people gay with my boobs. They aren't special, Ayano can like someone else's boobs" Himawari added in disbelief in Sakurako's stupidity. Ayano's face turned red at Himawari's comment; she started to think about Kyouko.

Chitose saw this as a perfect time to tease them both "Sakurako, if what you say is true then Himawari's boobs could have turned you gay, therefor you like Himawari's boobs". Sakurako gulped, not having the intelligence to rebuttal. Both Sakurako and Himawari blushed bright red. Chinastu was intrigued by Chitose's knowledge of "the gays"; so she started to ask her some question.

"How did you know that you're gay? Through experimentation or something else?" Chinastu ask sincerely but realizing how it could be seen as insensitive. "I'm sorry for being insensitive, I just maybe, ummm" she looked away, blushing. "Wanted to find out if I am gay…" she looked back up to Chitose, inquisitively.

"Don't worry about being insensitive" Chitose said and took a seat next to Chinastu. "It really comes down to two methods: Thought and experimenting. It works very similar to science. Thought, you have to question yourself entirely, and deeply, but you can't have normative bias."

"What do you mean by "normative bias"?" Chinastu ask confused on the meaning.

"In society it's not as common for people to be gay over straight. So when people are of age to peruse romantic interest, they assume they're straight. To not have bias in your thought when questioning yourself is crucial. The reason as for why is because if you are questioning and have this bias, then you have this underlining theme of "I'm not gay, that happens with other people". Another point is to not be afraid of judgment. Just because some people are intolerant does not mean you have to be afraid of who you are." Chinastu started to nod her head.

"I think I got that down now, but what about experimenting?"

"Like I said, it's like science, test your theories. Or if you don't have thoughts" Chitose gestured to Sakurako. "Analyze your data after, but you still need no bias."

"I think I got it now. Thanks for helping me." Chinastu thanked Chitose for her advice. Chitose looked around seeing that her little lecture interested the entire group. She grew a small blush on her face at the unnoticed attention.

"You're very knowledgeable Chitose-senpai" Himawari complemented. Chitose's face went a shade redder, blushing.

"Well when you've done the amount of research I have, you learn many things…" Chitose said bashfully.

"What type of research do you do?" Akari ask innocently.

"I'm not going to answer that."

"Can you at least give me a word or words to look up?" Akari persisted. Ayano was about to protest but was interrupted by Chitose.

"S-sure, ummm, go to google a-and search lesbian por-"

"I'm back" Yui announced, saving Chitose from finishing an unwanted response. Yui went over to where Chitose was sitting, and sat next to her. Once she sat down she was enveloped in a hug by Chitose.

"Thank you. Thank you…" Chitose mumbled into Yui.

"What did I miss?" Yui ask confused as Chitose continued to embrace her.

"Chitose was telling us ways of knowing if you're gay." Yui nodded to Akari. "And I ask her what research she did, and what to look up." Akari finished.

"Akari, I'm going to give you some advice. Don't ask Chitose about her research, you're too young." Yui turned her attention to Ayano. "Hey Ayano" Ayano turned to look at Yui. "Kyouko apologizes for the way she acted. She's been dealing with some things as of late, and it's been making her act strange. So please don't be mad at her, okay?" Ayano nodded. Yui felt a tap on her shoulder from Chitose.

Chitose leaned close to Yui's ear and whispered. "So is you're theory from the bath last night correct?" Yui turned to Chitose to whisper back.

"I have no doubt now. Kyouko is pretty far down in love with Ayano, but she has a lot of doubt that a relationship will start." Whispered back.

"I'm mean we could just flat out tell them" Chitose suggested.

"No, that wouldn't work because Ayano is still being stubborn with herself. I give her until school starts, at that point I bet she'll finally agree that she has feelings for Kyouko. Telling them would only work later when their feelings are more developed, but it would work for those two." Yui gestured to Sakurako and Himawari.

"They should just confess" Chitose added. "But what are we going to do about Kyouko? She still needs help."

"There's nothing we can do with Kyouko, she's going to go visit some relatives until school starts."

"Then the only person we can help is Ayano?" Chitose asked, and Yui nodded.

The rest of the mourning went without emotional confrontation. They played some games then left before noon to their respective houses. For one member of the group the emotional confrontation from earlier wouldn't leave their head.

The Sugiura household

Ayano entered through the front door of her house. She greeted her mother with a "Hello" receiving a "how was the party" back. She told her mother about the party forgoing the part about kissing Kyouko, cuddling with Kyouko, bathing with Kyouko, and her confessing her sexuality. After the talk with her mother she went up to her room to just relax.

As she sat on her bed the feelings from earlier resurfaced. Kyouko took over Ayano's mind as she was lost in the recollection of Kyouko kissing her. Her mind kept dredging further; imagining Kyouko's tongue slowly enter Ayano's mouth. Slowly caressing the side of her lips, sending electric shocks down into her gut. Kyouko pulled away, leaving a string of saliva spanning the distance between their lips. Kyouko grinned and licked Ayano's lips, then kissed Ayano's chin, then neck until her head was sucking on Ayano throat. Her face felt on like it was on fire as Kyouko slowly started to move her hands down Ayano's sides, shivering her to the core.

Loud gasp

Ayano shot open her eyes as she suddenly became aware of her dream state. She looked around her room noticing the time shift as the sun was setting. She concluded that she must have fallen asleep when she entered her room. 'But what was that dream' she thought and tried to get up. She noticed her body wasn't cooperating properly. She managed to sit in an upright position trying to recover. 'I've never had a dream like that before… I've had dreams with Toshino Kyouko before but never that lewd. Why does she keep bothering me, uhhh' she thought, and move to get off her bed and felt some foreign wetness within her legs.

"What the?" she said as she removed her skirt. She was speculating whether she peed herself or not. She concluded that it couldn't be pee because lack of smell, and color. She's not on her period, so what could it be? What could cause wetness and have possible relation with her dream. Her stomach dropped in realization that it was her first wet dream.

"Oh my god" she mumbled. She started to breath in and out repetitively in rapid session. She rushed to the bathroom and quickly turned on the bath. She got undressed and hopped in. she was still breathing rapidly as she rested in the tub. She attempted to collect her thoughts as the surge of images flooded back into her mind. 'Why were you in my head, Toshino Kyouko?' She thought, and started shivered to the thought of Kyouko plunging her tongue into her mouth. "I don't like her, I don't like her…" Ayano mumbled repetitively to herself. Her night didn't progress into anything more than just thoughts about Kyouko, and her denying her feelings. Ayano's nights kept repeating the same dream. Ayano kept denying every time that she had any feeling for Kyouko.

Two days before the start of school

Ayano was crying under her sheets in her bed. Eyes baggy from another restless sleep from her trying to stop herself from dreaming. "Why?" she sobbed out, tears slowly dipping down her face. "Why, Why does this keep happening" She asked through her sobs. Her heart kept pounding in her chest. "Why can't I get her out of my head?" she held the tomato onesie closer, sniffing in the scent left by Kyouko. "Why does smelling you make me feel warm inside?" another tear ran down her face. See clutched something in her hands, and moved it in front of her face. The item in her hand was a picture of Kyouko. "Why do you make me feel better when I look at you?" she sob again. "I don't like you, I don't like you, I do…." She slowly mumbled off into sleep.

Meanwhile

"Chinastu!" Kyouko yelled and ran towards her friend with arms open; being stopped by a hand.

"Don't do that Kyouko, I don't want a hug from you" Chinastu said and removed her hand from in front of her friend.

"Why not?" Kyouko put her hands down, looking at her friend with disappointment. 'But I just got back' Kyouko thought to herself.

"Because I would want a hug from Yui, not you." Chinastu face was dusted with a light pink blush as she made the confession.

"Just face it you have no chance with Yui. You should just be my girlfriend." Kyouko stated. Walking towards Chinastu opening her arms again.

"I have a better chance of getting a girlfriend then you" Kyouko stopped again, looking at her friend. 'There's no way that she could get a girlfriend before me.'

"Want to make a bet?" Kyouko tested.

"You're on" Chinastu and Kyouko agreed on terms then parted ways.

A/N I would like to ask if my portrayal of the emotional turmoil in the group felt conclusive, and had depth. Does all of the analysis I've used seem viable to the story's authority? alternatively, how is my writing? do you find it choppy, hard to read, or good with minor flaws, or flawless and you want to print it so you can bathe in the delightful scripture I've written?

suggestions on ships still open... you can ask for anything (that seems plausible), like Yui X Chitose, Yui x Chinastu, Yui X Akarin, Akari X Chinastu, Chinastu X Chitose... any suggestions are welcome, just if they're insanely improbable (Akari X Chizuru, I mean how could that work? if you want to explain go ahead) I'll note that i won't be using it... unless convinced.

thanks for reading, and review please.