He successfully made the girl jump a bit again. "No I'm not." she denied before putting the fluid into her mouth. "Doesn't seem like it." Nozomu took a step closer and was now, right behind her. Laura spat the mouthwash out into the sink. "Do you want me to choke!" She turned around. That's when she noticed how close they were. Nozomu leaned placing both of his hand onto the sink, basically trapping the girl inside. "See?, Told you." Laura was truly speechless. She could hear her heart loud and clearly which meant that Nozomu could too. The girl looked away.

Nozomu sighed as he backed off. "I wish you would tell me why." He the bathroom leaving the girl alone. "How the hell am I supposed to tell you when I don't even know it myself." She murmured looking into the mirror.

"Akiii~" Mahiru called turning yet again to find a better position. He ended up on her back. "Yeah?" He answered. His voice came from the bed next to Mahiru's. "I'm bored…" she turned again this time landing on her side facing the boy. Aki smiled looking up from his phone. "Well, you can kill the time on your phone like me. Or think of a way to get us out. Or we can take the time to come up with our next prank."

Mahiru sat up. "I could try to undo the knot on the door. My hand might fit through the gap. But if Nozomu or Laura were to open the door at that moment I might lose a hand." Aki then pointed at the device he was holding. "Let's give them a call." Mahiru thought how it was a good idea when she realized that the phone Aki had was in fact hers. "Wait! That's my phone! Why do you have it?" She quickly got up from the bed and snatched it from his hand. "You are not the only one that's bord. And my phone is in my room."

The girl glared at him for a good minute. "I'll call Nozomu." The boy picked up after a few rings. "What?" he sounded a bit angry. "In bad mood today?" Aki joked. Silence. "Is the prince's kingdom falling apart?" Mahiru added. A sigh could be heard. "Is that what you called for?"

"Nope, I wanted to tell you that I'll try and undo the knot so don't opened the door for now." Aki stated as they headed for the door. "Ok sure. Let me know if it worked. I won't hang up." Nozomu said. Mahru opened the door as much as she could. She gave up before she even started. "Yeah, not gonna happen." She sighed making way for Aki to have a look. Now he too was disappointed. "So?" Nozomu asked.

"Nothing. This is not a normal knot. And even better. It has glue all over it. The only way is to cut it." Mahiru explained closing the door. "Which means we are at their mercy." Nozomu summarized before hanging up. Mahiru and Aki returned to their previous positions on the bed. Mahiru still bored as hell. "Akiiii~. Weren't you supposed to teach me German?" The boy smiled. "Then repeat after me. Ich. liebe. Aki."

Mahiru opened her mouth but stopped before she said a word. "I have a bad feeling about this one." That's what her intuition was telling her. "What does it mean?" She asked but the boy looked away. "Nothing important. Just repeat." Mahiru was not convinced. "I'll just look it up then." She said typing on her phone. She blushed when she saw the results. "You were trying to make me lose the bet!" She yelled as the boy laughed. "Sorry, sorry. I'll teach you for real now. Come on."

"Are you mad." Laura asked awkwardly. "Not really." The boy answered while going through his phone. "But you look mad." She argued. A silence followed. Nozomu looked up as he patted the space next to him. "Come here. I'll show you some photos from yesterday." Laura felt as her face instantly got hotter. She was sure he meant the photos Mahiru took last night when she was pranking them. To her surprise, they were not. They were however as embarrassing for the girl as the ones she meant. "How long were we playing, anyway?" She asked trying to hide her face. "I don't know. Everyone was pretty much dead at the end. No one bothered to count the hours."

"It's only our second day here and so many things already happened." The girl smiled. "It's really going to be a chaotic week."

While downstairs:

"Shouldn't we let them out already?" Yume asked. She couldn't focus on the TV anymore. "Feeling bad already? Let's wait some more." Ako answered skipping the channel. "We should have taken our swimsuits out of our room. That way we could head to the pool." Aka complained making Yume laugh. "Well, it means that we have to plan out next prank even better." Ako smiled. "So, you posted the video?" Yume sighed. "I forgot. I'll do that now." She said pulling her phone out of the pocket.

Suddenly, the group heard a door open and close. "Anyone there?!" A voice yelled and soon enough Asahi and Kaharu came into vision. "You're back, already?" Subaru asked. "Yeah, it was super fun. But everyone was soo~ busy. It looks like there will be a festival at the end of the weak." Asahi explained. "Sounds fun, let's go." Ako added excitedly. "And what were you doing?" Koharu asked nearing Yume. The girl showed her the video on her phone proudly. "Are they still in there?" Koharu asked laughing. Yume nodded. "So Mahiru told you about the operation 'Get Laura and Nozomu together' ?"

"Operation what?" The girls asked confused. This time Koharu laughed awkwardly. "I guess she didn't." The girl then proceeded to explain the situation. "I said it before. They are so obvious." Yume stated after the explanation. "But the name of this operation is also too obvious." She then added.

"Then what do you want to call it?" Koharu asked but got no answer. Her friend couldn't come with anything better either. "Anyway, tell me what you did today? How is the town?" The conversation proceeded with Asahi and Subaru as Ako actually fell asleep on Kanata's shoulder who was, as usual, listening to music. He had his eyes closed so nobody knew if he was awake or not.

"I need some fresh air." Laura stated as she got up in search for a window. She found the knob but upon pulling realized that it was actually a weirdly looking door. "A balcony?" Nozomu joined her. "So you didn't know either?" He shook his head. "Actually our room has one too. But there is a gigantic tree in front of it so we have no view." Laura explained as she remembered her discovery from the day before. "How big is the tree? And how close to the balcony?" Nozomu asked making the girl confused. "Close enough to jump over?"

"I don't know. Let's call Mahiru." Laura suggested but the boy was already at it. "Do you think they can go down the tree?" She asked. "We will see." Nozomu answered just as the girl picked up the phone. "What is it. You interrupted my German lessons." The voice said.

Aki moved to seat next to Mahiru. "Can you go to the balcony? There is a tree in front of it." Laura explained. Both of them got up and headed out. "Yeah, there is. What about it?" Aki asked but Mahiru understood what she was supposed to do. "Got you." She said before hanging up. "Aki, we are gonna jump."

"What do you mean jump?" He looked at her confused. Before he could react Mahiru took a few steps backward the made a run for it. One jump and she was clutching to a tree branch. "Are you crazy!?" The boy yelled. "Don't be so surprised. Our normal training is even worse than this. Are you coming?" She asked already making her way down the tree. Once on the ground they high fived. "Nice, let's go find the entrance." Aki said as they started their walk. They reached the entrance pretty quickly then sneaked into the kitchen. Mahiru quickly started to look for a knife.

Next, they headed upstairs and cut the rope letting Nozomu and Laura out. "Thankss~" Laura yelled hugging the other girl. "Now let's go down. I have a few people to kill."