Giang looked at Hakone's smiling face, then down at the box in her hands, then back at her.

"No." He went to close the door, but Hakone put her booted foot in the jamb.

"Oh come ONNNN nobody else wants to and I really wanna make it! I got the glue and the model knife and everything!"

An older voice, Giang's father no doubt, spoke out in Vietnamese, to which Giang answered. The back and forth lasted a few minutes, with Hakone's foot still in the doorjamb. Just as she started to feel a little awkward Giang pulled open the door.

"OK, you can come in, but don't... Do weird things, OK?"

Hakone blinked as she stepped inside. "Like what?"

Giang grimaced, "Anything that gets me teased by Duc again, ass never stopped ever since you hugged me in Long Xuyen, none of that."

"Oh! Alright, I guess, I still don't get what's weird about hugging, me and mom do it all the time!" Hakone realized her mistake when Giang gave her a decidedly odd look, "I mean Georgia, and Chitose too. What, don't you and your dad hug?"

"...Let's just do the thing, got the manual?" Hakone went to put the box down on the coffee table as Giang's father, just coming out of the closet, said something to Giang, before putting his shoes on.

"He said he's getting Duc to see if he wants to help, he's playing outside."

Hakone nodded as she pulled out the manual, opening it she looked at the first set of instructions.

"...You're gonna have to read this to me." She held it out to Giang, who took a look.

"This is Khmer, I can't read that either."

"Dang." Hakone's look of frustration lightened, "But hey! we can just go by the pictures!" She pointed at the first page, Giang hesitantly leaning in over her shoulder, "So, that must be step one..."

...

With Chitose:

I quietly raised myself off of the bed, long practice from living with my sister letting me switch myself out for a pillow, the small Destroyer-sized girl latched onto it like a barnacle, snuggling into it even as she gently whimpered in her sleep. I'd have stayed with her through the night, but I didn't dare leave Georgia and the others alone for that long.

...OK mostly just Georgia but the point stood!

I tip-toed out of the room, before gently shutting the door behind me.

"How'd it go?" Georgia asked quietly.

I turned to face her, "Better, she's got most of the crying out of her system, mostly she's just tired, I... Georgia?"

Georgia, apparently playing a game of 'Go Fish' with Diane and Anne, looked up. "Yeah?"

"Where's Hakone?"

The Submarine shrugged, "Down the hall with the boys last I checked."

"Oh." That was a relief, for a second I thought she'd-

"She wanted to make a model ship that looked like her, I thought it would be a good excuse for her to talk to the boys while they do something fun." She looked at Diane, "Got any fours?"

I froze, I couldn't have heard that right, right? "A model ship?"

"A-Yeup"

"One that looks like her?"

"Hell if I know, but the ship on the box was the Ashigara so... probably?" She looked at Anne "Go Fish."

"...Oh my god." I rushed to the door as Georgia looked up, startled.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Don't you know how unspeakably LEWD that is!?" I hissed.

"Wat."

Apparently not. "Kanmusu only offer to build models with people they see as romantic interests Georgia! It's basically saying 'I want us to make babies together!'" I said frantically.

"But we...I...Wat?!" Georgia looked like someone had slapped her with a dead fish. "You're full of crap, there's no way that's true. Even if it is, Hakone doesn't know that, so it's fine!"

I opened the door, rushing out into the hallway. "It is NOT fine! I'll go get her, then we are havingthe talk, all of you." Georgia got up, telling the girls to keep the game going between the two of them before tagging along behind me as I jogged down the hall. The door to the boy's apartment room was shut, but I could faintly hear voices, I went to knock-

With Hakone and Giang:

Hakone raised the manual, turning it sideways before looking back. "I think we were supposed to attach the smokestacks before the superstructure, see here?"

Giang looked at the picture, scratching his head. "Yeah, I see, how get it in now though? Glue's already dry."

Hakone frowned, "We'll just have to try and drive it in, I can't do it, I'd probably snap it in half." She looked at the half-assembled main-hull of the model Heavy Cruiser, "I'll hold the main assembly, you try to squeeze it in through the gap, OK?"

Giang nodded, taking up the main smokestack, he lined up the part against the gap that they'd halfway glued shut by accident. He pressed, but the part didn't bend the tab quite hard enough to get through.

"Ah! Push harder!" Hakone said, bracing herself better to hold the hull up where she could see where the tab was. Giang tried to get a better angle to get around the plastic tab, but some of the glue on the hull had hardened on the stack he was trying to push in, the part was stuck.

"I'm trying! It's stuck"

Hakone looked at it, "Maybe if you twist it?" Giang did so, and after a few cranks it came out with a small crackle of dried superglue. The two paused for a second, before Hakone looked at the hull in her hands, the bottom hadint been glued on yet, maybe they could put the stack up through the bottom?

"OK, try putting it up into the keel, just be careful not to break it OK?" Giang tried it, and lo and behold! the part slid in perfectly.

"Huh, looser than I thought it would be." He wiggled the Smokestack in-place for emphasis.

Hakone quickly put her hand over the top of the stack, holding it up as Giang glued it in place, "OK! Now for the other hole!" Giang picked up the smaller rear smokestack-

Chitose smashed through the door.

With Georgia and Chitose:

"-We'll just have to try and drive it in-"

I froze in shock, hand half raised to knock on the door. Georgia came up from behind, opening her mouth, probably to ask why I'd stopped.

"-I'd probably snap it in half-"

Georgia froze as well, widening her eyes.

"-ou try to squeeze it in through the gap, OK-"

"T-There's no way..." Georgia started.

"Ah! Push harder!"

I raised my hands to cover my mouth in shock as Georgia's eyes grew wide as saucers.

"I'm trying! It's stuck"

I stumbled slightly, and was only kept from falling over by leaning against Georgia.

"Maybe if you twist it?"

There was the sounds of frantic movement inside. "Oh. My. God." Georgia slowly whispered.

"OK, try putting it up into the keel, just be careful not to break it OK?"

I struggled to breathe, I'm sure that my blush could have lit up the room. "In h-her KEEL?!" I choked out.

"Huh, looser than I thought it would be."

"We gotta stop this!" Georgia started frantically, "before they-"

"OK! Now for the other hole!"

I burst through the door with a full shoulder-check, "ALRIGHT THAT'S ENOUGH SEX YOU TWO!"

Hakone and Giang, sitting on the couch in front of a half-assembled model ship, just stared in shock at my heaving form for a moment, before looking at the splintered door. Hakone slowly looked over at Giang, before speaking.

"We were having sex? Why didn't you tell me?!" She looked over at me, while I did a wonderful impression of a fish, "...What's sex?"

Georgia, looking in through the shattered doorway, took one long look at the scene, before she bent over and started Roaring with laughter.