Hi there. Soooooo, it's been like what, almost 3 months since I've updated? I don't really have a reason so here's an 8500 word chapter for all of you as an apology for delaying this for so long. This chapter was actually supposed to go on for at least 10000 words but I decided to shorten it a little and save what I have planned for the next chapter, which might take a long time since I'm kind of busy, and another story of mine had taken my life over for a short period of time before I realized how unhealthy it was and distanced from it( a story I'll upload here soon).

I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about anymore so I'm going to stop rambling and let you guys read the chapter, enjoy.

It was an ordinary start to the day for Mike, other than the time at which it started. He woke up around two, which was way later than he was used to. He thought a little about why he got up so late but was in too much of a brain-fuzz to remember. "Well, I'm feeling normal at least."

First things first. He immediately grabbed some fresh clothes and went to the bathroom for a shower and to brush his teeth. Once he was through his morning routine, he put on his clothes and dried his brown hair while casually walking out into the living room, thinking about what he was going to eat.

"Heeeeey, afternoon, sleepyhead!" a cheery voice rang out.

Startled, he flinched slightly in surprise to see Kyu. "Jesus. You gotta stop doing that, Kyu."

Lazily sitting at the table with a dirty magazine of unknown origin in her hand, the fairy raised two fingers. "Dude, I've only done that, like, two times. It's not my fault you're a fucking pussy," she said with a snarky smile.

Ignoring the blatant insult and instead focusing on her previous statement, he rolled his eyes. "And that's one too many." He strolled around the kitchen as she eyed him gathering cooking utensils. "You got anything you want to eat?"

She gestured towards the opened bag of dick-shaped candy on the table as she took one out. "I'm good, these little guys have me filled up for now," she said sultrily. "They're good for practice too. I like 'em bigger than this, but… I can pretend."

Mike side-eyed blankly at his companion as she started licking at the head before taking the entire shaft into her mouth, slowly moving it in and out while swirling her tongue. Her gaze was unfocused at first but the moment their eyes met, he turned around and took a deep breath, and shook his head to rid himself of the weird feeling she was giving him before preparing his lunch.

Her teasing was still a new part of his life, one that he wasn't too comfortable with, since it made him feel like fireworks were going off in his head, but… he couldn't say it was unwelcomed either. Seemed like this fairy was giving him all sorts of new experiences.

Completing her routine quest of teasing her client, she floated over to the countertop behind the cooking space and sat on top, leaning forward as she dangled her legs softly, raising an eyebrow in surprise at what he was making. Not because it was interesting, but because it wasn't, unlike his usual cooking.

"That's it? You're making a sandwich?" she questioned as she peeked behind from his back.

"Woow, what a guess. You must be great at Pictionary," he answered sarcastically.

"Don't get cheeky now. What was the point of grabbin' all this out?" She eyed the unused items.

"Well, you didn't have anything you wanted to eat, and I had already taken all this out. I was blanking out on things to eat too, so I just settled with a PB&J."

Leaning against the countertop, Mike ate his freshly made sandwich next to his roommate while enjoying the homely atmosphere of his cabin and the fact that he wasn't feeling like shit for the first time in weeks.

Stretching while her wings fluttered slightly, she let out a small sigh of relief. "Don't take too long now, we have a lot of preparation to do before you're ready to venture out into the big-boy world."

"It's a sandwich, Kyu. It's not gonna take long."

"It's almost three in the afternoon, Mikey, if you keep taking your sweet time, we're not gonna have enough time to do what we need to do."

He stared at her. "What do we 'need to do?'"

She smiled smugly before answering his question.

Standing in front of the building, Mike couldn't say he was all that familiar with it. He never had a reason to come here. Not to the Glenberry Shopping Mall.

"Do I really have to do this?"

"If you wanna start banging them out left and right, the first step is to look presentable!"

"How many times do I have to tell you? I'm not-"

"You're not looking to fuck chicks, yeah, I get it. My point still stands."

He side-eyed her with a raised eyebrow. "It doesn't, actually, not when your goal is-"

"Then do it for yourself," she cut in, "and if that's not enough, do it for me, the girl who's spent so much time looking at you and still isn't going anywhere."

"Why do I need to buy clothes? I already have enough."

"My man, I looked in your closet and it does not look good. You might as well have dead bodies hanging in there."

Even though he made it a goal to be less rude, his sarcastic self took over. "Why the fuck are you talking? I don't wanna hear that from a fairy who wears nothing but a skanky-ass uniform."

"Ha! You don't know shit. You've never seen me in another outfit is all. Keep in mind that I'm on the clock here; you've just been seeing a love fairy do her job."

"You're saying you have other clothes?"

"I'm saying I like my job, but a job's still a job, and this is my work uniform… but yeah, that too. You've seen some of them, haven't you? Y'know, the first night we met at the bar."

"Does that even count? I'm talking about shit you wear just to go out, not something you put on to show that if someone buys you enough alcohol, you'll put out."

The fairy put her hand under her chin. "Huh, when you put it that way, I guess not. When I'm in Sky Garden, I just wear my uniform since it fits the whole love fairy thing. Plus it's easy to put on so I never bought anything else for comfort and all my other outfits are for fucking guys… or girls, both if I'm lucky."

"So you've never like… went shopping for clothes?"

"Not for me. But I do shop for other things, like sex toys, porn mags… uh, snacks. Yeah okay, I don't buy a ton for myself."

"Huh, I thought you'd be a material girl. You don't seem like you care too much about deep, thoughtful things."

"I'll let that slide for now since we're behind schedule. We can probably get everything done by tonight."

"Or we could just not do this since there's gonna be a huge hole in my wallet."

A small pink poof appeared in the air as a fat wad of cash fell into Kyu's hands. "It's all good my guy! I told Venus about our situation, and she got us a few bucks to spend."

He eyed the money in her hand uncomfortably. "Is that really okay? I don't feel good using money that's not mine."

For just a second, her upbeat mood seemed to sour, though her face spoke more of pity than irritation. "This is called 'helping,' Mikey, it's very cool, you should try it." She could tell that didn't alleviate his worries fully. "Dude, it's fiiiine. Think of this as you paying me back for all the bullshit you made me go through."

"That goes both ways."

"And so do I."

"Ugh…"

"But yeah sure, you totally weren't drinking your life away missing my cute ass a day ago."

"Alright, you've made your point." He calmed her down before the teasing could go any further. "Not to alarm you, but I don't really shop for myself other than food, so I don't really know what I'd get myself in terms of clothing."

Kyu rolled her eyes in mild annoyance. "That's why your closet looks the way it does. And am I invisible to you, too? Did you forget that there's an incredibly hot fairy girl who totally has a good sense of fashion standing right next to you? You oughta see what else I wear…"

"You're buying shit for me?"

"No, you're buying shit for yourself, I'm just helping you choose."

"What's the difference?"

"Does it matter? C'mon, we don't have all day!" she said, pushing him into the shopping mall.

For the next hour, she dragged her client around the mall, going into multiple stores in hopes of finding good clothing for him to wear. Unsurprisingly to her, a lot of what she picked out perfectly suited him.

"Here, put these on." She handed him a few shirts and jackets.

"Be careful with those, did you forget you're invisible?" He pulled them from her hands.

"Relaaax, I've been doing this shit since before your grandparents were born. I made sure no one's watching."

"Just saying, accidents happen."

"Then you'd better start doing what I say so we can be out of here faster. Get in the changing room and change for me, will ya?"

She examined him from top to bottom, which made him feel awkwardly naked, like his every nook and cranny was being judged by this fairy who only had so much respect for boundaries.

"Are you done staring at me yet?"

"Looks good enough, maybe it's the pants you're wearing that make you look like an old man trying to keep up with the times."

"… That does not sound encouraging at all."

"Alright, change back. We're getting these." Kyu gestured towards the outfit he was wearing.

"What about the other ones?"

Unfortunately, since they were on a budget, it was impossible to buy everything, so she decided to buy the nicest ones in her eyes. Apart from jackets and shirts, she chose some high-quality short and long-sleeved T-shirts, flannels, and button-up shirts. All that was left to do was to buy legwear and their shopping trip was complete.

"Put them back where I found them, we don't have enough cash to get all those."

"You're weirdly being professional about this."

This was making him think that maybe, just maybe, a fairy as nonchalant as Kyu could take some things seriously.

To unsuspecting people, the two of them would look like a normal couple if only she weren't invisible… and wearing lingerie as normal clothes. To the naked eye, he was just shopping by himself. She couldn't hold any of the bags for him as well since people would question the floating bags that followed him around.

"So, are we done yet? We've been here for over an hour now. I'm starting to get sick of walking around with all these bags."

"Are you kidding? We're only halfway done. We still gotta get you shit to wear on your legs."

"Can we at least take a break first? In case you didn't know, I'm the one holding all the bags."

She thought about it for a second. "I am kinda hungry." "Fair enough, I'm hungry anyway. We'll sit down over there." She pointed at a burger shop close by.

"Great, this shit's heavy."

"Man up, ya dork."

The two sat down at a relatively remote spot to avoid the weird looks Mike would get looking like he was here and chatting with an imaginary friend.

"Alright, I gotta piss, so I'm gonna go while you order. I'll have whatever you have."

"You sure you don't wanna pick yourself?" he said without looking away from the menu.

"Nah, you have good taste, I'll trust that."

"No pressure."

As Mike scanned the menu, he thought, "Kinda wish she didn't have to go invisible whenever we have to go out." Technically, she could just go around in her fairy uniform with him; he would just get stared at like a pervert.

That was when an idea came to mind. "Hmm…" Looking around, there were very few customers in the place, so he figured it was fine to walk out and leave everything there for a few minutes. He quickly went to a random clothing shop.

Back at the cabin, Kyu put her arms in the air and stretched, happy with the results of her trip. Finally, things going according to plan on the first try.

Her client, on the other hand, was exhausted. "I will never go shopping for the rest of my life."

She pouted, "Mikey, how are you going to date any hunies with that attitude? This is just step one of many, y'know."

"Can I back out of this-"

"No, we've come too far for you to chicken out now. Or do you want to piss off Venus? She was the one who got you the money."

"Whatever. I guess we've done what we needed today then." The man looked at his watch to find out it was almost six, then decided that he earned some sleep and started walking towards his room.

"Not so fast there, champ!" she stopped him while floating in front of him. "Who said shopping was the only thing we'd be doing?"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"You're taking a crash course on how to date girls! I'll be your guide of course."

"Uh… yeah sure. We'll do that tomorrow-"

"Nope! We're doing it today. There's no time to waste!"

Mike's desire to rest was quickly overcoming him. "Can we at least chill for a bit first? I'm really tired."

The fairy opened the front door and turned back to her client. "Pretty sure all you did today was walk around and carry bags, but since you did a decent job, I'll give you until eight to rest up while I'll scope out Glenberry and look for some spots where we can do our business. Two hours is more than enough for you to recharge." She straightened out her uniform a little before flying off. "See ya!"

He watched as she flew further and further away. "At least close the damn door," he thought as he closed it for her. He walked back and into the comforts of his own room before plopping himself down on the bed. He played back everything that happened today in his brain like a movie: Getting pushed into store after store, trying on outfits, and eating with Kyu. He didn't let it show, but he felt cheerful, which was a feeling he hadn't felt in a long time. Having someone with him again and seemingly caring for him, getting him to do stuff… it was nice for a change. "Guess it's not as bad as I thought it would be."

He wanted to fall asleep right then and there, but he reminded himself of something he had to do.

Forcing his tired body up and walking to his closet, he searched for some clothes that didn't fit him per se but would fit someone else.

"Wake up, sleepyhead."

"… W… Wha…?" He felt a sense of déjà vu, especially with a familiar weight on him.

"It's your friendly neighborhood love fairy! Hmm… I guess 'housemate' would be the better term here."

"K-Kyu? What are you doing?" He looked up to see his love fairy once again straddling his hips. Even without her wings, the room seemed to glow pink and green, which were the only colors he was seeing with the pink of her hair and the green of her eyes.

"Waking you up! In more ways than one, of course." She let out a cute giggle.

"She's doing her usual thing again. Concentrate Mike, concentrate!"

She leaned forward and put her lips near his ear, ensnaring her client's attention in her slim frame and body heat. "Figured this would work the best. I came back half an hour ago and saw you completely passed out on your bed. Since I'm such a nice person, I let you sleep in a little," she purred with a low voice.

And wake up he did. In fact, it was waking him up in ways he hadn't stirred for quite a while. His heart was beating so fast he was convinced it would explode, and the blood it was pumping was heading somewhere he absolutely didn't want it to go.

"I-I get it. You said we had shit to do right? Let's go do that!" he spat out almost pleadingly.

She did what was the fastest way to wake a man up, and in the process was amused by the display of sheepishness. He had his reputation of being a cold static person, but it seemed like it was a front to cover up the softy inside. It wasn't often she had a glimpse of who Mike Fletcher really was and she wasn't about to let this chance go. Plus, since she was feeling like being a bit mean, she lowered her torso even further, almost touching his.

"You'll be learning the ropes of how to please a woman tonight, Mikey. Ya sure you're ready for that?" she asked, choosing her words very specifically.

"It… It's getting cramped in here, Kyu. Please…" he begged sincerely. It wasn't that he felt uncomfortable from her pushing herself onto him. It was that he didn't know what he was supposed to do in situations like this, and knowing her, it was obvious that she was trying to wind him up yet again.

Mercifully, she'd had her fill of teasing him for the moment. Her wings extended out of her body as she floated backwards, tugging on his arm in the process and pulling him out of bed. "Awake yet? Who am I kidding? 'Course you are."

He stared at her for a second, thinking about how she could just brush off what she did so easily.

"I need to go to the bathroom." He hurried past the love fairy and entered the bathroom before splashing his face with cold water until he felt himself calm down.

He stood in front of the mirror for a good five minutes before he heard a knock on the bathroom door.

"Dude you alright in there? Were you that turned on? I can help you with that if you want. I mean, no touching, not yet, but I got this really sweet magazine-"

He opened the door before she could finish. "Listen, Kyu. I know you're a love fairy and all, but we gotta set some boundaries." He stopped for a moment to see her in bewilderment. "What you did just now might be okay with your past clients, but not me. The normal teasing I can deal with, that's just how you are. But that was too far."

"Mikey, c'mon, I was just playing with you."

"It doesn't make it okay. I'm letting you stay here and I'm trying out this dating thing. So respect my boundaries," he said as they walked to the living room.

"Uh… sure? Sorry, I guess."

He could tell the apology wasn't fully sincere, but it was fine if she got the memo. "Anyway, we should get going. I don't want to be out too late, especially when it's cold."

"Psh, don't be such a sissy. I fare far worse than you when it's cold, but you don't see me bitchin' about it."

Once again, Mike was about to correct her by pointing out that when it came to the cold, it wasn't her bitching that bothered him, but instead he said, "Right, that reminds me." The petite fairy eyed him curiously as he returned to his bedroom and came out with some clothes. "Uh, here."

"What's this?"

"I was kinda… y'know, thinking," he cleared his throat, "maybe it'd be nice if you didn't have to go invisible whenever we went out, and I know you don't deal with the cold weather very well."

She noticed something particular: Even though her client was expressionless, she could tell from years of experience interacting with humans that he was bashful. Not once did he make eye contact with her and instead, he looked off to the side. "Keep that in mind Kyu, something to work on later."

"Plus, it'd be better for the both of us anyways. I wouldn't have to be paranoid about talking to you around other people and you can do what you want freely. So, these are for you."

She looked down at the pile in his arms to realize they were mostly hoodies, baggy clothes and some black casual elastic fitness shorts with white and pink outlines respectively. The shorts were alright, they'd show off her legs and butt good enough, but baggy clothing was the type she didn't like wearing. She took a black hoodie and examined it. "Yeah, uh-uh. Black ain't my color either." "Hey, big guy. 'Preciate the gesture, I really do. But I'm good. I like this uniform, and showing off the goods is kinda my thing, y'know?"

He stared at her for a few seconds, processing the situation, trying to dismiss the rejection and play it off cool. "Right, yeah, totally. Psh, stupid me, am I right? I'll put these back and we can head out." He grabbed the black hoodie from her hands before turning back and walking to his room.

Before it was pulled from her hands, Kyu saw something on the hoodie that made her ask, "Hold on, where'd you even get these? I didn't see these in that zombie closet of yours."

"Eh, you probably missed them when you looked. I've had these for ages now."

"Bullshit, you're telling me you had women's shorts in your closet?" That practically confirmed her suspicion. The thing she saw on the hoodie was a brand logo, the same one from one of the stores they went into today. It didn't take a genius to figure out what was going on. "He bought those with his own money for me." Normally, this was when she would give a friendly reminder about giving gifts that a girl would want, even though she still hadn't needed to give him a HunieBee yet, but how could she, a love fairy, proudly call herself that when refusing a thoughtful gift? "He actually made a good gift decision without my help… now that's more like it."

As Mike walked, he had his own train of thought going, a harsher one. "Actually fucking stupid. Mike, you're a fucking idiot. Did you even think before doing that?"

"Ay, Mikey, give 'em."

"What?"

"Give 'em to me, how would I choose what to wear otherwise?" she said with a smile.

"But I thought-"

She cut in, "You're not gonna make me say it a third time, now, are you?"

"Uh, sure." He walked back to her and handed her the pile.

She plopped everything on the dining table and held up piece after piece. "Hmm… hey, what's this big-ass logo on the front here?"

"Oh, I don't actually know, but it's a comfy hoodie to wear. I wore this a lot until a year ago when it didn't fit me anymore."

She could tell that he was telling the truth with how the fabric felt more broken into than the other ones. Plus she remembered seeing this black hoodie somewhere; this wasn't one he bought today, he was offering to let her wear some of his clothes. She took a pair of pink outlined shorts along with the hoodie and strolled to the bathroom. "No peeking, alright? I mean, the door's gonna be locked but you get the point."

Before he could reply, his roommate shut the door. "Uh… okay," he said in bewilderment.

Giving a gift as well as buying one was a new experience, he had never really done it before since there was never a person special enough for him to do it. Well, not anymore at least. In wasn't that she was someone special, he had reasons for giving her clothes. But that didn't change the fact that he gave someone a gift.

Mike had to give people in big social circles credit; he couldn't imagine having to do that for so many people, it'd get exhausting quickly.

He looked over to the pile of clothes on the table. "I wonder how she'd look?" An image of Kyu wearing his hoodie with a pair of short shorts crossed his mind, and for some reason, it was an exhilarating thought, which made him immediately force himself to think of something else.

The door opened as she walked out. "How does ya girl look?"

He looked at her without saying anything. For the time that he got to know her, she was always revealing a lot of skin, too much he'd say. While she was cute herself, her lingerie-like outfit made it so that her shameless sex drive overpowered the innocent look she naturally had. But now, having a lot of her body covered with a hoodie, no less his, amplified just how cute she actually was by tenfold.

He didn't realize, but he had been staring at her for about five seconds.

"A'ight, that answers that."

"Uh, yeah. You look good."

"Mhm, suuure I do." She giggled teasingly.

He could feel a tease coming, so he prepared himself and thought of any counters he could use.

But all he got was, "Thanks, it's really comfy."

"Oh. Uh, it's fine. I would've had to throw it away anyway." Not wanting to give her an excuse to tease him after all, he added in his head, "Which you might have done anyway if I got you pants and not shorts, if you're going to show off this much in winter."

"Sure you did. C'mon, we're way behind schedule!"

She dragged him by the arm and headed for the door. Comparing her client from the first time she approached him to now, it was clear he had progressed a lot more than she gave credit. She loved her job, yes, and whenever she did it, she put in her all. But in a lot of cases, there was an element of obligation to it; however fun it was, it still came back to her once in a while that it was "a job." For Mike, she didn't feel obligated at all. Now she was doing this purely because she wanted to help this person, and she was excited about it as well.

"Guess I'm better at my job than I thought."

He wanted to see the night sky clearly, but due to unfortunate timing, what he saw instead was a cloudy sky and snowflakes falling to the ground. But the cold, grey environment didn't stop the city of Glenberry from bustling with lights coming from cars and buildings. It was the perfect mood to spend quality time with loved ones.

Mike saw a lot of couples out and about, flirting back and forth with each other with delicious ice cream in their hands. It didn't bother him that he didn't have what they did. The entire time he'd been on this planet, he never put dating anywhere near his priority list, it just didn't seem worth it to sacrifice his precious time and turn away from his studies and schoolwork with no guarantee he'd get anything out of it. "Heh, look at where that got me."

Except, something was different now. He still wasn't troubled by being lonely, but now, he wasn't alone. He had his pink haired companion with him, fully visible for the world to see.

Walking slightly behind her, multiple shops and restaurants went past them as they headed towards their unknown destination that his roommate, who he was also observing, insisted that she keep a secret. Her hands were in the pockets of her new clothes as she walked casually, giving off a confident, somewhat tomboyish attitude. One thing that was nice about Kyu was that she was always true to herself: She never acted fake but instead acted the way she wanted. Even when she first met him while disguised as a human, she was still doing what came naturally. Her lack of a filter got on his nerves sometimes, but it was something he admired unconsciously. With how the world functioned nowadays, it was difficult not to fake certain things to get where you desired in life. "I guess the whole fairy thing does give her the edge."

"You should stop starin' at me, y'know? People might think you're a creep or something."

"I wasn't looking at you."

"Bad boy, Mikey. Lying is a sin." She stopped and turned her head back at him with a mischievous smirk.

"How would you know? You weren't even looking."

"Fairy's intuition."

"What does that even mean?"

"It means we're done with this conversation and about to start the dating class!"

His wandering thoughts caused him not to notice they had arrived at their destination, more precisely, an empty pier. He looked around in confusion. "What are we doing here?"

She pointed away from them, down the beach. "You see that cruise ship over there? I saw it during my scoping trip, it's the perfect spot for a tutorial."

He leaned on the railing, looking off into the distance. "Mhm, good luck getting on it. The tickets probably cost more than you and I can handle."

A faint pink glow appeared around her silhouette. "You seem to be forgetting a very important detail, Mr. Fletcher," she began walking towards him, "I'm a love fairy, and all kinds of magic is up my sleeves."

"Unless you can make money magically appear out of thin air again, I doubt you being a love fairy can get us on that," he said nonchalantly.

"Well… I don't need money when teleporting is a thing."

"Good for you, but I'm just an old-fashioned human who possesses no magic except for fake-magic to entertain kids. I can make a playing card vanish from my palm, you wanna see?"

He almost jumped when she suddenly spun him around, wrapped her arms around his neck and looked him straight in the eyes, her face inches away from his.

"This is gonna feel kinda weird, so bear with me. Also, don't close your eyes or break eye contact if you want to be sane after this."

"Wha-"

The entire world turned pink, and the two disappeared with a pink poof.

"Hey, you alright in there?" Kyu's unconcerned voice rang out.

"Yeah… just… gimmie a minute…" Hunched over in a restroom stall puking his entire stomach out, was Mike. Just as he was starting to enjoy the new things he was experiencing, reality slapped him with something he didn't want to go through: Teleporting. Not that he ever thought he'd get a chance to try it, but it put his body through more than just "suddenly find yourself somewhere else." It felt so much worse than a hangover, like taking an airplane somewhere and condensing the flight into only a moment, but also condensing the airsickness so that hit all at once too.

"Haaa… I told you not to close your eyes."

"How… how the hell was I," he gagged, "supposed to know this is what would happen… *Blaargh!*"

She winced a little at the vile sound. The two had successfully teleported onto the cruise ship, and she was currently invisible standing outside the stall he was in; it would be weird for some guy to come in and see a girl standing in the men's restroom, and Mike's upchucks wouldn't help.

The door opened and he walked out looking pale as a zombie. "Alright, that's the last of it. I feel a little better now."

"Are you sure? Some of my other clients had to lay down for a few hours just for the headache to go away."

"Drinking way more alcohol than you should has its benefits. I guess… bluh… I'm more used to hangovers. Though I do need something to eat; now I'm running on empty, and I feel like I'm gonna pass out soon."

"Yeah, we'll get you something to eat. Remember not to close your damn eyes if we ever do this again."

"I'm not doing that again, ever. I thought I was gonna go insane if I closed my eyes, what happened to that?"

"I was trying to scare you into doing what I said so this didn't happen. It didn't fucking work, clearly."

"Yeah, obviously."

She thought he would've been way angrier at her for doing that but was surprised to see him get over it so quickly. That was another sign that their relationship had advanced. "Progress, Kyu!"

Making sure nobody was nearby while he washed his hands and rinsed out his mouth, she became visible as the two walked out of the restroom and sat down at the restaurant built into the ship.

As he looked at the menu, he felt anxious as there were a bunch of wealthy couples in suits and dresses, so they stuck out like a sore thumb. Luckily, they sat at where there were some normal families on vacation, so they weren't totally out of place.

"So? Whaddya want?" she said, glancing at her own menu.

"Everything here looks appetizing after emptying my stomach, but I'll have the squash and leek stir fry with fried rice since I'm still feeling like I ate garbage," he said sarcastically.

"You mind if I just take some from you? I'm not hungry enough to get a meal."

"Sure. We don't have money for two anyway."

"Shit's free, champ! Normally when you pay to get on this ship, you get to use all the shit they have and eat all the food you want for free."

"… And we didn't pay for anything."

"Keep it a secret, will ya?" She glanced around and lowered her voice, "You went out of your way to give me clothes so I don't have to be invisible, and you're already throwing the plan off."

"I mean… I don't know, Kyu. It's kinda shitty to take advantage of that."

"Ugh, you rule stickler." She waved at a waiter and placed his order for him as she ignored his pleas not to. "Alright, so. You've got a lot to learn, but the most important thing right now is this." A blue phone-like object appeared in her hands.

Despite being curious, his head was still aching from experiencing teleporting for the first time. "Just hold on, let me ride this headache out a little," he said, leaning his forehead on his palms.

The fairy sighed internally as she closed her eyes and concentrated on how much hunie she still had in her body. She had enough experience to know how much hunie she could spare in less-than-ideal situations like these. With no hunie being generated from a client, she had to take frequent trips back to Sky Garden to replenish herself. She would have to go every week or so depending on how much she used. Plus, opening a portal to somewhere so far from Earth in the first place took about a third of her supply, leaving only two thirds for herself.

But things were slightly different now: Without the need to be invisible as much as before, that freed up some of the hunie that would usually be used. She still had a little under half of her hunie, which left an ample amount to do what she wanted. And since she was kind of the cause for his discomfort, it was only fair.

"Should be enough." She opened her eyes. "Look at me and lean in." She rubbed her hands to focus her hunie into them.

"What? Why?"

"C'mon, just do it. It'll help your head."

He looked at her doubtfully but obliged anyway. She had done nothing but try to help so he figured it wouldn't be anything harmful.

Once he was close enough where no one could clearly see what they were doing, her eyes unfocused as she repeated in her head, "Stop his headache." She refocused her attention on him and threw a sprinkly pink dust at his nose.

Breathing in the strange powdery material into his body, his body's natural reaction was to cough. "Kaff, kaff… ugh. Ahem. What the hell was that, Kyu?"

"That was my pussy juice in powdered form."

He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "What?"

"Just kidding. That was hunie, the magic shit us love fairies use. Don't you feel anything different?"

He thought about what she meant and realized that his headache was gone. "Woah, my head doesn't hurt anymore. How does that work?"

"I'd love to explain, but not now. Tonight is your night, Mikey. Not mine." She leaned her head on one arm and handed the phone in her hand to him. "Now, if you would be so kind, take this thing off of me already! It's been on me for like, ages now."

He looked at it, trying to decipher what it could be. It looked like a phone, but was that really all there was to it? Everything revolving around this perverted fairy had been anything but normal, so he wouldn't be surprised if this was actually some sort of sex toy. "What's this exactly? It looks like a phone." He took it from her hands and started playing around with the interface.

She smirked proudly. "This, my dear Mikey, is the HunieBee 4.0, HunieCorp's newest and greatest fairy technology for dating. Well, that is until they release a new model in six years or something." Checking to see if he was following along, she was happy to see that he seemed to be engaged in the tutorial. It seemed like her client had great interest in all things fairy related. "Anyway, if you want to be a successful chick magnet-"

"Not what I want," he cut in.

"Right, ahem. If you want to be a successful… girl dater, the HunieBee is a vital piece of fairy tech."

"So what does this phone do?"

"This ain't as simple as a phone, Mikey. This thing can do what a normal human smartphone can do and it's better in every way. It automatically detects the planet they're on and transforms its own user interface. Basically, it copies the current technology of the planet they're on to best suit the inhabitants. For our case, it's Earth. So it looks and sounds exactly the same as your phone. If we went back a thousand years, it'd be a book." She examined him as he thought that over.

"So it's a phone," he said seriously.

"Is that really all you got from all that?" "Did I say I was done? On the HunieBee, there're also different tabs that can help you with dating, like the 'Girl Profile' tab, which records the information of the girls you meet, like her preferences and personal details. This one is the 'Girl Finder' tab, which tracks their locations so it's easy to find them whenever you want." She was perfectly navigating the HunieBee while looking at it from opposite of him, which almost impressed him if not for something concerning that he heard.

"Hold on. 'Girl Finder?' 'Tracking their locations?' Isn't that kinda unethical?"

"It's fine, my dude. HunieCorp has safety measures to make sure the people who own HunieBees don't step over the line. Knowing you, I can hardly see you doing anything sketchy. Hell, I keep having to make you do anything at all. Or did I have the wrong impression of you?"

He looked at her concerningly. "This is still fucked. It doesn't matter if people don't step over the line, it's still really messed up to track the location of people without their knowledge. I don't care where you're from; here, we call that 'stalking.'"

"Gimmie a break, will ya? Trust me, it'll help when you least expect it to."

"No. I'm trying out this dating thing, but I'm not using any of these… creepy features."

One thing she had learned while being with Mike, was that he had surprisingly good morals and was able to stick by them.

"That's fine. You can choose not to use it; I can't make you. But it'll still be there in case you ever change your mind. Next up, this thing can also help you store items and manage your inventory. What you throw at this device gets transported to a pocket dimension of sorts so you can store a lot in these things."

He had to admit, despite some… questionable things about it, if he had to choose between his own phone and the HunieBee, he would choose the latter. Looking at the other features, not only could he store a lot more things, which could help with his shopping trips, he could also buy things straight from the device; he figured that the pocket dimension had to do with it. It was just like Kyu said: It was a phone that was better than any option he had. A magic smartphone given by an invisible fairy… imagine that in a fairytale…

Seeing that he had warmed up to using the device, she smiled happily. "This thing is an essential lifeline for any player on the go. Now that you've learned the basics, you're officially my client now! Welcome aboard. Of course, I still got a thing or two to teach ya but that can wait."

"I can hardly think of anything else you could possibly teach me."

"Oh just you wait. I called this a dating lesson and not a HunieBee lesson for a reason."

Right on time, their shared dinner arrived at their table. After thanking the waiter, they began to dig in.

Eating such unhealthy food reminded him of something she said, something about him having to work out if he wanted to get girls. He wasn't against it, but he was curious as to what she meant by that. Was her end goal for him to look like a muscular weightlifter? Or did she mean simply getting thinner and more toned? He personally liked the latter more considering how he liked having a smaller and leaner build.

"So, hunie. How does that work? I remember you saying it's like mana in video games."

She instantly perked up from his question. "Yep! Though it is a tad bit different for fairies. See, us fairies store hunie inside our bodies physically, and we can take it out whenever we want. You can think of it as being in almost every part of our bodies the same way blood is, and we're also made to release it. And that's not limited to just my hands, hunie can come out of anywhere from my body. How much a fairy can hold depends on genetics, and I'm lucky enough to be able to hold a good amount."

"So what happens when a fairy overloads on hunie?"

"They get really sick for a few weeks and their natural hunie capacity decreases in a way to prevent it from happening again."

"Damn, so the effects are permanent."

"Right'o. So hunie is kinda cool in a way where you can do a lot just with pure hunie alone without using it as magic fuel. For example, what I just did, I got you to inhale some hunie and your headache went away."

"So was that healing magic or something?"

"Not quite, hunie acts according to what the user desires. When I threw hunie at you, I wished to get rid of your headache, which the hunie then recognized and acted accordingly. Magic's a whole other story, but it's cool, isn't it?"

"Sure sounds like it makes life more fun."

"And y'know what else is fun?" She leaned in, grinning and raising an eyebrow. "Humans make it, too."

That, he wasn't expecting to hear. "Fairy dust can come from… people?"

"Yep… and also no. Hunie can come from people, and I don't just mean humans. When it comes from fairies, it's like dust. When it comes from humans, it's like jelly… most of the time."

Mike glanced aside as he tried to process what Kyu was saying. "… Why?"

"Because you're not a fairy," she rolled her eyes, "look, I don't know 'why,' I know what it is and what it does…and I also know I shouldn't be worrying about budgeting my hunie because you should be talking to girls and making more hunie instead of making zero."

"Wait, so if you can do that, why not just wish to be a billionaire or something?"

"Psh, why would I want to be a billionaire? Besides, that's not how it works. Hunie only works when used on the body of a person. Let's say I want to make you sexually aroused, which as we know I don't even need the hunie to do. All I need to do is wish for it and throw some hunie at you and you'll instantly want to jackhammer my pussy into another universe. It also depends on how horny I want you to be. I can also make certain traits pop out more. Speaking of that, there are four main traits that all humans possess: Talent, Flirtation, Romance, and Sexuality. All- what?" she stopped herself when she saw Mike raise a hand.

"I know this is rich, coming from me, but even I know there's more to people than four words," he said.

"I know that too, but that's what they teach in fairy school, and it's worked for a really long time so go with me on this." Seeing he still looked skeptical, she threw him another bit of reassurance that she was speaking from experience. "There's still nuance to it. Take Romance, for instance: People who prefer Romance want a strong emotional bond above all other things, but they can still want those other things too. They can still be pretty different people: One of them might be all cutesy wutesy fawning and clinging to their sweetheart, and another can be calmly enjoying life's quiet moments when they and their loved one can focus on each other."

He hummed, then nodded. "Just be careful how much you generalize people just because you've known so many of them. We're not just words."

"Yeahyeah, you'll see what I mean. Anyway, these traits make up a person, but most people lean towards one trait. Let's say you lean more on Flirtation and are lacking in terms of Talent. I can increase your Talent temporarily if I want to. Capiche?"

He was fascinated by how in-depth fairy magic is, though her suggestion that she could make him want to have sex with her was… really bothersome. "So in other words, you're saying you can influence how people act whenever you want to."

"You can see it that way, though I never use it for my own benefit. I only use it to help my clients better their dating experience."

"Well good. God knows what freaky shit you'd do to people with that kind of power."

"Hey, don't paint me as some sort of sick fuck."

Despite him staring at her monotonously, she could feel his eyes judging her.

"Dude, I don't like where you're going with this," she warned.

"I mean…"

"I can bring that headache back and make it ten times worse, Mike. Don't tempt me." She smirked while rubbing her fingers against each other, producing tiny amounts of hunie.

"Alright, I was just joking. Put the fairy dust away before someone sees."

"That's what I thought. Now, shut up and eat, it's getting late."

After the unhealthy meal and a bit of thinking over their conversation, it was time for the duo to take their leave. It wasn't easy getting back onto actual land since there were a lot of eyes around the cruise even this late at night and convincing her client to teleport with her was a pain in her ass. But eventually, they did it, and when they reappeared at his home, it didn't end with him staggering to the bathroom and losing another meal.

"See? It's not bad when ya do it right!"

"Doesn't make me any less terrified."

"Oh grow the fuck up, man," Kyu brushed him off. "If that's all it takes to scare you, just wait'll you have to talk to girls."

Mike eyed his shaking hands. "I don't think my brain has ever been in so much pain."

She looked up at the night sky, shrugging. "I thought ya handled it well enough."

"It still hurt like a bitch."

"Well, if you're so traumatized then just make sure ya don't screw it up next time!" She patted him on the shoulder. Her enthusiasm didn't help him much, but he appreciated it.

"So I assume we're done today?" he said as he took off his jacket and hung it on a coat rack.

She placed her finger on her chin in thought as her client waited for her answer, hoping they didn't have more to do.

"Oh! There's one more thing I have to explain before you're ready to go, but I think we've done enough today so we can deal with that tomorrow."

"Thank God," he thought, stretching his tired body as he walked towards his room for spare clothes. "Yeah, we'll do that. I'm gonna go shower."

Before he could walk another step, the fairy flew in front of him and placed an outstretched hand on his chest. "Nuh-uh, ladies first, Mikey. Thought you'd have learned that yourself."

"Nuh-uh to you, my place, my rules."

"Aww, are you really not gonna let your fairy helper clean herself first? I've done so much for you today…" she faked a sad voice.

She wasn't wrong, she'd certainly been trying her best to change him. It almost seemed like this was more important to her than him. She at least deserved first priority in the shower. "Alright, fine… just be quick, will you? I wanna hop in as soon as I can."

She gathered a few pieces of clothing he gave her from the table and hurried to the bathroom door. But before going in, she turned her head towards him, teasingly placed her hand on her exposed thigh and slowly moved it up her rear. "If you're in such a rush we could always, y'know, go in together," she dripped with smugness.

He turned around before he could see her do anything else. "Ugh, what the hell am I gonna do with you?"

"Whaddaya wanna do with me?"

"That's not… Kyu, just go."

"You haven't earned fuck rights yet, but I'm open to suggestions. You're welcome to try to surprise me."

"Go."

"Aye aye, captain!"

He sighed in relief after hearing the door slam shut. The man still wasn't sure about this whole dating thing. But he couldn't help but be excited knowing this was potentially a new chapter of his life. And he was thankful to the pink pervert for giving him the push he needed.

Though he wouldn't admit it to her, of course.

I know I've been blue-balling some of you from finally seeing the redhead in action but this chapter just wasn't the right time. Readers who want to see her, I promise you'll get your wise soon, or maybe not since I'm terrible at time management.