Surprise, Surprise! It's a Suit!
"Remind me to never let Ashley put you in some kind of surprise outfit," Shino deadpanned with a heavy sigh as she smoothed a hand over the lapels of the soft grey and pink suit that somehow Rika, a naturally rather girly sporty girl, made it work.
And she could reluctantly admit that Rika pulled it off really well as it brought out more of that hot headed, impulsive and slightly boyish areas of her personality. Granted Rika was the type that looked good in anything, but Shino had experience pretending she didn't notice, since Rika was cocky enough without her boosting her ego a bit by letting her poker face slip and letting her see how much the brunette took her breath away. Instead of her usual response of sending her a text or waiting for no one else to be around. That was with other kinds of clothes though, not a suit tailored by their friend, which was a whole other animal.
"Aw come on, there's enough girls out there without me," Rika teased and Shino resisted rolling her eyes again and pushed the brunette back by a finger to the nose when she cheekily leaned in close to her.
"Regardless of how true that statement is," Shino told her, referring to the amount of girls in their friend group compared to guys, "I wish you had said something before now. The ten minutes before the wedding we're participating in."
Rika's fingers grasped hers and the brunette looked at her, looking a little sheepish and embarrassed as she responded to her point. "I… wanted to see your reaction," she admitted softly and Shino's cheeks dyed themselves a vibrant shade of pink that matched the underside of her girlfriend's hair. "Like to really see it, instead of just hear about it," Rika added with her own ears turning rather red as she admitted that she kept it a secret from Shino to see what her girlfriend would do once she had seen her in the beautiful suit that matched the boys' besides the color of her shirt and the fact that she wore jewelry with it.
Almost having to wrestle her mouth into working properly around her embarrassment, Shino nibbled on her bottom lip for a moment. Thinking, thinking about if she wanted to also add a verbal comment of what she had thought when she had first entered the room to find Rika dutifully putting everyone's stuff away. While standing there nonchalantly in a very pretty shirt and slacks that flattered her body type with the suit jacket off.
Cause she could, which could make Rika either turn red and or give her that flattered grin she rarely saw, or she could wait. Since they literally had a wedding to be in here in about ten minutes and she wasn't going to be able to say it without blushing.
The way Rika was looking at her, looking almost a bit timidly at her like she was really worried about her reaction even though Shino hadn't been able to keep the poker face from slipping at the surprise and had clipped herself on the door. Was what made Shino swallow her pride and indulge her.
"You're beautiful, which was never in question. However," she added and felt her face warm even more as she spoke, "it really brought the bi out of me," she half mumbled. With the only consolation of her embarrassment being the way Rika's brown eyes widened as she got what she was referring to and the silly grin she had on her face.
"I love you," Rika told her with that loving, slightly silly, grin and Shino felt her fingers slide around the sides of her face to tug her closer, "and I really, want to kiss you," she added a bit sheepishly while her breath tickled Shino's face.
"You sure that's all you want to do?" Shino smirked with an eye roll, trying to deflect off of her embarrassment and on the way that Rika always had her mind half in the gutter and if she wasn't busy or ppreoccupied by something important, was never against anything more than just casual kissing or innocent affection.
"Do you even need to ask?" Rika murmured as she brushed her lips over hers, which wasn't a surprise for Shino. Especially not when she had actually gone through the pain of going along with what Ashley wanted so she was in a long dress with thin straps and it had a slit up the side up to her knees.
Still, the way Rika recoiled like lightning when someone knocked on the door was priceless. Since she recoiled with a curse and looked a bit guilty. "Shit! Uh, technically I'm not supposed to be kissing," she explained with the expression of a kicked puppy and Shino rolled her eyes.
That explained why she could feel a film over her lips after being kissed by her snazzy looking girlfriend.
"Just me, Rika," Asuna slipped in and gave her guilt looking bestfriend a knowing look and amused smile while Shino just shrugged and used a tissue to wipe off the soft pink from Rika's lipstick. It wasn't like she had known that Ashley had chosen a makeup look for Rika that prevented her from being allowed to just kiss her girlfriend. "There's no excuses now," she pointed out to the brunette as she pulled out the lipstick Rika had been given to use, "since Sinonon knows too, so no more disobeying Ashley's rules okay? I can't save you after this."
Rika pouted but reluctantly agreed and Shino could only describe her girlfriend looking like a dog who had been told they could never have any treats even though one was sitting on their nose.
Watching Rika whine and not want to hold still, obviously being a complete goofball since Shino was here took the edge off of her nerves and also her social anxiety.
And seeing how Rika winked at her, Rika had known it would.
That didn't mean it was hilarious watching her be treated like a child since apparently Rika didn't know how to use the liquid lipstick.
