5:09 PM
"...I wonder what it's like. Being in love."
Rin didn't realize that playing spin the bottle would be so scary. After minutes that felt like long, devastating hours, Matsuri and Lily finally made their way out of the cramped closet.
"God, that place was so tight." Matsuri groaned in annoyance, flopping herself down on the cushion. Lily sighed in exhortation while blushing with embarrassment. "You literally tried flirting with me, what the hell Yamazaki?" Lily groans, rubbing her temple between her fingers. "Psh, I'm not gay. I just tried to make this less awkward, sheesh." The redhead barked from across the table, huffing in frustration.
Fukase and Gumi laughed.
Rin knew that Matsuri was expecting to get paired up with Len and have a make-out session in the closet, I mean, why else would she be wearing those revealing clothes?
Miku giggles nervously, fidgeting with her fingers, something Miku doesn't tend to do. "S-so uh...Who's going next..?" The tealette murmured under her breath, stuttering, and fidgeting.
"Kaito, yup!" Lily yells, before realizing that the cerulean-haired man had fallen asleep on Meiko's shoulder, and surprisingly, the brunette had also fallen asleep. "Oh, never mind then...They're drunk, so it's fine. Uh..hmm.." Lily's electric blue eyes began to scan the room, and a lightbulb had clicked. Lily's lips form into a smug smirk, and she proudly grasps the bottle from the center of the table. "Gumi-chan!" Gumi, completely clueless and in utter shock, flinches and whips her head with a deadly glare towards the blonde female. "Oh, heck no." Her green locks bounced cutely as she shook her head frantically. "Oh, heck yes." Lily echoes in response, spinning the bottle while keeping her smug gaze locked with Gumi's murderous one.
The bottle spin was hypnotizing and nerve-wracking to watch. Rin tried to keep count of how many times it had spun, but it was too fast and the atmosphere was too tense the numbers wouldn't even bother escaping from her mouth.
It took a few seconds, a minute before it finally landed on...
Fukase.
The rest of the others blinked in utter shock.
"Ayeeee! That's my girl, go ahead Gumi." Lily says proudly, breaking the tension in the dead silence while Gumi is just bewildered. "No comment." Luka sighs from beside Gumi, who frantically stumbles to get out of her seat.
Rin was shocked.
Gumi and Fukase strutted over the closet, Lily waved the both of them goodbye with a smug smirk on her face, and Gumi prayed to the gods wishing that this whole heck of a black hole would end.
Meanwhile, Luka giggles as she shifts herself towards an exhilarated Miku, who was the shade of beet red. "So, Miku-chan. Who do you want to get paired with?" Luka whispers with a smug smirk and a mischievous look. "I know you want to get paired with Len-kun~"
Miku whips her head in shock and sends her a deadly glare, "Shut up, or you'll catch these hands and I'll send you to your grave." Miku threatens her older sister, cracking her knuckles and narrowing her eyes to make herself look even more threatening. The pinkette stifles a laugh. "Miku-chan, you do realize you look stupid while doing that, right?" Luka mutters under her breath, before breaking into laughter. "Oh, shut up!" Before Miku could kill the older woman, Gumi and Fukase finally stumbled out of the broom closet, but strangely they looked completely calm.
"We were playing Kwazy Cupcakes," Fukase says, a pop-like sound coming from the edge of his phone's speaker, "Damn you, Gumi. She beat my high score." He groans as the green-haired girl giggles with satisfaction. "So...you guys didn't flirt or kiss or whatever?" Len asks suddenly, Rin glared at him with a scolding and a murderous look.
You pervert. She thinks at the back of her head.
Gumi reddened with embarrassment. "Wh-what? N-no! We're just friends, aha.." she laughed nervously. "Pfft, Nah," Fukase says. "We're just friends, right Gumi-chan?" Gumi nods in agreement, but Rin could tell she was disappointed. "We're just friends, nothing more than that." Fukase sighs in exhortation, throwing his head back dramatically. "Hey, pass me a rice cake, will ya, Gumi?" Lily says to the green-haired girl, Gumi nods in response. "Here you are!" The girl placed a soft textured blob onto the female's palm, it was warm and fluffy on her skin. "Thanks!" Lily exclaimed happily before she ate the cake. Len gave her an incredulous look.
"You still eat messily." He says, "You need to have manners, Lily-san." Rin scowled at his statement, "It's not like you have manners or something, Len-kun." She says while munching a bag of chips. "What's that supposed to mean!?" Len yells abruptly at his sister. Rin groaned in annoyance and exhaustion, biting the last bit of a rice cake in her hands.
"Jerk."
7:13 PM
After a limited amount of rounds of spinning the bottle, it finally was Rin and Miku's turn. "So, Rin-chan is going after Miku-chan, okay?" Luka says as she hands the empty bottle of beer towards Miku. Miku reddened in response, her palms growing sweaty and clammy against the surface of the glass bottle. "O-okay.." Miku lets out an exhale of exhaustion, before spinning the empty container.
A few seconds of intense breaths, then...
It landed on...
...
Len.
Luka looked as if she was about to squeal with happiness and joy.
Miku was about to die of embarrassment.
Len's whole face flushed pink.
Rin was pissed.
Lily grasps both of their wrists and purposely shoves them in the broom closet.
"H-hey!-"
"Have fun!" Is all she says before slamming the door shut and locking them inside the cramped, dark, room. Len stumbles upon the room, his phone flashlight illuminating the darkness. There was some more fidgeting, and he finally relaxed against a stuffed plastic bag. "Hey uh...Miku." Miku stiffens and bites her nails nervously with embarrassment and shyness. "Y-yeah?" The tealette says, her heart throbbing uncontrollably and her voice small and soft.
Len pats a hand onto the cold empty space beside him, motioning toward her to sit down. Miku gulps the cold air and forces herself to sit beside the blonde-haired boy. He places his phone on the center of the floor as he then faces a blushing and frantic Miku.
"So uh..."
Miku snickers at the awkwardness lingering in the room, a shade of pink creeping up her cheeks. "...Why'd you take my fry?" She giggles, teasing. "Uhm...Well...I didn't mean to, I just did it as a joke..." He muttered under his breath, biting his lip nervously.
Miku giggles again. "Why'd you take my chicken nugget?" Len raises an eyebrow skeptically, stifling back laughter. "Oh, you know." Miku snickers mischievously. "Karma."
Len scoffs. "Right, whatever."
*Meanwhile*
"Damnit, Gumi you beat me again!?" Fukase exclaimed abruptly with shock and dissatisfaction. "Screw you!" Gumi snickered and smirked smugly with triumphant laughter. "No one can beat me and my mighty video game skills!" The green-haired female said between giggles.
Meiko chuckles softly with satisfaction, sipping a glass of intoxicating wine, the beet shade of red trickling from the edges of her crimson lips. After a couple of minutes, she had finally woken up. "Oi, Meiko-san. You better not get drunk, I won't drive you home if you do." Luka said casually as she scoffed. "I won't~!" The brunette says, yet she already sounded drunk.
Fukase nodded in agreement as he stuffed himself up with the soft white rice cake. "Yum." Lily blinked in complete shock. "EHH!? My rice cakes! Fukase why..." Lily yells out abruptly, sobbing. "That was the last ONE!" The blonde cries out as she falls to the floor dramatically. "Woe is me, woe is me..." Fukase, still munching hungrily on the rice cake, rolls his eyes in an annoyed manner as he stuffs himself up with some more of the delicate and delicious blobs of bean cake. "Shut up, Lily."
Rin wondered what Len and Miku were doing in there, she assumed that Len was probably flirting with the tealette, who was also dying of embarrassment.
*Back in the closet room*
"So, Miku-chan..."
Len faces the tealette beside him, a warm smile planted on his silky lips. "What should we talk about?" Miku smiled softly, eyes gleaming with happiness and warmth. "I wanna get to know you." She says shyly, fidgeting with her fingers.
Len smiles with satisfaction, blushing slightly.
He smirked. "...Okay, what's your favorite color?" He asks with a curious look on his face. Miku tilts her head in confusion as if she was a puppy who heard a mysterious noise in the distance. Miku hesitates. "Uh...Turquoise, obviously." She said, biting her nails nervously. "Turquoise is a terrible color. Proceed." The blonde boy smirked smugly, snickering. "H-hey!" Miku exclaimed, pouting at him like a child.
He felt his face go hot.
Crap.
It's cute.
Embarrassed, Miku sighs and asks, "Well, what's your favorite color?" As he smirked confidently, he said cheesily, "Whatever color you're wearing." His face flushed as he realized what he said, and he noticed that Miku's face was reddened as well. "Wh-whatever." Miku mumbles under her breath. The two stared back at each other for a moment, then broke into laughter. A soft aqua-colored gaze from Miku warms his heart as she giggles quietly. The two continued talking, their voices growing softer and more delicate.
The long minutes felt like hours as they talked quietly and got to know each other. Each second felt like a deep desire to open up even more to each other, indulging themselves in each other's company like soaking in another one's universe.
Miku didn't know what the dreamy feeling was, but she enjoyed it. And those deep, dreamy, long-lasting seconds finally came to an end once Lily nastily gripped open the door revealing the other side of the cursed haven.
"Yo! What's taking you two so long!? We literally waited half an hour!" She exclaimed while scowling, her electrical blue eyes sending both of the teenagers murderous glares.
Rin awkwardly waved as Len locked his eyes with her frightened ones. Lily, already pissed and aggravated, grabs Miku and Len with a nasty grip and forces the both of them to sit down on the cushions.
"Okay! Rin-chan, you go!" Luka passes the bottle to Rin. Rin swallowed a lump of confusion and shyness, her fingers dangling with the bottle. "O-okay..here goes..." The shy teenager spun the bottle in the center, the way it repeatedly spun was hypnotizing and scary.
After seconds that felt like hours, it finally stopped spinning and landed on...
Luka.
"Okay! Luka-san, Rin-chan, off into the closet you go!" Lily grasps both of their wrists and purposely shoves them in the broom closet.
"H-hang on, w-wait-"
And the light at the tunnel faded away into nothingness as darkness closed in around the blonde female.
There was a small pause, then...
"Wanna play Kwazy Cupcakes?" Luka asked curiously, taking out her cellphone and flashing her light on the closet.
Rin sighed, then nodded.
Luka was a safe choice.
"Hey, um...I know we don't talk much, and it probably might be rude of me to ask, but..." Luka says gently as she reclines against one of the old bean bags, "You doing okay? You seemed pretty upset, and Miku-chan told me that you cried yesterday. Is everything okay?" The pinkette female asks, then sighed in exhaustion.
Rin froze, and a startling yet silent mix of fuming red seared across her pale face.
What the fuck?
She was infuriated with Miku's actions, and the fact that Luka had decided to butt in her business made her even more pissed off. How could she ask a stupid question like that? "...I'm fine." Rin says quietly, her teeth gnawing on her bottom lip as hard as she could while holding back her tears that had been stuck in the mud for months. "It's nothing, and it's none of your business." Rin murmurs in a low growl.
Luka was confused with Rin's response as she looked at the blonde female, yet Rin only glared at her illuminated cellphone.
"Ah..um...okay." The pinkette quietly says.
...
It was awkwardly quiet for a couple of minutes before the door slammed open and revealed Lily's slender figure. "Time's up! Come on out of the closet." She says as she helps both of them out, the leads them to the zen tearoom.
"So, how'd it go?"
