Happy Wednesday, everyone! Here you go, this one is in complete contrast to the one before ;)

A Kiss Because Time Has Run Out

Usagi hissed, annoyed and irritated and biting back the juvenile urge to kick the infuriating thing something proper. Maybe to transform right here and put some power behind it for good measure.

The screen mocked her anyway.

GAME OVER

Bad day. Very bad day. Maybe a Remless could show up that she could kick for a few rounds instead?

For a second she considered to just go over to the coin changer and slip a bill inside for a new round of 100 Yen coins. Just one more try, Mamoru never needed to know.

But she knew. And she'd promised.

With a growl and a slump to her shoulders, she grabbed her purse and made her rather sluggish way down the side of the arcade, out the door, around the building, and up the stairs to the second floor of the adjourned fruit parlor.

She stomped her foot when she stopped at the booth he was waiting at.

He raised his eyes, adorable glasses and all, from the stack of opened books and notebooks that surrounded him. The moment their eyes met, and he took in her moue, his eyes softened and his lips quirked up in sympathy.

"Didn't beat your high score?" he asked with a soft smile and a sympathetic furrow to his brow. He could be really, really sweet sometimes.

She pouted harder and sighed. "Time ran out just before," she moped with a dejected sigh.

He huffed through his nose in his growing smile.

But when she made to slip into her side of the booth, where her book bag with her homework waited for her, he grabbed her wrist and drew her to him instead.

With the tiniest surprised noise, she landed expertly in his lap, sideways with her legs hanging off the side of the booth, and she looked at him with widening eyes and a widening smile.

He shrugged, and she snuggled against him and the rumble in his chest from his short laugh.

One of his arms slipped around her waist, her hands curled into his free hand on his lap, and she pushed her face against his neck with a happy sigh.

It was a secluded corner, the parlor was almost empty, she knew he wouldn't do this otherwise, and she was prepared to enjoy every rare second of this while it lasted.

"Want me to buy you a milkshake to cheer you up?" he asked, amusement clear in his voice, and then she felt him press his lips to her temple in a sweet, small peck of a kiss.

Oh, you're already cheering me up.

But she didn't say that. Who was she to decline free milkshakes while sitting in her boyfriend's lap instead of solving annoying math problems? She would take it all as long as her luck lasted.

"Yes please," she said instead and sighed in pure bliss, then withdrew one hand from his and pulled a little at his shirt, wriggling herself into the most comfortable cuddle position possible.

Good day. No weird circus monsters allowed today, go away.

Obvious Setting Tag: Super S