It had taken forever, but Eruna had finally finished her homework!

Slamming the last piece of paper on her desk, she sighed from exhaustion. It was one o'clock in the morning and she still wasn't asleep, due to the sheer amount of extra homework the teacher had given her.

Geez, Kurumi-sensei didn't need to give me so much work... At this rate, I'll probably be late tomorrow too because I stayed up so late! She sighed again, and put down her pencil. Might as well sleep now. After all, the earlier the better.

She was much too tired to brush her teeth, so she grabbed her pajamas and slipped off her dirty uniform to put the clothes on. Hopefully she wouldn't be late again, as she trusted Bimii to come and wake her up on time.

After she changed into her pajamas, she climbed on to her bed and pulled the covers over herself.

She started thinking back to today. When Otone had dragged her to that cafe, she temporarily forgot about the mountain of homework she had gotten from Kurumi. She didn't regret it though; after all, going there was really fun. It also cheered her up quite a bit too.

Realizing that she had been hanging around with Otone a lot, she figured that she should spend some time with her other friends too. Perhaps she could visit...

The Drama Club! I haven't seen them in a while, I should go visit them! And maybe if I have time, I'll go visit other people too!

Deciding that that was the plan, she nodded to herself and clutched the covers. Shifting into a more comfortable position, she closed her eyes and fell asleep.


"Hey, Eruna. Wake up ryui."

The girl stirred a bit before opening her eyes to look at the cat. "Bimii?"

"You finally woke up on time. Now hurry, unless you want to be late ryui."

"Hm?" She turned over to look at the time. 7:00 A.M. "Phew, I have enough time to get ready. Thanks for waking me up!"

She moved so her legs dangled over the edge of her bed, and stepped onto the cold wooden floor. Shivering a bit from the sudden transition of warm covers to cold wood, she walked to the closet and took out her uniform. Bimii, taking this as his cue, turned around and waited for her to finish changing.

Once she had changed into her uniform, she picked up her scarf and threw it over her neck. She grabbed a muffin from the cupboard and started munching on it as she packed her school bag.

It wasn't that necessary for her to go to school so early, but she liked to so she could spend time with Otone and her friends at the club room before school started. She knew they'd be there because they always came really early (mostly because they live close to the school, but still... It wasn't like she didn't live near the school, but she was a heavy sleeper). Picking up her bag, she beckoned for Bimii to come and they made their way to the building.

She opened the entrance doors and headed for the club to greet Otone. Lately she had been feeling more happy, so she was able to skip her way down the hall and to the room.

But to her surprise, when she opened the door, no one was there.

"Huh? Where's Otone-chan?" Eruna quizzically looked around the room, searching for any signs of purple hair.

"She's probably just not here yet ryui." Bimii helpfully inserted.

The pinkette sighed. Maybe she slept in too. She would have gone back to her friend's cottage to go and find her, but there was also a good chance she wasn't there...

"Ah, I know! She's probably somewhere in the school, so let's go look for her!" She grabbed Bimii's paw and started dragging him with her to the drama club. She had been meaning to visit them, and there probably was a good chance Otone was there too! She had been getting along with them recently.

The cat stuttered a bit, face going red. "A-ah, wait Eruna! I can go by myself!"


Skidding to a stop in front of the drama club entrance, she slammed open the door and yelled.

"Are you in here?!"

Having announced her presence so loudly, all the group members turned to face in her direction.

"Ichinomiya-chan? What are you doing here?" Yuuto curiously asked, slightly startled by her sudden appearance.

"Eh, Otone-chan isn't here!" Eruna sulked.

"A-actually, Fujishiro is here." A speck of purple suddenly appeared from behind a stage prop. It seemed she had been the most startled by Eruna, darting behind a prop in the last second.

"Otone-chan!" The pink-haired girl ran up to her friend. "I knew you'd be here!"

"You did?" Otone held a gaze of astonishment before gathering herself up. "Well, Fujishiro was only here for some important matters."

Eruna tilted her head. "What important matters?"

"Eh? U-um..." She struggled to come up with an excuse. How was she going to tell her that she had come here looking for advice on how to become better friends with Eruna, and to make more friends? They had answered with "Silly Otone-chan, we're your friends!" It wasn't very helpful in terms of Eruna, but it had somehow filled her with a strangely warm feeling. It was a feeling she couldn't quite place.

"By important matters, she means that she wanted to spend time with us!" Nyamirin hopped over and wrapped Otone into a giant hug. "Isn't that right, Otone-chan?"

"W-wha- No! N-not at all..." But as the hug got tighter, the more Otone trailed off.

"Aww, you deny it too much!" She giggled. Beckoning for all of the group members, the rest of them went in to hug the twin-tailed girl.

"It's ok, Fujishiro-san! You have us now, tsutte!"

"That's right, Fujishiro-san su!"

"Don't worry, Fujishiro-san."

"Y-yea, d-don't worry!" Yuuto was the only one struggling to hug them without looking awkward, as he wasn't used to this kind of thing yet. He tried desperately to fit in, though.

"Me too, me too!" Eruna, not one to be left behind, joined in on the huge group hug. In the center, poor Otone was struggling to breath.

Bimii floated beside Eruna, paws too small to wrap around everyone. He'd have to change into his human form sometime.

"O-ok... You win... Just let m-me go..." Her quiet whimper was barely heard by the tearful sentiments everyone was giving her. Even Yuuto, who had been feeling uncomfortable before, had started to tear up. Just a bit.

After a full minute, everyone finally parted from each other. Otone, as soon as they let her go, dropped to the floor on her knees and started gasping for air.

"So, that's it! She was here to play with us!" Nyamirin declared. Everyone nodded their heads in agreement, seemingly ignoring how Otone was wheezing and panting, trying to calm her red face.

"That's great! Can I join?" Eruna helped her friend get up from the floor.

"Sure!"

They all spent the rest of the morning in the club room. Eruna had gone through some of their stuff and found scripts for plays stashed in the back of their closet. She had suggested they try acting them out, and everyone but Otone agreed. She claimed she was too shy to act anything out.

"Come on, Otone-chan! It'll be fun!" The pinkette tried to coax her friend into acting out the play with them.

"N-no thank you, Fujishiro would much prefer watching!"

"Please! If you want, you can be a flower!"

The word flower had caught her attention. "R-really?"

"Yea!"

The girl thought about it for a moment. She did like flowers. "Then... Can I be a p-purple flower?"

"Sure!" Eruna, not finding it strange that she had wanted to be a flower of all things, started searching through the pile of scrapped costumes for a purple flower costume. Once she had found it, she handed it to Otone and called for everyone.

"Alright, so are we ready to start the Cinderella play?" Eruna was to play the role of Cinderella, the maid and to-be princess. She had actually wanted to be a prince, but everyone else had agreed that a girl playing as Prince Charming was too impractical when they had two handsome men on hand (Hey, su!).

"Not yet, we're still deciding on which role everyone wants!" Nyamirin spoke. "Ok, so here are the available roles; The evil step-mother, the two evil step-sisters, the fairy godmother, and the prince. I call dibs on being the godmother!"

"Ooh, can I be the prince su?" Usamaru called out first.

"Hm, nah. Yuuto or Tonkyun would be much better suited for that role. You can be one of the evil step-sisters!"

"Eh?!" The bunny boy wailed out. "B-but-"

"I'll be the other step-sister tsutte!" Kumano-san yelled. "A fierce role like that is suitable for a fearsome person like me tsutte!"

"Aha, sure." Giggling slightly, Nyamirin wrote her's and Usamaru's names down for the step-sisters. "Who wants to be the evil step-mother?"

"I will." Tonkyun claimed. "The role of the prince is not something I'd like to act out anyway."

"Alright~" Nyamirin wrote his name down. "So, that leaves... Prince Charming! And the only person left is..."

She turned to Yuuto, who immediately backed down from her gaze. "M-me?"

"Yuuto! You're the prince!" Alright, now it's time to get started-"

"AHEM."

She turned around again, only to face a rather ticked off cat teacher.

"Am I doing anything?" He was annoyed that everyone was forgetting about him lately. Was he really that forgettable?

"...Oh! You can be the horse that pushes Cinderella's carriage around!" Writing down a new role, she wrote Bimii's name under it.

He frowned. He would have to push things around again? It was early morning and things were already getting sour for Bimii.

"Alright everyone, go and get your costumes!" Nyamirin ordered.

"W-wait..." Yuuto weakly called out, but was unheard by everyone as they all went to retrieve their outfits.

"Ooh, this is gonna be so much fun!" Eruna was ecstatic. She had always wanted to act out a play. While she would've prefered Seisa there as the princess and her as the prince, this was fun too.

Kumano-san was growling with happiness as she changed into her costume, which was a gaudy pink dress. It didn't look all that ferocious, but she claimed that her character and "mean looks" would make up for it. Everyone just giggled. Usamaru was quite unhappy with his role, as he had wanted to be the prince. He wanted to show everyone how tough he could be! He felt slightly better when Kumano-san claimed that it was a very tough role. He'd just have to do his best as an evil step-sister!

But when he stepped out, decked in a ridiculous looking yellow dress, he felt like curling up in a ball and dying.

Nyamirin's fairy godmother outfit consisted of a plain looking dark blue dress, with a pointed hood thrown over her head. Her only accessory was a wand, which was slightly bent due to the age. The dress was slightly small on her, so it accentuated her, ahem, "bouncy bouncies" quite nicely.

"Oohh... Nyamirin-senpai, you look great~..." The first thing Eruna saw when she stepped out of the changing room was Nyamirin jumping around and showing off her costume, not that it was anything special. But that chest...

Eruna's costume was a tattered maid's outfit, which was a rather unsightly looking brown colour. The costume as a whole looked like it was made of nothing but rags, but she wasn't worried about this. She would switch to the pretty looking dress later in the play.

All Otone had to do for her costume was slip on a purple flower head and stand there. It was fitting to her uniform, since it was purple-themed. It wasn't a big role, but she seemed content with it anyway.

Bimii didn't have to do anything but tie a rope around his mouth. This was not going to be fun for him.

Finally, Yuuto walked out of his change room. His outfit was a regal looking coat, with colours of tan and gold. His pants were brown and red, the colours going well with his top. Over all he looked quite handsome; but in his mind, that was not the case.

"I-I look... strange." Yuuto mumbled. He frowned, pulling at the coat that was probably too big for him.

"Ehh, but I think you look great Akama-kun!" Eruna jumped over to him before attempting to switch to her character. "I mean, you look stunning Prince Charming."

The brunette wasn't sure why, but he found himself blushing at this remark. Brushing it off as nothing, he tried to act in-character as well. "Why thank you, fair maiden."

The pink-haired girl giggled at this, which caused him to blush even more. "Hmph."

"Everyone! Time to get on stage! Let's try and finish before school starts!"

"Okay!~"

"Yay tsutte!"

"Y-yes su..."

"Alright."

"Okay, Nyamirin-senpai."

"R-ryui..."


"Oh Cinderella su!" The shrill voice of the girl's step-sister echoed through out the mansion.

"Y-yes, dear sister?" Cinderella came scrambling down the (stage) stairs, bucket of water and mop in tow. It appeared that she had been in the middle of cleaning the upstairs bathroom, made even more obvious by the foul stench emitting from her.

"I need you to polish my- oh god! What is that stinky smell su?" The ugly step-sister wrinkled her face and-

"Cuuut!"


"What? What is it, did I do something wrong?!" Eruna panicked, running across the stage and accidentally tripping over her own costume in the process. "Oww..."

"No, you did nothing wrong. The problem lies somewhere else..." Nyamirin directed her glare towards Usamaru. The bunny boy immediately started sweating, the girl's gaze boring into and scaring the living poop out of him.

"E-eh? Me?"

"Yes, you!" She suddenly raised up her arm and pointed an accusing finger at him. "Stop speaking like that! Cinderella's step-sisters may be crude and foul, but they aren't that crude and foul!"

"H-hey!" Usamaru made a protective stance, as if to defend himself. "I don't speak crudely! I thought I was doing great until you yelled cut!"

"Great?" Nyamirin's face darkened, a creepy and dark (metaphorical, but they could all feel it) aura beginnning to surround her. "Great? YOU CALL THAT GREAT?!"

"Oh, here we go again..." Yuuto rolled his eyes, coming out from behind the curtain and walking onto the stage.

"H-has this happened before?" Eruna, who happened to overhear him sigh, walked over to where he was standing.

"Yep. Sometimes her inner actor comes out during times like this." The cat-themed boy pointed over to where Nyamirin was currently holding Usamaru by the dress front and yelling into his face. "She becomes really scrict and unforgiving, so might wanna watch out."

The pinkette shivered. She had come across many scary girls, and they were often the cute ones. (Oddly enough, they usually became scary when she was chasing after them, weird...) She should've probably seen it coming, but Nyamirin had always acted so carefree and cat-like, that no one would ever expect it from her. Kumano-san was also a cute girl, and she wasn't scary (no matter how hard she tried, sorry Kumano-san).

Both actors directed their attention towards the raging Nyamirin again, who was still chastising the boy for his speech pattern. "WHAT KIND OF UPPER-CLASS PERSON WOULD SAY SU~ AT THE END OF THEIR SENTENCES?! NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF A VILLIAN THEY ARE, THEY'RE STILL SUPPOSED TO HAVE CLASS! CLASS USAMARU, CLASS!" At the last word, she started rapidly shaking him around. By this point Usamaru's eyes were spinning, and he could see stars. He had long blacked out since the first second she started yelling at him.

"Y-yees~..." The bunny boy weakly called out, in a desperate attempt to make it stop. "I understaaand..."

"Do you really, Usamaru? DO YOU REALLY?!"

"Alright guys, that's enough!" Yuuto, bored of watching, decided to intervene. He pushed himself in between the two, holding up his hand when Nyamirin was about to protest.

"We have to keep going on with the play, or else we'll never get done by class time." He put his arms down and looked at the two. "So let's stop arguing and continue, okay?"

"Boo... Ok, but Usamaru, you still have to speak properly!" The cat girl pointed her finger at him again before walking back to her director's chair.

As for the black-haired boy, he wiped off the sweat on his forehead and let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you so much, Akama-senpai..."

"No problem." He waved off his thanks and walked back behind the curtain, but not before a voice spoke up.

"You've really gotten this club under control, huh?" Eruna smiled, putting her hands behind her back.

"E-eh?" Yuuto blushed a bit, not sure how to take it. "Y-yea, I guess you could say that..."

"Ehe." The pinkette sheepishly giggled before walking back to the stage, where Usamaru was sitting back down on his chair and attempting to get back into character.

"Oh Cinderella. Oh Cinderella, oh Cinderella..." The boy-dressed-as a step-sister was mumbling the same two words over and over again, making sure not to say "su" at the end like he always did. He wasn't sure why she didn't like his little speech tick, but since he didn't want to make her angry like that again, he obeyed and tried to speak normally.

"Ok guys, action!"


"Oh Cinderella!" The shrill voice of the girl's step-sister echoed through out the mansion.

"Y-yes, dear sister?" Cinderella came scrambling down the stairs, bucket of water and mop in tow. It appeared that she had been in the middle of cleaning the upstairs bathroom, made even more obvious by the foul stench emitting from her.

"I need you to polish my- oh god! What is that raunchy smell?" The ugly step-sister wrinkled her face and brought up two fat fingers to plug her nose.

"Oh, p-pardon me. I was just cleaning up someth-"

"Wash yourself right this instant!" The sister cried out in disgust. "I will not have your dirty hands touch my shoes s-" Usamaru was just about to end his sentence with his signature "su", but stopped himself right on time. Luckily, Nyamirin didn't seem to notice.

"Y-yes!" The girl immediately picked up her cleaning supplies and went upstairs to the bathroom again. (The curtains close, and after some shuffling noises, it reopens again revealing a freshly-bathed Cinderella in the living room.)

"Cinderella, how many times have I told you not to upset your sisters?" Tonkyun, the step-mother, said in a rather non-concinving angry voice.

"Cu- mmphh!" Just as the director was about to say cut, she was muffled by Yuuto's hand.

"Go on." He beckoned for them to continue. Eruna just sweatdropped.

"I-I'm sorry, dear mother of mine. I just-"

"No, sorry doesn't cut it. Now go up to your room."

Nyamirin ripped the hand away from her mouth, "CINDERELLA DOESN'T HAVE A ROO- MM, MMPH!" Yuuto's hand covered her mouth once again, but not before she managed to get a little sentence in. It didn't seem to waver Tonkyun though.

Eruna, hearing the cat girl's angry yelling, decided to rebute the line. "B-but mother, I don't have a room..."

The step-mother paused for a minute, before deciding where Cinderella should go. "Then go to your sister's room. She's not in there right now."

Yuuto struggled to keep Nyamirin from attacking Tonkyun, and his strength was starting to waver. "Q-quick! Before she gets out!"

"MMMP- THE STEP-MOM WOULD NEVER BE THAT NICE TO CINDERELLA, EVER! THIS IS SUCH ATROCIOUS ACTING, AND THE CHARACTERS ARE SO OOC! I DEMAND YOU STOP THIS NOW OR I WILL- MMPH-" Yuuto somehow found the strength to keep holding her back, and this time he did it with more force so she definitely wouldn't get out.

"Hurry up, I'm waiting for my turn tsutte!" Kumano-san suddenly cried from behind the curtain. She was getting real impatient.

"Take all the time you need. I'm fine with just resting here." Otone was not standing behind the curtain, but rather she was perched on top of a rather comfortable looking chair beside the stage. The flower mask laid beside her on the ground, waiting to be picked up and used.

"Zzzz..." Bimii was also on a plush chair beside the stage. Judging from the snores emitting from him, he was sound asleep.

"Right away!" Eruna spoke out, both as a line and as an answer to all the impatient people before her. She went behind the curtain and pulled them closed. More shuffling sounds could be heard, and the curtains opened again, showcasing the step-sister's (Kumano-san's) room.

Cinderella sighed. "Oh, 'tis the life of a poor little maid..."

"WHY IS CINDERELLA PITYING HERSELF?! SHE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AN EMO- MMMP!" Nyamirin yelled out once again, although Eruna ignored her.

The girl twirled around the room, dusting off every corner of the room even though her step-mother didn't tell her to. Suddenly, the door burst open to reveal one of her step-sisters.

"Cinderella! What are you doing in my room tsutte?!" The petite sister growled (more like squeaked).

"NO, NO SAYING TSUTTE OR SU OR ANYTHING-"

"I-I'm sorry sister! I was just cleaning up the place, you know?" Cinderella tried desperately to come up with an excuse. It was true though; she was dusting off bookshelves and everything.

"Hmph! Well whatever, because guess what, I got invited to a ball tsutte!" The step-sister whipped out a fancy envelope sealed with a wax sticker. On it was the address of where the letter came from. "And you didn't! Jelly, tsutte?" Kumano-san slid up to Cinderella and poked at her shoulder, acting more like a teasing friend than an evil step-sister.

"AAAGH-"

"Oh, yes!" Cinderella dropped the broom and twirled around. "I do wish I could go!" She gazed at the envelope. It was just within her reach, so maybe, if she reached forward just a tiiny bit-

"Well too bad, 'cause you can't tsutte!" The girl jerked the envelope far away from Cinderella's reach and slipped it back into her dress pocket. "It's only for classy people, like me and my mother!" She took out her fan and started fanning herself. "Not sure about my other sister, but she's coming too tsutte!"

"Ehh..." Cinderella, who only seemed slightly bummed out and not soul-crushingly depressed like she's supposed to be, sank down to the floor and curled into herself.

"Ahaha!" Kumano-san was suddenly joined in by Usamaru and Tonkyun. Usamaru immediately started laughing as loudly and obnoxiously as he could, while Tonkyun just chose to stay silent.

The three "women" slid out of the room, leaving Cinderella all to herself. Cue extremely loud and exaggerated crying.

"WAAAAHAAAA, WHY CAN'T I GO TO THE BALL?! JUST 'CAUSE I'M A FILTHY MAID? I HAVE MY HUMAN RIGHTS TOO!" She collapsed onto herself and laid her head against the windowsill, occasionally very discreetly squeezing fake tear drops into her eyes. "WAAAAAAA!"

"SHE'S OBVIOUSLY FAKING! SOMEONE GET HER OFF THE STAGE- huh?" Nyamirin was suddenly let go by Yuuto, who gestured to the stage.

"It's your turn. You're the fairy godmother, remember?"

At first, the cat girl was confused. But she eventually realized that she had a chance. A chance to turn this horrible play back around. "Yes, it's my turn! Let's make this play better again!"

Climbing up the stage, she got behind the curtains and waited for the perfect moment to come in.

"WAAAAAA, I WISH I COULD GO WITH THEM! WITH A PRETTY DRESS, A CARRIAGE, AND SOME REALLY NICE SHOES!"

"What are you crying for, child?" A silvery voice called out.

Cinderella stopped her gross sobbing, and looked up to be greeted by the sight of a majestic fairy-like being. "W-who are you?"

"I'm your fairy godmother." The godmother said it as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

"...Is having a fairy godmother that pops out of nowhere normal? Or am I just delusional?"

"Do not question things, child. Now, what did you say you wanted?" Brushing off her completely normal concerns, she back-tracked.

"Oh, I wanna go to the ball!" Cinderella cried out.

"That you shall. Leave off crying - go be a good girl and fetch the biggest pumpkin from the garden for me, will you?"

"Uhh, ok, but can we go outside too? Bringing a pumpkin inside is unconventional." Cinderella suggested.

"Yes, that is a good plan. Smart girl you are."

The curtains promptly closed shut again, before reopening just moments later. The scene was replaced with a luscious looking garden, the sky signalling that it was probably late evening. Otone stood in the background, the purple flower mask adorning her face. As a flower, she really stood out.

"Ok, I got us a pumpkin!" A big rubber orange ball, which was supposedly the pumpkin, sat on the grass below them.

"A-alright, good job." Nyamirin's eye twitched a little from the pumpkin prop, but ignored it for the sake of the play. "Now quick - the mouse trap from the pantry!"

"A mouse trap? Really?" The girl raised an eyebrow.

"No, questions, child."

"Ok, ok!" Cinderella raised her hands, as to not alarm her scary godmother. She quickly ran back inside her mansion and retrieved the mouse trap from the pantry. "Here it is." Mice were crawling inside the mouse trap, which disgusted Cinderella greatly. But she would have to listen to her godmother anyway, for the sake of the story.

"Alright, I think that's everything we need! Now just stand back..." The fairy godmother touched each object with her wand, and at that moment the curtains closed.

When they opened, it revealed a grand white and gold carriage in the place of the pumpkin, and a very drowsy Bimii in the place of the mouse trap.

"Uugh, I was having such a pleasant dream too ryui..." The cat yawned, stretching his paws.

"Oh, it is all so lovely godmother! Except for the horse, but that will just have to do." Then, she suddenly thought of her shabby clothes. Rags were not suited for a ball at all. "It really is great, but my clothes are..."

But before Cinderella could realized what was happening, the godmother touched her shoulder with the wand and the curtains closed once again. It was a rather jarring break, since it took quite a while for Eruna to change into the dress.

After about five minutes, the curtains reopened. There was Cinderella, in the center of the stage wearing the most extravagant and beautiful costume dress anyone had ever seen. Yuuto, who was watching from below, just had to open his mouth slightly in amazement.

The fairy-made robe was as white as snow, and around the hem hung a fringe of diamonds. They were fake, but they looked amazingly real. Delicate lace was strung around Cinderella's neck and arms, the lace looking like it was made with painstakingly extra time and detail. He was surprised that they even had this in their storage closet.

Lifting up her feet, Cinderella noticed that she was wearing slippers. "Ooh, I got me some nice shoes!"

"No, I got you some nice shoes. Anyway, go, my child. Enjoy yourself to your heart's content. Only remember, if you stay at the palace any time after midnight, the carriage, horse and your dress will vanish leaving you with nothing else."

"What, seriously?!" Cinderella yelled. "What kind of a stupid rule is that? And if I'm left with nothing, wouldn't that mean I'd be naked?"

"Run along godchild." The Godmother ignored Cinderella's perfectly legitimate concerns again, and pushed her into the carriage. "So long!"

"W-wait!"

The door closed behind her, leaving her stuck in the carriage. Bimii began to pull as hard as he could, the carriage only moving by an inch at a time.

"C'mon, c'mon..." Nyamirin impatiently waited for Bimii to pull the carriage a bit more, before getting frustrated. "UGH! Alright, let's speed this up. Usamaru, Tonkyun, the curtains!"

The curtains closed once again, and screaming could be heard as Nyamirin ripped Bimii away from the carriage and threw him off the stage.

"O-ouch..." The cat twitched.

"Must be hard for you, huh Bimii-sensei?" Yuuto awkwardly giggled and sweatdropped.

"Y-you don't even know ryui..."

"Psst! Yuuto, it's your turn!" Nyamirin called for the prince.

"Oh, it's my calling." Yuuto stood up, and climbed the steps. He scrambled into his position just as the curtains were opening.

The garden in the scene before was replaced with a regal looking ball room, fit for a palace. In the center of it all stood Prince Charming, who looked bored and out of place in the gigantic room.

He sighed, "This is boring. I wish something more exciting would happen..."

Suddenly, the door to the palace burst open. In came Cinderella, who looked regal as she walked up the heavily-carpeted staircase. The prince was enchanted by her. "Never," he said to himself, "have I seen anyone so beautiful!"

He walked down the staircase over to where the girl was, and introduced himself. "Good evening, my fair lady. I am the Prince." He reached out for Eruna's hand and kissed it gently, too in-character for him to care that his face was burning up again.

"Oh, it's an honour to meet the Prince." She giggled as Yuuto's lips brushed against her fingers. That tickled.

"May I ask for your name?" The young man let go of Cinderella's hand and asked her.

"Oh, instead of focusing on such trivial matters what about we do something else?" She suggested, bashfully fiddling at the hem of her dress.

"Ah, yes! May I have this dance?" The Prince held out his hand.

"It would be a pleasure." She curtsied and took his hand. Yuuto tried to ignore the blush creeping onto his face, but it became increasingly harder when they actually began to dance.

Her arms found their way around his neck, and he placed his hands on her hips. They swayed to the beat of the ball room music, which Nyamirin had just turned on with the radio system they had.

Her face is really close. Too close. Yuuto thought as he danced with Cinderella. He attempted to look anywhere else but at Eruna, but failed as her eyes naturally drew him in. He realized for the first time that her eyes were really unique. A nice shade of pink. They always seemed to light up when she was especially happy, and dim down to a dull colour when she was sad. They were really expressive eyes.

Unconciously, his face began to drift closer to Eruna's, her eyes hypnotizing him. She didn't seem to mind all that much, so he continued to move in. A little nearer, and he could already smell the girl's strawberry-scented lip gloss. The smell, the sight, everything made him want to get closer. Yearning to touch her, he moved in just a bit closer, their lips just centimeters apart-

Suddenly, the bell signalling the start of classes resounded through out the whole school building and yard. They could hear the shuffling of feet just outside the club room as people scrambled to get to class on time.

"Oh no, that's the bell!" Eruna immediately slipped off the poofy dress, revealing that she had been wearing her uniform underneath the whole time. Grabbing her scarf from a nearby chair, she threw it around her neck. "Sorry guys, but I have to go! Kurumi-sensei will give me more homework if I don't get over there on time! Let's go, Bimii, Otone-chan!" She grabbed both of her friend's hands and ran out of the room, slamming the door shut behind her in the process.

Yuuto, not being sure of what just happened, slid down onto the ground and stared at the door. "W-what..."

"Teehee, that was fun tsutte~" Kumano-san came out from behind the curtain and stood beside Yuuto.

"N-no it wasn't su..." Usamaru came trailing behind the energetic bear girl, a tiny teardrop sliding out of his eye. "That dress was so stuffy..."

"I didn't think it was that bad." Tonkyun commented, seemingly trying to comfort his best friend.

"Ugh, this group needs to work on their acting!" Nyamirin stood in the center of the stage. "Seriously, we're the drama club, not the half-assed acting club!"

"But it wasn't even a real performance su!"

"I DON'T CARE!"

Nyamirin switched back into her rage mode, and began beratting Usamaru once again. Tonkyun and Kumano-san had attempted to get away, but the fast cat girl grabbed them by the shoulders before they could even get anywhere near the door.

"We are going to spend the rest of the day here until you guys get your act together! LITERALLY!"

"NOO! HELP ME SU!" Usamaru tried desperately to get out of her grasp.

"Aww, do we have to?!" Kumano-san complained.

Tonkyun just grumbled. "Mmh..."

In the corner of the stage, Yuuto was still sitting there, dazed. He slowly brought his fingers to his lips, the ones which had nearly touched Eruna's.

If only... He slowly began to stand up, If only we had done this after school... Snapping out of it, he looked over to his side. Over there, Nyamirin was going crazy on the three club members.

Guess I should go over there and help them. So he did.

Author's Note

Aaagh, I'm sorry for not updating in a while! I was in New York for five days, and I had no access to my fanfiction account. ono

I'm leaving for another vacation tomorrow, so I might not update for a while! I really hope you enjoyed this nearly 6,000 word chapter, and hopefully it'll make up for my hiatus! cx

So I did read the reviews, and BimiiEru is surprisingly popular! .o. KyouEru is still the most popular though, so c'mon people! Vote, vote, vote! And where are all the votes for SadaEru and HimiEru? xD

Thanks for reading, and please review something about my story too~ :)