Two people get super special 'Thank You's for their reviews and they are: AliasStars and Paru Café.

Why? Because I knew that writing yuri in a way such as this (with Rin being insulting towards Len just because he's a boy and such) would be somewhat touchy, and they were kind enough to inform me of the parts that I should be wary of, and so on. So…thanks to them! The help is much appreciated!


Chapter Two.

DAY ONE (8:12 a.m.)

"Piko! Piko! Piko! Piko! Piko! Piko!"

Said white-haired boy flung his plain green sheets off his body and sat up with an irritated growl, fixing his sleep-filled gaze on his blond roommate as the boy rushed around to try to get ready. His pants were halfway up his hips - showing those ridiculous heart-patterned boxers Piko always made fun of him for wearing - as Len tugged furiously at the denim by the belt loops. Piko blinked a couple of times and rubbed his eyes, and then fixed Len with another glare, though this one was full of confusion and amusement. If his roommate would wake him up just so he could watch the poor blond boy scramble like a chicken with his head cut off, he wouldn't be angry.

"You in a hurry for something?" Piko asked, and his tone was enough to make Len freeze in his spot and send him a fierce glare. The white-haired boy had a huge smile spread across his face, one silvery eyebrow raised in slight amusement. His mis-matched eyes glistened.

Len chewed on his own tongue and abruptly turned away, finally getting his pants all the way up and fastening the belt. "You could be a bit more encouraging, Piko," the blond boy snapped irritably. He shuffled to the other side of the room, pulling open one of the drawers to retrieve a shirt. He held it up to his slender frame and looked down at himself before discarding it, flinging it over toward Piko, who had begun to climb out of the bottom bunk. "Help me find something to wear!"

"Man, you sound like such a girl." Slender fingers combed through pure white hair; Piko reached down to brush out the wrinkles in his checkered pink boxers. "Just throw something on. It won't make a difference. She's the one who should be primping. And you?" Piko looked over his shoulder, rolling his eyes at Len as he fooled with his blond locks in front of the mirror. "You're putting your hair up."

"I always put my hair up," Len retorted, letting it fall before he gathered it back up to try again, the first time having been a fail.

"Well...true." Piko snorted as he padded back over to the nightstand next to the bed to retrieve his phone. His eyes widened. "You seriously woke me up at eight?" Piko threw his phone back down onto his messy bed and groaned loudly. "It's Saturday. That's like the only time I can actually sleep in and do nothing!"

"Yea, but don't you have a thing with Miki today?" Len plopped a piece of gum in his mouth.

"Oh, yea." The white-haired boy nodded a couple of times. His voice was full of sarcasm, and even though his first words had come out quietly as though he were being kind, he suddenly erupted with frustration and howled as he flung his arms in the air, "At like three in the afternoon! Geez, Len."

The blond boy waved one hand dismissively. "Well, go visit her now. She won't kill you for it. Unless you run over her new cat, of course."

"Len!"

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"Hey...you should wake up."

Rin's eyes had already been shut, but they closed even tighter when she felt one soft finger prod her cheek. Her brow scrunched together at the irritation, and one hand reached up to swat away the person getting between her and precious, precious sleep. After all, Gumi had woken her up around five in the morning for a goodbye kiss, since her family was quite a long drive away and she wanted to get there as soon as possible. Rin had been glad to get back to sleep, but now...

"Rin, get up."

"Mmrrphh." Her only words came out in incoherent mumbles muffled by her pillow. She waved her hand again to try to get rid of whatever was poking her, but it kept coming, and it got so irritating that she finally sat up to see what was going on. Her hair was, to put it simply, a complete monstrosity - and the makeup she'd worn the day before but had not taken off was smeared beneath her eyes. At first, when her drowsy gaze rested on the form in front of her - sitting on her bed while his face was awfully close to hers - she thought she was just seeing things, but then realization stuck her.

Rin scrambled away from him, raking a hand roughly through her tangled blonde hair, and she backed up until her back hit the wall behind the single bed. Her gaze may have been holding his the whole time, but she had to admit she felt a little strange being around him the way she was; she knew what she looked like when she first woke up in the morning, and after his confession the day before, she really didn't want him to see something he might like to make him want her even more than he probably already did.

One hand darted to take the covers and pull them over her slender legs - covered only by a pair of her favorite lacey yellow panties with a small button on the waistband - and brought them all the way up to her chest, hunching over to make sure to shield her (finally) well-developed breasts, that tended to be a more than a little revealed after a night of tossing and turning that made her tight night shirt get offset from its normal spot. "What the hell are you doing in my room?" she spat venomously, though in reality, she was just confused.

"I came to wake you up and see if you wanted to go to breakfast, or something?" Len suggested shyly, wringing his hands together as he shifted uncomfortably under her gaze. He must've remembered her threat from the day before, and he probably felt pressured. Unsure of how to act around her now, perhaps.

Rin blinked, her lips parted slightly in surprise. "Oh..." She nodded a couple of times and stammered, "Eh...U-Uh...S-Sure...I can...wait, how did you even get in here?" He'd often come to wake her up in the mornings in the past, but Gumi had always been there to let him in. She'd been long gone for well over three overs by then.

"Oh, well..." Len climbed on top of her bed and sat crisscross, just as he used to do many times before when they were just friends and he'd successfully masked his feelings for her. They had always stayed there and talked like girlfriends at a sleepover. He avoided her gaze, but then he looked up at her with more confidence. "I still have the spare key...and I left my hair down so the Dorm Advisor would think I was you."

The blonde girl tilted her head to one side and studied him. He wasn't wearing a ponytail for the first time in a while; she didn't even notice until then. Her cerulean gaze traveled down his body to take note of his tight pants - skinny jeans; she had to admit, the boy had a strange obsession with those things - and his usual black hair tie was around his wrist. Then, her shoulders shook with light laughter. He was such an idiot.

His cheeks were pink, and he bit down on his bottom lip. "I suppose you want the key back?"

Rin showed her teeth in a soft smile, and she shook her head. "Nah. You can keep it." Why had she made such a big deal of the day before? Len was still her friend, and he wasn't going to do anything that seriously made her uncomfortable, right? He was just that kind of trustworthy person. She believed him whole-heartedly.

"Oh..." Len's voice trailed off, and he angled his gaze to stare at the pattern on Rin's bed sheets.

She let out a heavy sigh a few moments later; she didn't want them both to be trapped in such an awkward silence, and perhaps she had made him feel a little bad about himself. He deserved an apology, and it would make her rest easier, too. Len was Len; he wasn't going to harm her. His love for her in a romantic way wasn't going to affect her, was it? She'd get the week over with and love Gumi just as much as she did before, and she and Len would go back to being best friends. It would be that simple, right?

"I'm sorry for snapping at you." Her voice was a whisper, and she quickly avoided his quizzical gaze by taking her pillow in her arms and hugging it, burying her face. "I guess I really hadn't been expecting it. To be honest, some people had mentioned things about you having a crush on me, but I never believed them."

Len narrowed his eyes. Piko...

"And I was kind of already snappy to begin with," she added, sending him a knowing glance. Come to think of it, the cramps were still pretty painful.

"I-It's okay..." His face had reddened a significant amount, and he scratched nervously at the back of his head. "Maybe I shouldn't have dumped it on you so suddenly, anyway."

"It's cool..." Rin sighed in defeat, and the two fell into another silence. She dug her fingernails deeper into the pillow. Since when had their conversations become so awkward? Her stomach made a loud noise, and she couldn't tell if it was because of her cramps or because she hadn't eaten in a while. "Didn't you say something about breakfast?"

"E-Eh..." Len jumped a bit at her voice, but quickly nodded. "Y-Yea, we can go n-now, if y-you want..."

She smiled at him. "Sure. But get out. I need to get ready."

"Eh..." He flushed a darker shade when he found his eyes dropping down to look over her body, but he quickly leaped up from her bed and moved to the door. "Y-Yea..."


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(:Mizune