A/N: Okay, so… I gotta say that many have guessed that thing inside the box Ritsu gave to Mio in the prev chappie, when the two having a dinner. You see, it might be kinda different from all your guesses. I mean, did mentioned 'it could be anything'. Hahhaha! ENJOY!

WARNING: No BETA Version (in-progress), Yuri, OC

"You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul." –Julie de Lespinasse

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN K-ON!; K-ON! Belongs to Kakifly/Kyoto Animation©

Ritsu's POV

"…Ritsu…" My beautiful black-haired girlfriend looks pretty tired. Yeah, I guess I did tire her out there.

"Let's go to sleep, you sound really tired now." I said along with a little chuckle.

"I wonder whose fault that is…" Mio adjusted herself after I laid my body. She was back-facing me, so I shifted myself and moved closer to her, hugging her from the back. I instinctively sniffing in her smooth black-hair and I felt Mio sighing contently after I sniffed her hair scent. The weather got even colder tonight and I knew she loved it when I hugged her this way to make us both warmer. It worked, really. After a few moments, I started to close my eyes and ready to go to dreamland, but Mio held me back to my conscious. "Ritsu…"

Hearing her voice brings me back to reality. Now I don't really feel sleepy. "Mhm?"

"Are you sleepy yet?"

"Not really, wanna talk a bit?"

Mio replied me with a soft 'sure', then we adjusted our position. I'm now half-sitting on the bed, while letting Mio laid herself on my side. The feeling of having her skin against mine is just awkwardly great. I can't help but put an protective arm around her.

"So, spit it out. You seems to have something on your mind~"

I felt the squeeze Mio did. "Nothing necessary, actually. I was just thinking, you know, things that going to happen in College." I shot her a puzzling look and she looks up at me. She knew what I meant. "I know we attend the same college with the others and I have Mugi to go to the same faculty, but… we'll rarely see each other. I bet you also thought about that and I just want to hear your thoughts about it."

"That's actually… a quite good point." She reset her position by laying her head nearby my chest again. "Honestly, I was thinking about it- about us not seeing each other as often as we used to in High School. However, I think I figured out how to solve it."

"Oh, really? Tell me." Oh yeah, I know that tone. It was the tone Mio always uses whenever she doesn't really agree with what I thought.

Have you heard of a quote who says: "Action speaks louder than words"? Now that is what I'm going to do here. "You see, I guess you can now open the box that I gave you back at the dinner. I thought you'd be really mad at me and still punish me for what I've done. Since you're not serious with it and the fact that we're made up already, I wouldn't be that mind if you want to open and see what's inside it now." Glancing down at her, I noticed she was staring at me while smiling.

Odd. Just beautifully odd. Either way, I know she's just happy.

"Here, open it." I held the box in my hand. Don't ask me how I got it; let's just say it's magically popped out in my hand.

Mio used one of her hands who were wrapped around my middle and took the box from my hand. "Are you really sure, Ritsu?" I never thought she'd need another encouragement. Sheeze.

"Yes, Mio. I'm dead serious."

Mio's POV

Ritsu said I can open the box now. It really get on my mind that I was wondering about whatever thing inside the box. Usually, I would've thought about it as another prank Ritsu gave me, just like what she did when we're in kindergarten years ago. Fortunately, I don't feel that suspicious about her now. Whatever she put inside this box, it could be anything, anything good. I took one deep breath by instinct and-

Plop!

I frowned. This was actually beyond what I thought it'd be. If she wants to surprise me with this, she really did. I'm quite surprise here and not to mention more like confused. "A key?" I asked after I pulled it out of the box.

"Yeah, a key."

"A key for what? It's not like you give me a key just for no reason. What is this key for?" That's when I noticed that little card hanging along with the key. I held it closer to my eyes, trying to see it more clearly. I saw numbers, three numbers there. Staring at it for another seconds, I started to notice something. Oh, I get it now; I know what this key is for. Ritsu seemed to have noticed that I knew the answer already, so she didn't reply me back. She just smiling down at me; it was a one comforting smile. "Oh god, is this really a dorm key?"

"Nope, not a dorm. It's an apartment key, actually, your apartment key."

I gasped and my mouth gaped in shock. "You know, if you want to please me, the dinner is far enough, but this… There's no way you can earn that huge amount of money from two part-time jobs. How'd you get all the money to afford this?" No matter how long she's been working part-time jobs, it just doesn't make any sense if she can buy an apartment that easily.

"Yeah, it's impossible. The truth is, our parents-especially yours-doesn't want me to tell you anything about this. Well, I thought you really need to know, so yeah… our parents had decided to buy us an apartment. My parents did said that I have to be the one who told you, before your parents say anything about it. At first, it was supposed to be a secret, from anybody that I was planning to rent an apartment for us, but Satoshi found out and it turns out that our parents discussed about the apartment together. They said they'll take care of everything, the money, furniture, even our daily needs."

"So, you were saying that… our parents were the ones who bought this for us?"

"Well, they're not entirely pay for all of that. It's my idea and I asked for another negotiations. The last decision was to let them buy the apartment and let me handle the rest of it." I went silent for a few moments. Well, I just thought she was getting really serious about things in the future. She had it all prepared. I ran one of my hands to her cheek and pulled her down a little as I pressed her lips against mine in a sweet kiss.

Ritsu knew it very well that I was just gave her a silent 'thank you'.

"You're very welcome, milady~" She replied with her English accent.

Well, yeah, it doesn't sound so bad when she does that.

Ritsu's POV

The Next Morning

Oh, the feeling of waking up next to your girl. "Mmm…" Yeah, best feeling ever. I'm sure enough that my companion is way too tired of last night's activity and no, it's not like I tire her out-okay, maybe just a little bit. I just thought we really need more sleep before waking up this morning. I purposely and secretly turned off all the alarms; from my cell phone, her cell phone, even the clock on the bedside table- not ours though.

"…ime…is it?"

I frowned at her mumbles, "Yea, hun?"

"What time is it…?" She corrected her question, though her voice sounded really soft. Music to my ears? Alright, I started to get itches in certain places now.

I sniffed in her beautiful black-hair and replied, "Does it matter…?"

"We need to wake up"

"We're awake now"

"No, we're not"

"How come? We're talking with each other now. Unless we're still sleeping peacefully and got into the same dream. Yeah, it sounds quite make sense."

"Ritsu, stop joking. We're still on the bed." She warned me and easily escaped from my warm hug. "They're probably-"

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Oh, great. I totally forgot that we're not going to Paris alone. That must be Mugi knocking on our door. "See? I told you." Mio grabbed the clothes randomly on the floor and dashed off to the door. I'm watching in amusement, seeing that my girlfriend looks pretty good in nothing but her underwear, bra and that big white shirt. Wait a sec, isn't that the shirt I wore yesterday? How come the size looks a lot bigger in Mio? "Azusa? Good morning." Her voice snapped me back from my silly thoughts.

"Good morning, Mio-senpai" I heard a reply and yes, it's Azusa. I had a wrong guess.

"Come inside, Azusa." Mio offered her to come inside our room. My eyes went wide in seconds as I heard that. I mean, she asked someone to come inside the room while I'm on the bed, entirely haven't worn anything but my underwear! There's no time to get the clothes and walking to the bathroom to change, Azusa will see me half-naked. Ugh, she did it on purpose! I swear!

One thing crossed my mind. I pulled the blanket over my head, hiding myself from being visible. "Is that you, Ritsu-senpai?"

"Why are you hiding under the blanket?"

"You forgot? I'm wearing nothing at the moment, remember?" I pressed the last word. "Besides, you're wearing my shirt, Mio."

I heard Mio sighing, then she said, "Azusa, can you please turn around for a few minutes?"

"Y- Yeah, sure"

I felt shrugs on the bed and Mio pulled half of the blanket to see me under it. "Here," She handed me a t-shirt and jeans. I bet she got those from my bag. "Wear this now."

"What? Now? The hell no~ There's Azusa in here."

"She's not facing while you change. Hurry."

"No, I'm not going to change when she's in the same room with me. It just feels really awkward, Mio!" She didn't reply me back after that. I look at her confusingly and wondering why she lowered her head like that. "Hey, Mio, why are you…" My words faded out as she raised her head. That expression killed me, literally killed me! That was one of her secret weapons to get me to do what she says. "Oh no… not that… geez, this is so unfair…"

That was definitely it. PDP: Level 2.

"Ugh, alright, fine. I'll change. You can stop doing that now."

She stopped making that face and smiling at me afterwards, "Make it fast, okay?"

Changing never took me long, so after I finished, I got off the bed and asked Azusa about her purpose to came over our room. "So, what up?" I casually asked.

"I was actually just checking if you two are awake already. Mugi-senpai asked me to ask if you guys want to hang out together today. I mean, we haven't really hang out since the first day we arrived at Paris. Mugi-senpai, Yui-senpai and I are pretty much sure enough that you both already made up last night. Also, to the fact that you two sleep in one room; we're kind of glad though."

"You're right. You see, if it's not me-"

"Ritsu, we're not going to do this again."

I sighed. She's right and we had a deal that I won't blame myself again. "Okay, okay. Listen, Azusa, we're going to spend the rest of our days in Paris together. You, Yui, Mugi, Mio and I are going to spend quality times with one another. It's supposed to be our graduation celebration, so we need to spend it together. Just tell them that Mio and I will be ready in ten minutes."

"Alright, I'll go now and inform them about it." She was about to walk outside the door, but she turned around and signaled Mio to approach her.

Mio saw it and she went over to Azusa. I can't hear what she said, because Azusa was whispering something to Mio. My girlfriend walked back to me after she closed the door, I could only frown. "What did she say to you?"

"Nothing much. Really."

Somehow, with the way she said it. I just knew she hides something.

A/N: I forgot to tell this, but last week has been really great. Why? Because I received reviews from two of the senior writers in K-ON! Fandom! Yay! I just felt it was such an honor to get comments (either it's bad or good) from people whose even better than me! XD Thanks anyway for all the reviews! I appreciate every bit of that! :3

Oh yeah, a bit spoiler. The next chapter might be the last chapter of this story. Remember, might be. Hahaha!

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