Yahallo! Sorry if the formatting is messed up anywhere, I kept getting a Type 2 error when I was trying to upload this so finally I did the copy-n-paste option.
I'm going to be upfront with you guys, I have no idea how long this episode will go on. I'm just going to keep throwing our girls into absurd situations on the beach. Expect lots of cute witches in cute swimwear.
Also, I couldn't resist playing dress up with all our girls this episode, so please bear with the somewhat long descriptions of their outfits!
This chapter turned way more steamy than I was anticipating. Gotta' earn that T rating!
Our Magic!
Episode 03: How Akko Got Her Yay Back
Part I
"Yatta!" The shout of pure enthusiasm cut through the beach and drew everyone's eyes to the flying witch as she dove into and out of the water, "Yatta! Yatta!"
Diana smiled at the sight, happy to see her friend enjoying their vacation. Akko caught sight of her and quickly directed the Shiny Volley to take her back to shore. She hovered in the air instead of dismounting, "Yay! You made it!"
"Akko, we came together, you just flew ahead as soon as we finished checking in."
"Where's everyone else?" Akko asked.
Diana became slightly flustered, "Ah, I rushed out right behind you."
Akko wore a dark blue and white polka dot bikini and miniskirt. It at once called to mind her school uniform and showed more skin than anyone at school had seen. Akko had her hair down and it laid against her dripping wet. The bikini tied behind her neck and revealed only a single strap across her back while the miniskirt remained inches higher than her normal dress. Diana could not resist letting her eyes trace the hemline as Akko floated on the Shiny Volley.
"Wow, Diana! You look so pretty! But you need to eat more! You're too skinny," Diana flushed at the compliment and ignored the comment about how skinny she was. Her bikini was a bright turquoise that complimented her eyes and hair and looked amazing on her pale skin. Like Akko's, her bikini tied up behind her neck, but the strap crossing her back was a simple string tied in a bow. Her bottom tied on both sides as well, effectively revealing the entirety of her thighs and hips. A floppy hat to block the sun completed her outfit. Although minimal in design, Akko was entranced.
"Akko, you look amazing." Diana's eyes roamed over Akko's exposed flesh. "When did you get so athletic?" Akko floated closer and Diana relished the chance to look up into Akko's eyes for once before kissing her.
It seemed only a moment before they were interrupted with a pointed cough, "Ahem." Akko fell from her broom into Diana's waiting arms and the two fell backwards onto the sand. Diana looked upside down backwards and Akko looked up from her resting spot on Diana.
Amanda in a bright red one-piece swimsuit stood before them. "Seriously, you two? You're fooling around even when you're dressed like that?"
At her comment, the two witches realized how much of their exposed skin was currently in contact with one another and they scrambled to disentangle each other while simultaneously turning redder than Amanda's swimsuit. Amanda put her hand to her head in exasperation.
"Amanda! You look great too!" Akko managed to say after an absurdly long recovery time.
Amanda could not help but grin at her as she spun around, revealing the racerback swimsuit with her exposed back and shoulder blades. The suit lay high on her hips and drew their attention to her butt. When she was sure they were staring at her, she turned her head back at them. They hurried to bring their eyes up to her face, "I do look good in a suit, if I do say so myself."
Constanze, Jasminka, and a Stanbot were slowly walking up to the group. Jasminka was carrying a large bag that was at least the size of her and the Stanbot was dragging a cooler behind it. "Amanda, why did you run all the way here?" Jasminka asked innocently. Amanda began to stutter out an explanation that no one understood.
Constanze wore a purple one piece swimsuit with a green V covering the front. White lace crisscrossed her torso and was tied in a neat bow under her collar bone. The strapless number managed to look cute although everyone knew Constanze had been trying for sexy.
"Constanze, you look so adorable!" Everyone except Akko, that is. Constanze silently fumed.
Jasminka's black one-piece had asymmetrical cutouts on either side of her tummy drawing the eye in a zig-zag along the suit. Her hair was tied up in a single braid with a red bow instead of her normal pigtails. Jasminka eventually took mercy on Amanda and accepted her excuse for running ahead. The fivesome set about finding a spot on the beach and unpacking.
"Barbara, hurry up! I see them!" Hannah chided her girlfriend and began jogging to the rest of their friends. "Hi everyone! We thought we were going to get lost and not be able to find you!"
Hannah wore a bright yellow two-piece. The top came down to the bottom of her ribs and the bottom resembled boy shorts. The color matched the yellow bow she always had her hair tied in, but today she wore a low ponytail revealing how long her hair was. Amanda whistled at her, "You clean up nice Hannah! Didn't think you'd be wearing something like that after hanging out with Jasminka so much lately."
Barbara trailed behind and Amanda choked slightly, the supposedly meek blunette wore a strapless purple and white two-piece. The top looked like nothing more than a ribbon wrapped around her with white in the front and back and purple on the sides. The solid purple bottom was only slightly more substantial than Diana's and boasted white mock pleats a few inches down her thighs.
Barbara had looked like she wanted to say something to Amanda for flirting with Hannah, but as everyone turned to stare at her she grew self-conscious and crossed one arm over her tummy and the other across to her thigh. Hannah grinned at her, "Doesn't she look gorgeous, everyone?"
Barbara flushed at the compliment, and more so when everyone agreed. "Thank you everyone. Is Lotte here yet?" At Hannah's intense gaze she hurriedly continued, "Or Sucy or Professor Chariot?"
"Nope! They're the last to come," Akko volunteered, "Lotte promised she'd be able to get Sucy out here, but I'll wait until I see it to believe it." Akko did not notice the suspicious figure drawing up behind her, "You know, Sucy is a lot like a mushroom herself. She likes it when it's cold and dark."
The figure wore a light hooded jacket with the hood drawn up and dark sunglasses and a blue one-piece swimsuit. She pulled a mushroom out of her pocket. Diana winced as she watched Sucy whack Akko across the back of the head with the mushroom, now grown to comically large proportions. Akko face-planted and started to whine, "Ack! Suuuucyyyyy."
Sucy tucked her now normal-sized mushroom into a pocket of her hooded jacket. "I don't really consider being compared to a mushroom an insult . . . but I could tell you meant it to be one."
"Waaaa, Sucyyyy, you're so meannnn." Akko was laying it on thick, but then her eyes focused in on what she was wearing, "What! Where did you get a Japanese school swimsuit?"
Sucy's cheeks faintly colored, but she managed to answer calmly, "Ah, I've been watching some anime with Constanze and it seemed like it would suit me so I ordered one." Constanze gave Sucy a thumbs up and Sucy grinned.
"What? You guys watch anime and you didn't ask me? I'm Japanese!"
"But then we'd feel obligated to let you watch with us. Well, Constanze would feel obligated . . . "
"Waa! Diana! Sucy is being mean to me!" Akko sought shelter in the comforts of Diana's collarbone. Amanda grimaced and turned to glare at Hannah and Barbara, who clasped hands and shrunk away from her.
Amanda mouthed, "We need to talk," with a glare that could not be ignored.
Hannah and Barbara looked at each other, then back at Amanda and nodded fearfully. At that moment, a pretty blonde teenager walked up to the group.
"Hi guys," Lotte said with a smile.
Shouts and exclamations greeted her as several of them collectively fell over in shock—even Akko, who saw Lotte without glasses every morning. Lotte replaced her normal blue headband with a Tiffany blue ribbon tied in a bow. Her one-piece swimsuit also sported a large blue bow across her chest and frills in the shape of a skirt around her waist that didn't quite come down to cover the bottom of her suit. The suit darkened from Tiffany blue at the chest to an Olympic blue below her frills. She had a white hooded jacket unzipped like Sucy, but she was letting hers drape down on her arms so her shoulders were exposed.
Barbara gulped, "Wow, Lotte! You look beautiful! I really love your bow." Hannah stared in horror at Lotte, possibly realizing for the first time how pretty she was. She squeezed Barbara's hand tightly. "Ow! Hannah?"
Hannah pulled Barbara until their bodies crashed together and kissed her in front of everyone. "Heyyy, I thought you guys said not to do that in public? Fine, if that's how it's going to be."
Akko started crawling over towards Diana, but Diana modestly demurred, preventing Akko from getting up. Akko clung to her legs and pouted.
"Children! What is going on here?" The normally meek Chariot found the rare semblance of a teacher inside as she joined them.
Hannah pulled away from Barbara sharply. Barbara, dazed and flushed, stepped back too quickly and jerked on Hannah's arm. Hannah pulled her back so she wouldn't fall and the two jostled together once more before separating. Akko turned from her position around Diana's legs to regard the former idol.
Her mouth dropped open. Diana's mouth already hung open. Akko pinched Diana's legs. "Ouch! Akko!"
"Are. You. Seeing. This."
"Yes!"
"It's Shiny Chariot!"
"I can see that!"
"It's Shiny Chariot in a bikini!"
"I can see that too!"
"OH MY GOD, can I get a picture?" Akko screeched before detaching from Diana and coming to sit in a seiza position before her idol.
Diana calmly walked over, blushing and blinking, unable to quite look Chariot in the eyes as she too sat beside Akko mimicking the Japanese girl's stance. "I also, would greatly wish to have a photograph with you, Professor. If it would not be too much trouble."
Sucy took one look at Chariot and commented, "Wow, I can see why those two turned gay if they were exposed to that as children." The three witches in question couldn't quite hear her comment and just figured Sucy said something rude.
Chariot stood before them in a swimsuit mock-up of her Shiny Chariot outfit. The blue miniskirt, skimpy white bikini, and white straw hat all could have looked normal by themselves, but throw in the red shawl and everyone could tell their professor missed her old costume. "You're even prettier than you were when you were Chariot!" Akko fangirled.
Diana nodded in agreement, "She definitely did not have those measurements on our posters."
Chariot snapped her fingers, redirecting their attention, "ONE picture, girls, and then we promise to never speak of this again!"
"YATTA!" Akko shouted.
"YAY!" Diana shouted, then coughed, covering up her outburst, but unable to stop smiling.
Lotte was scribbling notes and whispering furiously with Barbara as they regarded the trio. Hannah stared in wonder, "Wow, I had no idea Professor Chariot was such a babe."
Thankfully, she said it quietly enough not to catch Barbara's attention. Jasminka, bored, calmly rooted through their bag for some chips, while Constanze played a handheld game.
Amanda stalked over to Hannah and interrupted Barbara's conference with Lotte. "We need to talk, now."
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The trio kept walking until their friends were specks on the horizon. Eventually, Barbara managed to summon enough courage to ask, "How long are we going to walk?"
Amanda spun to face them and they cowered in spite of themselves. They hugged each other in fear, their hands on one another's tummies. "You need to tell them you're not friends."
They stopped shaking in fear and their expressions turned sad. "Oh," Hannah said softly. "We were so embarrassed to be caught by Diana. When we tried to say we were just friends it—"
"Came out all wrong. Like we were saying we weren't friends with Diana, but—"
"We were so embarrassed. She was a Cavendish, and we were these—"
"Lesbians. What if she hated us? What if she got us kicked out of—"
"Luna Nova? What if she didn't want to be—"
"Friends with us anymore? So—"
"We lied. We said we were a special kind of friend, special kind of super close best friends, and that what we were doing—"
"Was normal. When she accepted our story at face value—"
"We thought she was being nice. Giving us a chance to—"
"Save face. An excuse to be ourselves without having to come out."
"We were so grateful to her then. I think I fell for her for real then," Hannah offered.
"We didn't just want to be the teammates of the Cavendish," Barbara turned to Hannah and smiled.
"We wanted to be friends with Diana," Hannah smiled fondly in return.
They turned back to Amanda, "But we didn't know how."
"Or even how to act the way we had been."
"Until Akko brought her back."
"She saved Diana, but she saved us too."
"We had no idea that Diana believed us about—"
"Best friends. And we've been sick to our stomachs ever since finding out—"
"About Akko and Diana!"
Amanda looked like she was about to faint from dizziness from turning back and forth as the duo spoke, but she focused in and collected herself, "That's why you need to tell them the truth!" At their frown, "I don't want to force you to out yourselves, but it's only a secret to Akko and Diana. Everyone. Literally everyone else in school knows. Even our professors."
"What?" They shouted in unison. "Everyone?"
"Everyone."
"But Diana . . ." Hannah began. Barbara squeezed her hand and shook her head.
Amanda nodded, "Do you really believe Diana is the type to hold being gay against you? Especially when she is one of the gayest girls we know? I mean, did you see her falling all over Professor Chariot back there?" Amanda managed to sound simultaneously fond and jealous.
"I had no idea Professor Chariot was that sexy though. Did you see her . . . " Hannah started.
"Her what?" Barbara asked in a no-nonsense tone. "See her what? Her breasts? Her stomach? Her butt? Her legs? Her what?"
Amanda shook her head, "Yeah, all of that. She makes even someone like me feel a little put out."
Hannah and Barbara turned to her incredulously. Surprised Amanda is even comparing herself to Chariot. Barbara offered, "Well, she was an idol after all. She had to be beautiful."
"See, you saw her too." Barbara sniffed in response.
"Anyway, you need to talk to Diana ASAP. As soon as possible. Those two are moving to a painful realization and the longer it goes on the worse it's going to be for them."
The duo's frowns were back, "Diana would be difficult." Barbara conceded.
Hannah nodded, "Even after everything, to tell her that we misled her."
"Lied to her."
Tears came to their eyes, "We fucked up."
Amanda grew sad for them, "Yes, but you can still make it up."
Hannah nodded, "You're right. But—"
"Let's try speaking with Akko first."
Amanda agreed, "I'm OK with that. Akko would probably be easier to approach in this situation. So . . . ?"
"We're going to come out," Barbara offered. Hannah started crying and Barbara continued, "Everyone really knows we're lesbians?"
Amanda nodded, crying as well for them, "All of us love you guys so much. We won't stop being friends. I mean, we go to an all-girls school, there are tons of lesbians here, or lesbians until they go to college anyway. But even if that wasn't the case, we all love you."
Barbara and Hannah cried tears of relief and brought Amanda into a group hug. "Thank you so much, Amanda." Hannah began, "I know we aren't as close as we could be, but thank you, thank you, thank you."
Barbara nodded into the hug, "I never thought we could be open like this. Thank you."
"Um, guys," Amanda began, "I'm sure you know, but, I'm a lesbian too, and you're both in really sexy swimsuits hugging me . . . "
Startled, they broke the hug, then the three of them began laughing. Eventually the tears and chuckles died down and it was Barbara's turn to offer support to Amanda. She placed her hand on Amanda's shoulder, "You really love them, don't you?"
Amanda grinned even as the mere question caused tears to start streaming down her cheeks. Looking into the distance, she answered gruffly, "Yeah. I do."
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The girls had taken lots of pictures and Chariot was extremely happy in spite of her embarrassment. She decided to take a walk by herself along the beach. How often do you get to visit Corsica anyway? She'd have to remember to thank Diana again.
Well, maybe those pictures will be thanks enough. She laughed thinking about the effect her outfit had on her two biggest fans, So much for thinking I was being subtle!
She spun and allowed herself a rare moment of grace as she skipped along the coast. The crystal clear Mediterranean water lapping against the shore of the only semi-busy beach was a pleasant reflection for her mood. She allowed herself the confidence and daring she only reached for when she was in action. I guess it's true that clothes make the witch. She mused.
"Chari?" The voice came from nowhere and froze her as a statue.
No. It can't be. Chariot turned to regard the one that called out her name. Where she had looked careless and somewhat frumpy the last time she had seen her, Croix was a witch transformed.
Her hair was styled and pulled over to the side like she wore it when she was teaching at Luna Nova. She was wearing lavender eyeshadow instead of her glasses and her lips had the rosy blush of a matte lipstick. Chariot's mouth went dry at the sight of her solid black one-piece swimsuit, revealing more of her body than she had seen in over a decade. The swimsuit had a mock collar and an opening from her clavicle to her diaphragm. "Chari? I'm so glad you're OK. When I heard about the Sorcerer's Stone . . ." She trailed off, distracted "Sorry, but you look really hot."
With a sob of pain and need, Chariot closed the distance between them and crushed her lips against Croix's. Both witches saw stars as they were reunited under the Mediterranean skies.
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Later, the two witches found time to speak. They rested under a beach umbrella, Croix laying with her arms folded behind her head and Chariot resting on her side with her head propped up to regard her troubled lover.
"So you didn't escape?"
Croix laughed, "And run first thing to one witch that could guilt trip me into turning myself in?"
Chariot traced her finger along the bottom of the opening in Croix's suit. "Tell me what's going on. No secrets."
Croix smiled. "No secrets." She said simply, "I predicted the problems with the Sorcerer's Stones."
Chariot frowned, "Of course you did. And you didn't think to warn me, like maybe when I took you out of prison?"
Croix grimaced at the memory, "I was slightly off in the timing. I filed a report and marked it with the highest urgency, but I thought we had another year before magic would grow to these levels." She said with a hint of fury, "They didn't believe my report."
Chariot leaned in and kissed the corner of her mouth, waiting for Croix's mood to pass. She kissed her cheek and wove her fingers in Croix's hair, knowing it drove her mad when she played with it after Croix had styled it—but a different kind of mad than the raw fury she felt when people didn't acknowledge her brilliance. Croix reached up and grabbed her fingers and smiled at her, she turned away from Chariot to kiss the palm of her hand. Chariot regarded her, "I've missed you so much, Croix."
"I'm lost without you, Chariot."
Tears were never far from Chariot's eyes when Croix was around of late, but she blinked them back, "So they're using you."
Croix grimaced, "You got it. I'm expendable and I'm brilliant, so they sent me out. Of course, the first thing I'm going to do is look up my number one girl."
"I'm your only girl."
"You are."
"Really?" Chariot asked, "There hasn't been anyone else?"
"No one that meant anything. It's always been you." Croix hesitated, "And. And you?"
Chariot gasped in surprise, "Oh, Akko!"
"What!"
Chariot covered quickly, having just realized it when the young witch came to mind, "Akko is the real reason you're here, isn't it?"
"Your report said that you believe she may have stabilized, but it's just as likely that it's a false breath."
False breath. The gasses escaping a corpse. Leave it to Croix to be so poetic. Chariot made up her mind to tease her. "Akko kissed me."
"You're not going to get me on that twice," Croix muttered.
Chariot rested her hand on the middle of Croix's rib, under her breast. She slowly draped her leg over her ex-girlfriend. "She kissed me twice," she whispered into Croix's ear. "I was her first—and second—kiss."
She nibbled on Croix's ear as the technowitch's mind scrambled to make sense of what she was being told. The sensations of Chariot in her arms once more was by itself enough to short-circuit her brain. She managed to mutter verbosely, "No way."
Chariot's giggle drove her to distraction, and Croix lifted up to kiss her and pull Chariot more on top of her. "Yes way. I actually had to give Akko detention for that, even though it wasn't entirely her fault."
"Pervert. Bet you enjoyed having your adoring fan locked up for detention."
"Hey, at least I don't invite her to my evil laboratory and knock her out while holding her."
"That was one time." Croix laughed and Chariot giggled that maddeningly lovely laugh again. I'm so happy. To be able to joke like this again. To have her in my arms again.
Chariot leaned in, kissing her red lips sensually. "I think Akko actually slipped me a little tongue on that second kiss."
Croix laughed again, "I bet you made her year. I can only imagine how you felt."
Chariot stopped that line of thought, knowing it would upset Croix to think about how upset Akko's actions would have made her. Chariot ducked down and began sucking at the base of Croix's neck. Croix squirmed and rolled on top of the beautiful redhead. Chariot let her arms be lifted above her head and pinned to the ground. The look of submission on Chariot's face at that moment was too much for Croix, and she descended to capture her lips once more.
Chariot allowed it for close to a minute before freeing herself and pinning Croix beneath her. She lifted up, resting her butt on Croix's tummy, her skirt fanning out to tickle Croix's exposed skin. "No fair, you're too strong." Croix looked up at her lovingly, but could tell Chariot was thinking.
"How long will you be here for?"
"I don't know." Croix frowned, "I have a handler. They might make me leave tonight."
Chariot leaned down until their foreheads touched, she gazed into Croix's eyes, "You're on our side, right?"
Croix kissed her quick, "I'm on your side. Wherever that may be."
The moment passed. Chariot lifted her leg up and sat next to her. "We should probably be doing more than just making out like kids."
Chariot stood and helped Croix to her feet. Their hands lingered, "Like Akko?" Croix asked teasingly, "Or like how we used to be?"
"You'd be surprised about Akko." At Croix's look of judgement, "No, not with me. Her and Diana are all over each other. I'm sure they'll start dating soon."
"Diana. There's a witch I'd be worried about if she kissed you." Croix tried to tease.
Chariot pretended to think about it, "Yes, I'd have to agree that you should worry. Marrying into the Cavendish family would be a dream come true."
"Hey! Have you thought about that?!"
Chariot's giggle would be in every dream she had for a year at this point, "Who hasn't thought about marrying into a witch family like the Cavendishes?"
"I'm going to report you to Holbrooke."
Chariot frowned in disgust for a moment before her thoughts turned back to the girls, "I really do love them both. I think of them like daughters." Croix laughed and it was Chariot's turn to say, "Pervert."
"That's not what I was laughing about, although that is amusing too. 'Like daughters'? You're not old enough to be their mom. You're more like the cool, hot aunt."
Chariot shook her head, "Age has nothing to do with it. I would do anything for those two."
"I guess that means I'm on their side too," Croix said seriously.
The look of love Chariot gave her at that point was worth any future pain that might come from the declaration, especially as it was accompanied by the red-haired bombshell jumping into Croix's arms and wrapping her arms around her neck. Croix stumbled and fell.
"Hey! I'm not as sturdy as you!" Croix muttered something about kicking a dragon.
Chariot giggled again, "It's OK! I'll pick you up whenever you're down."
"Ugh, so corny," Croix pretended to grumble.
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"Did you get it?" Sucy asked. Constanze gave a thumbs up. "Man, I never thought we'd see something like that. I just wanted to find some barnacles. Too bad we couldn't hear them."
Constanze shook her head and pointed to the display, a speaker icon flashed at her. "No way!" Sucy considered, "I wonder if we could make more money selling this to Akko or Diana or one of those two lovebirds?"
Constanze shrugged, but looked overly pleased with herself. She tapped another button on the display, revealing that her Stanbots had released drones to capture the final moments between Croix and Chariot from multiple angles.
"Just having video and audio of Professor Chariot in that swimsuit would probably be priceless to Akko."
Constanze nodded as they marched back to their friends, the barnacle search forgotten.
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Amanda ran up from the water's edge and noticed Diana was nowhere in sight. "Where'd Diana get off to?"
Akko smiled knowingly, "I sent her off to get us some watermelons! They're so cheap here!"
Jasminka smiled at the overly proud witch, before turning her attention back to her grilling. It was up to her to make dinner for everyone, not that she minded. Lotte lay in the shade reading with Barbara lying next to her. Hannah was doing her best to assist Jasminka, but she didn't really need her help. Amanda stared at Barbara until the witch was shaken from her relaxation. Barbara nodded contritely at her. Amanda then turned her gaze upon Hannah. Hannah actually yelped and dropped the shish kebab she was holding. Jasminka dove in with her tongs and neatly caught the skewer before it could fall to the sand.
"Why are you picking on Hannah and Barbara, Amanda?" Akko asked.
"No reason, but I think they might want to talk to you about something? If they're ready to."
The two witches nodded in unison, even as they were separated by about a dozen feet. "Akko, would you mind coming with us for a little bit?" Barbara asked.
"Alright, but make sure we're back in time for dinner!"
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"What did you two want to talk about?" Akko asked.
"Akko, we don't really know how to say this—" Barbara began,
"So we're just going to come out and say it." Hannah finished.
"We're gay." They announced in unison.
Akko blinked. "OK?"
"OK?" They parroted.
"I mean, everyone knows you two are gay."
"WHAT?" The two had nearly the same reaction as they did earlier in the day. Barbara started to hyperventilate and Hannah hurriedly fanned her.
"So you know we're gay?" Hannah asked.
"Well yeah."
"And that we're dating?" Barbara squeaked.
"Well, if you're not dating you've got some serious explaining to do," Akko joked.
Barbara and Hannah looked sidelong at each other. "Akko," they began in unison before Barbara finished, "About Diana."
Instantly, Akko clammed up, realizing what the conversation was actually about and how stupid she had been to not figure it out. "I don't think we need to talk about that."
"What?" Hannah asked in confusion.
Barbara persisted, "You and Diana."
"Are best friends. The bestest friends." She said it bitterly and stubbornly.
"Oh God," Hannah whispered.
"You knew," Barbara finished. The duo began crying.
"Akko, we're so sorry," Hannah said.
"There's nothing to be sorry for," Akko said resolutely, "We're best friends. That's all. That's all we can be." She trailed off, "Even if Diana understood . . . "
"Akko!" The duo pulled her into a hug and Akko couldn't stop herself from crying.
She started arguing with herself. It sounded like one she had many times before. "I want to be friends with her. I want to be with Diana forever. She's a Cavendish. She has expectations and needs for someone that wants to date her. I'm Japanese. There's no way my family would accept me being gay. So I'm just not gay is the answer. Diana is my best friend is the answer. This is the best way. This is the only way I get to be with her. I'm happy."
Akko fell to her knees and Barbara and Hannah went down with her, trying to comfort her.
"This is the best way. I'm happy. I'm happy."
With a face full of tears, Akko managed to force a smile and whispered, "Yatta."
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Soooooo, maybe that chapter title is a bit ironic! Anyway, I'm not sure how long I'll keep this beach episode going. I've already written the end of it and I'm super excited to start the episode after that.
For the curious, they're at Palombaggia Beach in Corsica. I figured that'd be an uber-posh place for Diana to summer at. I know their family has had financial struggles, but who'd want to give up property/businesses in a place like that? If they previously had the property, I could envision Daryl keeping that and getting rid of less mundane/more magical things before her rehabilitation.
Thanks for reading! Hope to hear from you!
