4 – A Well Timed Interruption
On the one hand, no the two of them did not stop with a few not-so-harmless shenanigans. Serena personally blamed the blonde's excursion to Europe and Shirabe's secret (supposedly secret) joy at being able to get the most entertaining noises out of Kirika with the most supposed innocent gestures.
On the other, at least the house had some noise.
Why did her sister get a house anyway? Was it to help Tsubasa feel at home when she visited? Was it in hopes of having a big family of adopted children and giving them the space to run around and be free? Was it because there was more room to hide things under her furniture? Because when they were kids, that had happened a lot. It was only in high school that Maria-nee-chan had actually started cleaning and cleaning obsessively. Then again, the kouhai were coming around more often. So it had to at least seem like she had her life all put together.
Her sister was silly. They didn't actually care.
There was a knock at the door and hearing the Netflix television volume only go up, Serena gave up and went to greet whoever it was. Maybe they were here to complain about the severe amount of public indecency.
Serena opened the door to see Kanade, with, of all things, a plastic container in her hands. "Yo!" she said merrily. "I heard you have a couple of hellions in your house who need a distraction."
"We do not!" Kirika hollered across the house. Shirabe snorted, or Serena thought that she did. Hi, Kanade-san!"
"Yo, squirts." Kanade grinned as she entered the house, leaving Serena trying not to be a blushing mess of goop on the floor because well then. She wasn't wearing a dress, but the blouse shirt hugged her torso from the sides and the V-neck was really cute at the edges.
Serena suddenly felt super underdressed. In what was her own house. "Want some tea?" she asked to cover her own awkwardness. "I think it's just finished."
"that'd be awesome." Kanade's brash, easy going smile was enough to make everything feel a little less... terrifying. "What kind do you have?"
"Citrus!" Serena perked. "I have to bring it with me because all Nee-san drinks is green with three hundred spoonfuls of sugar." She shuddered in disgust. "It's insulting."
"It sounds like clogged arteries waiting to happen." Kanade's smile only widened. "But, I've got fudge, so that'll even it out for us, right?"
Shirabe was suddenly peering over the couch, Kirika and the anime forgotten. "...Fudge?"
Kanade nodded gravely and magically produced a second container seemingly from nowhere. "Your own fudge."
Serena had never seen a house empty so quickly in her life. Not even when someone bought a tofurky from the foreign supermarket.
Kanade winked and Serena exhaled with relief. "So..." she said with a proud smile. "What were you going to watch before they got here?"
It then occurred to Serena that she was alone in the house with a cute girl.
Maria-nee-san was going to kill her.