Well, I've not received many comments yet, but I've been sitting on this chapter for a bit and don't want to wait any longer to post it.
I'll love you if you're keeping up with the story but hadn't been able to comment yet on chapter 6, if you do so for 7.
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but thank you JFC for clarifying that point for sbk!
For this chapter and the next couple at least, the story's gonna be a little different, from a perspective we haven't seen yet (in the sequel at least). I'm hoping this may pique the interest of a few more people as well who aren't as into the characters I've focused on so far.
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Chapter 7 – When Tempests Clash“Ai-chan,” Risa said from her desk as she perused the paper she held just above it. “The Imperial Government has requested another meeting, to keep us ‘informed’ of events and to seek… our counsel.”
“Our counsel?” Ai asked, leaning over her own desk and rubbing her forehead deeply. It had been a long day, and her head was beginning to hurt. She had a feeling it was coming to be that time of month again too. “Don’t we have enough work around here? We have to tell people how to run the country too?”
Despite her outward disgruntlement, there was a sort of emptiness to her words as well. She remembered when she quite willingly was running the country, and even though they were putting so much effort into the school now, sometimes she missed the weight of responsibility. She thought that was part of the reason she worked so hard for this job to begin with.
“Well actually…” Risa said, frowning down at the paper and peering out of the corner of her eye to Ai. “It doesn’t mention us in the request. Most specifically, they wish to speak with ‘Suzuki Airi-sama’.”
Ai sighed. “That girl definitely seems to do her best in the flamboyancy department. One glance at her and what she does and no one else seems to exist. I know Natsuyaki for one seems to prefer it that way, even though I’m unsure which of them is actually the most dangerous. As for Tanaka…” Memories of her own violent encounters with the former leader of the Skulls flitted through her mind’s eye. “From what I hear, she’s not suitable for much anything these days. Stays in the tower nearly all the time. I know her better than that though… It only makes me wonder what she’s up to.”
She shook her head slowly, trying not to aggravate the ache any more. “No, I think the Emperor is making a big mistake if he comes purely to Airi for favors. Still…” she added, tapping a report on her own desk with a fingertip, “It wouldn’t hurt the two of them to actually come to class once in awhile. Maybe Tanaka could use some socializing.”
“Do you really think going to class would be what’s best for them?” Risa asked, now looking over at her. “I know they are students here, but… The others definitely don’t seem to complain that they aren’t doing the same work as them, and I think if they did see them in class, it’d only be more trouble than it’s worth.”
“Knowledge never hurt anyone, Nii-chan,” Ai said in response.
Risa was quiet a moment. “For Natsuyaki-san at least,” she said finally in a similarly quiet voice, “I don’t think knowledge is the problem. As for Tanaka…” She sighed herself. “Do we really want to release her on all of the best and brightest and most beautiful girls in Japan who’ve come here?” Her expression darkened as those memories of the hated Skulls apparently arose once again. “I’d imagine before long our counselor wouldn’t be able to handle all the cases of grief that’d surely come to her. She has her hands full enough just with the Mano girl at the moment.”
“How is she doing, by the way?” Ai asked idly, relaxing back into her chair. Maybe she’d call it in early today. No… she just had too much work to do…
“Well enough, considering,” Risa replied, picking at another paper on her desk. “I think she was just too innocent to know what she was getting into with Tanaka, so she fell head over heels too quickly and is now paying the price. Of course that’s not the all of it. Their talks have grown to what it’s like being shot with an arrow and nearly dying, onto being involved in a war where no few of her friends
were killed. Yamada-sensei is good, but unfortunately there have been too many things out of even her own considerable experience happening to girls around here.”
“Don’t we know the truth of that,” Ai said, resigned. She turned to Risa with a warm smile. “Hey, why don’t you take off early? Go get yourself a nice relaxing bath and head back to our rooms. I think you’ve done enough good work today.”
Risa gave her a sly smirk in return. “It’d sound a lot more relaxing if you’d join me in that bath. It’s been forever since either of us has had time for anything relaxing like that, since a good while before the last visit from the Emperor I think.”
Ai’s smile broadened. “You don’t know how good that sounds, Nii-chan, but I still have some things to finish up here. You go. I’ll catch up with you later, and maybe we can watch a movie from bed or something.”
Reluctantly, Risa organized a few papers and rose from her desk. When she looked over, Ai was once again engrossed in some of her own. “All right, Ai-chan,” she submitted. “But you’d better promise me if we do that, it’ll be some kind of romantic movie that neither of us will remember very much of by the time the credits roll.”
Ai smiled, just glancing up toward the other girl. “That, I might be able to live with,” she agreed, and with a bit more of a bounce to her step, Risa came over to give her a hug around the neck and kiss on the cheek and started to head out the door.
As she began to close it behind her, she turned back seductively. “Don’t keep me waiting too long,
Mr. Moonlight…” she teased, calling Ai by a nickname she’d given her after one of their favorite songs. “The moon’s going to be full tonight I hear, by the way…” she trailed off mysteriously, pulling the door lightly shut behind her.
Ai shook her head, unable to keep the smile from her face as she thought of the girl she’d just ordered to her bath. However, the smile quickly was long lost as she became engrossed in the paperwork that constantly piled up all too quickly. She was glad she had Risa to help her with running the school – she didn’t think she would be able to manage even that paperwork by herself, let alone all her other duties. She couldn’t imagine how Tsunku had been able to keep things running on his own.
A crack of thunder made her look up to the window, and she saw by the blowing trees outside that a storm was brewing. Idly she wondered if Reina had anything to do with it, and thought momentarily about attempting to remedy it herself, but decided it would fit the oncoming night well. Plus, it’d make it all the more cozy later on when she made it to bed with Risa.
Occasionally she liked dueling from afar with Reina over the weather. It allowed for some very interesting consequences at times, including once a dust devil from who knew where that frightened some of the spoiled rich students out of their wits – something that pleased those like Yurina to no end. There was also a time when Michishige and Kamei had been walking along minding their own business when a tiny cloudburst broke and dumped a torrent of rain… somehow on just the two of them, while leaving even those who were walking just behind or ahead of them completely dry. They’d been teased of course, but the two girls managed to make fun out of it and danced around like they’d gone crazy before ending up in a spontaneous mud-wrestling match… Something that horrified some students, but made Ai and Risa, and even a passing Natsuyaki, just smirk knowingly.
Noticing her thoughts had strayed from her papers, she tried to focus once again through the shortening intervals of thunder. Her head was feeling a bit better now, but there was still a dull pain she couldn’t seem to shake. Even with the two of them doing the work, especially now with these matters with the government intruding, they were beginning to work themselves past the point of tolerance. Risa was right; it had been a long time since they’d even been able to fully take advantage of such a simple luxury as a bath.
To that end, the two of them had decided they needed assistants for their Head office. There were of course various school staff working around the building and the rest of campus, but nobody directly under them and assisting them with their specific duties. They thought about putting an advertisement online, sure that just as the students applied they’d get any number of able-bodied and experienced applicants, but in the end decided that it’d be best for their nature if they kept this office completely within the school.
Therefore, they broadcasted a campus-wide announcement that any students of sixteen years or older who would like to make some extra money, and attain some valuable experience in the process, were welcome to apply for the Assistant Headmaster positions. She and Risa had discussed whether to hire one or two assistants, but decided it would be best to have two, for each of the Headmasters. Plus, it gave another student the opportunity for what she hoped would become an interesting experience, both professionally and otherwise.
They’d received, as expected, quite a few applications. However, they were mostly from students who had been through the Circle’s war. This wasn’t surprising; most of the new students were wealthy enough that they had no need for the extra income at the expense of time and work. Still, she’d hoped some of them would see the value in the experience such hard work would give them. She sighed. She wondered what it would be like perhaps never needing to work hard in your life. Sifting through the applications, she decided that she for one would never know.
She of course knew most of the names, but tried not to let that cloud her judgment of their applications. She paused at one though that slightly surprised her. Flipping to the next one in the stack, she noticed that Li Chun and Qian Lin, both of the Chinese exchange students, had applied. Finding it interesting that they would be brave enough to apply for such a job outside of their own language and culture, she appraised their applications carefully, noticing that each seemed to carry quite an impressive range of skills, as well as surprising command of at least written Japanese.
She leaned back in her chair again, trying to remember her encounters with the two girls. They had fought against her in the war, but she certainly couldn’t hold that against them. From what she remembered, they didn’t seem to have very much trouble with the spoken language either. Thinking it would be interesting to have people such as them to work with – and since they were obviously quite qualified, surprising for students even though Chun at least was in her final year – she decided to bring them up with Risa in the morning and ask them in for interviews.
Yawning, she glanced to the window at another crack of thunder and realized that the rain had started pouring torrentially through a strong wind. Reina or not, this was bound to be quite a storm. A sound from the door brought her head back around, and she yelled “Come in!” in answer to the knock, leaning back forward in her chair.
The door swung open, and two rather tall young girls walked in. Ai smiled upon seeing who they were. “Chinami-chan, Yurina, it’s good to see you! Although it’s a bit late, isn’t it?”
Chinami smiled brightly at her as always, though Yurina only gave a glimmer of one. “We just got finished eating,” Chinami said, coming forward to sit in one of the comfy guest chairs before Ai’s desk. Yurina more hesitantly took the other. Chinami actually came in quite regularly to discuss with her how relations were going among the students, especially those from opposing sides in the war, but Yurina wasn’t usually with her.
Chinami glanced over to Yurina before continuing. “I don’t have a whole lot to report today, but Kuma-chan was insistent on seeing you, so I decided to come along as well.”
“Oh?” Ai asked, giving a glance over to Yurina as well, who didn’t seem to quite have the confidence to speak yet. “And how are things going? Kanon and the others staying out of trouble?”
“Oh they are…” Chinami said. “Ever since the… visit from the Emperor, there have been fewer complaints all around. Aika-chan seems to be trying her best to unite them too. I even saw her talking with Sugaya-san, Okai-chan, and Yuuka-chan all together yesterday. They seemed to be planning some bigger get-together that Yuuka was going to invite the others to also.”
“That’s great news,” Ai said with a smile.
Well, at least Airi’s handiwork that day was good for something… she thought afterward to herself.
“And how about you?” she asked, turning to Yurina. “Making any friends from across the gap?”
Yurina gave a weak smile. “Not really…” she responded, “Although it’s not from any distaste. I just haven’t been putting the effort into that kind of thing.”
“You haven’t?” Ai asked, sensing she was doing well in approaching the heart of whatever matter Yurina had wanted to bring to her attention.
The young girl shook her head. “I have been talking with Momoko-chan a lot lately though…” Out of the corner of her eye Ai caught Chinami resting her hands in her lap as she watched Yurina, her smile slowly fading in worry, or perhaps disapproval of what her friend must be about to say.
“Tsugunaga-san,” Ai confirmed, folding her hands in front of her. “I see.” The pieces definitely were falling into place. She knew there could be only a few things those two girls would have to “discuss”.
Yurina nodded. “We thought… that as Headmasters of the school, as well as with the abilities you have, that you should have some amount of protection. After all, anyone could walk into this building, and if I’m not mistaken unlike Natsuyaki-san or Shimizu-san…” Ai began to frown as the girl mentioned their deceased partner’s name, “…you wouldn’t have a way of knowing of a threat until it was on top of you.”
“You don’t think we have the capabilities to defend ourselves?” Ai asked, her words punctuated by a loud clap of thunder from outside, causing the two younger girls to jump slightly and glance over at the window.
“It’s not that…” Yurina said, looking down into her lap and smoothing her skirt. “I just don’t like the appearance of you two being vulnerable. Who knows what could happen if we’re not careful, especially with things becoming the way they are in the world. Plus… I know you’d be devastated if anything were to happen to Niigaki-san…” she finished, in a rather hesitant and small voice, as she should with such a personal comment.
Ai only stared at the girl a moment without responding before leaning back in her chair again. Eventually, she gave a resigned sigh, and both girls looked up into her face. “You’re right. I can’t be aware of things twenty-four seven, and shouldn’t take undue risks where
either of us are concerned.” Yurina blushed slightly at the subtle reprimand. “That’s part of why we’re hiring assistants, to help us out with the daily work, but also to give us some extra eyes and ears in the office.”
Yurina’s features picked up. “Well that would be good!” Chinami exclaimed. “Wouldn’t it, Kuma-chan?” she asked in a somewhat warning voice.
“Yes… it would,” the younger responded. “But I don’t know… just hiring a couple of office ladies…”
Ai waved a hand in front of her face. “We’re not hiring office ladies, but students, and actually,” She leaned forward to pick up the two applications sitting in front of her. “These are the most promising ones so far. I believe you know them. They go by Junjun and… Linlin, as you’d know them.”
Yurina even broke a smile at that. “Well that might work,” she said, still a bit grudgingly. Obviously she had wanted to offer herself and Tsugunaga-san for the positions, but Ai didn’t want to burden her with something even on top of the troubles she was having with her school work. Still, it might be good to give the restive girls some kind of bone to keep them happy. “I remember them from… from before, and know they’re quite capable for anything you’d need.”
“Yes,” Ai said, with thinly veiled sarcasm. “I believe they are.” Yurina didn’t seem to notice.
“Alright then!” Chinami said, standing up quickly and tugging on Yurina’s arm to bring her up with her. “I’m glad everything’s going better for us all. I’ll be sure to bring you more reports whenever I have them. Perhaps we’ll run into you on campus, right Kuma-chan?” she said, in that semi-dangerous voice once again.
“Right,” Yurina said, giving one last look back at Ai before they turned to leave. “Thanks for hearing me out Takahashi-san, and I’m glad to hear there’ll be someone here helping to look after you all.”
“Thanks for your concern,” Ai said, in a not completely unkind voice. She really was touched by the girl’s concern for her. She supposed she was due it to an extent after what she’d done for her in the war. She stood to see the two girls out. “You two have a great night!” she said with a smile. The two students bowed, and the door swung shut behind them.
Sitting down with another sigh, and sighing again when she looked at the papers still piled up on her desk, Ai decided that perhaps it was time to call it a night herself and see what Risa had waiting for her. She looked at the clock across the room and her eyes widened. Yes, it definitely was time. Risa was bound to come looking for her soon, even if she had to do so in her nightdress.
However, when she looked down from the clock, a flash of lightning illuminated a small form in the shadows beside the door, and she sat up with a start. She hadn’t heard the door open, but perhaps she was just too engrossed in her thoughts to recognize the sound. Still, whoever it was, the fact that she just stood there seemingly unmoving felt just a tad bit creepy.
“Yes?” she asked, organizing her papers in preparation for closing for the day. “Can I help you with something?”
She heard footsteps as the girl walked forward, but Ai didn’t look up until she had the stack she was working on ordered. However, when she did, she couldn’t seem to take her eyes away again.
“Hello, fearless leader,” Reina said, giving a toothy grin from a few steps behind the chairs Chinami and Yurina had just vacated. The girl presented an image that was somewhat jarring to the senses; apparently she’d walked right through the rain on her way here, for she was completely drenched, her blouse sagging down around her waist and her skirt stuck tightly to her legs. Her hair was also hanging heavily around her shoulders. Ai made a little alteration in her opinion of whether Reina was responsible for this storm or not.
“Reina,” Ai said with a smile. “It’s nice to see you.” Despite her words, something tightened inside her with discomfort. “How have you been? I take it there’s a bit of rain outside?”
Reina smiled at her joke. “It suits my mood,” she said.
“Oh?” Ai asked, now standing as she set aside a final stack of papers and maneuvered her mouse to shut down her computer. “Is something wrong?”
“Don’t play coy with me, Ai-chan,” Reina said in a sing-song voice. Ai found her eyes traveling up to the girl’s again, this time in gentle surprise. Reina walked slowly past the guest chairs and around Ai’s desk before coming up rather close to her, dark eyes staring into dark brown from the similar vantage point of their heights. “You know I’m not the same as the other girls that appear in front of your desk.”
“You’re right,” Ai said, now feeling very uncomfortable. “You’re not. So why don’t you tell me what this is about?”
In response, Reina reached up with a damp hand to run a finger slowly down Ai’s cheek. For some reason, in the shock of the moment, Ai couldn’t respond immediately. However, she quickly regained her bearings. “Reina…” she said in a slightly shaking voice. “What are you doing?” She could hardly comprehend the wrongness of the whole sudden situation. “I’m on my way to see Gaki-san.”
“Do you really need to go to her?” Reina asked, and then she leaned her face close and to the side of Ai’s. With as wet as she was, it nearly looked like she’d been crying heavily.
“I know she doesn’t completely satisfy you, Ai-chan,” she whispered into her ear. “It’s no fault of her own of course,” she continued, slowly pulling her face back and in front of Ai’s own, their faces centimeters apart as she passed, on her way to her other ear. “I’m sure she’s trying her hardest. She just doesn’t have what you need. What you
crave…”
“You don’t know what you’re talking about…” Ai said faintly. How was this happening? She was used to being in control of things. At the moment, things were somehow rapidly slipping out of her control. The thunder boomed in the background as she felt a damp hand touch her wrist and long lacquered fingernails slide slowly and enticingly up her arm. “I couldn’t be happier with Nii-chan. She’s the love of my life.”
“Love…” Reina whispered, the word a caress from her lips. This time though Ai thought she could actually feel the girl’s lips brush her sensitive ear as she spoke, and tried to ignore the reactions of her body to it. “That’s such a nice thing to think about. But does it hold all the answers? Is it what we really
need?” Reina pulled her face back again and looked once more into her eyes. “I know what you need, Ai-chan…” she cooed.
“No…” Ai replied, putting great effort into shaking her head only slightly. “You can’t.”
“But I can,” Reina debated calmly. “And do.”
As her lips formed that last sound, she leaned forward and touched Ai’s cheek with them, a very innocent touch, one that friends might give each other from time to time, or even just acquaintances. However, in that moment, from this girl whose lips were still wet from the rain she had perhaps drawn forth, that touch caused within Ai sensations she could not ignore. She felt exhilaration flow through her as if life itself was being reborn from within her, as if she would burst at any moment, perhaps ending her own life but giving rise to something much greater, much grander, so much more
alive… The thunder rolling outside drew her into the sound as well, and she felt herself float along with the clouds above, feeling the release the falling rain provided them, just one part of a miraculous cycle of nature.
Then she felt the lips depart the flesh of her cheek, and the intensity of the sensations faded, though they were still there, still boiling with the power that she knew dwelt within herself as well, the power that ached so much for another taste of the kinship it had just felt with its twin inside a being apart from her.
She opened her eyes, not realizing she had closed them, and looked into the dark pools across from her that seemed to roil as violently as the clouds she had just inhabited. “That was…” she whispered, amazed that she still had voice.
The girl across from her smiled. “That was just a taste of what you need.” Ai noticed the other girl was breathing heavily, and became aware of her own lungs quickening. The hand that was scaling her arm reached her neck. Reina’s smile widened. “But even I didn’t know it would be that incredible, especially with just a touch.”
“Incredible…” Ai repeated as if in a trance, trying to form a coherent thought.
Nii-chan… The name inserted itself into her mind, but at the moment it held no meaning to her, nothing like the intensity of what she had just been a part of.
She felt fingers circle around her neck and pull her forward. “It’s been a long time, Ai-chan,” Reina whispered. Ai could feel the heat of her breath as the distance between them closed at the girl’s urging.
“I’m going to enjoy this…” When their lips met Ai became lost in the deluge, as if she too had walked too far within the torrent shrouding her school this eve.
…
When Ai pulled herself at last out of dreams of being lost in an insatiable squall at sea, she realized she was drenched, whether from sweat or something else she wasn’t sure. What she was sure of was that she had lost her clothes somewhere in the tempest, and her skin was pressed up tightly against that of another who lay atop her. That other’s leg also happened to still be between both of her own.
She felt it suddenly begin to move once more against her, and she let out a soft moan at what it did to her already expended body. Then Reina lifted her head, which had been nestled in the cleft above her shoulder. “It’s too bad we were enemies for so long…” the girl whined regretfully, breaking the pounding silence. “I never knew what we were missing out on.”
“Reina…” Ai said, trying her best not to make it sound just like the moan that wanted to escape.
“Yes…?” the petite vixen said, leaning up to take Ai’s lower lip between her teeth and bite down softly, before beginning to suck slowly as her leg continued its motions down below. The girl’s still-sopping hair hung down around Ai’s face, as if shielding what was being done to her from the outside world.
“Nii-chan…” Ai managed to breathe. “I need to see her. She’s waiting for me and will soon come looking…”
Letting go of her lip, though giving it a long lick before pulling away, Reina sighed. “Well we wouldn’t want that, would we?” she asked. “It’s too bad that we have to stop so soon though.” Despite her words, her leg definitely wasn’t pursuing such inaction.
Ai closed her eyes. What had the girl done to her? No, Reina hadn’t done this to her. She’d willfully and enthusiastically gone along.
Oh god had she gone along… She’d never dreamt of such an amazing experience. Still, a rapidly intensifying pang of guilt was lodging itself deep inside her to take the place of what she’d just let Reina do to her. Reina Tanaka, the girl she’d hated, who she sometimes couldn’t stand to be around, had nearly battled to the death… and the one with whom she’d had an experience she’d never forget. The worst thing was...
she wanted more.
Her eyes opened, and she realized her hips had begun moving with the girl’s actions. “We have to stop,” she forced herself to say, stifling another moan. “Nii-chan will come looking for me.” Hating herself, she looked down into the dark eyes of the girl atop her. “…Will you come back another time?”
Reina smiled. “All right,” she relented, and finally stopped her leg’s movements. Ai almost whimpered with regret.
As Reina slid off her, all too easy with the slickness of their exerted bodies, and began searching for her clothes, Ai lay a moment longer on the plush couch meant to be a place for those awaiting to see the Headmasters near the door of the office. She stared up at the ceiling, but her mind was completely blank of thoughts since she was no longer sure what was worth thinking about.
“Are you gonna get dressed too, or did you just want to kick me out?” Reina asked in that brazen tone of hers as she began pulling on her slightly torn hose. Ai vaguely remembered that hers were now unusable after having basically been torn to shreds. “I can’t imagine it’s embarrassing to dress in front of me after the evening we’ve had…” This time, Ai could hear the girl’s smirk.
Defiantly, she rose from the couch and began the search for her own clothes, pointedly avoiding looking at the other girl. However, she wasn’t sure if that was because of anger or the fear that if she stared at the girl too long they’d end up right back on the couch again. Eventually she had her complete outfit back on, minus the tights which she’d have to be careful to toss in some obscure trash bin along the way. She wondered how she was going to explain that to Risa.
“I can take care of that,” Reina said, strutting slowly up to her and taking the tatters of fabric she held in her hand. Ai turned to face her, and was surprised that the girl wasn’t smirking, only smiling softly. “It’ll give me a good souvenir…” Reina continued, then leaned in to nearly touch her lips against Ai’s again. Ai felt helpless to resist, almost wanting more than anything to feel that rush of the girl’s power flowing into her again.
“Until next time…” she whispered, her breath hot against Ai’s face.
Just when Ai thought her resistance would completely break down and she’d assault the seductive girl once again, Reina turned and walked slowly out of the office without turning back, Ai watching her from behind as she went. After a minute she shook herself and glanced around the room to make sure nothing else was out of place before heading out herself, finding Reina nowhere in sight already. The girl was definitely skillful at subtle comings and goings.
Walking through the halls, her mind still felt completely clear of thoughts, which in a way was a relief – all the stress she’d felt before meeting the girl seemed to have completely vanished. It was replaced by an odd sense of fullness and satisfaction, though that feeling ate at her just the same.
Eventually she reached the oak double-doors to their shared rooms, and she leaned against one for a moment before pushing it open slowly. Risa lay back on the large four-poster bed in the middle of the room, a sheer white nightgown covering down to her knees, one of which was bent up in relaxation. She had been writing some notes against her leg, but glanced over when the door opened and beamed when she saw Ai. She looked like an angel, having apparently freshened up considerably after her bath, as beautiful as ever.
“Hey there workaholic,” she said with a grin, sitting up on the bed. “I was wondering if you were ever gonna leave that stuffy old place.”
“I just had some things to do,” Ai said, trying to loosen her voice.
“Uh huh,” Risa said, sliding off the bed. “That’s what you always say.” She came up to Ai quite quickly and pressed a gentle kiss to her lips, reaching her hands up to run them from her shoulders down her arms. “Since it’s so late, I’ll forgive you if you ‘forget’ to change into your pajamas,” she advised huskily.
“Actually, I think I should take a quick bath myself,” Ai said, pulling her arms down and pushing her away slightly. “I wouldn’t want to soil what you’ve made so beautiful for me.”
Risa smiled. “I could join you…”
However, Ai stepped quickly and decisively toward the washroom. “But I want to surprise you when I’m all ready,” she called over her shoulder.
“Don’t take too long,” Risa warned in submissiveness. “Or I’ll have to come in to make sure you didn’t drown.” Ai just smiled before turning back forward. “By the way, weren’t you wearing tights earlier?”
“Nope,” Ai responded smoothly. “I forgot about them this morning in the hurry to get to work. Don’t you remember?”
“But I could swear…” Risa said in slight confusion just as Ai stepped on the tile and closed the door behind her.
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