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“So… you have to stay with me.”
She regretted it the moment the words left her lips. Vill’s normally-blank face went wide-eyed, redness filling the maid’s face. Komari scrabbled up from her limp position on the bed, gesticulating wildly.
“Wait! H-hold on, that wasn’t meant like that! Delete that! I command you with my Master’s Seal, erase that from your memory!”
Vill ignored her, covering her mouth with her hands. Komari looked on in panic, twitching.
“Then… Then… it’s mutual?” Her hands fell to her chest, blinking quickly. The tears welling up in her eyes caught on her lashes, and for a moment they glittered in the gentle light coming in through the window.
Ba-dump.
Komari looked, grabbing her chest and a blush spilling across her cheeks.
“Komari, then… I do. I will promise to k-keep you suh-suh-safe… waaa–” Vill had started sniffling and now futilely tried to wipe her eyes clean, her voice reduced to a blubbering mess. She coughed, nose clogged up - and finally Komari found her handkerchief, touching it to her face.
“Vill, Vill, stop that, please, stop crying, I promise I’m not teasing you! Hey, look, I didn’t mean it-” Komari tried to wipe Vill’s face, but her maid erupted into a wail at her last words. “No! Please, sotp crying, I, I…”
“I love you so much, Komari,” Vill said in between the sobs and the tears, shoulders shaking. Her hands seized the handkerchief and she wiped at her face with it. “I just… I love you, so, so much, I wish to be with you…”
Wait.
“Vill, uh… wait, do you mean like…” Komari went back a little, a torn expression on her face.
Vill sniffled, having wrung the worst of the weeping from her system. She nodded, very slowly, speaking so gently and quietly that Komari had to lean forwards again to hear it. “...I wish to be your lover, Komarin. I want to see you happy, but, because of me…”
Uhoh. Komari blushed again, but this time at herself. Arrrrrgh! Wait, only now it was clicking…Vill was one of those, well, a girl who liked other girls. As in, specifically, Komari.
She squeaked.
“Vill, now, just, to be sure, and to be certain, and to avoid anything, ah, um, uh, as in, the romantic partner, kind…”
An image flashed through Komari’s mind - herself and Vill, sitting together on a Ferris Wheel. (Why a Ferris Wheel?!, she yelled at herself. Get some originality!) The setting sun, of course the best time for two creatures of the night, and Vill leaning in, her bosom pushing Komari against the window until she leaned forwards and-
Komari yelped again, furiously waving her arms through the air to dispel the mental image. Her cheeks were burning brightly, and she looked at Vill again.
“...May I kiss you, Komari?” Vill said, going forwards and cupping Komari’s cheeks with her hands. Her eyes bored into Komari’s from inches away.
Komari’s blush was back, and covering her entire face. Vill was so, so achingly close, looking more vulnerable and emotional than she could remember ever seeing before. Her hands were trembling where they held Komari’s face, her lips parting very slightly and then closing, half-breaths that were failing Vill so close to the finish line.
“...You really chicken out now?”, Komari said with a whisper of exasperation, and leaned forwards.
Ah, what the hell. Why? Well, why not? She went to kiss Vill, trying to seem cool, curious, uncertain of her roiling heart’s intent, trying to learn what this would mean-
Their teeth clacked together and noses collided, Komari moving in too fast. Komari yelped and reeled back, immediately feeling embarrassed and annoyed at herself and shy. She seized the covers of her bed, yanking it over herself to become a white-sheeted lump on the mattress.
“Komari!”
“Shut up! I hate you! Don’t leave me! I’m sorry!”, Komari yelled, rolling around in her sheets.
“My Komarin, please, you can’t hide in there!I have so many more kisses that I’ve been saving up for you!” Vill called out to her, laughing and hopping onto the bed to try to grab the rolling Komari.
“Who are you calling ‘your Komarin’?! If anything, I own you!”
“You’re right! You own me, body and soul, for the rest of eternity!”
Ahh… while her first kiss had been a mess, her second one had somehow ended up even more embarrassing.
(At least she’d gotten a girlfriend out of this one.)