"..." *Skritch skritch skritch*
Takeru, alongside his classmates, were all quiet with only the sound of their pencils or pens filling the classroom. Takeru who had been forced to study by Yuriko was progressing quite well with his tests, answering most of the questions with confidence, that was until he arrived at a relatively simple and easy question, and that was when his hand stopped
"... ... ..." *Put his right hand on the side of his head* <What was the answer to this again?!>
Takeru scrunched up his face as his memory went completely blank at the most critical moment, and his mind refused to remember the answer. Instead, his mind had the nice idea of making him remember that, which happened last week
"... *Closes his eyes* *Deeply inhales*... ... ... *Sighs*"
Takeru began to blush a little from remembering that, and was unable to properly answer the question... He decided to ball it, and then continue on with the test as he did his best to stop thinking about that
Meanwhile
"..." *Skritch skritch skritch*
Yuriko was quickly answering her questions with a very serious face, to the point that everyone could notice that she appeared as if she was planning on getting a perfect score on the test
"... Hm?"
And before she noticed it, she had already finished her test, before the minimum allowed time for her to leave the classroom. So without anything she could at the moment, Yuriko began looking outside of the window since she sat at the row by the window as she began to delve into her own thoughts
"... ... ..."
And as she did so, a happy smile formed on her face as she started to daydream
Some time later
"Takeru! Did you finish your test already?"
"Ah! Yuriko... Yeah, I did"
"That's great. This means that our study sessions helped you, isn't it?"
"..."
Takeru looked at Yuriko with the face of someone who disagreed with what she had just said, especially because he began having some trouble by the end of the test, because of what she kept doing to him during and after their study sessions together
"... I guess so"
But he still decided to agree with Yuriko, both because the study sessions did help him, and because he wanted to make Yuriko feel happy, which she did feel. Since she began to tightly hug him with a big smile on her face as she rubbed her cheek on his hair, then as she did so, she noticed that Takeru was carrying a notebook with him
"Are you perhaps going to review some of your notes for the next test, Takeru?"
"Yes"
"Then do you want me to help you with that?"
"... ... ... You're just going to use that as an excuse to kiss me, aren't you"
"*Twitches* N-No..."
Yuriko looked away when Takeru hit the bullseye on her real intentions, which felt even more obvious as Takeru looked at her with the piercing gaze of someone who wasn't convinced by her
"*Sigh* Fine, you can help me, but if you try anything funny from now on. I'll ignore you for the duration of the tests period"
"Okay! Okay! I won't tease you, I promise! But please! Anything but that!"
The moment Yuriko heard Takeru say that she began panicking with a tearful face, with that settled, Takeru began reviewing his notes for the next test, with Yuriko doing the same for her own test, while she also helped Takeru in his review
After some time, the two returned to their own classrooms to take on their second tests for the day and finished it pretty quickly, Yuriko more so than Takeru. Once the two were allowed to leave the classroom, they ended up meeting at the shoe lockers
" "Ah!" "
Yuriko and Takeru saw each other at the shoe lockers
"Did you finish your test early, Takeru?"
"Yes... And you clearly did so too, Yuriko"
"Yup, I did. And I'm sure I'll be getting a 100 on both tests!"
"!" *Twitches*
"Hmm... Are you perhaps worried that I'll get a perfect score on all my tests?"
"N-No..."
"Ah! So you're saying that you want me to get a perfect score then? That's really cute of you, Takeru"
"I-It's not that either... *Pouting*"
Yuriko began to hug Takeru and pat his head with a big smile on her face, while Takeru could only pout at Yuriko teasing him
"Shall we head back home?"
"Yes..."
It was earlier than normal, but that was because the school let the students go home earlier during the test periods so that they could go back home to study there and not cause the students still doing the tests to be distracted. So due to that, Yuriko and Takeru were leaving the school way earlier than usual, which for Yuriko meant one thing in particular...
<I'll have Takeru all for myself for the rest of the afternoon!... ... ... Hm?>
Yuriko who just had a happy smile on her face slowly changed it to a concerned smile
"Nee, Takeru"
"Hm? What is it, Yuriko?"
"Earlier today, when you said I couldn't tease you, it was only valid for that moment, right?"
Takeru looked at her and tilted his head, and when he opened his mouth...
"No, that's for the duration of the tests. So we'll be spending less time together for these next two days"
"?! *Shocked*"
The words that he said, made Yuriko show a surprised and despairing face, while Takeru looked at her with a somewhat confused face
Later that day
"..."
It was currently nighttime and Yuriko was silent as she studied some more for her test of tomorrow, and currently, she appeared to be faring pretty well without her usual flirting. Instead, Yuriko appeared to be even more concentrated on her studies than usual... Definitely not because she was trying not to think about how much she wanted to tease and flirt with Takeru
During the afternoon, she and Takeru had studied together as he had promised her, but differently from last week, she wasn't able to be playful with him, which left Yuriko a bit dissatisfied, and she was still feeling that dissatisfaction right now
"... *Looks at her phone clock* *Sigh* Let's stop here for today"
Seeing that it was almost time for her to sleep, Yuriko closed her notebook and began preparing herself to sleep. This time alone, something that she had been avoiding doing so ever since she started dating Takeru, so when Yuriko laid down on her bed and hugged her body pillow, she immediately began to miss Takeru
"..." *Pouting her cheeks*
Because of that she began releasing her dissatisfaction, first, she raised one of her legs and then started stomping her bed with it as she pouted her cheeks, and small tears formed on her eyes
<I'm definitely going to get a perfect score!!>