The next day Yuri arrived at school early as usual. She always was one the first people to arrive in her class just like in the literature club. However there was a person who had never been nearly enough to an early arrival but regardless, she finally made it.
Yuri knew very well the group of 4 always got to class late if they even entered the first class, that was one of the reasons why she liked to be there early, so she could have some peace. Not that she needed to worry about that anymore as of late, that's to a certain beauty of pink hair, but still, she liked to be punctual.
The shy bookworm noticed the anomaly but decided not to pay attention, so she went to her seat and took out a book she was re-reading in her times alone called "Dreamcatcher".
The anomaly of black long twintails seat was two chairs behind the purple haired one, with only a nerdy guy between them who had already arrived as well. The girl with the light brown eyes did not waste any time and used her power against the boy. "Hey, do you mind if we change seats for today?", the twintailed girl said with a sweet voice behind the nerds shoulder. "E-Eh? Sure!", said the boy whose only female voice he'd heard from this close was his mothers. "Thank you! You're so kind!", the black haired girl said with a happy smile. The boy blushed madly and grabbed his stuff quickly leaving his seat empty for the girl who calmly moved her own stuff to it. The boy sat down behind the girl now and was about to try to talk to her a bit more but gave up when she saw her leaning forward to talk to her purple haired classmate.
For Yuri it took no less than 5 seconds to get immersed in her book so when she felt a gentle tap on her shoulder she jumped on her seat slightly. "Oops, sorry if I startled you", said a girls voice from behind. "A-Ah, no, i-it is fine, umm d-do you need something?", Yuri asked shyly as she turned her head to see who had tapped her shoulder. "Oh no, nothing really, I just wondered whatcha reading?", the twintailed girl said while she rested her chin on one hand looking at her with a sweet smile. "O-Oh, g-good morning Erika", Yuri greeted her politely while she tried to hide her stunned face behind her hair. "Morning Yuri!", Erika replied still smiling from ear to ear. "Umm, i-it is c-called Dreamcatcher", Yuri replied hiding her face behind the book showing it to the girl at the same time. "Stephen King huh, cool I like his books too!", Erika said without taking her light brown eyes off the shy girl's face. "E-Eh, y-you do? I-I thought you d-did not like books?", Yuri said confused. "I do! Why else would I join the literature club?", Erika replied with a toothy grin. "Umm, b-but that t-time y-you said-", Yuri spoke being cut off mid sentence. "I know what I said, but that's in the past, you said it, right? Besides, I really do like books, it's just that... Well, I was afraid of my friends knowing, you know how they are, or were...", Erika said finally looking off to the side with what Yuri believed was sadness in her eyes. "I-I see", Yuri replied with a gentle smile that made Erika look at her again with blush on her cheeks. "S-So! I like horror novels too, I've read some of Kings books as well", Erika said looking at the purple haired beauty again. "T-that is great, w-what is your favorite?", Yuri replied politely. "Mmm from King? I'd say Misery. Though if you ask me about my all time favorite I'd go for Poe's extraordinary tales!", Erika replied with her eyes more focused on Yuri's reaction. "T-That is nice, I never expected y-you to like Poe of all p-people... A-Ah sorry I-I did not mean to sound r-rude!", Yuri replied hiding her blushing face behind the book. Erika blushed at the adorable sight and replied, "don't sweat the small stuff! So, what about you, what's your all time favorite?". Yuri was still confused at the girls odd interest for books and her in general but following her kind and polite nature she replied. "Umm, it i-is called Portrait o-of Markov", she replied. "Heh... I haven't read that one, perhaps you could lend it to me sometime?", Erika said leaning forward a little more. "Y-Yes, I-I have no p-problem with that, I-I will bring it to you to-tomorrow", Yuri replied kindly. "Cool, thanks, I'll give it a good read over the weekend and perhaps we could discuss it sometime if you want", Erika said as she stared at the taller girls lips. "E-Eh? A-Ah, y-yes, we c-could discuss it i-in the club", Yuri replied nervously. Erika looked a little disappointed but she recovered her confidence almost immediately as she spoke, "Yeah, the club, and speaking of which could I have your number? I mean we're clubmates now and I would like to have all of you guys numbers in case I can't make it to club one day or stuff like that". Yuri thought about it briefly and decided it should be fine, she got all of her clubmates numbers at first too (even though it was Monika who asked for her number and made the group chat were Yuri practically had access to the other two girls numbers but whatever) so she accepted and gave the newest club member her number which Erika happily added to her contacts. The twintailed girl bit her lip lightly as she thought of the possibilities and when she was about to continue the conversation the math teacher appeared at the door greeting everyone in the class.
The bell rang for everyone to go and recharge their energies with lunch. Yuri quickly grabbed the two lunch boxes and waited for her girlfriend to come pick her, since they had agreed on coming to each others classrooms taking turns every day, and it was Natsuki's turn to come. Yuri was waiting patiently when she felt another tap on her shoulder, she turned around and saw her newest clubmate still sitting with 3 other familiar girls standing next to her. "Don't be scared, we're not gonna bite you, girls your turn", Erika said glancing at her friends who sighed almost at unison. "Long story short, we're sorry", the redhead leader said looking away. "Yeah we are", "yep, sorry", the blondie and curly haired girl said. "Ummm, i-it is okay, I do not hold a-any grudge against you", Yuri replied with a gentle smile. "Well, I guess I do feel better now, you really are a good person", Mika said playing her side ponytail. "Yeah, even then you could've got back at us but you didn't, if it were me, I would've dyed our asses with that red paint", the blondie with still a ridiculously short skirt said. "I agree with Riho", Miharu said. "You should thank Erika though, she convinced us to swallow our pride to tell you this, ain't she sweet?", the redhead leader said grinning and pinching her twintailed comrade's cheek. Yuri smiled at the black haired girl whose cheeks turned pink red like.
Natsukis wide smile faded as she approached her lovers classroom and noticed four unpleasant figures around her girl. She rushed into the classroom and pushed Riho aside who was standing next to her girlfriends seat. The four girls turned their attention to the hot headed girl that had fire in her magenta eyes. "Have you assholes not learned your lesson?!", the pink haired girl shouted as some eyes nearby turned to watch the scene. "Woah, easy there! We're not-", Mika tried to speak but was interrupted. "Shut your trap bitch! I'm not letting you get away with this!", Natsuki shouted. "N-Natsuki! I-It is okay, they are not d-doing anything bad to me, they were just apologising", Yuri said trying to calm down her angry girlfriend. "Yeah, and good timing you're here, we wanna apologise to you too", Mika said. "Yeah, we're sorry, honestly we learned not to mess with you", Miharu said. "I'm not even gonna say anything about you pushing me see? We're sorry!", Riho said fixing her blazer. Natsuki finally calmed down and crossed her arms over her chest. "Well, fine if you're being honest then I guess I can forgive you, but remember if you ever try something against us I'm gonna kick your asses so hard you're gonna have to sit down on your crotches", Natsuki said feisty. The 4 girls, not including Erika who was bluntly looking at her chuckled. "Alright, alright, so everything good now?", Riho asked. "Y-Yes, I believe so", Yuri said with a gentle smile. "And thank you Erika", Yuri said smiling at the twintailed girl who blushed lightly. "Ye, ye, whatever, let's go Yuri, I'm hungry", Natsuki said offering a small hand to her lover who took it and stood up holding it gently as she waved bye to the group of 4. Natsuki flashed a triumphant grin at her quickly while she exited the classroom. "You have it tough girl", Mika said putting a hand on her black haired friends shoulder. Erika sighed, "Yeah, but I won't go down so easily, I got her number this morning". Riho and Miharu's grin widened as they spoke almost sincronised, "nice".
The day went by normal since then, lunch, club and the time at Yuri's house happened all as previous days. Night fell and Yuri was at her door talking to her petite girlfriend while their hands were still intertwined, "So are you staying over tomorrow again, right?", Yuri asked rubbing her girlfriends cheek gently with her free hand. "Of course, it's the weekend and you know I prefer spending it with you than with my dumb father", Natsuki grinned sweetly at her taller girlfriend. "Thank you for spending so much time with me, you are the best", Yuri said looking at her girlfriend with sparkly violet eyes. "I know I'm the best cheesy giant", Natsuki replied closing her eyes in a smug expression. Yuri giggled and kissed her little nose softly which made Natsuki's smug face go deep red. "You're a dork!", Natsuki replied embarrassed, "but I am your dork", Yuri said smiling sweetly. "Of course you'd say that", the pink haired girl sighed and stood on her toes to kiss her taller lover sweetly. Yuri kissed back and as their lips pulled away from each others they let go of their hands too. "So, I'll see you tomorrow then dummy", Natsuki smiled sweetly at her girlfriend. "Yes, please be careful, I love you my sweetheart", Yuri replied making Natsuki's face flushed at the nickname. "I-I'll go now before you turn into a walking cheese, bye", Natsuki replied and started to walk away. As the shorter girl was about to cross the entrance gate Yuri rushed after her and wrapped her arms around her from behind planting a long smooch on her cheek. Natsuki almost elbowed her stomach from the surprise but then relaxed and let her girlfriend do as she pleased. Yuri let her go and quickly walked back to her front door smiling like and idiot. "Walking cheese!", Natsuki shouted as she crossed the gate and kept walking away. Yuri just smiled warmly and watched her lover go as usual.
Yuri went upstairs and laid on her bed sighing for another nice day that was coming to an end. She grabbed her phone and quickly opened her girlfriends chat to send her the usual "I miss you" message, which she really meant everytime. Yuri did just that and before locking her phone again to go write her poem for tomorrow while she waited for Natsuki to get home and reply, she noticed she had a message request from an unknown number. She opened it and it read:
Nevermore: Hi! It's Erika 😋
Markov's demoiselle: Hello, Erika. How are you?
Nevermore: doing great thanks, how about you?
Markov's demoiselle: I am also doing very well, thank you.
Nevermore: I hope you haven't forgotten about the book 🤗
Markov's demoiselle: Of course not, I will bring it to school tomorrow as I told you.
Nevermore: Thank you~ So what are you up to?
Markov's demoiselle: I was about to write the poem for tomorrow, what about you?
Nevermore: Oh shut the poem! Well I was just checking social media really but thanks for the reminder 😅
Markov's demoiselle: Hehe, no problem.
Nevermore: What else do you like to do besides reading?
Markov's demoiselle: Umm, not much really, I like to write, watch horror stuff, also try different kinds of tea...
Nevermore: Heh, you're quite different from the rest, I like that. People always say stuff like "listening to music", "watching movies", "playing videogames", you know the usual, I think is cool you're unique 😊
Markov's demoiselle: umm, thank you? Sorry, not many people say that about me.
Nevermore: well, their loss, or they just don't like when someone is better than them.
Markov's demoiselle: I do not think I am better than anyone.
Nevermore: you are tho 🙊
The shy bookworm found herself even more confused now at the things the girl that apparently hated her a few days ago was saying now. She was having trouble thinking of what to say or how to reply but fortunately for her the notification of a reply to one of her messages popped up.
Purple dummy: I miss you
Lovely cupcake: you know what, im just going to play along now, I can't stop you from typing stuff 5 seconds after I leave, so I miss you too dummy
Purple dummy: I looooove you!
Lovely cupcake: woah there i love you too but you're too cheesy today
Purple dummy: I am sorry then.
Lovely cupcake: no sorries here missy
(눈‸눈)
Purple dummy: I apologise then.
Lovely cupcake: goddammit Yuri
Purple dummy: Hehehe ♥️
Lovely cupcake: fine I forgive you just because you're pretty
Purple dummy: ♥️♥️♥️
Lovely cupcake: (っ˘з(˘⌣˘ )
Purple dummy: Do you think I am cool for being different?
Lovely cupcake: why the sudden question?
Purple dummy: I am sorry, forget about it.
Lovely cupcake: no
Lovely cupcake: and yes you're cool for being different, that's one of the things I like about you dummy
Purple dummy: Thank you.
Lovely cupcake: is something wrong babe? Sorry if i upset you i just was like distracted
Purple dummy: No, no, no. I am not upset, lovely, I promise. I guess I just got curious.
Lovely cupcake: hmmm ತ_ತ okay, I'll just make sure to make it up to you tomorrow in any case
Purple dummy: How?
Lovely cupcake: loving you baby🎶
Purple dummy: You are awesome ❤️
Lovely cupcake: no u
Purple dummy: No, you. ❤️
Lovely cupcake: we both are, case closed inspector apology.
Purple dummy: I love you.
Lovely cupcake: love you too dummy
They continued for a while until they went to bed. Yuri forgot about her other chat window, which she realized the following morning after sending her usual good morning text to her girlfriend.
Nevermore: you are tho 🙊
Nevermore: what kind of stuff do you write?
Nevermore: night night
Markov's demoiselle: I am so sorry, I fell asleep.
Nevermore: its okay, don't sweat the small stuff!
Markov's demoiselle: Thank you. I will see you later, I have the book in my bag ready.
Nevermore: alrighty~ thanks 😊
The shy girl as much as she had on her mind, she shrugged it off since the final day of the week was here and that meant an uninterrupted weekend with her beloved girlfriend.