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Miu was frozen where she stood. She couldn’t believe the absolutely devious act her girlfriend just asked of her. The scandalousness of it all! The perverseness! The-
“Miu, is something wrong?” Kaede asked from across the bedroom.
That shook Miu back to life, “O-of course not! We’ve slept together loads of times before, why would anything be wrong!” The confidence of her words was betrayed by the shakiness of her hands.
Kaede rolled her eyes. “Please don’t word it like that, it makes it sound weird.” She walked up to Miu and laced both their fingers together. “But you’re right, we’ve shared a bed lots in the past.” She swung their hands from side to side, “Is it really that different now that we're dating?” Kaede stopped the swinging and brought one of Miu’s hands to her lips, planting a gentle kiss on the inventor's knuckles.
Miu, as deflective as ever, rebutted Kaede’s words. “It's not different and nothing’s wrong and I'm gonna sleep with you so hard like always because everything is fine.” Blushing hard, she swiped her hands away from her girlfriend. She reached to the hem of her shirt and quickly began undressing.
“I already told you that it’s not that kind of sleeping together.” Kaede crossed her arms, hardly fazed by her girlfriend's typical antics.
Miu took her shirt off and moved to unclip her bra. “Calm your tits, I'm doing normal things.” She was speaking quickly, still very flustered from Kaede’s initial proposal. She grabbed one of Kaede’s oversized sleep shirts and slipped it on. “There, now I'm ready to go to sleep and shits fine and all that.”
“Miu…” Kaede took a step towards her. She brought her palms up to the inventor's cheeks and gently held her head in her hands. “Sweetheart, you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to.”
Miu shook her head and drew her hands up to Kaede’s wrists, holding them gently. “I-I want to do this.” Her face was still flushed red.
“Just relax then.” Kaede’s hands lowered from her face and met Miu’s. Their fingers laced together once again as she pulled Miu towards her bed. “Us dating makes this no different from the other times we’ve slept in the same bed.” The back of Kaede’s knees hit her bed and she moved to sit on it, pulling Miu with her. Kaede placed one more kiss on her girlfriend's knuckles before she began to get under the covers. Miu followed her example, some of her previous nervousness dissipating due to Kaede’s lead.
Once they were comfortably settled, Kaede grabbed Miu’s hand under the blanket. “If you’re still having doubts, I get that. But, thank you for trying.”
Miu stared at her girlfriend, her face still red from the unrelenting blush Kaede gives her. She squeezed her hand and sighed. “I guess I was being over dramatic as fuck. This is… nice, I guess.” Probably the closest they were going to get to Miu admitting Kaede was right.
“I'm glad.” Kaede let go of Miu’s hand and sat up. Miu was about to sit up too, but her actions were interrupted by Kaede leaning over her and kissing her. It was gentle and quick, something akin to a “thank you.” Kaede laid back down, putting an arm over Miu and pressing their bodies together. Miu reciprocated the cuddle, placing her arms around Kaede and holding her close. Welcoming the sleep that followed.