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Chapter one: The call
Mira throws herself onto the couch, putting her heavy bag on the floor. She mumbles to herself, something about work. She's exhausted, an 11 hour shift and all she gets is criticism for not staying longer to help close up? Gosh, it's unbelievable. She sighs and looks over her shoulder, patiently waiting for Zoey to come home. All she wants to do is jump into her arms and rant about her day, she's the only one who can calm Mira down after all.
It's been awhile, Zoey still isn't home, where is she? Mira takes a glance at the clock. 12:45 AM, she was supposed to be home by 11 pm. Has something happened? Mira waits anxiously, thinking about what could've happened to her Zoey. "Where is she?"
Those three words kept ringing in her head. 1 AM. She's had enough, Mira grabs her jacket and heads outside. As she is about to get ahold on the doorknob, the door flies open, hitting Mira in the face.
M: "O-ow..."
Mira puts her hand on her head, pain aching through her body
Z: "Oh my gosh I am so sorry, are you okay?"
M: "Y-yeah I'm fine... Where were you? I was worried sick."
Z: "Just... I just stayed later than usual"
M: "Why..?"
Z: "Oh you know... We were short.. staffed and the closing shifters needed some help."
M: "Uh huh..."
Mira nods her head slowly, she knows something is up with her Zoey, just what is it?
Z: "Yeah.. Anyway we should really be talking about your head, it's bleeding."
Z: "OH MY GOSH IT'S BLEEDING IM SO SO SORRY"
Zoey rushes to get a band aid, dropping everything onto the floor.
M: "Woah woah, don't make a huge deal. I'm fine"
Mira grabs her by the wrist, holding her as softly as ever, her eyes filled with reassurance.
Z: "Sure..?"
M: "Sure."
M: "Anyway I'm exhausted, I need some sleep."
Mira stretches her arms and yawns, her shirt lifting up and revealing a bit of her stomach. Zoey can't help but stare, she blushes a bit but Mira catches her staring and she immediately looks away.
Z: "Y-yeah me too"
M: "I'm gonna go to my room now, you do you."
Zoey grabs Mira's arm, looking at her with a bit of hesitation.
Z: "Can I... Can I sleep in your room tonight..? I-its just that whenever I'm next to you, I fall asleep faster.."
Mira looks a bit shocked, her face quickly becoming red. She expected her to ask to stay with her for a while until she's sleepy and go her own room, but sleep in HER bed, in HER room, all ALONE?
M: "I-uh— Yeah, I don't really mind."
Z: "Thanks! You're the best"
Zoey wraps herself around Mira, gripping her waist and her head buried in her neck.
M: "No problem..."
Mira's breathing starts getting heavy, her cheeks become flushed and her overall body starts getting hotter. After Zoey lets go and starts heading to the shower, Mira is left there, standing and blushing like an idiot. After a good minute, she cleans up their bags and heads to her room.
In Mira's room, she sits there processing what has just happened. "I mean, she only hugged me, why am I getting so flustered over that? She does that to me all the time, why am I only just starting to act like this now?" Mira thinks to herself, trying to understand why her own body had that reaction to one friendly hug. But was it really just a hug?
As Mira is having a crisis about her feelings towards Zoey, her thoughts are interrupted by Zoey's sweet voice.
Z: "I'm done showering! You can come in here now!"
M: "Hmm? I-i.. okay..! Be there!"
Mira grabs her towel and opens the bathroom door, right in front of her stands Zoey, still wet from the water, her hair still dripping onto the bathroom tiles, with her delicate body wrapped in just a robe. "Gosh, she's so gorgeous... I wonder what she looks like without the robe..." Mira thinks to herself. "Wait no! I... I shouldn't be thinking that, we're just friends and that's it."
Z: "Mira? Hello? You've been staring at me for a while. Is anything wron-"
M: "Nothing! N-nothing is wrong..!"
Z: "Okay..." Zoey smiles at giggles at Mira before stepping out and pushing her in the bathroom.
Eventually, Mira gets into the bathtub and thinks about what happened, the way she looked was so... She wanted to fold right then and there, but she didn't. She sulked for a while in the bathtub—wincing in pain everytime a drop of water got in her wound, wondering if she should've let Zoey get the bandaid. She sat there and reminisced about the world where she let her put a bandaid on her head until Zoey asked if she was okay because of how long she was taking.
She showered finally whilst brushing her teeth, rushing through her routine. After what felt like forever she stepped out of the bathroom, still drying her hair. Then, Zoey jumped behind her
Z: "What took you so long?"
M: "N-nothing... I was just thinking about things.."
Z: "Like what?"
M: "I-I—I'd rather not talk about it."
Mira looks down onto the floor, hiding her flushed cheeks, because this was the closest their faces has ever been—well, atleast to Mira it was.
Z: "Are you okay? You can talk about it."
M: "I-I can't... I'm sorry."
Z: "Don't apologize, I'll just distance from you until you're ready!"
M: "Don't."
Z: "Hmm?"
Zoey tilts her head, confused by the sudden change of tone in Mira's voice.
M: "I-i mean... Don't distance yourself... I... I need you..."
Mira whispers under her breath. Hoping Zoey didn't hear the last part.
Z: "What'd you say?"
M: "N-nothing!"
Mira rushes by her, going into her closet to change—her face being the reddest it's ever been.
Zoey chuckles to herself, she heard every word, she just wanted to see Mira act all shy. She liked it when Mira did that. But she thought about what she said again... "I need you.." She started burning up—she only now realized. She squealed to herself, her heart fluttering. She wanted to hear those words for so long, and now, Mira said it. She found it so... Hot..? A usually composed and independent person like Mira suddenly admitting she needs lil old Zoey? She liked the thought of that.
As Zoey was thinking about what was just said to her, Mira comes out of the closet, hair down, no makeup, in her pajamas that had Zoey's face in the middle. Zoey giggled at her shirt, surprised that she still had it—it was just a prank gift after all.
Z: "You kept that?" She smirked at Mira, walking towards her to take a better look.
M: "Yeah.. Found it pretty funny and I didn't have the heart to throw it away—I wear this whenever I go to sleep you know." She scoffs to herself.
Z: "Really? That's so thoughtful of you" Zoey teases Mira, wanting to see her get shy all over again.
M: "I-I..." Mira gets flustered and stares at Zoey.
After a while she panics and tries to change the subject.
M: "Maybe we should just... Go to bed..? No wait, I have a better idea."
Z: "Like what?"
M: "Just listen to my plan."