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The ‘I love you' game, a game where one person says it to a recipient and whoever gets flustered first is the loser: a perfect opportunity for Ena to be able to see Mafuyu’s face flushed from Ena’s undeniable charms (self labeled).
Ena was absolutely delighted at the thought. So much so that it had her grinning as she imagined Mafuyu stammering and blushing trying to get her words out, maybe even shocked and wide-eyed from Ena’s words of affection. Either way, the results would satisfy her.
It was, after all, the perfect chance to do something ‘couple-like’ without the prying eyes of her other circle members, especially not in front of Mizuki, who would have teased her for even the slightest tint of red that showed on her face.
Mafuyu had chosen to stay over, having stated that she wanted to spend some time together with Ena after being away for a while, and yet, here she was, sitting in front of Ena’s personal computer working on the lyrics for Kanade’s new composition.
Ena wouldn’t ever vocally admit to it, but it was a fact that Mafuyu having chosen to instead focus on Kanade’s work instead of her girlfriend had left someone particularly needy.
I’ll show her, I’ll fluster her enough that she can’t take her eyes off me.
“Hey hey, Mafuyu, do you wanna try something?” Ena asked, sitting on her lonesome at her bed.
“No,” Mafuyu denied hastily, still focusing on the task in front of her.
“Hey, you haven’t even heard what I had to say!”
“You only use that tone whenever you want to try those couple trends on me. They rarely ever work out.”
“N- no I don’t! And wait, what do you mean ‘that voice’?”
“Well?” Mafuyu said, turning the chair to face Ena, “what is it?”
“Hey don’t ignore my- ah, whatever, it’s called the ‘I love you’ game.”
“Ah, that game.”
“Hm? You’ve heard of it already?”
“Yes, my classmates started playing it during free time, it was really easy to win.”
“Excuse me!?”
“The goal is to fluster others by saying ‘I love you,’ right? I managed to do it every time it was my turn, so it should be easy enough for me. Considering it’s Ena, after all.”
“HA? Why are you the one getting all confident all of a sudden huh? And why were you playing with your classmates in the first place?!”
“Oh? Is that jealousy I hear?”
“Don’t you fucking smirk at me! Arghh, whatever, you’re going first since I wanna see whatever it is that had your classmates swooning over you. Hmph.”
“Do we really need to? You get to hear it, a real one at that, from me anyways.”
“Yes. We. Do. So what if I get to hear it from you anyways when you haven’t been paying attention to me at all. And to find out that you’ve been saying it to your classmates too? Stupid.”
“Fine, I get it,” complied Mafuyu, standing up from her chair to make her way towards the bed, “I was telling the truth when I said I won every turn, you know.”
“Oh yeah? Try me then.”
“Well, you can’t say I didn’t warn you,” said Mafuyu as she inched closer towards Ena, her gaze fully locked onto Ena’s lips and only ever breaking to look into her eyes momentarily. “Ena?” she softly called out.
A light and barely audible “What?...” was all that Ena could’ve mustered, having to note how close her goddess of a girlfriend now is. Her girlfriend, who shouldn’t have been saying those words of affection to the other girls in the first place.
Mafuyu didn’t say anything in response. Instead, she took the time to let her eyes wander around Ena’s face, letting it show fully on her smile just how much she was enjoying Ena’s succeeding reaction because of her scanning from feature to feature.
It also couldn’t be understated just how much Mafuyu adored Ena squirming from the anticipation of whatever it is Mafuyu had planned to do.
Gently then, Mafuyu’s right hand found itself underneath Ena’s jaw, gripping it with enough force to make their eyes meet. Then and there, Mafuyu couldn’t help but smile even more at how cute her girlfriend is, Ena’s eyes now fully opened, practically saying she was expecting something more than just an ‘I love you’.
Putting a free hand on the wall behind Ena for support, Mafuyu slowly closed the gap between them. The artist at hand had adamantly closed her eyes in preparation for the kiss that she so desperately craved for, and yet, even after her sight had darkened, Mafuyu’s lips were nowhere near where her puckered lips were, as they had instead made its way right by Ena’s ear.
“Hehe,” a soft and gentle sounding giggle was let out, wholly uncharacteristic of the Mafuyu Ena knew.
“Hey, Enanan,” Mafuyu whispered, her voice coated in sweetness like it was honey for the ears, in the tone usually reserved for her ‘good girl’ persona, “I love you.”
Words of warm affection sent shivers down Ena’s spine in a way she’d never seen coming. It wasn’t as if she’d never realized how stunning her girlfriend was but using that voice? It was unfair.
Unfair how effective it was, unfair how charming she found it to be, unfair that her classmates got to hear it first before her, unfair that it reminded her how much of a lesbian she is.
A twinge of guilt struck her heart as she knew the context of when Mafuyu used that voice, and yet—. “You are so unfair!” Ena shouted, burying her face into the palm of her hands and hoping that Mafuyu wouldn’t notice how beet-red her face was from enjoying how attractive her girlfriend’s voice was.
“You’re red to your shoulders you know,” Mafuyu commented, switching back to her usual tone as if it was nothing for her to use her voice like an arrow on a bow’s drawstring that aimed directly for Ena’s heart.
“Shut up! No I’m not,” Ena denied, completely red to her shoulders. “You’re so unfair,” her voice was a bit muffled from having to say it through her hands.
“I knew it would’ve been effective on you, you did admit to having a crush on that version of me back then.”
“That doesn’t make it any less unfair.”
“Yes, but it does give me one point so far.”
“Fuck you.”
“I’d like to see you even it out then, Enanan,” Mafuyu challenged, as she made her way back to the chair, sitting comfortably and leaning as far back as the chair could go.
“Ughhh stop being so smug you cheater.” Ena barked back, forcing herself to stand up with every last ounce of strength she had left, nevermind the fact that her heart beat the fastest it had ever beaten since hearing her voice. Nope, nuh-uh, it was something Ena didn’t need to focus on.
It wasn’t fair, it wasn’t, it really wasn’t. Ena knew that she shouldn’t have been that attracted to it but Mafuyu’s voice was like silk just now. The way it had slid past her ears like it had always known the easiest ways into her head and the way it had placed itself so comfortably in her thoughts as if to say it belonged there was, quite frankly, so unfair.
Fuck. Her voice is so attractive fuckkkkkkkkkkk.
Barely keeping herself together standing in front of Mafuyu, Ena decidedly was determined to wipe away that smug satisfied smile that had plastered itself on her girlfriend’s face. Nevermind the fact that her knees felt weak still from the way Mafuyu had said those words. She chose still to not note the fact that her heart was still racing from the way Mafuyu had held by the jaw.
She wanted to, no, needed to redeem herself. It was supposed to be her plan for flustering Mafuyu and yet she’d taken the brunt of it instead. Ena’s pride couldn’t take another hit, she needed to at least see Mafuyu’s face have even the slightest hint of red.
Taking a deep breath to steady herself, Ena placed both of her hands on the armrest holding Mafuyu, “I- I…” she meekly stammered out, only now realizing that maybe being this close to her wasn’t the best idea for her unruly heart.
“Go on.”
“Ugh, you’re so infuriating,” Ena said frustratedly, breaking off her gaze to the side and hoping for another chance for respite before finally continuing with, “I… I love you Mafuyu…”
“Cute,” Mafuyu concluded, her smile taunting Ena even more.
“Hah!? Excuse me?”
“Your attempt at trying to fluster me is cute, Ena.”
“Shut up! Don’t look down on me like that, I can fluster you!”
“Even though you’re the one who’s face is still red from the turn before?”
“...”
“Fine, I get it, feel free to try again.”
“Eh? Why?”
“It’s you we’re talking about, you’d want to at least get even with me, right Enanan?”
“Aghhh listen, you! Just wait, I’ll make you even more flustered than I was.”
“Well, I am waiting.”
“Smug bitch,” Cursed Ena under her breath.
Having been given another chance, Ena took this time to calm herself down and to gather her thoughts. How would she topple this stone cold demon (who’s also apparently a good flirt??) that is the seemingly unflusterable Mafuyu?
It’s not like she had never made Mafuyu’s heart flutter. That much she knew from recounting the moments where Mafuyu was especially receptive to her advances. But such moments had to come naturally for her, having to do it with the intention of purposefully trying to fluster the other party was harder than Ena could ever have thought, not even mentioning the fact that Mafuyu was surprisingly competitive and would probably be stubborn enough to hold in anything that did lightly fluster her.
Even so, despite how hard it might’ve been, Ena knew how she could make Mafuyu red faced and too stunned to speak back, of what boundaries she could push to fully fluster Mafuyu, fully fluster her girlfriend.
The reason she’d been hesitating on acting on her desires though, was because afterwards she knew that the game would have ended then and there. Ena knew that if she acted on the march of her heart that screamed, commanded even, to show just how much it adored Mafuyu, that there would be no turns after that.
Ena found that she didn’t have it in her to care anymore, though.
“Hey, Mafuyu,” Ena called, relaying Mafuyu’s name with softness as if the words that came out wanted to cradle her name itself.
Gently, she placed both hands on top of Mafuyu’s shoulders, resting enough weight to make the chair recline back as far as it can. Slowly, she lifts one leg up to climb onto the seat, settling one leg against the side of Mafuyu’s hips, then the other.
Sitting ever so comfortably on Mafuyu’s lap now, Ena took it upon herself to release her grip on Mafuyu's shoulders to instead trace her hand alongside her beloved’s neck before finally settling on both cheeks.
Ena spared no time to let Mafuyu feel the intensity of her gaze, now having been directly inches above Mafuyu. Choosing to return the favor and scanning Mafuyu’s face, Ena couldn’t help but notice, in fact it was practically impossible not to see, just how different Mafuyu’s face was compared to a moment ago with her stone cold expression.
The way that Mafuyu’s taunting eyes were now wide opened, restlessly trying to find where it wants to stare at. The way that Mafuyu’s smug smile had now been replaced by her mouth undecidedly being agape, lips meeting and separating like there had been words being spoken from it instead of the silence that was coming out. Ena found all of it to be all too adorable. Her girlfriend was all too adorable.
“Are you enjoying this? My Mafuyu?” asked Ena, not once breaking the gaze on her girlfriend’s lips. Her gaze held so much desire that Mafuyu could hardly focus at anything else other than stare back at her holder’s lips expectantly.
“Hey, Mafuyu,” called Ena, her fingers possessively combing their way through the hair behind Mafuyu’s ears, planting themselves gently enough to give her the grip needed to pull Mafuyu closer.
“I love you.”
Ena declared it so wholeheartedly that Mafuyu felt the words themselves nudged her head back. Enough for her to finally break her focus from her painter’s lips and up into Ena’s unsatiated eyes, which were now staring down at not just her lips, but the entirety of Mafuyu herself.
“You’re really so unfair,” she murmured, those being the words that last left Ena’s lips before she greedily closed the distance down towards her girlfriend’s lips. At their contact, her grip tightened to tell Mafuyu to stay put in her hands as she pulled away from the kiss.
In that moment, both had been able to see how flustered the other was. In that moment, Ena really couldn't find it in her to care as she pressed another kiss onto Mafuyu’s lips, and another, and another, and another one, until Mafuyu was looking up at her with such a dazed expression that Ena decided that this last one will be the one to steal Mafuyu’s breath away for good.
Loosening her grip from the roots of Mafuyu’s hair, Ena instead used her right hand to hold Mafuyu’s jaw in place. She looked down at her with enough time to give away her intentions, and as soon as her girlfriend’s eyes responded yearningly, she slowly closed the distance between them to lock both of them into the deep intimate kiss they had wanted.
Having to separate themselves only because of the lack of air had forced them to, Ena finally speaks out, “Well? That got you to shut up didn’t it? Your face is so red right now you know?” with uneven breathing accompanying her words.
Mafuyu, still in a daze underneath her could only make out a few words in return, “Ena… more… I want… more… Ena…?”
“Ah, really now, you’re actually just so unfair,” Ena teases, acting as if she could’ve ever said no to her girlfriend’s request.