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Emu and Nene were sitting at a prop-up table in Emus room, either doing homework that's due soon or revising for upcoming tests. Which, to put it simply, was extremely boring for both of them.
Emu was unable to sit still, either rocking back and forth slightly or fiddling with her pen. Meanwhile, Nene was engrossed in a difficult math question, her eyebrows furrowed as she bit her lip in concentration.
Emu couldn't help but admire Nene for a moment.
She just looked so cute when she was focused, her muted green hair tucked behind one ear and falling in front of her face on the other side and her soulful, mesmerising eyes that resembled precious, delicate amethysts peaking through her long eyelashes.
The dreamer seemed to snap out of that gaze pretty quickly, remembering that they were doing school work and unwillingly let her everlasting boredom take over her again.
She decided, oh well. I guess I could rummage through my drawers to see if I can find anything interesting. That thought led to her standing up and walking over to her bedside table to see what interesting things she had inside.
After a little bit of digging, an unopened packet of pocky caught her eye. Emu picked it up, checking to see if they were still in date and able to eat. Everything checked out fine.
Perfect.
Emu grinned, an idea popping into her head.
“Hey nene-chan!! Wanna play the pocky game with me?” Emu chimed enthusiastically, hopping over to the table and sitting back down, this time next to Nene instead of opposite her.
“The pocky game?!” Nene said in a rather startled tone, her eyebrows raised as she looked at Emu in surprise.
“You know! The game where you-”
“I know what the pocky game is, emu,” Nene clarified as she cut emu off from a pointless explanation, “I just…you do know to win the game, you have to…kiss…right..?” She asked, avoiding Emus gaze as a faint rose colour painted the apples of her cheeks.
“A-ah. I-i know!” Emu stammered, “B-but you don't have to if you don't want to!! I just thought it would be fun…like a break from school work, you know?” She rambled jerkily, waving her hands in the air as she felt her face grow hotter.
“N-no no!! It's fine….we can play,” Nene replied, tucking her hair behind her ear as she said so.
God..she's so pretty… emu thought.
“O-okay!” Emu teared open the box of pocky, her hands jittering slightly as she did so. She pulled out one stick and put it between her teeth.
“Are you ready?” The pink haired girl mumbled around the stick, patiently waiting for Nene to act.
“Mhm..” Nene hummed nervously, moving slightly closer to emu and lightly putting her teeth around the other end of the snack.
Emu was the first to bite down further along the stick, followed by Nene making a hesitant bite. This cycle continued until their faces were mere centimetres apart.
Emu seemed to have stopped the cycle of taking turns, her face growing a deep pink. Nene thought it was extremely cute, though she would never say that out loud.
Nene didn't think emu was going to move and close the gap, so she mentally prepared herself to do it instead.
She let out a shaky breath around the pocky. Nene felt like she was going to collapse.
Though, something in her told her to go for it.
And so she did.
She leaned forward, biting the last piece of pocky that was separating the two and swallowed before feeling Emu's soft lips against hers. Woah. Did she think this was ever gonna happen? No. But here she was, pressing her lips to emus, her hands creeping up to gently hold emus face. She could taste that stupid, cheap, strawberry soda-flavoured lip-balm emu would put on every single day. Well, not the same one. Emu had a different flavour for every day of the week, which Nene found adorable. She might just have to do this with emu everyday to find out what the pink haired girl's lips would taste like each day.
Nene was a little bit too lost in the euphoria of kissing emu that she leaned forward a little too much, causing her and emu to topple over onto the carpet.
Surprisingly, their kiss didn't break when they fell, and Nene decided to keep it that way, even though she was quite literally on top of Emu.
She placed her hands either side of Emu's head, propping herself up slightly to make sure Emu wasn't uncomfortable in any way.
They continued like that for a few more seconds, until they were both running out of breath and had to pull away.
When they did, Nene knew that what she saw would be saved to her memory forever. There Emu was, gazing up at Nene dreamily, her dark-pink eyelashes fluttering slightly and her faintly swollen lips parted, revealing the ends of her teeth.
“We just kissed…” emu stated, a slight smile creeping onto her rosy coloured face.
“Yeah. We did,” Nene replied, slowly rising from her position on top of the younger.
Emu then followed, sitting up and glancing at Nene with a dopey smile, causing Nene to do the same back.
“Should we get back to studying..?” Nene asked, looking down at their unfinished school work.
“Yeah, probably,” emu responded, picking up her pen and grabbing her sheets from the other side of the table to bring them over to where the two girls were sitting.
As they went back to the boredom of homework which wasn't as boring now that emu and Nene had taken a ‘break’, emu made sure to sit a little closer to the other.