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Kagamine Rin was sitting cross-legged on Neru’s bed, wrapping an undone bow around her index finger. She was growing bored of watching Akita Neru scroll through her phone. She could be so anti-social sometimes. Suddenly, an idea popped into Rin’s head - an idea that would get Neru off her phone.
“Hey” Rin said.
“Mmm” Neru responded absentmindedly, not looking up from her phone.
“Hey Neru”
“I heard you the first time” Neru responded.
“Really? I don’t think ‘mmm’ is much of a response” Rin responded. That caused Neru to make a disgruntled noise that made Rin grin.
Rin bounced herself forward and off the mattress, landing next to Neru. She then turned to face Neru and pointed at her, and then at herself. It was as if Rin were trying to communicate something in sign language. Neru, obviously, wasn’t paying attention, causing Rin to finally actually speak her self-proclaimed ‘brilliant idea’ out loud.
“We should swap outfits”
Neru’s eyes dragged their way away from her phone for the first time in about an hour to look at Rin. More specifically, her eyes landed on Rin’s annoying grin, and then on her outfit. There, they stayed for a brief moment, as if considering the idea. She saw the shorts, the large white bow, the yellow handkerchief, the shirt, and the forearm sleeves. She then looked at her own outfit - a white top (a change Miku encouraged her to make), short frilly black skirt with yellow edges, long black socks, and longer forearm sleeves.
“Absolutely not”
“Come on, it’d be so cute~”
“No”
“We’re basically the same size~” Rin said, teasing Neru’s shorter stature.
“I said no, Rin” Neru snapped as she closed her flip phone with the same ferocity. “I’m not taking the time to play dress up just for you. I’m especially not going to try to do that bow thing” She said as she gestured towards the top of Rin’s head with an open hand with slightly curled fingers.
Rin clasped her hands together. “You’d look so pretty though” She said with a slight pout.
Neru scoffed at that before responding. “I already look pretty”
“Ugh. Fine, you’d look prettier then”
Neru didn’t respond, but Rin noticed the small noise she made that spelled out the emotion of being taken aback but not in an overly-offended way.
“…Fine” Neru said. Rin blinked slowly as her expression turned more confused. She wasn’t expecting Neru to be defeated so quickly.
“Okay, take off your clothes” Rin said quickly, obviously trying to get a reaction out of Neru. It worked.
“W-WHAT?! RIN!”
Rin laughed to herself for a minute before continuing. “Relax Neru. Although… if we’re doing this, we do need to swap clothes eventually, but we can do each other’s hair first!”
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Akita Neru agreed to do Rin's hair in her own style, but she never said she would be gentle about it. Rin sat on the edge of the bed and tried not to yelp each time Neru dragged a brush through her hair. Neru did not expect a girl with significantly shorter hair than herself to have so many knots in it. The difference in hair length was also notably dramatic when Neru tied a small ponytail to the side of Rin’s head.
“You have so little. It probably won’t look good on you” Neru muttered.
“That’s okay. The bow will look cute on you, so I don’t mind”
Neru blushed.
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“There” Neru said, stepping back. “You look… ridiculous”
Rin touched the ponytail and beamed. “I love it!” She hopped up, grabbed a bundle of Neru’s clothes from her closet and went into the bathroom to change. Rin took note of the modesty of Neru’s bathroom, having only a toothbrush, toothpaste, and some perfume. She changed quickly and folded her outfit up neatly on the counter so Neru could put it on.
“Alright. Your turn” Rin said as she held the bathroom door open, beckoning Neru to go change. Neru scoffed yet again, but she did make her way towards the door quickly. She was on her phone the entire time, but as Rin closed the door, she noticed the phone was entirely off.
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Neru came out of the bathroom, wearing Rin’s clothes, with the same energy of someone walking into a job interview. She looked, at least to Rin, absolutely adorable. It felt a little egotistical and weird to call Neru cute, considering she was actively imitating herself, but she ignored the feeling. The only thing that was off about Neru’s outfit was the white bow - it was slightly crooked.
“Don’t” Neru said flatly after noticing Rin staring at the bow.
“I’m not saying anything!” Rin said.
“You were about to”
“Oh c’mon. Sit down” Rin said gently, already reaching for the small case of bows on her desk. “Let me fix it”
“It’s fine”
“Neru”
Neru held her breath for a few moments, but after seeing Rin’s unwavering expression, she let it go in another defeated-sounding tone. Neru held herself very still as Rin stood behind her and carefully untied the bow and replaced it with a slightly bigger one.
“Annnnnnd there” Rin said softly.
She came around to face her and stopped. Neru was looking away slightly with pink cheeks.
“You look really pretty” Rin said in a gentle and genuine way.
Neru gave her a side-eye, though the cutting expression was undercut by the blush still present on her face. “Obviously”
Rin smiled and sat down beside her, close enough that their shoulders touched.
Neru picked her phone back up, but she did so to turn on her camera app. She looked at herself through the rear-facing camera, with Rin in view, but looking elsewhere. Neru took the selfie, capturing herself wearing Rin’s clothes, and, more importantly, Rin’s smiling face in the background.