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Shion’s head hurt so bad. So Bad.
‘Fuck, I shouldn’t have drank that much…’ Shion thought while flushing the toilet after a seison’t throw up. She can’t even walk properly at this point, dragging her body helplessly to the sink and trying to put every inch of her wrecked brain cells to focus on brushing her teeth. The bathroom’s light was too much for her to handle, making her keep her eyes shut while trying to fill the glass with water.
After a slight splash of water to her face, leaving the bathroom she noticed something. Her pink-haired girlfriend is nowhere to be found. Usually when Shion wakes up, Aqua would be there holding tightly onto her arm while still sleeping, like a little baby koala. Now that her attention is on the bed, the only thing that she sees is…everything that belongs there but her girlfriend.
‘That’s…strange…’ Shion can’t help but worry about this certain situation right now, remembering that they spent a long night out with the rest of the hololive members. The only possible reason that she could think is that that pink-haired girl should have been still asleep on that bed.
She decided to go to the kitchen to check on her girlfriend. Leaving the room, she noticed a strong but yum smell coming from the kitchen. That smell is already enough to trigger her sense of hunger, noticing she has not consumed anything but drinking last night.
Peeking from the walls, she saw a familiar, too familiar figure wearing an apron and had her hair done as a ponytail.
“Aqua?”
“Oh! You’re awake” The girl mentioned looking back with a smile.
“...What are you doing?”
“Umm not much, just finished cooking some hangover foods for you”
Shion didn’t notice the line of food on the table before Aqua mentioned it. There's orange juice, some toast, a salad, and a bowl of soup. Shion was genuinely shocked, ‘Aqua? This girl cooked all of these? The girl who put gummy bears in an omelette rice…cooked these?’ No doubt, she is in disbelief to the point where she tries to pinch herself to know if it is a dream or not.
“C’mon have a bite! You must be starving right?” Aqua broke the silence while pushing Shion gently towards the chair. Shion takes a seat and so does Aqua.
“You really cooked all of these?”
“Hey! Don’t be so judgemental, I can still cook simple dishes like these too you know?”
‘Well… the uneven chop of chicken and potatoes said enough tho’
Shion took a full spoon of the soup and brought it into her mouth, to her surprise, it was delicious. The taste was mild and savoury, it hits the right spot on her wrecked body. She found herself craving more and more of the soup.
“Hehe~ so much for the person who just judged my food” Aqua stares at Shion with a big grin on her face.
“But seriously, you really need to fix your knife skills” Shion compares a bigger chunk of potatoes than the previous one.
“Hey, I took hours to cook that, okay?”
Shion took a bite of that potato, slowly chewing it “I thought you said it was simple?”
Aqua decided to ignore the question by biting a piece of toast with strawberry jam spread on it followed by a chuckle that came from Shion. Aqua knew so damn well that making that chicken soup was not simple at all to the point she got cuts on her left hand’s fingers. Well fortunately she managed to aid the wound and hide it from Shion- of course she would not show this to that brat and end up being teased endlessly on hurting herself while making a simple dish right?
“Hey” The voice alarmed Aqua
“Ye-yeah?”
“Only toast?”
“H-huh?”
Shion points to Aqua’s bitten toast “your breakfast…”
“Ye-yeah, I'm craving something sweet right now haha…”
Well, making that one bowl of soup is already time-consuming for her, plus she doesn’t want Shion to see her struggle making the so-called ‘simple’ dish with wounded fingers, Aqua thought.
Shion lets a small oh from her mouth and continues to eat her soup and so does Aqua continue to eat her toast while still hiding her cuts.
After finishing their breakfast, Shion volunteered to wash the dishes- well Aqua already made her breakfast so at least she can take care of the dirty dishes.
Aqua went to the living room’s sofa and chose to relax there for a moment from all the hectic activities she had in the kitchen earlier. Her gaze locked on her wounded fingers with pink band-aids with cat patterns,
‘ the cuts still sting huh…’ She massages her fingers softly while re-thinking Shion’s advice to hone her cutting skills, but what’s more problematic is the fact that she now needs to take a break from her games- the cuts are still stinging, and her fingertips feel kinda numb so she wouldn’t do great at the games anyway.
While her mind is still busy with the pain she feels in her fingertips, a hand lands on top of her head. This makes Aqua quickly turn her head around to the hand owner.
“Ah! Sh-shion… You startled me..” Aqua quickly hides her ringers behind her.
“What’s wrong with your fingers?” too late, Shion had seen it all.
“Oh..uh..nothing…hehe…” The answer does not satisfy Shion.
A little sigh escapes the white-haired person, she takes a seat beside Aqua and turns on the TV in front of them.
“You accidentally cut your finger huh?” Shion glances toward the injured one.
Well, this is the end...nothing to hide anymore. Aqua answered simply with a nod.
Shion grabs her fingers softly and caresses them. “Does it still hurts?”
“A little…”
“Want me to kiss it?”
“Sure- EH?” Aqua’s face immediately dyes in total red hearing that unpredictable words just slipped from her girlfriend’s mouth.
Shion let out a soft chuckle “What’s with that reaction?” followed by a light kiss on Aqua’s fingertips.
“H-hey! I didn’t say y-you could-”
“You hate it?” Aqua’s words were cut by Shion’s.
“No…” Aqua turned her head to the right. She just couldn’t stare straight toward Shion’s face now.
A grin formed on Shion’s face. “Glad you like it, try to be more careful next time okay?”
‘Stupid Shion…that didn’t help at all’ rather than making her cuts feel better, it makes her cheeks feel hot all of the sudden.
“You woke up pretty early today huh?” Shion broke the silence while still locking her gaze on the TV shows.
“huh? oh.., of course, I mean... I know I'm not so good at cooking so gotta spare some time for it…” It kinda hurts Aqua’s pride that the fact she needs a whole 2 hours to prepare a bowl of soup and some burnt toast.
“Isn’t it troublesome? We had a long night out last night, and you must also have a hangover right?” Shion finally put her concerned gaze towards Aqua.
Aqua lay her head on top of Shion’s shoulder. “I didn't drink too much last night so I'm not drunk”
“Why?”
“Well… I'm just not in the mood last night…”
What a lie. The real reason why she didn’t get drunk last night was that she wants to cook for Shion, yes, she truly wants to cook for Shion and this is the only opportunity that she could think about last night.
She had multiple cooking courses from Choco and finally, she can at least cook some simple dishes even if it takes more than an hour. For her, it was harder than raising her rank in Apex but well at least it’s worth it if Shion said it’s delicious, she guessed.
Well, why didn’t she just ask Shion to let her cook? Simple, Shion would just use that as a bullet to shoot more teases at her, Aqua’s pride just can’t take that.
“Not in the mood?”
“Mhm” Aqua slightly nod as an answer
“At least thanks to that I can carry you home duh” she continues.
Shion was a mess last night, drinking competition with Marine and even flirting with Chloe- yes, another reason why she took Shion home as soon as possible. So then the pink-haired figure was in charge of carrying the drunkard back home, it was a pain in the ass.
Shion felt a sense of guilt about what she had done to Aqua. “Sorry…”
Instead of replying to the apology, Aqua chose to hug Shion tightly and snuggled at her. Being with Shion is like heaven. Her favorite smell that can make her feel safe, her favorite soft and warm hand that will caress her anytime anywhere, her favorite gentle smile that always succeeds to make her cheeks feel hot, everything about Shion is her favorite.
Even tho sometimes Shion can be a brat, she didn't mind it. She loves her, she loves how Shion would cover the sharp table end with her hand whenever Aqua needs to go under the table to get the fallen spoon because of her clumsiness, she loves how Shion would cook her favorite omurice whenever she felt down, or when that time Shion would prioritize the umbrella to her even tho Shion is soaking wet head to toes, She loves all of it.
“Aqua”
“Mm?” Thanks to Shion, her daydreams have been shut down.
“Thank you…” Shion scratches her slightly red cheek, turning her gaze to Aqua who is still snuggling on Shion’s shoulder.
“For the food?”
A soft chuckle escapes Shion’s lips “no…”
This time Shion’s head is in front of Aqua’s and their eyes meet each other’s. Shion put on a gentle smile, staring straight toward Aqua’s Amethyst. Aqua could feel Shion’s breath on her lips, but that doesn’t calm her down, however, it does the opposite.
Their lips met, it was a quick peck. Even tho it is a quick peck, the after-effects of that would not be so fast, red-dyed face, fast heartbeats, sweaty palms, and many more.
When Shion breaks the kiss, she pinches her Cheeks while giggling.
“For everything sweetie…for everything”
God... If only Shion knows how much Aqua loves her so bad, so bad…