2018-06-14 - LOTUS INTERMISSION: Eri Shimanouchi
| Title: LOTUS Intermission: Eri Shimanouchi | |
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| Summary: Eri starts to realize the world isn't quite what she thought it was... | |
| Who: Eri Shimanouchi, Kyouko Sakura, Madoka Kaname, Sayaka Miki, Homura Akemi(All except Eri are not the real ones.) | |
| Where: Various Locations(Book of Darkness) | |
| OOC - IC Date: 2018-06-14 - April 25th, 2015 | |
<SoundTracker> Too Good To be True - Rhys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO0UAAS97e4
It's been weeks since that red-haired girl - Kyouko Sakura saved her - and it's as if she were the only thing she could think about. She'd made her character in Madoka's D&D game after her, defied Sayaka's teasing, endured Homura's strange and knowing looks.
She hadn't told anyone, it was like a secret she could keep all to herself. Even Mai and Mikoto were starting to wonder why she didn't walk home with them anymore after clubs every day. Day after day she searched the area she was attacked - that block for her.
Only to finally spy her one day at the arcades - dancing away in a furious rhythm on one of those platforms. It still took her a good half hour to muster the courage to approach. Then another minute and a half for the song she was dancing to - to end.
Only for Kyouko to turn around to a girl holding a flower pot, eyes screwed up in confusion at the red poppies near her face. "I just - wanted to..."
Feeling herself growing tongue tied and starting to panic, she thrusts her arms forward as she blurts out, "These are for you!"
The pocky stick falls lax on Kyouko's lower lip for a moment, before she starts to laugh.
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It's been weeks since that day and the bell has rang- "Can't go to club today! Sorry! Could you water my pansies again?"
Madoka Kaname looks stunned by the whirlwind pace with which Eri has left the classroom. Sayaka Miki leans over to suggest, "Secret boyfriend?" Madoka Kaname bobs her head in stunned agreement.
It's not long after that Sayaka is carrying a laughing Madoka through the school halls in her teasing deterrence against her getting any ideas from their friend's example.
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It's a month before Eri works up the encourage to ask to bring someone to join their campaign. Everyone except for Homura is at least a little surprised when it turns out to be another girl.
She acts like she knew this was happening all along.
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A year later- it must be.
She's dancing in a rhythm on the platform alongside Kyouko. Managing to keep up for the first time since ever. Her feet flowing in syncopation with the arrows on the screen. Great. Great. Great.
She hasn't flubbed a single step this whole song. It's a zone she's never gotten into, as the other girl's long red-hair swishes from side to side in her usual game of dominance. Eri's side hurts - her brow is stained with sweat. However she knows if she keeps doing this then - perhaps she can reach - that side of her.
The song is over and her legs are a little numb. However she sees the score - the chain. A tie in both regards.
The crowd of people who had been gathered to watch show their admiration in a buzz which feels almost toneless to her shocked senseless ears.
Kyouko slings an arm over her shoulder in a gesture that feels like comraderie, "Would you look at that?" As she shakes her, "Knew you had it in you." Then she suggests, "Let's take a break."
The arcade is dizzying now, swimming with cheerful chiptunes and colorful images from the cabinets as the fiery maned girl leads her away to the hallway leading to the restrooms.
And then suddenly in that hallway she finds herself up against the wall. It's surprising, but not unwelcome.
Far from it. The way the other girl's lips glide moistly across hers. The faint tang of melon soda and candy in her mouth as Eri eagerly explores her first kiss. She kisses back with a hunger, a want, a need, her eyes behind her glasses coaxed shut.
It is everything she has wanted since that day and did not know she did until that moment.
Everything.
Suddenly the girl's eyes open far too wide as she pulls herself away, staring at Kyouko, panting, her fingers shaking as she touches her lips.
"Need to catch your breath?"
Is that true then, Sakura-san? No use for Eri-chan's first kiss?
..you sounded sad when you asked, just now.
BGM Change: Doubt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXss7qI2R8
"This isn't right..." Eri's eyes continue to look into Kyouko's, as if searching for something, and not finding it. Kyouko gives her a quizzical look as she asks, "What's wrong about it?"
"You..." Suddenly her eyes are wet because a strange instinct has seized her, "... you would never kiss me."
The girl slides past Kyouko before she can offer more than the faintest protest.
And starts to run as nothing in this world makes sense anymore.
