"Oh my... I am truly sorry, Kitahara Kun, our guest room hasn't been tidied up yet... whatever shall we do?"
Gotoh Michiyo rested her cheek against her palm, looking every bit like someone who had accidentally forgotten an important matter.
"I can sleep on the sofa in the living room."
Toru, having just finished his bath, quickly came up with a solution.
"No! How could we let a guest sleep on the sofa? Besides, Kitahara Kun is Hitori's boyfriend, and for your first stay-over to be on a sofa..."
Gotoh Michiyo's acting was superb. Toru did not suspect a thing. After all, the scenario of a mother-in-law pushing a son-in-law onto her daughter's bed the very first time they met was not exactly common; it was a once-in-a-century occurrence.
"I know, Kitahara Kun should sleep with Hitori tonight. We have extra bedding."
As the words fell, Gotoh Michiyo noticed a hint of resistance on Toru's face and chuckled softly. "Unless Kitahara Kun wouldn't mind sleeping with me, or perhaps with Futari? That would be fine too."
"...Auntie, I think I'll sleep with Hitori."
Toru chose the lesser of two evils.
The other party's words were a perfect demonstration of the art of compromise.
For instance, if you simply said there were no rooms and he must sleep with Hitori, Toru would certainly refuse.
But if you proposed he act like a scoundrel and sleep with his mother-in-law or a young girl, Toru would mediate and say he was willing to sleep in the daughter's room instead.
"Our house has very good soundproofing," Gotoh Michiyo added with a heavy hint.
Then, smiling broadly, she left the hallway and went back to her room to sleep.
She left Toru standing there, unsure of what to do.
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A few minutes later.
Hitori watched as her boyfriend pushed open the door and walked in.
Then, with practiced ease, he took a set of futons from the closet and spread them out on the floor.
"Um... Kitahara Kun?"
["Hitori, let me sleep here for tonight."]
"Ah... oh."
N-No way? Is he really going to sleep in my room tonight?
At that thought, Bocchi-chan's body reacted instantly. A crimson flush crept across her face, and without realizing it, her hand moved to the zipper of her pink tracksuit.
She pulled down firmly.
Two puddings wrapped in white fabric swayed slightly...
These two treasures, long buried beneath the tracksuit, were about to break their seal.
'No, no, it is not time for that kind of thing yet.'
Hitori let go of the zipper and stood up stiffly from the tatami floor. She remembered she hadn't bathed yet tonight.
For the first time, she didn't want to give her boyfriend a strange experience.
She needed to brush her teeth first, then spray some perfume, and most importantly—wash herself clean.
However, she forgot to buy that thing...
'Hehe, I almost forgot today is a safe period, it should be fine... alright!'
Bocchi-chan's footsteps were light and airy; she almost lost her way to the bathroom as soon as she stepped out.
She spent half an hour bathing, scrubbing every inch of her body thoroughly. After drying her hair, Bocchi-chan returned to the room with the confidence of someone ready to go for one round—no, ten rounds.
As long as the rice was cooked, whether it was Ryo-san, Kita-chan, or Nijika-chan, none of them would be a match for her.
"Kitahara.. K-Kun..."
Bocchi-chan cautiously pushed the door open, but the joy on her face vanished instantly.
In the quiet room, Toru was lying flat in his futon, sleeping peacefully with no sign of waking up!
Doing it?
Forget it. The guy is already asleep. Is she supposed to play some kind of sleeping game?
'He fell asleep in just half an hour...' Hitori wanted to cry. She knew she shouldn't have gone to take a bath.
Actually, half an hour is a normal bathing speed for a girl, but Toru possessed the 'Nobi Nobita constitution' where he could fall asleep the moment his head hit the pillow.
Alas!
What a tragic turn of events!
Bocchi-chan felt like she wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. She was fuming, but she couldn't exactly wake her beloved boyfriend up now, could she?
To prove she wasn't a lewd woman, Hitori gave up on her dangerous ideas. She slowly crawled into Toru's futon and clung to his arm, deciding to make do like this for the night.
She couldn't experience what love felt like, but they could snuggle. That was actually quite nice.
Bocchi-chan could only comfort herself this way.
She had even put on her lucky underwear tonight, and she wasn't wearing anything at all under her pajamas, prepared to go to the mountaintop with her boyfriend. Who could have predicted this outcome?
If they weren't going to do it, they weren't going to do it.
Bocchi-chan leaned close to Toru's hair, giggling like a total creep, and sniffed him a few times like a puppy.
That wasn't satisfying enough. she pulled aside some of Toru's clothes, and her sinful little hand climbed onto his abs.
A few minutes later.
It didn't feel like enough.
Bocchi-chan's hand moved further and further down, from his abdomen to his waist, then bypassed her boyfriend's pajama pants and stopped there.
Seeming to realize what she was doing, a blush quickly raced across Hitori's cute face.
'W-What on earth am I doing...'
Her hand had almost touched that.
Quickly retracting her unruly hand, Bocchi-chan turned over, facing her backside toward her boyfriend. She took several deep breaths, trying to calm down.
But her previous actions had stirred up some rather unsavory desires within her.
Hitori prepared to defeat the demon inside her heart! —
The right hand that had just touched her boyfriend's abs slowly bypassed the obstacle of her thin pajamas and touched a smooth peach blossom spring. She skillfully found the narrow entrance to that spring, and at the edge of this gap that was initially extremely narrow and not yet open to anyone, she began to test the waters carefully.
Ten minutes later.
'Finished.'
Bocchi-chan successfully defeated the demon in her heart. However, because the demon was too powerful, she prepared to do it once more.
The very next second, just as Bocchi-chan was about to reward herself.
["Hitori, what are you doing?"]
Before Hitori could react.
A strong arm pulled her into a warm embrace.
"N-Nothing."
Bocchi-chan pulled up the pants she had taken off. There was no way she would admit to what just happened.
["It isn't good to lie."]
Toru thought this woman was truly beyond help.
If she wanted it, why didn't she just say so?
Toru didn't want to bully Hitori, mainly because he didn't want to seem too desperate. If they went to bed after only two weeks of dating, what would the girl think? —Are you only dating me because you're hungry for my body? That's how most women would think, right?
"I... no, I am not lying."
Hitori stuttered, still unwilling to admit it.
["Really?"]
Toru followed her arm down and grabbed her small, slightly damp hand.
["What is this?"]
The evidence was conclusive.
Bocchi-chan was speechless.
However, she reacted quickly...
This might be a great opportunity to secure her position as the main girlfriend.