Terres's shirt was coming undone together with the bed sheet...
"..."
"..."
Meru was biting his lips, giving it his all to not stare at Terres pristine pale skin, and especially not at the adorable pink nipples that looked just so damn lickable...!
Similarly, Terres was staying silent and glancing at Meru from time to time.
It's better if I stay silent... I don't want to make it awkward, it's already embarrassing enough that he has to unwrap me as if I'm some sort of gift!
Thought Terres and trembled slightly when Meru's hand brushed against his bare side.
"S-sorry..."
Meru quickly apologized and his face became completely red.
"Don't worry, I don't mind..."
Terres was fast to respond, too fast even...
He unintentionally made it sound flirtatious and poor Meru's heart rate accelerated once again.
D-d-d-d-do-don't mind...?!
Meru felt as if someone has struck him in the head with a blunt object.
His hands shook and he had a hard time swallowing his saliva or even breath.
I-if he doesn't mind then does that mean...?
Terres's torso and hands were already free, though the pale boy didn't put back his shirt properly, maybe because there were some buttons missing, and Meru lowered his head slightly getting it ever so closer to Terres's stomach.
More precisely, his cute belly-button.
I wonder how would he react if I just went ahead and kissed it...?
Meru felt his throat getting dry and he glanced up at the abashed Terres.
"Meru!"
Terres's face suddenly twisted in fear and Meru hurriedly pulled away in fear that his not-so-pure intentions were found out.
"Y-yes...?"
He asked trying to act innocent and rubbed the back of his head awkwardly and his bloodied sleeve stained with almost coagulated blood waved around.
"Your sleeve! Why is it so bloodied!? Did you got into a fight again!?"
Because in truth Terres didn't notice anything suspicious in Meru's behavior, it was the bloodied sleeve that has caught his attention.
Meru was pointing at it terrified.
"Oh, this? No, it's nothing! Just a light nosebleed!"
He tried to just shrug it off but his friend didn't let go of the topic.
"I know that you are good at fighting, but you don't like it, right? You know that you can just walk away and no one would blame you! You don't have to worry about your honor all the time!"
Terres started lecturing Meru and the black-haired boy rolled his eyes.
The mood was completely gone.
"Oh for... It was nothing like that, some assholes needed to be taught a lesson and it just so happens that I was the closest teacher!"
Meru didn't want to put the fact that he was going around beating up Terres's bullies left and right to the Terres himself.
"You? You are just another student!"
Terres furrowed his brows completely missing the point that Meru was making.
"Oh come on!"
Meru groaned.
"Hey, just hold on to the floor or the bed or something, will you? I'll just pull the sheet off your legs."
He tried to change the subject and firmly grasped the edge of the bed sheet still tightly coiled around Terres's waist.
"Eh!? W-wait, I don't think that's a good...!"
Terres tried to complain but Meru was already pulling.
And the effect was astounding!
"NOOOO!"
Terres cried pitifully.
As Meru pulled him he did release Terres from the bed sheet quite splendidly...
Together with his pants.
"Meru! You are awful!"
Terres, completely red from embarrassment, with big tears of shame gathering in the corners of his eyes, was sitting on the floor and covering his privates with what he could gather from his shirt.
Yes.
Meru pulled off the bed sheet together with Terres's pants...
And the underwear too...
Since the sickly boy was trying to cover the area below his waist at all cost, and of course, his shirt did fall off of his shoulders making him look so helpless and pitiful but adorable and charming that Meru felt his heart stop for a moment.
The sight was just too captivating.
"Meaner! Bully! Muscle-head! Stupid idiot! Brute!"
Embarrassed to the point of crying, Terres started barraging Meru with bad names, and his lips were shaking more and more with each insult.
"Fighting lunatic! You prefer to spend the time fighting with randoms than being together with me! I hate you! I hate you! Give me back my clothes, you poopy-head!"
Terres cried and his voice kept cracking miserably.
"I-I-I'm sorry!"
Meru apologized and tried to untangle the pants from the bed sheet he was still firmly holding in his hand.
Now that it wasn't tied up around Terres the fabric simply unraveled and both the pants and the underwear fell to the floor.
*Thump*
Together with something else.
"Huh...?"
Meru exclaimed and stared at the pretty leather-bound diary.
It was opened on a page with a very detailed picture of none other than Meru himself.
Meru's face in the drawing was framed with flowers and hearts, and there was even another big heart on the next page filled with some scribbles.
"What is tha...?"
Meru forgot about Terres's clothes for a moment and leaned down to pick up the diary and have a better look at the picture.
"Stooooooop!"
Horrified Terres shouted and threw himself at Meru without an ounce hesitation.
And because Meru was bending down, even someone as small and frail as Terres managed to tackle him and bring him down.
"Give that back, you muscle-head!"
Terres was either too bothered by the perspective of Meru reading the entry about himself or too angry to bother with thinking up a new insult.
"Hey! Whoa!"
"Give it back!"
Meru ended up on his back with Terres on top of him in a rather embarrassing pose but with the diary firmly held in a triumphantly raised hand.
"Oww...! What was that fo..."
Meru groaned and massaged the back of his head that got assaulted by the hard floor.
He also unintentionally look down at where Terre's body was and blanked out for a moment.
"Eh...?"
Triumphant Terres looked at Meru and then also glanced down at where his friend was staring so intently.
"NOOO!"
He blushed and tried to cover Meru's eyes.
He did that, partially, mainly because he slipped and ended up laying on top of the black-haired boy.
"Oww! Hey! Not the nose!"
Meru complained because Terres managed to slam the dairy against his nose.
It did cover Meru's eyes pretty well but it also caused Meru's nosebleed to reoccur.
"Oh no!"
Terres yelped apologetically.
He was angry but he didn't want to hurt Meru...!
"Naah, it's fine, don't worry..."
Meru smiled and waved his hand but the two bloodstreams gushing from his nostrils messed up the intended effect.
But on the plus side, Meru could feel Terre's body all that he wanted, completely guilt-free! Terres himself was sticking to him all on his own!
"I'm so sorry!"
Terres anger cooled down completely and now he only felt bad for unintentionally hitting his friend.
"Wait a moment, I'll fix it."
He said without taking the diary away.
He wasn't angry anymore but that didn't mean that he was okay with being seen naked.
"Trispi! Heal Meru!"
Terres called and the green spirit appeared above his head bouncing joyfully.
"Terres, it's alright, you don't need to..."
Even though Meru was enjoying the situation he felt a bit embarrassed, as always when Terres was going as far as using the power of his spirit to help him.
"I-I'm going to wipe off the blood, okay...?"
Terres asked, sounding very bashful all of a sudden...
"Alright."
Meru agreed and waited motionlessly.
It's worth noting that Meru had his vision blocked so his other senses were heightened.
Like touch for example.
And he clearly felt that Terres has flinched when he gave him permission to wipe the blood...
And also that Terres has leaned on him a lot more...
Actually, for some reason, he even felt the ticklish sensation on his face as if Terres was breathing at him from close up...
For a moment nothing happened...
Then for a fraction of second something soft pressed against Meru's lips giving him quite a shock but that particular sensation was instantly replaced by the quick brush with the side of the hand.
It was still soft...
D-did he...? No... No way...
Meru felt very confused, hopeful, but full of disbelieve...
Then the tingling sensation of Trispi's power at work filled the area around his sore nose and Meru felt the blood stopping completely.
"Done! Don't look yet!"
Terres hummed satisfied and got off from on top of Meru, he took away the diary and hurriedly grabbed his clothes and put them on.
Meru obediently kept his eyes closed, maybe because he was so shocked and confused by the quick soft touch at before the healing started...
"Okay, safe to look!"
Terres said after a minute or so and Meru opened his eyelids and looked at his sickly friend.
"Hey, that's one of my shirts!"
He realized while standing up.
"Yes, that's right."
Terres nodded proudly showing off the rolled-up sleeves.
"I can't leave with a buttonless shirt, can I?"
He said pointing out at his old shirt on the floor.
"Leave? But weren't we supposed to hang-out?"
Meru gave him a confused look and Terres shook his head.
"That's a no go, I have to do something, let's hang out tomorrow!"
Terres quickly put on his shoes and exited Meru's room quickly waving him a good-bye.
"Wai...! Oh, fine! Bye!"
Meru groaned and slumped on the floor dissatisfied.
"What's going on with that diary..."
The black-haired boy was trying his best not to jump to a hasty conclusion but it was really difficult.
There were a lot of harts near the drawing of him after all.
"I didn't know he could draw so good!"
Meru sighed and grinned stupidly at the ceiling.
Meanwhile, Terres was running through the hallway pressing his fingertips to his lips.
Dear god! Why did I do such a thing...!?
His mind was a mess and he wasn't even looking where he was going.
Oh god...! D-did he realized what I've done...!? What has gotten into me!? He's my friend and I'm supposed to protect him from the capture targets, not join the fray!"
His thoughts were racing but no matter what he couldn't get the feeling of Meru's lips off of his own lips...