Jun 07 23:41:17 <LipstickThespian>	"It's getting colder I think," Yuki said as she looked down at the small electric kettle she was setting up to make them some tea. "I bet you're glad I gave you tights, huh?"  She looks back at Ashleigh with a bright smile.  The two had been in her room a while talking and playing dress up, a nice day in.  She'd even showed him one of her new games and let him play around with it.
Jun 07 23:41:17 <LipstickThespian>	Well, him wasn't a good pronoun, Ashleigh when she was dressed up was very much a her.  Which was great for Yuki, she wanted to spend time with a close friend and the late night was perfect for it.  Lights on low and warm tea coming soon.
Jun 07 23:45:35 <Knave>	"Well-" He shuts his mouth and clears his throat softly, stifling the joke he was going to make about sharing body heat. "Yeah. Tights are nice." He smiles lamely, softly kicking his legs over the edge of his seat.
Jun 07 23:49:17 <LipstickThespian>	"I think they're really cute, and white tights look good on your legs because you're athletic."  Yuki poured the two cups of tea, the kettle on a side table under the window and her back to Ashleigh.  "You should work on your voice, I bet you could do a really good cutesey voice."  She walks over and offers him a pink mug, her own a pale white.  "Here, try saying 'Ko-ni-chi-wa' in your cutest voice."
Jun 07 23:52:54 <Knave>	Austin takes the mug, shaking his head and mumbling, "I am not athletic." Then he brings it to his lips and blows over the tea, inhaling the steam before clearing his throat softly again. He flicks his eyes up at Yuki with a slight tilt of his head, and the "Konichiwa" that comes out is a little pitchy, but otherwise dynamite.
Jun 07 23:54:18 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki sits down on the bed next to him and sighs, she was pretty glad they had matching uniforms, it made it really comfortable.  Plus, tights rubbing against tights when you sat together for warmth.  "Awwwwww!" She says in the most Japanese way when you see something tiny and cute, "sugoi!  You're so cute, Ashleigh-chan.  I should make you talk like that all the time."
Jun 07 23:58:21 <Knave>	Austin doesn't hunch into himself at Yuki's touch, but he doesn't move into it either. /"Is it me? Am I the reason being just friends with girls is hard?"/ He looks intently into his tea, then takes a sip, "You couldn't pay me to. Too much effort."
Jun 08 00:00:35 <LipstickThespian>	"Is putting all those clothes on and getting your makeup done too much effort, as well?"  Yuki says as she sips her own tea and looks down at it, "what do you think of the tea? It's a new green tea blend I'm trying out."  She seems only slightly interested in physical touching, but boundaries are boundaries and she respects that.
Jun 08 00:03:41 <Knave>	"Not bad." Austin nods as he takes another sip, "And getting dressed up isn't so bad, because then I'm dressed up until we're done. ~Keeping my voice all girly and cute like this~ is kind of a drag on my throat." He rubs at his neck to illustrate, then takes another sip of soothing tea.
Jun 08 00:05:10 <LipstickThespian>	"It's really cute though!" Yuki lights up when she hears it again and then gives a small half laugh at his pain trying to perform it.  "Well, I just think you should stick around in skirts at least. It's a lot more fun, anyway.  I bet we could even find you a nice boyfriend."
Jun 08 00:07:40 <Knave>	"Already spoken for." He reminds her with a lowered eyebrow, "Besides, I don't bat for that team." His eyes wander to the wall and his mouth runs away with him, "Maybe I could turn the heads of some of those gay girls that Brett guy told me about, though." He sips, "But I'm spoken for, of course."
Jun 08 00:10:23 <LipstickThespian>	"It was a joke," Yuki says with her tongue sticking out and a small laugh.  "Gay girls? Don't you mean uhm, like Yuri right?"  She blushes at the thought, there may or may not be a few Yuri Doujins in the tote under the bed they're sitting on.  "You could at least tease, right? It might be funny."
Jun 08 00:14:01 <Knave>	"Don't you think just seeing me around is tease enough?" He smirks and takes a drink, "~This is good tea, Yuki-chan.~" Austin says, trying. He yawns and smiles faintly, "Very relaxing."
Jun 08 00:15:52 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki gives it some thought and nods her head, giving her own tea another sip. Then Austin yawns, which causes her to yawn and stretch her arms a little.  "Thank you, Ashleigh-chan," that cute voice was never going to get not amazing in her eyes.  "Be sure to drink it all, it'll relax you!"
Jun 08 00:20:00 <Knave>	Austin just nods in response, taking a drink, "So how goes the, the uh... the teasing?" He sip, "You said you wanted to like.. y'know, flirt and stuff, right?" He blinks and yawns again.
Jun 08 00:20:49 <LipstickThespian>	"I'm learning!  I asked Ellie to help me out and she's given me some good advice, but I'm not sure if it's going to work since I don't feel like doing it in class."  Yuki sips at her own mug and looks over at Austin with a small smile, "are you sleepy?"
Jun 08 00:24:19 <Knave>	Austin nods, and says through a yawn, "A little, yeah." He chuckles with the mug halfway to his lips, then takes another drink, "Must be the tea. I should prob'ly mosey. 'Fraid I might crash on your bed."
Jun 08 00:26:03 <LipstickThespian>	"It's okay," Yuki says with another little yawn of her own, "I'm sleepy too. We can just lay down and have a sleep over, okay?"  She looks at him with a smile, "it'll be really nice sharing my bed with you. Ashleigh-chan.  Just like in my Yuri shows."
Jun 08 00:27:12 <Knave>	Austin slurps more tea, "'M gonna pretend I dunno what that means. For both our sake." He shuts his eyes, though he doesn't seem conscious that he's doing it, "And no touchy."
Jun 08 00:30:44 <LipstickThespian>	"It's okay, Ashleigh-chan."  Yuki says as she sets her tea mug down on the sidetable and watches Austin in between rubbing her sleepy eyes.  "We're going to have lots of fun!"
Jun 08 00:32:26 <Knave>	Austin flops, "Mrn." The vocalization sounds like a protest, but he seems too drowsy to articulate anything. Then, a moment later, he's out like a light.
Jun 08 00:36:24 <LipstickThespian>	When Austin wakes, or well comes to some amount of conciousness, the first thing he might notice is Yuki standing in front of him bent over her computer desk clicking around on her computer.  The second thing, might be the fact that she isn't sitting in a chair because he's currently tied down to it.  Ankles, thighs, midsection, chest, elbows, wrists.  Well, that's a lot more rope than might have been needed.
Jun 08 00:39:43 <Knave>	"Wuh...?" Austin looks around slowly, then wiggles in place, "Why- why am I tied to a chair? Yuki?" Austin shakes his head vigorously, "What's going on?" His gaze goes distant, "Boy, I am just firing off the cliches right now."
Jun 08 00:43:37 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki looks back at him with a smile coming to her face as she stands up straight and walks over to him, stopping in front of the chair.  "Ashleigh-chan, you're making bad jokes again."  She leans forward to be face to face with Austin, there's a certain lack of spark in her eyes.  "I thought you were sleepy?"
Jun 08 00:50:01 <Knave>	"Sorry, I just have this thing where being tied to a chair makes me really alert." He smiles uncertainly, lopsided and wobbly, "And where I use humour as a defence mechanism..."
Jun 08 00:57:17 <LipstickThespian>	"You're talking a lot," Yuki says with a frown, "I think it's cute sometimes. But we're supposed to be in a Yuri romance right now, right?"  She straightens and steps next to him, and then straddles his lap, sitting there and looking at him face to face.
Jun 08 00:58:46 <Knave>	"Yeah. Talking. I do that." He starts to scowl. Austin had already figured out that there were simply too many ties around him for him to slip free - that didn't mean he couldn't make his lap too slick to sit in.
Jun 08 01:01:11 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki did feel herself slip, and in fact ended up slipping down onto the floor on her ass, letting out a small cry of pain.  "Owie," she said as she rubbed her leg and looked up.
Jun 08 01:02:59 <Knave>	"I don't know which part of the memo you missed," Austin furrows his brow and does his best to scoot back as he glares at the Yuki on the floor, "But we are not in any kind of a romance. I have a girlfriend. I am not single. I am dating a girl and /the girl is a different girl to you/."
Jun 08 01:07:09 <LipstickThespian>	Scooting back in the chair ends up with the chair against her bed.  Yuki pushes herself up and heads over to her desk to dig around it.  "Ashleigh-chan is different from Austin-chan," she says as she picks up a small orange box cutter from her desk's stationary organizer.  Really, she has far too many cute desk supplies for that to have any place.  Turning to look at him a bright smile comes across her face, "Ashleigh-chan and I are in a romance together, we're the canon pairing."  She pushes her thumb against the boxcutter and the blade extends, "right?"
Jun 08 01:12:23 <Knave>	Austin stares in wide-eyed panic for a few seconds, then looks half-expectantly at the window. After a moment, he mutters to himself, "Boy, where's an unbeatable squirrel girl when you need her?" He returns his attention to the crazy girl with the boxcutter, "Now, I know what you're thinking; 'Should I stab him with the boxcutter if he rebuffs my advances?' Well, the answer may surprise you." Meanwhile, behind him, Austin's wrists are as close to frictionless as he can get them as he tries to slip off the ropes binding his arms together.
Jun 08 01:15:33 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki glances over to the window when he does, and then looks back at Austin.  "Ashleigh-chan, you keep talking in that ugly voice.  You're supposed to be cute, remember?"  She reaches over her free hand and tries to brush it against his cheek.  "Please Ashleigh-chan, you should be more sweet to me, don't you think?"  Well, it is just store bought rope after all. And Yuki can only tie things so tight.  A dislocated thumb is a small price to pay for freedom, right?
Jun 08 01:18:40 <Knave>	Austin's cheek is also remarkably slick. Maybe it's a panic-reflex. Maybe it's sweat. "Yuki I'd like to think I'm a pretty understanding guy, and I want to help you with this... this. But I would really love it if you weren't holding a boxcutter right now." Elbows. Dumb elbows. More space, more movement, more shimmy. He can his arms free, no problem, right? "It would make this whole thing just go with a schwing for me."
Jun 27 22:07:43 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki's hand slips off the cheek and she seems offput by it, slippery Austin.  "I'm scared you'll try and do something to me, Ashleigh-chan."  She says as she steps closer to him and holds the open box cutter between them, like she's presenting a present to him to inspect.  "You're not mad are you? You keep moving around, you don't want to leave right?"
Jun 27 22:10:32 <Knave>	"Who me?" His mouth pulls to the side in the uneasiest of grins, "Austin Silver? Comic relief. 'Course I'm not gonna do anything to you." His arms, so close to freedom, get a whole lot stiller, since there's no use them being free with her seeing. "It's just I'm not feeling a lot of trust, what with the blade and the ropes."
Jun 27 22:12:57 <LipstickThespian>	"Okay," Yuki says with a bright smile as she looks at him.  "But- if I put them away, you might run away.  Back to her, right?  You might tell people I'm- You might say mean things like Cass did.  I don't want you to do that, it's really scary."  She motions with her hand as she talks, the boxcutter dancing back and forth in front of Austin's chest.
Jun 27 22:16:35 <Knave>	"Won't say a word. Scout's honor." He raises a hand beside his head as he swears the oath, then looks at it sidelong and hastily sweeps it back behind him as if it never happened. Then, with a combination of his manic grin and concerned eyes, "I just want to help you."
Jun 27 22:20:55 <LipstickThespian>	"Really?" Yuki says as she leans forward close to his face.  Either she didn't notice the raised hand, or she hasn't put that piece together.  Honestly? She isn't processing things completely right now.  "Alright, I'll untie you, okay?"  She steps over next to him and reaches behind him, but pauses.  "Did I already do this?" She seems unsure.
Jun 27 22:24:34 <Knave>	"Must have come loose." Austin says diplomatically after a few moments of thought. He moves his arms outwards and around to his body as if he only just realized they were free. "Why did you think you had to tie me up in the first place, Yuki?" He meters the words out slowly, and takes care to sound just casually interested - not panicked, or accusing. Why would Austin be afraid of his good friend Yukes, eh?
Jun 27 22:26:19 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki steps back and then kneels down onto the floor, taking her time to untie the bindings on his legs and ankles. Setting the boxcutter to the side as she does so, they really were done tight.  "I tied you up because Noriko-chan said it would make you stay with me. She's really smart."
Jun 27 22:27:46 <Knave>	"I don't think I've had the pleasure." Austin watches Yuki carefully, making minute wriggles from moment to moment, "Who is Noriko-chan, exactly?"
Jun 27 22:30:21 <LipstickThespian>	"Noriko-chan is my friend from Tokyo, she came to stay with me here." Yuki stands up once the ropes are loosened and walks around in front of Austin. Looking down at him and playing with the sleeves of her cardigan. "She gave me the idea."
Jun 27 22:34:03 <Knave>	"Uh-huh." Austin nods, looking Yuki up and down, then down at himself. On balance, he elects to stay sitting for now, "Didn't you think I might not like being tied up?" He ventures weakly after an awkward cough, shrinking into himself as he anticipates her answer.
Jun 27 22:35:27 <LipstickThespian>	"But you won't stay the night with me, so if you were tied up, you'd have to spend the night with me."  Yuki says as if her train of logic is sound right now, she fiddles with the ends of her cardigan as she talks.
Jun 27 22:39:13 <Knave>	"Yeah. I can see how that would..." He trails off. Directly addressing the idea of spending the night might just be suicide right now. It definitely wouldn't help keep her calm. "When you say spend the night..?" Austin says curiously, self-preservation not being among his talents.
Jun 27 22:40:25 <LipstickThespian>	"Like a sleep over," Yuki says as her eyes brighten.  "Girls can have sleep overs together, right? It happens all the time in my Anime!  It would be really fun, we could fall asleep holding hands and go to class together tomorrow.  I even have snacks, and, and games to play and stuff."
Jun 27 22:46:21 <Knave>	And now Austin knew he was at the very edge of the minefield. Step in the wrong spot, lose some of your favourite parts. Hesitate too long, you let the enemy know how much you know. Austin devised a Strategy. Abruptly, he stands up, one hand going up to his mouth. He wasn't a blushing man, but he did his best to force one. "O-oh!~" He takes a halting step away, then looks down, acting bashful and hiding the fact he can't really force the blush well enough, "I-I thought you might have meant...~"
Jun 27 22:48:47 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki wasn't a master strategist like Austin, she was just a weird schoolgirl who sometimes let her fantasies get to her.  Basing your entire life on the shows and books you read doesn't help with interactions like this.  She steps back as he stands up, and worry fills her eyes as he steps away.  Then it hits her, Austin isn't the Tsundere she thought he was.  He's completely Kuudere.
Jun 27 22:48:47 <LipstickThespian>	Like, one hundred percent.  "Oh no!" She raised her hands and waved them back and forth, "no no no.  I don't mean like that!  Sorry Ashleigh-chan, I just meant- don't be scared okay?"
Jun 27 22:50:45 <Knave>	"Just... I'm not ready for... that, with you...~" Here's the showstopper. Look up to Yuki, hands crossed over chest, slight lean in and forwards, bat false eyelashes, soft look. "O-okay?~"
Jun 27 22:50:54 <Knave>	Setting boundaries, in terms she can understand.
Jun 27 22:52:09 <LipstickThespian>	"I- I understand!" Yuki gets a look of determination in her eyes as she stands up straight.  It was up to her to protect the purity of Ashleigh-chan, after all!  There was pride in that purpose, and she had to be strong for the demure girl in front of her.  "I promise to take my time with you!"
Jun 27 22:54:31 <Knave>	A moment's hesitation. Clearly, the message got watered down in transmission. Still, that was his chastity safe for the night at least... Ashleigh perks up, giving a little smile, "I'm glad to hear that, Yuki-chan.~" Head tilt. Austin liked acting, he couldn't deny. "What did you have planned?"
Jun 27 22:59:13 <LipstickThespian>	"I wanted to-" Yuki turns to her bed and walked over, bending down to dig under it. "I wanted to play a game with you! I, I got an extra Vita so we can play together- We can eat some of the snacks I made too."  She digs for a while under the bed, it seems she didn't plan for this to actually come to this point.
Jun 27 23:02:57 <Knave>	Austin, chastely, redirects his gaze away from Yuki while she's bent down. "Sounds like fun!~" He sits demurely on the opposite side of the bed as he waits, "I know I can trust you not to do anything I wouldn't want while I sleep over here, Yuki-chan!~" The voice slips for some of that - it isn't suited to the serious, measured tone he takes - but it comes back for the end.
Jun 27 23:06:36 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki comes up and sits on the bed after a while, with a white Vita and her own pink Vita. Both seem pretty well loved.  The white one gets offered to Austin, and she laughs a little at the teasing.  It makes her blush, and she's actually blushing. Not Austin's forced acting, she's an honest to goodness embarassed girl sometimes.   "You can trust me, Ashleigh-chan.  Don't worry."
Jun 27 23:10:03 <Knave>	The role's too easy to fall into. Austin stops himself halfway before he lets himself put a reassuring hand on Yuki's arm - and that just plays into the shy girl fantasy building up in Yuki's head, he's sure. "I won't.~" He takes the Vita, "I probably won't be very good at this, you know.~"
Jun 27 23:13:13 <LipstickThespian>	The shy little Ashleigh-chan, sitting on the bed with Yuki, who had to make sure and keep her hands to herself.  "It's fine, I'll teach you."  She looks down at the Vitas and then up to him.  "You'll spend the night over, right? You're not just teasing me?"
Jun 27 23:17:10 <Knave>	"Yeah." He looks into her eyes, then remembers the voice, "I can spend the night, Yuki-chan.~" Austin flashes a smile, unmistakably Austinlike under the Ashleigh, "I'm glad we're friends.~"
Jun 27 23:21:10 <LipstickThespian>	"I'm glad we're friends too," Yuki says with a bright and genuine smile as she forgets how they even got this point.  What follows is a genuinely care free night, she plays games with Austin, shares treats, even makes tea for the two of them with her hot plate.  A really full evening, and she seems to have put a lot of thought into a friend filled evening.  After hours, she finally lets 	out a large yawn and lays back on the bed.
Jun 27 23:22:53 <Knave>	Austin - taking great care to lie down as far away from her as possibly - lies back too. "Good night, Yuki-chan.~" He yawns in sympathy, not quite managing to make it sound cute, "Tonight was fun.~"
Jun 27 23:25:13 <LipstickThespian>	"I had a lot of fun," Yuki says without bothering to get under the covers. Rolling to her side facing Austin but not getting closer to him. Ashleigh-chan wanted space after all.  In an instant, she's out like a light, sleeping softly.  Only the dim glow of her desk lamp lighting the room that was once forced detention, and is now a really awkward (but not to Yuki) sleep over.
Jun 27 23:27:38 <Knave>	Austin could safely bolt now, but he didn't want to, and he did say he would spend the night. No, he'll figure something out in the morning. Yuki clearly needs help, and he doesn't know how to give it. And he damn well doesn't trust the school to give it. He'd figure something out. For now, sleep.
Jun 27 23:29:21 <LipstickThespian>	-Scene Bread-