She walked in to find Neko staring at her hands, tears rolling down her face. "You're horrible," Neko whispered.
"Nani?"
She looked up. "You couldn't help it. You just had to charm your way out of it." She smiled through her tears, and Tenshi knew from that gorgeous smile that she had been forgiven.
"Yeah, I tried my best to mess it up, but I couldn't help it. I'm just naturally charming," she answered with her most charismatic smile, while she sat down on the end of the bed.
"Ara, that must be what I love about you."
"What, that I'm charming?"
"No, that you're so modest," she teased.
"Know what I love about you?" Tenshi asked, moving closer to the head of the bed.
"No, what?"
"Everything, my Neko-chan" she answered smoothly before leaning in for a kiss.
But Neko jerked back suddenly.
"Are you ok?" Tenshi asked both concerned and confused.
"Don't call me that!"
"Nani?"
Neko was confused. She had been stunned by the sound of her own name on Tenshi's lips. And hearing it had hurt worse than anything she might have felt about the name "Koneko-chan."
"Koneko."
"Huh?"
"I told you before, never to stop calling me 'Koneko.'"
"Demo-"
"I want you to call me 'Koneko'!" Neko said, emphasizing each word.
"Yes, ma'am. Whatever you wish."
Tenshi hesitated, unsure of what to do next.
"Don't worry. I won't break," Neko told her.
"Oh. Oh!" Tenshi blushed and bent forward to kiss her.
They were interrupted after a few minutes by a knock on the door.
"Ano," Mi-chan looked a little embarrassed as she opened the door. "I thought you might like to know that everyone else is planning on coming in here soon, so you might want to finish up. Maybe?" She could tell that they had already made up and moved on to making out, so she wanted to warn them. "Sorry to interrupt." She shut the door quickly.
Tenshi turned red. "Nice of her to alert us."
"Yeah, remind me to tell her we appreciate her protection."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Mi-chan closed the door, still a little uncomfortable about having interrupted Neko and Tenshi. She looked at her parents, who were getting up to go in. She hoped that Neko and Tenshi had stopped kissing and would look respectable when they walked in.
Her discomfort was observed by Haruka, who accurately interpreted it as being from interrupting the two girls. "Ne, Michiru?" she whispered to her wife, suddenly worried. "You know they did get really close really fast. I mean, you did check with Tenshi to make sure that that present really was for Neko-chan's birthday, right?"
