Do You Have a Name? Or Can I Call You Mine?

Risa found herself in an awkward but dream situation. She literally had no power to fight back or question literally anything as her shirt was lifted over her head and tossed on the ground. Senpai was still in her bra and underwear as she pulled Risa close and tugged on her pj pants till they fell to the ground leaving only Risa's underwear left on her body.

Unsure what to do next, Risa stood frozen. Mei-senpai was super red-faced at this point as well. She slipped one arm out of her bra strapped and held the rest of up with her other arm and looked up shyly at Risa, “Would you get in the bath with me? You want to, right?”

Risa's face became hot again and all she could do was rapidly shake her head yes. Mei-senpai dropped her bra and that was it. Risa felt her head begin to spin so to avoid fainting she flung herself into the bath, underwear and all, then landed with a small splash.

Mei-senpai laughed whole-heartedly as Risa realized she had forgotten to take off her underwear. Risa scrambled to take off the sopping wet undergarment. While she fought, Mei-senpai slipped into the bathtub before Risa could get a look at her. Submerged in water the two girls began to feel much more comfortable around each other.

Having just taken a bath less than 2 hours before, Risa did not feel inclined to rewash herself and instead rested her back against the tub and lowered herself down to her neck in the water. Risa washed her hair with Reika-nee’s shampoo and moved across the tub to put some on Risa's head.

“Why are you not getting clean you silly girl? That's what the bath is for afterall, right?”

Risa played along and cutely tipped her head and gave a goofy smile.

Mei-senpai looked at Risa and seemingly out of nowhere decided she would wash Risa herself. She lathered Risa's hair making lots of bubbles and gently massaging her scalp. Risa closed her eyes and felt herself moving towards Mei's hands.

“Mei-senpai, that feels so nice.”

“It does, doesn't it? You do me a favor and wash mine?”

Risa leaned over and began scrubbing senpai's hair. With a blissful expression on her face, Mei began to speak again, “Risa-chan, while I was gone, why didn't you try to contact me at all? Reika talked to me all the time, but why didn't you?” Mei started lathering her body.

Risa thought for a second why she hadn't and remembered how possessive that Reika was over Mei. The thought of having to deal with Reika for any reason made her stomach ache. Reika's rage at any time was a hell no for everyone that had seen it before. Risa replied honestly, “To be truthful you and Reika were such good friends that I was worried I would get my ass handed to me by Reika if I tried to become any closer to you. I mean we had fun playing together and going on adventures growing up. But man you know how Reika gets when she is angry. She is even worse when she is jealous.”

Senpai blew bubbles in the water, then gave Risa a pouty face, “All this time I thought that you didn’t like me anymore.”

Risa reached forward and grabbed Mei’s shoulders, “Huh? Why would you think that? In fact, when you rescued me and I didn’t realize who you were my heart was beating out of my chest. You are so, so, so beautiful. You have a good body, you are kind of caring, and most of all, you came looking for me. Not very many people would come looking for me like that. Of course I like you, Senpai !”

Risa realized that she had moved closer and closer to Senpai as she spoke, leaving only a fist distance between their lips. Mei looked up at Risa, both their hearts started beating fast and strong. They stayed in that position for a few seconds before Mei spoke up. “I was serious, you know? About you being my girlfriend. So, what do you say? Will you be mine?”

Risa wanted to say yes because she could feel the electric energy that was shared between them, but then she remembered Noriko’s confession and suddenly wasn’t so sure she could say yes.

Instead Risa replied, “I would just agree right away, but I want us to do things right in case this actually works out. Why don’t we just go on a few dates and if we still feel the same, ask me again?”

Mei’s face lit up, then the two got lost in the moment and their lips pressed into each other and Mei wound up on top of Risa somehow. Then entirely unexpectedly, Reika threw open the door. She was about to go off when she saw Mei leaning over Risa, Risa’s hands grabbing onto Mei’s waist. Just as fast as she had opened the door, she slammed it shut. “You two better get the fuck out of here. I’m waiting for my turn in the bath!”

Risa and Mei hurried and rinsed off their hair and bodies. Risa shot up and grabbed a towel and quickly wrapped it around her chest, before she could book it back to her room, Mei grabbed her by the wrist and brought her back.

“Risa, if you want to date me, that’s fine with me. How about we make plans to go on a date this Saturday?”

Risa thought for a second, she would be free most of Saturday so why not?

“Sure, just tell me the time and the place and we can meet up.”

Mei gave Risa’s hand a squeeze then giggled excitedly. “ I have a plan in mind. You are going to have so much fun you are going to become my girlfriend for real!”

The two parted ways, Risa heading to her room, and Mei to Reika’s. Risa was really feeling a lot better so she wasn’t sure why she shouldn’t use screens for a while. Then she thought about Noriko and her confession and how embarrassed she must feel after Risa didn’t say anything back. With her phone gone, there was only one way to try and get ahold of her best friend.

Gaming system and the online chat features were going to have to do. Risa made sure that her door was locked then put on her headset and earphones then fired up her gaming console. She logged into her account that she used exclusively for DM’s and saw that Noriko’s gamer Icon which was simply a black background with a killer clown in the center was visible. Noriko was logged-in at the moment. Risa shot her a message.

“Hey, I know that you are online so don’t change your status as offline because you want to avoid me. I want to talk to you about what happened earlier. Do you have a minute?”

Noriko, who was currently having a make out session with AI Risa took a minute to reply. She kept starting then stopping, deleting what she wrote and then rewriting it again. Finally she settled on a pathetic sounding reply, “Ok.”

Risa continued to reply by simply thinking what she wanted to say. That’s how the DM feature worked in some VR chat rooms. “Look at the school I’m not sure exactly what happened between us but I know that I liked it and it felt right. About your confession, I don’t really think I can reply right now because I do love you oh so much, but I never really considered how things would be if we were in a relationship.”

“Ok Risa, so you aren’t rejecting me then?”

“I’m not but I think that we should try to date each other first to see if we can actually be good together as more than just friends. Does that seem fair?”

Noriko did her best to conceal her excitement. The offer was better than she could have ever expected, but then she remembered, Mei-senpai said she was Risa’s girlfriend.

“Risa, isn’t Mei-senpai your girlfriend? I don’t think she would like that very much.”

“No. She is not my girlfriend. She wishes. I agreed to do the same thing with her to see if we have mutual feelings for each other. I know that we like each other, Noriko, I just want to see if we can move past friendship into something more intimate.”

“In that case, I do. Can we go out this Saturday?”

“I can’t. I have plans that day. How about Sunday instead?”

“Yes! Oh you won’t be disappointed. You’ll see. Dating me will be so much more fun than just being my friend.”

“Will you still come by tomorrow after school? I’m gonna be pretty lonely without a phone and stuck here with just Saya. I better get off here quick before someone sees what I’m doing and yells at me. Not supposed to use screens because of my concussion.”

“Wait a minute you got hurt that badly from your crash landing? OMG why didn’t you tell me?”

“Oh, I thought that I had. Anyways it’s not really a big deal. It’s the infection from my ankle that has been causing me more grief.”

“WUT!”

“Yeah I was starting to get an infection so the doctor gave me antibiotics and a fever reducer. Anyways, goodnight Noriko-chan. See you tomorrow.” Risa removed her gear and turned off the system before tucking herself in for the night and drifting into sleep.