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Four Men & A Little Lady
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shirobaraAya spent the first three days just trying to get used to how huge the apartment was.
She focused on the apartment size because if she didn't, she would be focusing on the fact that she was now living with four male strangers, like some modern twisted Snow White story. Only instead of Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy and Grumpy, it was Stuffy, Creepy, Scarry, and Cutie.
At first, she just tried to stay out of everyone's way, as each of them was a bit frightening in his own way. She even tried to be useful, cooking meals and touching up cleaning... not that much cleaning needed to be done. Stuffy seemed to see that it stayed pretty nice-looking.
As the days passed, she began to acclimate more, and, being a normal girl (or at least had been up until she suddenly had super powers?), spending several days in a row cooped up with no one for company was making her feel rather isolated.
Nagi was the least intimidating between his younger age and a certain... softness of aura that the other three didn't quite possess. He was quiet and serious and seemed equal parts curious about her and awkward around her. Aya found herself quietly inserting herself into his domain more and more.
It was a bit of a shame that he didn't seem to have much to say, and that so much of what she said seemed to leave him at a loss. Aya didn't mind that too much, though. It was nice just to have someone to chatter at. She laid on her stomach across his bed while he sat at his computer desk, occasionally asking him about what he was doing, or random questions about himself like what kind of music he liked or the last good movie he saw.
He eventually stopped trying to work at the computer and pivoted his chair around, staring at her like a puzzle he couldn't figure out.
"Why do you care about these things?"
Aya blinked. "It's just making conversation. Getting to know you."
It didn't seem to be making things any clearer for Nagi. "There's nothing like that to know. I'm Schwarz. That's all."
"No, there is more to it than that. You are Schwarz, but you're your own person too, aren't you?"
Nagi opened his mouth as though to answer, but then seemed to think better of it, and turned his head away without uttering a word, suddenly looking sullen.
Aya wondered in that moment if she'd somehow said something wrong.
She focused on the apartment size because if she didn't, she would be focusing on the fact that she was now living with four male strangers, like some modern twisted Snow White story. Only instead of Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy and Grumpy, it was Stuffy, Creepy, Scarry, and Cutie.
At first, she just tried to stay out of everyone's way, as each of them was a bit frightening in his own way. She even tried to be useful, cooking meals and touching up cleaning... not that much cleaning needed to be done. Stuffy seemed to see that it stayed pretty nice-looking.
As the days passed, she began to acclimate more, and, being a normal girl (or at least had been up until she suddenly had super powers?), spending several days in a row cooped up with no one for company was making her feel rather isolated.
Nagi was the least intimidating between his younger age and a certain... softness of aura that the other three didn't quite possess. He was quiet and serious and seemed equal parts curious about her and awkward around her. Aya found herself quietly inserting herself into his domain more and more.
It was a bit of a shame that he didn't seem to have much to say, and that so much of what she said seemed to leave him at a loss. Aya didn't mind that too much, though. It was nice just to have someone to chatter at. She laid on her stomach across his bed while he sat at his computer desk, occasionally asking him about what he was doing, or random questions about himself like what kind of music he liked or the last good movie he saw.
He eventually stopped trying to work at the computer and pivoted his chair around, staring at her like a puzzle he couldn't figure out.
"Why do you care about these things?"
Aya blinked. "It's just making conversation. Getting to know you."
It didn't seem to be making things any clearer for Nagi. "There's nothing like that to know. I'm Schwarz. That's all."
"No, there is more to it than that. You are Schwarz, but you're your own person too, aren't you?"
Nagi opened his mouth as though to answer, but then seemed to think better of it, and turned his head away without uttering a word, suddenly looking sullen.
Aya wondered in that moment if she'd somehow said something wrong.
