Sunlight grazed the balcony glass, slipping lazily across the room's floor, just as Yuki lifted her head from the pillow—
No, she lifted her entire body off Ren.
Yes, she had been lying on top of him for ten full minutes, unmoving, pretending to be some kind of clingy, sentient furniture.
She whispered with a sugary voice:
– "Renooo... I had a super sticky dream, and now I really want to make it come true…"
He slowly opened his eyes, sighed, and raised an eyebrow:
– "Don't tell me it's that peanut butter-and-bathtub dream again…"
She gasped in an overly cute way, then shrieked while flailing her arms:
– "Eeeeehh?! How did you know?! Were you spying on my dreams, you creepy dream-thief?!"
– "Because I live with you, you clingy explosion of sugar."
She suddenly leapt off the bed and ran toward the bathroom, glancing over her shoulder with a dramatic finger-point:
– "You have five minutes. If you don't join me, I'll turn into a sad little fish and die in the tub!"
He didn't wait five minutes.
One minute later, he was standing behind her, watching her sing in the bathtub, submerged in foam up to her neck, smiling like a lunatic and humming childish tunes:
– "Boom boom~ Renoooo~ I'm your mermaid, right? Huh?"
He approached, sat on the edge of the tub, looked at her like a man exhausted by beauty itself, then reached out and tapped her wet forehead:
– "You look like a fresh, hot cake… Can I bite you now, or is there a waiting list?"
She burst out laughing, then lifted her soapy leg to touch his cheek:
– "I'm so hot I'm melting you, huh? Eheee~!"
He leaned closer, wiped the foam from her lips, and kissed her deeply—
So deeply that the round little creature hiding behind the laundry basket let out a squeaky:
"Fuuuuuuu~?"
Yuki pulled away, then screamed:
– "BOOOOFU! Don't look! You're a baby, you're not allowed to watch these things!"
The little blob panicked, spun around in fast little circles as if shouting in a lost alien language—then collapsed on the floor, fast asleep.
Ren laughed hard, holding Yuki's face close:
– "Even that squishy creature can't handle you. What about me? What spell did you cast that made you more important than oxygen?"
She gazed at him with sparkling eyes:
– "My spell is… totally insane, crazy, psycho love… and I…"
She leaned in, whispering in his ear:
– "I want to melt you down to your very last drop of lust, my king."
…
In that bathroom, under steam and water and bubbles…
There was only a king and his queen.
No—there was also a sleeping round creature, whose only dream was to one day be pampered like Ren pampers Yuki…