Asami’s bedroom, revealing the secret

Asami didn’t bother to knock before she invited herself in her bedroom. Once inside, she spotted Emilia floating three feet above the ground on a deep purple giant jellybean-shaped balloon, slightly sinking in its soft stretched material. Her hands were crossed on her stomach with her eyes closed, breathing gently, while her legs were spread wide open over the airship’s sides. The small girl couldn’t contain her blush when she spotted the very evident and large darkened mess on her friend’s swimsuit right between her legs, showcasing the fun she herself had just a moment ago.

Asami approached, her feet barely making any noises, yet said nothing. Her American friend looked so peaceful, looking asleep, even. Maybe that was too much, even for her.

“You have some explaining to do, young lady.” Emilia’s voice seemed like an explosion in the very quiet room, which Asami reacted with a short, high-pitched cry and recoiling back a step. Emilia’s eyes opened and she looked down at her friend, which was now breathing harshly. “Why are you so on edge?”

“Sorry, I thought you were asleep, that scared me...”

“Nah, I was just thinking. But seriously. What just happened? Just like you said, things went very weird. But, as promised, I trusted you. But now, I believe I’m owed an explanation.”

“O-of course, Em. We did it in that order so that... That you would not think I’ve gone insane.”

Emilia straightened up on her mount, riding it like a horse and making it screech in the process. “Asami, girl. You, insane? Never. Let’s be honest, I’ll always be the crazy one between the two of us.” She tilted herself forward, pressing her hands down on the big inflatable, fully trusting the **** at work to not send her crashing down. “Just go ahead and start speaking, so I can try and grasp what you were thinking about... everything, really.”

The petite Japanese gave a sigh in resignation. “Alright, then strap in, it’s a long and complicated story. Here’s exactly what happened to me since yesterday.”

And so they spoke. With Emilia being the curious one, she kept interrupting the tale to either ask a question or add her own commentary. Asami just let it all out, from the moment she came back home, her solo session, the discovery of the **** currently in motion and showing up one of the vials they took during the night, the powder implanting itself in her brain and her agreeing to it which Emilia wasn’t sure how to react to, what they did to Adam when he got home and, finally, how her boyfriend seemed absolutely oblivious in the morning that what had occurred the night prior had actually happened.

Emilia took it all in, reminding her Asian friend that she believed her on numerous occasions. “I can kinda see why you did what you did, then. Is that also how you managed to sneak the balloons on me earlier in the living room?”

“Yeah, I just asked them mentally to follow my lead.”

“You really can just order them to do anything, then?”

“It’s... a mutual exchange, or agreement we had with each other. Like...” Asami decided to show once more instead of tell. With just a simple command, her feet left the ground, floating up with her arms open toward her still hovering friend. When Emilia saw her approaching, she prepared herself by spreading her own arms. A moment later, Asami tackled her friend and she landed backward on the hovering balloon, only barely indenting it further. “The payment is that I’m having fun,” she said, snuggling deeper in the friendly embrace.

“Alright, you’ve made your point. But I’m still not super sure why, exactly, you had to go through such an intense plan to introduce me on what had happened to you in the last 24 hours. It feels like there’s something missing in all this.”

Asami let out a halfhearted laugh at that comment. She revealed everything that had happened to her lately... with the exception of one specific thing. Said thing which was resting in the corner of the bedroom hidden by a wall of balloons inflated to various sizes, in case Emilia turned her head that way. The petite girl made no mention of the grand heist the Manacite had accomplished without her awoken consent. Now, she had a choice to make, to either tell her absolutely everything or leave that fact hidden from her.