Shotgun & Devillic Log: Getting Summer Ready

[mikazuki_chan]

"Mhmm. especially for a brand you can find in convenience stores," Mikoto agrees, having had other cheap chocolate ice creams that barely had chocolate flavour to them. He's glad Keiji likes it though, then looks over to Kaiya, wondering which of the coolers will be deemed the least delicious, and thus be given to him.

Setsuna, who only drinks one drink a day at this point in his life, chuckles at that, and explains, "Well, if you drink enough of some of the gross ones, you get used to them and your palette adjusts to the complex flavours. But there's also no need for you to go through that if you don't want to." he's still nursing his very nice beer which was the *one* he was going to enjoy that evening.

That explanation just made Kaiya shrug. "Maybe I'll try to enjoy wine so I can seem sophisticated, but beer even just smells gross a lot of the time." She actually didn't mind the smell of the one that Setsuna was drinking right now, and often didn't mind it, now that she thought about it, but she could remember the awful smell of her father's drinks, so it might just be that cheap beer smell had a bad association, on top of just not smelling good to her. "Coolers smell fruity and taste sweet, and I like that~" That said, she took a sip of the lemonade... and immediately held it out for Mikoto. "Too sour~" She complained. Maybe if she'd had it before the super sweet rainbow punch she might have liked it more, but as it was, it really was like a good lemonade that just had vodka added to it.

Keiji couldn't help but chuckle at his sister's reaction to the alcoholic lemonade, but he tried not to laugh too much. It was just such a cute reaction. Rather than say anything, though, he took another taste of the ice cream.

"Well, there's also the factor that... people just trying to get drunk will choose cheap stuff, which can taste bad, but they get used to it. That happens as well," Setsuna has to admit -- having certainly been there himself. Setsuna gets quite the warm smile at Kaiya's cute reaction to the sour drink.

"Ho ho, lemonade for me~" Mikoto happens to already know that he likes both flavours, so he's not bothered at all. He takes the cooler, but sets it on the table, wanting to focus on his ice cream before it can melt too badly.

"Well.... I don't wanna get drunk, so no reason to get used to icky cheap stuff either~" Kaiya added brightly, with all the confidence of someone who had not yet hit the college party scene. Now that she had decided on her drink, though, she moved on to opening her ice cream, and taking a taste of that. "Oooh~ This is so good, Miko-chan!"

Keiji couldn't help but chuckle at Mikoto's reaction. "Happy with your drink luck?" He asked, not having tried a lemonade cooler before, but taking it from his lover's reaction that Kaiya's opinion did not match the blond's.

"Hmm? We intentionally chose two flavours that I liked - so kaiya-chan could try both, and I'd be happy with whichever I got," Mikoto explains the simple scheme to Keiji. His ice cream is disappearing much slower than most food he eats, primarily so he doesn't give himself an ice cream headache.

"Just remember, if you ever do choose to get drunk -- you have friends who can help you do so safely, ne?" Setsuna suggests softly. He doesn't want to limit Kaiya's options, and you never know what might happen in college.

"Ah~ That was a good idea." Keiji complimented, thinking that it had actually been a fantastic idea. He knew Kaiya was curious about alcohol, especially good tasting things like coolers, and he would, far and away, prefer that she try these things in a positive and safe environment like this. Also, hearing her talk about how she never wanted to get drunk, and just wanted to have a nice tasting one or two drinks, made him feel like a proud older brother. So, knowing that this whole taste test had been orchestrated so that she could have a nice drink with everyone, but also not strand Mikoto with something potentially gross, made him quite happy indeed.

Kaiya just smiled over at Setsuna at first, but then responded, "I know. And I definitely don't want to do it somewhere where I could be in danger." She admitted. Worse than being out of control would be if something *happened* while she was out of control. Even the thought of what could happen made her shiver lightly.

"Thank you," Mikoto replies primly, clearly quite happy with himself for the plan. Kaiya got to try *two* drinks, without having to drink two drinks, so it makes sense. He finally finishes his ice cream. He puts it down carefully so the spoon is in the cup and won't get chocolate on the table or anything -- and then he has a sip of his cooler. And realizes, "Oh, do you wanna try a sip too?"

Setsuna feels like his offer had gone a little sideways with Kaiya worrying about her safety more than anything, but he's not going to poke at it. She has every reason to be concerned about such things. He makes a comment about a truly bizarre home decor choice on the tv show instead as a full deflection.

Keji hadn't exactly expected to be offered a try of the lemonade cooler, but he was also pleasantly surprised. "Sure!" He responded happily, accepting the drink when it was handed to him. After his own beer and the chocolate ice cream, the lemonade definitely had an unexpected taste. "Hmm... I'm not sure what I think of that." He admitted. It wasn't that he didn't like it, but he did agree that it didn't taste as sweet as he would have expected before his sister's complaint.

Kaiya happily moved on from the prior topic to laugh at the show with her boyfriend, enjoying her ice cream and drink at the same time.

"Maybe a bit of a weird pairing," Mikoto admits - lemonade after beer and rich chocolate ice cream. But it doesn't matter, he's enjoying it. He joins in on the jokes happening on the other side of the sofa, and soon enough the whole family is just relaxing and roasting the tv show. When the episode's finished, the blond stands up and stretches. He would like some time with his lover, and is also getting quite uncomfortable having been in drag (and unable to pee) for a very long time. "I think we're going to head out now?"

Keiji, as he had expected, hadn't even finished half of his ice cream. Which was actually more than he'd expected to eat, honestly. "Should I put this in the freezer here...? Or across the hall?" He asked, pretty sure the latter made more sense, but asking cost nothing. He did stand up, though, ready to follow the blond out.

Kaiya looked over at Mikoto when he stood up, then smiled at that announcement. "Have a good night, ne?" She told him and her brother both. She knew, for sure, that Keiji wasn't heading home. And unless Setsuna needed her to go home for some reason, she was hoping to stay over as well.

"Thanks for hanging out," Setsuna says at the couple goes. It's funny, both being a little sad that the family hang out time was over, and also quite excited since that means some alone time with Kaiya. And with the current ban on dating in public, it's particularly important to enjoy this time.

Keiji nodded and smiled at his sister and her boyfriend, then took his ice cream with him to get his shoes and head across the hall with Mikoto.

Once the other pair was gone, Kaiya cuddled right into Setsuna's side, her own ice cream container safely on the table next to her almost empty drink. "I've missed you~" She told him, it having been a few days since they'd been able to physically see each other.

"I missed you too," Setsuna agrees, getting his arm more snuggly around her as she settles in closer, and kissing her temple softly. He knows she's been excited for this shopping trip, even more than for a normal shopping trip, between her having someone else's money to spend, and between the trip signalling it was nearly time for all the wonderful things that would be happening this summer. "Did you have fun today?"

"Mmm~" Kaiya hummed happily at that hug and little kiss. "Mhm~ I had a lot of fun! Thanks for paying for my beach stuff for me." She added, knowing that all of the money that had been spent on those items today had come from Setsuna. That said, though, she turned her head enough to be able to give her boyfriend a more proper kiss to his lips, though nothing too hot and heavy right now.

Setsuna doesn't want to put too much emphasis on the money. Between paying for her private school and this, well, he knows this isn't a sugar daddy kind of relationship, and everyone who matters knows that, but it could be seen as such from outside, and he doesn't want to make her uncomfortable. At the same time, he's just giving her what she SHOULD have had anyways, if her dad had done his parental duty. "I just want you to be able to have a normal summer time, like your friends." He definitely accepts that kiss happily.

Kaiya smiled at that reasoning. She didn't think of what Setsuna was doing as sugar daddy-ish, so it was fine. She felt a little bad spending *so* much of his money, but Mikoto had been sure she needed pretty much everything they'd purchased, so she didn't feel that bad about it now. "Want to see some of the other stuff I got?" She asked, saying 'other' as he had already seen her hat and sunglasses.

Setsuna wants Kaiya to be able to do the things she wants to do without worrying about being embarrassed by the situation poverty has put her in. He'd hate her to have to say no to going to the beach because she doesn't have beach stuff. It makes perfect sense to him, and he's glad it's something he can help with. And honestly, Mikoto may have done it if he hadn't. He hopes this doesn't get him in trouble, but of COURSE he wants to know, so he agrees, "Yeah, I'd love to."

That positive response made Kaiya smile happily. "Okay~ I'm not going to show *everything*~ But most stuff." She said, not saying *what* she wasn't going to show, but she wanted to keep at least the bikini she had chosen for their date at the end of summer, and that much sexier 'cover up' a surprise for now. That said, she went to get her bags so she could show off what had been bought. And, the first thing she pulled out was her new beach bag. "So, this is the bag that I ended up getting, to carry stuff~" She said, turning it slowly so that Setsuna could see the whole thing, and happy to hand it over if he wanted to look at it closer.

"Well yes, a lady must keep her secrets," Setsuna declares as if this is an obvious fact of the universe... he feels like he's heard it somewhere but honestly doesn't even know what he's quoting, if anything. He does take the bag, and laughs, "Mikoto's amazing. Of course you need a bag; and I wouldn't've thought of it." He holds the bag open, so that while she's pulling things out of her shopping bag, she could remove tags and then stow them in their intended bag.

"Honestly, I hadn't thought about it either." Kaiya admitted, "I was just thinking about a swimsuit. That was all. But.... every time Miko-chan suggested something, I realized they would be important, or helpful, or just nice to have." Sure, that last qualifier seemed kind of superfluous to her, but Mikoto had convinced her it was more necessary than she would have thought. She smiled at Setsuna holding the bag open for her, then got out her new towel next. That it didn't really match her suits, her hat, or her bag, didn't matter at all. She quite liked her citrus towel! She opened it all the way up so that her boyfriend could see it in all its colourful glory. "And this is the beach towel I got~"

"I got some of that when he was talking to me about the budget; when he first told me the number I was like 'are women's swimsuits that expensive? cuz I would struggle to spend more than 3000 myself', but... well, he said that you should have everything that a normal girl your age would have, and that entails more than just a swimsuit. And I agreed wholeheartedly." A normal girl wouldn't be buying everything in one fell swoop likes this, but she would have things lying around for sure. "Oh, that's cute."

Kaiya nodded at Setsuna's thoughts about the size of the budget. "There were a lot of really expensive swimsuits, actually!" She told him, having been kind of shocked herself. "I tried one on that was really, stupidly expensive for what it was. It was.... barely even there!" She said, not mentioning that she had taken photos of herself in it because it *had* looked really sexy, just super impractical. His comment about her towel made her smile brightly, though. "Right? I was looking at another one that was really wildly coloured, but then Miko-chan found this one, and it was just perfect~" She commented, then began folding it back up so it could go in the bag.

"I wasn't too surprised to hear that women's suits are more expensive; that's often how it is with fashion, and why I asked him in the first place...." But the amount Mikoto had said had been so much higher than Setsuna had been expecting. Of course that's because Mikoto was planning on buying a whole summer kit basically. "Something about the citrus pattern just really gives it a summery feeling."

"Mhm~ I agree!" Kaiya responded happily, then set the folded towel in the bag. That done, she considered what to show off next. Looking inside the bag that the towel had come out of, she saw the swimsuit she had bought for wearing with friends, so she pulled that out. It was very different from her normal clothing, with it being floral on a white background, but it was, again, very summery. "So, Miko-chan reminded me that there could be some times this summer when my friends want to go to the beach together, so I got this suit for going with them." She said, very clearly implying that this was *not* the suit she had bought for their planned date for her birthday. She held up the top so Setsuna could see it, not worrying too much about the bottoms, since they were less interesting.

"Oh, so you got more than one suit," Setsuna surmises, based on the way she said that. He has more than one suit himself, so he's certainly not trying to judge. Seeing the suit *not* on her, he's surprised because it seems kind of big? But he supposes he's just not that used to seeing her clothes held up on their own, not on her figure. Obviously she would know what it fits and had tried it on. "That's cute too. I hope you get to go to the beach a lot this summer."

"Ah.... yeah." Kaiya admitted with a bit of a blush. "Umm... I ended up getting three... because! Miko-chan said I might need one for if the other is still wet." She hastened to add. She didn't want her boyfriend to think that she had taken advantage of his generosity and bought things that were completely unnecessary. The comment that the one she had in her hands was cute made her ask, "Do you want to see it on?" It was a suit that she meant to wear out on the public beach, so she didn't think too much about showing it off now to Setsuna.

"Makes sense," Setsuna replies, smiling at her blush. He gets that she may be feeling simultaneously grateful and a bit weird about the money she'd gotten and spending it on something that to her and her brother would surely have been 'frivolous' spending not too long ago, so he doesn't poke at it. And he doesn't think a young, fashionable girl having 3 swimsuits sounds wild. Meanwhile he's torn between definitely wanting to see her in her swimsuit, and knowing that her recently developed curves are going to affect him. But he can bear with it, and he'll understand the suit better if he sees it on. "If you wouldn't mind, I'd like seeing it on, yeah."

That positive response brought a bright smile to Kaiya's lips. "Okay!" She said, before immediately going to the kitchen to snip off the tags, then retreated to the bathroom to strip down, then put on the very summery bikini. She didn't think it was very revealing, at least comparatively, with the criss-cross nature of the top, but she did, very much, like the way she looked in the suit. It was definitely obvious that her chest was larger than it had been, but her exercise had also worked well, keeping her tummy nicely toned. Yes, she thought she looked quite good. Her last check over, to make sure everything was in the right place, she went back out into the living room to show off the suit to her boyfriend. "What do you think?" She asked, making sure she did a slow turn as well, so he could see the whole thing.

It's a perfectly reasonable swimsuit in terms of coverage. Setsuna has definitely seen women wearing less at the beach. But it's certainly different seeing his lovely girlfriend in this level of dress. He had noticed the increase in her bust size in many outfits, and earlier that evening he'd realized how much taller she'd gotten, but seeing her in a swimsuit, his reaction is honestly oh my god, those legs. Thankfully, he's not some drooling teenage boy, so while he thinks she looks amazing, he can at least not make an ass of himself. He enthuses, "Honestly, you look great."

She'll likely turn heads at the beach. Thankfully, a lot of Japanese guys would probably be too intimidated to approach her.

"Thanks!" Kaiya responded brightly, almost preening under that compliment and the fantastic feeling of her boyfriend's eyes on her. While he was certainly not being gross about it, and was honestly being really respectful and classy, she still felt beautiful under his gaze. That said... it was kind of weird hanging out in a bikini while going through the rest of the bags. But... she did have another bikini she could show off! With that in mind, she grabbed the second bag and pulled out the forest green bikini. "This is the second suit I got~ Want to see it on too~?" She asked, pretty sure it would be less understandable in-hand due to the details on the bottoms.

Well, Kaiya absolutely looks gorgeous in Setsuna's eyes, so he'd be glad to know his gaze is making her feel attractive. At the offer of seeing yet another suit, he nods, "Yeah, sure." He assumes this is also not the one she'll be wearing to her date, having put the clues together that that's likely what she wants to keep secret from him. He hopes she didn't buy something that's going to give him a heart attack -- although really he trusts her not to have gone that wild with it.

"Okay!" Kaiya responded, then headed back to the bathroom to put the green suit on next. It took a minute or so more to get the decoration on the bottoms right, but after that, she was ready to go back out and model it for her boyfriend. The top was actually a little more covering than the first, but that made sense to her as it was also meant for going out with her friends, not her boyfriend. Still, she felt hot and confident in this suit, knowing that the colour looked great with her hair and skin tone. "Here it is~" She said, as if that weren't obvious, then did a slow turn to show it off completely.

"Oh wow... that colour looks amazing on you," Setsuna may not be an expert on that stuff, but that much was evident immediately. It makes her skin look even prettier than usual somehow. It wasn't colour he'd usually expect her to go for.... in fact, "You decided to stay away from black for your swimsuits?"

Kaiya had come back around so that she was facing Setsuna again. "Thanks! Yeah! Miko-chan found this one, and we were both really surprised at how good it looked!" The question about the colour, though, had her nodding. "Yeah, I didn't get any black suits. Miko-chan mentioned how black was kinda a... basic colour for the beach? Because it's a slimming colour? So going with colours would actually be more fashionable." She explained. Even the suit for their date was blue and white.

Setsuna considers it, and admits, "Oh, yeah. I guess a lot of people wear black suits. Man, you can count on Mikoto to think of something like that, huh? Well, this colour looks amazing on you." It fully makes sense, he's just not used to Kaiya wearing so much colour. It does at a summery feel to the suits as well.

Kaiya nodded enthusiastically. "Mhm~ He knows all that kind of stuff. I'm glad, though, since today was the first day, ever, that I've been to the beach, so I probably would have gone black if I was just choosing for myself." She admitted. "But... I'm going to go get changed back now, then I can show you the rest~" She said, confirming Setsuna's suspicions that she wasn't going to show off the third suit just now.

"The first time ever... did you have fun?" Setsuna asks, somehow even more glad that he'd paid for her to get all this stuff, so she can feel confident going with her friends later. He nods at her planning on changing back - he doesn't think he'd feel super comfortable with her sitting around his apartment the rest of the evening in a bikini. The context was weird.

"I did! Though sand on wet feet is kinda ick." Kaiya responded, on her way to the bathroom. It didn't take too long for her to change back into her clothing from earlier, and she folded both of the swimsuits so that they could go in the bag when she came back. Once that was done, she grabbed the first bag again, to pull out the last item from in there: her cute new shoes. She absolutely adored the sandals, especially the fact that they would work with all three of her suits, even though they were all very different. Even having experienced sand, though, she hadn't realized that her sandals might not be the most practical. "And here~ Are the sandals I got!"

Setsuna laughs at that, and when she comes back, he gives her a gentle warning, "Oh, just wait til you go swimming in the ocean, and spend a day or two after finding sand in unfortunate places. And if you ever read a BL where they do it on a beach, laugh at how horrible that must be." As for the shoes? "Well, they look very beachy," Setsuna comments, out of his depth when it comes to any footwear that isn't like. goth platforms.

Kaiya just blinked at that initial warning. "...that is *not* making me more excited to go swimming..." She admitted. The additional information about sex on the beach, though, made her eyes go wide. Sand on wet, naked bodies, rubbing between them, sounded awful enough. But the thought of getting annoying, awful sand up *inside*? "Nope. Nope. Nope. No matter how romantic any media ever might make it look, that is never, ever, ever happening." She vowed, not even allowing it to be an argument (not that she thought Setsuna would argue for it, based on his description. His comment about the shoes made her giggle a bit. "Yeah~ They are, aren't they~?"

Setsuna laughs, and he says, "Swimming is fun, lazing on the beach is fun. I love all of it - I just wanted you to be prepared for that bit. And I'm fully on team 'never having sex on the beach', worry not." And now that she knows about it, she can laugh at it when she sees it in manga. Just like she can laugh at BL where they come like 7 times in one sex act, since he'd taught her how ridiculous that was too. He smiles warmly, "Sorry, I'm sure they're lovely shoes."

"Well~ I'm still looking forward to spending time at the beach, so I hope I love it as much as you!" Kaiya responded, then smiled at Setsuna's declaration. "Okay, good. I think it's important we're on the same page on that~" She teased lightly, meaning the sex on the beach part of things. The situation itself might be obvious and silly, but she was glad that her boyfriend was even willing to talk about sex between them at all. Sure, it was probably still a bit off, but it did make her feel good to hear, for sure, that he thought about it, because she sure did.

She moved on, though, not putting anymore emphasis on the moment than she already had, to laugh happily at that apology. "I didn't think that you didn't think they were!" She responded, then set the shoes on the floor next to Setsuna. "And that.... is basically all we got. Well, and the sunglasses, and the hat, and the stuff I'm not showing you yet~" She added. Though, all that was left, really, was the third swimsuit and her cover up. The second cover up... well, that was something that she was *not* going to be wearing to the beach. Not at all.

Setsuna had been celibate before he started to date Kaiya, not because he doesn't want sex, he just wants it to matter again. And once he started dating Kaiya, it became obvious that his celibacy would have to be extended - but for him sex is going to be a part of a relationship, and he thinks the fact that they can have basic, frank conversations about it now bodes well for when they start diving into it together. He doesn't want to act like it doesn't exist, even if they both know it isn't happening anytime terribly soon.

"I adore the hat, by the way. And the hat-sunnies combo. Something about it, especially with your hair, gives like. 1950s starlet or something," he's not sure that's the exact right vibe he's thinking of, but it's something like that.

"Oooh~ Maybe when I go to the beach, with my hat and sunglasses on, and my hair all beautiful and spilling just right from under the hat, someone will think I'm a movie star~" Kaiya teased, thinking that was wildly unlikely, but liking the little fantasy anyway.

"I don't see any reason that couldn't happen," Setsuna replies. She's got the halfie thing going on, so someone could think she was some foreign star they don't know, or something. And at this point she definitely has a body that will stand out.

Kaiya just laughed at Setsuna being serious about her teasing idea and gave him such a light tap on the arm for it, that it was almost just like she'd put her hand there instead. "Don't be silly~ No one would really think I was a movie star!" She protested. Yes, she had grown taller, leggier, and chestier, but in her mind she was still that somewhat shy sixteen year old who thought that the epitome of beauty was being a leggy, chesty, white girl.

Setsuna, for once, is not at all on the same page as his girlfriend. He didn't think *many* people who would think she was a movie star, but it seemed quite reasonable to him that someone would see a fashionably dressed woman as gorgeous as Kaiya and think she may be a celebrity. "Huh? Why wouldn't they?"

The look that Kaiya gave her boyfriend at that moment simultaneously said 'thank you for the compliment' and 'you really don't expect me to believe that', but she did try to explain herself, "Well, because, movie stars are gorgeous! And glamorous! And they're tall, and blonde, and have big boobs, and have super pale skin... Or they're super cute, and tiny, and have adorable smiles, and long, straight hair." Halfway through, she'd realized that Setsuna might mean a Japanese movie star, not a Hollywood movie star. But either way she didn't think she fit the description.

That look from Kaiya is when Setsuna realizes that his girlfriend might have quite the disconnect between how she sees herself and how she *looks* to those around you. "Well, glamorous and gorgeous are in the eye of the beholder, though to me you certainly qualify for both. But... that's gunna get discounted because I'm your boyfriend, I'm sure. But... you *are* tall. And while not blond, there are certainly movie stars with red curly or wavy hair. Hollywood stars usually go for tans more so than pale skin, that's more of a Japanese thing --" And, only in this context where she had SPECIFICALLY brought it up, and he's specifically going through her points, does he admit, "And you do have big breasts. And you beam when you smile."

Kaiya blinked at that description of herself, then blinked again, and finally blushed as the whole description settled in her brain. He really saw her that way? Her blush deepened, and she had half a second's desire to hide her face from Setsuna. But then, instead, she leaned over and kissed her boyfriend, possibly more deeply than she'd meant to, but she couldn't help it. He really, and truly, thought she was that beautiful.

Setsuna had been seriously considering getting out his phone and trying to find the 'three measurements' of some movie stars, like Christina Hendricks, but it looks like his explanation had been sufficient to at least pierce the wall. He instinctively gets his arms around her, not having expected a kiss like this, but meeting her lips, and trying to give her whatever it is she needs in this moment.

And what Kaiya needed, or at least what she was trying to project, was her thankfulness and delight in Setsuna's vision of her. Even if she didn't necessarily see it herself, it didn't really matter. *He* saw her that way, and that was really all that mattered to her right now. She wrapped her arms loosely around her boyfriend's neck and kissed him more; kissed him until she was breathless and she had to stop for air.

The singer is not really under any illusions that he'd changed Kaiya's mind -- self-image doesn't change that quickly. But hopefully, it'll be a little seed that will help her start to see herself different in the mirror, over time. And he bets the reaction she DOES get from guys on the beach will be QUITE illuminating. But for now, it's definitely an easy ask, to hold her and join her with kiss after kiss. And when they do part - his gaze is adoring.

When she had caught her breath a bit and was able to look at Setsuna properly again, Kaiya just about melted. The clear adoration sent her heart fluttering in a way that was reserved only for her boyfriend. Sure, other cute guys, real and fictional, could get the butterflies going, but not like this. Not like they wanted to flutter up and away and take her with them. Like so many times in the last few months, Kaiya wanted, so desperately, to tell him she loved him. She knew she couldn't. For so many logical reasons. But she knew, in her heart, that was how she felt. And even if she couldn't say it, even if he couldn't accept it yet, she was certain her feelings wouldn't change. So... what did it matter if she said it today, or five years from now? But, instead of verbalizing her feelings, she just blessed her boyfriend with one of those radiant smiles he'd talked about, and sighed happily. "You make me feel like the most beautiful person in the world."

If he hadn't already been looking at her with open adoration, the smile she gave him would have prompted the same look. "Good. Because you are beautiful, so you should feel beautiful." He's not going to say she's the most beautiful person in the world, not because he wouldn't rank her there himself, but because that's a meaningless, non-existent category. There can't be a single most beautiful person in the world since everybody has different tastes, but he also thinks she's factually wrong if she doesn't find herself beautiful. He gives her a sweet peck on the lips, hoping to steer things away from desperate kisses only because of their situation. "And I hope we have an absolutely wonderful summer; when we're together and when we're apart."

Kaiya's response might have been a bit of a surprise, given her general idea of what was considered beautiful in the world. "I do. Feel beautiful, I mean. Maybe not gorgeous, or actress or model beautiful, but I can look at myself in the mirror and feel that I look pretty, or sexy, or whatever. I even tried on a swimsuit that made me look reeeeaaaaally hot today~ I didn't get it, though. But I did take pictures." She admitted with a light blush, then smiled at that sweet peck. "I think this summer is going to be a lot of fun! I hope you get to have a lot of fun touring around, and it's not just work." She added, thinking that the concerts were going to be a lot of fun for the fans, but maybe not so much for the musicians."

"Good," Setsuna replies emphatically. One doesn't have to think they're the most gorgeous to at least appreciate and enjoy their own body. His eyebrow raises at the idea that she'd taken photos of herself in a sexy bikini but he resolutely does not ask about it because it's probably best he not look at that. "I mean, so far I have a lot of fun with lives. It's just that once it's over, the exhaustion hits like a wall and I fall over into my bed after. So... it's probably fine."

Kaiya blushed a little more at the look, but let the conversation turn away fully. "That's good that you're having so much fun!" Kaiya said brightly, then giggled at Setsuna's description of his after-live activities. "No time to hang out with fangirls, ne~?" She teased lightly.

"Ugh. No, there usually is some kind of fan meet after, it's just hard," Setsuna admits, but mostly he'd been counting that as part of the live, before needing to pass out. He supposes at the big concerts where there are lots of different bands, it may be different though. "But yeah. I love being on stage; always have really."

"Oh~ Yeah, I guess there is, ne? I wasn't really thinking about that... I was mostly teasing that you had no time to go hang out with fangirls at, like, I dunno, a cafe? I didn't think that far in my tease..." Kaiya admitted with a giggle. She hadn't been at all serious with her initial tease, after all. And even if he did hang out with fans, wherever and for whatever reason, she had enough trust in Setsuna that she was pretty sure it wouldn't bother her anyway (and was equally sure that he would just tell her all about it after, anyway, should it ever happen).

"The only fangirls I have any interest in hanging out with are you and your friends, and I believe I'm not allowed to meet them yet, so yeah, I don't mind if I'm missing out on that," Setsuna explains. Of course he has his favourite, redheaded fan with him and that's a good thing. "I haven't even been clocked out and about, at least as far as I know."

That just made Kaiya giggle and cuddle her boyfriend even more. "I hope you get to meet some of my friends sometime soon after my birthday~" She said, though really that part hadn't been cleared with the band. It had been radically derailed when her age, and *that* bombshell, had come up. "And yeah, it doesn't seem like anyone has picked you out of a crowd. I haven't seen anything on the fan discord, or any other fansites of people taking candid photos of you either. There are *always* pictures of Naoto-kun." Which, really, wasn't unexpected.

"Naoto-kun.... he kind of has made his own life difficult, although he seems most happy this way and I wouldn't dream of telling anyone how they should dress," Setsuna replies. Somehow, since the conversation has kind of turned to band stuff, that reminds him, "Oh. I did talk to Takuya-san, and he said it was ok if we modify the t-shirt for the encore."

The band had decided to wear band t-shirts for the encore at the festivals, but Setsuna doesn't like wearing just tshirt shaped tshirts all that much, so he wanted (Kaiya to help him) to modify it some for the stage, and while he'd already discussed it with her, he'd had to get permission first.

"Yeah.... he has. Thankfully, it seems like no one got pictures of him and me going to fabric stores before. I didn't even think about it then..." Kaiya admitted. That really *could* have been a problem. Thank goodness Mitsuo wasn't as clockable as the violinist. Going fabric shopping with him should be just fine. Her thoughts were diverted, though, by the information about the band t-shirts. "Oooh! Yay! That'll be so great! We'll have to start doing the modifications soon! Do you know if any of the others are going to modify theirs?" She both could and could not imagine Yamato and Naoto in baggy band shirts. Actually.... Takuya too. Mituso was the only one she could actively imagine wearing an un-modded band shirt.

"Oh, now that someone asked, and permission was granted -- it's probably going to be just about everyone. I don't know how many of us are going to specifically ask you for help -- but I sure am," Setsuna chuckles. He doesn't feel bad about making use of his girlfriend's skills since he's happy to compensate her.

Kaiya giggled at that. "Well, if anyone is allowed to ask, it's definitely you~" She told her boyfriend happily. "And if anyone else wants my help, they'd better ask soon, and they'd better have ideas~" After all, she and Setsuna had already talked quite a bit about what he wanted the style and fit for his shirt to be like. It was just going to be doing the alterations now, and double checking the fit once it was done.

Setsuna's vision was to alter the shirt relatively simply: cut the crew collar into something he likes more, and split the sides and lace them back up. He still wants it to be something a fan could do - maybe they'd like the band shirts even more if the band signals that modifying them to look hotter is okay with the band. Surely he would, at least. "As a fan, I want Yamato-san to have one like so, so ripped up."

"Ooooh~ Yeah~ that would really be like him, huh?" Kaiya agreed with a laugh, already imagining it. "You know.... if you all modified your shirts in a specific and different way.... fans could mod their shirts to match their favourite member. Or just make theirs look however they wanted. Then it wouldn't just be another band shirt for a collection... And you guys could mod each tour shirt differently so it would be fun for fans every time!" She added, thinking that would be a really cool thing for the band to do. Sure, shirts *could* be sold pre-modded, but that would cost a lot more than just getting normal band shirts done, and it wouldn't let fans be as creative either.

Setsuna blinks, liking Kaiya's idea. "Oh, I've heard that like.. idol group fans will use a different colour pen light to signal which member they like best -- I like the idea of having a shirt mod 'design' that's set for each member, so people could show off their favourite. Maybe not changing it each time, because then the fans wouldn't be able to match it in advance...?" He grabs his phone, wanting to text or call or something Takuya before the idea is forgotten off into the ether.

Kaiya shrugged at the idea that changing every time might be difficult for fans. "I mean, they'll still be buying the new band shirts before they can mod them, whether the same or different than last time? When you guys announce the new merch, you could just have promotional pics with you guys in your modded shirts. But... maybe that's just me that would want them to be different each time." She added with a smile. Obviously, it was up to Setsuna and the other band members at that point.

Ultimately, Setsuna decides to call, and put his phone on speaker so Kaiya can get her proper credit -- though if Takuya's busy and doesn't pick up he'll just text him instead. He puts his phone down on the coffee table. "Hey, Takuya-san. You're on speaker, by the way. I was talking to Kaiya-chan about the t-shirt thing, and she had a cool idea."

Takuya wasn't any busier than he normally was, and seeing that it was his singer calling, the drummer had even less reason not to answer. "Hello, Setsuna-kun. Oh? What was the idea?" He asked, intrigued. He had, of course, seen the few things that Kaiya had created for Setsuna, and he knew that both Naoto and Mitsuo were in the process of getting items created by her for themselves, so he respected her thoughts on things when it came to fashion.

Kaiya smiled brightly at her boyfriend for making it so she could give her idea directly to their band leader. "We were talking about Setsuna-kun's t-shirt, now that it was okayed for him to modify it, and then we talked about whether other people in the band might do it too, now that it was allowed.... And then, well, if the band is modding them, then the fans might be more likely to too.... And then I said, well, if all the band member modded their shirts in distinct, different ways, then the fans might be likely to do their own shirts like their favourite member." She left it at the original idea first, since any subsequent thoughts would only cloud the original one.

Takuya listened to the slightly meandering explanation with an amused smile. He understood that Kaiya was trying to express how the idea had come about, but he wasn't sure it had been necessary. The actual idea, though... "I like that. Could easily have contests involving fans taking photos of themselves in their modded t-shirts, 'popularity' contests based on the number of people modding their shirts after certain members... probably other things too." He'd only been exposed to the idea for a minute or so, so it wasn't surprising that he didn't have extensive ideas to go along with it just yet.

"Yeah. It reminded me of idol groups that have coloured penlights for each member - instead the fans would mod their shirt to show which member they have. And I mean, who isn't bored of plain tshirts at this point anyways?" And yes, he had already made that last point when he asked for permission to alter his anyways. He thinks this would make him more likely to buy shirts for a band he liked, and he feels like fans will feel the same way. Especially since they have a lot of young, women fans.

"And! Fans wouldn't *have* to mod their shirts like the band if they didn't want to. They could be creative if they wanted and not feel like they were destroying the shirt. It might even encourage the purchase of multiple shirts. Some people might want a regular shirt, one they mod for each member, and then one or more to do up the way *they* want." Kaiya added, not even getting to her future ideas as this marketing possibility occurred to her.

Takuya smiled as he listened to the pair get excited about this idea. "I agree with all of that. It does sound like a good idea. And if it's up to the fans themselves to do the modifications and we're just selling regular band shirts then that will keep our costs down." He thought out loud, thinking that would be incredible for the band, merch profits-wise. And much easier to replicate every tour.

"Yeah. It'd be a pain to stock multiple things, this way we can still just stock the regular size options," Setsuna agrees, having some idea about skus and things like that due to the restaurant business. Fans could just wear a shirt the regular way if they really wanted. "It just feels like it brings us a lot of opportunities, but we don't have to do much -- aside from come up with the designs for the band members."

"Oh! Oh!" Kaiya piped, just having thought of something even better than her initial future idea, "You're doing all that cross-promotional stuff with other bands and artists and stuff, right? What if one of those artists, or a member of one of the other bands, made their own mod of one of the shirts, or you did a collab with someone else for one of the future shirt mods, or something?" It was kind of building on her idea of different designs every time, but it didn't have to be. It could just be someone like Mikoto coming up with his own idea of a band shirt mod and sharing it on his band insta, or something.

Takuya was absolutely ready to hear this next idea, and while he thought it had merit, "That does sound like something that would work into our ideas in that direction, but I think I'll have to take that to Yamato-kun and Naoto-kun for their opinions before we went too far in that direction." He thought it should be obvious why those two opinions should come into play.

"Having other people make their own designs could go along with the encouraging people to make their own as well -- but I still kind of like the idea of each of the Devillic members having their own set design, personally," Setsuna admits. He sees merit in Kaiya's version too, and feels comfortable amicably disagreeing, and leaving it up to the rest of the band to make the final call.

Kaiya nodded along with Setsuna's first thought, then shrugged at him repeating his opinion that the band should have static designs. Sure, they had opposite opinions on this, but it was a band decision in the end, so she didn't at all feel a need to push for her opinion.

Takuya listened to Setsuna's thoughts as well, then responded with, "Honestly, I can see merits both ways. Changing them every time like our costumes would be fun, I'm sure, but leaving them static would mean less work for us and our costume design team. Also, fans would always know what style to alter their shirts with to copy their favourite member." He added, unknowingly bring up one of Setsuna's earlier points.

"That's what I thought," Setsuna had to admit, but he doesn't have any 'I told you so' tone to it, because he really does see Kaiya's point. "We already have costumes to bring the exciting 'what will they do this' time feeling, if the t-shirts are the same, then they can more easily edit them. And if we're constantly making new shirt designs, they'll probably start getting quite complicated." Which might be hard for people to copy.

Kaiya had been about to bring up the idea of showing off new t-shirt designs as part of marketing the next set of band shirts, but Setsuna's additional point about new designs eventually becoming more complicated quieted her. Honestly, that was a really excellent, and important, point when they wanted the general fan to be able to replicate the t-shirt modifications. A fan that couldn't recreate a band member's costume, but *could* do the t-shirt design could do a halfway decent cosplay with just that, a wig or hair dye, and makeup. "Yeah, that's true about the designs getting more complicated. I didn't think about that part." She admitted out loud.

Hearing both his singer and Setsuna's fashionista girlfriend agreeing about that, Takuya felt that it was likely that the rest of the band would agree too. "So, we should come up with designs we really like, that fit our stage personas, but are also simple enough to be replicated by a normal fan fairly easily. And then make it obvious that fans can copy us, do something else, or do nothing at all with their own shirts.... And then hopefully get members of other bands doing mods too." He summed up, thinking this was a good idea overall. "Okay, I'll probably talk to Yamato-kun about this soon, then we can go over it all together at the next band practice. Will you be able to come, Kaiya-chan? It being your idea, and all."

Kaiya was happy enough that the band was probably going to run with her idea, but being invited to the practice just to talk about the idea? "Oh! Yes~ I'd love to!"

"I'm sure, working with Kaiya-chan, we'll be able to figure things out," Setsuna agrees. A few more pleasantries and the conversation is done. He hangs up, and says, "We should probably... buy some cheap Ts from a used store, and look up some youtube tutorials -- so we can learn what's possible, what's easy. What's harder..." He suggests to her. Then realizes there's some time commitment, and apologetically asks, "I mean, if there's time for that, for you, before next practice..."

"We should!" Kaiya agreed, already excited to get into trying various things, including what Setsuna had wanted to do to his shirt. "And if we can get some secondhand band shirts, that would be even better!" Then they would have a decent idea of where the image would be that they, almost certainly, wouldn't want to damage. Her boyfriend's backpedalling made her blink, though. "Yeah, I should be able to. My new school is actually kind of easier than before, even though I'm a whole year ahead. Like... all the math makes sense! It's all related to fashion, or drafting, or other arts. And sciences are a lot like that too, at least as much as they can. So... homework isn't so bad, and all my fashion classes are great! Yeah, I have some projects I'm working on, but nothing is due until after summer break now."

"Phew, ok. Shall we recruit Mikoto into this?" Setsuna asks, since he's a frequent collaborator of Kaiya's and may have more experience with T-shirt alterations than the two of them. "I know what I want in my shirt... but I guess we kind of need to know what everyone's doing before we can make any official decisions."

"Yes~! We totally should!" Kaiya agreed immediately. Mikoto always had great ideas for modifications of various items, so that was probably a fantastic idea. The addition about needing to wait for the other members to choose what they wanted to do brought a shrug. "I mean, we can always try different things first so we know how they work and how easy they are. And if someone comes up with something different, well then we can look that kind of thing up specifically later?"

"Oh I wasn't trying to say we shouldn't try things - I think we should try lots of things," That was, in fact, what the singer was suggesting, "I guess I meant... I shouldn't have my heart set on what I wanted yet, since we might find something better, or it might not work out."

"Oh! What you want to do is pretty simple, or can be." Kaiya said with confidence. "You just want to modify the collar and lace the sides, right? We can try it by using thin strips of the actual shirt from cutting away the sides, and if that doesn't work we just do it with regular lacing." It wasn't all that different from what she did for the lace up pants, after all.

"I didn't mean won't work out in a can't do it way, but if what I want in a design and what another band member wants in a design are too similar, and I end up with a different design?" Setsuna replies. He thinks even he could alter his -- although obviously Kaiya would do a better job of it. He also admits, "I thought lacing might be nice, because it could match a key colour in the design."

"Oh~ I see~ Well, yeah, we can definitely try out other things to see if there are other things you might like, just in case!" Kaiya agreed with a grin. Setsuna's consideration about the lacing made her nod. "Yeah, that would look really nice~ I only thought about using the strips of shirt because it would mean spending less for the fans: they could just use strips of shirt that they would already have. But.... it would involve more sewing know-how too...." She admitted, since she wouldn't want to use ragged little strips of shirt material. She would turn them into pseudo laces and make them longer by sewing two or three 'laces' together end to end.

"Well, that is a consideration too. My point was that things aren't 100% decided yet -- which is fine! that gives us room to play, and explore, and see what we can come up with," he smiles at that, enjoying having found a way to bring Kaiya's creativity into the band, again.

"And then~ We can bring all the examples with us to the next practice! And everyone else can see some examples of what we found that we could do, and if they have other ideas we can maybe bring a few more t-shirts, if we find enough, and I can try doing some mock ups while you guys practiced? I mean, they wouldn't be perfect and finished, but at least see if things would work~" Kaiya continued with undisguised excitement.

Kaiya is always pretty, but wow is she gorgeous when she's enthusiastic like this. And Setsuna gets to see it often, meaning he's truly blessed. He nods, "Exactly. And having samples will help people who don't have a firm idea of what they want. They can be inspired by the options."

Kaiya nodded enthusiastically. "Exactly! Oooooooh~ I'm so excited for this! I kind of wish we could go shopping for the shirts right now~" She added with a laugh. Not that she necessarily wanted to give up cuddling, or actually go do more shopping right now, but.... yeah, she felt a little contradictory on that right now.

Setsuna chuckles, "Even after spending all day shopping?" He's willing to go if she really wants, but he's not super inclined. He's wondering if there are any old shirts in his closet he could sacrifice to the cause.

"Uuuuuuggggghhhhh..." Kaiya groaned at the reminder. "Not really, but also kinda? Like, I don't wanna do the actual shopping right this second, but I also want to go looking for old band shirts and look up tutorials, and use chalk to mark out designs..." She knew she was rambling, but it was fine, right?

Setsuna chuckles at that. And if it means not going out shopping, he suggests, "Well. Let's look in my closet and see if I can find anything you can tear up." And obviously she can start looking up tutorials and the like.

"Oh! No, no, no! We shouldn't tear up your shirts! It can wait! I promise!" Kaiya protested with a laugh, latching onto Setsuna so that he couldn't easily move. "I just get like this when a new project gets in my head. I wanna start immediately, even if it's silly or impossible." She admitted with another giggle.

Setsuna gets an arm around her as she latches on, but he says, "Only if I find a shirt I don't care about. I might have some in the depths of my closet that I don't really wear anymore." He says, as he wasn't offering to ruin things he cared for.

"Well, okay..." Kaiya agreed, but she didn't at all let go of Setsuna. Nor did she move to look up any tutorials just yet. Honestly, she was just enjoying cuddling with her boyfriend for the first time in a few days. Sure, they couldn't go on any out or tourist dates right now, but that didn't mean this was any less enjoyable. Actually, while the secrecy of everything *could* make her sad and annoyed, she had decided that she was going to enjoy it and find it sexy instead~

The singer enjoys the dichotomy between Kaiya agreeing with his plan and her earlier enthusiasm -- and her clear lack of interest in moving away from his side. And he's grateful that cuddling her boyfriend clearly ranks so high in her list of priorities. He chuckles warmly, and uses the arm he has around her to just pull her onto his lap for closer cuddles. "Maybe later though, I guess."

When she was pulled into her boyfriend's lap, Kaiya was a little surprised. It wasn't the first time, but it had happened so infrequently that this was definitely on the unexpected side of things. She gave a cute little yeep of delight, then giggled, a light blush staining her cheeks at being *in* Setsuna's lap. The other very few times she had found herself here, she'd just cuddled right into her boyfriend, but this time... "Oh wow! I'm really tall!" She commented, being able to look directly into Setsuna's eyes, almost looking down into them, actually. Okay, that was almost as weird as looking down at Mikoto!

Lap cuddling is usually in Setsuna's brain as a 'too sexy' level of intimacy... but sometimes the cuddle vibe is so strong that he just thinks of it as more cuddling, and only in such moments does it happen. The pink haired man definitely notices that he's looking *up* at her, but it doesn't bother him any. He does agree, "Yes, you are." while making sure his arms are in a good position to hold her safely on his lap.

The way that Setsuna looked at her, and the feel of his arms around her... it made her feel incredible~ And looking down into those eyes.... a feeling swept over her: a strong feeling, almost a *need*. And before she could question it, she leaned in to press a strong kiss to her boyfriend's lips. The feeling of being the one initiating, the one in control~ It was rather intoxicating~

Setsuna's eyes widened at the vibe of that kiss, the feeling of it. That said... he'd always been just as comfortable submitting as being the one in the driver's chair, so he just lets himself relax into that kiss, lets Kaiya control the flow.

Feeling Setsuna relax and give over to the kiss strengthened that intensely wonderful feeling in the redhead and she couldn't help but let it continue. She encouraged the kiss to deepen, bringing her hands up to slide through that glorious black and pink hair, and just delighting in the feelings that rushed through her.

It seems the vocalist was mistaken when he thought that the cuddle vibes were strong enough to keep lap sitting tame, but he's far too pleasantly occupied with the amazing kiss. He hasn't been kissed *like this* in a long time, and while he's not thinking enough to put his finger on why exactly, he is definitely enjoying it.

The whole moment, and the way it felt to kiss Setsuna like this... it was different than any kiss they'd ever had before. And the thrill it gave her? She just wanted it to keep going. If logic had come into things at all, she might have pulled back at this point, let the incredible kiss taper off and end. But! Logic did not exist here. Only desire, and need, and intensity existed here. Kaiya's fingers curled gently in the strands of her boyfriend's hair and she swiped her tongue against her boyfriend's lips with a confidence born of this incredible moment.

Setsuna is typically the one who recognizes the path things are going down and helps to cool things off, but he's literally just settled into the receptive position, and his mind is very much on the sensations; the hot feel of that tongue on his lips, and old habits die hard, with him reflexively opening his mouth to grant access.

When those lips parted for her, Kaiya immediately slid her tongue in against her boyfriend's, her heart pounding as they met and danced together. It was so hot, so exciting.... just so much more intense than she would have ever imagined. And it was incredible. Her heart was thumping in her chest, and her breath was heavy yet short, and she couldn't even think.

One of Setsuna's hands runs down to Kaiya's lower back, making sure she's supported as she presses this kiss down into him. While it had been a long time, this wasn't an unfamiliar position for the older man. He easily moves his tongue against hers, enjoys that feeling of someone looming over him, and just overall gets swept away in the exact manner he's been trying very hard not to for so long. And as a kiss slides into another, and another, well, his body sure thinks it knows where this is going...

While this was familiar to the singer, Kaiya found every second, every kiss, every touch an incredible novelty that kept the biggest, most excited butterflies fluttering around in her stomach and chest. Her fingers tangled further in her boyfriend's hair with the next breathless kiss. But when she shifted just slightly, she felt something she hadn't before. It wasn't weird or startling enough to make her back away from the kiss at all though.

That Setsuna finds this familiar lets him easily fall into it, giving Kaiya her way. It doesn't make it any less exciting for him. Especially having gone from a slut to celibacy, celibacy that he'd had to continue even after getting in a relationship, she's definitely brought out more of a feeling of need in him than he's felt in a long time. He's catholic, he's usually pretty good at repressing. He does gasp lightly into the kiss, at the pleasant friction of her moving on his lap.

Kaiya swallowed that gasp with even more delighted excitement and pressed more want and need into that kiss. It felt so good, so wonderful~ She just wanted this to go on forever~ That little shift had allowed her to get a little closer to chest to chest rather than fully side-saddle like she had been, making her able to get even closer to her boyfriend: pressing her one breast right up against Setsuna's chest. And that plus the incredible heat of the kiss, and the press of her boyfriend's lower body against her... it all just felt so incredible. So. Incredible.

Setsuna's on exactly the same page, it feels incredible. He hasn't felt his engines revved up like this in a long time ~ He also hasn't felt a breast pushed up against his chest like that in a while either. Kaiya's new position feels more secure, so he lets his upper hand roam up from her back, to find some small, curly hairs at the nape of her neck.

Everything was so wonderful, so incredible, just... *SO* everything. Honestly, Kaiya was almost feeling overwhelmed at this point, on the verge of drowning in desire. And as indescribably wonderful as the feeling of those fingers in her hair felt, it was just one sensation too many for her and she went into overload. She gasped loud, breaking the kiss, and breathed hard, resting her forehead against Setsuna's, needing at least that moment to cool down a little. She could totally go again in a minute. Just.... she needed to breathe.

Setsuna isn't breathing *quite* as hard, but his breathing is far from even, and there's something very pleasant about having their foreheads together, sharing heat, and trying to breathe. But -- that moment to cool down lets the older man's brain start running again, and he realizes what they'd just been doing. He's been trying to keep things relatively cool between them, but he'd failed this time. Kaiya giving top energy had just been too hot to handle. He doesn't sound thrilled at what he's saying when he softly explains, "Kaiya-chan, we need to stop..."

Kaiya's breathing was just starting to come easier when those soft words came to her. And when they processed, she realized that he was right. They needed to stop, even if she didn't really want to. Still... She took a deep breath, then nodded slightly, forehead still resting against her boyfriend's, though she detangled her fingers from his hair and shifted her arms to hold onto him much more chastely. She didn't move out of his lap immediately, though. She didn't feel ashamed of what they had been doing. They had gotten a lot hotter than ever before, but his words hadn't made her feel like that was inherently bad or wrong.

The last thing Setsuna wants is to make her feel like what she's done is wrong. It isn't. And if he were 17 or 18, he wouldn't be asking for them to stop at all. They could enjoy each other, and explore however far they mutually wanted to. That's just not the reality though. And he doesn't trust himself, right now, in this moment. Kaiya had really, sincerely turned him on, and he hadn't even been the one to put the brakes on, which felt like his responsibility as the adult in the situation. After another moment to cool down, although she's still very much in his lap, he suggests, "I think I need a break."

After they had both cooled down, Kaiya was actually ready to go back to cuddling, and maybe a little less hot and heavy kissing, but that request from her boyfriend had her opening her eyes to look at him. "Oh? Okay. Umm... what do you need me to do?" She asked, not sure whether she needed to move, and how far if she did. She definitely wanted to do what Setsuna needed right now.

Setsuna is way too affected by the previous kiss combined with the years of celibacy, and he won't be able to enjoy cuddling in this state. "I think... if you could get off me? And maybe just relax in the living room for a while, and I'm going to take some time to myself in the bedroom." The bedroom and the attached master bathroom, that is.

"Oh! Okay." Kaiya agreed to that first request. Relaxing together in the living room seemed fine to her. However, that additional thought, plus the obvious press of something hard against her butt now that she was paying attention.... She moved off Setsuna's lap, but cautiously asked while she did so, "Umm... can I... help with that?" She wasn't at all sure that her boyfriend would even consider it, but she *was* curious.

There's a moment where he's surprised she's offering, and then he recenters himself. He was literally already having sex at her age, so it's totally normal that she might want to. But that's well beyond anything he finds morally acceptable, for now, so he shakes his head, "No. I'm not ready for us to do something like that together yet." He says it this way on purpose, as something not for them together, because it's not that he doesn't think she's ready, and obviously he's done much more than this with others in the past. Long term it's a good thing that his girlfriend can turn him on like this, it's just unfortunate given their context. He stands up, and since she's *noticed* he's hard, he doesn't go out of his way to hide it.

"Mmm... Okay." Kaiya agreed, not upset, but kinda confused in herself. On the one hand, she was curious and wanted to do more with Setsuna, but on the other hand, she was kind of relieved because she wasn't really sure how she felt about giving her boyfriend a handjob. Maybe with clothing or a sheet in between... In any case, she didn't have to think about that too hard now. What she *did* have to think about was the fact that her whole body was still tingling some from the whole situation.. and she didn't want to think about that, so she got her phone out and started to look for t-shirt modding tutorials to distract herself from those feelings (and pass time while Setsuna took care of himself).

Setsuna retreats to his bedroom. He's fairly confident that Kaiya will give him his privacy, but he nevertheless puts some music on in the room, just to further muffle what's about to go on. It's kind of crazy to him that he's this revved up from what was essentially just heavy kissing, but now that he can reflect on what had happened - it was less so the kissing and more the top energy that Kaiya had been giving. And... yeah, that was hot as hell, and very exciting for the future. Usually when he's frustrated he can just jerk off, but that top energy, putting him into more of a bottom kind of mood? He wants to get fucked, and that's a craving that'll be a bit harder to satisfy.

Not impossible though.