It's all about the timing.

[loves_la_vie]

There is a monster in the nexus. It has terrible, plastery skin that's far too off-colored to be human. Where its eyes should be are simply big holes. It's humanoid in shape, moderate height, small mouth

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The Ami Book Club - bring your own copy!

[waterfell]

The end of the day is nice. She can drift into her room, undress, avoid the mirror, and slip into a warm bath with a nice book. Ami picks up her reading material of choice: a rather well-known romance novel. After a long, relaxing soak, she gets out of the tub, wraps a towel around herself, and finds herself in the nexus.

It immediately undoes the good of the bath. Not only is she caught reading a rather embarrassing book, her hand flies to her chest where the towel may cover her modestly enough, but it reveals the long scar from Metalia.

She hates the nexus sometimes.

[mizunosenshi]

The nexus appeared to have an agenda. One moment this particular Ami was going about her usual routine of sneaking a few pages of reading while on break at the island's hospital when suddenly she found herself not in the break room but in what seemed to be the nexus.

Her book might have been a bit more embarrassing if only because it was loaned to her by a notorious pervert. She'd considered it educational to learn about the things her friends liked, but now outside her element it was like holding up a bright red blinking light on a cold dark night. She'd at least dressed, wearing a simple white nurse style dress with a name badge affixed to the front.

"This is most awkward."

fell - mizuno - droplets for now?

[aoi_droplets]

Ami lets out a tiny, startled yelp and immediately blushes. She may be dressed normally (neat sweater, long skirt), but she's carrying a novel no one would probably believe she'd ever read.

And her alternates are right here to judge her for it. Can she disappear into a hole in the ground?

[waterfell]

This is getting more crowded. Ami quickly tugs her towel higher to cover the rest of her chest.

"Welcome to the nexus!" she says, as if that can wipe away the embarrassment. It can't, of course. She manages to keep her tone light, but her cheeks are still pinked.

[tuning_venus]

Venus narrows her eyes, gripping the towel she has around her body. She knows it's the nexus, but at the same time, she's more than happy to hammer someone with the blame. At least she;s still dry; she was heading for a hot spring, and is more annoyed over missing out than showing up here in a towel.

[firextinguished]

Rei can't help it. Ever since the "Mars Reiko-san" debacle, she's taken time to practice singing occasionally. When everything's done for the day, she slips back into her room, and belts out a new song.

Unfortunately, this means Hino Rei, Queen of Karaoke Hatred, is singing at the top of her lungs and quite obviously enjoying it... in the nexus. In front of all her friends.

She stops dead when she spots Venus, and looks quickly away.

[tuning_venus]

Venus blinks. "It's the nexus," she states, trying to make the girl feel better.

[firextinguished]

"It was nothing," Rei says stiffly, and her tone dares Venus to make a big deal out of it.

[notinaskirt]

And suddenly there is Minoru with the same nearly-alien-looking facial mask Minako has as well on his face.

... What? You know, men need to look good too and to look good they need to take good care of themselves, right? And it's just.. the best way to prevent early wrinkles and it's not like only girls do, it right? And--

He's not going to live this one down, is he.

[loves_la_vie]

Minako tries, she really does. She looks at Minoru. She blinks. Her mouth twitches. She blinks again.

And then she laughs.

[notinaskirt]

He's been spotted. And worse, he's been spotted by a cute girl. A cute girl that seems strangely familiar, she recalls them meeting quite some time ago. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a cute girl. And he's wearing a facial mask. And she's laughing.

Where's Apollo when you have a real problem, huh?

"It's not what it looks like!" he quickly states out of self defense.

[loves_la_vie]

"I think it's exactly what it looks like, because it looks the same on me," Minako retorts triumphantly. She so rarely gets chances to be this amused.

[impishblaze]

Loud music starts playing out of nowhere as Aiko appears in the nexus with a cd player, but it's not quite like the usual music found around her. Instead it's very obviously a sappy boyband love song. And Aiko's singing along with the lyrics word for word.

Then the track ends and she moves over to the cd player in some sort of bliss to play it again. "Ah, Akira-sama~~!" she squeals to herself and.. then discovers the surroundings have changed completely.

Her face turns more red than her hair color as Sailor Vesta.

[pinksugarlady]

"Don't look!" Lady Serenity wails the second she spots Aiko. Her arms are totally splattered in what seems to be paint. Hardly the dignified presentation she'd like to give off as the princess of Crystal Tokyo.

Then she realizes it was Aiko, and relaxes some with a sheepish laugh borrowed from Usagi. "I guess it's the nexus," she says. "Stupid thing."

[impishblaze]

If this were a normal situation Aiko would most likely try to make a joke about that paint - maybe about how they had finally decided to paint the palace a difference color after all those years - but this is definitely not a normal situation.

Que Aiko sitting down in front of the cd player awkwardly to cover it up as well as she can. What do you mean? Nothing ever happened here. Clearly. Obviously. But her face is still as red as before.

"Usagi! W-w-what's up?" She lets out a small nervous laugh.

[buntails]

Usagi got off easy: She's in rabbit-foot pajamas that probably don't actually embarrass her in the least, even though they should. She grins at Aiko.

"Hey, can I listen to a little more with you? They sound pretty good!"

[maid_in_juuban]

"Aaah!"

Even the normally unflappable Usagi is caught off guard by being suddenly pulled out of her dressing room, in her underwear. The only thing she has to cover up with? Her frilly maid apron. She quickly huddles up close to a wall,curling her knees up and hiding her form with the apron the best she can.

[kingofblackmoon]

Demando enjoys the sight all the more as he is currently slightly drunk, evidenced by a flush to his cheeks. He grins broadly, and heads straight up to Usagi.

"Put the apron down," he suggests.

[maid_in_juuban]

Usagi blushed as she looked up at Demando. If they were alone, she would have, but here? "It's too open," she said quietly.

[kingofblackmoon]

She has a point, he's forced to recognize solely because he does not wish other eyes to see her. Demando's eyes rove over what he can see of Usagi briefly before he reaches up to unclasp his cloak, still watching her. He removes the heavy garment from his shoulders, and comes forward to wrap it around her.