Tina actually understood.
You can’t expect someone who’s been hiding their feelings for years to suddenly confess to another person.
Maybe he just sees you as a brother, but you treat him as the one you want to entrust your life to. If you get rejected, wouldn’t that make you look like a clown?
Come out.
“But I’m only giving a rough idea, it’s not like anyone’s going to lose skin over it.”
Tina poured half a glass of white vinegar from the bottle and handed it over. “Here, enjoy.”
“Ugh—” Lisa downed it in one gulp, then let out a burp, her expression suddenly turning strange.
“Eh? Tina, are you sure that’s vinegar?” Lia stared at Lisa’s flushed cheeks, then glanced at the bottle in Tina’s hand.
“Yeah, right? It should be, right?”
Tina leaned in and sniffed, confirming without a doubt it was vinegar.
Could Lisa be faking being drunk?
At that moment, Everett stepped forward quietly. “Let me see the bottle.”
He carefully examined it, and finally found a small Magic Transformation Array at the bottom. After forcibly breaking it, a strong scent of liquor wafted out—
…Someone had been secretly hiding alcohol in the kitchen, disguised with a magic spell to look like aged vinegar, so no one usually touched it.
The three present fell silent, while the Chef de Cuisine who had been eavesdropping outside quietly slipped away, muttering to himself, “This is bad, my job’s ruined!”
Once he discovered his treasured liquor had been taken, he knew trouble was coming—and he never imagined it would hit the queen herself.
Ruined. Everything ruined.
“So… should we keep going?”
Tina looked at Lisa, who seemed utterly drunk, slumped on the table and struggling to sit up.
But Lisa suddenly stepped back and grabbed a pillow.
“Wait, you’re going to—” Everett hadn’t finished speaking when a cotton-filled pillow smacked right in his face.
“Ah, missed!” Lisa playfully stuck out her tongue.
“You—you, this guy!” Everett, his head stuffed with cotton, was fuming. He’d been trying to be considerate, only to get smacked first. “Don’t think you can escape!”
The two started chasing each other around the room, swinging pillows wildly.
Compared to that chaos, Tina’s side was much quieter. “So, is this jumping ahead to the second round? I thought we’d at least finish one full cycle.”
“Yeah, yeah, ready?” Lia held up a pillow in each hand and challenged Tina.
“Hey, I’m still in a wheelchair, don’t bully me!”
“Smack—” No sooner had she spoken than Tina was hit on the head, stars swirling.
“Didn’t Tina say to have fun? I’ve wanted to mess with her like this for a while.” Lia seemed to awaken some strange new side of herself.
“Damn, don’t underestimate me. I can fight back too.”
So the chase began on this side as well, but Tina had a vehicle. One hand on the wheelchair, the other wielding a pillow—turning it into a prop battle.
Time passed unknowingly.
The last pillow was thrown, the room now filled with cotton fluff drifting everywhere, settling over the four exhausted figures sprawled on the floor.
“Ah—can’t go on. Let me place a Memory Stone, then we’ll just lie here and watch a movie.”
Tina crawled to the table and randomly picked a stone, projecting a film titled .
“Lia, carry me over~” Tina cooed in a teasing voice.
Mostly because she didn’t want to crawl anymore. Although the mat under the bed wasn’t far, the distance felt like an impassable chasm to her utterly exhausted self.
“Hm? Okay!” Lia hesitated briefly, then smiled and picked Tina up, carrying her back to the bed.
Lia adored seeing Tina act so spoiled and cute like this—it made her want to hold her all day without letting go.
“Actually, I could just sit next to you, no need to carry me like this…”
Right now, Lia sat on the mat, and Tina sat in Lia’s lap. The two looked genuinely intimate.
That made Tina a bit shy—an adult man being held by a girl was hardly dignified.
“Can I just hold you all night?”
Lia whispered in Tina’s ear, then as if remembering something, added, “Look at those two over there, aren’t they doing the same? Why can’t we?”
Tina slowly typed out a question mark.
What did she mean “those two are doing the same”?
She turned to look and saw Lisa deliberately sitting in front of Everett, inching closer and closer until the eternally wooden Everett was dumbfounded.
Weren’t they just bros? Is this right? Fake liquor really messes people up!
“Hmm? Something hard’s pressing against my back back there.” Lisa was still a bit dizzy, feeling something poking her back.
“Don’t look back. It’s me, Everett.”
You two………….
Tina couldn’t bear to look anymore.
“Stop looking at them, why don’t you pay more attention to me?” Lia blocked Tina’s line of sight with her hand, then pinched her cheeks twice.
“Ow—Lia, that hurts! Tina’s about to get squished out of shape.”
“Focus on the movie.” Lia shifted her attention to the film playing.
This one told the romantic story of a princess from a certain duchy and a Valencia reporter who spent a day together in Kellyville.
The princess’s last stop on her continental journey was Kellyville, but her attendants refused her permission to appear before the commoners and injected her with a sedative due to her noble status.
But before the drug took effect, the princess pretended to be asleep and secretly climbed out the window.
She wandered around briefly, then fell asleep on a bench near the town square.
Meanwhile, a Valencia reporter happened to pass by, mistaking the princess for a drunken girl from a banquet.
He rented a carriage to send her home, but since she was deeply asleep, he had no choice but to bring her to his own residence.
The next day, the reporter was ecstatic to discover the girl he had brought in was the princess when he saw the news. He wanted to write an exclusive article about it.
After the princess woke up, she believed the reporter’s explanation and borrowed some money from him to continue her wandering.
The reporter quickly notified his photographer friend to take pictures of the two, then followed the princess, pretending to run into her at the square and offering to be her guide, riding horseback to show her around Kellyville.
The friend took many precious shots with a Memory Stone, all unbeknownst to the princess.
The king secretly dispatched many Plainclothes Agents to search for the princess. At a dance in the waterfront restaurant, they discovered them.
The agents wanted to bring the princess back, but she firmly refused.
A fight broke out between the reporter, his friend, the princess, and the agents. Taking advantage of the chaos, they escaped.
The agents were captured by local guards.
After a day, the princess was finally ready to return to the palace, but she and the reporter found that sparks had flown and they had fallen in love.
However, the princess was a princess, and he a commoner; they could only part reluctantly.
The reporter’s friend abandoned the chance for fame and gave the photos to the princess as keepsakes.
Finally, in a tender gaze, the princess whispered goodbye to the reporter…
“How’s that? The story ends here. Don’t you think the ending is a bit bittersweet?” Tina eagerly awaited Lia’s reaction.
“Indeed. Though brief, they spent the happiest day of their lives together, only to be separated by status.”
Lia’s tone grew heavy as she thought of herself and the girl in front of her.
Were they no different? Having known each other briefly, shared both hardships and happiness, yet status also separated them.
Would they, too, have to part like in the movie out of helplessness?
“Don’t think so much, Lia.”
Tina switched to another movie, speaking confidently:
“By the way, today’s Adventure of Truth or Dare hasn’t gotten to me yet, right?”
“Yeah.”
Lia responded.
“You’re lucky.”
“Hehe, even though I haven’t been punished, I want to take on the challenge myself.”
“What do you mean?”
“First, it’s my truth. Shouldn’t be hard to guess—it’s that every day with Lia is happy, and I want to be with her forever.”
“Tina, you say such cheesy things at times like this? I won’t accept that.”
“No matter, it’s the truth. Lia can believe it if she wants.”
After speaking, Tina leaned in and left a crimson lipstick mark on Lia’s neck.
“That’s the dare, consider it your punishment. Who told you to agree to kiss me directly?”
“If this is punishment, I hope there’s more.”
Lia hugged her tightly and kissed her again and again, making Tina lose all desire to watch the second movie.
“Seriously, at least watch a little more.”
“You’re enough for me.”
The film reached its most familiar scene, just like the two protagonists at the bow of the boat having their romantic conversation.
“You jump, I jump?” Lia remembered this line appeared once at the start, but the ending carried a different feeling.
“If it’s just translated like that, it sounds too simple, not capturing the original meaning.”
Tina completely relaxed, lying in Lia’s arms, and murmured intimately:
“It should be, I will follow you through life and death.”
“Tina, are you just repeating lines, or…”
“Your Majesty, what’s your guess?”
“I don’t want to guess. Let’s just say you said that to me.”
Lia bent down and kissed her.
What’s better than following through life and death? Enjoying the night to the fullest.
(Sleepover Party, End)
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