As hard as Mary tried to play it cool, she still was extremely nervous about the whole situation. People were walking all over the library and even though Ririka was not resting on purpose on her it still let Mary's heart race.
"Ririka probably would prefer for me to wake her up." argued Mary. The blonde girl tried to come up with more reasonings to why she should pull Ririka out of her slumber, when out of the blue Ririka suddenly repositioned her head and leaned even more on Mary than before. Mary's heart had stopped for a moment. For a few seconds Mary just looked at Ririka waiting to see if she would wake up. "Did she just make herself more comfortable on my shoulder?" After a moment Mary had to chuckle trying to ignore the fact that her knees suddenly felt a little wobbly. She was quite happy that she was sitting. She looked at Ririka. "How can she seem even more helpless and innocent than usual? Even with that stupid mask." Even while sleeping, Ririka still seemed extremely exhausted. Mary then recalled how overworked Ririka had been since Monday. Ririka probably had not just fallen asleep but rather collapsed. Mary picked up the documents which Ririka had let fall on her lap and sighted while looking at how dependent Ririka seemed. The truth was that there wasn't even the possibility in Mary's mind to wake up Ririka.
"I wanted to help her with her documents anyway..." After deciding that she would let Ririka rest on her, Mary started to read some of Ririkas documents. Because they were in the corner people had to look directly at the two if someone wanted to see them. Mary was secretly quite happy about the whole situation. It probably was a little due to them having had that conversation during lunch which didn't end very well, but feeling Ririka this close definitely felt like things would work out... " I am starting to think about weird things again." stopped Mary herself from reading too much into how she felt right now.
"But one thing is clear. It's gonna be extremely entertaining when Ririka wakes up eventually. She probably will also have a little more energy after sleeping so I am not gonna have any reason to hold back." Mary again had her devilish smile while imagining how Ririka would react after waking up and how Mary could tease her for this. But until then Mary would try to understand the documents she had unexpecting decided to analyze while the actual owner of them was deeply dormant on her shoulder. Only after a few minutes with those documents, Mary started questioning herself a little if becoming president still was the best choice as it turned out that it seemed pretty complicated. "No wonder Ririka was half dead after two days of doing this." determined Mary. The documents were mostly about money transfers but some of them were about some shady transactions to individuals. "It's a little concerning that Ririka would be working on these papers in public if you ask me..." Mary looked at the still sleeping girl and was a little pleased that Ririka didn't really seem to be concerned about Mary finding out about this stuff. Another reason why working on the paper turned out to be a little bit more difficult was because Mary found herself very tempted to take off her mask. "I wonder how Ririka's face looks while sleeping?" Mary thought about peeking under the mask a couple of times, but the blonde girl already was aware that if she would do that she might not be able to stay calm and by mistake wake up Ririka. It definitely was annoying but Mary still somehow managed to restrain herself by just imagining Ririkas face under that mask. Everything seemed to be fine and it now was around seven in the evening, just one hour before the library would close.
"Well in the end, this all didn't turn out too bad." Mary took a small break from the documents and looked around the library. There were a lot less people now than before in the library as around this time many busses would leave the school for the last time today. Mary actually recognized some of her classmates who were departing from the library. Most students were leaving, so Mary was a little confused when she noticed out of the corner of the eye that two people entered the library. "I am so bored!" gripped a familiar voice.
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Behind the Mask
Fanfiction"Behind the Mask" Out of seemingly nowhere Mary Saotome gets invited to The Vice Presidents Office. At Hyakkaou Private Academy something like this already stenches like tribulation, however Mary could have never envisioned what she would be gettin...
