Almost 3 weeks after she began reading Natsuki's favorite series, Omiko was finally done with all volumes and found herself troubled on how to continue getting closer to Natsuki as she was forced to.

During this time, things have been going similar to the first two days of Omiko's attempts to get closer to the tsundere, she would sometimes grab her hand or trip on her due to convenient accidents or so. Yuri's worry and silent anger meanwhile kept growing stronger.

"Alright! It seems you're finally done! So what do you think, pretty great isn't it?", Natsuki said as she retrieved the last volumes of Parfait Girls from Omiko. "Yes, it was really fun, I enjoyed it, thank you, Natsuki-senpai", Omiko replied while she desperately tried to think of something else to keep Natsuki around.

"You should watch the anime now, it's good too and quite loyal to the manga", Natsuki said smiling happy as Omiko saw her chance. "Mmm I don't think I can", Omiko said sounding disappointed. "And why's that?", Natsuki asked crossing her arms over her chest. "Ummm because... My parents don't like that I watch that kind of stuff, they say I should just watch stuff useful for my education", Omiko said, knowing she was lying. "Hmmm can't you like watch it from your phone or something?", Natsuki said. "M-Maybe, but... It may sound stupid but I like to watch shows and that kind of stuff on a big screen like a TV or a computer at least", Omiko lied once again. "I got it! You could watch it somewhere else where your parents won't know", Natsuki said confidently. "W-Where though?", Omiko faked innocence. "You could come to my place! I'm always up for rewatching that one", Natsuki said flashing a toothy smile at the girl. "T-That would be great", Omiko replied. "Are you free this Saturday?", Natsuki asked. "Yes, I believe so", Omiko said. "Cool then, come over whenever you want then, I'll be there all day", the pink one said. "I will, thank you, senpai", Omiko said and with that Natsuki went back to read with her girlfriend.

During the past weeks, Omiko had been averting Yuri's now deathly glares every time Natsuki would come and talk to her, and as much as that made her feel awful, she had to withstand it.

Needless to say observing how Erika and Ryona continued fighting for Sayori's heart, everyday didn't help her at all as she wished she could at least participate herself a little.

Moving onto Friday, Yuri was testing her head on Natsuki's lap as she ran her fingers through her long purple hair, all while they watched a movie as usual. Yuri then reached for one of Natsuki's hands and grabbed it, bringing her closer to her face, as she began tracing kisses all over it. "Darling?", Yuri said. "Yeah?", Natsuki replied while she continued petting her girlfriend and watching the movie. "I would like to go somewhere tomorrow, you know a date to get something to eat at some nice restaurant maybe", Yuri said rubbing her nose against Natsuki's hand lovingly. "Tomorrow you said?", Natsuki said distracting herself a little from the movie. "Yes, is it not convenient for you?", Yuri asked a little concerned. "Yeah, actually I invited Omiko to come to my place tomorrow, we're gonna watch an anime, but I can give you all of my Sunday, is that okay?", Natsuki said pinching Yuri's nose as her expression had gone blank like.

"Babe? Earth to apology planet!", Natsuki said louder until Yuri finally gave signs of life other than breathing. "A-Ah! Sorry, I spaced out a little... It is okay, Sunday is fine too", Yuri said clutching Natsuki's hand against her chest. "Thanks beautiful", Natsuki said kissing Yuri's cheek softly.

Later that night, as the couple was in bed already, before falling asleep they were doing their one of their little affection sessions at the request of Yuri.

The shy girl pressed her lips against Natsuki's desperately and repeatedly kissing her. Yuri then grasped for some air and began tracing kisses down Natsuki's jaw, sucking on her skin a little, then down to her neck until she left some love marks there.

"Mine. My Natsuki. No 0n€ el$3 can hAve h£r. Sh3 mu$T sEe. She's all mine, her skin, her touches, her smell, her bL0oD-".

"Eek!", Yuri's thoughts while she kept kissing her girlfriend were interrupted by a faint squeak coming from the pinkette.

Yuri then realized as Natsuki moved pulled herself away from her. "What the heck Yuri?", Natsuki said as she winced in pain a little reaching for her back. "W-What? I-I am sorry, did I do something bad?", Yuri asked now nervous. "You dug your nails into my back too hard, I think... Ah, a little blood as I feared", Natsuki said as she brought back the hand she had on her back and showed Yuri her fingers with very little but still visible blood on them. Yuri started to sweat, muttering indelible words as she found herself fearing for what she just did.

"Hey, I don't mind rough, but not that rough okay", Natsuki said grinning as she noticed the worry in Yuri's violet eyes, rubbing her cheek reassuringly. "A-Ah! Yes, I am sorry", Yuri finally was able to string a sentence, but refused to look her girlfriend in the eye. "Hey, relax, I understand that you might have gotten a little carried away, just be careful next time okay? I'm not mad or anything", Natsuki said trying to calm her nervous girlfriend planting a kiss on her cheek lovingly. "O-Okay", Yuri said shyly. "Come on, let's go back to bed, lay down and let me use your big boobs as a pillow", Natsuki demanded trying to relieve some tension from her lover hoping that would make her laugh. Yuri just smiled and did as she was told, with Natsuki resting her head on Yuri's soft cushions.

Eventually, Yuri calmed down but couldn't help but wonder what happened to her at that moment and how come she didn't notice what she was doing to Natsuki. Lately her mind had been a constant mess due to the recent events with Natsuki's new friend but it seemed to be getting worse now. Yuri just held her small girlfriend trying to shake away those strange thoughts.

"WHaT th3 h€l1 is w®0ng wItH yOU"

The next day, Natsuki returned home early in the morning and waited for Omiko who arrived at her apartment around noon.

The space lover girl sat down for a couple hours next to Natsuki on her fathers couch and watched the Parfait Girls anime.

Although she actually liked the series a bit after reading the manga, she couldn't focus on the show entirely. Omiko couldn't help but recognize the discreet yet visible love marks on Natsuki's jaw and neck. The green haired girl smiled to herself and reflected on the situation. "That must be Yuri-senpai's... She wants to remind me whose girl this is of course. I don't blame her, as well as I don't blame her for probably hating me right now. Yuri-senpai... She had been so nice to me, helping me with Sayori and everything and now here I am apparently trying to take her love away from her. Although Natsuki-senpai is undeniably cute, my heart belongs to Sayori so I honestly don't want to do anything with Natsuki-senpai, but... I don't have much choice... At least I don't need to try anything weird right now. Make sure Yuri sees and knows. That's what they said... Well she's not watching thankfully...".

Just as she intended, Omiko's little hangout at Natsuki's house went by without incidents, just a couple of friends having some fun.

On the other hand however, Yuri was at home trying to distract herself from thinking about it. She tried writing, reading and even videogames but all that was on her mind was the pink haired cutie.

She thought about coming over to her house but she didn't want to look so desperate, Natsuki said it was just a friends hangout, and Yuri knew she could trust her, but after seeing Omiko's odd behavior towards her girlfriend in the last couple of weeks, she couldn't help but feel worried.

On top of that, Omiko's behavior was not only strange towards Natsuki, but towards Yuri too. The first year member of the club had asked her for advice on how to approach Sayori a couple of times and seemed legitimately interested in the bubbly girl, so why the sudden change? Yuri wondered. Now Omiko avoided all kind of contact with her too. The mint haired girl had been avoiding crossing paths directly with Yuri, the only thing coming from her was those shy glares every time she caught her getting touchy with Natsuki.

As weird as this change seemed, Yuri too couldn't blame her for falling for Natsuki, after all, she knew better than anyone how amazing her lover was, and adding how astoundingly pretty she was, well really anyone could have a crush on her, she thought.

Yuri didn't realize it but she had two options due to her current state of mind. Trust her girlfriend, knowing she would keep her promise of being with her forever, trusting anything Omiko would try Natsuki would reject it right away. Or let her fears win and start protecting what was hers at all costs.

Unfortunately, option number 2 seemed to be the one ahead.

Seeing someone else doing what she thought was only something she should could do with her girlfriend, was triggering something inside her. Ever since she saw Omiko rubbing her girlfriends cheek that day they returned from winter break, she couldn't help but feel an unusual rage inside of her, similar to when she first saw Natsuki talking to Gensai before they became lovers, only that it was way stronger now. Jealousy, that's what it was called.

As Yuri kept walking around her house trying to shake her negative thoughts, she continued growing anxious, until she ended up stopping in front of her desk. She then opened the drawer and pulled the black metal box. It was cold as she hadn't touched it in a while. Yuri the opened and stared blankly at her old knife collection.

Her arm began itching like it hadn't in months as she ran her fingers along some of the beautifully crafted blades. Yuri then picked one and examined it more carefully.

Something appeared to have taken control over her body as she was no walking to her bathroom with the blade in hand. She was now at the sink, with her sleeve already rolled up somehow.

She started to tremble and to her luck, she ended up knocking down a toothbrush that was there. This appeared to have made the purple one regain some of her senses as she noticed the pink toothbrush on the floor as she bent over to pick it up.

The little dental hygiene tool her girlfriend had left there for daily use, as she spent most of the time in that house had made Yuri realize what she was about to do as this reminded her of the pink haired girl.

Yuri then walked back to her room and put the knife back in the metal box slamming the drawer shut. She then took the pink heart shaped poem called "I'll be your beach" that her girlfriend had crafted for her some time ago.

Natsuki had told her to hold onto it and think about her if she ever had negative thoughts again, so the bookworm took it and clutched it tight against her chest as she sat in the edge of her bed, still shivering.

"I can't let it win again. She loves me".

"Sh€ On1y l0ve$ me".