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"There you are." Maebe's arm slid through Shiloh's and hooked it, dragging him backwards the way he came. "I've been looking all over for you. You haven't answered your texts, your phone, I mean, unless you were banging the brains out of Ian there is no excuse to ignore me like that." She bent in and checked for signs of exhaustion. "Hm." But his face could never keep her frowning for long, and she pursed her lips in a smile and patted his cheek.

"Whatever. I forgive you. But only if you come with me, it's time."

Time for what, it was hard to say. She was clearly carrying him back to both of their dorm rooms, which faced one another in the hall. Her arm had a hard, but cuddling grip to it, as she held her best friend and dragged him back down the halls.

"No." She huffed out. "No waiting. Come on. I need this."

Her hand slid out of his arm, just to turn him around so he could walk straight. Then it slid into his hand, intertwining their fingers and swinging their arms back and forth. "I have been dying for this. For like. A week. You really know how to make me suffer, Shy."

She grinned at him, that grin that meant she wasn't hiding. She could never hide anything from Shy.

Maebe stopped, but she didn't turn just yet. She just stared ahead, and let those words - and that accent - sink in fully. Then she sighed, and sagged her shoulders a little.

Turning to look at Shiloh, Maebe tried not to laugh as her eyes raked him up and down. The way he was standing was giving it away. Everything was. How had she not known? She knew exactly how she'd not known.. it was because she needed Shiloh.

"Come here, you idiot." Maebe reached out, putting her hands around Otto!Shy's wrists. "And I'll show you."

She did not know, nor really care how Otto was inside of Shy's body. Because in Deus, this was actually not even that weird.

She led Otto to Shiloh's room, and then stopped, looking at the door for a minute. She searched her pockets, and found a key, unlocking it. Then she opened the door, and pulled Otto inside.

"Welcome to your room while you remain cotton candy." She informed him, closing and locking the door behind her. "Now, this isn't going to go exactly like I'd hoped, because I need Shiloh but not his body. Unfortunately, I get the feeling he's pre-occupied being freaked out - and.. you? I guess? So you're going to have to do for now. Sit on the bed."

She dropped down to the floor, and started rooting under Shiloh's bed. "And don't get anything dirty, he's such a ******** prude sometimes."

When she finally emerged, it was with a giant, loaded box of what looked like miscellaneous treats. Twinkies, fudge, chocolate bars, peanut butter cookies, snowballs, every kind of terrible food imaginable was waiting in the box for the two of them, or more specifically, the two of them.

"If Shiloh ever asks, deny you ever were in here. He would kill me if I gave away our little secret." She put the box down on the bed, and then crawled on top of it, to grab a remote from the top of the table beside the bed. She pushed an on button, and really terrible pop music started to play.

"I hereby call the Sisterhood of the Travelling ******** to order." She said (which wasn't a thing, but it felt like something she would have called their weekly meetings if she'd thought of it before that day." She grabbed a bag of snowballs, and tore it open with her teeth. "Since you can't sit there and tell me how things are going with Ian, I guess it's just going to be me sharing the details of my relationships, tonight." Which seemed unfair, since he was one of the two people in said relationship.

"Uh, yeah." Maebe huffed out. "What the hell did you think we did when we hung out together? Have sex?"

Maebe pulled out her phone, and showed off a picture of Shiloh hanging off of a very handsome, doting prince. "Shiloh likes the c**k, Otto. And he's my best friend. You should never s**t where you eat."

She put away her phone, but her hand froze in her pocket when the realization of what she'd said took hold. She crawled over to him, and sat down cross legged against his side. "Except in very, very special cases." She hedged, hoping she hadn't just done something wrong.

He'd been jealous.

The realization hit her very slowly, and she was in the middle of chewing on a bite of one of her snowballs when she realized that Otto's reaction had been loud, temper driven, and angry - because he actually had thought for one second -

She put down her snowballs, and folded her hands between her legs.

"I can try. It's not like you'd be very surprised, half of them involve you, and those that don't involve Cami." Her lips tilted up in a secretive smile. "I could tell you all about those, if you want. You never really ask me about Cami, much."

And, she belatedly realized, he probably, probably should.