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The door creaked open, a girl with pink hair stuck her head through the door, smiling sheepishly. The boys looked up from their bed in the darkness.
“Kotoko?” Nagisa said, sitting up to raise his eyebrow, making sure she was alright. Then looking around and making sure everyone else was okay. Masaru nodded at Nagisa, mouthing ‘Jataro is okay.’ Since Nagisa couldn’t see him from where he was laying.
“Soo...I know it’s our first night staying here, and Komaru put me in a different room cuz I’m a girl but....I thought you guys needed protecting!! I just thought of worms...and creepy crawlies.....and big birds....and! and! Jataro normally has nightmares whenever we sleep apart so—“ Kotoko went on, talking with her hands.
“SLEEPOVER!!” Masaru yelled, throwing a pillow at her, she caught it and ran at him laughing. Masaru held up a pillow in defense and they ran into each other like sumo wrestlers, both being shot back.
“You can stay with us tonight, Kotoko. No worries.” Nagisa smiled, getting up off his spot from the other side of the room and laying down on the floor with them. “Jataro, cmon!”
Jataro grabbed his pillow, with a frog case Masaru had stolen for him and wobbled over, collapsing once he was close enough. “You were right Kotoko...I had a nightmare that we all got split up and I was walking in a desert and worms were eating me alive..” The masked boy said slowly. Nagisa threw an arm around his shoulder.
“No worries! You know Kotoko and Masaru are always looking for a fight, so they’ll protect you. And when push comes to shove I will too. And take off that mask! It’s just us!”
Komaru came in to check on the boys half an hour later, only to find the four of them in a lazy pile, snoring and drooling.