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My World, My Love
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Sei and Lucy were sitting in a local cafeteria, waiting for their omelettes to be cooked, talking quietly.   "Of course," Sei said, "now the really hard part starts."   Lucy looked up from the table. "What's that?"   "We've got to keep it a total secret that we're dating," Sei said. "We're still under the dating ban, and even once that ends it wouldn't be safe to come out as gay."   "That's especially hard for me," Lucy said, "because I just want to, you know, shout to the whole world -" she dropped the volume of her voice so she was speaking even quieter - "that you're my girlfriend."   Sei nodded. "But we can't." She paused for a moment. "We'll need to ask our unnies and our sunbaes for advice on how not to get caught."   "Especially the sunbaes," Lucy said. "I don't trust the unnies to know much better than we do."   "Well, yeah, they do mess up sometimes," Sei admitted, thinking of the bad advice Doyeon had given her, "but they mean well, and they haven't gotten caught yet, so that's got to count for something."   "I think Elly's the best one at this. I mean, we don't even know who she's dating." Lucy said.   They stopped talking as the waitress brought their egg rolls, then stayed quiet for a few minutes while they eat. By the time they were ready to talk again, Lucy had thought of something. "We won't be able to wear couples things, will we?" she asked.   Sei shook her head. "Probably not," she said. She popped a piece of omelette in and chewed for a moment while she thought. "I'll text Alice-sunbae and see what she says."   "She's probably still asleep," Lucy said, as she reached over and grabbed a piece of omelette off Sei's plate.   "Probably," Sei agreed. "But she'll see it when she wakes up, and I bet she's got some answers."   "I hope so," Lucy said, pouting. "Winter is the best time for couples things - you can do gloves, caps, scarves, jackets. . ."   To their surprise, Sei's phone beeped. She picked it up and started reading. "Apparently Alice isn't such a sleepyhead as our members - she said she'd been up for a couple of hours but didn't text because she didn't want to wake me up."   "Let's see. . ." Sei said, reading on. "She says if I'm asking about couples things then she supposes congratulations are in order. She'd got 3 suggestions and I'm guessing you're not going to like two of them."   "Well, let's see?" Lucy said, obviously dying of impatience.   "OK. One: We buy the items, but never both wear them at once."   Lucy shook her head. "That's no good. Well, not very good. What else?"   "Two: Pajamas and underwear."   "Pajamas could be fun, but only our members would get to see them."   "True. OK, one option left: Small items, like keyrings and phone charms."   Lucy's face lit up. "Keyrings! That's perfect!"   Sei laughed. "I suppose it is at that."   "Okay then," Lucy said. "When we finish breakfast, I'll go shopping for the keyrings, and I'll meet you back at the apartment."   "I don't get a say in our keyrings?" Sei asked.   Lucy looked at her and raised her eyebrows. "Really? Are you thinking? How weird would it look if you and I go shopping for keyrings together and then buy the same one. If I go out by myself and buy them
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brithistorian
I'm going to be trying to update this fic plus "I Don't Like Your Girlfriend," and "Second Winter at Fire Lodge" simultaneously - I've never successfully updated 3 ongoing fics at once before, but I feel like I've got a handle on it this time.

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Mustafina
1147 streak #1
Chapter 43: Not the effect being hard enough to make someone turn in their straight card 🤣
sinb-fan-01 #2
Chapter 23: dateing is so hard for them. i was hope that suyeons idea was going to wrok, but it sounds liek its bad. 17 weeks is long!
poor elly has such hrad time talkng with kwill
sinb-fan-01 #3
Chapter 22: poor suyeon, five months such long tiem for fake dateing, and poor elly havng to see it
so diffcult for group now!
sinb-fan-01 #4
Chapter 21: that was soem drama there, i didnt know suyeon wuld get that mad. i hav to see how media if they give porblem to sei and lucy now