Title: routine
Rating: G
Fandom: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
Relationship: Oribe Tsubasa/Yumizuru Eleonora
Wordcount: 250
Short summary: Tsubasa is struggling in their dance routine practice for a certain reason...
Practice for their new dance was not going well, to put it lightly, as Tsubasa bumped into Ellie for the tenth time and almost sent both of them crashing to the floor.
“Stop!” Barry screamed. He looked ready to tear his hair out. “What’s with you, Tsubasa?”
While Tsubasa sputtered apologies and Barry screamed in frustration, Ellie replayed the steps in her head. She realized that Tsubasa was messing up in the same place every time; she was reflexively trying to step left instead of right out of the spin. Since their choreography was basically mirroring each other… “Barry, I think we should switch places. Tsubasa will do better on the left since it’ll be more automatic for her.”
Barry scratched his chin. “What do you mean?”
“Well, Tsubasa’s cup and toothbrush are always on the left so like when we’re in the bathroom together…”
“Ellie!” Tsubasa exclaimed, her face bright red.
“I mean, it’s true!” It was routine now to keep Tsubasa’s stuff on the left and Ellie’s stuff on the right so they wouldn’t mix up… “Oh.” Ellie too blushed furiously upon realizing what she had revealed accidentally.
An awkward silence passed as neither Tsubasa nor Ellie wanted to say more and dig themselves into a deeper hole. Finally Barry broke the silence with a loud cough. “Ahem. That’s fine. Let’s have you two switch and start from the top again.”
At least Ellie’s idea worked, or else she could never look Barry in the eye ever again…