He hiked up her skirt, and she removed one hand from his chest to push it back down, a helplessly flustered noise escaping her throat. His words did nothing to quell her anxiety--that was probably the point--and she tried to find her voice all over again.

"I'm not being dishonest! It--it hurt, it made practicing our dances difficult-zura!" They'd noticed, and Hanamaru wasn't quite sure how to feel about that. She didn't want them to know that this was the reality of what happened after the school idol club finished practice, and she knew she couldn't just decide to stay longer...

"If--if I was so loud, then..." Another noise escaped her as her head tipped down, her tone utterly embarrassed. "I didn't mean to keep them up... you were being rough!"