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[MayaTheNobody]

"Oh no, not usually...I dunno... But I feel more energetic than usual... It might be because of all the sweets... or something else..." Asako shrugged.

"It has nothing to do with the sweets and you know it!" Risky pouted and crossed her arms.  

[aviesaurum]

".. Well, in that case." He paused, "No more sweets for you."  

[MayaTheNobody]

"Eh! What? Why?!... I said it might not be the sweets!" Asako insisted, leaning foward from her seat, nearly pouting.

"Not the sweets at all!"  

[aviesaurum]

Mello looked up ever so slightly. "Really now, what is it then?" He asked with interest.  

[MayaTheNobody]

"Eh? Huh? I dunno! What?" She let out the string of confused words and blushed slightly.

"Reall subtle..."  

[aviesaurum]

Mello sighed, seemingly disappointed. "You aren't very sure yourself, are you?"  

[MayaTheNobody]

"W-well... so what if I do? Do I have to tell you..?" She blushed slightly, uncomfortably.  

[aviesaurum]

"I guess not, I mean, you don't really seem like you want to.."  

[MayaTheNobody]

"W-well... It's just well.... I guess I'm just... embarrassed...." Was all she said and then coughed.  

[aviesaurum]

"Do you need to tell me?" He raised an eyebrow, only slightly curious now.  

[MayaTheNobody]

"W-well... Uh... I dunno.... I mean, maybe... at sometimes anyway..." Asako flushed and fidgeted.

"I wonder what would happen if you said it outloud...?"  

[aviesaurum]

"Sometimes?" Mello answered flatly. He waited for her to get straight to the point, but it was clear she was having difficulties doing so. Even then, he put up with Asako's flustered words and incomplete sentences.  

[MayaTheNobody]

"Well... uhm.... I think I might have... Stockholm Syndrome...." She said in a shy voice. She didn't really want to say it out loud, so might as well hint at it.

"What's Stockholm Syndrome....?" Risky asked, looking curiously at Asako.  

[aviesaurum]

"Oh." He managed to mutter, he didn't seem particularly in shock but at the moment he wondered just how things would turn out with her around. "You're going to get yourself in a whole lot of trouble," He paused briefly to think. "I suppose this puts the whole situation a little off."  

[MayaTheNobody]

"Trouble....?" she asked, a little confused. "Well, sorry if this inconveniences you..." She didn't say it angrily, but in more of a sincere way.

"Wait... so this Stockholm Syndrome thing is what's happening now? Wow... I didn't know it had a name..."