Once they're seated, they see multitudes of people bustling into the theatre. "Sure, is going to be a packed hall, huh?" mutters Keqing. "To be fair, this is a really popular book series, so no wonder there's such a high turnout," replies Ganyu. Keqing takes off her bag and sifts through, before finding what she wanted: two bags of Doritos. "Here," she says as Ganyu gratefully takes one, before the movie starting causes them to flinch and giggle, surprised.
The two turn their attention to the screen, as does everyone else in the theatre. A deep voice begins to speak, as the actors play their parts.
"Thirteen years of peace were had before the era of warring states began. The nations of the north, furthest from the epicenter, at last became infected by the spirit of the age, hurling themselves into the flames of war. As it is with most wars, a loser would be decided after a fierce conflict.
"Their cities were cast down into flaming rubble, and their nobles and their supporters fled into the mountains. Such a backdrop is hardly anything special. But into that inflection point of an era strode a wandering samurai dressed in luxurious robes. No, rather than 'luxurious,' perhaps it was more accurate to say that these robes were..."
"Yes, that's right. It was a man dressed as a woman."
As they watch, Ganyu sets down a large popcorn, leaving Keqing curious as to whether their hands would touch. Much to her surprise, she had Ganyu's hand intertwined with her own much sooner, for once the flashbacks to the wars began and humans were getting killed egregiously left and right, the adeptus yelped and shut her eyes immediately. Keqing snaked her hand towards Ganyu's own and once the adeptus felt Keqing's reassuring hand touch her own, she immediately clutched it and held on. "Don't worry, it's almost over," whispered Keqing.
As she watched the film, her heart beat quickly with Ganyu's hand in her own, to the point she forgot to remind the adeptus that the war scene had ended and she heard Ganyu gasp once she looked at the screen and noticed the gruesome scenes to be over. "Keqing, you naughty girl! I was wondering how long the war would go on!" exclaims Ganyu, pinching her cheek playfully. "Pfft, sorry, I was a little scared myself. ... holding your hand felt comforting," replies Keqing, not meeting Ganyu's eyes.
"Fair enough," replies the qilin as the movie continues. 2 hours later, the movie ends.
"Mmh! That was such a good movie!" exclaims Ganyu, as she stretches. "Agreed," replies Keqing. "We have half an hour before my dad comes to pick us up. Wanna go get icecream?" asks Ganyu. "Sure!" grins Keqing, before Ganyu comes closer. "W-What is it?" mutters Keqing. "Just a stray hair!" giggles Ganyu, as she starts walking in the other direction, and Keqing hurries to keep up as they arrive in front of Baskin Robbins.
"Qing, what flavour do you want?" asks Ganyu. "Uh... Vanilla?" ponders the girl. "Come on! You can't be that basic, specially when there's so many flavours to pick from. I know, I'll give you one of my favorites that I think you'll like, okay?" says Ganyu. "A-Alright!" replies Keqing. They wait in line for about 10 minutes until it's their turn. "One Cookies N Cream for her and a Strawberry Cheesecake for me," says Ganyu, pointing at the flavours. "Alright," replies the man working there, and hands Ganyu a bill, whilst his coworker scoops up two enormous servings of icecream and plops each one onto a cone, before handing them to us.
Ganyu pays and hands Keqing's icecream to her. "Ganyu, what's with the flavour? Don't you usually get Citrus Twist?" asks Keqing. "Ehehe, well, uhm... Beidou said this was her favorite, and I guess I kinda wanted to try my girlfriend's favorite. I mean, if Beidou enjoys it, it must be good, no?" replies Ganyu, as she tastes the icecream.
Of course.
Beidou again.
"Fair enough," says Keqing, as she enjoys her Cookies N Cream. Ganyu does know what Keqing would enjoy. "How is it anyways?" asks Keqing, licking her own. "It's pretty good!" replies Ganyu. By the time they're done, Ganyu's father is outside in his car and the two head there. "Had fun, you two?" he asks. "Yeah!" replies Ganyu. "Mhm!" says Keqing.
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The 5 of them are at their lunch table again, but there's a weird shift in dynamics. For one, Beidou's here again. And second, Chongyun and Xingqiu are getting weirdly intimate with each other.
"Are you both dating?" heaves Keqing, after bottling up the question for 10 minutes as she watched Xingqiu eat his food LITERALLY SITTING ON CHONGYUN.
"My, Keqing, now whatever gave you that impression?" Xingqiu smoothly responds. "I mean, well, look at you both! Xingqiu, you're literally sitting on Chongyun!" exclaims Keqing. "Now those are just some friendly gestures we share-" starts Xingqiu, before Chongyun grabs Xingqiu by the jaw and swiftly kisses him, as both of them turn crimson.
"I FUCKING KNEW IT!" shouts Xiangling, getting to her feet. "P-Pfft, Ling, how could you have known. We-We've only been dating for two weeks," says a stuttering Xingqiu, who is desperately trying to keep his composure. "Say that all you want, but I've seen the two of you getting progressively more and more intimate with each other. This was bound to happen!" she declares, smug.
"Fine, you caught us in the act. I mean, we were trying to make it obvious; to see how far we could go until you put two and two together," shrugs Xingqiu, as he attempts to get off Chongyun's lap, before he feels a firm pair of gloved hands grasp him by the waist. "No," says Chongyun, serenely smiling at his boyfriend.
A tinkling and hearty laugh are heard from Keqing's side of the table, as she notices both Ganyu and Beidou laughing at the two. She smiles softly at the two, because even if she hated them dating, she couldn't do anything more than give them her full support if she wanted to remain close to Ganyu.
Close to Ganyu.
That was all Keqing could ever dream of ever having, no matter what she did.
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Remembering The Glaze Lilies | Ganqing {DISCONTINUED}
FanficKeqing has always been a skeptic about a lot of things, but the thing she's questioned the most is love. She knows how important it is to a lot of people, but it never really strikes her until she finds herself slowly falling for her best friend, Ga...
