Welcome, everyone. Continuing from "New School Year" the protagonist for this story will be Venus instead of Basil. Starting here, this story is set during "The Hair Incident." Enjoy and review.

8:15 AM

The uniform for female students at Archbishop Dunan's consisted of a skirt, a blouse, a sweater, a blazer, ballet flats and a headband. On occasion the blazer would be forgotten, as would the headband. Sometimes even both would be forgotten. The colors of Archbishop Dunan's were blue, black and green.

Wearing her complete uniform, Venus Kellerman walked to school with her friend Basil Hagen from A. Nigma High escorting her. They were quite close and Venus had already made her decision on them being beau and leman but wanted to make Basil wait a bit.

Venus' father, the late Fulgencio Kellerman, had died when she was four years old. He had been very mysterious to her and Venus' Aunt Mitsu, her father's brother's wife with whom Venus lived, rarely spoke about him.

She was a redhead with large breasts, realistically large not cartoonish large, and so she was Basil's type. In addition Venus understood Basil's vocabulary and shared his knowledge of history, there was more to his attraction to her than her appearance and she found his kindness and intelligence to be very attractive.

"So…" Basil began, his voice deep and smooth. "How about we go on a date after school. To the mall maybe?"

"Basil, I have to look after Mabel, you know that. I can't just let Mrs. Davis look after her. She hasn't the energy to look after a little girl." Replied Venus, her voice deep and sultry. "Why don't you come to my house and look after her with me? Stop by your house and grab your trunks so you can help with the swimming lessons?"

"That's no fun." Basil took her by the hand and kissed it. "Come on now, just you and me at the mall."

Venus blushed. "Basil, Aunt Mitsu will be angry when I slept over at your place." She hadn't told her Aunt Mitsu she had been at Basil's, only that she had stayed the night at a friend's.

"Come on, Venus… Comeliest of wenches, most beautiful of the beautiful." He gave her cervix an amorous osculation. "Come with me. I'm courting you, I'll be your boyfriend for the afternoon, you my girlfriend for the afternoon, it will be our second appointment."

Their second appointment… Their second date… Venus was suddenly having second thoughts. They had been on one date and Basil had ravished her prior to their first date and since their first he had ravished her twice. Now today, he wished to have their second date… And yet there was something familiar about Basil… Like she had always known him and yet he had made a comment about him being non-monogamous in theory but not in practice… That hadn't bothered her then so why was it now?

"I-I don't know…" Venus looked at her school. So close but yet, to use a cliché expression, so far away.

"Then we'll compromise, a bit of time at the mall and then we look after Mabel together?"

"I'll text you my answer later." Venus gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Or give you my answer at lunch."