"Kiiiiiiiiiiss." Ann said emotionlessly.
Riyuka looked at her in confusion. "Huh? Are you-"
Suddenly, Ann jumped at her.
"Woah!" Riyuka exclaimed as she felt Ann wrap her arms around her neck. The thick lips touched her neck. "Hey, hey, what is... going on... with... you..."
Riyuka's arms lowered down. Her eyes were half-closed, there was less and less of an emotion in her voice with each word. The kids watched as Ann kept holding a kiss on Riyuka's neck, having no idea what was going on.
"Wow, she... she just... came in and... kissing the teacher?" one of the girls asked, looking at her friend.
"Dude, that is weird." one of the boys said.
Chris stepped back a bit. "Anti-Cream. I'm not sure why, but I... I have a bad feeling about this."
"Chao Chao Chao." Anti-Cheese said, watching the scene in surprise.
"Miss Riyuka!" Kayla said, her eyes widened. "Your lips. They're growing!"
"Huh? Really?" one of the boys asked, unable to see from his position.
Riyuka looked down and saw that her lips indeed became four times thicker. However, there was no reaction on her face. She seemed to be surprisingly calm about the whole situation at this point. Soon, Ann pulled back and released her grip, landing on the floor.
"Ah! Are you alright?" Kayla asked, holding a hand close to her mouth as she looked at the club leader.
Riyuka turned to her and walked close to her table. Ann, meanwhile, stood next to the table at which two boys were sitting. Now all the children could see Riyuka's thick lips. Her face showed no emotion.
"Miss Riyuka, are... are you there?" Kayla asked, waving a hand in hope to get some reaction.
"Kiiiiiiiiiiiss." Riyuka said with no emotion in her voice.
"M-Miss Riyuka?" Kayla said worriedly.
To everyone's surprise, Riyuka grabbed Kayla's head, leaned forward and kissed her forehead. Looking puzzled and worried, Kayla tried to pull away, but the club leader held her head tight enough to keep her in place. Right then, Ann jumped at one of the boys, knocking him off his chair and kissed him on the nose.
"What the? What's happening?" one of the girls asked, feeling the panic begin to form inside.
The kids watched as Kayla's and boy's lips grew thick.
"I... I get it." Chris said, turning to Anti-Cream. "We should leave this room. Now!"
"Huh? What's... what's going on with them?" Anti-Cream said before she turned and saw the boy's body become more feminine.
Chris was surprised too, but quickly pulled himself together. "It's an infection! They're infecting others with a kiss!"
He held both hands at the sides of his mouth. Meanwhile, Riyuka and Ann broke their kisses. The boy was now a girl version of himself. She and Kayla both had the same thick lips and the same emotionless look on their faces.
"Kiiiiiiiiiiiiss."
"Everyone! Run!" Chris shouted.
Hearing the command and seeing what happened to their clubmates, the rest of the kids wasted no time. Without even looking back to see who said it, they quickly started running out of the room, screaming in panic. Four thick-lipped girls also wasted no time, trying to grab anyone they could.
As Chris and Anti-Cream ran towards the door, Riyuka stood in their way. She tried to grab Anti-Cream, but the girl dodged. Anti-Cheese then frowned and hit Riyuka's chest with his little hand, causing her to fly a few meters and hit the floor.
"Chao Chao!" Anti-Cheese said, shaking a fist.
"Thanks, Anti-Cheese." Anti-Cream said with a small smile before they kept running.
Chris saw that Kayla and Ann managed to pin the two girls down. He wanted to help them, but noticed that the thick lips already touched their cheeks.
"Help me!" the girl, pinned by Kayla, said.
"L-Let go of m-me!!" the other girl, pinned by Ann, said.
"I'm sorry, it's too late." Chris said in his mind before running towards the door. "If there is a way to save you, I'll find it. But first, we need to escape."
Anti-Cheese punched the girl that tried to pin Anti-Cream down, causing her to hit the floor as hard as Riyuka did. After which he, Chris and Anti-Cream quickly left the room through the door.
"We need to lock the door!" Chris said, looking around.
"Will this do?" Anti-Cream suggested, pointing at the broom that was standing near the wall next to the bucket.
"Yes, it will. Give it to me, quick!" Chris nodded as he held the door closed.
He could feel a few bodies trying to break through it. Anti-Cream gave him the broom and Chris pulled it through the door knob.
"This will hold them for a while." Chris said with a sigh.
"Hm?" Anti-Cream said, looking at Anti-Cheese, who was touching her shoulder. "What is it?"
Instead of answering, Anti-Cheese pointed at the side.
In the corridor, they could see kids running away. However, it seemed that there were not only kids from the clay modeling club room. They saw a few girls and women chase the kids and pin down the ones they managed to catch. The caught ones got kissed right on the spot and had their lips quickly grow thick, turning from chased ones to chasers.
"Oh no... That girl... she infected others!" Chris said worriedly.
"Dang it. First it was a statuette, now this." Anti-Cream said before pouting and turning to Chris. "Sometimes it feels like you are cursed or something."
"What do you mean?" Chris raised an eyebrow.
"In my school, the incident with a statuette happened right at the day I brought you there. The bad guys attacked the woman near the bar right at the day you came there to speak to that 'Witch' lady. And now this weird... 'infection' thing happens at this 'School of creativity' right at the day I brought you here." Anti-Cream said before raising an eyerbrow. "Why is there always something unusual happening in the places where you appear? It's like you're some kind of magnet for incidents."
"Trust me, I have no idea." Chris said with an awkward chuckle. He thought to himself: "I kinda felt the same after Sonic and his friends came to my life. Heh, what an irony."
"Don't worry, I'm not angry." Anti-Cream said, smiling at him. "It makes my days more fun!"
The screams of Moebians running away were heard. Chris quickly focused on reality around him, just in time to see a few thick-lipped girls run towards them.
"We need to run!" Chris exclaimed.
He and Anti-Cream turned and ran at the opposite direction with Anti-Cheese flying next to them. They ran through the corridors, taking turns and trying to find where to escape. Chris could see some Moebians pushing the thick-lipped girls with chairs, pots or anything else they could find near. He wanted to help them, but wasn't sure he could allow himself to hit the infected girls.
"Zoooooombiiiiiieeeeees!" one of the boys screamed in panic, running down the stairs, chased by one of the girls.
Chris remembered the emotionless expressions and behavior of the infected ones as he heard the boy.
"Yeah, I guess they can be called like that. But I'd add the 'kissing' word. Kissing Zombies." he thought as he ran towards the stairs along with Anti-Cream and Anti-Cheese.
The rabbit girl was running very fast and Anti-Cheese was keeping up to her speed. However, Chris himself wasn't such a fast runner and he was behind. Suddenly, he felt someone grab his robe, causing him to stop running.
Chris looked back and saw three thick-lipped girls hold him by the robe. Trying to break out, he looked forward to see that Anti-Cream and Anti-Cheese were already running down the stairs, chased by a couple of thick-lipped women. The boy called out to them, but both were too focused on escaping themselves to hear him.
"H-Hey! Let go!" Chris exclaimed before three girls pulled him by the robe, causing him to fall on his back.
He opened his eyes to see a green hedgehog girl, yellow badger girl and a brown fox girl. The first two were pinning Chris's arms down, while the latter was sitting on his stomach. They all were looking down at him with no emotion.
"N-No!" Chris thought in panic as he felt the hedgehog girl kiss his arm. Knowing it was too late, he closed his eyes, waiting for the transformation to begin... only to realize he wasn't feeling anything happen to him. "Huh?"
Chris opened his eyes. The hedgehog girl was still holding a kiss. But his lips still had a normal size and didn't show any sign of it changing. Besides this, Chris was feeling himself normal. As if the girl was giving him a simple kiss in the arm.
"What's going on?" he thought in surprise, looking up at three thick-lipped girls.
The girls themselves seemed to be confused too. The hedgehog girl pulled back and scratched her head. She and badger girl looked at each other, seemingly having no idea what to do. The fox girl then took the hood off Chris' head, revealing his human face.
"Huh?" Chris raised an eyebrow at the expressions that met him.
As the three girls saw his face, their eyes went wide, mouths opened. Their faces were now showing an emotion. A surprise.
Chris felt hedgehog and badger girls let go of his arms. He used his chance and pushed the fox girl off him. He quickly crawled back and stood up, taking off his robe.
"What's happening to them?" Chris thought in confusion and worry, watching three girls stand up. He took a step back and started looking around to choose where to run. Chris saw that he could try running towards the stairs, where Anti-Cream and Anti-Cheese ran, but he would have to go right through these girls. There was also a path back to the corridor he came from and also a path to the next corridor.
Their eyes were sparkling now.
"Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiis~." the girls said at the same time.
"Wait, did they just say my name?" Chris thought, forgetting about choosing a path for a moment.
The thick lips formed a big smiles on girls's faces.
"Kiiiiiiiiiiiiss Chriiiiiiiiiiiiis~!" all three girls said with a delight, stretching out their hands with the intention of grabbing him.
"Oh no." Chris said before quickly turning to run...