The news that Rosa Chinensis en bouton and Rosa Foetida en bouten were now a 'couple' has spread throughout Lillian Girls' Academy faster than the common cold, and drastically at that. The two girls had told the Yamayurikai on Saturday after classes, and by Monday morning, all the girls at school and their grandmothers seemed to know (well, not really, but that's certainly how it seemed to Yoshino). Even a small puppy Yoshino passed by Monday on her way to school (alone, by the way) seemed to know, from the way it looked at her as it trotted by, his tongue lolling about happily.