Damp hugs! She makes a happily little squeak, relishing the skin contact. 

...and then her brain notices that she's got her body pressed against a very hot girl, who she likes a lot, while neither of them are wearing that much clothing, and decides to give her an involuntary physiological response about it!

She turns bright red and then shuffles around a bit, trying to make it a bit harder more difficult for Lucy to notice.

Lucy wasn’t at zero backlash when she went into the shower and while she didn’t get to nonverbal she did take some backlash in there. As a consequence she is really good at not noticing things about other human beings and making inferences about them right now.

Lucy sandwich so she can change out of the bathing suit without a problem in a minute.

Cool cool cool she will be sooo normal about this

Mmmmmm being sandwiched is goooooood.

...embarrassment aside, this is still really nice. She lets herself relax into snuggles.

"You good to get into clothes?" Haru asks Lucy when her backlash seems at a sufficient ebb.

“Oh! Yeah, sure.” Good thing they brought her backlash down first or she definitely would have started changing in front of them.

He and Cara can go wait on the couch then.

Couch snuggles! She wiggles happily.

"Thanks for looking after us." 

"You're welcome!"

She casts around for a conversation topic and lands on "How old were you when you awakened?"

"Seventeen when I started but my birthday was during."

Gosh. On his birthday...

She'll continue chatting with him until Lucy returns.

“Wow, did I hear that right? Your birthday?”

She’s wearing short shorts and a tube top. Her midriff is very much bare.

"Yeah. We made me a cake and everything."

Oh no she's hot This isn't news it's just. very apparent. She tries not to stare. 

She reaches her arms out to invite Lucy into couchsnuggles.

Yay snuggles!!!

“I don’t know if esper powers count as a great birthday present or if hellweek counts as an awful one.”

Lucy get! Cara nuzzles her.

"I guess the ideal would be finishing awakening near midnight on your birthday, maybe? Bonus extra thing to celebrate."

"I needed a fair amount of decompression time and didn't feel like celebrating at the time, but that probably varies."

...Awwww. She twists around a bit so she can pet Haru a bit. "It's probably not uncommon."

“Personally I am just fine with the fact that my birthday isn’t until February.”

"Mine was -" during her non-magical hell week that was still so much worse than this "a few months ago. I think it'd be kinda fun to have a birthday party like this, honestly, but most awakenings aren't this gentle."

“Yeah, this is a statistically absurd cuddlepile.”

Happy wiggles! "It really is! Lucky us."