Sorry guys for keep you waiting this long but here it finally is another chapter of the fluffy comedy
Also to those who are waiting for Out of Tune, I have a little writer's block on this story
dunno when I'll write the next chapter but surely, I will
Me & You &…They
The soft, quiet giggles and squeals are the sweetest music to my ears. I’m enjoying their ceaseless stream, marking every inch of my girlfriend’s body with my lips, throwing a quiet
I’m sorry between each kiss.
“Ai-chan you will kiss me to death and I told you I already forgave you!” I stop for a second, hanging above her brightly smiling face.
“Wouldn’t you like to die out of love?” I purr huskily as she wraps her arms around my neck.
“Sure I would, especially to be suffocated by your kisses but not necessarily today,” I gaze into her brown sparkly eyes and feel tears gradually filling my own.
“Hey, hey, hey, just don’t cry again!” she starts to panic as I roll off her and to the pillow, covering my eyes with my arm.
“You know,” I begin, suppressing my sobs. “I wanted Risa to experience something that…” I choke and words stuck in my throat.
“…we both share?” Reina finishes for me, gently caressing my cheek.
“Yeah,” her fond gesture immediately calms me down. “But I’ve chosen the worst possible method and unwittingly, hurt you in the process. I’m so sorry,” I clasp my arms around her waist, burying my face into her chest.
“Ai-chan, I already told you I forgave you,” she kisses my forehead, softly giggling. “Besides, you hadn’t really done anything wrong. You just desperately wanted to help your friend who is like a sister to you. It’s just me who again went all paranoid over our sub-leader. Though, I thought I’d already healed myself from my jealousy over her.”
“But you helped her,” I look up at her, smiling indulgently.
“Well, ye-ah…but not out of some noble reasons. I was just hell jealous of you and wanted you to just focus on me,” she mutters, hanging her head low and being visibly ashamed of what she says.
“Yes but then out of thousands ways to do it, you’ve decided to help Gaki. You really are a good friend and…an amazing girlfriend,” I softly kiss her lips.
“If you say so…anyway, let’s just forget about this and blame everything on Sayumi.”
“Why on Sayumi?” I ask amused.
“I don’t know but it’s always her fault,” she answers as a matter-of-factly.
I doubt that in this world exists someone sweeter than she…
“Also you need to know that…you missed this spot…” she traces her finger down her neck, gushing with tempting smirk.
Unwittingly, I mimic her facial expression and with honest pleasure grant her wish, tenderly sucking and licking the omitted earlier part of her perfect body.
She moans sweetly into my ear, nibbling it every now and then and slightly squirms under my touch as my hands travel down her curves, caressing her delicate, smooth skin.
I’m just a reach away of seizing those raw emotions which are boiling under our heated skins, wanting to be released and melt into one.
“Ai…”she groans, digging her fingers harder into my back while impatiently bucking her hips faster and faster.
In moments like this, I feel almost as if she was an integral part of me…being able to feel her rapid breath, her feverish skin, listening to her racing heart and her silky voice calling my name…it’s almost too beautiful to be true…and it only hurts it lasts so short…
…if we just could merge into one body…Her scream disperses within the room’s darkness but still echoes in my mind, engraving upon my heart…and then we just lie in each other’s arms, looking into each other’s eyes, stealing each other’s breaths…
There is nothing more to be said, words are needless and can’t capture the true meaning of this moment and these emotions…those are the things which cannot be expressed by simple words…
* * *
Turning and tossing in bed, I’m trying to feel the warm body which disappearance made my skin turn terribly cold. However, upon not finding my little kitten, I’m forced to open my eyes and have a better view of the situation. I sit up, and slightly pouting, look around the empty room.
“Reina?” There’s no answer to my quiet call but soon I hear running water and guess that my kitten is already doing the morning toilet.
“Good morning,” she greets me, standing in the threshold wrapped only in a towel. “Did I wake you up?”
I stretch my hands and shake my head denying her words.
“Come here,” I pat the empty space next to me and she quickly jumps onto the bed. “Did you sleep well?” I murmur, leaning my head on her bare shoulder.
“Well, to be honest…” she giggles quietly as I nudge her fresh skin with my nose. “Things were much better before I fell asleep.”
“Reina you are such a naughty girl,” I whisper, nibbling gently her ear.
“And you are the last person who has a right to point this out to me, Ai-chan~”
Her comment makes me flush slightly, though I won’t argue…
“Let’s go out somewhere today, huh? Cinema, karaoke, restaurant. A whole day just for us, what do you say?”
“Sounds great but unfortunately, you can’t honey.”
“I can’t?” I ask puzzled.
As I remember, we only have scheduled something for late in the evening.
“Yep, ‘cause you already have a date with Eri and Gaki in the amusement park at eleven o’clock,” she explains, fixing my disheveled hair.
“Wait, what?” I gently grab her hands, making the most flabbergasted expression I’m able to make.
“It was Eri idea. She asked me if I would lend you her and I agreed,” she gives me a smooch and jumps off the bed to collect clothes from the floor.
“But I disagree to be lent!” I cross my arms and pout, throwing my girl the look of a very unsatisfied puppy.
“Ai-chan, tell me something,” she sits down on the edge of the bed next to me and forces me to look at her. “Will you stay with me forever?”
“Of course I will!” I tightly hug her, burying my face into her shoulder.
“Good, then we will have plenty of time for going to cinemas, karaoke and so on whereas when it comes to Gaki,” she unsticks me from herself to lean her forehead against mine. “You won’t spend so much time with her after she will finally find her sweetheart.”
“But, but, but, but, but, but…” somewhere between the eighth and ninth ‘but’ my mouth is successfully sealed by Reina’s.
“Love ya,” she pats my head and gets back to cleaning the room.
“Reina…” propping on my elbows, I observe as she dresses herself up.
“Yeah?” she murmurs, looking attentively around the room in search of her t-shirt.
“You know that I’m your number one fan, right?”
“You bet…,” she looks up at me with that smug smile drawing on her lips. “So, I assume this means, you’re in charge of breakfast today.”
“Anything for my princess,” I roll off the bed and flee to the kitchen.
“Ai-chan!”
I hear her call and get back to the room.
“Yeah?”
“Would you mind dressing up first…?”
“Ah, sure…”
I knew I forgot about something!
* * *
It’s half past twelve. There is no trace of Gaki nor Eri. But it’s not like I’m waiting here for an hour and a half since I deliberately came at twelve o’clock knowing that in Eri’s language eleven o’clock never means eleven o’clock. So, I sit on a bench, playing my PSP and wonder what has happened this time.
She left an iron turned on or maybe didn’t turn off the cooker or maybe simply, Sayu stopped her, dragging to some dark room or maybe all at once…In fact, there is a million of possibilities and I’m sure that when she finally shows up, it will turn out that it was something which one would never expect to happen…
That’s Eri’s charm I guess, being so unpredictable and predictable at the same time…
“Sorry for keep you waiting!” the aforementioned girl runs my way with Risa following her closely.
“Well, I’m sure you have a good excuse anyway,” I stand up, turning off my console and throwing it to my purse.
“You see when Gaki-san came for me, I was taking a bath and there was no one home so I had to answer the door. I left the bathtub, dressed up and opened the door, I greeted Gaki-san and we started chit-chatting. Then, suddenly, we felt water under our feet! I didn’t turn off the tap! So, in short, my house was flooded and Gaki-san stayed to help me with cleaning the mess…”
Well, it still wasn’t the most surprising story I heard from her…
“Just a small correction…I was cleaning it myself because if you don’t remember, suddenly, Sayumi came and dragged you to your room, leaving me with the mess!” Risa gives Eri an ominous glare and our turtle looks as if wanting to hide in its shell.
Ehh…I knew Sayumi had to be somehow involved…
“Okay, let’s just forget about this and enjoy ourselves, shall we?” I pat their shoulders, smiling encouragingly.
Eri shakes her head vigorously while Risa just shrugs but either way we eventually pass through the park’s gate.
“Oh, oh! Who is going with me on the rollercoaster?”I clap my hands excited like a little child, pointing the huge metal structure behind my back.
However, my friends don’t seem to share my enthusiasm, looking at me as if I wasn’t right in the brain. I take this an obvious no and my good humor abandons me…
“Reina would go with me…” I sadly mutter to myself.
“Let’s eat something, I’m hungry,” Gaki suggests and Eri gives her full support by taking her under her arm.
“What? Eat? Come on guys, we are in the amusement park not in a restaurant,” I whine, pouting but no one listens to me.
And people say that I’m the boring one…
* * *
“So, Ai-chan have you already decided what are giving Reina for Valentine’s Day?”
I avert my gaze from the massacred cake on my plate to our curious turtle.
I would rather not bring up such a topic in Risa’s presence but oh well, Eri is Eri…
“Not yet. All I know, it’s that it has to be something which she will remember to the rest of her life,” I sigh and come back to torturing my cake.
I’ve been thinking about that. It’s our first Valentines and I want them to be special. Simple chocolates are good for friends while for Reina…
“Anything will be good as long as it will be from you,” Eri speaks up and takes a sip of her tea. “Honestly, that girl would be happy if you gave her a potato, that’s how much she loves you,” she snorts a giggle.
“A potato?!”
What the…? She can’t be serious…
“Calm down Ai. Eri didn’t say you should give her a potato silly,” the two of them giggle, making me feel like an idiot. “What she meant was that if it is a sincere gift, straight from your heart, it will make Reina happy the most. After all, all she wants it’s you,” Gaki pokes my head, smiling heartily.
Glad that I have with me a portable translator that translates from Eri's language to the common's people…
“Oh, oh, I know! Write her a song!” Eri stands up from the chair in her excitement over the idea. Fortunately, she is quickly brought back to earth by Risa who tugs her sleeve and sits her down.
“I’m afraid Ai can’t write songs…”
“So, a trip to Paris! It would be soo romantic,” the situation repeats…
“Kame, really, I think Ai-chan doesn’t need your help, she will be fine,” to distract our turtle from coming up with further ideas, Gaki gives up her own parfait to her.
I smile inwardly. Trip to Paris would be indeed romantic but we obviously can’t go there…I know that they are right but still I want to give Reina something which no one else would get, something which would make her feel truly special, something she likes and at the same time would amaze her…ehh, it won’t be easy to find something like that…
“Can we finally go and have some fun?” disappointed, at how this trip to amusement park turned out, I finally take issues into my hands.
“Love tunnel!” Eri exclaims happily
“Eee?!” I and Risa shout in terror.
I shouldn’t have said anything…
* * *
So, we are walking toward the unknown, led by the atomic aho who couldn’t have come up with a more aho-like idea…but since she threatened us that she would start crying if we didn’t go with her, we had no other choice but to agree.
Then, in our horizon appears a frantically running girl in a purple jacket and a hood that successfully hides her face.
“Takahashi-san! Niigaki-san! Kamei-san! Heavens sends me you! Quickly, hide me somewhere!”
The three of us stare bewildered at the girl who turns out to be Natsuyaki Miyabi but looks more like a rabbit chased by a bunch of wild, hungry dogs.
“Hide you from whom?” Gaki asks calmly, trying somehow to settle down our terrified kouhai.
“I will explain later now please, it’s a matter of life and death…”
“Ehh…come on…” Risa takes her by the hand and I with Eri just follow them.
We reach a telephone booth and Gaki tells Miyabi to enter it while we will stand around it, covering the glass windows. Idly whistling and picking at our nails, we are waiting for the unknown assailants.
After five minutes a small girl runs toward us.
“An-o…” It’s Sugaya Risako. She pants heavily, trying to speak her mind. “Have you seen by chance Miya-chan?”
We glance at each other and shake our heads speechlessly.
“I see…well then never mind…” she is visibly disappointed but nevertheless continues her search and we continue to stand as Miyabi informs as that it’s not the end.
And indeed after another five minutes another girl appears and seems to be as tired as her youngest band mate.
“Oh, good afternoon, Takahashi-san, Kamei-san, Niigaki-san,” Shimizu Saki-chan greets us politely. “Have you seen by chance Miyabi-chan somewhere around here?”
“No, I’m afraid not…” Gaki answers not even blinking her eye.
“Oh…” the girl doesn’t seem to be completely convinced and even tries to peek who is in the booth.
Captain is smart but…there’s no way her senpai would lie to her, right?
“That’s a shame…goodbye.”
“Bye,” we wave at her and when we lose her from our sight we let Miya-chan out.
“I’m sooo grateful to you…” she bows to us.
If you ask me there is definitely something off about her…but I can’t really tell what…
“Can you know explain to us what is going on?” Gaki’s question elicits a deep sigh from our kohai as she plops on the nearest bench.
“Today is the final day of the ultimatum…” she announces in a tone of finality. “I have to choose one of them but…I can’t!”
Okay…and I thought that only our band had its crazy stories…
“Simply, I can’t. I like them both,” she says in a resigned voice. “Both are so cute…I don’t want to break anyone’s heart…”
“Why don’t you tell them this?” Risa joins the girl at the bench and strokes her back in a consoling manner. “If you aren’t ready then tell them you don’t want to make a mistake which later all of you would regret.”
Well said…but no wonder since she has been put through a similar situation with Koharu and her unreadiness. Right…Koharu…
Yesterday, after I told her the true reasons behind Koharu’s decision, she wasn’t much surprised. She rather seemed relieved…but seeing her now comforting our kouhai like this, reminds me also of something else…
When Miki left the band Koharu was pretty much devastated with both the fact and the way how it’d happened. She always looked up to our ex-sub-leader and then suddenly, this image of Miki which she created and admired so much, shattered into pieces. I was too engrossed in brooding over my future leadership to catch most of things that were happening around me back then. So, the one who lent Koharu a shoulder to cry on after her hero had let her down, was no one else than our new sub-leader, Niigaki Risa. It was probably then when she started developing her feelings for the girl…
“You are right Niigaki-san,” I flinch as Miyabi springs up from the bench and ends my short retrospection. “I can’t run away forever. Thank you for all your help.”
I’m guessing the words were directed to all of us yet the only hugged one was Gaki…
“No pro-blem…” she stutters taken aback by the bold gesture of Miyabi.
Aww…she is so cute blushing like this…
Miyabi waves at us and runs off to find her chasers.
“Ok now off to the love tunnel!”
“Noo~!” I whine together with my sub-leader.
And yet I thought she would forget about that…
* * *
And here we are, rowing a small boat in a cold, dim tunnel surrounded by pinky, flashy decorations of hearts and cupids. It could actually be cute if…it wasn’t so creepy…
But I guess it could have been worse. I always could sit next to Eri and have her clinging to my arm just like now she clings to Gaki…
I chuckle inwardly observing the sweet couple. Eri with her gleeful grin and Gaki with her totally resigned blank expression. It’s actually a shame that Eri is already with Sayumi…
Gosh, I’m soo bored…oh well, since my arms are free and we aren’t talking anyway, I will at least finish the level…
I turn on my console but it’s suddenly, snatched from my hands.
“Hey!” I frown at Gaki the unexpected thief.
“You know Eri what a big favor we would do Tanakacchin if we got rid of this device?”
Smirking she turns my PSP in her hands curiously studying it.
“Yeah, so much additional
loving time~,” Eri coos cheerfully.
Ok those glints in their eyes are even creepier than those chubby, grinning cupids around us. I really don’t like it.
“I’m not playing when she is around,” I justify myself but somehow my voice sounds terribly squeaky and weak.
“Oh, is that so? But I’m sure she hates it anyway,” she waves the console above the water.
“RISA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” I shout in terror.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Reina was jealous about this lifeless object,” Eri pokes her chin thoughtfully.
That makes me think for a while…
She really is very jealous. Every time, I talk with someone more than five minutes when she is around, she glares at the person as if wanting to do her or him something extremely cruel. And it’s even when I’m talking to some kids from eggs…
I don’t really mind it since well, it’s just how she is. I know that she wouldn’t hurt a fly and besides, it’s cute but then…wait a minute, is this some kind of test or something?
“Give me that!” I demand in a tight voice. Risa looks at me a bit scared by my sudden outburst and gives the console back. I take it and fling it behind my back. It lands in water with quiet splash.
“See? There is no reason for her to be jealous about such things,” I huff, crossing my arms.
Eri and Gaki look at each other before starting to giggle madly.
“Oh Ai-chan, Ai-chan. We know you love her you don’t have to prove anything.”
“Yeah and actually, I was joking,” Eri admits and now I’m glaring at them as if wanting to hurt them badly.
“We are going on the rollercoaster…twice…” I darkly announce.
They already turn pale…
* * *
I wave enthusiastically at my two friends, saying hastily my goodbyes to them as I don’t really want to see what they’ve had for breakfast and leave the amusement park. I must admit that in the end, it turned out quite amusing. Their screams and petrified expressions were hilarious…
On my way home, I’m trying to phone Reina but for some reason she doesn’t answer. I wonder why since she knew I would phone her…Oh well, maybe she forgot to recharge it.
I reach our place and knock the door. The door opens and I flinch in terror…
“Oh my God?! What happened?!” My girl stands in the threshold, drenched from head to toes. “Water flooded our apartment?!” I burst to the bathroom but everything is perfectly dry.
“Flooded? No, why?” Reina laughs behind my back and I throw a towel at her.
“Why on earth are you soaked?”
“Oh it’s a long, long story…” she hangs on my neck pressing her wet body into mine.
“You are freezing. You will catch a cold if you don’t change those clothes,” I mutter, feeling pinky hue creeping onto my cheeks.
“When Reina catches a cold, Ai will take care of her right?” She cocks her head, glancing at me flirtatiously.
“Of course I will,” I stroke her damp hair.
“So…there’s no chance Reina is changing those clothes,” she sticks out her tongue at me and flees to the room.
“Really?! We will see!” I shout and we start chasing around the apartment.
However, the chase never lasts long since she is a very bad runner. And so, I clasp my arms around her waist as she squeals loudly, wriggling her legs and trying to escape me again…
However, she stops as I lean closer to her ear and whisper in a hush.
“Listen carefully; no matter how many times Reina escapes…Ai will always catch her…”She leans into me, burying her face into crook of my neck.
“Reina knows that…” she assures me, placing a dry kiss on my neck.
“So, will my frisky kitten, finally tell me where she scored her bath?” I suspiciously raise an eyebrow at her.
“Ok, but before I start, you need to know that this time, it really was Sayumi’s fault,” I stare at her grinning face, bewildered by her words.
Why the girl must always be somehow involved…?