Chasing White Rabbit"Listen up Tanaka: don't go anywhere, don't talk to anyone else about this. I'll call again once a decision is reached."
In other words, she was in deep shit. Reina swore to herself and resisted the urge to toss the phone out of the window. Mostly because it was Ai's phone, and she didn't want to explain
that away to a grumpy, half-awake Ai.
Then again, she was more than tempted to do it, simply because it
was Ai's phone, and this was totally her fault. Well, sort of. Reina felt comfortable blaming the older girl for it anyway.
Speaking of Ai... Reina glanced at the still form under the sheets. Ai had always been a heavy sleeper, more so after a good round, well, several rounds of sex. Reina never did things halfway.
Grunting heavily, Reina rolled out of bed, padding over to her cupboard to throw on a shirt and shorts. She wasn't one to walk around the house naked, even with the windows closed. Despite everything, she was hardly one to be an exhibitionist.
There was no way she was going to be able to go back to sleep after that call, so she headed to the kitchen and started making coffee. Well, she had run out of milk last night, or she would have had that instead. In any case, coffee would certainly help push back any fatigue. She needed a clear head to think about any potential consequences of this new development.
Last night had been...a mistake. Granted, it was a totally awesome mistake since it involved lots of mind-blowing orgasms, but she really shouldn't have started it to begin with. Reina decided to blame it on Ai again. Really, what else was going to happen with the two of them naked in a bathtub together?
It was always so hard to do this with Ai, Reina mused. Hard to look at her in the eye and pretend to feel nothing. That it was just sex, just hormones controlling the whole situation. Avoiding eye contact was an option, but they couldn't do that forever.
And she hated how Ai looked at her. Guilt, shame, even pity mixed in those beautiful eyes. That look in her eyes had been so tender, but yet...Ai knew she had nothing to give, and it showed in her eyes.
Sometimes it felt
more painful to have sex with the woman than not doing it with her. Reina buried her head into folded arms on the table, repressing the urge to scream. She was fairly sure the neighbours wouldn't appreciate the noise this early in the morning.
Then again, they had been pretty loud last night. Not that she had given a damn about what they thought that time. She still didn't care now, but Ai was still sleeping in her room just a few feet away. She didn't want to risk waking a sleeping tiger.
The coffee machine beeped. Reina didn't budge. She was wondering just how bad it could possibly get, after that phone call from Ai's manager earlier. At least Ai's manager wasn't a slimy git like their first one...whom Reina still wanted to hunt down and beat into a pulp, before tossing him into a pool of leeches. Preferably while still alive.
Her own manager probably hadn't been able to get to her, she thought wryly. She had turned the thing off last night. Ai's manager had been a little surprised to get her on the phone, but not surprised
enough. Rumours about them were still around, even after all these years.
She appreciated the warning though. This whole thing was going to have consequences. Just one more year and she would have been legal to drink, but oh well...
Another low beep, this time not from the coffee machine. Reina blinked, looking up in confusion. Who could possibly be calling on her this early in the morning? With Ai safely in her bed, there was practically no one else available who would.
Curiously, she headed to the door. She was prudent enough to look through the peephole before opening the door. Given what the manager said earlier, a little caution wouldn't hurt.
What she saw though, was worse than paparazzi.
What the fuck is she doing here? Reina all but mentally screamed in her own mind. At this point she would rather have had her grandmother popping in for a surprise visit; even with a naked Ai in her bedroom, Reina felt confident that she could pretend that nothing inappropriate at all was going on between them.
However, any excuses probably wouldn't work on this person, and Reina knew it. Now the only dilemma was whether or not to open the damn door...
Picking up courage she didn't even realize she had, Reina opened the door before the rest of her brain -- you know, the part telling her THIS IS A BAD IDEA -- caught up to the action.
"What are you doing here?" Came Reina's very ungracious greeting. Well, she was in a somewhat foul mood to begin with, it was early, and this was one of the last few people she wanted to see.
Which brings back to how opening the door really wasn't one of the brightest things she could have done to begin with. If nothing else, blame it on the lack of coffee on top of sleep deprivation. Which was due to a lot of great sex, but it's probably not necessary to repeat that, especially not in front of said (uninvited) guest.
"So you really do live here." A cool voice, or rather, a desperately-trying-to-be-calm-about-this voice, replied. It was edging on just this side of almost-shrill, and definitely rubbed Reina's nerves the wrong way. The kitty cat had sensitive ears, particularly at this time of the day.
"Yes, now go away." Reina was about to slam the door shut, but her visitor quickly stuck a foot to intervene. She certainly wasn't about to let Reina escape this easily.
"We need to talk." Reina glared, wondering just how much more trouble she could possibly get into if she shoved the annoying girl out of her door and down the stairs. Probably enough to get her fired, but right now she was just
this close to ignoring that.
"I don't even
know you." That was a good point. They had only met once, and didn't even talk that much that time either. "I don't think we have anything to talk about."
"Give me my Ai-chan back."
Reina stopped trying to kick the offending leg out of her door. She ended up stepping on it quite unceremoniously, but it wasn't deliberate...ok maybe it was. But regardless.
Her visitor was very sincere. So sincere that Reina
really wanted to toss her down the nearest flight of stairs right now. Or invite her in for coffee. Blame it on temporary insanity. Or frazzled nerves from lack of sleep.
Because that's what she did. Eventually. But not before exclaiming out loud.
"You want me to
what?"
To all intents and purposes, her visitor was absolutely honest. Possibly a little misguided, but earnest all the same. And rather brave to boot.
Reina couldn't believe it. This girl, this
Niigaki Risa, was a total crackhead. How such a person managed to become Ai's girlfriend was beyond comprehension. Then again, Ai wasn't functioning properly when it had happened, so perhaps that was the reason why...
It was around then that the invitation for coffee happened. Because Reina wasn't in her right mind either, and she just really needed that cup of coffee right now.
That, and probably because only crazy people would fall for one Takahashi Ai. Or they became crazy loving her, who knew?
It was just the beginning of the end...
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I'm mad, so sad, the title makes sense, it doesn't, and now I must rest.
Topic: Nanchatte Renai [25/7 - Bonus Ending: Full Circle] (Read 75858 times)