#10 - How We Fell in Love (KojiYuu+slightly TomoTomo)Once again... kind of a continuation from these:
PDA and
Who Confessed First .
Takamina looked around noticing Haruna and Yuko table and rolled her eyes. The couple were making out though sitting at different sides of the table.
She was about to suggest Tomochin eating together but Itano waved to waiting Kasai shortly with shy smile and blushing slightly. After seeing that Takamina commented with slight disappointment “Well, I guess I will have to bear with that…”
Tomochin immediately looked at her surprised “what?”
”What I said was…that I will have to bear with that”, Takamina raised her hand showing both Yuko and Kojima “but you go eat with Tomomi”.
Tomochin looked at the couple and back at Takamina suggesting politely “I mean..if you want..you can join us…”, but Takamina only laughed at the thought “oh no…I will better go to something I’m used to.Good luck though. Tomomi seems really interested in you”, she added giving Tomochin hope and squeezing her shoulder lightly.
After that Takamina walked in the direction of her two best friend, sitting next to Haruna and putting head on her own hand without comments, not expecting to get any attention or recognition at all.
Tomochin stopped in front of Kasai and sat on the chair in front of her smiling shyly “sorry if I’m late”. Kasai laughed shortly looking at Tomochin with obvious interest.
While Tomochin answered to this with pleasant still shy smile. No one around expected Tomochin being the shy one in the relationship but that’s the view that everyone around got to see almost every day since the two started dating.
At the same time surprisingly Haruna and Yuko stopped making out and noticed Takamina.
“Oh! Finally!” Haruna commented about Takamina’s return. Takamina raised her hands in the air in an apologetic manner “sorry to interrupt”, and also squinted her eyes looking from one of them to another “you two are soo grows…and the fact how…shy you were at the beginning of relationship is honesly…hard to believe…I still think maybe I dream of it”.
Yuko was the first one to protest “we weren’t shy!”.
“If you say so…but I do remember better”, Takamina commented with the smile that said ‘I know everything that I need to know’.
1 YEAR AGO
We got the chance to see short inside of Yuko and Haruna’s relationship.Or at least the beginning of it:
It starts with a simple brush of Yuko fingers against Haruna’s as she passes over the book for Haruna to see what she’s working on. Haruna notices it. How the touch feels like sparks against her fingertips. How it makes her shiver slightly, and want something she’s not sure she can put into words.
She doesn’t look up at Yuko as both of them look at the information in that same book.But she can feel Yuko eyes on her instead of the book, and that tells her all she needs to know about whether or not Yuko is feeling the same thing.
Yuko wraps her fingers around Haruna’s wrist instead of saying her name to get her attention.
Yuko sits way too close when they’re sharing a table in one of those boring classes with presentations. Yuko slides in next to Haruna, pushing her into the corner, and pressing their thighs together. Yuko also slides her fingers into Haruna‘s hand, and they hold hands under the table.
Once, they were supposed to be going to excursion, and they were sitting too close in the bus. They were pressed up against each other, from knee to hip. Yuko’s arm was behind Haruna’s head, as she leaned over Haruna’s lap and pointed out at something behind the window across from Haruna. They both turned to look at each other, and Yuko was way too close, mouth just barely centimeters apart, and Haruna wanted to close the distance, but she didn’t. She turned, clearing her throat and continued speaking as though nothing had happened.
Yuko hugs her a lot. It’s not that Haruna minds. It’s just that no one has ever hugged her that much before.Not even her friends. And it’s always for different reasons, so it’s not like Haruna could predict a pattern.
Yuko hugged her when she got excited, hugged her when she was sad, sometimes hugged her for ‘hello’ which was always followed by a kiss on the cheek.Yuko hugged her goodbye, wrapping her arm around Haruna’s shoulder and tugging her in close.
Haruna lets Yuko hug her, and sometimes she initiates these hugs. But before, they were always proper, short and sweet. Now, Yuko lingers. Presses their bodies close together, and stays there a bit too long for it to be proper.
The first time, Haruna feels her breath hitch, and she looks at Yuko, who is looking right back at her from not even inches away. And she is so close, and her eyes are so close, and Haruna could read every single emotion that flits across Yuko’s face. It is intoxicating, and Haruna finds herself swaying forward before she can stop herself. Yuko hands tighten on Haruna’s shoulders, and she pulls back some more. She raises an eyebrow as though asking, are you sure you actually want to do this?
Haruna licks her lips, and she honestly doesn’t know what she is about to answer, because at the moment her mind has gone blank. Takamina enters the empty class then, and Yuko drops her hands away from Haruna’s shoulders turning back to the table. Pretending that nothing happened. Even though Takamina has just interrupted an intimate moment between the two.
“Hey,” Yuko says next time entering the classroom.
She closes the door behind her, sliding it all the way shut, and Haruna watches her.
Yuko eyes catches hers “Listen,” she starts moving forward.
“I know,” Haruna says, looking at Yuko straight in the eyes. “I know. And I know that you want to talk, but can’t we just do something else instead?”
Yuko seems to waver before standing her ground. “We have to talk about this,” she states clearly.
Haruna shakes her head. “We really don’t have to. We both know how we feel about each other. What else is there to say?”
“That’s the thing,” Yuko answers moving closer. “I know how I feel, but I only think I know how you feel. And what if it’s not the same? What if I kiss…?” Haruna leans forward standing on her toes and kisses Yuko.
Immediately Yuko reaches out to cup Haruna‘s face in her hands and pulls the girl in closer. Haruna wraps her arms around Yuko’s shoulders, sliding her hands into Yuko’s hair and within seconds they’re pressed together from knees to chest.
Yuko pulls back after kissing her breathless, and Haruna drops back down to her feet. Haruna looks up at her, and Yuko smiles brushing Haruna’s hair away from her forehead and leans down to press their foreheads together.
NOW
Yuko and Haruna looks at each other raising eyebrows at the same moment and smirking “pretty sure that never happened” choosing to tease Takamina instead of admitting the truth.
Haruna nods in firm agreement “mmm…yeah…sounds more like some books or series…maybe a dream you had last night?”,she asked pretending to be really curious about Takamina and her situation.
Takamina rolls her eyes realizing that’s the best she can get “whatever” she says pretty much collapsing on her chair and looking around pretending not to even be in conversation with these two. In the meantime Yuko and Haruna laughs in unison.