all credit for QC goes to angel0wonder who lent a saving hand to the little illiterate I am, not only correcting mistakes but giving useful advice for the future.
She was building up anger, pure, sharp anger.
Yuzu had kissed another girl.
Mei saw them, right in the middle of the road from the grocery store to home.
She heard Yuzu shouting something along the "what if someone saw" line to that girl.
Well, the wrong someone saw you.
She had looked right in the eye of that little minx who was clinging on Yuzu and she could just glare at her. She glared, and that was it. She couldn't do anything else, anyway, it wasn't like her to make a scene.
She kept the way back home without saying a word.
Was that the reason Yuzu was so late?
She said she was at the Karaoke with Harumi. Who the hell was that (really, PINK !?) pink haired brat?
Mei didn't even take note of the fact that she had reached home, she entered the little garden gate and clenched her fist on the groceries bag.
She tossed away her shoes and entered the kitchen, sitting heavily on a chair.
She was angry with Yuzu and with that girl, frustrated with herself for not have been able to react at the moment and now paranoid with the consequences of that feeling.
She was even supposed to wait for Yuzu with a smile, given the oh so mushy phone call she gave her about half an hour ago.
Mei had called her sister to know what she would have liked for dinner and at the other end of the phone she answered all gleeful that it should have been her to choose the ingredients, so that, once home, Yuzu would have cooked whatever Mei liked.
Damn her and her constant kindness. Always a step ahead with that weird whatever-it-was feeling between them. So unintentionally blatant in her showing love for her… and now THIS?
It was hard to keep up with her … so damn hard.
Well she was NOT going to wait for her tonight. She had chosen Italian food for that evening meal and she would have not waited a minute more for Yuzu, when she was probably having fun with that petite pinky bitch… out there, somewhere…
in a love hotel maybDON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT!
Mei grabbed the bag and scattered all the contents on the kitchen counter.
Yuzu wasn't probably even coming back home that evening.
She was going to make dinner for herself, or at least she could try.
But Yuzu did came home, and when she did, the chops of a knife were heard since the entrance.
Mei heard the door open and she could not repress the smallest smile that popped on her lips in thinking well at least she's not doing that with her.
But that little relief was instantly wiped away from the sensation that She, the Presidentofthestudentcouncil-maidenofsteel was agonizing over her sister, whom she had kissed more then once, whom she was not so sure what she felt for anymore.
Confusion and irritation grab hold of her mind once again.
"Tadaima" said Yuzu to draw the attention of the brunette in the kitchen, who was hacking some tomatoes on a board.
"You must have had a lot of fun! You're late, you know…" said Mei without giving the other girl a look.
"I'm sorry I had to escort … Harumin home"
Yeah, Harumin thought Mei and said:
"You do look happy though, did something nice happen?" feeling her jaw clench while still chopping the tomatoes and thinking on how she liked to turn the Knife in her own wound.
Yuzu noticed that her expression was hardening.
She must have had a rough day… what is she so upset for?
But Yuzu was a girl of action, not of thought, and put a hand on the one Mei was holding the knife with.
Mei suddenly raised her head and looked at her with a fierce expression.
What kind of look is that, is she angry with me?
Yuzu felt again the twinge of the morning Mei told her that they should stop trying to be more than sisters and that she had not interest in her, at least not the way Yuzu had in Mei.
She gulped down the pain and said
"It's just nice being back home"
looking right in Mei's eyes with one of her stern smiles.
Aaand there it goes all your anger, eh?
Thought Mei scolding herself, instantly sliding out of her touch.
"Would you like a hand with that?" Yuzu added.
Mei quickly used the knife to pour the tomatoes in the pan and turned her face back to the kitchen
"I started this, I may as well finish" she said pretending a confidence she didn't have.
Yuzu sighed and turned away from her "Than I'm going to take a shower, ok?"
"Be quick, it'll be ready soon" came the dry response.
"Haaai Kaaaichou!" said Yuzu chanting, stretching her arms while leaving for the bathroom.
Mei clenched her teeth… she was so nervous she wasn't even able to stand a stupid jest like that. She must control herself, she was not usually that nervous around Yuzu.
When Yuzu came back, on her plate there was something indistinguishable between a worm ball and a somewhat blackish ramen…
She looked at her sister who was trying to hide the embarrassment for the appalling result of her first culinary attempt.
"It's supposed to be Pasta al Nero di seppia with sautéed tomatoes cubes but it doesn't quite looks like the pic on the cookery book…" started Mei sitting down.
"I'm sure it'll taste good once you eat it" said Yuzu sitting as well and joining hands to say her thanks.
The first mouthful was horrifying.
A mix of salty, vaguely fishy taste, with crunchy little crumbs of burnt tomato…
literally disgusting.
But Yuzu merely flinched while tasting the first cooked meal of her sister.
Mei saw her expression, though Yuzu dissimulated, and asked "Is it that terrible?"
"No…not really…" said Yuzu painfully swallowing and turning her fork on her plate to take another serving.
Mei did the same but the moment the food touched her tongue she couldn't stand it and she simply pulled out her tongue to make the mouthful drop back on the plate. Then she quickly stood up and grabbed Yuzu's fork, still on mid air towards her mouth, and the plate with the other hand. "You should have told me"
"It's not so bad!"
"not so bad? I was going to throw up on my own cookery!"
"Well… it could be improved surely. But it's your first time cooking something for me, I just wanted to be … nice"
Mei had gone to the trash bin to drop the food and went back to the table to take her own plate
"That's your problem Yuzu, sometimes you are too kind…"
And you don't know how it feels not to be able to be the same.
"…too kind for me"
Such a sad face, Yuzu was not able to reply. Instead she stood up to help washing the dishes and reflected on how Mei tonight seemed gloomier than usual.
I thought she was cute to call this afternoon and that she was going to be happy with just the two of us home. Wait, that's me who's happy to be home alone with her.
Given the little speech they had, referring to that kiss they shared, maybe Mei was disturbed just for the same reason Yuzu was so happy with.
"I should cook you an omurice, what do you think?" began Yuzu to ease the atmosphere.
Mei sighed heavily and finished wiping the dishes. She didn't look Yuzu in the face.
"Some rice and fish will do, I'm just not so hungry anymore…" said dropping the towel on the counter.
Yuzu watched her walk towards the couch and grab the remote to do blind zapping on the tv… what's so wrong with her?
"Ok… I guess"
Sometime later they had finished to eat the not so complicated but surely more tasty rice and fish, while Yuzu tried nonchalantly to regain a normal level of conversation between them.
"You know, I owe you … I could repay you with some cooking lessons, what do you think…"
Yuzu waited for an answer but she gained a blank stare from her sister who that evening was increasingly, seriously weird "you know, the tutoring… Mei" she called her, shaking a hand in front of her face. A second later Mei seemed to regain consciousness but Yuzu had already given up and left.
"What?" Mei said, finally turning towards her.
"I was saying…" said Yuzu from the kitchen where she went to bring the plates to clean
"I could give you some cooking lessons" Mei looked at her for the first time in ages.
"I mean… to repay you of your tutoring" said then Yuzu sitting back at the table.
Mei just lowered her eyes and mumbled
"I don't think I could be a student as good as you was"
Yuzu pushed back her chair after a second of realization "Was? What do you mean!... You know something I don't!"
Mei sighed (for the hundredth time that evening) and said, standing and heading again for the couch
"According to the results we had to organize today with the student council you may have passed the test better than expected"
"FOR REAL!?" Shouted Yuzu grabbing her sister from the shoulders and hugging her from the back "Did I pass that hell of test!? That's amazing!"
Her breath tickled Mei's neck and the girl shivered.
God why, WHY is it so hard to shut this feeling out when necessary.
Am I really this powerless about this?
"Yuzu please…" came the weary reaction, that went almost unnoticed.
"Don't I deserve a reward?" ended Yuzu laughing.
"Yuzu PLEASE!" Shouted Mei bending forward.
At that moment Yuzu realized what she had said, and what she was doing while saying it.
She let go of Mei immediately. "I'm sorry Mei… I didn't mean to"
Yuzu had a hurt expression on her face "I didn't mean it that way. Right now you must be disgusted by me"
"Yuzu!" Mei grabbed her hand while the other girl was turning her back to her.
"Yuzu wait, listen"
Yuzu lifted her hands freeing herself and smiled sadly "I'm sorry I put you through this, you don't need to justify yourself, I'm going to sleep."
How can you be so stupid… it's not that… at all.
well… look at who's being stupid
Mei looked at Yuzu's back while she was heading for the stairs, to the bedroom.
She breathed deeply.
"I'm not BY ANY MEANS disgusted by you!"
Yuzu turned around, gaped, silently.
"…Your reward, let's do it."
Yuzu felt a rush of heat to her face. What did she just say?
"Mei you don't need to force yourself… if you don't want to… have nothing to do with me"
"I mean it…"
"you m-mean it?" Yuzu asked while watching her sister sitting calmly on the couch, and then kneeling gracefully, looking at her with those eyes she finally could recognize.
"Do you really want to give me time to reconsider?"
Mei was back and Yuzu had fallen for that look for the thousandth time.
She shook her head. Blushing clearly.
"Just a minute… you and me… alone"
Mei was thinking a series of clashing
What the fuck are you doing-You need to take her back-What are you going to do after!?
but her face showed nothing of the sort.
The seducing tiger under that deep black eyes was back in action. All she wanted right there and now was Yuzu's attention and by all means she was going to take it.
The blonde was approaching as slowly as she managed, while thinking
I don't have to rush it, I have to keep calm
I want to kiss her so bad it hurts, look at how gorgeous she is
no, no, no, you have to make it clear before kissing her.
Yuzu stood in front of Mei with the most frightened look on her face.
"Do I scare you?" Mei asked while Yuzu gulped down the dryness she could feel in her throat
"Say… is it just another play kiss? Cause you know… you know what I feel for you, don't you?"
Mei thought at what she saw down to the road to home… She felt her eyes start burning.
"Well, no I don't… And right now I don't know what I feel either… So, why don't you try and make it clearer? "
Yuzu didn't know what to think, her brain right now was concentrating all her energy just to keep her from grabbing Mei and kiss her blind on the spot.
The blonde came closer, fronting Mei and trying to sustain her glaze.
Mei was surprising herself on noticing how the knot on her stomach was clamping and sending a hot electrical sensation all the way through her spine.
The brunette was now not staring at her sister as she had done in the past.
When their eyes met, between glances, neither of them could keep them firm.
They were both blushing and Yuzu became conscious of how her heart was beating faster.
Mei pinched a sleeve of Yuzu's pajamas and lowered her eyes on her hands that were trembling slightly.
Mei finally pulled herself upright to her knees while lightly pulling Yuzu to bent down,
while looking at Mei in a way the other couldn't define in any other manner than adoring. The blonde raised her left hand to Mei's cheek and brushed away some of the strands that where constantly framing her face.
Mei was fighting to restrain herself from grabbing her nape and sink her fingers into that golden waves to pull her in a kiss she found she never wanted more.
Yuzu was breathing heavily, eyes lost… on her mouth.
Mei pleaded "Yuzu…"
She seemed shaken by that simple whispered word,
her green eyes were never been so beautiful, so close.
Then she bent onward, grabbing hold of her nape with a hand and of her waist with the other and clashed onto Mei's lips with a deep inhaling breath.
The first instants passed like this, just holding close, lips pressing possessively onto the others'. Then Mei felt her lips ease onto Yuzu's and began to lead the game.
Yuzu didn't know where to begin to respond and she stilled… her smell, her hands sliding under her PJ's blouse on her hips up to her sides, her tongue, the tip of her tongue was sliding oh so slowly on her lower lip… it was too much for Yuzu to behold,
she needed some air, her head was starting to spin, but, when she broke away from Mei and she saw what look she had on her face she couldn't help but feel a rush of pure gratification.
This time was different.
Was it really that the effect she had on Mei? She was like suspended in an instant, in mid air, completely flushed, her eyes just barely open, while waiting for Yuzu to kiss her softly again.
She did it and heard a feeble moan escaping from her lips.
Bliss.
Yuzu kissed her again and this time she wasn't insecure anymore.
Mei was overwhelmed by her, just by being tasted like that, revered, unhurriedly and softly but more and more avidly. Yuzu softly sucked at her lower lip and pressed herself onto her, slowly kneeling on the floor while Mei was sitting down on the sofa, following her movements, not wanting to break the partial contact they shared, closing space between them. Mei's arms now reaching to circle her back, Yuzu finally hugged her firmly, close as they could be, she pushed her tongue through Mei's lips, fully deepening the kiss,
full fight between them,
mouth craving for more and more touching ground.
Yuzu felt Mei's hands on her back, clutching and clawing a bit…
that was heavenly. She reclined her head to make sure there was no emptiness between them.
I really do love you
I really do love you
gestures saying what words were not
When the heat of the fight was over Yuzu started again caressing her lips with the tip of her tongue. The taste had changed, it was Hers no more, it was Theirs.
Mei unwrapped her arms from Yuzu's shoulders and started playing with her, pushing and distancing while the other was coming closer, nibbling and softly biting her lips when she reached her. Mei rejoiced when she heard a soft groan of disappointment coming from her but she was surprised when she felt herself be pulled onto her by a stronger hold on the side of her neck.
Well, she smiled, feeling Yuzu's lips on her teeth, she wouldn't resist further, she let her hold her again while the kiss deepened once more.
Then a loud rattle of something metallic on the floor
Yuzu felt Mei spring away from her before seeing her.
Their face paled instantly and Yuzu felt her heart stop beating.
She turned around and her mother was at the entrance, keys and bags she was holding were now on the floor.
An expression of mute shock on her face.