Yumi had pressed the doorbell so many times in an attempt to get the person's (who was inside the house) attention. Her cheeks were puffed up and her face was red. The volcano was about to explode.
"Sato Sei open the door. I know you are in there!" Yumi was banging the door with a ballad fist now.
Yumi had just return to Japan to spend the summer break with her family and most importantly to settle her unfinished business with her lover. She had just arrived in Japan three hours ago and told her parents that she had to see someone and with that she hurried off.
Both her parent knew what she meant, especially her mother. She knew that Sei had not contact Yumi for four months since her grandmother had passed away. However, at that time Sei did not showed any sign of angst or negative emotions. Thus, she did not understand why Sei had chosen to drift off apart from them.
Both Sei and Yumi have started dating two years ago. Yumi's parents were approved of their relationship and Sei was very close to them. After Yumi when back to America to study, Sei will always visit Yumi's parents and spend her weekends with them.
On the other hand, Sei was not very close with her parent even though she works with her father to learn how to manage a business; she lives on her own for the most of her life. Her parents knew that Sei was gay, but neither did they approve nor disapprove of their relationship. Hence, this does not really bother Sei at all.
"Why..." Yumi was sobbing now. She had no idea what had happened to Sei and what had happened to their relationship.
Sei was on the other side of the door. Fighting with herself whether to open the door or not.
"I'm not leaving until you open the door." She was talking with a firmer tone now, yet there was still sign of sadness and confusion in it.
"I will have to face her eventually." Sei was whispering the words to herself. "It's now or never."
She turns around, grab the door knob and opened the door in an amazing speed. In front of her was a crying Yumi cuddling her legs on the floor.
"Damn you Sei, look what you have done to her." Sei was extremely angry with herself for making Yumi into this pathetic state.
At that moment Yumi stood up and wrapped her arms and hugged Sei tightly. It was as if her life depended on her, she was afraid of losing Sei again.
"Yumi..." the brunette's tears were sipping through her shirt.
"You!" In a instant, Yumi was liked being possessed by someone else. She raised her arm and gave Sei a tight slap.
"Ouch..." Sei did not flinch even though it really hurt. Her hand was on her redden cheek. She knew this was what she deserves.
Yumi was crying in Sei's arms once again. "Do you know I had sleepless night everyday worrying about you? Four months, four long and sickening months, you did not bother to write me a single letter, call me or return my calls. All I know that was that you still visit my parents every weekend and nothing else! What is wrong, what is wrong with you Sato Sei?" Yumi was punching Sei's chest with her ballad fist, venting out all her anger.
Sei was standing still; she did not even dared to make any sound when Yumi was punching her. After crying and punching for a long ten minutes, Yumi finally stop.
"I'm.... sorry..." The taller woman was speaking so softly that nobody else could hear the words except for Yumi.
"A sorry... and that's all you can say?" Yumi was raising her head to take a good look at her lover. She saw that pair of eyes that she had loves so much was listless and empty now.
"What do you want me to say?" Sei dared not looked down; she knew that Yumi was looking at her.
"Tell me, tell me everything. Why are you avoiding me?"
"I'm not... avoiding you..." Sei replied in an uncertain tone.
"Yeah so you are not avoiding me and that was why you have not contact me for four long months!" Yumi was adding a little sarcasm in her sentence.
"Four months is not a long time." Sei knew that she had to come clean to Yumi if not she will be facing her wrath soon.
"Four months is long enough to make me go crazy, thinking and worrying my ass off you." Yumi was nearly on top of her voice screaming the words out.
"Why do we have to be in this state now? You owe me a lot of explanation and you better come clean with me."
"...It's my grandmother's death....that is bothering me...." Sei knew that it was the stupidest reason she had ever made up.
"Don't use her as an excuse!"
"Okay why not.... Yumi lets talk on the couch." Both of them were moving towards the living room in unison. After settling on the couch Yumi was still unwilling to let go of her arms that were around Sei.
"Do you need anything? Do you want a drink or something?" Sei was trying to lighten up the mood a bit, but to no avail.
"I don't need anything."
"All I need is you..." Yumi was muttering the last few words to herself as she thought that Sei would not hear it, but Sei heard it loud and clear.
"I'm sorry for lying to you. You were right is not my grandmother's death that made me liked that."
"Un... Carry on." Yumi had cooled down a bit by now.
"Yumi can you promise me not to run off without hearing my explanation. Oh! And of course you can get mad at me or even hit me if you want, but please listen to me." Sei was near begging except that she was not on her knees.
"I don't think I can get any angrier than this and yes I will listen attentively to whatever you are about to say."
"What do you think I came here for? Do you think that I came all the way to your house after ten hours of flight just to speak my piece and leave?"
"Thank you!" Sei was glad that there were still glimpse of hope.
"I have not contact you for four months was because of... Shiori ..." The last word was barely audible if one loses its attention.
"Why is it always her? What is it about her again?" This time Yumi was a little impatient as she was sick and tired of hearing this name yet again.
"One week after my grandmother's funeral I received a phone call from her. She asked me out and I agreed. I was reluctant at first, but she said that all she wanted was to just apologize. So I went along with it. I met her and god knows what happened, we were kissing after that. Your image came into my mind instantly and I knew that I was wrong. I'm sorry Yumi for betraying you, but I swear upon my life that I did not do anything with her. As quickly as it seemed, I stop her immediately and I have never meet her after that."
She was happy that she was able to tell the whole truth to Yumi and not lying about anything, but she was afraid to receive the verdict too.
Yumi was dumbfounded. "Okay, my girlfriend was kissing another woman, but did nothing with her after that and was feeling so guilty that she dared not talk to me about it." So Sei was afraid that I might break up with her. She was digesting all the things Sei had just said.
"This was the reason why you did not send me any mails for month?" Yumi asked her in an amusing tone.
Sei dared not talked and just nodded her head vigorously.
This time Yumi was facing Sei, while Sei's head was hanging down.
"Look at me." She spoke in a commanding tone that will make anyone to listen.
Sei raised her head immediately and saw Yumi raised her hand. She thought that she was about to receive yet another slap again; and closed her eyes; waiting for the stinging feeling and her cheeks to become red, but to her surprised all she felt was Yumi's warm hand caressing her face.
Opening her eyes slowly, she saw Yumi had a gentle look on her face.
"Youu...arre nnot...anngry...?" Sei was stammering the words out.
"I am!" In actual fact, Yumi was not angry at all. Instead she find that this was a lot more interesting than it would be.
"I'm sorry... I love you and I'm willing to do anything to make it up to you." Indeed, Sei was willing to do anything as long as Yumi is willing to forgive her.
"Hmm... I have suffered for four long months, what do you think I should do to punish you for torturing me for all this while?" Quirking an eyebrow Yumi already had something up her sleeves.
"Anything! As long as you are not angry with me" Feeling very guilty, Sei answered Yumi's question almost immediately.
Sei was shocked when Yumi pounced on her and captured her lips with her own. Both of them were breathing hard after a long and passionate kiss, which Yumi had missed so much and Sei was the same of course.
"I love you..." Sei finally spoke up, breaking the silence.
Moving forward, Yumi's face was only inches away from Sei's. "I missed you!" Both of them finally closed the gap and were in for a gentler kiss this time. Yumi's tongue was licking Sei's lower lips asking for permission to enter. Sei was happy and allowed Yumi's tongue to invade her mouth.
They stopped after a while due to the lacked of air. While Sei was still taking in as much air as possible, Yumi was giving her butterfly kisses along her jaw line.
She then stopped at Sei's neck to give her 'the punishment'. She licked the pale skin and finally bites on it. Soft moans were escaping from Sei's mouth as Yumi carried on with her 'punishment'.
"This is for kissing another woman" Yumi was tugging Sei's skin, making it turned red which quickly turns into a hickey. "And this is for not writing to me making me go crazy for you." She was working on the other side now. This time a louder moan escaped from the victim's mouth. To be truthful, Sei was enjoying this lot more.
Satisfied with her work, Yumi moved up and kissed Sei on her lips.
"This is for being a dumb ass." The brunette chuckled while kissing her lover.
"Thank....y...ou..." Sei was speaking in between kisses. They finally decided that the bed was lot more comfortable than the couch and moved there while stripping each other clothes off. After two hours of sweet making love, both of them were in the bathroom helping each other to clean up.
"You are really not angry with me?" The taller woman was washing her girlfriend's hair. Yumi had decided to let her hair grow longer and Sei was, well the same neat and short hairstyle, which made her looked dashing.
"Hmm... angry with you for not writing to me or kissing another woman? Or, you really want me to be mad at you?" Yumi was amazed that she was teasing the infamous teaser, Sato Sei right now.
"Of course not! I'm happy that you would forgive me." She was applying body soap on the smaller woman's stomach which made Yumi giggled a little.
"I still cannot believe that you made me worried for you over that stupid reason." Yumi moved up to wash the foam that was on Sei's face allowing the tall woman to open her eyes.
"Huh! So you are fine with me going around kissing someone else and act like nothing had happen?' She was glad that she was able to act so intimately with Yumi after what she had done.
"Try doing that again and I will make you disappear with that person into thin air." The shorter woman was glad that her Sato Sei was back.
"I promise you I will never ever do that again, I swear!" Indeed, Sei knew that one time is enough.
"I know you wouldn't dare, but I thought that it was stupid of you not to tell me and instead avoid me for four months." By the time, both of them were done washing up and Sei was drying Yumi's body with a towel.
"If I didn't come find you, you would not come and find me yourself am I right?" Yumi was now drying Sei's body too. She had really missed touching the warm body or receiving warm touches from her lover.
"I don't know, I just know that what I did was utterly wrong and I don't know how to face you. Do you want any pajamas or you want to change back into your own clothes? "
"Hmm… just give me jersey and no bottoms. I'm staying here for the night. Back to the main topic, so you will not take the initiative to tell me the truth or do you intend to hide it from me for as long as you could?"
"I'm sorry..." Sei was apologizing in a soft voice and handed Yumi a white jersey which had an orange number 16 on it.
"Stop saying sorry... I want you to promise me that you will come and tell me everything truthfully if you meet any problems ever again."
"Yes ma'am!" Sei salute to Yumi with a goofy grin plaster on her face.
"Oh!" The blond hair woman quickly changed and went into her room and brought a box out along with her.
"What are you looking for?" Yumi was at the kitchen counter pouring a glass of orange juice to quench her thirst. She then poured another for Sei and walked to where she was.
"Here..." She passed the glass to her girlfriend and still got no answer to her question.
"Ahh... found it. For you." Sei turned and gave a nicely wrapped box to Yumi.
Yumi placed her glass down to inspect the present she had just received. She then opened it and found a beautiful bracelet with 'My Angel' engraved on it.
The tall blonde was happy that she got the chance to give her lover her valentine day present and was hoping that she would like it.
"Why are you giving me a present? Is this a present to bribe me to forgive your sins, Miss Sato?" Yumi was giving her dramatic reply.
Sei choked on her drink when she heard Yumi's reply. This was certainly not what she expected from her lover. Yumi on the other hand, was laughing at Sei's expression.
"No, I bought this long ago. This is supposed to be your valentine day present and I dared not send it to you." Sei was slightly blushing at her dumbness.
"Darling are you still angry with me, if you want a 'Please-Forgive-Me' present I can get it for you."
"Nope don't waste this kind of money Koi." Yumi was pleased that Sei had called her that and true she would rather spend the money on other things.
The blonde felt liked she could just die happily after hearing Yumi calling her 'Koi'.
Sei was out of her reverie after she felt a peck on her cheek.
"Thank you, I love it. And Koi why are there so many letters in this box?" Yumi was surprised to see so many letters that were not opened.
"Heh...heh...heh... " Sei was laughing nervously. She was afraid that Yumi would read any of the letters. "Actually these are the letters that I wrote for you during these four months and never send them out." She then laugh at her own silliness.
"Wow... This is more like letters for one whole year. Am I supposed to read all of them?" Yumi was impressed by the amount of letters Sei had written.
"Eh! No I intend to throw them away since we don't need it any more. Please don't read any of it; they are just rubbish that I have written." Sei knew fully well what she wrote was very dumb and embarrassing.
"No... Don't throw them away. You have aroused my curiosity after hearing what you said." Yumi was giggling when she saw Sei's face turn beet red.
Yumi quickly took out one and read the content out loud.
"Dear Yumi,
I'm sorry that I have not written anything to you for so long. Please forgive me... I made a huge mistake and I don't know what to do now. The worse thing is that I don't know how to explain. I know that I will be in deep shit once you are back."
Yumi was wiping tears off. After reading a few more letters to embarrass Sei more, she finally decided to stop.
"I cannot imagine that you just wrote these entire letters that doesn't make any sense at all." However, she was happy that Sei thinks about her all this time during the four months. "
"Yeah I know I'm stupid, dumb and silly, but you can't blame me for that because my girlfriend is someone I will never want to offend." The taller woman said this hoping to make a comeback with this statement.
"So you are saying that I'm an obnoxious tigress now?" Yumi was pouting.
"Eh! No what I meant was that you have my utmost respect and yeah sometimes you can get pretty scary when you are angry. Like today I have received two or three slaps and a few punches from you." She placed a hand on her chest to show what she meant.
"I'm sorry Koi, but you can't blame me. I was angry with you and you deserve it."
"Yeah I know I deserve it." Sei was nodding her head agreeing that it was her fault.
"Does it still hurt?" Yumi placed her hand on Sei's cheek remembering that she was a little too harsh.
"Nope, not any more. Darling I was just joking, you don't look scary when you are angry, actually you look cute instead."
Smiling a little at Sei's comment, Yumi gave Sei another peck on her cheek. Sei quickly returns the kiss by capturing Yumi's mouth and this time sliding her tongue in to taste her sweet scent again.
Both of them finally broke apart after another small exchange of kiss on the lips.
"Darling I love you and thank you for forgiving me." Finally they were back into their lovey-dovey mood.
"You can thank me by cooking dinner. I'm starving and I miss your cooking." Yumi was a good baker, but never a good cook.
"Oh… So you missed the food and not the cook?" This time it was Sei's turn to tease Yumi.
"Actually, Yeah I miss the food more than the cook." Yumi was stifling a giggle when she saw Sei's pout when she replies.
"You're mean!"
Of course Yumi had missed her childish girlfriend a lot. She then turn and give Sei another kiss on the lips. "Koi, don't be mad I was just playing around and I was lying, of course I missed the cook more than anything."
This makes Sei chuckles liked a child. "I know and no words can describe how much I had missed you."
Sei moved closer to snuggle up to Yumi, laying her head on her chest. Yumi began to stroke those blond hair gently, liked a mother would stroke a child.
The brown hair girl then breaks the silence. "Koi I would love to stay like this forever, but I'm really hungry."
"Un... Okay, you can laze around. I will call you when I'm done with the cooking." Sei stood up after giving a quick kiss to Yumi and headed towards the kitchen.
"Thank you, I think I will just take a quick nap."
