Inertia
[in-ur-shuh, ih-nur-]
noun:
1. inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like;
inactivity; lack of activity, a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged.
2. the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity
along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force.
Prologue
"Kumiko."
Reina knows of the effect she has.
Kumiko's not good at hiding her emotions, at least not in front of her. That facade of passiveness, the nonchalant reactions that Kumiko typically shows to everyone else, that's not the case when she's with Reina. That mask of a good girl slips when Kumiko's in front of the trumpet wielding player and there's no better way to describe why this is other than it being due to pure attraction, that unstoppable gravitational force that seemingly becomes stronger between them with each passing day.
Without them even doing anything, they are pulled closer towards each other. It's as if the universe planned for it to happen, as if it was simply a natural occurrence. Reina doesn't question it, however, and somewhere deep inside, she thinks Kumiko does the same.
After all, she just knows.
Reina knows she's not in love, not with Kumiko, not just yet.
But she's smart enough to know that this relationship with Kumiko, whatever it may be now, will escalate much further than simple friendship or accompany.
She's in no rush to push forward towards it though. She rather likes how things are with Kumiko at the moment.
But Reina is aware of the many levels of interactions that are ranked from platonic to passionate and the ones she has with Kumiko are mysteriously pleasurable. The both of them are brutally honest, and to a typical person, the things they say to each other would usually hurt.
Yet instead, Reina takes immense satisfaction hearing the truth being spilled from Kumiko's trembling lips.
It makes her laugh when she thinks about it.
Because it doesn't take much of a genius to know that Kumiko is quite a sadist in her own way. She's an awful person in the best way possible and Reina believes that she is the only one in the band, if not the world, that can accept that part of the euphonium player and embrace it, even praise it.
The real Kumiko has no restraint on her words, the real Kumiko is darker than what meets the eyes, the real Kumiko doesn't care for pettiness and irrelevance, and the real Kumiko can't deny what she feels for Reina.
Reina loves that about Kumiko.
This was her confession of love.
A/N: I have never been so interested in how much a relationship can develop until now. But here is the result of it. If you're interested, please review and tell me your thoughts! I'd love to hear them.