This scene takes place at the end of Chapter Twenty, where Aries' attempt to get closer to Kanata is ruined when the implication of asking if he has a girlfriend flies over his head.
Aries lay on her side in bed, still fuming at Kanata's obliviousness. Geez, what was wrong with him? Couldn't he tell that it had taken a lot of courage to ask if he had a girlfriend? And what was all that about being 'friends with all girls everywhere'? He- he was such a playtoy!
After she fled from Kanata's room, she decided to excuse herself from the girls' gossip corner by taking a shower. The cold water refreshed her after experiencing a full day of Planet Arispade's tropical heat, but it couldn't wash away the embarrassment of her failed confession. It was the first time Aries had ever felt this way about a boy, and she couldn't help but feel that it would have gone better if she had a bit more confidence in herself.
Aries rolled over with a sigh. Her hand absentmindedly rose to her head and a twist of a finger brought a strand of her hair to rest in front of her eyes. Out of long habit she compared her vibrant pink hair, turned a darker shade from the moisture, to her mother's silky black locks.
Despite her bubbly personality and cheerful attitude, there were times when Aries couldn't suppress her own insecurities. Ever since Aries was a little girl, her pink hair and heterochromatic eyes had attracted attention, especially of the boys her own age. And in the manner of little boys everywhere, the boys had responded to this attraction by teasing her. It had never escalated beyond the stage of pulling on her pigtails, but Aries burst into tears the first time a boy had told her Emma Spring couldn't be her mother since they didn't look anything alike.
A scolding from the teacher put an end to the teasing, but Aries kept sobbing until her mother arrived to pick her up from preschool. Emma Spring reacted to the surprise armful of crying toddler with an endless reserve of calm compassion. She collected the crying young girl in a hug and held her tightly with one arm, while the other took out a handkerchief and wiped away the mix of tears and snot spilling down Aries' face. A hand stroking down her back soothed Aries' sobs until Emma could actually make out words from the toddler's babble.
Emma then lifted Aries' chin until their eyes met and with a loving smile Emma said, "You are my daughter. You are the love of my life. Your hair and eyes are some of the most beautiful things in the world. There is nothing I would change about you. I carried you into this world and I will always love you more than anything else."
The tears that poured forth from little Aries' eyes at that moment were tears of happiness and relief. That day had become one of Aries' fondest memories and a reason to be grateful for her eidetic memory.
However, the incident left its scar on her heart. Even with Emma Spring's constant love and support, the words and gossip of targeting her still left their pricks in her skin. She had overheard the neighbourhood housewives gossip that if Aries looked more like her mother, it would be easier for a prospective suitor to forget that Emma Spring had a previous lover. By the time Aries had grown old enough to understand what this gossip implied, she was mature enough to not take the mean-spirited words to heart, but she still wished that her face could reflect her mother's features. Aries had avoided dying her hair or getting coloured contacts as it might reveal her insecurities about her looks and worry her mother, but she began to adopt the white buns on her hair in an attempt to darken her hair by contrast.
Over time, Aries had grown accustomed to her looks and accepted that, like her large appetite and clumsy speech, they were just a part of the pinkette. In high school she made friends who admired her looks and encouraged her to dress in a way that accented her unique features and she had learned to take pride in her distinctive colouring. Nevertheless, at times like this, her old insecurities popped up.
Her mind was broken out of this bout of self-disgust when she heard a knock on the door. Startled by the noise, Aries quickly sat up in bed.
"I'm not awake! No! I meant that I'm still asleep! … never mind, who is it?"
Yun-Hua's sweet voice flowed through the door. "Aries? It's me Yun-Hua. I heard from Quitterie that your confession didn't go so well. Would you like some company?"
Aries hesitated for a moment. She didn't really want to go over the embarrassing incident, but the thought of staying in her room alone and remaining stuck on her own insecurities lead her to rise from the bed and welcome Yun-Hua in.
As the door slid open with a slight hum, Yun-Hua smiled kindly at Aries and stepped into the room carrying two mugs of steaming hot liquid on a tray. The singer set the tray down on the room's desk before passing one mug to Aries and taking the other for herself. The two then sat facing each other on top of the bed.
Yun-Hua lifted the drink to her lips in a two-handed grip and took a sip. "It's hot cocoa. The perfect drink for when you have a troubled heart. Be careful though, you might burn your tongue."
Aries copied the motion, but as the taste washed over her tongue the pinkette couldn't resist taking a bigger gulp. The rich taste of chocolate and marshmallows stunned Aries' taste buds after weeks of living on food foraged from the wilderness. The alien fruits, vegetables, and animals might have exotic flavours and textures, but this drink almost made it feel like she was back on Astra. However the stinging pain on her tongue reminded her of Yun-Hua's warning and with a painful gulp she was forced to swallow the rest of the hot liquid before trying to cool her burnt tongue with a flapping hand.
Yun-Hua giggled at Aries' little display and took the mug away from Aries, so that the pinkette could use both her hands in the cooling attempt.
"I did warn you Aries."
Aries couldn't help the pained laugh that bubbled out in response to Yun-Hua's teasing. It was good to see the once-gloomy girl break out of her shell. There were still signs of her previous isolation in the way the singer kept her knees held tightly against her chest rather than the cross-legged posture that Aries had collapsed into on top of the bed, but Yun-Hua definitely looked better with a small smile on her face.
With a pretend-angry pout, Aries reached out for her drink. "Give me that. It's not my fault I have a cat's teeth. Where did this drink come from anyway?"
Yun-Hua handed the mug back to the pinkette and took another sip before answering, "I found it in the suitcase where I kept my night clothes. I packed it separately from the rest of the snacks I brought to the trip in case I wanted a late night drink. It comes in a large pack, so I left the remaining sachets in the kitchen for the rest of the group to enjoy. Oh, and it's a cat's tongue."
The two girls proceeded to slowly drain their drinks as they revelled in the taste of home. A conversation naturally sprung up about their favourite foods and drinks. Aries and her large appetite had sampled most of the shops in the school district and she invited Yun-Hua out on a food tour when they made it back home. Yun-Hua's celebrity parentage meant that she had eaten food catered from a variety of high-class establishments and her description of the various luxurious dishes left Aries drooling into a pillow.
They also shared their stories of what it was like to stand out from the rest of their class. Aries had quickly earned a place as the class ditz and couldn't stop attracting attention with the various escapades she clumsily fell into. Yun-Hua, even without her mother's identity becoming public knowledge, had often attracted attention for her height and the large chest puberty had gifted her with.
After an hour of small talk, Yun-Hua decided to broach the sensitive subject. "So Aries, Quitterie didn't tell us what happened in detail out of respect to your privacy, but do you want to share what went wrong?"
Aries hesitated for a moment, her gaze dipping to the blanket, but she wasn't the type to hide secrets from her friends. "Um … I did try to ask Kanata if he had anyone – anyone special – waiting for him back home, but he just didn't seem to understand why I was asking. He had that cute, goofy grin of his plastered all over his face, and then he just bragged about how friendly he was with all the girls at his school! Like it was nothing!"
Aries didn't notice that her hands had started kneading her pillow to release her excess frustration, but as the words poured out she suddenly paused and held up the pillow like a shield in front of her.
"Is it my fault that he didn't understand what I was trying to say? Maybe this is just some silly crush because he saved my life. Are my feelings too shallow to be real and that's why I couldn't get my feelings across to him?
"What if … what if he doesn't find me attractive and that was just his way of turning me down?"
Aries' voice trailed off in a depressed mumble and tears began welling up in her eyes. With the pinkette's gaze directed at the blanket, Aries didn't see Yun-Hua draw closer, but she soon felt the singer's arms wrap around her shoulders and a hand comfortingly stroke the back of her hair.
"It's going to be okay Aries. I don't believe that it's your fault the confession failed and there is nothing wrong with the feelings you have for Kanata. For all Kanata's strengths that you can't help admiring, he has plenty of weaknesses. He's impulsive, brash, and very blunt. While these make it easier for him to reach out to someone when they're in need of help, you can't deny that Kanata can also be insensitive, childish, and more than a bit dense. So while I can't read Kanata's mind, I'm pretty sure that he genuinely didn't notice what you were trying to say.
"You need to have more confidence in yourself Aries. You're an attractive young lady with an hourglass figure, a pretty face, and an adorable personality. If you can ask him directly, I'm sure that Kanata will feel very lucky to become your boyfriend."
Yun Hua's comforting words lifted Aries' flagging spirit. Aries looked up to thank Yun-Hua with a smile, but she found herself buried in the singer's heavy chest. Absentmindedly, she noted that Yun-Hua apparently went to sleep without a bra. The pinkette snapped out of this observation with a startled "Eep!" and her eyes slammed shut.
Aries tried to stand in order to put some distance between her face and Yun-Hua's thinly covered breasts. However as Aries rose to her knees, the blanket slid beneath her and she lost her footing. With her arms flailing, Aries fell forward onto the bed, pushing Yun-Hua down with a shared yelp of surprise.
As they fell Aries' head buried itself deeper into the singer's cleavage as Yun-Hua's arms, still wrapped around the pinkette in a hug, instinctively pulled her closer. In that moment, the zipper that had bravely held shut the cloth straining to cover Yun-Hua's large assets lost its grip and fell, and when Aries opened her eyes once more she found herself glued to an expanse of milky white flesh.
Aries would have loved to die out of sheer embarrassment right then and there, but she had to settle for a muffled moan of shame.
Yun-Hua had just recovered from the surprise of the fall, when Aries' moan sent a vibration rippling through her breasts. She looked down to see the pinkette's head buried into her cleavage, and from this position Yun-Hua could also see the red blush colouring Aries' ears. She felt a wicked smirk rise up on her face, and she couldn't resist the urge to tease Aries just a bit.
"Well this shows what can happen when you just have a bit of confidence. What are you planning to do now that you've pushed me down, Aries? With all the ways in which this trip has gone wrong, it's a bit of a relief that at least one tradition has been properly revived on this adventure."
It might sometimes feel like years since the crew of the Astra had all first set foot on Planet McPa as eight strangers expecting a few days of the traditional extra-planetary camping experience. However all those expectations had been thrown out the window the instant that glowing orb had teleported them into space. Since then, the group of teenagers had been forced to mature quickly, but they were still young men and women.
One of the traditions of the camp was the rumour that this trip was one of the best opportunities in a teenager's life to lose their virginity. When you consider the fact that eight high school students were left alone on a planet without any adult supervision, the lewd gossip of what could happen during the trip wasn't that unbelievable. Medical science had progressed to the point where sexually transmitted illnesses were a thing of the past, and with adult help just an embarrassing call away, the camp was often considered the best place for a teenager to explore their first sexual experiences.
Judging from the deep shade of red that Aries' ears had reached, it appeared that she had heard the same rumours. Yun-Hua couldn't keep herself from smiling at the pinkette's embarrassment. Though they might be the same age, Yun-Hua had been exposed to a more worldly view of sex due to a first-hand account of her mother's dalliances over the years. While a childhood under the neglectful parentage of famed celebrity Lucy Lum may have left Yun-Hua with a very low sense of self-esteem, she had at least learnt from her mother's example that sex was a natural part of life and something to celebrate rather than stigmatize. Yun-Hua may not have had anyone close enough to share such an intimate relationship with, but things had changed since then.
Yun-Hua took a moment to consider her next course of action. It seemed impulsive to go through with what she was now tempted to do, but her initial intentions on coming here tonight were to help Aries with her problems, and this could certainly provide the pinkette with the confidence needed to press her pursuit of Kanata. The singer took one arm from the hold she had around Aries' shoulders and administered a gentle caress that contained a very different intention from the soothing strokes performed earlier.
Yun Hua asked, "Aries, would you like to become more than just friends? I think it could be fun for the both of us and the experience will help if you decide to get more intimate with Kanata on the way home."
The pinkette stilled for a moment to process Yun-Hua's offer. Yun-Hua stopped her ministrations to avoid pressuring Aries into accepting, but after a short period of time Aries gave a shy nod. Yun-Hua's heart thumped with a mixture of excitement and lust. It was thrilling to finally have a friend that she could trust with her body and she hadn't been flattering Aries when she had called the pinkette attractive. Aries always had a kind word and a smile ready for anyone she met, and for a lonely sapling that had been raised in the cold shadow of a towering tree, Aries' compassion was like a warm beam of sunshine.
Yun-Hua carefully rolled over Aries until their positions were reversed, with Aries pinned between the singer's body and the bed. Yun-Hua took a moment to appreciate the expression painted on Aries' face. Her wide eyes contained a look of trepidation mixed with curiosity and her plump red lips were slightly parted as if on the verge of asking a question.
Knowing an opportunity when she saw one, Yun-Hua dipped her head and claimed Aries' lips with a gentle kiss. The soft pressure felt as their lips met sent an instinctive frisson of pleasure into both girls. Aries seemed hesitant, her lips slightly trembling as if unsure of whether they should be moving or staying still. However Yun-Hua was more confident and her tongue pressed forward, parting the pinkette's weakened guard.
As the singer's tongue invaded Aries' mouth, her own tongue reacted, meeting the intruder in a short exchange. However Yun-Hua's tongue proved just as skilled at kissing as it was as singing and it soon dominated its opponent, leaving the pinkette's tongue paralyzed as it began to explore the rest of Aries' mouth. Yun-Hua's deep kiss left no corner of Aries' mouth untouched before it attacked the spots that the singer had identified as provoking the best reactions. These unfamiliar sensations sparked fireworks in the confines of Aries's head.
When the two finally parted for air, both girls were panting for breath and Aries' eyes were glazed over with pleasure. Yun-Hua smiled, proud at the effect her kiss had on the other girl, and she raised up her body until she was in a kneeling position with both legs on either side of Aries' hips. She pulled the compliant Aries into a sitting position before pulling off the pinkette's sleeping shirt. This revealed a cute pink sports bra with a ribbon that held up Aries' impressive bust. Though the size of her breasts was dwarfed by Yun-Hua's own well-developed chest, each orb was a bountiful handful of soft and nubile flesh.
As Yun-Hua reached to unclasp the front hook of the bra, Aries was unable to suppress the urge to cross her arms in embarrassment. A fresh wave of shame hit Aries and she bent forward in an attempt to hide her slight chubbiness, but Yun-Hua noticed her embarrassment and gave her a comforting smile. The singer then bent forward, and with her lips next to Aries' ear, she said, "Don't worry Aries. There's a lot we can do without you needing to take the rest of your clothes off. We can take it slow if you want."
The cool breath hitting Aries' hot ear sent another shiver of pleasure down her spine and bolstered her confidence and desire. With an internal cry of determination, Aries straightened her spine and her arms dropped away from her chest. Without the cover of her crossed arms, her pale skin, lightly freckled from a day in the sun, was bathed in the light of the room. However this left her sides unprotected and unprepared for the swift pair of hands that slipped into the opening and began tickling her armpits.
"Fu hee hee hee!"
Aries couldn't help the giggles that exploded from her mouth as she tried to twist away from Yun-Hua's wriggling fingertips. As she began to run out of breath, Yun-Hua paused her assault, but the momentary reprieve was soon retracted and the tickling renewed. However this times Aries was prepared, and while she might not be able to escape with Yun-Hua's weight on her hips pinning her down, she could initiate a counter-attack. Soon Yun-Hua's own melodic laughter joined Aries' spritely giggles and the two began to wrestle each other in a war of tickling.
The two girls soon agreed to a truce before either could lose control of their bladder, but this left the two struggling to breathe while in a sweaty and intimate embrace. Aries' body lay on top of Yun-Hua with her arms circling the singer's waist. While the singer hugged the pinkette's shoulders, pressing Aries' head into the crook of Yun-Hua's neck. The impromptu tickle-fight had accomplished its goal of removing the last of the awkwardness between the two girls.
Aries, in a return to her usual distractibility, had regained some of her regular cheery optimism and took the lead for the first time in their tryst. The kiss she placed on Yun-Hua's lips was clumsy, and almost led to their teeth clashing, but Aries made up for it with enthusiasm as she began to pepper Yun-Hua's neck with light kisses running down its length. The singer responded to the sensation of soft lips nibbling and sucking on her sensitive skin with a moan of pleasure. Yun-Hua wasn't the type of lover to remain passive however, and it soon showed as one hand began stroking down the pinkette's back and the other reached around to massage the side Aries' right breast.
Aries' nerves were still over-stimulated from the tickling and as Yun-Hua's hand crossed a sensitive patch of skin located over her tailbone, it sent a jolt of pleasure into her core that left her legs shaking. Yun-Hua felt the weakening of her resistance and the hand at Aries's chest stretched forward to grope the peak of her breast, playing with the nipple that was visibly poking through the thin cloth of Aries' sports bra.
The dual sensations of pleasure on both her upper and lower body drove Aries to the verge of an orgasm, but she smothered her moans into Yun-Hua's neck and tried to regain her composure. Refusing to give in so easily, Aries slid down Yun-Hua's front until her head was at the singer's chest. Her lips then clamped down on the singer's right nipple while her hand began to roll the other nipple between a thumb and index finger. The sweet cries of pleasure that the singer let loose made it clear that Aries had discovered a weak point. Aries made sure to get her revenge as her tongue rapidly flicked the nipple captured in her mouth as her hand began alternating between groping as much of the mammary as it could grasp and focussing on tweaking the nipple.
Yun-Hua was caught unprepared in the face of this attack and her cries continued to rise in pitch until she reached her climax with a loud and passionate shout of joy that thrust her chest into Aries' face. The moment passed and Yun-Hua fell back to the bed, eyes closed and with a smile on her panting face. Aries took a moment to calm her own racing heart. She had been acting more on instinct than conscious thought, so she took a moment to appreciate the results of her first inexperienced attempts at foreplay.
From this close perspective Aries had of Yun-Hua, she admired in detail the sexiness that the singer seemed to constantly exude now that the walls isolating Yun-Hua away from the world had dropped. The school swimsuit that she wore earlier that day had been sexy enough, with the blue cloth clinging tightly to her curves and the ripe flesh spilling out invitingly from the sides, but seeing her splayed out on the bed with her chest bared to the world created a more vulnerable allure.
The rivulets of sweat running down Yun-Hua's skin left eye-catching glossy streaks reflecting the room's light. A forearm had been raised to cover the singer's eyes, but the wind-tossed look of her newly shorn hair and the trail of saliva leaking from the corner of her open mouth showed that she had yet to recover from the orgasm. Yun-Hua's sweaty breasts splayed outwards from the middle of her chest under their own heavy weight, shaking invitingly with each deep breath, and the right breast still carried the slowly fading red marks of Aries' fingerprints.
The evidence of Yun-Hua's pleasure filled Aries with a surge of pride, but the involuntary yawn that escaped her mouth reminded her that it was time to get to sleep if they wanted to get an early start tomorrow. Aries turned to sit on the edge of her bed and picked up the shirt that had been divested from her body earlier. Then a sultry voice called out from behind her, "We're not done yet Aries. Our first night together can't end without you cumming as well."
Aries didn't have time to turn before she was pounced on by Yun-Hua. It seemed that the singer had learned her lesson from the last round, because Aries soon found herself lying face-down on the bed with her arms pinned behind her by Yun-Hua's weight. Unable to resist, Aries felt Yun-Hua's arms reach around her body despite her half-hearted attempts to wriggle free. One handed slipped underneath the pinkette's bra to begin molesting her breasts while the other ventured into untouched territory as it slipped past the loose elastic band of her shorts.
The pleasure of having Yun-Hua's fingertips circle the bare skin of her areola distracted Aries from noticing the other hand's destination before it was too late. The first touch from below came as such a shock of pleasure that her reaction was delayed and it took a few seconds before Aries began to squirm in pleasure. As Yun-Hua's fingers began to trace the outline of her slit, made damp by sweat and other liquids, Aries felt as if a fire had been stoked in her loins. Her waist jerked forward as the pinkette tried to lean into Yun-Hua's teasing fingers, which seemed to avoid stronger pressure in favour of exploring Aries' entire vagina from top to bottom.
Aries' hips bucked upwards in dissatisfaction, but Yun-Hua was merciless and the singer's hand began to exert more strength groping the pinkette's breasts, twisting at the nipple whenever Aries tried to move. This left Aries trapped, unable to respond, and groaning into the mattress in agonizing pleasure. Eventually, Yun-Hua seemed to take mercy on the pinkette and two fingers spread Aries' virgin lips as a third began to stir her inner folds. Aries minded was overcome with such a haze of desire that if she had been able to speak, she would surely have uttered pleas for release.
As Aries drew closer and closer to the absolute tipping point, Yun-Hua removed her hand from Aries' breasts. This reduced the pressure on Aries' upper body and the pinkette's own hands quickly moved to replace Yun-Hua's wandering appendage in a primal race for satisfaction. Before Aries could bring herself to an orgasm, Yun-Hua's newly freed hand reached into Aries' shorts. She slowly peeled back the skin covering the pinkette's clitoris and then she stimulated the nub of sensitive nerve endings with rapid circular motions. An exhilarated cry erupted from Aries' lips and left her winded. The powerful orgasm had washed Aries' mind blank of all thoughts and she soon lost consciousness after that final burst of pleasure.
Yun-Hua's mouth wore an evil smile as she rose from the bed, satisfied with her reciprocation. With a curious look, Yun-Hua tentatively sucked on the fingertips that had explored Aries' pussy. The taste of her juices was sweet and fruity, so Yun-Hua couldn't help but comment with a smile. "You taste just as sweet as you look, Aries. Which shouldn't really be a surprise, I suppose."
She then took a moment to straighten her hair and wipe away the sweat from her brow. Her jacket was once again zipped close, with only a slight struggle as it passed over her chest, and looking presentable once more, she headed back to her room for the night. Before the door closed, she looked back at the sleeping Aries and said, "If you do end up sleeping with Kanata, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to show how grateful I am to the both of you."
With that parting comment the door closed behind her. Soon afterwards the room's automatic sensor detected that its inhabitant was asleep and shut off the room's light, leaving Aries to a peaceful night's sleep.