Chapter 2 – Resolve By the Waterfall

"Gumichan! I discovered a really nice place I want to show you!" Ea said happily as she tugged Gumiho along.

Gumiho went along willingly, though still allowing herself to be pulled along by Ea. She was eager to see this new place too. But more than that, she enjoyed the contact with Ea. She enjoyed simply being with Ea, wherever they were going.

"We are here!" Ea stopped and Gumiho looked up.

They had reached a breathtaking waterfall. It wasn't a huge waterfall, but it was in a relatively secluded valley, and it was surrounded by greenery and flowers. With the water cascading down into a shallow pool at the bottom of the waterfall, it looked like a small little paradise.

"Its… its beautiful, Ea." Gumiho breathed. Ea laughed and ran into the shallow pool right up to the base of the waterfall. She stood within it and let the water cascade down onto her. Ea stretched her hands out and luxuriated as she felt the waters of the waterfall fall upon her hair, shoulders, and body.

She noticed Gumiho, who was sitting on the edge of the pool, admiring her openly again. Gumiho seemed to be doing this a lot more often these days. Ea waved to her best friend merrily and beckoned for her to come and join her. Gumiho saw that Ea had noticed and hurriedly looked away, blushing.

She tried to appear as if she was admiring a nearby flower instead, but failed utterly, as he eyes were invariably drawn back towards Ea again. Gumiho caught herself staring at Ea again, so clearly enjoying herself within the waterfall and guiltily forced herself to look away. That was the second time she was oogling her best friend, and within 5 minutes of trying to look elsewhere!

"Gumihochan! Come and join me!" Ea called out.

"Errr, no thanks Ea. I will get wet, unlike you! I am fine here, where its dry!"

Gumiho called back smiling.

Ea, who had command over water, could stand in a thunderstorm and not feel a thing. Gumiho though, didn't have that kind of ability and preferred to keep dry. She was content to sit at the edge of the pool and have a good excuse to continue admiring her friend. Oh god, why was she so drawn towards looking at Ea so much…

Gumiho caught herself again with some frustration and forcibly pulled her gaze away for the third time. Then she suddenly sensed that Ea was much nearer now, her nose told her as much. She lifted turned head back and saw her best friend now standing right in front of her.

"What's wrong, Gumichan? Are you alright?" Ea asked in concern. Gumiho seemed a little out of sorts today.

Gumiho looked at her best friend and felt her throat constrict. Ea looked breathtaking, having just stepped out of the waterfall, with water droplets still trailing down her smooth fair skin and the sunlight reflecting off those droplets. The reflected light from the water droplets made her look as if she was clad in sparkling diamonds.

Tell her you love her! Confess to her! Gumiho's mind screamed inside. But, those words just caught in her throat.

"I …I am fine!"

Gumiho stammered a bit, though her face was now rather red. She tried to flash a smile to show she was alright. It was a rather forced smile though. Actually, she didn't feel fine at all. This torturous feeling inside her was threatening to drive her totally crazy. But Ea didn't know what was the problem, and somehow, Gumiho just couldn't bring herself to tell her…

Ea looked at her friend contemplatively. She knew something was wrong. Gumiho was never very good at hiding her emotions. Her smile was totally false and her eyes looked tormented. She was anything but fine, but for some reason, though they were best friends, Gumiho didn't want to tell her what was bothering her…

Ea didn't want to push Gumiho to tell her. She instead decided to try and cheer her friend up, to at least get her mind temporarily off whatever was bothering her. A wicked smile appeared on her face and she said cheekily.

"Well, if you are fine, then lets have some fun!"

She gestured her hand forward and water from the pool leapt up and splashed the startled Gumiho in the face.

"Ahhh!"

Gumiho shrieked, then she was exploded into action. She had been around Ea so long she knew this wasn't going to stop with just one splash. Even as she was moving, another splash was incoming at Ea's command. But while splashing Ea back with water was totally pointless, since she was immune to them, Gumiho knew something that Ea was definitely not immune to. Gumiho's eyes narrowed in concentration.

She waved, ducked and dodged Ea's incoming splashes of water. She could hear from Ea's giggles that she was getting close to her friend now. But Ea was determined to get Gumiho thoroughly soaked. Just as Gumiho had almost reached her, a high wall of water rose up between her and Ea!

In the past, it had always stopped Gumiho, who disliked getting wet and would try and find another around it. But this time, she underestimated Gumiho's frustration and resolve.

Gumiho closed her eyes and dove through the wall of water. Though soaked, her momentum brought her through to the other side and she crashed into the surprised Ea who gave a surprised "Ooooff" and went down with Gumiho on top of her.

Now that she had Ea up close in her grasp (at the cost of being soaked!) it was Gumiho's turn to attack! Her fingers dove mercilessly at Ea's ribs and tickled her! Ea burst out laughing and giggling, unable to help herself as Gumiho tickled her. Just as Gumiho was weak against flying balls of water, Ea was extremely ticklish and her best friend knew exactly where all her most ticklish spots were.

"Waiiitt…. Ahahahah…. S… stop!"

Ea gasped out trying to defend herself from Gumiho's fingers. But Gumiho didn't intend to stop now. All of her frustration prior to this had been boiling over already, and with her friend now flat on her back helpless beneath her, it was too good an opportunity to pay back her pent up frustration. Not just her fingers, Gumiho now added all nine of her bushy tails to the tickle fight!

Furry and light, they acted exactly like feathers and in a tickle fight, that was like having an added nine extra deadly feathers in your arsenal. Her nine tails reached out and tickled Ea's neck, her collarbone, her thighs, her arms, her entire body.

"Ahhh… help! S… stop! Nooo… please…. Gumi… ahahahaha!"

Ea was being tickled out of her mind. Her friend had never quite in the past been quite so ferocious but today, she was going all out! Ea laughed until she cried and was literally trying to beg for mercy through her laughter.

Finally, after a long while, Gumiho took pity on Ea and stopped. Her friend was now so far gone that even when Gumiho stopped, she was still weakly trying to cover her body with her hands and shaking with laughter. When Ea finally realised through her foggy mind that Gumiho had stopped her tickle attacks, she fell back finally allowing herself to relax. Her hands dropped to her sides and all she could do was try and breathe deep breaths to recover.

Gumiho looked at her exhausted friend and suddenly now realised what a compromising position she was in. She was sitting on top of Ea's stomach. Her friend was flat on her back beneath her, totally worn out from her tickling, exhausted and … utterly helpless.

The usually formidable Ea currently had her hands dropped at her sides weakly with her eyes were closed and her face flushed. Ea opened her beautiful eyes and shot Gumiho the same betrayed look that Gumiho had done in the past. Gumiho would have laughed if not for the fact that Ea looked so cute and helpless with her puffed out cheeks, pouting.

In fact, Gumiho now felt all her desire reigniting and flooding back into her as she looked at Ea pouting. She was already leaning forward previously, and Ea's face was just inches away. Wait, stop! Gumiho's mind cried internally, but somehow, the distance between their faces was closing by inches!

Gumiho's arms had found themselves cupping Ea's face and one of her tails was forming a pillow behind her head. She was also drawing the two of them closer and closer…

Ea's eyes were widening now in surprise now. This was a very different Gumiho from her usual self. Her eyes were smothering, and almost feral. In them shone a passion that was almost animalistic and overwhelming.

She tried weakly to break free from Gumiho's embrace but she was still totally exhausted after that intense bout of tickling and Gumiho's hands were unyielding and firm in drawing them closer and closer together. Her throat dry, Ea noticed Gumiho unconsciously baring her fangs as that tormented look appeared on her best friend's face again.

But after a brief struggle, it was clear that their close presence with each other was too much for Gumiho. The tormented look was replaced again by that heated feral gaze and Ea could only watch helplessly as her friend leaned in closer and closer...

Ea tried to say something, but no sound emerged and her partly opened mouth now served to betray her even more, as it made it easy for Gumiho to close the final few inches between them and capture her mouth in a heated passionate kiss…

"Mmmppphh"

was the only thing Ea managed to get out before she felt Gumiho's lips upon hers. They were very smooth and soft and meshed perfectly with her own. Gumiho's tongue slipped through her partly opened mouth and darted in, sending warm sensations flooding through her.

Gumiho knew that she had lost. She had tried to stop herself just before the kiss, but seeing Ea's surprised look even as she lay so vulnerable under her and overcome Gumiho's self control. Now, as Gumiho felt Ea's soft lips with her own, the contact only served to fan the flames within her into an inferno. Instead of pulling back, she deepened the kiss and hugged her Ea closer, nearer, possessively.

She felt she never wanted to let go and she wished the moment would never end. She kept waiting for any stiffening, resistance or attempt to push her away from Ea. But it never happened. Ea's lips were soft and yielding, her eyes had involuntarily closed and thus Gumiho lost herself amidst the heated sensations running through her as the kiss continued.

It was only when she noticed Ea weakly struggling for breath that Gumiho finally reluctantly broke her kiss. She gazed upon Ea, who was breathing heavily. Finally, Ea's eyes opened and those ink black pools within her eyes looked at Gumiho with question.

Faced with those mesmerising orbs, Gumiho felt all words die upon her lips. Since she was voiceless, Gumiho did the only thing she could do to convey what she so much wanted to say to Ea. She lowered her head, blushing and simply laid it upon Ea's chest. She did nothing and just closed her eyes, her fox ears twitching slightly as she pressed herself on Ea and listened to her friend's fluttering heartbeat. She lay there, with her head in her best friend's bosom, and waited… for rejection, for anger, for surprise, for anything.

After a long while, nothing happened! Instead it was Gumiho's eyes which had been closed shut, which now opened in surprise as she felt Ea's arms gently steal around to her back. She felt Ea's arms closed around her in an intimate embrace and looked up to see her friend's face composed and peaceful. Ea's eyes were closed, and to Gumiho's alert ears, she heard her friend's fluttering heartbeat gradually slow along with her breathing as well.

Gumiho closed her eyes again, and listened to the steady beat of her sleeping friend. She luxuriated within the warmth of Ea's embrace and slowly also faded away herself… They needed to talk, but for now, within that small paradise, there was no hurry. That talk can come later.

Gumiho felt the welcome haze of sleep enfold her and welcomed it willingly. Soon, all that could be heard along with the running sounds of the nearby waterfall was the peaceful breathing of Gumiho and Ea as they slept in each other's arms…

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