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I realize that me and Tatsumi were standing in my living room once again. I looked around the room in confusion wondering how the goddess did that. I could hear her faint giggle float through my head. I look over at Tatsumi and he's staring at me, intently.
"What?" I ask him. My eyes widen as he walks towards me. He stops when he is less than a foot away from me. He lifted his hand and I could feel something waver across my skin. My powers reacted to the sensation and my wings sprouted from my back. He still had his hand raised towards me and looked at me strangely.
"You really do have the power of the shadow realm, don't you?" he says as he reached out a hand and touched one of my wings. I shivered at the nearly invisible touch. My wings are a part of my body so if anyone touched them it was the same as touching my skin.
"Yes, I do. The Divine Mother told you that I did. For shame, Tatsumi, you doubted a goddess. Quit touching them, I feel that you know." I said as I jerked my wings away from his hand. I shouldn't have done that because the sensation of his hand sliding across my wing made me nearly come out of my skin. I realized that I was aroused from the sensations, that had never happened before but then again I had never let anyone touch my wings before.
"Their like butterfly wings. How old were you when they manifested?"
"I was fourteen and I was on the cheerleading squad at the time. I was at a football game and all of a sudden, they were there. Everyone screamed and ran away from me. I never went back to that school ever again. Can we please stop talking about this? You're making me bring up painful memories." I watched as sadness filled his eyes, he dropped his hand to his side.
"I'm sorry if I'm hurting you with my questions, I didn't mean to. What is your name again?"
"It's Mimi, Mimi Uesegi. Hold on for a second, I have to retract my wings." I closed my eyes as I raised my hands, palms up, and chanted the words my grandmother taught me. "Andam ćoro wake lamti bol juti, kinta, ja szelem sabayon."
"What was that you just said, Mimi?" Tatsumi asked as he stared at the art on my living room walls.
"It's a chant my grandmother taught me. The language is Carpathian and the words mean, 'I give power flow to the land of night, mists and ghosts freely'. She has wings too but she doesn't command the same kind of magick as me, she's part faery."
"Fairy? As in a Tinkerbell kind of fairy?"
"Similar but not the same. She's half-Swedish and they call them Wights not Faeries but it's basically the same. A faery taught her how to hide her wings when she was little. Are you hungry, Tatsumi?"
"Yeah, food sounds good. I'll, um, stay in here while you're in the kitchen."
"Okay, it's your loss because my kitchen is always really warm and the chairs at my table are really comfy."
I walked to my kitchen, went into the fridge, and pulled out everything to make chicken teriyaki. I spooned rice into my rice steamer and set it, I got it the last time I was in Japan. As I was chopping the veggies for the steamer and the chicken was simmering in the sauce, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head and saw Tatsumi standing in the doorway of my kitchen. I smiled as I watched him walk over to my kitchen table and sit down. I went to one of my cabinets, pulled out my teapot and two cups. I poured some hot water from my coffee pot into the teapot. I always have hot water on hand because I was always drinking tea. I grabbed my jar of green tea and placed some into the teapot's strainer. I picked up the teapot and one of the cups and walked over to the table. Tatsumi looked at me in surprise as I sat the teapot down in front of him.
"You didn't have to make me tea, Mimi."
"It's no problem, Tatsumi. I'm always drinking tea so it was no big deal. Do you like sugar or honey?"
"Um, sugar." I walked over to the counter, grabbed my jar of lavender sugar, and placed it next to the teapot. "What kind of sugar is this?" he asked me, staring at the jar.
"It has lavender in it, Tatsumi. Lavender helps you to relax and you look a little tense. Drink up, the food will be ready in a minute." I walked over to the cabinet near my stove and grabbed the plates I could reach, I growled in frustration trying to reach the bowls. They were on a shelf I couldn't reach, my brother Todd must have put them there when he was over the other day.
"Here let me help you." I gasped and turned around quickly, Tatsumi was standing right behind me, I could feel the heat of his body because he was so close. He grabbed the bowls from the shelf and took the plates from my hands. "I'll set the table, Mimi. Where are the utensils?"
"Their in the drawer next to the sink." I said as I walked over to the rice steamer, it beeped as soon as I got to it. I put all the food on platters and in bowls and carried them to the table. I sat down and we served ourselves.
"Tell me about yourself, Mimi." Tatsumi said in his darkly seductive voice. I put down the fork that was halfway to my mouth and looked up at him.
"Well, you already know that I'm a witch, have powers and stuff. I'm the oldest of five kids, I have three brothers and a sister. I own a pagan store here in town and I'm an anthropology student at the local university. That's about it." I said and then continued to eat my food.
"That can't just be it, Mimi. You did the artwork in the living room didn't you? I see you have a violin and a guitar in there too so you must play. Tell me about the Mimi no one knows."
"Well, yes, I did all the artwork in the living room because I love to paint. I do play the violin and the guitar. I started playing the violin when I was nine and have been playing it for about twenty years now. I'm really into art, music and books. I love to make my own clothing too. Is that what you wanted to know?" I watched as he filled his bowl with more rice, he was on his fourth bowl of it. He nodded his head in affirmation and went back to eating.
I got up from the table and took my dishes to the sink. I rinsed them out and put them into the dishwasher. I walked into the living room and sat down in front of my computer. I closed out the story I had been typing and logged into the internet. I logged into my email account and scanned through my emails. I had some new emails from my friend Jenny. I opened one of them and read what she wrote quickly. She told me about how she and Eric were having fun in San Francisco and how my friend Meha was really cool. I sent her back a quick reply and logged out of my email. I could hear Tatsumi moving around in the kitchen, I wanted to be friendlier towards him but I was nervous. What if I say something stupid like I thought he was the hottest thing since white bread? He would look at me funny if I said something like that. I heard the couch groan from his weight and I had to refrain from staring at him. I could hear him flipping through the cable channels and then I heard the Tokyo news. I looked at the clock on my computer and realized it was three o'clock in the morning. I turned from the computer and looked at Tatsumi; he was rubbing his eyes and looked tired.
"Tatsumi?" He turned towards me and stared at me with those gorgeous blue eyes that reminded me of sapphires.
"Yes, Mimi?"
"Um, you look tired. You can sleep in my bed and I'll sleep out there on the couch."
"No, you sleep in your own bed, Mimi, I'll sleep out here on the couch. I'm a grown man and I will not make a woman give up her bed for me." I laughed at his statement.
"Tatsumi, you won't fit on the couch or even my living room floor, you're too tall. You must be about six foot eight or nine, I have a king size bed. I'm little and I have no problem with sleeping on the couch."
"I'm actually six foot ten and thank you." I stood up and walked across the room, his eyes followed me.
"Come on, I'll show you were you'll be sleeping." I walked down the hall to my bedroom and opened the door. I turned and saw that he had followed me. "If you want to take a shower, the bathroom is across the hall. You are going to need something to wear to bed. My brother Todd has some clothes here that you might be able to fit."
I went to my dresser and dug around in the top drawer. I found the jogging pants my brother kept here but I couldn't find a t-shirt that would be long enough for him to wear. I looked over my shoulder and saw that he was staring at the pictures on top of my vanity. He had picked up an glided silver Victorian frame, it was my most cherished picture.
"Who's this man in the picture with you, Mimi?" I turned away so he couldn't see the tears that had welled up in my eyes. I'm not going to cry. I swear I'm not going to cry. I took a deep breath before I said anything.
"That's my late husband, Rian." my voiced cracked on the name, I could feel the tears running unchecked down my cheeks.
"How did he die?" he asked and then he saw the fresh tear tracks on my cheeks. "I'm sorry I shouldn't pry."
"No, its okay, Tatsumi." I said as I walked over to where he was standing. I took the picture from his hands and stared at it. I looked at my beloved Rian's face, his golden blonde hair and the smile he always wore whenever he was around me. I stroked my fingers across the picture and more tears ran down my cheeks.
"My powers killed him six years ago. We were having a fight, I was very angry with him, and then he was just gone. The doctors said he had a heart attack but I knew better. I had watched my 'shadows' seep into his skin and they killed him." my voice broke during my confession and I dropped to the floor.
I covered my face as I sobbed uncontrollably. I had never cried over Rian's death, the doctors said that to protect myself from the hurt my mind had made me numb. All this time I had thought I was a monster. I felt Tatsumi's arms go around me. I clutched the lapels of his suit jacket as I cried my heart out. Ever since Rian had died, no one had dared to try to comfort me. Tatsumi was the first person in years to comfort me. I could hear him whispering soothing words to me. I didn't care what he was saying it just felt good to have someone hold me for once. I don't know how long we were on my bedroom floor like that but I pulled back from him after I was calmed down. I smiled up at him, whispered 'Thank you', got off the floor and left out of the room.
I sat down on my couch, mortified that I had broken down like that in front of him. I could hear the shower come on as I stared blankly at the television. I got up and went into my bedroom to grab my pajamas from my dresser. While I was bent over looking in the bottom drawer of my dresser, I heard my bedroom door creak open. I looked between my legs and saw two large bare male feet standing in my doorway, I straightened and turned around. My eyes widened when I saw Tatsumi was in a towel that barely covered him. I swallowed hard as I stared at the miles of bare tanned skin. My eyes slowly traced down his body, glancing over the muscles of his chest and stomach. They widened when they landed on his groin, I could plainly see Tatsumi's cock outlined in the towel. Oh my god, he's huge. I had thought Rian was big but Tatsumi was bigger, much bigger. I looked up at Tatsumi's face and blushed when I realized he had watched me stare at him.
"I, um, I just came in to get my pajamas. I'll, um, I'm . . . Oh, shit!" I said quickly and hurried out of the room. I ran into the bathroom and quickly put on my pajamas. I crept down the hallway to the hall closet and pulled out one of my comforters. I walked back out to the living room, turned off everything but one of my smaller lamps and curled up on my tiny couch. As I drifted off to sleep, I smiled as I thought about Tatsumi's hard body. I chuckled as I wondered what it would be like to have him between my thighs.
