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[Drew thinks that he knows what's going on inside May's head when she asks him for more dangerous games in their intimacy moments... What if he is completely wrong about it? (part two of five)]
Chapter 2 - Game prelude
People usually use the word 'humility' as the correspondent opposite for 'vanity' or 'pride'.
For Drew, the opposite of those two words were 'love'.
The young man discreetly looked away, digesting the raw truth thrown and rubbed into his face. He had just agreed with his girlfriend, after that whole speech about not being afraid of testing new waters, that trying different things would be fun... Now he couldn't simply walk away and dismiss her small wish.
"Eh..." Drew mumbled in a defensive voice, slightly cautious. "You want to blindfold me?"
He left the bed and opened the curtains and the window door, letting the cold breeze invade the cheap and simple room for a moment.
"I think it could help me loosening a bit and play with you without feeling so embarrassed..." May twirled one of her long hair bangs, giggling timidly. "Is it a bad idea?"
The small motel in the middle of a side-road to nowhere was silent and asleep, as if it was waiting for an answer from the young green-haired man. What was a perfect place to have some privacy now bothered him for the excessive amount of attention it dragged to himself. Even the sounds of his feet on the carpet and his slow and controlled breathing were now part of their delicate discussion.
"Hmm, no... Not at all. If that is what pleases you, May."
The full moon illuminated his pale skin; his girlfriend could easily notice the uneasiness in his enigmatic expression. She stopped giggling, watching the soft light cover her beautiful lover's face.
"Drew?..."
Drew's emerald eyes were very notable for keeping a subtle and mysterious semblance - yet in intimate moments like that, against his own will, May could read them like an opened book... That was definitely one of the most terrifying things she learned to do after they started dating and opening up to each other.
"Oh... We shouldn't do this if you're not comfortable about it."
May quietly lowered her hands in disappointment. Her sweet talk didn't work: Drew's pride got scratched. She knew it wasn't that easy to convince him to lower his guard... They were lovers, friends but also fierce rivals - breaking the balance between them by crossing the limits of few personal issues was an easy way to trigger some nasty explosions.
The young man sighed, eyebrows and lips curved in a slightly unhappy frown. He hated seeing his girlfriend turning quiet and reticent due to his flaws - something that, unfortunately, happened more often that he would like to.
Love and pride, love and vanity. Opposites.
"W-Wait, don't make that face..." Drew grimaced in tension, feeling a sweat drop falling from his neck. "Look... May, come here."
He jumped back to the bed then kissed the brunette girl in apology for his tendency to overreact more than he should. His fingertips caressed her collarbone in a tender and longing way, tracing a subtle line around her neck.
"With my eyes covered or not, I want you..."
She narrowed her eyes and hugged her tormented boyfriend, crossing her legs around his body. Pouting like a demanding child, she stared at him with big Teddiursa eyes.
"But I don't want to do it if you're not okay with that!"
The green-haired coordinator sighed out loud.
"Hey, it's just that... Look, I am not used to this kind of stuff," he tried to excuse himself and cheer up his partner. "I've never tried this before, okay?"
"You've never done this before?" May watched with her big blue eyes Drew shake his head vehemently. "Really?"
"Of course not?" He questioned the doubt with a confused voice, pressing a finger at her nose. "How could I possibly try anything kinky with someone shy like you?"
"I thought you did, you always talk like you've already..." May bit her lower lip, interrupting her own words. "...Oh."
"Hmm?" He raised his eyes in curiosity. "What's wrong?"
"I know that you know much more than I do, you don't need to tell me that but—"
Curiosity levels suddenly perked up so much that she couldn't help but add a small question to her statement.
"—Drew, is that your experience based on theory?"
Love and pride, love and vanity. Opposites.
And regardless of what fairy tales say, love doesn't prevail all the times.
The green-haired coordinator furrowed his eyebrows and his voice clearly trailed to defensive tones. "...Does it matter?"
"Well..." May didn't take the comment as an angry bark from her boyfriend's huge ego, musing carefully about his question and all its implied meanings. Trying her best to not picture him getting closer to other girls, she closed her eyes, feeling her ears get red in annoyance. "Isn't it obvious?"
Drew snorted. "Are you jealous?"
"Of course it doesn't matter!" The brunette turned her face away from him, pushing him away with both of her hands. "I want us to be okay and I want to have fun with you... That is what really matters, silly grasshead."
"Good." The young man held her small hands close to his chest, removing her gloves with a sly grin. "I'm happy that it doesn't matter for you."
"Actually..."
Still facing the wall, the coordinator girl pouted in a mix of irritation and softness, blushing a little. "I think it would be kind of ideal if that were our first time... But that's just a minor detail. I'm just happy that... You'll be my first."
"Oh."
Drew wanted to die of diabetes for so much saccharine in the air - her charming reaction felt like maple syrup being poured up over his heart. Dating May was better than any sweet in the world... He would never admit that to anyone - but wasn't that the cutest thing ever? It was very hard to not fall for his rival's unconscious and delightful charms - the innocent look on her face, that grumpy voice, her sincere words... He didn't resist seeing his girlfriend being adorable without noticing it.
His hormones also didn't resist ordering his hands to not only remove her gloves but also move on to his belt buckle and—
"I-I mean, not necessarily today!" The colors in May's face became immediately more evident, as she watched her boyfriend toss his belt away from the bed. "I'll be your first someday! Drew, I said 'someday'!"
"Why not today," he replied shortly with a hopeless and complaining tone in his voice. "I've been waiting for this 'someday' for years."
"For years... Really?"
Her eyes blue shimmered in intense emotions; May was torn between feeling very embarrassed and extremely happy.
"You were always the girl of my dreams." Drew shrugged. "Why does it surprise you?"
"Then it will be really our first time?"
His stubborn pride smacked himself for indirectly admitting what he had struggled so much to not confess. "Ahem..."
"Is that a yes?"
Coughing discreetly, the reticent boyfriend dodged his eyes to a blank spot at the ceiling. "...Does it matter?"
Drew lowered his eyes back to the bed and saw a small flower bud slowly turning into a blooming and dashing rose - big blue bright eyes, pink cheeks and a huge foolish smile.
"Awww!" The dreamy brunette clutched her hands close to her chest, squealing to herself in an emotional outburst. "I'm so lucky! This is so perfect and romantic!"
"And isn't tonight a good moment to be perfect and romantic?"
May clasped her hands, not slightly bothered by Drew's sarcastic provocation. She had no clue why being a virgin was a reason to feel ashamed of - for her, everything he had just said was a very sweet confession. Guys, so hard to understand. "Could you please lower your head for me?"
"You didn't give up?" He scratched the back of his neck, not much pleased with the subject change. "Gee, you really want to blindfold me."
"Yeah, I think so..." Giggling gingerly, May bounced on the bed in a playful manner . "Hehehe, I'll have a blast!"
"Oh well." The young man sighed then smirked in a smug way, regaining some of his usual overconfidence. "I think this is reasonable, you have never had the opportunity to initiate and dictate the rules... It will be fun to be in my place for once, right?"
"Are you sure?" The brunette asked timidly, caressing her boyfriend's silky hair. "I really want to try this!... But I won't if you don't wanna try."
"Yeah, I'm sure..." He flicked his hair one last time before allowing May to cover his eyes. "C'mon, it's no big issue."
"It is an issue and I don't want to make—"
Drew shut her up by holding her hands and placing them over his head.
"...I'm dying to make out with you and I know it will be good, whatever idea you wanna try. You are the prettiest, sweetest and most clueless girl I could ever ask for... It doesn't matter if we make out, cuddle on bed or just play chess."
"Drew..."
"Today my special night with you, May. Just you and me... Of course it will be good, stop worrying so much about it, please."
The brunette giggled quietly at the irony of hearing her rival blame her for being paranoid - thankfully, he only took her cute 'hehehe's as an over-excitement slip.
"Hehehe, I feel so edgy!" She chirped in ecstasy while folding her bandanna and binding the improvised blindfold on Drew. "Hello, this is May's Fantastic Expedition and tonight we're taming the green lord of lust... To be continued after the commercials!"
The young man grinned, scratching May's arms playfully. His girlfriend tried to make peace by kissing his collarbone in a sexy fashion - exactly the way he enjoyed the most.
"Good boy," she whispered playfully, making a trail of kisses from his neck to his cheek. "I love you, Drew."
"I love you, Drew?" The green-haired coordinator clasped his hands together, mimicking his partner's mannerisms. He snorted in disdain, returning to his regular ironic voice. "How about, you're welcome, May?"
"Sounds good," she replied with a soft smile on her face. "Thank you, Drew. You deserve a ribbon for being a great boyfriend."
Under the blindfold, Drew raised an eyebrow in a skeptic and bored look.
"I would rather feel your skin with my tongue or grope your body until you begged me for more..." The young man grinned in a mean way and grabbed her left ankle, making his girlfriend shriek in embarrassment. "A much better prize than a ribbon. Can we swap?"
"A-Ah!" The innocent girl flustered, quite startled by those graphic ideas. She knew that her rival had some fantasies about her, but hearing them straight from his lips... "No?... No! Tonight you will do what I want."
"Fair enough. After all, this is your opportunity to play a role reversal with me..."
"Role reversal?..." May repeated Drew's expression with a thoughtful and confused voice. "I don't understand that but— Oh well..."
"It means I'm letting you play the boss tonight," he answered in a cynical voice. "I'll be nice and let you order stuff around this time. You never had the opportunity to be in my place, huh?"
"Duh, I know what the expression 'role reversal' means." She finished fixing the bandanna over his eyes then gently stroked her fingers on the back his perfectly combed hair. "Anyway... If that makes you think I am free to tie a blindfold on your head, you can call yourself the boss anytime."
May didn't fuel their argument anymore, admiring in silence Drew's patient but slightly troubled face.
...What did she say?
A/N: Yes, they were four parts... But they brought a new company now this story has five different parts. Easier to split the chapters in this new setting, haha.