A/N: Just so we're clear. I'm going with Aster's manner of speaking in the English version. (Not Edo's). Aster literally says stuff like "m'man," "bro," "dude," "bling-bling," "booyah," etc. So, him saying "Baby" or "Babe" is not actually that weird if we go by that manner of speech. It would be ridiculous for Edo, yes. But for Aster, nuh-uh. ;)

Also, thank you, presea221 and Zero Slash One for leaving me some thoughts on the Reviews section. Very appreciated, and even though I DO stan Fianceeshipping because it's canon, I still say 'Jaden, who? xD' when Aster comes into the picture.

'Til next time. ;)


Hot Showers

They liked to do it slow in the mornings…

But just because it was slow didn't mean it was any less tiring. She was always panting by the end of every coupling, chest heaving shallowly for air. Biting her lip, Alexis gingerly heaved herself up into a sitting position, leaning her back against the headboard as she ran a hand through her hair. A quick glance at her boyfriend revealed that he was busy with his phone again — probably sending emails or about to talk to his manager about some business arrangement.

In the midst of it all, she smiled; fully appreciating the fact that he always found time for her despite how hectic most of his days were. On the other hand, his professional dueling matches were at a lull at the moment. If she remembered correctly, she could recall him telling her that he wasn't going to compete until next week. So that left him to while away his time in Duel Academy, playing Mr. Student and indulging her in late night boat rides out into the middle of the ocean.

Smiling, she made to rest her head on his bare shoulder, which he understood and automatically made room for her. He had one arm slung around her, the other was holding the phone up to his ear.

Alexis could hear the phone ringing on the other end, and merely smiled as she busied herself with tracing random patterns on his chest, lightly grazing the smooth pale skin with her nails. It was nice to imagine that they could stay this way for the rest of the day — in bed and just enjoying each other's company. She tilted her head up just in time to see him flash a smile at her.

He laid a soft kiss on her forehead and was opening his mouth to say something, but the other person on the line called his attention away. She couldn't hear their full conversation, but judging from Aster's responses, it was obvious that it was about something important.

And speaking of important, she only had two hours tops to get ready for Tuesday morning's first class of the day. So after leaving a kiss on his shoulder and at the crook of his neck, she casually slipped away from his touch, silently marveling the cool and smooth feel of the tangled sheets beneath her legs.

Trying to locate her own clothes strewn across his bedroom floor was another matter. She did manage to find her underwear and Aster's discarded shirt that she'd pilfered last night. Slipping it on, she stretched out her body well and good, squeezing her thighs together and trying to suppress the flush that rose to her cheeks when leftover drops of cum slithered down her legs. She grabbed tissues out of a box on his nightstand and wiped herself off before heading for the adjoining bathroom adjacent to his chest of drawers and his closet; all while completely oblivious to the set of blue eyes watching her every single move.

It was easy to forget that they were still in Duel Academy, sometimes. And although he and Alexis had been successful at keeping the relationship discreet for some time, a part of him couldn't help but wonder if their other friends were clued in on what was going on between him and the Queen of Obelisk Blue — as she was called. They were discreet, but they weren't secretive. Sometimes he couldn't help himself and would steal a quick kiss from her out of the blue — in public.

Except… seeing her like this in the privacy of his bedroom was an entirely different matter, and he was hungry for more than just a chaste kiss. He loved seeing her all dressed up to the nines; plus, her everyday wear wasn't a bad thing either. But for sure, his favorite had to be her clad in nothing but her underwear and his black dress shirt, hair all tousled and her feet still bare.

"I don't recall saying we were finished, Lex. Plus, I was only giving you a breather."

Alexis groaned with her back turned to him. But she didn't have to turn around to see and know that her boyfriend was smiling at her teasingly, eyes glinting in some form of challenge. She loved him. She really did. But there were moments when she questioned her own sanity for dating somebody who was practically insatiable. It was annoyingly adorable sometimes — like now, but for the most part, it was actually a great bonus. In the right time and place, she had no qualms with Aster having his way with her all night long.

"We have school." She protested feebly, pausing halfway in her trek for the bathroom door, giving herself a perfect view of Aster's lovely face snickering at her from his place on the bed.

He rolled his eyes and shamelessly left the bed in nothing but his birth day suit to approach her.

"Nobody dies from missing a few classes now and then."

"Well, I might. Easy for you to say when you're living your life as a celebrity pro duelist."

A glance at Aster's face revealed the tiniest pout. "Don't be like that." His face brightened with an idea all of a sudden, and Alexis knew that whatever he had concocted in his brilliant mind wasn't going to do her resolve any favors. "We'll compromise. I'll just shower with you."

And there was the proposition she had been expecting… Of course. Still, she would be lying if she said she didn't enjoy every moment they had together. Where sex was involved, she absolutely had no complaints. It was as spontaneous as it was enough to ignite combustion at some point.

"Mhm. And you'll just take me all over again." Alexis commented, playfully rolling her eyes. But he put an end to her smart quips easily enough, and she ended up gasping when her partner slowly rubbed his fingers across her dripping slit.

He put his lips to her ear and kissed her there, catching her in time when her knees buckled and she was reduced to sighs of pleasure all over again.

"Well, I don't see you complaining, so let's go."

Alexis giggled as he easily lifted her off her feet and stepped into the bathroom…

vVvVv

Was it weird that despite the fact that she and Aster had been seeing each other for three months, bathing together had never been part of the equation until this point? Considering the physical nature of their relationship, it actually dawned on Alexis as a surprise that they never actually thought about doing this before.

And boy had they missed out apparently…

Who knew that the feel of warm water cascading down your body as your lover explored every inch of you with eager hands could be so erotic?

Through the beads of water that clung to her lashes, she watched — amused — as Aster's face shifted in and out of focus. Soaked silvery hair clinging to the sides of his high cheekbones, skin flushed from the shower humidity, eyes revealing the hunger that burned deep and ravenous in his soul.

Slick wet hands sliding over her bare waist, she eagerly welcomed his kiss, parting her lips in a silent invitation for his wet tongue. Her own arms around his shoulders while her fingers busied themselves with threading through his silver locks, fire and ice skittered across every nerve ending in her body. The cold shower walls pressing against her back was her only relief from the heat that threatened to overwhelm her as one of his hands slowly drifted from her waist and onto the back of her right knee.

He slowly lifted her leg, easily offering the crook of his elbow as her support for better balance. Hard panting breaths joined the cacophony of the pouring shower as she pressed herself to his body, using it as her anchor while she tried to regain her bearings. He slowly peppered her the side of her face with kisses as his hands worked to soothe her, rubbing leisurely against her most sensitive places. Soon, the light panting turned into soft cries of approval when his left hand slowly stroked her inner thigh. The fingers of his right hand were busy dipping into her quim, indulging in a different kind of wetness that the shower was sorely failing to give.

"Ah… Oh, Love. Please…" He grinned ridiculously at the sound of her pleading, equally relishing in the response he was getting down south. Her inner walls squeezed his fingers delightfully, and by now, he was positive her lovely folds wanted and needed something much more appropriate to squeeze.

"Speak louder, Baby. I can't hear you through the water." He mumbled into her ear, licking the shell afterward and grinning even more when her hold on him tightened and she obviously was trying to impale herself on his straining erection. And just to tease her, he shifted away. "You're so impatient, Lexi." He chided playfully, and yet, briefly brushed the tip of his cock against her swollen clit and the slightly parted slit.

"Ngh." She mewled in protest, nuzzling her face into the crook of his neck, breathing on him as she worked the tips of her fingers in his scalp. "I need you. Inside me. Please."

"I love it when you say my name."

Oh, he was such a demanding brat… Alexis groaned in frustration. She only wanted him to take her. Was that such a hard request? Why did he have so many demands? But despite it all, his dominance, and the way he asserted himself spoke volumes about his personality — his general views on things. And it was part of the boy she loved.

Her striking silver star… Her Aster.

"Aster, please." She slowly cupped his face and kissed his cheek, his jaw, the shell of his ear. "Please. I need you inside me, Love. I want you to take me. Show me and remind me again who I belong to."

And if that was what she wanted, then that was what she was going to get… It was the breaking point.

He cupped her chin with his free hand, and drugged her with a slow and heavy kiss, slipping his tongue into her mouth for a brief dance. With the water pounding down on them both, he seamlessly sheathed himself in her tight warmth, and his lover gasped at the fullness that resided inside her once again… It was so hot, and he was just so hard.

Parting ever so slightly, sighs of relief left their swollen lips just before they locked their lips together for another sultry kiss. Alexis moaned deliciously into his mouth as his hips took on a familiar gyrating motion, the tip of his cock rubbing all the right spots inside her.

Every nerve ending in her body could only scream for more. More. More.

She wanted it hard. Needed it fast. And she told him as such.

He complied wordlessly and merely relented to her request and disregarded all manner of gentlemanly gestures in favor of hot unadulterated copulation.

They had their sweet time to make love in the comforts of his bed this morning. Now she just wanted to sate the primal need festering inside her being, centered around the lovely ache between her legs that her lover eagerly satisfied with each mind-numbing thrust.

"Oh, you're so good. Oh, Aster. Aster, yes!"

He was rutting and growling like an animal as he pounded into her. But oh hell. This felt too good, and the pleasure left no room for embarrassment. He paused for a second just to coax her into a different and more comfortable position. Now, with both of her legs wrapped around him, calves resting snugly above his hips, and her upper back leaning against the tiled walls, he watched his gorgeous vixen tilt her head back in utter satisfaction. Her breasts perking up in excitement, he didn't cease his frenzied motions, only all too aware of the squelching and the smacking echoing louder than the water from the shower head above them pounding onto the wet floor.

Leaning forward he took one breast into his mouth, using his tongue to play with the pert nipple, earning yet more hot moans from his sweet angel.

"Aster! Aster, I— I'm going… to… Oh, Aster I'm going to cum."

Grunting, he braced his legs on the wet floor and in his own excitement, released her breast with an obscenely wet pop as he leaned over her and sloppily kissed her.

"Stay with me." He panted, the heat around his cock felt so overwhelming he was almost convinced that he was going to combust. Jeez, when did the shower become so scalding? "Stay with me, Baby. I'm almost there."

"Aaah! Ngh. It feels… so… good. I— I can't. I can't, Aster. I'm going to cum."

"Then cum for me, Lexi. Show me how good you feel, and cum."

His voice was the final straw — her last anchor to sense as he, for lack of a better word, thoroughly f**ked her into oblivion. Her gasps of satisfaction and her keening moans coupled with how tight her soaked walls clamped around his swelling cock was enough to break him too. Thrusts rapidly losing all manner of synchronicity, he slammed his hips against hers one last time, burying his shaft all the way to the hilt, as his own release found him.

Alexis moaned and relished the sound of his sexy growl as her lover slowly moved his hips, almost as if he was massaging her insides. She could feel her inner walls twitch in pleasure as rope after rope of semen splattered the back of her womb. His seed felt so hot as it filled her. She could have sworn she felt some of it leak out of her.

There was so much of it…

Her belly felt hot and full, and she couldn't suppress a lazy smile…

Through half-lidded eyes, she watched his face as he doubled over her, chest heaving desperately for oxygen, lips parted slightly.

After a good minute, he slowly and gently put her down, slipping his flaccid cock out of her at the same time. Almost immediately she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and clung to him, half-skeptical about her own legs' strength to hold her up right now. She honestly felt weak and drowsy… in a good way. But for crying out loud, she had to get to class!

Thank god Aster wasn't dense. He easily held her up and against him, his fingers leisurely stroking her soaked blonde hair. Alexis buried her face into the crook of his neck, embracing him and pressing her lips to the skin just below his ear. After a couple more seconds of comfy silence and quietly lathering and rinsing each other underneath the shower downpour for the second time in the morning, Aster finally switched the shower off, reached for a fresh towel on the rack and wrapped it around his girlfriend to pat her dry.

He caught her looking at him in that way again. Staring at him with an expression he hadn't quite deciphered yet. Through strands of wet hair clumping all together, Alexis gave him his favorite smile — the smile he could never say no to (because, by the gods, she probably didn't know that she had him wrapped around her finger).

Intertwining their fingers together, he brought their joined hands up and laid a poignant and lingering kiss on the back of her ring finger, ocean blue meeting chocolate brown in the sudden quiet that filled the luxurious bathroom space.

The longer he stared, the more prone she was to blush. But for once, she didn't tear her eyes away from his — only all too content with the quiet intimacy they (and they alone) could share in a moment just like this.

"I really love you."

Aster only smiled when she caught herself at the last minute and ended up biting on her lower lip, a furious blush dusting her once pale cheeks. She clearly hadn't meant to say something so out of the blue. Clutching the towel tighter around her chest, she averted her eyes to look everywhere but at him, too shy to say a word.

But if anything could be said about Aster Phoenix, it was that he was far from wilting underneath awkward situations like a common schoolboy.

Placing a finger underneath her chin, he gently guided her face upwards so he could stare straight at her again with penetrating eyes that reminded her too much of the ocean she had slowly come to love. Leaning in, he kissed her lips sweetly and chastely.

"I really love you too…"