Mio is still holding onto her chest and looks at Ritsu, the other girl is stumped with her long raven haired friends reaction.
"I'm not allowed to?" Ritsu leans her face a bit forward to Mio, much to Mio's faster heartbeat
"No… it's just…" Mio is struggling for an excuse
come on brain don't fail me! Say something to make her leave! You can't have her here, not tonight!
"I think it's pretty awkward to just leave after patching up" Ritsu follows up seeing that Mio was just really avoiding her to stay.
"No it's not, what kind of thinking is that anyways?"
"Yes it is awkward"
"No, it isn't"
"Yes it is!"
"No it isn't"
Ritsu lifts her hand and stops Mio from talking more "It is! Mio just think about it, I come here to your house, drama about outside your door, bow repeatedly and motorboat and then…. What? Say hey thanks for forgiving me, see you tomorrow"
"Yes, that's exactly it!"
"No, it's awkward, and nothing will convince me otherwise, nothing!" Ritsu's face comes closer to Mio while she shouts her point, Mio abruptly leans back to further herself from Ritsu but the hairband girl notices this and makes an effort to lean closer too, a few more leanings and Mio loses her balance, slumping head first to the floor, Ritsu falls above her from there.
The bassist eyes were closed when she saw her friend falling along with her, she then opens it after feeling the loud forceful thump of their bodies, a word of ouch escapes form the two girls, the situation would have been under control if not for Mio noticing that Ritsu's lips are now touching the bare of her neck, Mio was now panting, she can feel it, she can sense everything of the moment, Ritsu's smell, heat, weight, and cold soft lips damp to her neck, Mio's mind was split in half now
tell her to stand up now
no, you like this right?
tell her to stand up
she's kissing you in the neck
tell her to stand up
Mio was now having pandemonium's again, but she was stronger now, she knows what's right now, she knows what she has to do now.
Mio lifts her right arm, tilting it to Ritsu's shoulder, closer her hand is reaching to Ritsu's shoulder, once her hand lands on the girl above her, she then pulls her, not away but buried to her more, Ritsu seems to be aching from the fall, she can now feel Mio burying their bodies closer, and of course Ritsu knows where her lips are just touching right now, and she comes to fully envelop this silk white neck, every push that Mio makes to her. The two of them moans as this movement continues until Mio snaps herself to stop.
Stop now! Before Ritsu becomes suspicious
Slowly, Mio's hand stops moving, before she puts them down, Ritsu holds her wrist and lifts her face, drool coming down from her mouth.
"Mio…what was that for?" Mio's face becomes so red, Ritsu's face was closer now, so close the tip of their noses were already touching, and Ritsu, oh, she was furiously blushing too, Mio thought of it to be so cute but she is much more focused to the drool from the drummer's mouth, unexplainably she is being turned on by it.
I can feel that same drool dwindling at my neck; I wonder how it tastes like?"
Mio's eyes are just focused on that drool; Ritsu quickly realizes this and wipes the drool all the while standing up away from Mio.
"That's it" Ritsu announces in a firm voice
she's finally decided not to stay, phew
"I'm totally staying"
"huh?!, why?"
"Because you made me want to be here more" Ritsu blinks to Mio who was now at a standing seat position. "With you" she finally adds at the end. Unlike a while ago Ritsu doesn't care about Mio's answer anymore, she goes to her best friends cabinet and starts to rampage through her clothes,
"What are you doing?" Mio yells at her
"I'm looking for something to wear, of course"
"Hey! Go home and bring your own clothes!" Mio wasn't trying to be selfish with Ritsu, she just didn't find it comfortable to know that Ritsu will be wearing her clothes while sleeping in her bedroom, especially after the neck kissing incident.
Too bad that Ritsu doesn't seem to notice this and just continues her rampage, she takes out a very short above the knee blue shorts,
"This can do for the bottom" She lifts the shorts, but before she could put it down, Mio took it from her hand
"No way, that's one of my favorites!" Mio wasn't lying about this
"Okay, okay, I'll look for another, geez" Ritsu continues her search, Mio is now observing her from her back,
"Okay, how about this?" Ritsu lifts a sleeveless pink shirt with a strawberry print in the center.
"No, that's my favorite shirt" Mio then takes the sleeveless top from Ritsu's hand, but unlike a while ago, she was now lying about the shirt being her favorite, she just knew that she wouldn't be able to handle a sleeveless top Ritsu.
"Hah" Ritsu exclaimed, "Ok, I'll find another one" Ritsu then digs for other clothes that she could wear, choosing based on her style and whatever she thought was kind of cool, but for the next sets of clothes she lifts to Mio, all are taken away, eventually though, the cabinet loses all its contents.
"What the hell Mio, there's nothing left in your cabinet, give me something to wear already!"
"I'm sorry for being protective of my clothes, but all of them are really sentimental to me" Mio's back is now crowded with a mountain of clothes tossed there by her,
"Come on, it's impossible that all of those are your favorite" Ritsu points out at the mountain of clothes. Mio just stares at the mountain too,
"It could happen" Mio says this while having a memory when Mugi used it to her in a completely different matter.
"Tsk, Then I'll just settle for these" Ritsu smirks at a stretched garment, Mio bends her head down on Ritsu's shoulder to see the item, although after landing sight on it, Mio's Whole body went into an outrageous tint of blush.
"You baka! That's my panties! Don't hold them! At all!" Mio took her lingerie from Ritsu's stretched fingers and quickly lands the brown hair a big ounce of a punch on her head, Mio was now holding her panties while looking at the tortured Ritsu,"Are you some kind of pervert? Who does those things to their friend's lingerie?"
Ritsu was now aching, and while caressing the spot Mio hit her, she could feel a bump surfacing, "Apparently, I do, and I'm sorry for that", Mio doesn't answer, it was evident in her face how flustered she is at the moment. Ritsu then notices a pair of baggy pants and shirt at the end of the cabinet, hiding in the darkness, Ritsu unleashed the clothing. Slowly being taken outside the dark, the light pass to it showing Mio's middle school P.E. uniform
"Hey, Mio, I can settle with this" Ritsu grins, she doesn't lift the baggy P.E. unfirom anymore and quickly changes in the adjacent restroom, Mio is left there in her room, wondering what pair exactly was Ritsu going to wear, her waiting wasn't for long though, Ritsu quickly emerges showing off herself to Mio while wearing their middle schools P. .
"Huh? What the? Our old P.E. uniform?"
"Yeah, I guess that because it's stored at the very back of your cabinet, it's not one of your favorites." Mio was ready to argue more but Ritsu leaves her in the big space facing directly to the door, Ritsu then sits near the bed and fans herself with the T-shirt
"This size is really big, look at how baggy it looks at me" despite saying these Ritsu stays sitting, taking the form out of sight.
"Of course it's bigger, I'm bigger than you after all" Mio has somehow given up at this point, she is now starting to take the mountain of clothes back to their order in her cabinet, Ritsu helps her after a few seconds, while fixing the clothes arrangement, Mio is startled when Ritsu's face suddenly comes closer to her, unconsciously she closes her eyes, she waits for what happens next and there the sound of the drummers voice begins to ring in her ear, the message was a whisper, the delivery was slow, Ritsu's voice was being seductive and dominative at the same time
"By the way, The pants are tight around the crotch"
"Baka!" Mio pushes Ritsu away, who starts laughing even after falling to the floor in her butt.
"It's true you know I can feel it more when I'm stretching my feet and…"
"Stop talking like a pervert already! I get it!" Mio lightly slaps a twisted blue shirt to Ritsu's face
"Just help me get this clothes arranged and will take the futon from our guess room"
"O…okay" Ritsu answers, her face is literally dissatisfied, having a reddish glow, Ritsu holds her cheeks,
Mio, that shirt slap just now really hurt
Although she thinks of this, Ritsu doesn't say's it, she then resumes to helping Mio with arranging her clothes in the cabinet.
Hours later,
"I'm turning the lights off" Mio clicks the switch and the light turns off, she then walks to her bed, silently and carefully passing through the futon where Ritsu lays in now, just beside her own bed. She goes under her blankets and lays flat and straight at the bed, she places her hands above one another just below her chest and closes her eyes to sleep. The room is then swallowed into darkness and silence, and just as Mio was drifting to her dreams, a sudden tug is felt by her right arm; half asleep and half awake, Mio could only re-open her right eye to the source of tugging, but the sight became an awe to her, Ritsu was staring at her so unbelievably sweet, her eyes were watery yet clear and the shimmer was just beautiful, her smile was deep and suggestively romantic, and her bangs was sliding to her side making her look more attractive, Mio's two eyes are now open wide, she couldn't resist not to take a full look of this beauty beside her, but Mio's heart started to race, she thought it was the sight she was seeing that caused this but no, unconsciously Mio has now taken the hand that tug her and enveloped it in her own, squeezing lightly, Ritsu smiled to her
"Mio, what are you doing?" Ritsu was on her knees from the futon; her right hand is being held by Mio's left hand, while her left hand was supporting her head under her chin.
Mio blushes, not minding to not answer at all, she seemed to like the quietness of the moment and the warmth that the other hand was making her feel, but she knows it can't go on like this. She's been losing control for the past few days, and just this evening she had let herself savor such vulgar intimacies with Ritsu, a few more of these and she's sure that she won't have the right to deny that she has romantic feelings for her best friend.
Mio lifts her left hand while still holding Ritsu's hand,
"You mean this?" Mio shakes their hands in Ritsu's sight "Just catching the culprit who disturbed my sleep, what is it anyways?"
Ritsu once again smiles at her, she moves her hand from Mio's, much to Mio's hidden disappointment, but quickly holds it again, this time, its Mio's hands that are enveloped in hers. She squeezes Mio's hand and begins to from a sly smile before she moves fast and forcefully pushes Mio to the edge of her bed, still holding hands, Ritsu positions herself in Mio's bed, she takes the blankets and cover it above the two of them.
Ritsu is now lying beside Mio in her bed, thanks to her beds single size; the two are now tightly compressed under the blankets.
What the hell is Ritsu up to? It's so dark; I can't see anything … huh? What? Wait, could it be? Ritsu, I can feel her breathing, she's actually breathing at my right ear, oh God no, it's making me feel flustered!, her hand is still squeezing mine! Ritsu quit it already! I can't take this anymore!
Mio emerges from under the blankets
anymore of that and it's either Ritsu will notice my fast heart rate or I die of heart attack in her hands
Ritsu emerges seconds after, she begins to feel worried when she see's Mio holding on to her chest and is struggling to breathe.
"Mio, are you okay?" Mio doesn't answers, Ritsu is now worried that Mio can't breathe, she then tries to calm Mio by stroking her back, which Mio finds to be comforting and starts to relax.
"Mio, are you okay?" Ritsu asks for the second time, Mio is still holding onto her chest but she isn't struggling for air anymore, she sighs and puts her hands down
"Yeah, I am, this is your fault"
"yeah, I know that, but what did I even do? I mean I just wanted to sleep with you"
"I already gave you a futon, why do you still want to sleep with me?" Mio was blushing to say this.
"Come on Mio, it's not like we've never slept together in one bed, besides, the futon you gave me is really hard on the back, I tried to endure it, but I just can't, I can't sleep with my back aching from your hard futon"
"See, I told, you it would have been better if you went home"
"Yeah, ok, it's my fault now, and look I even ruined our sleep, now we're both awake at 12 in the night and we still have classes in the morning!"
Mio heard the guilt in Ritsu's voice and felt her chest ache; she didn't want Ritsu to feel unwelcomed. Yes, through the whole evening all she's done is to make Ritsu feel unwelcomed. She's been secretly getting flustered over and over by mere contacts and teasing of Ritsu, yet she denies all of this and does her best to make Ritsu feel unwanted, when the truth is that it's the complete opposite.
Mio lifts her hand attempting to rub Ritsu's back just as the former did a while back, when she found a better approach. She took Ritsu's head and lays it on her chest, lovingly stroking her childhood friend's short messy hair, Mio could smell Ritsu's sweet scent pressed firmly against her in a hug,
"You didn't ruin anything Ritsu, I'm sorry if I made you feel like you were at fault"
"Well, partly I am, I even woke you up" Ritsu replied, along with her arms finding its way on Mio's shoulder, it was a gesture of Ritsu hugging her back but she was pressed under Mio's chin making it hard for her hands to level on her waist.
"That's ok, I was just half asleep anyways" Mio smiled, finding it happy that Ritsu was hugging her back.
"I want to drink milk" Ritsu said, hugging tigher, Mio exclaimed a "huh" and Ritsu quickly replied
"Uhmm, you know, to help us sleep again"
"Uh, ok, I think that's a good idea" although she said this, Mio didn't expect Ritsu to be the kind who drank milk to get to sleep.
At the kitchen downstairs, Mio hands a glass of warm milk to Ritsu, who is sitting at the table; she then moves her way to sit next to friend. They both sip quietly in their glasses; neither of them seemed to be in a hurry to finish.
Mio was thinking of everything that had happened only in the short hours of the evening, she was now feeling horrid, realizing how many hints she's been giving away to her "just a friend".
First I get all blushing with her, next I unexplainably pull her into kissing me in the neck, I got flustered of her, wearing my clothes, and was so amazed by her sleepy sight at night, but everything of this was so uncontrollable, and Ritsu might have requested for explanations, but she just let it slide too fast, could it be that she's actually having the same problems as mine? I mean, she was the one to climb to my bed, and she hugged me back real tight too…
Am I actually hoping for this to work out?
Without realizing it, Mio had already finished drinking her milk, Ritsu was passing hers to her too, Mio then takes the glasses and smiles saying that "I'll wash them", Ritsu then stretches her arms and yawns afterwards.
"Now, I know I can finally go to sleep" Ritsu exclaims happily
"yeah, I'm feeling sleepy again thanks to the milk" Mio replies emerging from the lavatory area.
"So will you let me sleep in your bed?" Ritsu is still sitting in front of the table, just stretching her body close to Mio who was standing adjacent to her.
"hmm, yeah, I wouldn't want you forcefully crawling up on your own again"
The two of them then laughs together, but Mio quickly remembers that its midnight already so she "shhh" them to quiet, only to laugh still in a low volume.
Back to Mio's bed, the two of them are now lying together, but facing different directions. They were actually face to face but Mio jolted to the left after a few seconds, feeling flustered again, just before closing her eyes, Mio sees the silhouette of the neighbors window, and upon so, her eyes lifts open once again, she has just realized something that was very noticeable from the start, although she hasn't questioned it so much because of her secret happiness to it, Mio now understood what was really making Ritsu stay with her that night. Mio then shifts to her right finding that Ritsu opened her eyes too, Mio grabbed Ritsu's hand and asks her,
"Are you here right now because of Miyu?" Ritsu is clearly startled, her expression changes to a slight confusion.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"You're here because you want to avoid Miyu" before Ritsu could answer, Mio starts to talk again
"your uncomfortable with the fact that you'll see her because she's just a window away from you in your room, aren't you?" now, before Mio could add more, Ritsu started to explain herself
"Yes, I am, for a second I thought you didn't figure it out, but well, I should have known better"
"Yes you should, you should have just laid there and acted asleep if I were you"
"Thanks for the late advice"
"Shut up Ritsu, you're in it for me" Mio comes closer to Ritsu, she tightly takes the collar of the PE uniform her friend was wearing "first you make us go stupid for a text message that you have apparently taken into your arms already and now you make me an escape Miyu shelter, even fencing up an apology? I never should have forgave you so easily"
"Wait Mio, I'm sorry, it's not what you think, I really like spending sleepovers with you, and I just found you comfortable to be with more than anyone, you're my best friend right?, so you're obviously my shelter in everything, I'll always run to you"
Ritsu was still being collared by Mio, almost stopping to speak because of the formers tight grip on her.
"Best friends, huh? Shelter? Run to me? Well, how about me Ritsu? Don't I deserve some honesty here?"
Involuntarily Mio's grip on Ritsu becomes tighter, and she only realizes this when Ritsu squirms in a low painful groan.
"Oh, oh my God," Mio cries out, letting go of her grip " I'm sorry I didn't notice my grip" Ritsu stands in a sitting position and holds her neck while coughing, Mio then sits along her, Ritsu raises her head after her coughing was over, she was now sweating, Mio saw this but ignored it and asked if she was ok now,
"Yeah, if it saves me from more of Mio-chan's interrogation, then I am ok, peachy" Mio gives a devilish look on Ritsu, clearly not taking her bargain, she does however calms the then situation.
"Nothing in this world right now can stop my interrogation, so spit out Ritsu, you can't escape now"
"Oh, sheesh, Ok, but just because you're my best friend"
"Your not planning to tell the others in the K-on club?"
"It'll be better that way"
"Na-ah, if you tell me, you tell them or I'll tell them"
"What?, …" Ritsu is using a pleading tone
"W-hat?" While Mio is using a I-don't-care-and-teasing tone
"Ok, I give up, fine we can tell them"
"You should've just been honest from the start"
"Yeah, I'll surely do that next time" Ritsu then proceeds to her story, " Miyu went to my house in the morning, my room was messy so I couldn't let her in, we talked in the living room when I was beginning to notice her sudden shyness, she asked me to talk somewhere else and we went to the open park nearby, after briefly getting there she suddenly held my right hand with both her hands, she bowed her head, and said that she's never had the intention of being my friend, I questioned her after but she directly told me that she's always been a lesbian, and that she's had her eyes to dating me from the start"
"I see" was the only thing Mio could answer, but she had more thoughts she couldn't exactly voice out.
Mugi was always right about her assumptions, Miyu did love Ritsu, and now that I've heard the story, I don't really know what to say, I definitely can't support Miyu, yet I also don't want to make Ritsu feel that she's obliged to think twice, God, I don't know what to say!
"It's funny, you know" Ritsu is suddenly talking again, she places her hands on the back of her neck and lays down in the bed, Mio was still sitting and looks at Ritsu,
"What is?" Mio asks who was now facing in front of Ritsu.
"Just because of some crush and confessions, you, me, and the others have already been in an uproar"
Ritsu laughs after "And to think that I'd be the first one to experience it, and with a girl too!" Ritsu laughs more. Mio on the other hand understands Ritsu's point, more seriously than the latter. No one would have expected Ritsu to be the first person to have a romantic relationship in the club, and most specifically a girl to girl relationship. Although Ritsu is the boyish, outgoing type she really hasn't shown anything of homosexual attraction, and being a noisy, hyper-active, randomly irresponsible and childish girl, it is seldom debated if she could ever have a boyfriend who could out energize her. Well, not for the next years in high school that is.
"Hey, everyone has their share of unexpectedness, and yours just went overboard" Mio dishonestly answers
I know I can comfort her more, I could even tell her that hey, at least your being hit on by a lesbian, what would you feel if you were in my position? Constantly having pandemonium's and yearning for your "girl" friend in the most intimate ways, having Sapphic pleasures with touchy and holding contacts, your still at the lucky side of things, so just be thankful and cheer upbaka!
"Yeah, I highly agree with that" Ritsu seems to be cheered up though even without hearing Mio's thoughts. "How about you, Mio? Will you fall in love with a girl if given the chance?"
Mio was stroked hard with this question, she knows what she's been feeling lately and truth be told, she knows what it means, and that she's just scared to accept it. Mio knows she has feelings for Ritsu that are more than friends but she denies it.
How was this question brought forward? And why is it Ritsu asking me, out of all the people?
Mio was pondering over the odds of the situation, yet in split seconds after Ritsu asks her, a dominative smile creeps into Mio's mouth, locking eye contact with Ritsu, who was now a bit scared of Mio's prideful smile,
I don't know if this is faith, destiny or a joke, but if your handing me a door then I'm going to knock hard on it
Mio then exclaims in the most honest and prideful tone she could puff, an answer that will throw a lot of barriers that stood between her and her feelings for Ritsu away.
"Absolutely, and you might be the only girl"
Chapter four End.