Chapter 4
Summer's been around for a while now. How long? Even she doesn't know. All she cares about now is looking for ways to keep her cool during the humid season; when she feels the thick air stick to her skin and making her even more annoyed than any season throughout the year. Today, out of all days, is the middle of summer, meaning that the temperature is much hotter than usual, thus making Akira crave for a nice, cool glass of lemonade.
"Stupid summer… Stupid sun… Why can't it be winter break instead?" she sighs as she stirs the lemonade with a long silver spoon, making the ice cubes clink against each other.
Her lips rest against the tip of the spoon's handle as she gazes around the kitchen and feels somewhat disappointed at the fact that there's nothing cool to snack on. She also wants a few slices of watermelon, but the mansion isn't supplying that for neither her nor the others living here.
Finding it boring here, she stands up and brings her lemonade back to her room, where she'll eventually take a cold-watered bath.
While passing through the halls quietly, the birds fly into the shade of the trees and some bigger animals even decided to sleep under the shade of the mansion. In relation to that, she sees Shu peacefully asleep on the living room's sofa again. And his attire seems too warm for her; long sleeves and such.
"And what do you want? If it's nothing, then go away. I want to sleep" he says with his eyes closed.
"I don't get it, how can you wear something so warm on a day like this?" she dares herself to ask him.
He sighs, "After living here for so long, you still don't understand? You're even more clueless than that woman. Unlike us, you humans have warm blood, thus making the heat affects us much less" he explains with a small smirk on his face; knowing what he said made her slightly annoyed.
"Clueless? I was just asking you, lazy-ass" she turns her face away from him and drinks her lemonade while standing up not too far from him.
Shu then sits up and yawns while scratching his head, when she catches a glimpse of his fangs, she feels rather uncomfortable. Unlucky for her, he notices.
"What? Are you scared?" he eyes her curiously.
"Scared?" her voice sounds strange at the word, "Why in the world would I be scared of you?" she asks back.
The two of them becomes quiet until he stands up and begins to approach her. Knowing well, she stands her ground. However, she never expected that he'd take away her glass of lemonade and walk away, just like that.
"Hey! Give me back my- lemonade...?" and suddenly, he's gone. And since that's the last glass of lemonade there is – which will be restocked later today, she decides to look for him in order to get back her drink.
Her pace speeds up as she's walking to the head of the house's room; being impatient as she's always been recently. The light from outside brightly illuminates the once dark hallways, it's a pleasant sight for her, actually, since it takes away the eeriness of the whole place.
When she reaches his door, her knuckles immediately knock on it as hard as she can. "I know you're in there! I want my lemonade back!" she shouts.
No answer…
"That's it" she mumbles and pushes down the handle with so much force that the door easily swings open, even making the hinges squeak a little.
It takes her by surprise that the door isn't even locked, so she almost lost her footing when she leaned forward as an attempt to push the door open by force. But instead, she almost tripped down the small set of stairs into his room; if not for the railing, she'd surely hurt herself and earning a humorous chuckle from him.
"Give it back!" she exclaims.
His ocean blue eyes then gaze at the empty glass that's on his desk while awaiting her next reaction. To be honest, he's finding this game very interesting; it's been a while since he last saw her, so why not greet her with a few jokes?
"You… you finished it! How could you? T-that was the last pack of lemonade in this place!" filled with tiny fury, she makes her way to Shu's bed while glaring at him.
"I was feeling thirsty as well, and the lemonade was good" he answers with a relaxed tone.
"You could've drunk something else! That was my lemonade goddammit".
"Like what?" a teasing smirk forms on his lips, but goes unnoticed to the human.
"I don't know… blood?" she shrugs.
"Are you saying that you're willing to give me your blood as long as you get to keep your lemonade?".
Her cheeks then become red, "no, I'd never do something like that!" she retorts back.
The vampire finds her denial rather amusing and is acceptable enough to fill his boredom. "Your denial is pointless; it's clear that you prefer offering your blood to me rather than lose your own drink. I expected as much from you" he smirks.
Akira's cheeks become bright red in both anger and embarrassment, "You pervert!" her voice becomes louder; closer to a scream.
"Look at that, your face is all read" he continues to taunt her.
Out of blind rage, she stomps closer to his bed and glares at him. "You better pay be back, you hear!".
His ocean blue eyes stare at her for a moment, "Why should I? It was your own fault that you let me take it". Even though it's rather interesting, the meaningless argument is starting to become tedious.
The next thing he hears are incoherent ramblings. He feels rather tired after drinking, and moreover, he doesn't care anymore whether she's still in a fit or not. He just wants to get some sleep; dozing off now wouldn't be a bad idea.
"Hey! Are you even listening?" she shouts at him as she sees him stat to close his eyes.
Shu's eyes shoot back open at the loudness of her voice. With a slightly angered look, he looks at her, and that's enough to make her stay quiet for a few seconds.
"F-Fine then, you don't have to do anything. But at least stop taking things from me" the hot-tempered woman suddenly becomes meek.
"Surrendering already? You're all bark and no bite" he prefers her to be obedient anyways.
In reply, she furiously shakes her head, "I didn't mean it like that!".
Finally having enough of it, he harshly grabs her wrist and pulls her onto the bed. Proceeding to position himself on top of her, all the while glaring straight into her eyes with pure annoyance.
"That mouth of yours' is pretty noisy… I'll have to shut it up" he says in a deep voice.
Her lips quiver when his thumb slowly traces the outline, she even whimpers a little at how he's holding her down.
His index finger glides over her skin from the back of her ear to her collarbone, "Or maybe I'll just bite you so you'll know your place". After saying that, he starts to unbutton her shirt.
Under him, she squirms to get away from him. Despite knowing that her efforts are futile against his inhuman strength, she still hopes that maybe he'll become even more annoyed and release her. But her wrist is starting to hurt a lot as if her blood flow is cut off there.
"If you'll be good, maybe I'll let go before your wrist snaps apart from your arm".
The mere thought of it sends chills all over her body since she knows very well that these brothers are capable of doing so with little effort. So all she can do now is stay still.
When he's unbuttoned her shirt all the way, he intently looks at her flushed face while wondering whether she'd given up or waiting for the right time. But for now, he ignores that and moves his attention back to her shirt. He slowly begins to slide her shirt off, all the while enjoying the feel of her soft, unmarked skin. He can feel her trembling under him, but her face still remains unfazed by the contact as if to show that she's brave.
It makes him feel challenged, yes, but it also triggers a sense of irritation since she's being difficult, but even more so when she grabs his wrist so that her body won't be exposed any more.
"Stop it… " she manages to whimper out, "Get your hands off me".
"Challenging me now? What a foolish girl you are" he easily shakes her hand off and takes off her shirt; exposing her body.
On instinct, she quickly covers her bra by crossing both arms over them. "You fucking pervert…!" yet she still fights back.
"There's nothing to hide; I already know everything about you".
Her vision blurs as she falls into submission.