There was something magical about the afternoon. It was surprisingly warm considering the previous day, there was a substantial amount of city wild life running around, and the sky was certainly beautiful and clear... But none of these things seemed to majorly contribute to the curious feelings of such a mysteriously pleasant and wonderful afternoon. In fact, they seemed to only be noticed on the off-hand. They seemed to be like the background in a photograph, and rather than the beauty of nature capturing the foreground, Azusa's feelings had taken center stage like a rather boisterous and lively opera singer with a penchant for singing in falsetto.
Having had time to prepare for their outing that day, Azusa wore a rather comfortable looking black hoodie over a particularly cute t-shirt with a colorful star pattern. A somewhat short skirt and a pair of leggings to keep the cold off adorned her legs, creating an outfit that matched her personality without being too loud. She thought she had done very well in looking nice for Yui that day.
Yui of course had thrown on whatever she could find that was clean, but it suit her like it always did. A black and purple grunge floral pattern adorned an off white t-shirt, and she had layered it with a dark grey turtle neck underneath. Yui had with her a small hand bag, it's strap draped around her shoulder. Azusa imagined that Yui was wearing a skirt that was oddly similar to their school uniform attire, but said nothing. Yui was cute, and it did her no good to make fun of Yui's style. Azusa also had to take into consideration the threat of not being able to meet with Yui on time. If Yui couldn't decide on what to wear, she would never leave the house.
It was a somewhat realistic thought at least, but to be brutally honest Azusa's knowledge of Yui's home life was really quite lacking. Even over the course of the last couple years, there had only been a handful of times when she had visited Yui at home and spent enough time there to learn the daily ways of Yui. It was disconcerting to think that Yui had a secret life at home that Azusa didn't know about. It was by this fact, one that Azusa was perhaps painfully aware of, that Azusa deemed it fitting to try to spend as much time as she could at Yui's house before she left for college. Today was unfortunately not going to be the start of that endeavor, but Azusa planned to ask. At some point, at least.
"Yui-senpai, do you think you're going to play the guitar at college?" Azusa inquired, pining for another glance from Yui as the older girl bounced along next to her with the energy and youthfulness of someone ten years younger.
"I want to!" Yui replied quickly, "You're going to come down and we are going to play together, right?"
Azusa blushed slightly as Yui's full attention came upon her. Between Yui's bright smile and her small hand in hers, it was hard to go wrong. It was hard to feel like there was anything dismal in the world. Certainly Yui would be going to school soon, but for now it was okay. For now the ridiculously persistent thought of Yui going away for a long period of time was tucked safely away, right along with the possibility that her parents wouldn't allow her to take the train on a regular basis two hours each way to and from nowhere land. To and from to see a student at a school with a name that sounded like a deluxe penitentiary with maximum security shoe lockers.
As far as her parents went, Azusa had so far drawn a blank. She hadn't decided to tell them about her interest in girls, her interest in Yui, or the blossoming relationship she had just started, and she didn't expect to receive any sort of carte blanche for such an engagement either. Considering that their relationship was less than 48 hours old, and considering that she was bumbling along with relationships for the first time, it was probably best to not even talk about it with her parents... But an irrational part of Azusa wanted to throw her supple and edible self into the lion's den. She wanted her parents to know and be happy for her. It was this strange, human feeling from her days of childhood needs of wanting to feel valid. Of wanting one's love and pride to feel valid.
Love was perhaps a bit far off, but Azusa could see it in the horizon of her dreams. Every dream, everyday, in fact.
"Azunyan! You're spacing out again!" Yui exclaimed, taking a step closer to Azusa so their sides met as they walked.
Neither of them were exactly sure where they were going, but at the very least they were sure to spot some cheap, mediocre place to eat. The district wasn't completely unfamiliar, but Azusa wasn't specifically knowledgeable either.
"Oh yeah," Azusa began, "I definitely want to come see you as much as possible! You'll have to show me around!"
"What about playing together?" Yui asked. She had been expecting some sort of affirmation from Azusa that they would still play together, though for some reason unknown to Yui, Azusa had spaced that part out of the question. Yui smiled with an air of innocent vindication.
"Oh, I want to play guitar with you!" Azusa replied, partially correcting the course of her locomotive. "But are we going to have other people to play with?"
"Yes," Yui replied stoutly. "Because everyone else will come too!"
"Eh, don't you think that's going to be difficult?" Azusa turned her attention ahead. Yui had done very well to miss the fact she wanted to spend special time with Yui playing their guitars together, but... Getting the old gang together was not a bad idea either. It would be interesting to hear from all of them on the rare occasion they could be together. "Oh my gosh, Mugi-senpai!"
"Where!" Yui snapped to attention and began looking around furiously for the blonde-haired confectionery bearing heiress.
"No, no, Mugi-senpai!" Azusa began again energetically. "She has those vacation homes, right?"
"Yes she does! They are so nice! We can play on the beach!" Yui replied enthusiastically.
"No, music. We are going to play music. At the beach houses," Azusa reiterated, and Yui draped her arms around Azusa remorsefully.
"But the beaches... They are so nice Azunyan! You wouldn't deny me the ocean and the swimming..." Yui put on her best pouting face as she hung on to Azusa. "We can skip summer studies together... I'll even write you a fake doctor's note..."
"That's even worse!"
"We can eat Mugi's cake! And in the evenings, we can hide away and..." Yui's attention was suddenly diverted to a small candy shop on the approaching corner. "Oh my gosh. Candy. Quick!"
"It would have been nice if she finished that sentence," Azusa mused as Yui dragged her along speedily to the beacon of toothaches and dental work. The afternoon sun shone off the surface of the windows with a golden glow that could be construed as a symbol of divine blessing. Azusa was certain the building looked prettier to Yui than it did to her.
Hand in hand, Yui lead the way to the hard candy section of the store and furiously began to inspect the shelves. Azusa gazed about the collection of sweets idly. Rather than watch Yui, her mind was rapidly doing iterations over the thought that her hand was still in Yui's and about how the shopkeeper was probably watching them and thinking how they were raised poorly. Thinking how they were destitute and needed better homes with normal, well-to-do families and proper bedtimes. Yes, certainly staying up late and browsing cesspool image boards had brought the perversions of lesbianism upon her.
She couldn't say those perversions were particularly bad, however. Yui was just too cute, too sweet, too innocent...
"This is where you come in." Asuza thought to herself, and she returned her gaze to the bouncy girl still holding her hand. Rather than let go, Yui had been hoarding candy in one hand, and now she was presently at the point where she could no longer hold any more.
"Okay!" Yui said happily, dragging Azusa up to the counter and setting down her selection. She fished through her pocket for some spare change and set it down before the shopkeeper.
Azusa was certain that the shopkeeper, a lady in her mid-fifties perhaps, was recording them on video surveillance. She peered around the room furtively, but could not find anything to suggest a camera was capturing their every move. "Certainly she's connected with the school board, this is a candy shop kid trap after all."
"Thank you so much darlings, have a nice day," the shopkeeper said kindly after Yui had counted out the proper amount for the sweets.
"I'll definitely come back again!" Yui replied, letting go of Azusa's hand and removing her purchase from the counter. She peered at Azusa curiously. "Azunyan, no candy?"
Staring back at Yui with a face that clearly said she wasn't done holding Yui's hand, Azusa mumbled, "No thanks."
Yui seemed to catch on to Azusa's dejected expression, and sidled up next to her as they left the shop and proceeded down the street.
"Azunyan doesn't want a little sugar?" Yui teased, unwrapping a lollipop and twirling it around in her mouth. It wasn't long before the sticky redness of the candy had managed to adhere to her lips. She took Azusa's hand again after stuffing her sugary purchases and the wrapper into Azusa's hoodie. "Why so down, Azunyan?"
It was rather clear to Azusa that Yui had noticed her expression, and it was also rather clear that she was playing the 'poor me I want attention' game with Yui, but for the life of her she couldn't figure out how Yui always managed to make her feel like she had lost such a game even if she had gotten the attention that she had wanted in the first place. Azusa was beginning to think that it had something to do with Yui's innate ability to tease her regardless of the situation. Even now, after Yui had recapitulated the conversation of their hands together tenderly, the older girl was idly teasing her with the spinning action of the very red lollipop in her mouth.
How long Azusa would last against such purposeful torment, she didn't know. All she knew was that Yui's lips were looking wonderfully sweet and certainly her status with Yui would grant her adequate rights to access them. Certainly she could grab a hold of the candy and pull it from Yui's mouth, and then in the same deliberate movement, lock her lips around Yui's and make everything official.
"Azunyan..." Yui began with a hedonistic tone that was strikingly lacking innocence. She put the lollipop back in her mouth and stopped in her tracks, the shade of a nearby tree casting a mellow shadow across her face.
It was only a second later that Azusa had also come to a stop, and now as Yui turned to face her it suddenly became clear just how deliberate Yui intended to be. A sly smile had spread across Yui's face in the shadows, accented only with the brightly colored candy as it contrasted against her pale pink lips.
"Yui-sen..." Azusa started, but Yui was too fast. The moment Azusa had opened her lips, Yui had opened hers. The lollipop came flying out of the sugary recesses of Yui's mouth at a speed that rivaled an inter-regional bullet train, the translucent red of the confection catching a ray of sunshine in a blur of color. Before Azusa could react, before she could even process the situation, the shimmering red sweetness was upon her own lips, still warm and dripping with Yui's saliva as it entered her mouth.
Azusa wanted to explode. She wanted Yui to feel, to understand, to know. She wanted the shockwaves to travel through Yui's body like successive avalanches: thrilling her, scaring her, smothering her.
"I just wanted to share," Yui said anticlimactically, giggling with a cute smile that completely lacked the particularly sinister expression from only a moment before.
The guise of the sweet Yui had returned so quickly, Azusa almost wondered if it had been a dream. Or course, the lollipop in her mouth certainly was evidence that proved otherwise, and even though Yui had backtracked from the encounter with that innocent smile, Azusa's feelings in that moment had managed to take a step off into the deep end of desire. For every ounce of purity that Yui had regained, Azusa had lost three.
Azusa was ready pounce.
"That look on your face is amazing, Azunyan," Yui commented softly, teasingly. She pulled the lollipop from Azusa's mouth and stuck it back in her own, twirling the candy around once more. A wet popping sound later she removed it, and with a belying smile she added, "Come and get it!"
Yui was off, dashing down the sidewalk at a run. Azusa, momentarily stunned by Yui's erratic behavior, pursued at an ever faster run. Perhaps if her heart hadn't been wrapped up in Yui in that moment, she would have thanked herself for actually trying during PE. She would have been thankful that Yui wasn't the greatest runner as well. But it didn't matter.
The heels of Yui's shoes licked the air in front of Azusa mockingly as she closed the distance. The meters ticked down, and before Azusa had the mind to realize where they had headed, she had caught up to Yui.
Arms wrapped around Yui, and the older girl slowed her run to a standstill in defeat, breathing heavily with lollipop still in hand. Azusa squeezed Yui tightly, entrapping her arms and leaning against her as she caught her breath.
"Azu... nyan..." Yui sputtered softly between inhales. She fidgeted in Azusa's grasp, wiggling cutely as Azusa loosened her hold. Yui turned around to face Azusa. "You... caught me..."
Without a thought, Azusa's lips closed the distance with Yui's, locking with the crimson tinged softness that Yui had teased her with for so long. The lollipop fell to the ground from Yui's hand, but neither girl seemed to have noticed.
Azusa pressed in deliberately, her cheeks brushing against Yui's as they burned red, her hands pulling Yui impossibly closer. The scent of the lollipop filled her nose, and the taste of it on Yui's lips provoked her to reposition for another kiss. A deeper kiss.
This time she savored Yui's lower lip, sucking the sugar from it greedily as her prey began to whimper and fidget. Time and space was lost to the void of disregard. None of it mattered. None of it could be felt. All Azusa could feel was Yui's body against hers, and the raging emotions erupting from within like Mt. Saint Helens on a really heavy day.
Yui managed to back away from the kiss, breathing heavily and leaning into Azusa with a glassy, disbelieving stare. She lacked words. Noticing that it was safe and that Azusa had realized she needed to breathe, Yui rested her own head on Azusa's shoulder and closed her moist eyes.
For several moments there was no movement or sound besides the breathing of both girls as they regained their winds. Azusa's mind was strangely relaxed in the pure bliss that she felt running through her body. There was a wonderful feeling associated with finally sharing a kiss with the person she desired so much. It had been her first, and no number of romances could have told her what it would be like. In retrospect, she was quite happy it happened suddenly. In those same romances she had seen some rather shy kisses that left one feeling remorseful and regretting. There was no way she ever wanted her first kiss to be something like that.
A curious vibrating sensation could be felt against Azusa's stomach, and she peered down to see that Yui's small satchel was the source.
"Oh," Yui said at last, realizing her cellphone was ringing. She let go of Azusa and pulled her phone from the confines of the small bag quickly, pressing the appropriate button to accept the phone call. "Umm, hello?"
Azusa gazed on as Yui conversed on the phone with what sounded like her sister. She considered what time it possibly was. Surely they had spent the better part of the day together. It was disheartening to think that Yui had to probably leave now, but Azusa was certain the pleasant memories of their time that day would last until their next afternoon together.
Hearing Yui say her goodbyes after only a few short moments, Azusa turned her attention back to the girl. It was readily apparent that Yui had shed a tear, but when... Azusa was not sure. She hadn't really been paying attention since she devoured Yui's lips.
"Yui-senpai..." Azusa began to ask, but Yui interrupted her with a hug.
"That was Ui, I need to be home for dinner and some packing," Yui explained, letting Azusa go and taking a step back. "We don't have to run today though..."
"Oh?" Azusa asked, interested in the possibilities of another kiss. It sounded as if Yui was walking her home again today, so perhaps the date wasn't over quite yet.
"Yeah, Ui got mad at me last time for running in the dark."
...o.o.o.o...
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