If you had a ruler and stretched your arm, you could see that the sun is two and a half centimeters away from the floor. That late it is.
"Look at you, using metric instead of imperial." Chitose giggled. "I mean, I don't complain."
"Hey, fuck inches and that shit." Christine said, throwing her ruler into her backpack. "One mile my ass. One kilometer is better."
"Woah, chill with the insults." Chitose tried to be cool.
"Sorry, hun." Chris replied and sat down with her girlfriend. "I'm feeling raw today."
"Raw as in?" Chitose asked.
"Raw as in 'I want to be overly-offensive'." Chris said. "Let's change topic, what do you want to do?"
"Well..." Chitose looked around her, the little garden they were sitting in by the park being mostly deserted. "There's enough people to not do something fun, so I guess we can go for an ice cream."
"Define something fun." Chris asked and stood up, offering a hand to Chitose.
"Nope." The albino girl replied and took the offered hand. Once she stood up, Christine pulled her closer to herself, hugging the girl by the waist. Chitose was taken by surprise with this, but she accepted the hug and placed her hands on the Cupid's shoulders.
"You'd rather show me?" She said and caressed the girl's back, really close to where the back loses it's name.
"I'd rather have my ice-cream." Chitose said, lowering one of her hands to lay right over the taller girl's chest, circling her index finger in the middle of the cupid's chest. "But I didn't said no."
"Very nice." Chris said and let go of the girl, holding her hand. "Come on, it's on the house."
"This isn't your house." Chitose mocked her. "But I'll take the offer."
The two girls walked their way towards an ice-cream parlor nearby, named 'The Frost Effect' for some reason. Once they were inside the place, a little empty, they ordered their desserts and waited for them. During the waiting, Chitose decided to look for a table to sit, so she walked away. But during her searching, she found two familiar faces.
"Oh, good afternoon!" Chitose greeted Sakura and Haku, both sitting in a table large enough for more people.
"Oh, hello, Ikeda-san!" Sakura said first. Haku just waved and continued eating an innocent chocolate ice-cream. "You're here by yourself?"
"No, Chris-chan is here with me." She said and pointed at her girlfriend, who was looking at her, curious of whom she found. Chitose made her a signal to come over and she sat besides Sakura.
"How have you two been?" Chitose asked as sweetly as ever. If you're not careful enough, you might contract diabetes because of her.
"Well, Haku managed somehow to nail every exam we had the last days." Sakura said, patting the girl's head. "So we are celebrating."
"Congrats." Chitose said. Haku gave her a thumbs up.
"Hey, yo." Christine appeared with a cup of the dessert in each hand. "What up with you two?"
"Frish!" Haku yelled with ice-cream on her mouth. She swallowed quickly and stood up to hug the girl. "Chris, how have you been!?"
"Wow, stop it, cake-buns." Chris said and pushed the girl back into her seat. "I'v been good, matey." She said and sat down.
"What was that?" Haku asked, confused by the word.
"Mate in English." Chris explained.
"Oh, cool." She giggled and repeated to herself the new word.
"And you, Neko-chan?" Chris asked and gave Chitose her little cup, filled with watermelon ice-cream. Natural and with little chunks of it, by the way.
"Good too, thanks." Sakura said. "I can see that you two have been having a good time."
"Yep." Chris said and placed a hand over Chitose's head. "We just came here to have something sweet and I dunno what we'll do next."
"What about you two?" Chitose asked.
"After this, we're going to my place and have a Christopher Nolan's movies marathon." Haku said.
"And not watch the movies, right?" Chris said and laughed a little.
"What do you mean?" Haku said, without realizing that Sakura wash blushing really hard.
"N-No! Of course not!" Sakura said out loud.
"You two are up to some Netflix and chill, right?" Chitose joined the dark side and teased her too. Sakura blushed even harder, and Haku confusion was even higher.
"N-No, I didn't!" Sakura denied.
"What are you talking about?" Haku was feeling so out of place. "What do you mean by 'not watch the movie'?"
"It's a sex euphemism." Chris said bluntly. "Imagine a couple watching a movie and then they start to get steamy, but leave the movie on. They 'don't watch the movie'." She explained, this last statement along with the quote marks.
"Ohh..." Haku said. "And 'Netflix and chill'?"
"It's the same thing." Chitose said. Haku processed both phrases, and after ten seconds, she blushed with a little smile. "I mean, if it's with Neko-chan, I don't mind."
"W-W-W-WHAT!?" The two other girls started to laugh at Sakura's reaction.
"Welp, there you have it." Chris said. "It's now consensual."
"Sorry we ruined your celebration." Chitose said after regaining control of her breath. "We should go now."
"Yeah, you sure need to go." Sakura said, hiding in her hands.
"Have a pleasant night." Chris said and stood up. "Correction, have it pleasant during the night."
"STOP IT!" Sakura's face couldn't go any redder. The couple left laughing. After the two were out of sigh, Sakura's blush decreased and she took a deep breath.
"You know... I wan't kidding." Haku said seriously, still with both her little smile and blush. Sakura turned to see the honest expression of her friend and quickly looked away.
"I know." She said and laid back on her seat. "But no."
"I know." Haku said and moved closer to her friend, hugging her with one arm.
The sun was no longer in the sky, but hidden beneath the earth. The rays of the sun now just emanated on the clouds a dark orange tone that collided with the night, making the sky fill up with darkness.
"It's really pretty the sunset." Inoue stared at the dying day.
"It reminds me of your hair." Mari said and stroked the sky-like hair on her companion. Inoue moved her hand and shushed her away.
"I know it's pretty, but don't." Inoue said.
"Sorry." Mari said. "But anyway... You had a good day?"
"..." Inoue thought about today's events. After eating they walked around the city center, looking for something to do. They found a clothes shop, so they walked in and looked around; They found a street band playing along, exciting Mari's musical instincts and started to dance; They walked into a museum, art pieces exported from around the world, like murals that covered an entire room, masks from ancient times, pictures and pictures from world-wide recognized photographers, and so on.
Mari took the liberty of taking pictures of Inoue most of the time. She took pictures of her looking at the several paintings, of her explaining to Mari how the movement in the painting was given by something and a picture of her looking mad that her explanation fell upon the deaf ears of the girl taking the picture. A picture of Inoue drinking on the restaurant, looking at the window. A picture of Inoue walking down the street, underneath a Sakura tree. A picture of Inoue looking at the street band.
When they decided that it was enough walking, they sat down on a bench in the park, not the same from before, and started looking at all the photos taken. Inoue blushed slightly when she noticed that there were more pictures of her than anything else.
"You look beautiful in all of them." Mari once said during the whole review, making Inoue blush harder. She asked her politely to delete some of them, the ones that she didn't liked. Just a few of them were deleted, but the was no complain coming from Mari about it.
Then they started to talk about them. The two exchanged ideas about the museum, about how abstract art is better than modern art; They talked about the street band, and Mari explained to Inoue how the bassist was playing in certain styles and explained them; they talked about the clothes they didn't bought. They talked and talked and talked.
Inoue sighed and smiled.
"Yeah, I had a good day." She said and laid back on the bench. "Better than the last date."
"I know." Mari said. "I kinda wanted to make it up with you for what happened on our last date."
"You did good." Inoue said. "Keep it up and you might actually have a chance with me."
"So you want me to keep feeding you and take you places and stuff?" Mari asked with a humorous tone. Inoue giggled.
"Yeah, why not?" She said and brushed her hair behind her ears. Mari was struck with even more attraction towards Inoue by her actions, making her blush furiously as she scooted over to sit basically leg-to-leg with Inoue and pass her arm behind her, making her come closer. Inoue also blushed, but nonetheless accepted the hug and rested her head on Mari's shoulder.
The sky was now dark. The stars started to appear as the sun was now completely gone, not a trace of it among the clouds. The two girls shared a long-lasting hug, warming each other up with their own heat, heartbeats going crazy at first, but now beating in sync. None of the two noticed their nap, not that it matters. Just the two of them and nothing to worry about.
It was first Mari to wake up. She wasn't totally conscious of where she was, but she remembered once Inoue moaned in her sleep and fixed her position in Mari's arms. Mari looked at the sleeping beauty besides her. She looked so calm and pretty. Mari's cheeks flared up when a thought came to her mind.
Her lips were ever-so-slightly parted, as if ready to be kissed. her breathing was so comforting, reminding Mari of it's existence. She blushed hard. The cold on her hands just kept bothering her. Suddenly she started moved closer. Her lips felt so dry, her breathing so heavy and her arms spaghetti. She could only do what she could.
She just hugged the girl and kissed her.
It was a tiny kiss. A shy contact between the two. Barely considerable as a kiss. Mari didn't wanted to wake her up. The contact was so quick, but she wasn't satisfied with it. She wanted to be selfish and have it her own way. But Inoue was so fragile to her, anything may set her off.
A little hand that touched her shoulder made her freak out. It was Inoue's. She still had her eyes closed, but her movements were decided. She pulled Mari into her lips again, this time returning the kiss.
Thank god, Mari thought to herself, thank you for letting me live.
And then her hopes and dreams crashed to the ground, as Inoue woke up from her slumber and, in panic, threw the girl away from her.
"What the fuck..." Inoue whispered. "The hell is wrong with you!?" Mari sat confused on the ground.
"What are you talking about?" Mari said.
"You fucking kissed me!" Inoue stood up.
"You didn't... wanted me to?" Mari asked, now feeling cold on the side Inoue was sitting besides her.
"Why would I want you to kiss me!?" Inoue yelled "What is wrong with you?" She said and started to walk away.
Mari looked at her back and the whole thing suddenly made sense. Inoue didn't pulled her in, her arm just casually landed on her shoulder, probably looking for something to hug, and gravity made it's thing.
Mari quickly stood up and ran to Inoue.
"WAIT! I can explain!" Mari yelled behind Inoue, running towards the distant girl.
"I don't want to hear it!" Inoue turned her head and yelled back. Mari's steps grew larger as Inoue walked out of the park. "Save it to yourself!"
For some reason, the streets were empty. The streets were dark. Almost abandoned. Mari looked at the only light in the road, approaching aggressively fast to the girl starting to cross the street. All complain coming from Inoue stopped, but her lips kept on moving. The cold air brushed quickly into Mari's face, probably too quickly. She yelled. She yelled the only thing she could. Inoue turned to her right, her pretty face shining because of the only source of light coming towards her.
Everything seemed to run in slow-motion. Everything except herself. She cared for nothing but for Inoue. She wasn't thinking right. Her mind was set on taking the beautiful girl on the bench they were previously in, to sit down and keep sleeping
She felt her hands hitting the soft sunset-like hair of the girl that caught her attention the very first day she saw her. Now that same mane of hair is far away from her, far from the coming light. That's all that mattered to her. She didn't cared about being thrown off her feet, nor that the world started to spin faster that it usually does. Suddenly her face felt cold, just the right side. The earth stopped spinning, but her head didn't. Was she deaf? Everything seemed so slow. For how long was she laying there? When did she started to lay in there?
And then she was taken to her back. And she saw it. The orange sky. The beautiful sunset that once captivated her is now right over her, amidst the dark sky. She saved her sunset and that all that mattered.
And then everything turned dark.