Eli broke the kiss her and Umi were sharing, which left Umi wanting to complain.
"Now... don't tell anyone about this or you might not be a sister for much longer..." Eli whispered in Umi's ear, which made Umi snap back to her usual self.
Umi lightly pushed her and walked away leaving behind a puzzled Eli. Umi walked to the church in a hurry, her heart pounding violently making her a little shaky.
'What have I done? I've kissed someone from the same gender and that is a huge sin and is also frowned apon in society... what am i going to do?! I cant tell anyone... just like Eli said, if I tell someone i might not be a sister for much longer...' Umi thought as she finally arrived to the church and sat in one of the wooden benches. She failed to realize that two little girls were in the church and saw that she looked troubled.
"Umi... what happened?" A little girl with long black hair asked. Umi snapped back to reality and looked down to the two girls
"Oh... Chika... Dia... what are you two doing here? Arent you supposed to be in your class?" Umi asked with a smile. Both girls pouted and shook their head.
"Class is boring! I don't want to be there!" Dia explained, crossing her tiny arms and looking away, her black hair fluttering around as she turned. Chika nodded, as her orange cowlick went up and down violently.
"Dia is right! I want to have fun! Not learn..." Chika whined making Umi subconsciously smile as she was reminded of a close friend.
"But your sister is there too isnt she? What happens if she starts to worry about you? She might cry." Umi sincerely stated, making Dia feel a little guilty "Plus... you two are in trouble already... your teacher might not let you have lunch and dinner for skipping her class." Now both girls sulked at the thought of not eating for the rest of the day.
"Here... how about this; I'll take you two to your class amd tell the teacher that you were helping me with the garden?" Both Chika and Dia nodded quickly and took Umi by her hands and happily dragged her to their class. Umi giggled and let the two little girls drag her and remembered the mischief she did with her two childhood friends; Kotori and Honoka.
.oOo.
It was about to be time for Kotori to show up, so Umi walked to her garden, only to be pulled by the arm towards someone.
"Now now... where is this beautiful woman going?" Eli whispered in Umi's ear. Umi looked up to see Eli, but the lightling was rather low since their only source of light being the full moon.
"I-im going to the garden to meet up with my friend..." Umi stuttered, those crystal blue eyes working their magic to start taking over Umi again just like earlier in the day.
"Well im going to sleep soon... shouldn't I have my good night kiss?" Eli whispered seductively, making her way to Umi's neck, making Umi shiver a little. Eli wrapped her arms around Umi's waist to bring her closer.
"W-well I dont know..." Umi meekly said looking up to the dark sky. Eli kissed Umi's neck tendely making Umi squirm under Eli's hug.
"Well I think I should..." Eli said raising her head to look at Umi's golden eyes. Umi felt the woman in front of her have full control of her again. Nodding, Umi slowly closed her eyes and leaned in to kiss Eli a second time, though she felt that same urge to run away; it was a bad idea to kiss Eli, God would be disappointed in her again... but Umi didnt have control of herself, it was Eli.
Eli saw that Umi was leaning in to kiss her, which surprised her since she thought Umi wasnt going to kiss her anyone, that it was just a one time thing, but by the looks of it, this wasnt going to be the last time they would kiss each other. So, Eli leaned in and gave her a long tender good night kiss.
.oOo.
Kotori walked to the flower beds happily patiently waiting to see her childhood friend. But Umi was taking a rather long time to come. Kotori got up to go look for her after she waited 10 minutes, but saw that Umi was barely coming, but she looked dazed and she was a little bit out of breath.
"Umi... what happened?" Kotori asked worriedly, Umi shook her head taking a deep breath.
"Nothing dont worry, im fine, I just ran over here to come see you." Umi smiled lightly as she lied, wondering why she has been lying so much recently. Kotori blushed to what Umi said, and slowly went to grab her hand and laced their fingers together, which caught Umi off guard.
"Umi... can I tell you something?" Kotori said looking at the flowers that were next to them. Umi hesitantly nodded, curious what Kotori was going to say, but also she had a bad feeling.
"Umi... I actually like you..." Kotori started off silently. turning around so that Umi just saw her back. "I've liked you since we were little kids, running around the streets... at first I didnt know what love was, but as we grew older and we started to seperate, my heart started to long for you; my heart ached that I wasn't seeing you. But my heart broke when you became a nun... there was no chance for us to be together now... but we can... you can run away; we can live together, get married!" Kotori started to sound desperate which made Umi feel some pity for the woman in front of her.
Umi was speachless, part was because she was a little bit surprised, but mostly because no one has ever confessed to her, she also didnt want to be mean and break her best friends feelings and tell her no... but she also didnt want to say yes.
"Kotori... im sorry, but I dont feel the same feelings..." Umi stated in a low voice. "I've actually been seeing someone... and I might run away with that person soon..." Umi lied once more, but the person that she thought of was Eli.
Kotori was heartbroken but nodded as she tried her hardest not to cry in front of her childhood friend and crush. "It's okay Umi, I understand... what's that persons name?"
"Eli..."