Serenade
The sun is barely filtering through the windows of their bedroom, when Serena feels calloused fingers traveling along her naked back so lightly that it tickles her. Soon, said fingers are replaced by soft lips leaving a trail of fleeting kisses on her skin, traveling up to plant a kiss on her nape that elicits a quiet giggle from her.
She hears a contented hum, as another kiss is left on her neck, before the body next to her on bed moves away, and Serena can only pout slightly, before she begins to hear a soft tune being played.
Surprised, she turns around to find Kanade sat at the edge of her side of the bed with nothing but a guitar covering her nakedness and a smile on her face.
She winks at her, eliciting another giggle from her as a light blush dusts her cheeks, watching attentively how she plays the instrument, before she starts singing softly one of her favorite songs.
Serena smiles widely listening to her girlfriend's sweet voice in delight, before the song sadly comes to an end.
- Did you like it?
Kanade asks softly as she leans down to leave a kiss on her lips.
- Of course I did, silly.
Serena can only answer with a tender smile on her face, before Kanade kisses her tenderly once again, making her giggle.
- Good, because I have another surprise for you.
- Another one?
Serena asks gobsmacked, the light blush on her cheeks deepening as Kanade takes off the guitar to place it on the wall next to her nightstand to get out of bed, standing fully naked.
- Of course! It's your birthday after all!
Kanade says with a wide smile as she winks at her again, chuckling at the cute deep blush adorning Serena's cheeks, before she leaves the bedroom to head to the kitchen fully naked and then reappear with a tray of food in her hands.
- Crepes!?
Serena exclaims excitedly, sitting up and letting the sheet that covered her fall onto her lap, forgetting completely about her own nakedness as Kanade places the tray between them and she smells the scent of hot chocolate and banana crepes.
- You know I'm not that great at cooking, but your sis was kind enough to teach me how to cook something easy and that you like to surprise you for your birthday.
Serena can't help but giggle, pecking her girlfriend's lips.
- Thank you – she thanks her, before taking a bite of her chocolate banana crepe – Mmh, delicious! It's a pity that the poor Tsubasa is not as skilled as you.
Serena says fondly yet teasingly, remembering that time in which she tried to teach the blue haired girl to cook something for her sister, only to end up almost food poisoned.
- Hey! Don't mess with her, she does her best.
Kanade says giggling lightly at her best friend's lack of talent to cook as she and Serena keep eating happily, getting some sweet kisses in between each bite they take until they finish their breakfasts.
The redhead is about to take back the empty food tray to the kitchen, when Serena suddenly yet softly grabs her by the wrist.
- Can I ask you to play the song once again? – Serena asks coyly, making Kanade smile widely.
- I have a better idea.
Kanade comments as her smile turns into a grin, winking at Serena, before her fingers begin to roam over her girlfriend's naked body, eliciting a giggle from her as the redhead begins to play her favorite song over her body, tracing light notes and words on her skin as she hums the song.
Soon, Serena's moans give voice to the song, playing it on repeat several times until they're exhausted.
- You're bad, now we're going to be late to our lunch date with my sister and Tsubasa.
Serena says with a playful pout on her face that Kanade can't help but kiss away.
- You weren't complaining just a few seconds ago. In fact, you were telling me to keep going – Kanade quickly retorts with a wide smirk playing on her lips.
- Kanade! – Serena gasps half-outraged, half-embarrassed, shoving Kanade lightly who can only laugh in return, before she kisses her again and takes her in her arms to carry her to the bathroom to shower together – Kanade! We're going to be late!
- Oh please, your sis already expects you to be late. Besides, you don't want to go smelling like sex, do you my love?
Kanade answers mischievously, making Serena groan while she lets her take her into the shower to shower together and do some extra activities beside that.
Just like Serena and Kanade have foreseen, they arrive an hour later.
- It was about time.
Maria greets them as soon as she opens the door with a knowing grin playing on her lips, causing Serena to blush while Kanade just giggles.
- Traffic was horrible – Kanade comments as she gets in, hearing Maria snort while Tsubasa approaches them.
- Oh that's bad, but I'm glad you could make it.
She says genuinely, making Kanade giggle at her innocence as she hugs her and Maria rolls her eyes, making her own sister giggle once she's less embarrassed.
- Don't think I'm going to let you get away so easily.
Maria whispers in her sister's ear as they walk to the table at the dining room to have lunch all together, making the deep blush return to her cheeks.
- One-chan!
Serena squeaks embarrassed, earning herself a giggle and a pat on the head from her sister while she pouts, and before Kanade kisses her and a soft smile returns to her face.
Taking pity on her little sister, Maria decides to give her a break as they set the table and begin to eat lunch.
- Tsubasa and I will wash the dishes.
Kanade announces once they finish having lunch while surrounding the blue haired girl's shoulders to pull a clueless Tsubasa with her towards the kitchen, winking at Maria who can only smile widely and intertwine her arm with her sister's to drag her with her.
- I guess you can't get away from me so easily now – Maria tells her sister between giggles, seeing her puffing out her cheeks – Now tell me, how did the surprise go?
Maria asks her sister, giggling more as she sees her blushing.
- I take that it went well – she teases her, earning herself a light shove from Serena as the blush on her cheeks gets a darker shade of red.
- Thank you for teaching and helping Kanade to cook some crepes.
Serena thanks her sister quietly, seeing her smiling at her tenderly before she hugs her.
- Anything for you, little one. Although I have to admit that when she told me about her plans, I found them very romantic. I wish Tsu was like that too.
Maria comments with a dreamy expression on her face and Serena can only giggle, resting against her as they sit together on the couch.
- I'm sure Tsubasa can also be romantic.
Maria can only look at her sister amused, before they look at Tsubasa to see her helping Kanade at the kitchen, laughing upon the overwhelmed expression on her face as she clumsily dries one plate after another.
Upon hearing their sweet laughs, Kanade and Tsubasa turn around to look at them with a tender and wide smile adorning their faces.
- I'm telling you Tsubasa, you need to be more romantic to Maria – Kanade advises the blue haired girl who can only furrow her brow.
- But I already am.
- Are you? Then what was the last romantic thing you did for her? – Kanade asks her to see a blush tinting the younger girl's cheeks as she thinks really hard about it – That's what I meant. You need to cook for her, to serenade her…
She rambles about all the romantic things Tsubasa could do for Maria while noticing how her best friend is taking mental notes of what she's telling her.
- I-I will.
Tsubasa says excitedly, eliciting a smile from Kanade before they finish drying the plates to go back with their respective girlfriends to keep talking all together and give Serena her gifts. Once she ends opening all her gifts, they leave to her surprise party with the rest of the girls at Hibiki's house.
- Remember what I've told you.
Kanade whispers to Tsubasa as they say their goodbyes, before separating to go to their respective houses after the party, seeing Tsubasa nodding at her and giving her a brief hug to then walk away hand in hand with Maria.
- Let's go home – Serena says as she approaches Kanade and leaves a kiss on her cheek, seeing Kanade smiling widely before she kisses her back softly.
- Let's go back home – Kanade repeats happily as she hugs her sidely and they walk like that back to their home.
The following morning, they wake up with the sound of Serena's phone beeping with new messages.
They both groan, before Serena takes her phone to open Maria's messages, seeing a picture of a broken guitar, followed by a hard to discern kitchen covered by smoke and lastly, a completely burnt toaster.
"So much for Tsu to be romantic ?"
Maria ends up saying after the pictures, making both Kanade and Serena laugh at Tsubasa's failed attempt to be romantic.
- What do you think that happened? – Kanade asks amused.
- I don't know, but I'm sure we'll eventually find out – Serena answers while giggling, before she snuggles into Kanade's body to go back to sleep.
The truth is that Tsubasa started the day as any other, waking up with the first rays of the sun illuminating their bedroom, kissing Maria's neck and bare shoulder fleetingly to not wake her up, before she left their bed to go to the kitchen to make some easy toasts.
As she was waiting for the sliced bread to get toasted, she went back to their bedroom to take her guitar and begin playing hers and Maria's first duet.
She watched Maria opening her eyes sleepily to smile at her softly, listening attentively to her serenade, before she finished singing and she pulled her down for a kiss.
Tsubasa could only blush, leaving the guitar on the floor to kiss Maria more, before they started to smell like burnt.
- Tsu, it smells like something is burning out.
Maria commented as they pulled away, making Tsubasa gasp upon remembering the toasts. The blue haired girl quickly got out of the bed to run to the kitchen with such a bad luck that she stepped on the guitar, breaking it as she felt to the floor.
- Tsubasa!
Maria yelled, quickly getting out of bed to help her stand up and check if she was okay, before they remembered the toaster, running to turn it off to find it out completely burnt as well as the charred toasts inside it.
- I… I'm sorry, Maria. I… – Tsubasa pouted distraught, causing Maria to giggle and cup her cheeks to kiss her deeply.
- It's okay. I still love you, my fire starter – she said teasingly, making Tsubasa blush and pout more – Just... please don't try to cook again.
Maria commented while Tsubasa blushed and pouted more.
At least her serenade was somehow successful.
