(Someone's sleeping in my bed – 13)
By the time they arrived at the hotel it was almost four forty five. Erica would move up the stares in a haze, Eiri and Tohma would talk idly as they moved behind her. They seemed close, Erica had never been fond of Tohma's character so she never really paid attention to the little things, like how close Eiri and he actually were.
She would go to the nearest bedroom when she got there. Not paying attention as Eiri moved Tohma over to a room, he seemed awful quiet, as if he knew something was not right.
Eiri would get him set up in another room, while Erica came to rest in a large bed, with blue and white covers in smooth cool satin. It only took her a moment before she was suddenly engulfed by a set of warm arms, someone curling up against her back. Suddenly the entire world got warm.
It wasn't until noon or so the next day that she understood why that had happened. She would open her eyes slowly, her hands coming to the hands of the arms around her. Clutched between her belly and his hands would be a small stuffed rabbit. Kumagorou. Her eyes opened wide as she realized she had invaded Ryuichi's room, and in his sleep he hadn't pushed her away, rather he had sort of claimed her.
Ryuichi's breath was drawn warm against the back of her neck, the steady inhale and warm exhale would tell her that he was still sleeping. Erica allowed her own eyes to close for a moment, trying to see what it must look like to someone else, finally she would squirm until she was able to face him. Just looking at him, he seemed so much like an angel when he was sleeping. Erica couldn't take her eyes off of him, just watching him, it took her almost five minutes of staring at him before she realized that his eyes were open and those familiar blue orbs were staring back into her own eyes.
"Oh!" She gasped. He just smiled and pulled her tighter against him. A little slow to rise, he would find his energy soon enough, for now she would enjoy the calm warmth that was Ryuichi.
"When did you get here?" He asked softly, swallowing, trying to get the fluids moving in his mouth again.
"I don't know. Early in the morning. Tohma is here." She said.
"Tohma." He said smiling and clutching her tighter, she wondered for a moment if he thought that she was Kumagorou the way he was cuddling her. "That is good."
"Is it?" She asked, she didn't think it was so good, her own arms would loop hesitantly around his waist, he didn't pull away, rather he would adjust his body so she could get an arm under him.
"Mmhmm." He said softly. "It is, because now Eiri can say he is sorry."
His memory was better than hers was. Only now that he had said that did she remember that part of that encounter that had her ready to kill Eiri as if he were cheating on Shuiichi, he had said when he first came that he had to apologize to Tohma for something.
"He did." She said softly, her head pushing up under his chin, just inhaling the smell of mango and vanilla that came from him. An odd coupling of scents but some how fitting.
"Good." He said pulling back so that he was looking into her eyes. A small smile on his lips. "So how did you end up in my bed?"
"Just lucky I guess." Erica said, the color spreading through her cheeks as she said it.
"Yeah I guess so."
Her breath was struck out of her when he tilted his head and pressed his soft lips to hers. The motion was quick, and over almost as fast as it happened, leaving her to wonder if it even had. Ryuichi would slip out of her arms and out of the bed, shivering against the cool in the room as he moved towards the bathroom.
Moments later the shower started.
She didn't really start to blush until he was gone, it would have to be amounted to shock. She had sat up and was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the bed when Ryuichi came out of the shower.
He would move past her with a smile, not to different from the same ones that he had given her a million times before, and yet, she would still blush when she saw it, as if it suddenly held a whole new meaning. Vanishing into his closet he would appear shortly there after garbed in some things that Eiri had been nice enough to by him. He was wearing pair of black jeans and a white silk shirt that at the moment, simply hung over his shoulders.
"Suddenly so quiet." He said with a playful chastising in his voice. She didn't say anything, she just sat there blinking at him, a million things running through her head, and yet none of them managed to find her lips. Ryuichi sat down next to her and canted his head some. Her silence did nothing to ease his own anxiouty, not that anyone could see his anxiety, never would have known. Rather that smile slowly vanished and was replaced by a pout.
"Did I… I mean did you not want me to…" He wasn't sure if maybe he had gotten his wires crossed. Had she not wanted him to do that, Shuiichi had seemed so sure that she liked him. Maybe Shuiichi had been wrong. His bottom lip was slowly drawn in between his teeth and his hand searched finding Mr. Bear and holding him. Ryuichi might have been popular, both here and at home, with a swarm of otaku constantly all over him, but he didn't really have too much experience with understanding or wooing women, he was a little too childish for that most of the time. A little too… oblivious to read body language or the underlying message behind what someone was saying.
Since no words could seem to be formed from her brain to her lips she would instead move forward and encircle him with her arms again. Pressing her head under his chin. He would smile some and hold her as well. Maybe she couldn't say anything, but it seemed that Ryuichi had gotten the message as he softly kissed the top of her head, his head resting against hers.
