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Chapter Twenty-Six: Confession

(Pohli's POV)

"Akito?" I mumbled and opened my eyes.

I had apparently fallen asleep in his room again, not a habit I plan on keeping. I soon noticed the pressure covering my whole body, the warmth flowing into me, the arms around my neck, the legs over mine.

"Shhh… Don't go, not yet." He whispered into my ear. I felt the fear in me scrambling my mind, thoughts racing at millions of miles a minute. My whole body tensed under his weight above me.

"Don't, please." I cried inwardly as he pulled back one of his hands and intertwined his fingers with mine.

"Pohli, this feeling inside of me, I don't know how, how to…" He pulled his head back and I felt him hovering over my neck for a minute but then let his lips fall to my bare skin.

He kissed my neck gently at first but then he got more aggressive till finally, he started to break the skin drawing the blood to the surface. I clenched down onto his shirt and held him tightly to me. His hand moved slowly down my side outlining me till he finally reached the hem of my skirt. He gripped my leg with his fingers and methodically began to move back up only this time he pulled the skirt up with his hand. Ever so slowly his lips began to move up to my cheeks, then finally to my mouth.

My first kiss was Akito's. My first real kiss with a boy and not just my mom or dad, belonged to Akito. My first real kiss and I didn't even kiss him back. When he stopped to breath he opened his eyes to look at me and his features were panic-stricken.

He sat up so fast but couldn't scramble away because he had a leg on either side of me. So, he just sat there holding his hands in the air like he was going to be struck in a moment.

"I'm-I-I shouldn't have done that!" He started to shake all over. "I don't know what came over me, and I've never felt this way… I don't know what I was even doing but…" he looked down at me gently. I guess he felt ashamed with my straps on my dress having fallen off and my skirt was pulled up over my waist on my side revealing my underwear.

"Akito?" I whispered pulling myself out from under him far enough to move. I sat up slowly and leaned into his chest. He gasped and tensed under me but I knew he needed to know it was ok, to know those feelings were normal. Eventually he loosened his whole body and slowly ever so slowly one of his hands raised and moved to touch my hair.

"I, I lo-" he stopped short and stiffened again. "What are you doing?!" he shouted towards the door.

"Oh Akito, I didn't know you were… uh… busy…" Shigure stood there in the doorway and started to look at me with that perverted look I recognized. Akito instantly dropped his arms and jumped up screaming,

"GET OUT! GET OUT!! GET OUT!!!" He started running towards the door as fast as he could in his maximum fury. Shigure didn't waste any time getting the hell out of there and then Akito turned around, panting. "I'm sorry-"

"Akito I really do need to talk to you though." Shigure popped his head in the door for just a moment, long enough for Akito to whip around and sling a book at him. "Ok I'll just be leaving!" And he ran off.

I stood up and pulled my jacket on, "I should be going." I made a dash for the door and passed Hatori who had been standing in the open bathroom door way. I gulped, looking him straight in the eye and ran out the door.

I ran into Midori right out side the bedroom and asked her if I could talk to her tomorrow. She nodded in agreement and so it was set.

I finally had decided, there had to be a way to break the curse and I was going to find it.

Slowly I walked back into Akito's room hoping I could talk to him.

"Akito?" I whispered into the dark room and got no reply, "Where are you?" I had left my coat and purse in his room and I had been arguing with myself whether to come back or not all afternoon. I climbed inside the room and looked around. All of the lights were off except the bathroom light flooding out from under the door.

Without knocking I slid the bathroom open and my jaw hit the floor. Akito stood there, his hands on the edge of his pants as if he was getting ready to pull them down, shirtless, and gaping at me.

I closed my eyes and spun around, embarrassed beyond belief. "I'm so sorry! I should have knocked!" I cried out blushing as hard as I could. I don't know why I was blushing, I mean he's a guy and all, what's it even matter if I see him shirtless?

"I'll just leave!" I ran into the room and fell to my knees in a mad scramble to find my bag. I finally found it buried under a pillow. Jumping to my feet I spun around so quickly that I ran into him, him being Akito, that is.

I jerked back and tripped over the armrest on the couch. I screamed and Akito shouted and grabbed at me because he didn't know I was just tripping over the couch. He probably thought I'd kill my self or something so he threw his arms around me and together we slammed down onto the couch.

For a while we just sat there, panting.

"I-" we both started together. I had both of my arms clenched in a death grip to his shirt. His shirt?

"Let me turn a light on." He pulled out of my grasp and flipped a small table lamp on. Apparently he had put on a shirt, it was unbuttoned and hanging open. As he turned around he began to button it up.

"Akito." I pulled out the really sad looking thing of chocolate. "I made this for you." I stuttered and handed it to him. He blinked a few times before taking it and opening it.

"What… What is this?" he stared at it as if he'd never seen Chocolate before.

"It's Chocolate." I bit my lip embarrassed. He tilted his head and looked at it again, examining it.

"I've never seen chocolate before…"

"Never?" I blinked. Maybe just maybe he was serious and maybe just maybe he wouldn't realize how terrible it tasted.

"Never." He took a bite of it and his eyes started tearing up. "Is it supposed to taste like this?!" I nodded my head. "Okay then…" Akito screwed up his face and started eating the rest of it to my relief.

TO BE CONTINUED