I'M JUST A TOM BOY (A boy's best friend)
This is the same old shit everyone is sort of required to write. Yup, you guessed it. My plot, my story, but NOT my characters. FUCKLE me silly for I have sinned! There is no excuse for my lame-osity so just…enjoy if at all possible and…enjoy it some more.
CH 3: Stinky Pits and…'Mookie' Love?
Looking down at me, Tai flashed a cocky look. His chestnut bangs were falling into his eyes and his nose was about an inch from mine. As far as I could tell, he hadn't noticed the unusual reactions my body had endured and was just smiling proudly due to the fact that he managed to pin me to the floor.
Hn. Feels like my body's returning to normal. Good.
"Sora?" He whispered against my ear and I suppressed a shiver. "Why are you so silent?" His lips caught in a taunting grin and he lifted his face to look at mine as he slanted an eyebrow. Putting more weight on my stomach, he glanced up at the picture we were looking at before. "Forget what Matt said. You're comfortable to sit on. How would you like to be my new bed?"
"Shut up." I snapped, wanting to bend my knees inward at the word 'bed' and could only flinch thanks to the weight on my stomach. I glared up at him.
"Get off me." I breathed, looking around casually for a way to get out. There was no escape. I was uncomfortable. "I said…get…"
" I heard what you said," He smiled, tilting his head. He brought his face down again so his nose brushed lightly against mine and parted his smirking lips. "But that doesn't mean I have to listen to you, does it?"
"…just…" I grunted beneath him and he leaned more of his weight on me.
"Hey now, Sora. I'm not feeling the love." I could feel his breath again and didn't like the tingling in my gut. "Remember that little 'plan' we had? You are my girlfriend now and a real girlfriend wouldn't be so resistant to my charms, now would she?"
"Charms?" I frowned, twisting my wrists in his hands and I closed my eyes as his breath caressed my cheek. "Are you kidding?" I squirmed and felt the blood returning to my arms and legs.
He grinned, lips accidentally grazing my skin. "That's right. Charms."
At the feel of his touch my eyes widened and I realized how urgent my need was to get out from underneath him. "These charms you speak of,…" I began calmly and stopped struggling. I forced a half smile across my lips, "well…now that I think of it, …I can't resist them."
Bringing his head up as I knew he would, he looked down at me with a quizzical stare. "Yeah?" he coaxed, his voice heavy with doubt and cocked an eyebrow.
"You heard me…" His fingers loosed their hold as he stared in disbelief and I readied myself for the next maneuver. "All these years of denial and now…well. I can't pretend anymore. I give in."
"Um…Sora? You're scaring me. Can you stop because I…"
Gently, my fingers grasped what they could of his hands and I shot him a doting look. For a split second, I thought I saw a hint of pink stain his cheek and diminish almost as quickly as it appeared.
"I'm not joking." I replied coolly and didn't break my eye contact for a second to lead him on. Brow furrowed in confusion he twisted his lips and as I had hoped, lifted just the right amount of weight off of me to allow an escape.
Without a second thought, I drove my right knee into his back, eliciting a gasp from his lips. Deftly, I pushed myself off the floor to twist my body over his and bringing his hands above his head, his back hit the hard wood with a 'slap'. I curled my fingers tightly around his wrists, and left my waist hanging between his parted legs.
"Ah…man…" Tai groaned and I laughed as I swiftly transferred my weight to the right areas of his body to keep him down.
Crouched on all fours, I gradually settled myself on top of him, my body now pressed against his. "You're so stupid." I smirked as I looked down at him. "When I said I couldn't resist your charms, Tai…." He stared up at me, chest rising and falling with my own. "I meant, I can't resist charms that simply aren't there to begin with." His eyes narrowed and a chuckle escaped my lips.
"Sora, you assh-…"
I smiled. "Don't blame me for your ignorance. I thought a math genius like you would've seen through that plan but…I guess I'm not the only dumbass here ."
With a huff , he rolled his head back to stare up at the ceiling and lay still. "You, jerk…." He smirked down at me. "How was I supposed to know you were going to say something that strange? UN-FAIR, man."
"Yeah?" I scooted myself up the length of his body till my face hovered over his and auburn bangs tumbled into my vision. "Well. Sorry if you thought you had gained yet another member in your fan club. You know I like my guys, Tai."
"Oh really? How?" He spat.
I smirked. " I like my guys to….be guys. Not pussies like you."
"Pussies!" He shouted and I kept my weight on him, laughing.
"That's right. But as far as friends go…." I slanted an eyebrow. "I don't mind having a wimp like you."
"That's it, asshole!" he shouted and I jumped off of him in a panic, smiling as I scrambled out of the living room and up the stairs.
In his room, we wrestled around for a while until I got tired and let him win. Against my better judgment I led him to the softest area of the room, the bed, where I allowed him to pin me to the sheets and catch his breath as I looked up at him knowingly. My head was resting diagonally on his pillow as he hovered above me, his hands on either side of my head. Too tired to hold himself up he nearly collapsed on me before I pushed him towards the wall and he rolled onto the sheets, pressed against my side.
"Tai?" I whispered finally, after several minutes of heavy breathing and silence.
He eventually caught his breath. "Yes,…jerk?" he managed to reply and brought his arms up to rest his wrists on his forehead.
"I think I should go home. I told my mom I'd be home by six and its…" I glanced over at the clock on his bed table. "eight thirty." My eyes went wide. "Holy crap! EIGHT THIRTY!"
He let a chuckle roll off his parted lips. "Don't worry about it. I forgot to tell you. Your mom called while you were asleep and asked if you could stay here for tonight." Judging by the movement in the mattress I felt him turn his head in my direction. "I told her it was fine with me. She's got to work late or….something."
" Wait." I shifted my head to look at him. "You didn't ask your mom if it was okay with her? What if she says n…?"
"Are you kidding!" he grinned somewhat furrowing his brow. "Don't be stupid, Sora. You're more like a sister to me then Kari is! You think my mom's going to deny her own surrogate daughter of a place to sleep? This is like your second home, man."
"Sorry. Stupid me and my manners." I smirked and gave him a once-over look. My nose lifted towards to ceiling and caught a foul aroma coming from the bed. "Aw, Tai!" I wheezed, flaring a nostril. "Do you smell that? WHooy! You stink!"
Frowning, he bent his head to sniff his armpits and looked up with a sour expression. "No, I don't!" He leaned forward before I could stop him, and pressed his nose against my side.
"Stop!" I gasped and pushed my palm against his face to shove the back of his head lightly into the wall.
Opening his eyes with a shake of his head, he curled his lip and gave me a disgusted look. "It's YOU, man. Not me." My eyes widened with anger and I quickly sniffed my own armpits. Damnit. Must have forgot to apply the deodorant this morning. I hate it when I'm wrong.
"Psh! I know it's you, Tai." I sneered, trying to play it cool. "If it was me I would have noticed it earlier." Slowly I sat up in an effort to conceal my smell and looked back at him with an angry expression. "I am feeling kind of gross though. Can I take a shower?"
He laughed and flashed a smirk. "You know you smell, don't you?" His head fell back on the pillow as his arms folded behind his head. He brought his face down to look at me and cocked up an eyebrow. "Why don't you just admit it? I stuck my nose in your pits, man. I know it's you."
"Shut up!" I shouted defensively. "It's not me…it's…..my shirt. I…had nothing clean to wear…today." I bit my lip and watched in annoyance as he chuckled. "What? Shut up! It's not funny, dumbass."
"Yes it is." He replied, smiling cutely and looking at his face, I could only manage a soft frown as I headed for the bathroom.
Running a hand through my disheveled auburn locks I turned to face him before putting a hand on the bathroom door. "I know this door doesn't lock so don't forget I'm in here and just walk in, okay?" He was still smiling at me and chuckled before waving a hand.
"I know. I know. Just get in there already so I can call the department of health. Maybe they'll be able to figure out what makes you smell so bad all the time."
I glared. "Oh….just…shut up." My body entered the bathroom as I spun around to face him and shot him a death glare before slamming the door shut.
Twenty minutes later, I emerged from the shower and realized that I hadn't asked Tai for a towel or a set of clean clothes. "Great." I cursed under my breath and began opening and closing cupboards in the small tiled room. All I found at the end of my search was a sponge, a cupboard full of crusty soccer gear, and Tai's current towel hanging sloppily on the counter. Surrounding the piece of terry cloth were empty bottles of shampoo and conditioner, along with a collection of every men's spray deodorant ever invented. I cringed. Tai's naked body had touched that towel and so had his….ew. I ventured over to give the lumpy material a sniff and found that it smelled rather good. A rich masculine scent filled my nose and reminded me of pine trees, old spice, and nutmeg. Hn. Tai must smell like Christmas.
"I can't use…this." I groaned to myself and glanced at the dried up sponge before tossing it over my shoulder and grabbing the towel. Briskly gliding the material along the curves of my body, I convinced myself that smelling like Tai was a much better option then walking in front of him buck naked. Surrogate sister or not, I didn't think our relationship was ready for that kind of exposure.
The towel securely wrapped around me, I nudged the door open to ask Tai to bring me some clothes. To my surprise, he was already fast asleep on the bed and didn't even flinch when I called out his name. "Fucking idiot." I swore and looked around the room in thought. When my gaze caught site of his dresser I slipped past the door frame and gently crept across the room to find something to wear. With both hands on the knobs of the first drawer, I pulled and nothing happened. "Shit. It's stuck." I whispered and gave the next drawer a tug to find that it was stuck too. After trying all the drawers I discovered that the only one that wasn't stuck was the one with his socks and I definitely wasn't about to make an outfit out of that. I poked around in his closet, slightly panicked, and finally found an unwashed soccer shirt that reeked of his masculine pine tree smell and a pair of boxers that smelled the same. Guess I'll have to use my old underwear. Gross. I slid back into the bathroom and put on my misfit sleep wear with a frown.
Hours later, after falling asleep on the floor, I woke up to the sound of a toilet being flushed. Still half asleep, my eyelids barely lifted for a second before I grabbed the towel at my waist and pulled it over my shoulders for warmth. Wait a minute. This is no towel. It's soft and plush and…hey….
Looking around I realized that I was no longer on the floor and was now lying comfortably in Tai's bed. Wait, but that means…oh no. I turned to the space between me and the wall and found nothing but a pile of unfolded clothes. No Tai. Hn. Peering down at the floor I saw a futon mattress with a thin blanket crumpled on top and put two and two together to figure out what had happened.
Tai must have saw me sleeping on the floor and put me in his bed.
Aw...how sweet, but….where the hell was he now?
Just then, a creak came from the bathroom door and a stream of light poured into the room. With a click, everything went dark again and I could only make out the faint silhouette of my friend walking slowly to his futon. Convinced that all was right with the world, I scooted up to the wall nuzzling his rumpled laundry and snuggled further under his comforter. When I was just about to go to sleep I felt the covers being lifted from the other end of the bed and something warm weighing down the opposite side of the mattress. Too curious to ignore the disturbance, I shifted my body to see the intruder and was face to face with…you guessed it.
Tai.
"What are you doing, man?" I wheezed and waited as he lay, eyes closed, ignoring me. Fucking hell! He can't be asleep already. I poked him in the shoulder with a finger, and watched his face as he exhaled gently. "Tai!" I said a little louder and gave up after three more tries and a couple more pokes to the chest. Had he somehow taught himself to walk to the toilet in his sleep? I always knew he was odd, but….this?
Too embarrassed to wake him up, I tried climbing over him and only made it halfway. One leg over his body, I scarcely pressed my inner right thigh against his stomach, when he hooked his free arm under mine and pushed me back into the mattress with a groan. My right leg was now trapped beneath his stomach and I had my left leg resting on his rib cage in a sort of sideways scissor position. Cozy between my thighs, his arm wrapped snuggly around my waist, a possessive hand faintly grasping the back of my shirt.
"Shit!" I hissed and thought for a minute as I lay my free arm in the crook between his neck and shoulder. And I thought being naked without a towel was a predicament! Psh! Mere child's play…
Aware that waking him up was not an option, I aimed to simply get my right leg out from under him and crawl off the foot of the bed. Gradually, I freed my numbed limb, and got it to the ankle when he slid his lower half over my thigh and between my legs. His abdomen was now leaning his weight on my hips and his head was resting on my shoulder.
"Holy fuck!" I choked and adjusted my body so I could breath.
"Moo..kie." His sleepy voice mumbled into my ear and I flinched in surprise. Did he just say…?
"…mookie…"
Yeah. He just said mookie.
"I'm not um…mookie, Tai." I whispered and turned my head slightly. "It's me…Sora." He groaned into my neck.
"Sora…."
"That's right! Now please let me…" I gently pushed against his shoulder with my left hand and almost got him to lay sideways when he shrugged out of my grasp. Pulling my body to his chest, he cradled my head to his cheek and tangled his fingers in my hair. Double shit.
"….Mookie,…pleas don…lev…me." His lips whispered against my skin and immediately, I felt my face flush with heat. Breathing softly, he drew out a quiet moan of contentment and nuzzled even closer. "mookie…" he repeated cutely.
Now in a desperate struggle, I pushed against his chest, and began to panic when I realized there was no way out.
"You better hope your mom doesn't walk in tomorrow." I hissed and gave his shoulder a final shove before stopping to think.
As I grumbled in his sturdy hold, his fingers suddenly began to stroke my hair and gently massage the back of my head. Shocked at first, a pleasant warmth slowly spread through my chest like after drinking a cup of hot chocolate and I grew limp in his protective embrace. "No. Can't…sleep…" I slurred and I fought to keep my eyelids open as my limbs grew heavier and heavier. Quickly, I found myself unable to push him away and was mumbling nonsensically by the time I finally let my eyes close.
A sigh away from dreamland, I felt his lips on my tingling cheek and groaned. "I love you, mookie…" he breathed in a dreamlike state and pressed his face to mine to place an affectionate kiss on my cheek.
"me…too…" I mumbled and snuggled against him with a blissful sigh.