So, I mentioned on tumblr I had some kisses left unposted (and I still do) and how it no longer felt like they were worth posting. Some people wanted me to post them anyway. So here, I looked over three out of the bunch, so here you have a few all at once. I'll see if I view another discarded ones too, and maybe post those too if I don't cringe too hard lol? This first one is an alternate version again, and the only alternate version I also previously posted on tumblr a while ago.
Anyway, these are still unbeta-ed, so forgive mistakes!
A Second Jealous Kiss
"Do you think it's ever wrong to tell someone how you feel?"
The moment the words had left her mouth she wanted to pluck them back out of the air. What was she thinking? She'd left her heart unguarded and words came out that weren't safe to even think yet, let alone let out.
She gripped her milkshake to hide behind it and flushed, unyieldingly facing up front and not to her side.
When Mamoru didn't speak for a while, she exhaled in a soothing, calming way. Apparently, he hadn't even heard.
He calmly turned a page in the big smart-people book his head was stuck in, his coffee cup untouched. Minutes passed, then he turned another.
And so it jolted all the jitters back into her when he spoke.
"…Who do you want to tell how you feel, Odango?"
She dared to turn her head, mouth stretched into an awkward grimace that smoothed over when she found him still facing his book.
And didn't he sound a little… strange?
She lowered her eyebrows, regarded him with a frown. Another page was turned.
"Yes," he spoke into his book, as if no time had passed, as if he simply answered a question not so very belatedly, as if he hadn't asked a question back in turn and she hadn't answered it at all, and his voice sounded even stranger, "sometimes it's wrong."
He sounded… stubborn.
She felt her mouth pinch into a distasteful little nub.
"Right," she managed, and turned back to mask the disappointment that pooled in her stomach and to fill it with strawberry milkshake instead.
Another page turned. Somewhere behind them she heard Motoki laugh. The sound of coffee cups clinking against saucers, the rumble of the milk foamer, the small hum of hushed conversation around.
She sighed and sucked noisily on her straw.
With a thud, his heavy book was closed.
Usagi stubbornly faced her milkshake, studiously watched her appointed water-drop champion lose its condensation race down the side of her glass to the drop next to it. The rustle of clothes and the scrape of metal against linoleum indicated he'd gotten up, and her shoulders turned stiff.
He'd stopped right beside her.
"Usagi?"
She nearly choked at the rare use of her actual name, and turned her head.
His was leaning half into her and half toward the counter, towering over her even when she sat on an elevated stool, and his hand was drumming impatient, irritated rhythms against the surface.
And then her heart stopped, because he leaned down to kiss her. A soft peck to her cheekbone, somewhere between her temple and below her eye; as if he'd missed her cheek, the barest brush of his lips against her skin as if he was afraid to actually touch it… Nothing more, nothing less…
And she was left to stare in wide-eyed shock and, and, and… wait, what?
His look was… he looked sad. And nervous. There was the barest brush of color on his cheeks even when his face looked almost painfully neutral. Then he cleared his throat, took a step back.
"Don't tell anyone how you feel, ok?" he mumbled, then turned to leave.
She must have looked completely frozen. She felt completely frozen.
He stepped around her, buried his hands in his pockets, and his parting words shook her to the core.
"Not until I get the chance to prove I'm not the jerk you think I am, ok?"
Obvious Setting Tag: Classic
(Because yes still here to give them some more pre-reveal chemistry!)
Anyway, I'm posting two more rando-kisses of my sitting-there pile right away. These were all from the discarded pile, so… I do hope you like them at least a little lol. These were all the ones I was never sure about, hence the 'bonus' now. Take them as deleted scenes, I guess?