When they got into the closet room, Mercury sighed when it hit him how small the place was. It was too small for his own convenience, full of old and worn-out clothes and huge cabinets that take up so much space. How many minutes more until he could finally get out again?
This whole game sounds so silly and stupid. It felt like he couldn't even move properly; move properly enough not to touch Yang. She was just barely inches away from him, and for some dumb reason he couldn't look at her in the eye. As soon as he realized how close she was now, a lot of inappropriate thoughts suddenly came in his mind, fuck.
If ever Yang decides to kill him right now with her bare hands, it would be easy for her to do it and dispose his body there without breaking a sweat.
He didn't have any clear idea of what's about to happen right now, all he knew was that she's standing right in front of him, staring at his soul - and as if on a cue, it was as if his whole world has been shook when Yang gave him a sudden hard blow in the face, strong enough for him to lose his balance for a moment. With the slightest amount of mercy left in her, she used her real hand instead, not the dominant prosthetic one.
Mercury felt the sudden rush of blood up in his veins, he was too distracted by her close wholebeing, for God's sake, that he wasn't able to resist that strike even when he had the skills to block that in an instant, even counter attack her. It was so surprising, and that's a shame for his ego.
He groaned, that was fucking hard, he won't deny that it hurts like shit. Somehow, he wanted to hit her back because that was unforgivable and it caught him way off guard. In that simple punch it felt like Yang had poured her anger at him, bottled up with one whole week without seeing him. Now that she was given the chance to release all of it, she did and it was in the most unexpected way.
"God fucking dammit, Yang?!" he shouted, and Mercury can actually still feel the tingling sensation on his jaw as he spoke. He scowled at her as Yang cut him off with a desperate kiss.
He wasn't able to protest or do anything once her warm, wet lips brushed against his. She was clawing both of her fists onto his t-shirt and Mercury can feel the intensity she was pouring in, and he couldn't decipher what those actions meant. He quickly gave in, even by the fact she did punch him in the face just seconds ago. He then found himself catching his own breath when their lips parted, the kiss ended as soon as it started.
It was too fast for him to realize it happened but when his gaze met Yang's, he never knew in that moment he could've sworn he wanted her.
The pain he felt in his whole face caused by her was also immediately depleted when she kissed him. She surprised him two times in a row, and that was a record Mercury will never admit to himself. He certainly found his match in her, equally.
It was insane how could she make him feel things that he never felt before. The thrill, the excitement of being with her in this stupid seven minutes, and this is probably the only time he kind of wished deep inside that seven minutes would last seven hours.
She was making him all weak.
Yang raised her shoulders, folded her arms in front of her chest, bracing herself as if she was suddenly so shy of what she did. She couldn't even look at him, none of them do. "I, uh..." she sighed, "I've got a few questions in mind, for you."
Mercury blinked twice, trying to organize his thoughts; from her punch, to her kiss, and now she's going to ask him questions. He took a deep breath, before nodding as a response to let her continue.
"About last time, about Blake." she bit her bottom lip, "I still don't know why you said that. Why? Did you hate her?" contrary to how she reacted with such fury from last time, right now it was the complete opposite. She was calmer, like she had a lot of time to think of her previous actions towards him. How she almost lashed out, she kind of regretted it.
"One question at a time, and then I'll ask you something in return." he leaned back on the door behind him, put both of his hands on his pants' side pockets. He already knew where this conversation is going.
"Did you hate her?" Yang repeated, and Mercury had to wonder for a moment why in the world she can't seem to move on from that incident. Blake already addressed the situation and decided to clear things for him, and Sun seemed to have forgotten about it.
He let out a heavy sigh. For him, there was a complete difference between hating and disliking someone. Hate is more of a dignified emotion, an extreme hostility you feel towards someone. It was more of the latter in regards to Blake, "I don't hate her, really. I don't have the right to hate her when we've only met that day. I guess you could say I'm just not particularly fond of people, and I tried to see what you liked about her, but then maybe I'm a blind fuck."
She looked at him as if trying to examine his face, looking for the truth in his steel gray orbs. But that was the truth, so he just shrugged. Now it was his turn to ask her the question he couldn't find out for himself, "What do you like about her?"
Yang opened her mouth as if to say something, pausing for a second, but quickly closed it again, "She's...I don't know. I've known her for years, we've been bestfriends." she said instead, sounding a bit hesitant more than what she intended to be.
What was that? It wasn't the kind of answer he was expecting at all, "You know that's not my question, Yang. I didn't ask your relationship with her, I asked what do you like about her?"
Mercury made himself clear with his questioning but it seemed like Yang wasn't in the right mind to even answer that. For a moment, she looked like she was lost in thought, yet still she didn't decided to speak.
"Nevermind," realizing he shouldn't have asked that, he briefly closed his eyes while pinching the bridge of his nose, "Your turn."
"Why did you say that?" Yang was quick to ask him again, but when it's her turn to answer, not even a word came out of her mouth.
"That she's pretty dumb?" he snickered, recalling the time he called out Blake for that, "Because she acts like this perfect girlfriend and pretends everything is alright between the two of you."
With his last statement, Yang's expression suddenly shifted into something he couldn't pinpoint. Her irises deemed of hurt, and hopelessness, an overall reflection of held back feelings, "What do you mean?"
Mercury had to make sure if he was going to say this, or if he should've kept his mouth shut, but then she was eager for an explanation, "Because I think she's not completely clueless about what you felt towards her, and I kind of just implied something, like guilt-tripping, and look at how she reacted."
Yang remained silent, seeming like she was trying to process whatever he just said, so Mercury continued, "She's not just into you. That's pretty much the bottomline of it."
And with that, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When their gazes met once again, she asked, "How can you say that like you were so sure?"
She actually told me, Mercury wanted to say. Yet he knew this wasn't the right timing, but eventually he will have to later, "I just...know."
Yang didn't look pleased, and of course Mercury was aware of how terrible he was at lying. He can even hear her breathing, and how she kept her view lingering anywhere but him. Her body almost stiffened, while drumming her fingers on her arm.
"Okay, nothing else? My turn." he straightened his posture, trying to wait for her reaction but she seemed so somber at the moment, that Mercury can't help but to hold her cheeks and make her look at him once again in the eyes, "Why did you reacted that way?"
There was a small smile that began to form on the edge of her lips, as she held both of his hands, "I know I reacted too much, I'm sorry about that."
It was a relief for Mercury to see her held him back, instead of shoving him off which he initially expected, "I'm not asking for an apology."
Somehow, Yang got rid of the tension she had when she felt his warm touch, "I just thought what you said was rude, and it truly was, and that it was a dick move."
He let go of her, and then crossed his arms in front of his chest, "You said you hated me, right?"
She shook her head lightly, moving a step forward close to him until he could practically see the freckles along her nose line, "I don't hate you, I was just so mad that time that I blurted it out, without thinking obviously."
Mercury took a sharp intake of breath, just so he could relax himself now that there was barely a gap between them.
He nodded once, clicking his tongue afterwards, "Then what was that punch for?"
"That was for being a dick last week." Yang quickly countered, lightly punching him on his chest and that made him snort.
He raised an eyebrow, "Then why did you kissed me now?"
Yang chuckled softly, "You had the chance to do it last time, remember? I'm going to lie if I say I didn't wait for you to do it, but you really didn't and that angered me more than I should." she hid her face using both of her hands, tone so shy that Mercury wanted to hug the hell out her because she was being this darn cute, "I know it sounds so silly, besides I haven't seen your stupid face for a week." she absolutely looked like a teenager confessing to her crush right now, and she was actually blushing.
Mercury laughed, finding her so amusing right now, "So that was why you were extra mad at me?" he was about to lean in close to her face when there was an exaggerated knock on the door, almost startling the both of them.
"Your time's up!" it was Emerald's voice so loud straight from behind, and Mercury can't tell if she overheard their conversation or did an eavesdropping this whole time.
"You can't make a baby for seven minutes, lovebirds!" Ruby's voice followed right after, with her infamous giggling.
Yang sighed, smiling at him when she opened the door at his back; and that's when they saw how everyone was looking and laughing at them.
Mercury smirked, it was a short but fun time.
So the next chapter will be posted next year, stay tuned! Advance Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, guys! Thank you as always for reading ^^;