Chapter 3-Mixed Emotions (Still in Flashback)
"Ugh. Now I'm all wet!" Machika yelled at Rain after he finally set her down inside the laundry room. Her black cargo pants and her black top were soaking wet. "Here, take this towel, go over behind the screen and take off your wet clothes. And don't come out until I tell you to!"
"And where will you be?" Rain questioned feeling the grin spread across his face again.
"I will be right here." Replied Machika leaning up against the dryer.
"Doing what?" The grin on Rain's face grew wider since he already knew the answer to his own question.
"I will be changing too seeing as you got me completely wet with your childish antics." She shouted at him.
"Why don't we change together?" Rain said knowing what would happen. Machika blushed a deep crimson color. Rain started laughing at her face. She responded by throwing a large, white towel at Rain's face. He took the hint and went behind the screen. Machika got aggravated because after taking off his shirt, Rain threw it over the top of the screen. Unluckily for Machika, it landed right on her head. She yelled at Rain and threw it back.
A few minutes later, Machika had relieved herself of her wet clothes. She wrapped her large, white towel around her body. She put her clothes in the dryer then turned to face the screen where every ten seconds Rain had been asking if she was done yet.
"If you're decent you can come and put your clothes in the dryer." She said, happy to get him to stop whining.
"It depends," came Rain's voice. "what do you consider decent?"
"Rain, so help me. If you come out from behind that screen without your towel on then…" Machika never finished her ranting.
Rain stepped out from behind the screen, clothes in hand. She couldn't look away. The low-resting white towel was the only thing protecting her from the embarrassment of another deep crimson blush. What Machika couldn't take her eyes off of was his lean muscular chest.
"Whoa." Machika whispered to herself. Rain grinned. He obviously heard her. He suddenly struck a body-builder pose.
"How do you like me know?" Rain asked her. Machika would have laughed had she not noticed something else.
"TOWEL!" She screamed, immediately turning around to stop the blush that was creeping across her face. Rain jumped out of his pose and embarrassedly picked up his fallen towel. He took his wet clothes and tossed them in the dryer. Machika, mostly recovered from her facial flush, went over and turned it on. They turned to face each other.
"Heh heh. Sorry about that." Rain said while running a hand through his long mane of hair.
"It's ok. It's happened before." Machika replied before running to her room while clutching her towel to her petite body. It was a minute before what Machika said sank into Rain's head.
"WAIT A MINUTE!" He yelled. Machika laughed as she heard Rain running up the stairs after her.
Machika ran into her room and looked around. 'Damn. Nowhere to hide. Maybe the balcony.' Machika thought. She quickly moved to her balcony still holding the towel shut. She unwillingly ran into the banister. 'Once again, nowhere to go. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.'
Unbeknownst to Machika, Rain had made it to her room and was creeping up to her standing on the balcony. Before she had time to react, Rain had grabbed her around the middle and was dragging her backwards into the room.
With some effort, Rain put Machika on the bed in the middle of the room. After putting her on the bed he went around the room closing all of the doors, windows, and curtains. He also turned off all the lights. Now the only light entering the room was from the veiled windows. When his task was complete, Rain looked back at Machika. Shock was the only expression on her face, but not the only thing evident in her eyes. Rain saw longing and a fiery desire.
Machika couldn't take the silence any longer. She saw the same desire that was in her eyes in Rain's. They knew what was going to happen. They both wanted it. Only a year's distance in age. He being 18, she 17. Dating for a whole year, that was long enough. Rain softly sat on the bed and looked at Machika. Rain, unable to control his emotions any longer, moved first. One hand went around her waist to pull her onto his lap. The other went to her face to help make the connection between their lips.
After being pulled onto his lap, Machika's fingers intertwined with each other at the back of Rain's neck. The reasons were so that she wouldn't fall off of his lap onto the floor, and so he could not leave her. Machika felt the hand on her chin move to her hair. Rain took advantage of Machika's open neck and attached to it like a leech. Machika let out a cry of pain when Rain bit her neck too hard. He moved his head to look into Machika's eyes. They held their eye contact for a while. Then an unspoken agreement was made. They were both willing to go all the way.
Without breaking eye contact, they both laid down on the bed side by side. Machika snuggled close to Rain's bare chest and closed her eyes. She felt Rain's arms moving about, but didn't open her eyes. She only opened her eyes when she felt the smooth, satin black sheet sliding up her body. Then she realized that she also felt smooth, warm, soft skin against hers. Machika looked into Rain's soft blue eyes that were asking one question. Under the cover of the sheet, she pulled something away in response to the question. Rain slipped a hand under the cover of the blanket. It found Machika's bare belly and started to trace circles on it. A tug on his towel told Rain to stop playing around. He leaned in to give her more passionate kisses. In the distance, the sound of a door closing was heard.
"Machika," Rain said trying to separate himself from her tender kisses. She wouldn't listen to him. She wouldn't let him leave her side.
Rain sat up on the bed and tried to get off. Instead, Machika pulled on his arm and he fell back down onto the bed, his towel still wrapped around his waist. Machika sat up with the sheet wrapped around her body, seeing as how her towel was on the floor. She started stroking Rain's hair because his head moved to her lap. Rain sat up and tried to stand up, but Machika grabbed onto his waist before he could.
"Machika!" Rain said worried. He could hear movement on the floors below. He tried to get up again, but Machika held on tighter. Fearful of being found out by her grandfather, Rain turned around and grabbed Machika's wrists. She winced with pain because his grip was tight.
"Listen Machika! Your grandfather is home. I have to go." Looking into her eyes, he saw the desire in her eyes slowly die down, replaced by a look of hurt.
"You." Machika started quickly, steadily getting louder. "You said you would never leave me!" Rain engulfed her in a deep embrace.
"I never said I was going to leave you," he said understanding that she must be confused. Then they heard a loud crash and a few nasty curses.
Machika suddenly realized what was happening. "Grandpa's home!" She exclaimed. "Rain you gotta go." She pushed Rain off the edge of the bed. She got off the bed herself with the sheet still wrapped around her body and started pushing Rain onto the balcony.
"Wait! I can't go like this!" Rain started complaining, just now realizing that he was only wearing a towel.
"Yes, you can. Now go. I'll bring your clothes to school tomorrow. Just go over the creek behind the house and through the woods and you're home. Right?" Machika said still pushing him to the edge of the balcony.
"Machika, wait." Rain said stopping at the edge of the balcony "I'm sorry" With that he bent down for another passionate kiss. When she pulled away Machika responded,
"It wasn't your fault. I don't know what came over me." Machika looked down.
"Don't worry. Many girls feel that way around me. Losing control and all." At that Rain, jumped over the rail and started to climb down the vine. Unlucky for him, he wasn't out of reach for Machika to him on the head. Rain lost his footing and landed on top of a pile of dead leaves and twigs. Machika turned to go back inside, but stopped when she heard Rain's voice.
"Umm Machika? Can you at least give me back my shoes? These sticks hurt!" Machika grabbed his shoes and threw them out the door. "Oww!" Machika's head popped over the side of the railing. "I love you! Now run!" Rain smiled at her than turn and ran to the trees.
Machika heard footstep coming up the stairs. She ran over to her bed and pretended she was asleep. The door to her room opened quickly, but silently closed again.