Jaych
Forgotten 4
Two's Company, Everyone Else Is a Crowd
Disclaimers are fully articulated in the first chapter. If you've made it this far, please shoot me a review and I'll hit you back.
Walking to the station, Yumi pondered what had happened to her neat, expected, and sometimes suffocating life. Sei had never answered her question, and even now, hands occasionally brushing, intertwining as they walked, the older girl remained silent. Yumi remembered seeing the trademark grin cross the blonde's face after she had asked "What did I miss?" It had comforted her, and the older the girl had given her a hug to redefine the word. Sei had held Yumi tight, like a treasure she would never see again, flooding the first year student with warm, new memories.
As they entered the station, crowded and rowdy with the after work and school commuters, Sei finally spoke. "Yumi, my train is ten minutes away but yours is only five," the older girl trailed off, "and I, well, I want you to call me, okay? Once you get home, just to know you're safe." The blonde looked down at Yumi, reminding the brunette of her previous intensity. No silly grin, no angry glare, just a deep look of longing, and something she could not place.
Yumi could hear the rumble of the approaching train, see its lights grow blinding as it approached. "Of course," she said to Sei, extending her hand across the small distance separating them. The younger girl knew Sei would be there at school tomorrow. She would be Rosa Gigantea, a rogue leader in the Yamayurikai. Part of Yumi, however, dreaded the possibility of not seeing her new lover tomorrow. "I'll call you," the younger girl continued, attempting to move her heart faster than the train. "I'll call you for a kiss," she finished, surprised by her own boldness.
The smile was back on Sei's face as her eyebrows bounced a little. "If my dear Yumi feels a kiss is proper compensation then so be it," the blonde said, pulling Yumi's hand so she fell across the few inches between them. Yumi felt so good against her and Sei leaned in, public be damned, to kiss the girl. It was not the hard, needy, claiming kiss of earlier, but a short, passionate reminder. "You owe me, Yumi, one call later," the blonde smiled down, a rush coming over her at the sight of her Yumi's swollen lips.
The train doors opened with a whoosh behind the brunette and Sei playfully nudged Yumi into the train. As people piled in, blocking the shorter girl's vision she heard once more, the loud laugh and demanding voice of Sei, "Tonight or I'm coming over to throw pebbles at your window!" The brunette shook her head laughing before falling to her seat with a sigh. When was the last time she had been on the train fast enough to get a seat? Would Sei make it home, or have to wait? And when was Yoshino going to call her out for, well, for everything that had happened? Did she even notice?
Yumi let herself be carried away by thoughts and memories as the train sped dutifully closer to home.
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Yoshino didn't want to leave Rei's room so early, but she was having a more and more difficult time keeping things to herself. She at least owed it to Yumi to call her before such private business became public, an unavoidable eventuality at the exclusive girls' school. Yoshino bustled quickly to her house and room, preparing questions for her classmate. What was she thinking? Did she even like Sei? Was she sure she liked girls? Scratch that one, Yoshino thought, the evidence surely displayed a pleasure with the company of other women. Was Yumi blind to Sachiko, though? Did she not see the stifled woman's conservative attempts at affection? Yoshino would have to give her classmate and friend an earful, but before she could pull up Yumi's number, she saw an unfamiliar number begin scroll across the display.
"Hello," the violet eyed girl answered politely without giving away any information. Rei called her paranoid.
"Hello, Yoshino," The first year student heard the smooth articulation of Sachiko's voice coming across the phone for the first time ever. She had never even emailed the other girl unless she was sending it to the Yamayurikai as a group. She had also never believed in coincidences.
"Yes, Sachiko, of course, how can I help you?" Nice, but detached, thought the younger girl.
"It's a matter of this afternoon," The Rosa Chinesis en Bouten began, "I heard that my petit seoure was left alone with Sei and," Yoshino held her breath during the pause, "you may have some clue as to why she out so late? She never mentioned it to me."
Yoshino swallowed and tried to think of when she had possibly mentioned to anyone that Yumi was at school late. Rei. She had told her cousin the bubbly girl needed help cleaning when she went to fetch her scarf. Yumi would be hearing about this too, Yoshino decided.