* you'll have to excuse my mistake in the last chapter, I just realized that I put 1:35 PM instead of 1:35 AM. Gomen nasai, ill have to spend a lot more time during my editing process. ^_^u
** Oh, a small note, in Japan you don't get off for Christmas, in fact the only day of the year you don't have to work is the emperors birthday. Kind of sucks, doesn't it? (no pun was intended in the first half of this fun fact, if you perceived one then your as much of a pervert as me.)
Caught!
December 25th 2015
1:35 AM
Shinji smiled at her and whispered back, "Merry Kurimatsu to you too." Then, instead of starting up again, Shinji grabbed her waist and held her in a tight embrace. He said, "Lets take a break, we have all the time in the world." And so they lay there, enjoying each others warmth and presence. Neither of the two could remember any time in their life when they felt as comfortable and content as they did now.
They lay that way for another half hour, then Asuka asked Shinji if he was ready again. But the boy had already fallen asleep. She stared at him and mulled in her head the idea that she was attracted to him. She just couldn't understand, in her eyes he was pathetic, annoying, a little whining child, but still, she loved the attention she got from him, loved the feel of his skin against hers. "Hmmm, I thought Shinji was pathetic, but maybe im the one who is pathetic. At least Shinji had the courage to go this far the first time I admitted my feelings to him.
Laying there she noticed his steady breathing. She was amazed at the pace, one breath in, then one breath out, all in perfect time with no deviations. She couldn't really figure out why she hadn't taken the time to notice these things before. Even though he was a coward, she realized how lucky she was that she had found such a beautiful boy, but at the same time she was afraid what others would think when they revealed their relationship. As she fell asleep to the hypnotic tone of the boys breathing, she thought to herself that they would both have to hide their relationship for a little longer till she figured out how to tell everyone.
9:05 Am
Misato walked in the door. She thanked god for her luck, Ritsuko had offered to help with the paperwork she had to fill out, and they had finished in record time. Now she could get more sleep, coming home early was probably the best gift she would get all day. She went to the kitchen to see if Shinji had left her anything from when he cooked breakfast for himself and Asuka, but was surprised to find there wasn't even a pan in the sink. " Well, Asuka must have badgered him into skipping school with her, she dose have the right since Christmas is a big holiday for westerners." She decided to wake Shinji and Asuka up and give them a tongue lashing before having Shinji cook breakfast and sending him off to school.
She walked to Shinji's room first to wake him up, but he wasn't in his bed. "Maybe he did go to school, but then why didn't he cook breakfast for Asuka or himself?" She went to Asuka's room to wake her up and ask her what was going on. She opened the shutter and was about to call Asuka's name when she paused and gasped. She stood and stared and still couldn't believe her eyes.
Shinji was in Asuka's bed, apparently naked, laying next to Asuka who appeared to be naked too. There was a used condom wrapper on the floor, and their clothing was spread about the room. Misato couldn't clam herself because there was only one logical explanation. She grabbed Shinji and pulled him out of the bed, consequentially waking both of the hormone ridden adolescents up. They both were startled and knew in that one instant that they had both been caught.
Misato yelled at them. " What the hell were you two doing, you know you have no business doing that kind of thing, your not adults yet." Asuka clenched the blanket to herself, and Shinji tried to cover his indecency with the one hand Misato didn't have a death grip on. Misato tossed Shinji out of the room, closed the shutter, and began yelling at Asuka. Shinji slinked to his room, put on some underwear and a pair of pants, then sat in the living room and waited for the inevitable.
When Misato was done with Asuka, she brought her out to the living room and stared at them both. They sat like that for a while in perfect silence. Misato broke the silence. "Shinji, pack up your things." Asuka began to protest, but Shinji stood up and said, "Yes Misato-san." Asuka stared at him angrily and yelled, "You damn wimp, I can't believe I slept with a pathetic excuse of a man like you, I never want to see you again!"
Promptly after saying this she ran to her room again and slammed the shutter. Shinji reverted to his sheltered look he used to conceal his emotions and walked silently to his room. Misato regretted saying what she had said and wished she could have taken it back. She didn't particularly want Shinji to leave, but she couldn't have them living together if they were doing these kinds of things. She never wanted to break up the young couple, but now she had.
In his room Shinji had begun packing his stuff when he picked up the book Asuka had given him yesterday. Suddenly he couldn't hold back his emotions. He buried his face in his pillow and began to cry. This was the first time in his life he had ever felt for anyone in this way, and now it was over as soon as it had began. He felt as if someone had punched him in the stomach.
In Asuka's room she was handling her emotions in a far different way. In anger she had torn up the dress Shinji had gotten her. "Why the hell did I even trust that fucking maggot! I poured my feelings out to him and then he turns around and gives up that easily! I can't believe I gave that little bastard the privilege of being my first!" After she had said that, she broke down and cried.
Misato knew now that she no longer needed to have Shinji move. She came into his room and saw his face in his pillow. She said, "Shinji, you don't need to pack anymore, I guess the problem has been solved." Suddenly she realized how horrible what she said sounded, and was about to apologize, but she noticed Shinji hadn't moved an inch. She felt guilty, so she came and sat down on his bed. She ran her hand through his hair and said, "Im sorry Shinji, I didn't mean for all this to happen, but it was my duty, I couldn't let you two live together doing that kind of stuff, but if I knew what was going to happen I would have just turned a blind eye to it."
She sat there in almost complete silence, broken every now and then by one of Shinji's almost silent sobs. Then he said, "I can't even remember a time in my life that made me feel as good as it did to be with Asuka, just holding her in my arms. Im never going to feel that way ever again." Misato rubbed his back with one had and said, "It's going to be okay, this is just your first love, im sure that you'll find someone else who will make you as happy as Asuka did." Then she got up, unpacked Shinji's stuff, and left the room, but before she left, she heard him whisper, "But I don't want anyone but Asuka."
Later that evening she talked on the phone with Ritsuko about what had happened. Misato told her, "The saddest thing was that they remind me of Kaji and I when we were in college. I feel so guilty that they had to go through that." Ritsuko said, "Its for the better, we don't know how their relationship would have affected their synch-ratios. Im not going to tell anyone since it's no longer an issue, but you followed protocol, and that's all that matters. "
Misato sighed and said, "It's just like you to say something like that Ritsuko."
To be continued.