A Helping Hand Chapter 4
A/N: Sorry for the wait everyone, I had a lot of family issues to work through this last month, but here's the fourth chapter for you reading enjoyment. I want to thank everyone who reviewed the last few chapters, and added the story to their alerts and favorites, it is much appreciated. Now, on to the date :).
Disclaimer: I do not own Maria Sama Ga Miteru. Nor do I own the song 6 months that belongs to Hey Monday.
Later that night, after Yumi tried to get information out of Sei about their date that she agreed to go on, but was unsuccessful in doing so. She finished getting dressed, which consisted of a pair of black form fitting jeans, a blue polo shirt, and a jean jacket. She walked out into the living room to see Sei standing at the counter making sure she had everything for the night. Yumi was relieved to see that Sei was dressing casual too, in her jeans and t-shirt, and leather jacket. Sei turned around and saw Yumi standing in the doorway.
"Hey, you look great." Sei said smiling at her friend and roommate.
"Thanks." Yumi said, she could feel a slight blush coming to her cheeks. 'Why did I just blush a little when Sei complimented me?' She was glad when Sei didn't see her blush. Yumi put the thought aside for now. "You look great too." The brunette said walking over to the counter.
"Thank you, so are you ready to go." Sei said grabbing her car keys. "You're going to drive?" Yumi asked. She still got shaken up whenever Sei and driving was in the same sentence. Sei laughed when she saw the horrified look on the young girls face.
"Don't worry, I promise not to drive like a crazed maniac."
Yumi reluctantly agreed and the two left the house. Once they were in the car, Yumi strapped her seat belt on really securely, just to be safe. Sei saw this and laughed. "You still don't trust me driving do you?"
"It's not that, I just want to be safe, there are other crazy drivers out there besides you, you know." Yumi said looking at straight ahead.
"Yeah, sure." Sei grinned and started the car.
The drive was surprisingly not as bad as Yumi thought it would be. Sei parked her car along the curb of the street, and started to undo her seat belt. "Here we are." The blonde smiled at the girl sitting next to her. Yumi looked outside her window and saw that they were downtown at the plaza area. "Where are we going that's here?" Yumi asked turning back to Sei.
"You'll see it's a surprise." The older girl said winking at her friend. "Come on." She said and stepped out of the car. Yumi followed Sei out of the car and walked beside her to their surprise destination. They have been walking for about five minutes, when Yumi decided to break the silence.
"Can you at least give me a hint as to where we're going?" The brunette asked, really wanting to know where they were going.
"No" Sei said chuckling.
"Yeah I know, because it's a surprise. What if I don't like surprises?" Yumi said looking at Sei annoyingly.
"Then you, my dear Yumi would be lying." Sei said, laughing at the annoyed look on her friends face. She turned her attention back to where she was walking. 'Yumi really is cute when she's annoyed.' The blonde thought to herself.
'Don't worry Yumi; you don't have to be upset anymore.' Sei stopped walking and looked at Yumi again.
"Why did you stop?" Yumi asked looking at Sei.
"Because, we're here." The blonde said nodding towards the building next to them. Yumi looked over and saw that they were standing in front of a karaoke bar. Yumi's eyes went wide and she looked back towards Sei.
"We're going to a karaoke bar?"
"Mm Hm." Sei said nodding her said. "Are you okay with that, I thought it would be fun for us to do." Sei said looking at Yumi, hoping that the younger girl would think so too.
"It is a good idea really, it's just that… I'm not really that great of a singer and I'm afraid I might embarrass myself." Yumi said hanging her head down. Sei saw how nervous Yumi was and didn't want to see her like that. Sei placed her hand on Yumi's chin and lifted her head so that she was looking directly into her eyes.
"Listen Yumi, you don't have to worry about being embarrassed alright, I think you'll do great no matter how bad you sing, okay." Sei said smiling at the brunette sweetly. Yumi felt her cheeks warm up as she gazed into Sei's enticing gray eyes. 'Sei has beautiful eyes.' She could feel her heart beat faster at the thought. 'Why am I feeling this way, first at the apartment, and now this? Could I possibly have feelings for Sei?' Pushing the thought aside for now, Yumi turned her attention back to her friend.
"Thank you Sei for believing in my singing ability." Yumi said with a soft laugh.
"No problem, come on let's go inside and get our date started." Sei said taking Yumi's hand and going inside the bar. Once they were inside, they went to their booth that Sei had reserved earlier that day. Yumi looked through the list of songs while her friend went to get them some drinks. A few minutes later the former Rose Gigantea came back with a couple of glasses in her hand.
"Did you find anything good?" The blonde said, sitting down on the couch.
"I think so; there are a couple of good songs in here that I wanted to try out." Yumi said still searching though the machine. "Do you want to take a look?" She turned around and asked.
"I will in a minute, here you go I got you a soda, since you don't like alcohol very much." Sei said handing Yumi her glass. "Thank you." The younger girl said and turned back to pick the song she was going to sing.
"Okay, I got my song." Yumi said smiling at the older woman.
"Great, let's hear it." Sei said sitting up in her chair so that she was giving Yumi her full attention. She watched the brunette stand on the small stage that was in front of their room. Sei could tell that Yumi was still a little nervous about singing so she gave her a smile of encouragement "You can do it Yumi, you don't have to be nervous."
Yumi took in Sei's words and took a deep breath, and stepped up to the mic. Soft acoustic music filled the room and Yumi started to sing.
You're the direction I follow to get home
When I feel like I can't go on, you tell me to go
And it's like I can't feel a thing without you around
And don't mind me if I get weak in the knees
'cause you have that effect on me, you do
Everything you say
Every time we kiss, I can't think straight
But I'm okay
And I can't think of anybody else
Who I hate to miss as much as I hate missing you
Months going strong now, and no goodbye
Unconditional, unoriginal
Always by my side
Meant to be together
Meant for no one but each other
You love me, I love you harder so
Feeling enough confidence, Yumi made her way off the small stage, and over to where Sei was sitting. She sat down on the table in front of the couch, where the blonde was occupying.
Everything you say
Every time we kiss, I can't think straight
But I'm okay
And I can't think of anybody else
Who I hate to miss as much as I hate missing you
So please, give me your hand
So please, give me a lesson on how to steal, steal a heart
As fast as you stole mine, as you stole mine
Oh and everything you say
Every time we kiss, I can't think straight
But I'm okay
And I can't think of anybody else
Who I hate to miss as much as I hate missing you
So please, give me your hand
So please, just take my hand.
"Wow." Was all that could come out of Sei's mouth; she was in awe at how beautiful Yumi's voice was. Sei had no idea Yumi was such a good singer; she knew she was nervous about it at first, but near the end, she built up a lot of confidence. Sei also felt something new when Yumi was singing to her. She felt like her heart was beating twice as fast as it should be. She also felt her face heat up just enough for her to notice. Back at Lillian Sei had a crush on the younger girl, but just passed it off slightly as a schoolgirl crush, but now it's like she's feeling something much stronger for Yumi. It felt right.
"Is that a good wow, or a bad wow?" Yumi asked, breaking Sei's trance.
"That was definitely a good wow. I thought you said you weren't a great singer? To me, you were amazing." Sei smiled at Yumi.
"You really think so?" Yumi asked her face flushed from Sei's compliment. Yumi looked up at Sei and realized that their faces were mere inches from each other. Looking into Sei's eyes, the brunette felt like there was a magnet between them and was keeping her from pulling away. She liked that feeling.
"I do." Sei whispered; she could also feel like something was drawing them closer together. It wasn't a bad feeling, but before either of could realize it, they were leaning closer to one another. Both girls felt a shock when their lips slightly brushed against each others.
Just when their lips were about to touch for an actual kiss, both girls jumped away when they heard a loud crash. Sei turned around quickly to see that the waitress had fallen and spilled drinks all over the carpet.
"Gomenasai, I was just checking to see if you wanted a refill on your drinks." The waitress said frantically.
"It's okay really; I think we're about done for tonight anyway. Thank you though." Sei said flashing one of her charming smiles. The waitress nodded her head and picked up her mess and rushed out of the room the two girls were occupying.
"Well… That was… Um… Interesting." Sei chuckled rubbing the back of her head.
"Yeah, it was." Yumi said looking down at her hands. Both girls sat in silence for a few minutes thinking about what had just happened between them.
"I almost kissed Sei." Yumi kept saying in her mind over and over again. "Do I want to kiss Sei? I've never felt like this about anyone before. When our lips brushed it did feel really good." The brunette thought placing her fingers across her lips. She looked up at Sei and saw that the blonde was deep in her own thoughts.
"I almost Kissed Yumi, maybe it wasn't just a schoolgirl crush after all." Sei thought replaying the events that just happened. She looked up and saw that Yumi was looking at her.
"So, do you want to get going now, it's getting pretty late." Sei suggested trying not to seem embarrassed.
"Yeah sure, it is getting late anyway." Yumi agreed and they both left the bar. When they were walking to the car, Sei noticed that Yumi was rubbing her arms a little bit. "Are you cold?" Sei asked. "Just a little, I'll be fine though." Yumi said reassuringly.
Even though, Yumi said that she was fine, Sei took off her jacket and wrapped it around Yumi's shoulders to keep her warm. Yumi looked over to Sei and smiled. "Thanks Sei."
"No problem." Sei smiled back and the two continued walking to the car.
Once they made it to the car, Yumi tried to give Sei her coat back. "No keep it, it's no problem." Sei said walking over to the driver's door so that the brunette couldn't give her jacket back. "Okay, if you're sure." Yumi said opening the door to get in.
The drive back was fairly silent, not really awkward silence but more of a comfortable silence. Once they got back to the house, sei turned off the car, and rested her arms against the steering wheel and looked at Yumi. "Home, sweet home. " She said laughing a little. Yumi joined in with the laughter.
"I had a great time tonight Sei, thank you for taking me out." Yumi said smiling at her friend.
"I had a great time too, it was probably the most fun I've had in a long time." Sei said with her usual grin.
"Maybe we should go inside now." The former rose said.
"Yeah, that would be a good idea."
Both girls got out of the car, and made their way up to the apartment. The whole time they were walking, the only thing that kept running through Yumi's head was her and Sei's 'almost kiss.' "Why can't I stop thinking about that? It's not like we actually kissed each other. Although it would be nice if we did." Yumi kept thinking about it until she noticed they were standing in front of the door.
"Do you have the key Yumi; I left mine inside on accident." Sei chuckled a little bit.
"Yeah I have mine." Yumi said taking out her key and putting it into the keyhole unlocking the door. Before opening it, the younger woman turned around and looked at Sei.
"Before we go inside, there's something I want to do." Yumi said looking at her friend and roommate in the eyes. Before Sei could respond she felt Yumi pull her in and kissed her. Sei was surprised at first, but recovered. She was about to kiss Yumi back when she felt the younger woman pull away.
"I wanted to do that since we left the karaoke bar." Yumi admitted turning around to open the door, but was stopped when Sei turned her around and kissed her with the same, if not more passion then the previous kiss. Sei pulled away and looked at the brunette.
"I wanted to do that too." She said smiling at Yumi who looked really dazed after their kiss. "Yumi, we need to go inside now." The younger girl broke out of her trance when she heard Sei say that they needed to go inside.
"Y-yeah we do." Yumi stammered and turned around to open the door. Once they were inside their warm apartment, the brunette walks over to the counter and puts her things down. She turned back around and smiled at Sei "I think I'm going to go to bed now." Yumi said, giving Sei a hug and one last kiss, before going to her room. "Goodnight Sei."
"Night, Yumi." Sei said with a smile on her face, then going to her own respectable bedroom. Once she was inside her room, she fell onto her bed and shut her eyes, thinking about her date with Yumi. She let the thoughts of that night guide her to sleep. She couldn't wait to see Yumi again in the morning.
A/N: Yay another chapter done! This is my longest chapter so far, I'm surprised at myself. I hope you all enjoyed it. The next chapter will take a little longer to write this time, with college and all in the way. Tell me what you think about the date R&R please!! Thank you!!!!