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Chapter 4 Why do we keep this secret?
Tomoyo was not aware that she had a certain habit when it comes to her attractive boyfriend. Every time Eriol turned her on, she would hold her nape with her hand as if the temperature was cold. Only the difference is when she hold it with her right hand, she really felt cold; but when she hold it with her left hand, it means she was sexually turned on and her habit was her attempt to hold it. It was over a month since they started dating when Eriol began noticing her habit. At the beginning, he ignored it. Until one afternoon in their class, Tomoyo started acting strange.
The bell of the second break rang on that cloudy Friday, the last day of school in Seijou High School. As usual, the secret couples were going to have little shopping spree with Syaoran and Sakura after school. Only that day, they decided upon having dinner in Sakura house, since her father was out of town and her brother would have to work till quite late.
Tomoyo still sat on her seat being busy with her chemistry assignment. Eriol, who sat behind her, read a book, waiting for her to say something. Finally! I can continue with the next chapter, he thought. When it came to good books and music, he could forget anything in the world—except his girlfriend—including his manner.
"Are you staying in class, Tomoyo?" asked Sakura who already stood next to her desk.
"Yes. I need to finish this first," she said.
"You work too hard, Tomoyo-chan. Loosen up a bit," Syaoran added, "Unlike that English chap you had behind you, who is already stuck in his fantasy land."
Tomoyo chuckled. Without having to look at Eriol, she already knew what he was doing. The book that he already blabbed all morning to her would certainly took his mind away from chemistry assignment that he favored the least.
"See you later, Tomoyo," said Sakura and they left the two alone.
"See ya," said Tomoyo. She put on her earphone and resumed her work. She stretched her hands when she finished her assignment. She turned around to check on Eriol. But what she saw was an Angel lazily sitting on his chair emitting his charm. That Angel was sitting leaning on his chair with one leg on top of his other leg. One hand holding the book with the table supported his hand and the other hand on the backrest supporting his head. His head was tilted. A glint of sapphire peeked from his spectacles. She stayed in her position for some seconds and her eyes stuck on him. How could an Angel escape from heaven? Or she thought.
"Tomoyo?" he woke her up from her fantasy. "What's up, babe?"
"Eriol, people can hear you," she whispered.
"Nobody's here, babe," he put his book on the table and snapped his fingers. "Look, I can close the door, if you want." He noticed she was holding her nape with her left hand as if it was cold. In fact, summer was approaching.
"No, Eri. We're not making out here. People might get in—"
"Okay, baby. We'll do tomorrow, I promise—"
She let go her hand of her nape. "Tomorrow? Can't it be sooner?" she stood up then walked to him. He turned to her, sat still in his position. Both of her hands were on her hips.
"We promised Sakura and little wolf that we're going with them. I can stay at your place tonight if you want."
She sighed. "Don't bother, babe. Tomorrow is fine."
"Okay, come on," he pulled her hand and let her sat on his lap. She shrieked but then she put her arms around his neck. One of his hand hold her back and his other hand was on her thigh and going up higher under her skirts. "I know you want this." A soft kiss landed on her lips. Then another one. And another one. The more kisses he gave, the higher his hand went. She moaned when he reached her round butt.
"Eriol, please stop," she said.
"Okay, love," with that, he let her standing again. She turned her body away from him and he continued his book, strangely, with the same exact position. She took a glimpse on him before walking towards the door. Little did she know, he noticed her hand was on her nape when she walked away. So he was back to his book.
Just when he flipped the page with his other hand, someone was pulling her shoulders from the back. His chair was leaned diagonally on that someone's body. His hair was gently pulled so his head looking straight upwards. The next thing he knew, a pair of familiar soft lips was ravaging his lips. Someone kissed him upside down—spiderman style. The movement was steady and teasing. He let his book fell on the floor. His hands reached the soft lips owner's neck and her hands roamed his upper body. He wanted more of that kiss. He deepened the kiss and their tongue fought each other. He could smell lavender from her hair. She recognized the white musk and sandalwood emitted from his scrumptious neck.
"Wow," he said when they broke apart. His chair stood back on its four legs and she now hugged him from the back. Her head rested on top of his. "I didn't see that coming." He held her hands and took one of it and kissed it.
"You didn't?" she asked.
"Nope, baby," he said. "But that was indeed mind blowing." He took her fore finger and put it in his mouth. She bit her lower lips.
"Baby," she moaned.
"What?" he took her finger out.
"You drove me insane. I am now officially turned on—" she whispered in his ear.
They heard someone opened the door. She walked back to her seat and acted nicely. Once again she held her nape with her left hand. Eriol smiled that he finally understood his girlfriend habit. He took his book from the floor and tried to resumed his reading, which he could not since he felt a little tight in his pants. Ah, Tomoyo. You're so not getting away from this, he thought.
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Eriol woke up late that Saturday morning with heavy head. He sweated a lot and then realized that he slept only in his underwear. It took a while for him to recollect the memories from the night before.
"What the hell? Why am I here?" he looked around that he was in his own bedroom. He was too lazy to get dressed so he decided to pull his bathrobe instead before heading out of his room.
A 'good morning master' was what he expected from any of his two guardians. But none of them was present. His living room was neat and empty as if nobody lived in it for couple days. He took his wireless home phone and dialled a number while he headed to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee or any drink. There was no coffee but there was a box of milk when he opened the fridge. So he opted for that. No answer on his call. He poured his milk on a glass then pressed the redial button.
"Hello?" finally someone on the other side answered.
"Just where the hell are you?"
"Oh Master, I'm sorry I didn't answered earlier. I'm on campus coaching the basketball team. Is there something I can do for you?" Nakuru, one of his magical guardians explained his wellbeing.
"Where is Spinel?"
"Well, Spinel practically moved to Kinomoto residence since Cerberus insisted on having him playing online games there." Nakuru answered while Eriol was emptying his glass. He put the glass on the kitchen sink.
"Really? Didn't I provide fast Internet connection for you guys? He can play any games and call with Cerberus at the same time," Eriol was a little bit disappointed with his guardian since they moved to Japan; they hardly spent time with him.
"Well, yeah. Since you are also pretty preoccupied with something lately, we decided to give you some space and, you know, playing online games can be harsh in language too."
"Just what you think I am preoccupied with?"
"We think girlfriend…"
Eriol froze. He never told any of his guardians.
"What?!"
"Well. We knew when you were with Kaho-san, you always spent time with her." Kaho Mizuki was a name he tried to forget. He made mistake and she took the fall. There was always a bitterness in recalling her name. She was the one for him until…. "But now, it seems that you wanted to keep it from us so we agreed on giving you some privacy."
"You mean 'leaving me alone'?" Eriol slumped himself on the sofa.
"Sort of."
"You're right. I haven't told you that I have a girlfriend, but we agreed not to tell anybody, so we didn't."
"It's okay, Master. We knew well how you and Kaho-san breaking up. So if it is what it takes to forget her, then we support you by all means."
"Thank you, Nakuru. Please don't mention her name anymore because I am still guilty of what happened to us."
"Master, it is not your place to decide whether you are guilty or not. Just enjoy your life now, have fun, spend time with your new girlfriend. When you're ready to tell us, we'll be there for you."
"Right. Enjoy your practice. I'll have breakfast with her. Bye." He hanged up the phone. He closed his eyes and went further into his slumber on the sofa until his mobile phone on the dining table rang. He lazily stood up to get his phone and answered without even bother to see the caller ID.
"Hello," he said while moving his ass back to his sitting place.
"Do I hear laziness in your voice?"
"Tomoyo?"
"Yes, baby. Who else? Didn't you even save my number?"
"Yes, I did."
"Are you okay, Eri?"
"Yes, I am," he lied. He did not even know why he was not.
"Breakfast?"
"Sure. When?"
"How about opening your front door first?"
It took him quite a while to realize and before he knew it he stood up and threw the phone God knows where and ran to the front door to open it. There Tomoyo stood in front of his apartment door on her white summer dress with brown leather slim belt and black Balmain blazer holding two brown paper bags on her right hand and her mobile phone on her left hand.
"Please do come in, Tomoyo," said Eriol.
"Thank you." Tomoyo said as she let herself in. She went straight to the kitchen to prepare the breakfast. Then she realised that her boyfriend was only in his bathrobe.
"Eriol!"
"Yes," he answered while sitting on the sofa again. Somehow, he still felt exhausted.
"You just woke up, didn't you?"
"Yes, I did. What's wrong?" he turned his head to her.
She brought some plates with their breakfast to the coffee table in front of him.
"I can help you, Tomoyo," he said.
"Just sit, baby," she put her hands on his shoulders to prevent him from getting up.
She sat next to him when she put all of the food and drinks on the table. She even brewed tea for them. There were fresh fruit such as strawberries, bananas, orange and grapes; bagels and croissant, jam and butter on the table.
"Wow, fancy," he commented shortly. "Thank you," he kissed her cheek while she actually expected a kiss on her lips.
"So, what's going on with you?" She started the conversation while they had breakfast.
"Nothing. I'm fine," he answered.
"You woke up late, loosing your focus, answered me shortly; this is not you, Eriol," she said. "Does this have something to do with what happened last night?"
He was silent for some seconds, thinking what he would like to tell her. He was munching his croissant.
"Tomoyo," he finally broke the silent.
"Yes," she answered.
"Am I your boyfriend?" he asked while looking at the eyes of the lady who was sitting next to him.
"Of course you are, baby. We date, we flirt at each other, we have dinner together, go to school together; we even make out. I don't see how you are not my boyfriend."
"Well, you clearly stated that you won't have any boyfriend," he said.
"This is about last night, isn't it," she stated.
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The previous night in Sakura house
Ding dong!
A girl in auburn hair ran to the front door and opened it to reveal her best friend standing there.
"Tomoyo!" she hugged her.
"Good evening, Sakura," Tomoyo greeted.
"Do come in, dearie," Sakura said and she was about to close the door when Tomoyo halted her.
"Not yet, Sakura. Eriol is coming. There he is," Tomoyo said right about when Eriol came approaching the door.
"Good evening, Sakura," he kissed Sakura's hand. "Good evening, Tomoyo. You look beautiful as always," he said then he kissed her cheek. Tomoyo would always smile at his sweet gesture. But Sakura was standing there in shock because her two best friends were extremely closer than ever.
"Syaoran is in the dining room already. You can see yourself in, Eriol-kun," Sakura said.
"After you, ladies," he said politely.
"You go ahead first. I need a moment with Tomoyo alone," Sakura pulled Tomoyo's hand.
"Of course, my dear Sakura." He left for the dining room leaving the two girls alone in the hallway.
"What was that, Tomoyo?" Sakura started interrogating her.
"What do you mean?" Tomoyo puzzled.
"You and Eriol-kun are on the first name basis. Where did that come from?"
"Well, we are friend. I don't see the problem on calling each other's name."
"Yeah. But he called you 'Tomoyo' without any suffix, neither Tomoyo-san nor Tomoyo-chan."
"Is that a problem, Sakura?"
"Well, firstly, that's beyond intimate and secondly, he just kissed you!" Sakura spoke in as-a-matter-of-fact tone.
"Can't a friend kiss other friend? Like this," Tomoyo gave a peck on Sakura cheek and dragged her best friend to the dining room.
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"We are not dating," Tomoyo said after the dinner. The four of them now sat on the living room to enjoy some tea and coffee.
"Eriol and I are just friends," Tomoyo explained.
"But girl, he kissed you!" Syaoran spoke in a way Touya, Sakura's brother, always spoke to him, like an overprotective brother.
"On the cheek," Tomoyo stated.
"Still! What kind of friends would do that?"Syaoran sounded exactly like Touya.
"I can kiss Sakura also if you let me," Eriol spoke.
"NO FREAKING WAY, you mother father!" Syaoran really cursed at Eriol using real bad words instead of only 'freaking' or 'mother father'.
"Syaoran! Language!" Sakura said in embarrassment. Tomoyo and Eriol chuckled.
"Anyway, Tomoyo and I are friends. Close friends, best friends you may call us anyway you want. We simply spent our time together since you two 'spent time together'," he said in a teasing manner.
"But your kind of spending time together is certainly more 'intimate' than we are," Tomoyo added to Eriol teasing and make the other two lovebirds blushed.
"So you two are really not dating?" Sakura asked.
Tomoyo and Eriol looked at each other and then shaking their heads.
"Is there anyway you may be dating in the future?" Sakura asked again.
"Sakura, my dear, I would like to keep our friendship like this. I don't wanna any relationships ruined our friendship. Besides, I'm not a kind of girl with boyfriend," Tomoyo answered.
"Then? What kind of girl are you, Tomoyo-chan?" Syaoran asked.
"I am is independent to any man. I'm fine of my own. Hashtag I don't need a man, Syaoran", she joked. Sakura and Syaoran laughed a little since they knew very well Tomoyo's independence, while the other person seemed did not get the memo.
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"Eriol, my darling," Tomoyo picked up a napkin to gently wipe the crumbs on Eriol mouth. "I didn't mean that I wouldn't have any boyfriend. What I meant was that I am fine even if I don't have boyfriend. But now that you are here bringing colours to my life, I'd love to have you to be my boyfriend, my lover, my Eriol." She kissed his cheek. Whether his cheek was warm due to the heat or cold due to the coldness, she still could feel the warmth of his skin and it would always drove her crazy of him.
"I am sorry if I misunderstood. I'd love to be your boyfriend. When you said that, I thought you don't need me or you don't wanna be my girlfriend. The whole night I couldn't sleep thinking what I am to you."
"Is that what you were thinking? Is that why you are restless?" she looked concerned.
He nodded. She took his face and kissed him tenderly.
"Don't leave me, please," she said when she broke the kiss. "I'd love having you. I don't want our relationship disturb our friendship with the others. We are more intimate than Sakura and Syaoran or any other couples. I want it to be just us two. Please, Eriol—"
He smiled and kissed her to silence her. She did not need to explain further because he already heard what he needed to hear, that she needed him so much.
"Now, be a good boyfriend and take a shower?" she pinched his nose.
"Join me?"
"No, babe. I already took a shower anyway."
Then he took the extreme movement. He licked hard her cleavage up to her neck.
"Oh, my God. Eriol! Ew!"
"You're dirty now. Why don't you be a good girlfriend and join me to shower?"
Without her permission he kissed her ferociously while he took off her blazer—and she seemed did not mind either—and lifted her dress to reveal her only in strapless bra and her panties. He lifted her and took her bridal style to his bathroom. She put her head on the crook of his neck to inhale his raw smell before it would be cleansed and became the smell of white musk and sandalwood. Oh how she loved the smell of her lover.
the next one might take a little while because I'm preparing a flash back story about what happened the summer when they met in England. ^_^
