23
Onsen
As Aontakam and I are about to lie down, there's a knock on the door, followed by a soft voice saying "sumimasen." We jump up and part immediately. A hotel staff member wearing a pink yukata with a cute floral design enters and says something to us as if we can understand her local language. To not seem too impolite, we nod as if we understand. Not long after that, dinner is served. It is so grand that I'm all excited.
At first, we were frustrated. But it all fades when we see how detailed and delicate each menu that is served is. The food is slowly served, dish by dish. Each dish is only a bite size. But before you know it, your stomach may burst after a while.
"If I stay here too long, I will turn into a pig."
I complain as I lie flat on my back on the tatami in our room. I'm exploding. Every part of me feels bloated from the food we ate.
"You will still be a cute pig."
I sit up when I hear that. I glanced at the woman who just flirted with me and smiled from the corner of my mouth.
"You're so bold after we're lovers."
"Try it. Try flirting with me."
"How... MY little Awww is so cute."
"I've been meaning to ask you this for a while now; what's Awww? When you're drunk, you always call me that."
Karakate is savage...
"It's Kam. From now on, Chris will call Karn Awn Awww or little Awn."
"Where's the name from?"
"From cute seals." I elaborate on the round mammals and how shiny they are when the sunlight at the south pole hits them. "Chris likes seals, so when Chris adores something or thinks that something is cute, Chris will call it little Am."
"So, Kam is cute?"
"Kam, who is loved."
"…"
"…"
There's dead air between us. I froze when I realized what I had let slip. Will she suspect something? Will she suspect that I'm Apple?
"Impersonator."
"Huh?"
"You remember what I told you about Apple, so you impersonate her?" Aontakam scrunches her nose a bit. "Apple always starts her letter with... Dear you, who is loved."
"Ah. No wonder it sounds familiar. I was wondering why that popped up in my head." I dodge as soon as I see an opportunity and go on to change the topic. "Ah... I'm full now. I'm going to the onsen next. Will you go with me?"
"…"
"What? Why are you quiet?"
"You're inviting me to get naked with you at the onsen?"
Oh... I didn't think of that. So when she asks like this, I quickly wave my hand to deny it.
"No... I... I saw that there's an onsen here, so I invited you. You... you said that if we act all shy, it would be rude."
"Naughty."
"I'm not."
"Just say it. You want to see me naked."
"No. Sob." I pull my collar up and bite it, as I'm at a loss for what to do. When Aontakam sees how frantic I am, she changes her expression from fake fury to laughter.
"Don't be so cute, Chris. You're so adorable."
"Oh... you weren't really mad?"
"Why would I be mad? I just wanted to know if you had naughty thoughts. But it seemed like you didn't think about getting naked with me... you, old-fashion woman."
I swallow hard. I don't give any responses because I'm too shy. If she knows that, the other night, I had a wet dream as I dreamed about her spreading my legs and bending down to lic...
Jesus. No... I will not think about that. Putho Thammo Sangkho18
"Oh, they have yukata for us to change into... Let's give it a try." The sweet-faced person gets up and grabs the yukata. She doesn't talk about being naked again. I also pick one up and put it on quickly while the petite one is still in the bathroom. We finish at the same time.
18It's part of the most basic prayers.
"Ta-da... how does Karn look in a yukata?"
Aontakam in an oversized yukata is so cute that I look at her adoringly. How can someone... be so cute no matter what she wears?
"Why don't you say anything? Aren't I beautiful?"
"H... huh? No. It's cute."
It's very awww. Sob... I want to bite her out of cute aggression. Why is she so adorable? I want to cry...
"It's cute means that I'm not cute."
"It's very Awww!" I immediately interrupt in panic because I'm afraid that being tight-lipped will create another misunderstanding. "It's very cute. I want to pinch you."
"Is that a compliment? Pinch me? Hey... you're quite head over heels about me."
"I want to bite you."
"What?"
"Let's go to the onsen."
I dashed out of the room out of shyness. I let slip what I was thinking a bit too much. I have to slap my own mouth for being so careless.
After we go down the elevator to the ground floor, where the onsen is, I have to go ask for some towels at the reception. I was a bit worried at first because I've never been naked in front of other people before. But that's that... I'm here; I have to try it.
Being naked is normal here. I can do it. It's Japan...
Splash...
I slowly drop my feet into the not-so-large onsen to adjust my body temperature before I drop my entire body down. The muscles, which are all tight from our long trip here, slowly relax. It's lucky that there are no strangers right now, so I'm more relaxed because I don't have to be naked in front of someone else. This is great... The entire onsen is mine.
"Are you in an MV?"
The entire onsen is not mine!
Gasp!
I startle and sit up just as my head touches the edge of the onsen. Aontakam is naked. She only has a small towel to cover herself from the breast to the middle part of her body. Though she's covering herself, I can still make out what's what. I panic and quickly turn to look another way, as well as close my eyes.
"You startle me."
"Why are you startled?"
"I didn't think... that you would be here."
"Are you possessive of the onsen? Can I join you?"
"Okay. I'll go elsewhere."
"Please join me, princess." I sweep my hand over to the onsen, defeated. Aontakam giggles and drops her leg into the onsen before she slowly gets in and sits next to me.
"I'm sorry I interrupted your MV."
"I wasn't pretending that I'm in an MV. It's just... so relaxing." I can't help but glance at the naked body next to me when I speak. And yes... I'm naked as well.
Damned... I have a crush on her, but I didn't think that I would come this far. I could faint watching her on TV, but this is 4K FulIHD. I can't breath.
"What are you looking at?"
"Breasts."
"Huh?"
"Ops..." I shake my head to shake away my naughty thoughts. "Ah..."
"Ifs okay to look at my breasts. I got naked so that you could look."
"Karn!" I'm completely shocked by what the petite one just said. "What's getting naked for me to look at?"
"Why are you so shy? Haven't you ever gotten naked with your friends when you were in school?"
"No."
"You're really very reserved. Or am I too relaxed around you?"
"A... Ah... Chris grew up with a brother, maybe. So, Chris has to be more aware of what Chris is doing at all times."
"That's different from Karn. I just lived with my mother. I have taken a bath with my mother since I was a kid, so being naked with a girl friend or Chris is nothing unusual for Karn."
"Ah-huh."
"Please act normal, Chris. We're in an onsen. Being naked is normal. Turn to me!" Aontakam grabs my shoulder and turns me to face her. When we are face-to-face, there's no way around looking at her.
"Chris has such a great figure. Can you stand up so I can see clearly?"
"No!"
If I stand up, she can see everything. I haven't trimmed and polished everything. Why didn't I do that before we came here? Whyyyyyyyyy.
"To allow you to feel more comfortable, I will stand up first."
Splash!
The petite woman really stands up, like she said she would. My jaw drops. I still hide myself in the water because I'm at a loss for what to do. Aontakarn's figure is very delicate. I'm becoming hot. Is it because of the water temperature or my body temperature? I can't be sure.
She's so beautiful... I want to touch her.
"Your turn, Chris."
"No."
"Why do you always break my face?"
"No. I'm not trying to break your face."
"Stand up, then!"
The violent scream from the petite woman stuns me. I immediately stand up, forgetting how embarrassed I am. So, eventually, we're both naked in front of each other under the big round moon in the sky. There are only the two of us here. This means that we are even and fair.
"Wow..."
"Why do you have to go 'wow' when Chris stands up?"
"It's as I imagined. Chris has great abs." Aontakam reaches out her hand to stroke my abs, as if she's crazy about my body. "You have a great figure."
"Your stroking my abs like this is..."
Splash...
The petite one suddenly drops back down into the onsen. She sits on her knees with her eyes still on my abs, as if she's admiring a painting. Her face is now at the same level as the middle part of my body. I step back to move away from her, but she locks me by the waist.
"Please let Karn try something..." Aontakam leans in and kisses my abs gently. It gives me a strange sensation in my tummy. I almost fell to the ground.
"Karn, what are you doing? It's..."
The sweet-faced woman still moves around my abs. At first, she was just gently kissing it. But now, she's licking it as if she's a cat decorating her fur. It's a moist and soft touch. I almost cry out, 'ahhh'. T dig my nails into Aontakarn's hair.
"Chris thinks this is..."
"Is?"
Aontakam's face moves lower. I pant heavily. I know that it can get more intense, like in my dream.
Lower...
A bit lower...
"I'm so thirsty." The petite one suddenly moves away from my body and gets up. "Being in the hot water for too long makes me thirsty. Are you done, Christ?"
"I'm not done."
"…"
"I mean, I'm not done with the onsen."
I reply without any confidence. The petite woman just nods and smiles at me.
"Kant will head out first. Don't stay on for too long, or you may faint."
"Ah-huh."
"Hurry back to our room. I'll drink beer as I wait for you."
Aontakam says that without looking at me, and she walks out naked with the towel on her neck. When I'm sure that the petite woman is no longer here, I sit down and close my eyes to try to compose myself.
Can I get myself together... I don't know where my mind wandered.
Oh. I heard that she would drink beer?
When I realize that, I immediately get up and run after Aontakarn. But the sweet-faced woman is no longer here. I hurriedly washed myself and put on my yukata before I headed over to take the elevator up to my floor. I knock on the door when I reach our room to let the person inside know that I am back so she can open the door for me.
"I thought you would stay at the onsen longer."
"I'm thirsty."
The petite woman's face is all red. It's probably because she was just in the onsen. I'm not sure if my face is red as well. It seems like there's hotel staff in the mom to prepare our bed. What she's doing seems more like art than just doing her job.
"Even bed preparation looks grand. It makes Karn want to go to sleep."
"Whether we get to sleep remains to be seen."
I'm just babbling. It makes Aontakarn turn to look at me smilingly.
"Why wouldn't we get to sleep?"
"Well... we're going to drink beer."
"Right."
After the bed preparation ceremony, Aontakam and I sit on the mattress with a table full of beers. We bought many different kinds from the convenience store because we wanted to try them and see how they were different.
"This one is quite mild... but it's good. Try it." Aontakam hands me a can of beer she's sipped. I look at the can, where the petite woman just sipped shyly. If I drink from the same spot, we're kissing in a way.
I'm so shy.
"Why are you smiling? It's just drinking beer from the same can. It's not the same as actually kissing."
"Huh?" I'm startled when Aontakarn talks about kissing as if she can read my mind. But I then let out a wide smile. "What... are you saying?"
"Aren't you thinking about kissing?"
I go quiet for a bit before I nod to admit it.
"Yes."
I have to be more direct as well. This time, the petite woman is the one who's stunned before she goes all shy. I can tell from her blood-red ears.
"You're so direct."
"You're always the one who takes the initiative. Chris can't just be on the receiving end."
"Are we talking about who will be on the receiving end?"
See? She's twisting what I just said to make it about something naughty. Should I dodge it or face it head-on?
"What do you think?"
"I don't know what to think."
"Who's the man in this relationship?"
"What?" Aontakarn laughs. She looks awkward. "Must there be a man and a woman?"
"Well... let's just think about it."
"It depends on the situation."
"Like?"
"I don't know exactly."
We both go quiet again. This time, it's too long and too quiet. I think I need to do something about it. Waiting for Aontakam to always take the initiative makes me look weak. I think Aontakarn is waiting for me to take the initiative this time.
She's waiting to see how much courage I can muster.
"Let's go to sleep."
"Huh?"
The sweet-faced person slips herself under the blanket and turns her back to me. I, who am still sitting, don't know what to do. I just look around the mom.
"I'll close the lights, then?"
"Leave some on."
That's all Aontakam says. So I look for the lamp with warm light at the door that is for putting on our shoes and leave only that one on. I put all the beer cans on the table and slipped myself under the blanket as well.
Why is the ambient so lonely and quiet... I must have done something wrong.
"Karn, are you asleep?"
"No."
"Chris... can Chris hug you to sleep?"
"Do you want to?"
"It's a bit cold, so..."
"Do you want to hug me?"
"If you say it, you will get it."
"I want to hug you." "You will get to hug me."
The sweet-faced woman still has her back to me. After I asked for permission, I turned to hug her and snuggled my face into the nape of her neck the way I normally do. Aontakam's body scent makes me feel good. I can't help but sniff her here and there.
"You just drank a bit of beer. Why are you sleeping so soon... Are you drunk already?"
"Karn was never drunk."
"No way... You said that you were drunk when we drank in Bangkok."
"I was never drunk, not even once."
Aontakarn's revelation makes me pause and think back on all that we did. This means that, at that time, it's not only me who was fully conscious, but the person in front of me was as well. We both just pretended to be drunk.
We both lied...
"Let's kiss."
When Aontakam hears that, she goes stiff. I can feel it because I'm hugging her. I don't know it' it's because of the beer I drank or because I was encouraged by her words, but I move from sniffing the nape of her neck to gently nibbling her ear.
"Do you want to kiss?" The petite woman's voice is shaking a bit. She's also breathing heavily. Aontakam's legs are rubbing against the bedsheet. I slip my hand under her shirt. She's not wearing anything beneath the shirt.
I'm not pretending to be drunk like I used to. I'm fully conscious. Everything I do is with intent.
"Of course, I want to kiss."
And when my hand touches her breast, Aontakarn immediately turns to me. She stares at me as one of her arms wraps around my neck to pull me down toward her. We've made out many times before this. But what we've never done is 'kiss'. But today... I am allowed to do that because we're lovers.
"Then Chris will get to kiss."
But we're still just staring at each other. No one initiates the kiss. It's like we're waiting to see what the other party will do.
"Before we kiss... Chris must confess something."
"What?"
"Chris..." I press my lips together. T don't know whether telling her the truth would ruin the mood. We may not get to do it. But, never mind... "was never drunk as well."
"…"
"…"
Everything is in complete silence. Aontakam keeps staring at me before she slowly lets out a smile.
"Karn knows."
"You know?"
"Ah-huh. Karn knows... that Chris wasn't drunk."
"But you didn't say anything."
"Chris is too shy. If you didn't pretend to be drunk, you wouldn't dare do those things... but you're much braver now." The petite one slowly pulls me in. The bridges of our noses touch. It means that it's just a few centimeters before our lips touch. "But it remains to be seen if you can be even braver."
"We've never kissed."
"Because Kant never let you do that."
"Why?"
"Because kissing... leads to everything that comes after. It will take us far."
"Does this mean that you've never kissed Toy?"
"You're very detailed. Is this the time to be talking about our a?" Aontakam laughs as she shakes her head. "No. Karn has never given him the opportunity to get close. Ah... How to say this? I don't want to disappoint my mother if she were to find out about it later."
"But we went quite far every time we made out."
"But we've never gone as far as you wanted to, right?"
"What if Chris kisses Karn today? It will go far, for sure... So, can Chris kiss Korn?"
I snuggle my nose into hers teasingly. My hand is starting to be naughty because I'm certain that I can do so. What I can feel in my hand is going hard. It's telling me that Aontakam is ready to walk forward with me.
"We're lovers... We should kiss."
"Chris thinks that Chris doesn't want to stop at just us kissing. What shall we do?" I feel drunk by the atmosphere surrounding us. I'm ready to do everything, if only Aontakam will let me. "Will your mother be angry?"
"She won't be because she's no longer around. And even if she still is, I will still do it."
"You're so savage, MY Aontakam."
"To get someone like Chris, I have to be savage..."
And, for the first time... our lips touch.