Chisato sat on one side of the couch in the warehouse, cushion on her back, and a piece of unbitten chocolate in her hand as she stared open-mouthed at the screen.
The two characters of what was an intense action scene was suddenly kissing each other out of passion, love, and adrenaline.
“Takina.”
“Yes?” Takina, who sat on the other side of the couch, almost instantly flipped her gaze towards her from the TV screen.
“…Have you ever thought about kissing someone?” Chisato blinked at the screen first before popping the chocolate in her hand and turning her gaze towards Takina’s direction.
“If we’re talking about the past me, I would have said no.” Takina turned to the screen once again as the two characters continued to exchange words of affirmation with each other. “Now… I suppose I am… a little, curious.”
“O- Oh… Big explosions right there.” Chisato blinked at her as she could feel herself blush. “Then… Want to try?”
“Sure…?” Takina blinked as she watched Chisato take the remote from the table in front of them and pause the film. “Have you kissed someone before?”
“Of course not!” Chisato answered immediately, leaving the remote control in between them as she faced Takina, resting a leg on the couch as she moved closer to her. “With all those jobs, and the cafe, I don’t even have time to even consider it. What about you?”
“As I’ve mentioned before, I would have not thought about it.” Takina only tilted her head to one side as she watched Chisato.
“Right.” Chisato sighed then looked at Takina who only watched her in mild confusion. “…You sure do seem cool about all this.”
“Not at all. It’s just that… I don’t know what to expect.” Takina blinked. “What do you want me to do?”
“T- Then, close your eyes?” Chisato blinked as she rubbed a stray sweat tricking down her neck as her body heated up from what she was about to do. Calm down, Nishikigi Chisato. Think of it as one of those missions. The summary would be to kiss those pretty thin lips, on that pretty face with black hair… No, no.
Chisato shook her head, eyes closed tightly as she shook away the jitters. Once again. Focus on those… lips… Pretty thin lips, on that pretty face… If her heart had a beat, this would be one of those moments where she could feel it bursting out of her chest… She already definitely do feel that way already.
“How do you do this again…?” Chisato rested a hand on her chest as she swallowed, staring at Takina’s face, those pretty thin lips on that pretty face–
“Chisato?”
“Guwahhh!! Ahh! Yeah?” Chisato almost fell backwards as Takina called to her, opening her eyes, those amethyst eyes looking at her in worry.
“Are you okay?” Takina pursed her mouth together, eyebrows into a frown.
“I- I’m fine! It’s fine! C- Close your eyes?” Chisato sat closer to her, putting both of her hands on Takina’s shoulders.
“O- Okay.” Takina blinked first before closing her eyes once again.
Okay, this is your second chance, Nishikigi Chisato. You’re older than her by a year, you need to show her how reliable you are. All you have to do is focus… on those lips… those pretty thin lips on that pretty fa– “Agh!” Chisato threw her hands upwards, falling backwards onto the couch, hitting her head onto the arm rest. “Geh! Ouch!” She reached for the back of her head as she twisted her body over in pain.
“Ch- Chisato? Are you okay?” Takina opened her eyes once again as she reached for Chisato.
“Yes, fine.” She held an open palm towards Takina as she responded to her concerns in perfect English.
Takina giggled as she watched Chisato writhe in pain. “…You’re surprisingly bad at this.”
“I can’t help it! I’m about to kiss a pretty girl! Someone I like too!” Chisato immediately got up from the couch as she shouted all her embarrassing concerns at the ‘pretty girl’ in front of her. “Ah…”
“Eh…?” Takina looked at Chisato in surprise. “What do you–“
“Ah! It’s nothing! Negative! Zero! I said nothing!” Chisato moved her hands in front of her left and right as if trying to delete something in the air. “Guh… Forget about it…” She rested her hands onto the couch in between them as she slouched forward, a blush on her cheeks as Chisato turned away.
“Um… Could I at least ask one question?” Takina looked at Chisato who only nodded weakly. “Your like for me… What kind of like is it?”
“A-… As a woman…” Chisato whispered as she turned away with a blush.
“I mean, we are both women…?”
“A- As a lover! It’s a love-type kind of like-like!” Chisato closed her eyes as she gritted her teeth in admittance, still avoiding those amethyst eyes staring at her. “So… If that kind of things creeps you out or something just tell me…”
Takina only looked at Chisato, amused. “To be quite honest, I am not sure.”
Chisato only lifted her face to grit her teeth with a small ‘Gwiiii…’ before sighing.
“However… I don’t… dislike it.” Takina turned her gaze away as she felt her cheeks heating up. “I would still… kiss… you?”
“N- No, that’s why I’m saying if you don’t li– wait…” Chisato blinked multiple times then turned to Takina who was red from neck up to her ears. “Yo- You’d still kiss me…?”
“Th- That’s what I said.” Takina briefly turned her eyes to Chisato before turning it away.
“A- Are you sure? Takina-san, this is a very big step, you know?”
“And who was it who said they wanted to try it but can’t seem to bring their selves to do so?” Takina only looked at her with a flat expression.
“Agh…” Chisato held onto her chest. “F- Fine! I- I’ll do it! This time! P- Please close your eyes…?” She held a hand towards her as if motioning for Takina to ‘go ahead’, with her own eyes closed.
Takina looked at Chisato first before smiling then, closing her eyes.
Chisato moved towards Takina again, before audibly swallowing and gently placing both of her hands onto Takina’s shoulders.
Inhale… Exhale… Focus on the kiss… not on those pretty thin lips, on that pretty face… Kiss… Just… press… your lips on those lips. Yes, breathe in… out…
Chisato looked at Takina’s lips as she moved forward, their breathes touching each other’s as she pressed her own lips onto those soft and thin lips… closing her own eyes as she kept their lips touching.
They both pulled away almost at the same time before looking into each other’s eyes, red to purple. Takina watched those intense ruby eyes stare at her lips before finding her own lips being captured into another kiss once again. Then another… followed by another as she felt her body slowly being pushed down the couch, her head being gently laid onto a cushion.
There was a light beeping noise from somewhere, as the two of them parted from their kiss. Suddenly there were sounds coming from the television, as the two characters from their forgotten film started kissing more intensely… Clothes were being removed as the kisses turned into moans…
Chisato immediately took the remote that was under her hands, turned off the television and threw the remote at it. She turned to look at Takina who only had a hand over her own mouth as they both blushed at each other.
“I- I think that one’s too early for me…” Chisato whispered as she panted from the adrenaline.
“I- I suppose so…” Takina turned her gaze away before realizing that Chisato had already pushed her down the couch, and that the other girl was pretty much above her… like the one on the TV. “Um… Chisato…?”
“Y- Yeah…?” Chisato swallowed as she looked at Takina.
“I think… My feelings for you, are the same.”
“Eh?” This time it was Chisato’s turn to be puzzled.
“I… may want to kiss you… again…?” Takina turned her face away, a hand still over her lips as she whispered.
“S- Say that again…?”
“No.” Takina answered firmly before shortly gazing at Chisato’s face then turning away.
“If you keep your hand on your mouth I can’t kiss you again…?” Chisato smiled at her, nervously.
“I can’t hear you because my heart is noisy.” Takina admitted as Chisato only stared at her puzzled. She reached for the hem of Chisato’s shirt as she tugged on it. “Please… wait a moment.”
Chisato swallowed as she watched Takina, her hyper-speed brain digesting those words that she just heard. Without thinking about it, she took this opportunity to press her ears onto that chest before her.
“W- Wait?! Chisato?!”
“…It’s fast.” Chisato closed her eyes as she listened to her heart. The loud and fast beating thump-thump drumming in her ears.
“O- Of course, it is…” Takina only rested her other hand onto Chisato’s shoulders they remained on the couch, not moving.
Takina finally removed her hand from her mouth when she realized that Chisato had completely stayed still lying down on her chest, without any sort of movement, just her steady breathing. She leaned her hand onto Chisato’s head, giving it a pat, before stroking her hair.
“Chisato?”
No response. She moved her hand that was on Chisato’s shoulders to rub her back.
“Chisato? Are you sleeping?”
Takina felt Chisato move, those arms wrapping around her body that was propped up by the cushion just right under Takina’s head.
“No…” Chisato spoke from Takina’s chest, her ear still pressed onto it. “…I just thought that your heartbeats are calming.”
“Is that so…?” Takina blinked as she continued to caress Chisato’s hair.
“Takina.” Chisato tightened her arms around that petite body. “…I love you.”
“Yes… I love you, too.” Takina continued to gently caress those white hair, from the top of her head, all the way to their tips touching them as they smoothly pass by her palms.
“…Will you go out with me?”
“…I’m inexperienced with these, but if you’ll have me.”
“If it’s not you, I don’t want anyone else.”
Takina laughed. “Yes, yes.” She felt that head move up from her chest, then was immediately replaced by a jaw as Chisato looked at her. “What is it?”
“…Could I kiss you again?”
“…Go ahead?” Takina smiled as she watched Chisato remove her arms from her body, and lift her body up from lying down on top of her. “…You sure do like this a lot?”
Chisato pushed herself upwards to gently kiss Takina’s lips before slightly pulling away. “You do too.”
Takina slowly closed her eyes as those lips touched her’s again. “…I will not… deny it.”
Chisato rubbed their noses together as she grinned at her. “Good.”
They kissed again as Takina wrapped her arms around Chisato’s shoulders.
“This might turn into a habit…”
(A Habit/END)
Omake
Chisato laid down onto the couch, head under a cushion as Takina laid down on top of her. She grabbed the remote that wasn’t too far from them and pointed it at the TV.
“…Are you sure you really want to open it…?”
“Eh? But…” Chisato blinked as she looked at Takina and remembered what the last scene that was on TV. “…Ahhh. Yeah, nope.” She let go of the remote and let it fall onto the carpet floor then turned to wrap both of her arms around Takina’s body.
“What is it?” Takina lifted her head up as she looked at Chisato’s face.
“…We got the order all wrong… didn’t we?” Chisato caressed Takina’s hair as she rubbed her hand up and down her back.
“I… suppose so.” Takina laid her head down onto Chisato’s chest, closing her eyes as she pressed her ears on it. “…There’s no sound, like always.”
“If it had one, it’d be beating so fast because you’re here.” Chisato gently touched Takina’s forehead, trailing her hand towards her ear as she tucked her hair behind it. “Earlier… You said that you weren’t sure…?”
“That…” Takina closed her eyes. “I had always thought that I do like you, but is it of a love, or a like as a friend? So I asked Mizuki-san.”
“Ah…” Chisato stared at the ceiling, as if knowing what will be coming next.
“She said that… I should try imagining kissing you, but I don’t know how that works so…”
“I see…” Chisato laughed.
“Chisato?”
“…I’m kind of glad I mustered up the courage, and asked.”
“You were really flustered about it though.”
“Ahhh! GGRRRR! Who wouldn’t?! Finally getting to kiss the woman whom you have liked for a while…”
“For a while…?”
“It’s nothing!”
“Eh? Please tell me.”
“Noooope!”
(END)
