A Gap That Separated Us
Title: A Gap That Separated Us
Pairing: Inoo Kei x Yabu Kota (InooBu)
Type: Oneshot
Genre: Romance, slight angst, fluff (?)
Disclaimer: Sadly they aren’t mine. Inoo, would you be mine?
Summary: Yabu Kota, a high school student who has relationship with Inoo Kei, a woman who is five years older and works on certain company.
Warning: My English is bad. GIRL INOO (again ._.)
Sky turns dark even since an hour ago. That guy leans his back on certain wall still. Sometimes, looks to his watch and sighs slightly, waits for someone to come from a large building not far from where him standing. Street’s turmoil just accompanies him. Some people passed by, chatted happily with their previous persons, but still, he is alone. He never mind though. Fifteen minutes later the woman he waits will approach him for sure. Well, he didn’t tell his girlfriend that he waits outside, he wants to make it surprise. But yeah. Maybe, just maybe, it’s because he is afraid the woman will forbid him to pick her up since it’s already night and his school time ends four hours ago.
Once again Kota lets his breath to the air. It’s not that cold. But he didn’t miss any chance to recognize that rain will fall soon. He just snuggles his jacket more. Being impatient to see the woman appears on his very eyes. And then, after two minutes passed, finally the waiting woman steps outside from her office. Kota immediately holds for a smile. Less than a second, he approaches his lover.
“Hai!”, he greets happily, earns a wide gaze from Inoo by this unexpected meeting
“Kouchan? Why did you come here?”, she asks, confusedly
Again, Kota turns his smile into slight pout momentarily. It’s not the first time Inoo welcomed him like this. Rather than a happy face, or excited expression, he always accepts Inoo’s confused face instead.
“Why? I just want to pick you up”
“But its night already”, Inoo sighs, still maintains that plain expression. After all, she even didn’t give any hint about single interest when Kota appeared. But the truth is never like that. She is just too tired to scream excitedly, or to be over hyper whenever she found Kota gets into her surrounding.
“That’s why I should pick you up. It will be dangerous if you back to your home alone”
Inoo laughs a bit and starts to walk, followed by Kota beside her. She shook her head, thinking about how childish Kota could be. She knows, it’s just an excuse Kota made. The truth is Kota just wants to meet her. That’s all are clearly described on his tiny eyes. Particularly, Inoo loves it so much.
“Seriously Kou, I am not a child”
“But still you are a girl”, Kota keeps persistent, moreover, now he entwines their fingers together. Yeah. They haven’t met for a week though. That’s why Kota feels like it’s overwhelming. His heart just thumps happily when he holds for those slender fingers. Her scent, her bun-tied hair, her mature aura, just preoccupied Kota and he simply feels grateful.
“Yeah I know Kou. But you don’t have to do this. Listen, you are a high school student. Just study hard and graduate soon. You don’t have to worry about me. I know myself best. If later I find it’s not good for me to back home alone when street is being so quite, I can ask for my friend to send me home”, Inoo grins, clueless, without knowing Kota’s expression now changed drastically and he frowns.
“Friend? Do you mean…a guy friend?”, a deep tone could be heard on ‘guy’ part. He stops to move and pulls Inoo’s hand slightly through their linked fingers. Of course, Inoo has no choice except to stop and looks back at him.
“Sure. Then you don’t have to worry about me anymore”, she manages a smile but as contrary Kota just raises his brows.
“What? You said you could ask for a guy friend to send you home and I shouldn’t worry? C’mon…”
“Why? Is that wrong?”
Kota opens his mouth unconsciously, let go of Inoo’s hand and the older just looks at their fingers, she just simply gets confused about why suddenly her lover breaks the glued hand. Not to mention that she enjoyed the warmth Kota gave while ago. And she barely wants to let it go this fast. But, after a while, finally she realized there is something wrong curved on that handsome face. She has no clue and just keeps silent for a moment. It seems like it would go into not so good continuation.
“Huh? Don’t joke over me. How can I let you to be with your guy friend instead of me?”, his voice is a bit shrill, it feels slight annoying. And Inoo starts to wander about people’s eyes which glared at them. True, they can’t hide the strained aura as Inoo feels a bit uneasy.
“Kou, please. Don’t be so childish. If I am getting close to my friends it doesn’t mean that I am cheating. Moreover, I am working with them and being in one team. Nothing to worry about. It’s not like what you think. Be mature.”, she intends to make the younger boy calmer, makes everything better, only to found it’s a wrong decision.
“What? I am what? So now you’ve said that I am not mature enough only because I feel uneasy if my girlfriend asked another guy to accompany her while she could alive without meeting me for a week?”, Kota snorts, looks away from his girlfriend’s eyes and clutched his hand tightly. Anger feeling poured him endlessly. Lucky he still has a clear mind, so now he tries his best not to look so mad in front of Inoo, but he knows he failed, since Inoo will realizes even just an inch differentiation if he is getting mad.
“What did you say Kou? I am just being busy because of the expo so that’s why I can’t meet you”
“And rejected my invitation to have cinema date”
“Yeah and rejected your invitation to watch a movie five days ago but for God’s sake it’s because I am working. You are high school student so maybe you won’t understand my situation, so that’s why you---“
“That’s why me never understand adult matter?”, Kota averts his eyes and looks back to Inoo, smirks, while knowing the woman in front of him just lose for words and can’t continue what she means after the boy cut hers.
“Fine, whatever”, Kota continues, shortly.
After that, Inoo just looks to Kota’s face and being so chaotic. More importantly, now Kota’s thin back already walks ahead her, leaves her, without looking back. Inoo stunned for a while. Her heart seems racing in painful speed. She doesn’t know where her fault is while she believes it shouldn’t be a problem. She is tired, and Kota treats her like this. Then all she could do is just sighing, managing her dizzy forehead as she starts to walk behind Kota. Not even dare to approach the younger because she knows it won’t be good while she and Kota not in the best condition.
The sky keeps letting out hard sounds, as it indicates rain will fall less than a minute. And, as their though is going right, slowly, pure drizzle poured the earth. Before it turns harder and harder, until a level where heavy rain occupied the night sky, makes all stars faded away from its place.
Some people run and find for a place to make themselves keep dry. In a moment, the street isn’t that noisy anymore. As now, Inoo and Yabu become a part of them who don’t care of the rain sounding. Actually, it’s just Yabu who doesn’t care. The woman now opens for her bag and finds for her umbrella. After she got what she searched, Inoo immediately spreads her umbrella and it is opened widely. On second thought, she knows her condo is just hundred meters away, so she decides to give the umbrella for her boy instead.
“Kouchan!”, this time she runs and stands right beside the younger boy. But, the latter just keeps walking, even now quickening his pace and ignoring the woman.
“Nee Kouchan, use this!!”, Inoo pulls his arm and pushes the umbrella stick to his chest, receives nothing.
It starts to be irritated for Inoo. At least, even if he is mad, Inoo thinks the guy has no reason to reject her offer at the first place. He should consider about himself first before let out the angriness to eat his logic, Kei thought. Kota takes his arms from Inoo’s hand, by his plain face, intends to keep walking before Inoo pulls him for second time.
“Nee Kouchan!!! I said use this or you will catch cold!! I won’t ever meet you anymore if you don’t obey me!!”, she threats, receives an annoying playful chuckle. Of course, it’s only a bullshit threats.
“If you don’t want to meet me anymore its okay then”, beyond expectation, the boy keeps stubborn, nonetheless.
“W-what?!! Hey Kouchan I am serious!! Take this with you!!”
“Urusai!”
For second time, Kota takes his arms from Inoo’s hand. He gives Inoo unreadable sight first, before he suddenly turns back his body and runs away, fights against the rain and brings her hectic mind further from the woman. He is just simply becomes mad, and what’s wrong if he mad because his girl said about another guy’s matter easily? He doesn’t know maybe it’s because he is a real child like what Inoo always said or not. But, who won’t get mad indeed? Moreover, he just envied his best friends who always send their girlfriends home and have a street date. He just wants to be like that, simply.
“Nee Kouchan!! Kouchan!!! Kouuuuuuu!!!!”
But, no matter how loud she shouts, Kota runs still and ignores her. Under this rainy day, Inoo is being left clueless, and she even doesn’t recognize when she lets herself turns wet. All she did is just looking at Kota’s back which is slowly disappeared from her eyes, blurring, blending with those heavy rain falls and sends her unclear sight. She opens her mouth and sighs in frustration. Seconds later, she throws her umbrella hardly to the ground and runs back to her condo. Her breath is chasing, her mind pumps quicker and filled abruptly only by Kota’s expression.
***
Since its Saturday, literally, Kei has an off day. But, because of the expo is getting near, so she worked over time and spent almost a quarter of the day at the office. Yeah, but maybe she knows the main reason. Maybe, it can be a good distraction for her. Since then, she keeps sighing whenever she looks to her phone. No matter how long she waits, the one and only person never contacted her since yesterday incident.
Kei passed the street alone. Since its weekend so the intensity of people surrounding reach double counts. Some of them are couples, and it simply enough to lead her mind floating to one certain person on its core. Again, she feels like the steps are getting heavier when she reached certain spot, where they had quarrel last night between heavy rains. Kota’s images get clearer on her mind, and she can’t avoid that to keep penetrating. Or, some parts inside her heart know it’s just an effect because she is crazily missing Kota. Turns into lunatic, she found she keeps wondering what the guy did on his off day. Whether he hangs out with his friends, plays game all day long, or maybe the worst is his friends asked him to a blind date.
Quickly, Kei shook her head, tries to escape from such bad thought. Kota dates another girl is the worst idea she ever imagined. No, she doesn’t want to even just imagine. Because it will give her uneasy feeling she hardly handles. Her over thought will bring harms and who knows if she will get mad clueless later. Then, she drew for a deep breath, keep walking back to her condo. And at this point she slowly thinks about how selfish she is. That’s true. Only to imagine Kota gets closer to another cute girl just getting her nerves. Meanwhile, she, last night blabbered nonsense about another guy and asked Kota to understand. In the end, it’s her who doesn’t understand selfishly and blamed Kota for everything.
Without she realized, her feet already reached for the condo. Once the key is being pulled, it brings a slight noisy sound. She looks at it flatly, remembering about how she gives the spare for Kota. Kei unlocks the door after let out a heavy sigh. But, what she found later just made her falls into shock stage. The supposed to be empty room, especially dining room, now being filled by some dishes, and more importantly, an image of Kota working on her kitchen.
“Kou…”, she states, barely audible
“Ah, welcome home. You told me before that you will work over time today so I thought you must be hungry when you back home”, he says in one breath, approaches Kei and slowly puts her bag to the couch beside them.
Kei still is gazing sharply, has no hint about this sudden change from her lover. It’s not that she dislike the gift, it’s just she can’t believe Kota will recover this fast while she haven’t say single ‘sorry’. Then, her heart feels like it’s overwhelming. She gasps but manages it hardly so it won’t be too obvious. Too obvious that she loves Kota too much meanwhile she knows there is no point to keep hiding.
“Change your outfit first and then have a dinner with me”, he continues and breaks the silence Kei. The older just slightly nods and processes to her room.
When Kei fades away from his sight, Kota lets out his deep breath to the air. He takes a glass of water and drinks by himself. True. Even if he still mad by what happened yesterday, at least, he can’t deny the feeling that she loves Kei so much and wants to make her feels comfort. He knows, once Kei is focusing on the work, she will forget about herself even to just eat healthy foods. That’s why today he came. To take care of his lover, also to meet with his precious girl. And still, he can’t ignore his guilty feeling when he found he left Kei between rains yesterday. A view where Kei looks him by her pathetic glare keeps chasing him, makes the latter hardly sleep last night and just being so worried about her.
“Let’s eat…”
A low voice disturbs him from day-dreaming. He just nods obediently and somehow his heart just stopping when he sees Kei is wearing pink pajama. In meantime like this, he knows, how he loved it when Kei puts her mature feeling aside and being cute illegally. The girl even wears bunny slipper which covered a fact about she is working already, yet, she looks like younger than Kota.
“You like it?”, Kota asks when Kei munches the tempura he bought. Of course, it wasn’t him who cooks. But he just wants to make sure Kei feels comfort enough by the taste.
“Yeah, it’s juicy”
“Just eat a lot then”, Kota states and starts to eat his own fish.
Mostly, their time just filled by silence. Maybe yesterday’s accident still surrounding around that it feels like awkward couldn’t be ignored. Both Kei and Kota don’t have any idea about what should they talk about, how to explore a conversation, as breathing becomes one of hardest part in this condition. Kei swallows the shrimp, no matter how much she wants to let ‘sorry’ from her throat, in the end it can’t be escaped easily and got hidden by simultaneous foods she keeps munching.
Still, after both finished eating, Kota takes the dirty plates to wash them, willingly, makes himself becomes Inoo’s servant for a moment. It doesn’t need much time for Inoo to understand Kota’s situation. It’s always been like that. Kindness is one of thousand reasons about why she loves the younger guy. Just take a rest, Kota says indirectly, and she couldn’t be more grateful by such attitude. In this point she got embarrassed. It really is showing her a fact that the childish one is not Kota, but her, and stubbornly exclaimed herself as adult.
“Kouchan, you don’t have to wash the dishes now”, Kei stands from the seat and steps further, leans her back to the door of her room
“I am okay with this”, said him, plainly
“It’s not what I mean. Well, it can wait. Just…come here…”
“Eh?”, Kota turns his face back and stops the faucet. He found the girl folds both hands in front of her chest, looks straightly to where him standing, seems demanding.
“But you dislike the dirty kitchen right?”
“It’s not a matter now. Come here, accompany me”, she says, a little bit too cold on her ears and she cursed under breath. About why should she keep that tone in this point. Indeed, it seems like she commands Kota and doesn’t want to hear ‘no’ answer. But, somehow, sounds forcing.
Kota blinks for twice, doubts first, but then he knows he can’t ignore Inoo whenever she asked him to get closer. Then, he steps nearer to the girl. Both of them come to the room and Kei locks the door. Seconds later, without Kota could manage breath first, his woman already locked his lips warmly. Again, he got no clue by this sudden act, but no matter how, finally he replies Inoo’s kiss and wraps the older waist so the gap will be vanished away.
“Kou…I am sorry”, Inoo said after breaks their glued lips, as exchange, she tiptoed, wraps her arms around Kota’s neck and attached their forehead together.
“No…I should be the one who say sorry…You right, maybe I should understand you better and try to be an adult”
“Don’t say something by force. I know it’s not what you truly felt. And moreover, I wanna ask you to stay like this. I love the childish Kou. And I love the possessive Kou. It feels like I was poured by endless love. Sorry for last night incident.”, once again she pecks the skinny guy’s lips, move upper to his nose and his forehead, goes down and back to his lips.
“You don’t have to say sorry Kei”
“I have. It’s my fault. I am being tired because of expo preparation and poured it to you.”, she states, puts Kota’s bang aside and caresses his cheek, tries to mention ‘I love you’ by simple touch.
“While actually I am so happy when I found you waited for me there”
“So, do you allow me to pick you up every day?”
“Yes, as long as it won’t burden your study. You should consider your school as priority.”
“I promise I will study harder and graduate soon. It’s just a year more”, he giggles and kisses the forehead of Inoo softly, breaks it after five seconds and looks to those brown orbs by lovingly gazes.
“I’ll wait. Just propose me as soon as possible.”
“Definitely. I will give you the best wedding ceremony in the world”, he claims, receiving laughs from his lover and a pinch on his tummy.
“So now, how about sleep over?”, Kei asks teasingly and ruffles the boy’s hair to be messy, before approaches her bed and sits on the edge part, followed by Kota who now also takes a seat beside her.
“Sleep over? May I?”
“Why not? Tomorrow is Sunday”
Kota holds for a grimace and soon the red flush covered his fair skin. Looking such view, Kei bursts into laughter and moves herself closer. She hugs for Kota’s left arm and purposely whisper on the ear, licks Kota’s ear first and sends shaking sensation on his nape.
“I will let you to be an adult only for this time and I will be the teacher. Don’t worry. It’s free”
She seductively says and in a blink of eye Kota already pushed her to the bed, placed his body on top of hers, pinches Kei’s nose a bit harder and kisses her plump lips in excitement. Without wasting much time, they cuddle to each other as Kei claims to take a lead while the fact shows that Kota will definitely takes such role, no doubt. In the end, the couple won’t take much time to make up their minds. Easily forgiving each other since they know how much they shared the love.
---END---
Pairing: Inoo Kei x Yabu Kota (InooBu)
Type: Oneshot
Genre: Romance, slight angst, fluff (?)
Disclaimer: Sadly they aren’t mine. Inoo, would you be mine?
Summary: Yabu Kota, a high school student who has relationship with Inoo Kei, a woman who is five years older and works on certain company.
Warning: My English is bad. GIRL INOO (again ._.)
Sky turns dark even since an hour ago. That guy leans his back on certain wall still. Sometimes, looks to his watch and sighs slightly, waits for someone to come from a large building not far from where him standing. Street’s turmoil just accompanies him. Some people passed by, chatted happily with their previous persons, but still, he is alone. He never mind though. Fifteen minutes later the woman he waits will approach him for sure. Well, he didn’t tell his girlfriend that he waits outside, he wants to make it surprise. But yeah. Maybe, just maybe, it’s because he is afraid the woman will forbid him to pick her up since it’s already night and his school time ends four hours ago.
Once again Kota lets his breath to the air. It’s not that cold. But he didn’t miss any chance to recognize that rain will fall soon. He just snuggles his jacket more. Being impatient to see the woman appears on his very eyes. And then, after two minutes passed, finally the waiting woman steps outside from her office. Kota immediately holds for a smile. Less than a second, he approaches his lover.
“Hai!”, he greets happily, earns a wide gaze from Inoo by this unexpected meeting
“Kouchan? Why did you come here?”, she asks, confusedly
Again, Kota turns his smile into slight pout momentarily. It’s not the first time Inoo welcomed him like this. Rather than a happy face, or excited expression, he always accepts Inoo’s confused face instead.
“Why? I just want to pick you up”
“But its night already”, Inoo sighs, still maintains that plain expression. After all, she even didn’t give any hint about single interest when Kota appeared. But the truth is never like that. She is just too tired to scream excitedly, or to be over hyper whenever she found Kota gets into her surrounding.
“That’s why I should pick you up. It will be dangerous if you back to your home alone”
Inoo laughs a bit and starts to walk, followed by Kota beside her. She shook her head, thinking about how childish Kota could be. She knows, it’s just an excuse Kota made. The truth is Kota just wants to meet her. That’s all are clearly described on his tiny eyes. Particularly, Inoo loves it so much.
“Seriously Kou, I am not a child”
“But still you are a girl”, Kota keeps persistent, moreover, now he entwines their fingers together. Yeah. They haven’t met for a week though. That’s why Kota feels like it’s overwhelming. His heart just thumps happily when he holds for those slender fingers. Her scent, her bun-tied hair, her mature aura, just preoccupied Kota and he simply feels grateful.
“Yeah I know Kou. But you don’t have to do this. Listen, you are a high school student. Just study hard and graduate soon. You don’t have to worry about me. I know myself best. If later I find it’s not good for me to back home alone when street is being so quite, I can ask for my friend to send me home”, Inoo grins, clueless, without knowing Kota’s expression now changed drastically and he frowns.
“Friend? Do you mean…a guy friend?”, a deep tone could be heard on ‘guy’ part. He stops to move and pulls Inoo’s hand slightly through their linked fingers. Of course, Inoo has no choice except to stop and looks back at him.
“Sure. Then you don’t have to worry about me anymore”, she manages a smile but as contrary Kota just raises his brows.
“What? You said you could ask for a guy friend to send you home and I shouldn’t worry? C’mon…”
“Why? Is that wrong?”
Kota opens his mouth unconsciously, let go of Inoo’s hand and the older just looks at their fingers, she just simply gets confused about why suddenly her lover breaks the glued hand. Not to mention that she enjoyed the warmth Kota gave while ago. And she barely wants to let it go this fast. But, after a while, finally she realized there is something wrong curved on that handsome face. She has no clue and just keeps silent for a moment. It seems like it would go into not so good continuation.
“Huh? Don’t joke over me. How can I let you to be with your guy friend instead of me?”, his voice is a bit shrill, it feels slight annoying. And Inoo starts to wander about people’s eyes which glared at them. True, they can’t hide the strained aura as Inoo feels a bit uneasy.
“Kou, please. Don’t be so childish. If I am getting close to my friends it doesn’t mean that I am cheating. Moreover, I am working with them and being in one team. Nothing to worry about. It’s not like what you think. Be mature.”, she intends to make the younger boy calmer, makes everything better, only to found it’s a wrong decision.
“What? I am what? So now you’ve said that I am not mature enough only because I feel uneasy if my girlfriend asked another guy to accompany her while she could alive without meeting me for a week?”, Kota snorts, looks away from his girlfriend’s eyes and clutched his hand tightly. Anger feeling poured him endlessly. Lucky he still has a clear mind, so now he tries his best not to look so mad in front of Inoo, but he knows he failed, since Inoo will realizes even just an inch differentiation if he is getting mad.
“What did you say Kou? I am just being busy because of the expo so that’s why I can’t meet you”
“And rejected my invitation to have cinema date”
“Yeah and rejected your invitation to watch a movie five days ago but for God’s sake it’s because I am working. You are high school student so maybe you won’t understand my situation, so that’s why you---“
“That’s why me never understand adult matter?”, Kota averts his eyes and looks back to Inoo, smirks, while knowing the woman in front of him just lose for words and can’t continue what she means after the boy cut hers.
“Fine, whatever”, Kota continues, shortly.
After that, Inoo just looks to Kota’s face and being so chaotic. More importantly, now Kota’s thin back already walks ahead her, leaves her, without looking back. Inoo stunned for a while. Her heart seems racing in painful speed. She doesn’t know where her fault is while she believes it shouldn’t be a problem. She is tired, and Kota treats her like this. Then all she could do is just sighing, managing her dizzy forehead as she starts to walk behind Kota. Not even dare to approach the younger because she knows it won’t be good while she and Kota not in the best condition.
The sky keeps letting out hard sounds, as it indicates rain will fall less than a minute. And, as their though is going right, slowly, pure drizzle poured the earth. Before it turns harder and harder, until a level where heavy rain occupied the night sky, makes all stars faded away from its place.
Some people run and find for a place to make themselves keep dry. In a moment, the street isn’t that noisy anymore. As now, Inoo and Yabu become a part of them who don’t care of the rain sounding. Actually, it’s just Yabu who doesn’t care. The woman now opens for her bag and finds for her umbrella. After she got what she searched, Inoo immediately spreads her umbrella and it is opened widely. On second thought, she knows her condo is just hundred meters away, so she decides to give the umbrella for her boy instead.
“Kouchan!”, this time she runs and stands right beside the younger boy. But, the latter just keeps walking, even now quickening his pace and ignoring the woman.
“Nee Kouchan, use this!!”, Inoo pulls his arm and pushes the umbrella stick to his chest, receives nothing.
It starts to be irritated for Inoo. At least, even if he is mad, Inoo thinks the guy has no reason to reject her offer at the first place. He should consider about himself first before let out the angriness to eat his logic, Kei thought. Kota takes his arms from Inoo’s hand, by his plain face, intends to keep walking before Inoo pulls him for second time.
“Nee Kouchan!!! I said use this or you will catch cold!! I won’t ever meet you anymore if you don’t obey me!!”, she threats, receives an annoying playful chuckle. Of course, it’s only a bullshit threats.
“If you don’t want to meet me anymore its okay then”, beyond expectation, the boy keeps stubborn, nonetheless.
“W-what?!! Hey Kouchan I am serious!! Take this with you!!”
“Urusai!”
For second time, Kota takes his arms from Inoo’s hand. He gives Inoo unreadable sight first, before he suddenly turns back his body and runs away, fights against the rain and brings her hectic mind further from the woman. He is just simply becomes mad, and what’s wrong if he mad because his girl said about another guy’s matter easily? He doesn’t know maybe it’s because he is a real child like what Inoo always said or not. But, who won’t get mad indeed? Moreover, he just envied his best friends who always send their girlfriends home and have a street date. He just wants to be like that, simply.
“Nee Kouchan!! Kouchan!!! Kouuuuuuu!!!!”
But, no matter how loud she shouts, Kota runs still and ignores her. Under this rainy day, Inoo is being left clueless, and she even doesn’t recognize when she lets herself turns wet. All she did is just looking at Kota’s back which is slowly disappeared from her eyes, blurring, blending with those heavy rain falls and sends her unclear sight. She opens her mouth and sighs in frustration. Seconds later, she throws her umbrella hardly to the ground and runs back to her condo. Her breath is chasing, her mind pumps quicker and filled abruptly only by Kota’s expression.
***
Since its Saturday, literally, Kei has an off day. But, because of the expo is getting near, so she worked over time and spent almost a quarter of the day at the office. Yeah, but maybe she knows the main reason. Maybe, it can be a good distraction for her. Since then, she keeps sighing whenever she looks to her phone. No matter how long she waits, the one and only person never contacted her since yesterday incident.
Kei passed the street alone. Since its weekend so the intensity of people surrounding reach double counts. Some of them are couples, and it simply enough to lead her mind floating to one certain person on its core. Again, she feels like the steps are getting heavier when she reached certain spot, where they had quarrel last night between heavy rains. Kota’s images get clearer on her mind, and she can’t avoid that to keep penetrating. Or, some parts inside her heart know it’s just an effect because she is crazily missing Kota. Turns into lunatic, she found she keeps wondering what the guy did on his off day. Whether he hangs out with his friends, plays game all day long, or maybe the worst is his friends asked him to a blind date.
Quickly, Kei shook her head, tries to escape from such bad thought. Kota dates another girl is the worst idea she ever imagined. No, she doesn’t want to even just imagine. Because it will give her uneasy feeling she hardly handles. Her over thought will bring harms and who knows if she will get mad clueless later. Then, she drew for a deep breath, keep walking back to her condo. And at this point she slowly thinks about how selfish she is. That’s true. Only to imagine Kota gets closer to another cute girl just getting her nerves. Meanwhile, she, last night blabbered nonsense about another guy and asked Kota to understand. In the end, it’s her who doesn’t understand selfishly and blamed Kota for everything.
Without she realized, her feet already reached for the condo. Once the key is being pulled, it brings a slight noisy sound. She looks at it flatly, remembering about how she gives the spare for Kota. Kei unlocks the door after let out a heavy sigh. But, what she found later just made her falls into shock stage. The supposed to be empty room, especially dining room, now being filled by some dishes, and more importantly, an image of Kota working on her kitchen.
“Kou…”, she states, barely audible
“Ah, welcome home. You told me before that you will work over time today so I thought you must be hungry when you back home”, he says in one breath, approaches Kei and slowly puts her bag to the couch beside them.
Kei still is gazing sharply, has no hint about this sudden change from her lover. It’s not that she dislike the gift, it’s just she can’t believe Kota will recover this fast while she haven’t say single ‘sorry’. Then, her heart feels like it’s overwhelming. She gasps but manages it hardly so it won’t be too obvious. Too obvious that she loves Kota too much meanwhile she knows there is no point to keep hiding.
“Change your outfit first and then have a dinner with me”, he continues and breaks the silence Kei. The older just slightly nods and processes to her room.
When Kei fades away from his sight, Kota lets out his deep breath to the air. He takes a glass of water and drinks by himself. True. Even if he still mad by what happened yesterday, at least, he can’t deny the feeling that she loves Kei so much and wants to make her feels comfort. He knows, once Kei is focusing on the work, she will forget about herself even to just eat healthy foods. That’s why today he came. To take care of his lover, also to meet with his precious girl. And still, he can’t ignore his guilty feeling when he found he left Kei between rains yesterday. A view where Kei looks him by her pathetic glare keeps chasing him, makes the latter hardly sleep last night and just being so worried about her.
“Let’s eat…”
A low voice disturbs him from day-dreaming. He just nods obediently and somehow his heart just stopping when he sees Kei is wearing pink pajama. In meantime like this, he knows, how he loved it when Kei puts her mature feeling aside and being cute illegally. The girl even wears bunny slipper which covered a fact about she is working already, yet, she looks like younger than Kota.
“You like it?”, Kota asks when Kei munches the tempura he bought. Of course, it wasn’t him who cooks. But he just wants to make sure Kei feels comfort enough by the taste.
“Yeah, it’s juicy”
“Just eat a lot then”, Kota states and starts to eat his own fish.
Mostly, their time just filled by silence. Maybe yesterday’s accident still surrounding around that it feels like awkward couldn’t be ignored. Both Kei and Kota don’t have any idea about what should they talk about, how to explore a conversation, as breathing becomes one of hardest part in this condition. Kei swallows the shrimp, no matter how much she wants to let ‘sorry’ from her throat, in the end it can’t be escaped easily and got hidden by simultaneous foods she keeps munching.
Still, after both finished eating, Kota takes the dirty plates to wash them, willingly, makes himself becomes Inoo’s servant for a moment. It doesn’t need much time for Inoo to understand Kota’s situation. It’s always been like that. Kindness is one of thousand reasons about why she loves the younger guy. Just take a rest, Kota says indirectly, and she couldn’t be more grateful by such attitude. In this point she got embarrassed. It really is showing her a fact that the childish one is not Kota, but her, and stubbornly exclaimed herself as adult.
“Kouchan, you don’t have to wash the dishes now”, Kei stands from the seat and steps further, leans her back to the door of her room
“I am okay with this”, said him, plainly
“It’s not what I mean. Well, it can wait. Just…come here…”
“Eh?”, Kota turns his face back and stops the faucet. He found the girl folds both hands in front of her chest, looks straightly to where him standing, seems demanding.
“But you dislike the dirty kitchen right?”
“It’s not a matter now. Come here, accompany me”, she says, a little bit too cold on her ears and she cursed under breath. About why should she keep that tone in this point. Indeed, it seems like she commands Kota and doesn’t want to hear ‘no’ answer. But, somehow, sounds forcing.
Kota blinks for twice, doubts first, but then he knows he can’t ignore Inoo whenever she asked him to get closer. Then, he steps nearer to the girl. Both of them come to the room and Kei locks the door. Seconds later, without Kota could manage breath first, his woman already locked his lips warmly. Again, he got no clue by this sudden act, but no matter how, finally he replies Inoo’s kiss and wraps the older waist so the gap will be vanished away.
“Kou…I am sorry”, Inoo said after breaks their glued lips, as exchange, she tiptoed, wraps her arms around Kota’s neck and attached their forehead together.
“No…I should be the one who say sorry…You right, maybe I should understand you better and try to be an adult”
“Don’t say something by force. I know it’s not what you truly felt. And moreover, I wanna ask you to stay like this. I love the childish Kou. And I love the possessive Kou. It feels like I was poured by endless love. Sorry for last night incident.”, once again she pecks the skinny guy’s lips, move upper to his nose and his forehead, goes down and back to his lips.
“You don’t have to say sorry Kei”
“I have. It’s my fault. I am being tired because of expo preparation and poured it to you.”, she states, puts Kota’s bang aside and caresses his cheek, tries to mention ‘I love you’ by simple touch.
“While actually I am so happy when I found you waited for me there”
“So, do you allow me to pick you up every day?”
“Yes, as long as it won’t burden your study. You should consider your school as priority.”
“I promise I will study harder and graduate soon. It’s just a year more”, he giggles and kisses the forehead of Inoo softly, breaks it after five seconds and looks to those brown orbs by lovingly gazes.
“I’ll wait. Just propose me as soon as possible.”
“Definitely. I will give you the best wedding ceremony in the world”, he claims, receiving laughs from his lover and a pinch on his tummy.
“So now, how about sleep over?”, Kei asks teasingly and ruffles the boy’s hair to be messy, before approaches her bed and sits on the edge part, followed by Kota who now also takes a seat beside her.
“Sleep over? May I?”
“Why not? Tomorrow is Sunday”
Kota holds for a grimace and soon the red flush covered his fair skin. Looking such view, Kei bursts into laughter and moves herself closer. She hugs for Kota’s left arm and purposely whisper on the ear, licks Kota’s ear first and sends shaking sensation on his nape.
“I will let you to be an adult only for this time and I will be the teacher. Don’t worry. It’s free”
She seductively says and in a blink of eye Kota already pushed her to the bed, placed his body on top of hers, pinches Kei’s nose a bit harder and kisses her plump lips in excitement. Without wasting much time, they cuddle to each other as Kei claims to take a lead while the fact shows that Kota will definitely takes such role, no doubt. In the end, the couple won’t take much time to make up their minds. Easily forgiving each other since they know how much they shared the love.
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