Sora & Fumiko

Chapter Eleven

It was still raining pretty heavily outside when Fumiko rested her head on my lap and fell asleep. She was cuddled up in the blanket I had wrapped around her as she peacefully slept like a baby. As I watched her take gentle breaths, I realized something for the first time,

She was beautiful.

What I mean is before this, I never realized just how attractive she was. As I held her in my arms, I couldn't help but examine her beautiful lips, that had a faded colour of pink which I found lovely.

What am I doing?, I can't be having these thoughts at this moment. I should be worrying about getting her home!

Just then, I realized that everything around us had become quite.

It stopped raining

A great feeling of relief came over me. I was about to wake her when I decided not to because she seemed tired and probably wouldn't have been able to make the long trek back to her home. So in that moment I decided I would take her myself.

It was the right thing to do, considering that the reason she came here was for me.

As I picked her up and stepped off the porch, she wrapped her arms around my neck and rested her head on my chest. The warmth of her breath on my neck made my cheeks flush red, which I found odd.

"Fumiko" I couldn't help but whisper, as I brushed a few loose strands of hair from her face and began my journey to her house.

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As I stood before her house, I took a deep breath before lightly knocking and awaiting a response. The door flew open suddenly, to my surprise and I had to quickly pull back to prevent it from hitting Fumiko in the face.

"Fumiko!" Her teary eyed mother cried running to me. "Sora, is she -" she said between sobs, "is she alright?" It was such a shame seeing such a beautiful lady crying. Just then I saw her husband appear from the kitchen and he was anything but teary. His eyes were furious and he looked dangerous as he walked.

"Where the hell did she go! Just you wait until she comes home -"

He froze when he saw me with Fumiko in my arms and I saw a look of shock on his face as it slowly registered into confusion.

"Fumiko -" he said before his eyes landed on me. "What's wrong with her?"

"Nothing. she's just asleep." They looked at each other before looking back at me.

"What are you doing with her?" Her father asked approaching me.

"It started raining and she wasn't able to leave. While we were waiting for the rain to stop, she fell asleep." I replied as I walked over to the sofa and placed her on it.

"I don't understand, what was she doing with you?" Her mother asked coming to stand beside me.

"What do you mean? Didn't she tell you?" Silence soon filled the room after I made that remark.

"Tell us what?" Her mother replied drying her tears.

"Fumiko has been visiting me everyday after school for the past few weeks." I said stirring the silence in the room.

"What, why would she?" Her mother said with a look of confusion on her face.

"I don't know" I declared with a shrug.

"It's surprising that she never told us about this." Her mother said staring at the ground. "She has never kept anything from us before."

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I didn't know that you weren't informed." I said burying my hands in my pockets.