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The light from the lava lamp spread a deep blue across the entire room. The little penguin shaped glitters making it shift and dance across the walls in ways that Airi sometimes found herself staring at, entranced, like a cat. However right now the only thing she could focus on was the girl Infront of her, resting her head on Airi's right arm and looking at her, a small smile on her lips and her dark blue hair spread out messily over the pillow like ocean waves. It was unfair, Airi thought, for someone to take away her breath every time she looked at them.
The hand on the arm Haruka was resting on was idly playing with her hair, making it even more of a mess, but it seemed that there was nothing Haruka enjoyed more than Airi's hands through her hair. Their legs entangled and both of them cuddled close. They had done this many times already and it seemed that every time they settled down together, underneath blankets and in bed, Airi would always find Haruka's feet and hands cold against her. Airi would always scowl at first when presented with the change in temperature but in reality she was sure that Haruka could be made completely of ice and she would still want to hold her close, just like she is doing right now.
"Something on your mind?" Haruka spoke up, her hand absent-mindedly tracing the curves of Airi's wrist.
"Hmm? No, nothing much just..." Airi felt a warmth fill her face. After all this time these words still embarrassed her but she also felt a sort of pride that she could say them to Haruka in the first place and a smile began to form across her face. "It's just....I really love you"
Haruka's hand stopped tracing circles along Airi's wrist and hand and instead pressed it against her face, holding it there. Airi could feel the heat come off her and how her cheeks moved under her growing smile. She was smiling stupidly as well.
"I love you too" Haruka turned her head ever so slightly to kiss Airi's hand. "But I am sure you already know that"
"Doesn't matter" Airi shifts and puts her leg around Haruka's waist, keeping her hand caressing her face. "I will always like hearing you say it"
Airi continued to look at Haruka. Tracing her features with her eyes. Even in the dim blue light she is sure she can perfectly make out her features as if they were in bright daylight. The dip of her dimple and the subtle curves of her eyes. Airi is sure that she has spent so long looking upon them with love and want that if she closed her eyes, and if she were a better artist, she could paint them in startling accuracy.
"You're looking at me like that again you know" Haruka eyes show a slight mischief. Airi gives her a puzzled look.
"What are you talking about?" Airi's words have a slight laugh to them. She feels a little giddy.
"It's the look you give me that makes me want to kiss you"
"I'm not sure what your getting at" Airi knows exactly what she is getting at. Haruka let's out some sort of laugh, used to Airi's need to try and tease her, before she leans in even closer.
"Kiss me"
The look on Airi's face is priceless as she finds her words getting jumbled up in her throat. She can feel herself grow pink and silently curses Kiritani Haruka who simply waits for a reply. A satisfied smile on her lips.
Airi closes her eyes and let's out a small sigh in defeat before opening them again to see a expectant expression on Haruka's face as if to say 'well?'. This time she curses herself as she leans in to the sweet smell and soft lips.
She relaxes into the kiss. The tender tug and pull and the warmth that spreads through her and over her skin. It wasn't a long kiss, it felt like the sun after rain.
After they parted Haruka turned over to turn off her lava lamp, sending the room into darkness with the moonlight pressed against her curtains, then shifted close again. Airi readjusting her leg and Haruka letting her right rest loosely around the others waist.
"We should go somewhere tomorrow" Haruka's voice was quiet and content and her eyes were closed. Airi thought she must be growing tired.
"Do you have a place in mind?" Haruka mumbles something incomprehensible back as she tucks her head into the crook of Airi's neck. A sign that Airi has come to learn means she wants to go to sleep.
'I'll take that as a no' Airi thinks to herself. She stares out into the dark of Haruka's room, looking strangely empty without the blue light, and listens to how Haruka's breathing grows slower and feels how her body completely relaxes. She feels her eyelids grow heavy and her last thought before she begins to dream is how she is so sure she is completely in love with Kiritani Haruka.