✔️ Body and Mind

conCERN

Yuzuru threw himself on Anya's bed, his body missing the few hours of sleep he sacrificed this morning. He started to look around while she was packing some of her things into her backpack.
All the shelves filled with books and then piles of books on the floor as well.
He then noticed wooden chess figures of a King and a Queen on her nightstand and took them in his hands, checking the detailed work and craftsmanship of the woodcarver.

-Are these two important to you?

-Very.

And Anya finished her packing and sit down on the bed, next to lying Yuzuru.

-I just only need to change now and we can go.

-Wait, tell me about these, why are they important?

Anya now arranged herself to sit more comfortably and Yuzuru got happy he will again hear a full story rather than her usual short answers.

-The queen is for my mum and the king for my dad. I always played chess with only one old plastic set we had at home. And then when I was fifteen, they got me my first very own set. It was the day when they decided not to put me anymore into those various classes. My dad had it custom-made for me. So even when they are now living across the country, they are here with me. And I know that they finally accepted me the way I am.

Yuzuru now pulled her down to lie next to him and placed his arms around her.

-Do you keep in touch?

-Not really. We still don't have anything to talk about. We call mostly for birthdays and I visit them for Christmas, etc. .... I know they still desperately wish we had something in common, and I do too, but there isn't anything. That said though, I know they love me very much and I love them too. I wouldn't trade them for any other parents in the world.

Yuzuru pulled her into a tight hug, going with his hand up and down her back. They lied like that for a while until his hand stopped and his breathing slowed down. Anya opened her eyes and saw that Yuzuru fell asleep. She smiled and went to finish reading her book.

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After few hours, Anya couldn't believe he is still asleep and got up to get ready. She opened her drawer filled with various ribbons and took out one in a light blue shade. She braided her hair to the dutch braid that Yuzuru picked for her last time, tying the ends with the ribbon.
She then picked a close-fitting shirt in the same color and buttoned it all the way from her neck to the bottom. Anya then opted for the same tight, black pants she had at the rink the other day and put the shirt over it.

Once done, she turned around, seeing Yuzuru lying on the bed with his eyes wide open and blushing.
Anya reached for the nearest book she had and threw it right at him but he managed to take a cover with her pillow just in time.

-That was a very nice foreplay by the way....

Anya took a deep breath and then joined him on the bed, saying with the sweetest voice she could muster.

-Awww, thank you pumpkin!! And I adore your little, blushing cheeks.... - and she started to squeeze and pinch his cheeks, making him cringe.
Yuzuru swiftly flipped her under him, holding her hands away from his face.

-Alright, I might have deserved that.....let's get something to eat, I'm starving! I hope you like sushi?

-Who doesn't?

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Anya left all the ordering up to Yuzuru as he took her to a proper Japanese restaurant, showing off now, that he can easily order in Japanese and knows every single dish. And once the food started arriving, one course after the other he was explaining to her how each of the pieces should be eaten. Some with chopsticks but some with hand, each having different ways of how to be dipped in the soy sauce. He was a proper gentleman the whole time, filling up her glass of water from the pitcher anytime it was half empty, standing up when she got up to go to the bathroom, and constantly making sure that she is having a good time.
But the more they ate and chatted the more was Anya sliding down in her chair as if she just wanted to sink onto the floor and become one with the carpet.