✔️ Body and Mind 3

Birthday girl

Yuzuru was nervously swearing at the toaster as it popped out another burned toast.

He took it out adding it to the pile of all the other ones he burnt and put in another two pieces.
This time he stopped the toaster every five seconds to check it, making sure that these pieces finally make it out golden and not coal black.

When the toasts were done, he added on the plate also the eggs from the pan, bacon, and some fresh vegetables and put them on a tray together with a glass of orange juice.

He carefully carried it to the bedroom, hypnotizing the glass to make sure he doesn't spill it.
And at the door, he quietly growled wondering how is he gonna open it. He first tried to use his elbow but seeing it only made the orange juice more prone to spill, he turned around and bent over, putting the tray on the floor.
Before he managed to straighten up, there was a pinch on his bottom and he quickly jumped up in surprise.

-Is that for me?!!

-Yeah.

Yuzuru nervously smiled and put his hair behind his ear.
It was already over a month since he and Emily had their first fight and ever since then, everything was going perfectly. He didn't even think of Anya anymore, or if so, just very rarely and only for a split of a second. Emily was currently his everything and he wanted to make sure that she knows it.

-Well, I am not sure how good it's gonna be, but it's your birthday, so...I thought I try.

-You remembered!!

Yuzuru frowned, not understanding why would she think he would forget about her birthday.

-Eh, of course....I am not going to the practice today, so we have all day.

-Oh, we do?

Emily gave him a mischievous smile and started to drag him towards the bed, while Yuzuru turned his head and nervously eyed the breakfast tray on the floor.

-B-But....it will get cold....

-I don't care.....I will eat it cold.

-But then it's gonna taste even worse! I spent so much time on it.....

-Zu, it's just food!

Yuzuru sighed, giving goodbye to his efforts with one last glance at the tray, and redirected all of his attention to the birthday girl.

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To his slight dismay, Emily still managed to fall asleep afterwards and Yuzuru went to pick up the tray from the floor and scrubbed the contents of the plate into the bin.
He returned back to the bedroom, doing his best not to wake her up, and lied down next to her, putting his arm over her hip.
He dipped his nose into her hair which was now long just below her shoulders and closed his eyes, trying to maybe fall asleep as well.
But he didn't.
After a while, he gave up but stayed where he was, wanting to be with Emily and enjoying her presence so close to him.
He began to wrap strands of her hair around his index finger and letting it slide down in small loose curls that soon straighten again.

-What you doing, Zu?

Emily mumbled, her light sleep now being gone from the shimmering of her hair and Yuzuru's shallow breathing on her naked back.

-Sorry....I was just thinking if you gonna cut your hair again. You had it just below your chin when we met.

-You don't like it like this?

-I do. Just....I don't know.

After living with women his whole life, Yuzuru knew this was now a tricky situation.

If he admits he liked it more before, she would probably react thinking that he doesn't like the current length.
On the other hand, if he says he does like more how it is now, not only will she think that he didn't like it when it was short, but most of all she would probably keep it that way and not cut it. And he didn't like the temptation it was giving him to play with her long hair, afraid that if it gets any longer she will start braiding it.