Over Our Obstacles [ENG] [FINISHED/ADDING REMAINING CHAPTERS]

Chapter 9 | So Close

"Come on, come on! Quickly!" Lapis grabbed Pearl by her wrist and ran towards the one and only house standing in the middle of nowhere. They ran to the very end of the empty street and hid from the rain on the unknown house's porch. There was a bench and a few withered flowers standing. This wooden house was old, quite ramshackle and unkempt just at the first look at it.

Pearl pulled her sweatshirt hood down and fixed her wet, messy hair. Lapis leaned her back and elbows against the porch rail.

"We did it." Lapis gulped with a grin, breathing fast after running from that rain. Pearl approached her and leaned against the rail next to Lapis, crossing arms on her chest and trying to get warm. The air rapidly changed since it started raining.

"Yeah." Pearl giggled. She turned her head towards the street and watched raindrops falling onto wet asphalt, making bigger and bigger puddles with every fallen drop.

The skinny girl shivered when a massive wave of cold washed her body. She turned her head back and hid her hands into her sleeves, then put them into her armpits, closing her eyes with a sigh.

Lapis looked at her friend and crossed her arms on her chest, too. "Are you okay, Pearl?"

The girl swallowed and nodded. "Yeah, just a bit cold."

Lapis hummed at that. She scanned Pearl from top to bottom, realizing that she was all soaked to the bone and trembling. Lapis grabbed the hem of her brown leather jacket then, rubbing it with her thumbs, biting her lip, thinking of lending it to Pearl, then after a moment she started to unzip her jacket slowly.

Pearl carefully looked at her with a corner of her eye as Lapis pulled one of her arms out of the sleeve, followed be the other one. While Lapis was slowly undressing, Pearl noticed the girl's well trained abs hidden under her skin-tight undershirt, noticing her biceps that appeared on her arms as well.

Pearl lost her breath and immediately turned to a side. She then shaded her eyes so she couldn't see Lapis and her undressing process, but it didn't help her for too long because Lapis stood in front of her and wrapped her jacket around Pearl's shoulders, fixing the sleeves so they fit her.

"Lapis, what are you doing? You're gonna get cold." Pearl objected, but then her gaze accidentally slid down to Lapis' belly. Pearl swallowed hard and stopped breathing for a second. She couldn't make herself get her eyes away.

"I'm not." Lapis smiled, giving Pearl's shoulder gentle squeeze which made Pearl look back up at her. "I don't want you to get cold. You're all soaked."

"B-but..." Pearl stuttered. "You've got just an undershirt."

Lapis laughed softly and leaned back against the porch rail, followed by Pearl's gaze. "I'm used to cold."

"Ah-hah..." Pearl nodded slowly and turned her head forward, trying not to be too conspicuous by staring at Lapis' body and scanning her every muscle. She started to wonder where did she get these, and that was the only thing that she was thinking about the next five minutes.

Lapis suddenly pulled herself away from the railing and headed towards the door, reaching out her hand. "Do you think someone lives in there?"

"Hard to tell." Pearl sighed and looked into a window, but there was dark inside to see anything.

Lapis slightly knocked on the door, but didn't receive any response. She tried it again, this time she knocked a bit louder. Nothing again.

This house seemed really old, however, it didn't mean that nobody lived in there. Lapis approached one of the dusty windows, she shaded her eyes and looked inside the house.