Tsunagari

Chapter LXXIV.

If the weather was fine during the night, it was completely different when we woke up the next morning.

The sky was covered with thick, dark gray clouds till as far as the eyes could reach, and it was pouring incessantly. The rain had started in the middle of the night, and soon, it had turned into a real storm.

As I came out of my room into the corridor to go brush my teeth, I came across of Gōjun, and the moment his eyes fell on me, he jerked to a stop, having a nose-bleed.

'What is this thing that you are wearing?' he shouted. 'Don't tell me that you had been wearing this last night to sleep?!'

Eh?

I looked down at my clothes. I was wearing a negligee. It was a light pink, sleeveless dress that came off my thighs, with ribbons hanging everywhere.

'I bought this at the supermarket the other day. There were promotions. I thought that I could try to wear something new. I find it very pretty.'

'It's also way too sex- I mean indecent! I want you to take it off immediately!' he shouted, even more loudly.

I cringed away, covering my chest with my arms, protectively.

What a pervert! He wants to... in front of everyone?!

Tsubasa-sama, Shunsui and Saien-sensei had come out in the corridor to see what was happening.

'Not in that sense, you idiot! I want you to go to your room and get changed into something more decent!' he snapped at me, when he saw my reaction, giving me a large bump on the head.

'Itai!' I moaned, rubbing my head in pain, and very quickly, I ran back into my room to do as he had said, while I heard him mutter to himself under his breath, 'And she dares think of me as the pervert! Who is the real pervert in the story, huh? I really can't believe this!'

I flushed tomato red.

***

Later...

I was in the kitchen, preparing our lunch when, I remembered that Shunsui and Gōjun liked to eat hot meat buns on a rainy day. It was something that they would always do when they were kids, and I decided to make some for them. I was sure that it was going to please them a lot.

After our meal and the meat buns were ready, it was time to put them in a few plates to bring them to the table to serve them to everyone. But I couldn't find any large plates in the cabinet above-head. I decided to check in the cabinet beneath the kitchen-counter.

Opening one of the doors, I crouched down and began to search for something that I could use to serve us our meals. As I was groping around, suddenly, I felt something walk onto the back of my hand. Instantaneously, I pulled my hand back, but it was too late. A sharp, deep pain hit me at that exact location where I had felt the crawling sensation. At the same time, in a reflex, I threw whatever it was that had bitten me off the back of my hand with a fling of the arm, while I squalled with pain.

When I looked on the ground, I saw that it was a large spider that had bitten me. It scooted away rapidly, and clutching at my hand, my eyes returned onto the bite it had left me with. It was hurting a lot.

But I told myself that it was going to pass very soon.

I continued to search for what I had been looking for. Once I had found several large plates, I brought everything that I had prepared in the communal dining area where the others were waiting for me.

But, contrarily to what I believed, the pain didn't pass. It simply transformed itself into a burning feeling all around the place of the bite. My heart was beating very fast. At first, I thought that it was only due to the scare that I had had, but I had the impression that my blood pressure had risen. And I had a tingling sensation around my lips. My head was aching, I was perspiring hard, and I had nausea. However, I continued to try to persuade myself that it was going to pass.