The Tutor

Chapter 42: A Surprise for Nick

AN: Next to last chapter, okay? Then an epilogue...And this is basically all smut😉💦

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Tokyo was a snowy, drizzly mess, freezing cold and gray when Nick and Sumire arrived in mid-January. Even though Shikoku had been cold and blanketed with snow, it had been just rural enough to be pretty and picturesque.

"Well, I guess I won't be going back to visit my dad before we leave," Sumire said, looking out the window of their hotel at the low hanging clouds and drab wetness that covered everything.

"No, we can go," Nick told her. "This doesn't matter, we'll be in the car, anyway, why should we care?"

He hugged her from behind, kissing the top of her head. "Who knows when you'll be back? I don't want you to miss out on one last visit to his grave."

But Sumire shook her head. "I don't want to go," she said. "I don't want to see the cemetery like this. I want to remember it the way it was when we went before, with the sun and the heat and the koi pond and the chrysanthemums."

"You sure?"

She nodded.

"Okay, then, I guess all we need to do is eat, sleep and go," Nick said.

"I guess so," Sumire agreed.

"What was that?"

"What was what?"

"I heard something in your voice."

"Like what?"

"I don't know, something funny, something--different."

Sumire turned in Nick's arms so she was facing him. She shrugged, such a Sumire and feminine gesture that tickled Nick and made him hug her and lift her from the floor.

"I just have a little surprise for you," she finally admitted.

"Really?"

She nodded.

"Where and when did you get it? I mean, we've been together pretty much non-stop for the last five months."

But Sumire shook her head. "Nope. No hints. I'll give it to you right before bed, okay? So let's go get dinner, then come back and shower and watch a movie or whatever, then surprise, then bed."

And no matter how much Nick bugged her, no matter how he teased or threatened her during dinner upstairs in the hotel's very nice restaurant, she wouldn't budge or give any hints, so he finally gave up.

They returned to their suite to shower and watch a movie before bed, and as usual, Nick was finished way before Sumire, so he sat on the couch to wait for her, wondering what his surprise was.

He happened to be looking at his phone when her bathroom door opened, and he heard the light click off. He started to rise as he put his phone away.

"Hey, is my surprise some kind of food?" he asked. "Because I'll be honest with you, I ate way too much at dinner, and I might actually barf if you try to feed me anything else--"

He looked up and whatever else he was going to say died in his throat.

"It's not food."

Sumire spoke as she approached him, wearing a black thing he'd never seen before. It was a black lace nightie with matching undies, probably considered sedate or maybe even modest by some standards, but Sumire felt like she was more than naked as she walked toward Nick in it.