"Hey, Mirai~ Long time no see~"
"Woof! Woof!" Sae's pet miniature poodle, Mirai greeted me as I walked in through the front door of Sae's house.
It had been 3 months since we officially became a couple. At this point, our relationship was still an open secret and our parents yet to know about it. However, with the power of the childhood friend relationship, going to each other's house was no surprise to both sides of our family whatsoever.
Sae came over to my place to meet my parents. I figured that my parents haven't met her in so long would be interested to see her again. So I fetched her over to my place.
Even though my parents didn't know about our true relationship yet, bringing a childhood friend over to my place wasn't a weird sight to them. They had a lot of talks about the old times and it was fun. As we left my place, I fetched Sae back to her place.
However, I felt like it was time I wanted to move ahead of our relationship. I told Sae about it in the car and she was willing to invite me into her house. However, there were still some obstacles in the way.
"Good afternoon~ It's nice to see you again! How are you?"
Sae's mother who just came out of her room greeted me with the warmest welcome. She was surprisingly tall for someone her age. Despite being a mother in her late 40s, she looked like she could be Sae's sister. She looked very young for her age with her well-permed hair and light makeup.
Sae's mother was an owner of a hairstylist shop that was just down the road from her house. Her salary could barely support her family but she was a hardworking person in my eyes.
However, Sae told me that she was not very fond of her mother. They tend to argue a lot and Sae's mother seemed to be the kind of insensitive, manipulative type. However, I had yet to see that side of her. Regardless, I trusted Sae and try to believe her side of the story.
"Good afternoon, Mrs Taniguchi. Sorry for the intrusion. I'm doing good."
"That's good. That's good. Well, I'm off to work now so make yourself at home."
"I see. Take care, Mrs Taniguchi."
With that, Sae's mother walked towards the door and put on her shoes. After she left the house, it was only me, Sae and her pet dog who was still barking.
"I think he wants your head pats..."
"I see. He is a hyper one."
"Let me take a bath first… I'll open the door when I'm done."
Sae said as she walked towards her room and close the door, leaving me alone with her dog. I looked around her house and tried to grasp the overall environment of her house.
It's a single one-floor bungalow located in a housing area. It was the furthest house on the road so the rest of the neighbours were quite far from her place. The house is also quite far from the commercial area so that was also one of the reason there weren't many people living around there. And because of that, it was also the cheapest one among the houses in the neighbourhood.
Her house was tidy and clean as expected from a house lived by three ladies. There were three rooms and two toilets. While the other toilet was through the master bedroom, one of the toilets was shared among two rooms and had three doors as it was connected to the main hallway also. And behind those doors…
Sae was taking her clothes off and preparing to take a bath.
Anyways, I decided to entertain her dog.
"Woof!"
"Alright, you get head pats."
I quickly bent down and gave Mirai the best head pats I can give to him.
Sae told me that her dog was never fond of men. Mirai was the type to only be friendly with girls. As whenever a man walked into Sae's house, he would immediately bark at the man to chase it away. However, it was very different for me.
Mirai was very comfortable around me. He would lay down on the floor and constantly ask me for belly rubs and head pats. At first, I thought it was because he saw me as a girl and not a threat. Thankfully, Sae assured me and told me that he could sense that I had no ill intentions when walking into her house. Which made me really glad that he liked me but I was also worried about what sort of man had entered Sae's house before.
Thanks, Mirai for trusting me but I'm sorry. I may not have any ill intentions but I do have ulterior motives when walking into your owner's house.
After 15 longs minutes of patting her dog, Sae opened her door and invited me to her room. As I entered the room, Sae let her dog in before locking her door. Even though we were alone, she wanted to make sure we weren't interrupted if anyone else would suddenly come home early.
Sae's room was very small and was filled with lots of nostalgia. She had a queen size bed with countless plushies laid in a row at the side of her bed. Sae loved plushies and among her collection were some from her younger times and some she had bought on a whim.
Sae had a small desk in the middle of the room filled with books and writing supplies. She also had a small CRT television in her room too. And the reason she had an old television without any cable connection was that it was used for her Game Station 2 which was placed beneath her TV.
It was an old console that was popular while we were still in elementary school. Sae was very much into retro 3D games and from the array of games she had collected, I could tell Sae had really good taste in games.
Beside her bed was Mirai's little bed filled with blankets and toys. Mirai who casually just waltzed into the room was laying in that bed while destroying one of his toys. As I looked at the way he played with it, I was reminded once again how lucky I was to be on his good side.
Her room was filled with posters of her favourite shows and movies. She may not like them now but she was too lazy to take them down. However, it definitely brought back a lot of nostalgia during my younger times.
With a single hanging lamp with a yellow bulb and dark curtains on her wall, her room felt very cosy and compact. However, what caught me by surprise the most was the smell of her room. The smell of her room was intense.
How do I put this? Her room was stuffy and a little choking at. The moment I walked in, it was like the air had literally stopped flowing. It wasn't like I couldn't breathe but it was like I was trapped in a basement.
Her room had a smell I couldn't describe well. It was a smell that I never smelled before. It was as if someone was hugging me from all sides and making sure I wouldn't leave them. It smelled like I was trapped in someone's loving embrace and bounded my movement.
"This room… Even though I never came here before, it felt very nostalgic."
"It does, doesn't it?"
Sae then switched off the lights as soon as I had grasped the overall footing of her room. As she sat on her bed and looked me in the eyes, I finally understood what her room smelled and felt like…
Her room smelled like a love potion…
And her room felt like her love den.
I sat beside Sae on her bed. Sae was wearing a very tight t-shirt and a pair of short string pants. Because of the way she sat while hiding her blushing face, she was hiding her chest from my sight as her arms were blocking her above average sized breasts. Despite that, I could see the silhouette of her bra as her shirt tried its best to avoid itself from overstretching.
She had already taken off her glasses and had her hair let loose. Her back that was slouching forward was in plain sight and fully exposed. As much as she was trying her best to guard the front part of her body, it was as if her back had accepted its fate.
She hid her hands between her thighs. I could see how restless her legs were as her toes couldn't stop twitching. And by the way her shoulders move, she was clearly very nervous.
"Are you sure you are okay with this? I'm willing to let this go if you are not prepared."
As much as I could tell Sae was willing to do anything for me, I want to at least have her full consent. Even though I was really looking forward to it, I don't want her to be forced into it because of me after all. Thankfully, that wasn't the case.
She slowly relaxed her body as her shoulder loosen up. She stopped slouching her back and straightened her posture. The hands that were once out of sight were then grabbing onto her bedsheet. As she exposed the curvature of her breast, she was also starting to expose her true nature.
"As long as you don't put it in… Even if we have protection, I'm not willing to take the chance. I don't want what happened to my parents to happen to us after all. If you can promise me that…"
She turned her head and faced me with the biggest blush I have ever seen from her. She then sat even closer to me as she pressed the weight of her body against mine.
Her arms pressed against her chest as the sight of her shirt being squeezed by her breasts' cleavage lured my eyes to their embrace. Her hands that were once running through the edges of her bed were holding on to my waist. She was more than prepared for what was to come.
The stench of her room intensified as her room warmed up by the heat of the moment. It was as if I was trapped in the basement of a crazed lover, ready to savour every inch of my body. Even though the lights were off, there was still a single glimpse of light from the afternoon sky. The light that peaked into the room formed a single dividing line of light between our eyes. And as if her face was replaced with a succubus's face with heart-shaped eyes, the girl in front of me was asking me to cross over to a new world.
"... I am willing to do anything else."
Even if what I had described was just a trick caused by my imagination, I knew her words were the truth.