Vanessa was quiet as a kid, but she never let anyone take advantage of her. She disliked bullies and got into fights in school most of the time for someone else's sake. Her mother thought it was her rebelling against her making them move from one place to other all the time.
She did hate the fact that she had to move everytime she started to settle in a place and make friends but she didn't her mother for that since it wasn't her fault but still things weren't great between them. She really liked her aunt though, whenever she used to come over to meet them, those were some of the best memories from her childhood, she wanted to be like her aunt, she started dressing like her and trained in martial arts like her. She wanted to fight instead of running, but she also saw how this life affected her aunt. She became more lonely as she got older and though on the surface she was happy but she was nearing her breaking point. So Vanessa didn't want to repeat the same mistakes her mom Or aunt did. She wanted to finish this chase as fast as possible and then live a normal life.
Then her aunt died, although she had dealt with the tragedy much better than she had expected, the thing that happened in the forest, with how stupidly she acted made her realise she was somewhere looking for closure and taking revenge was the only thing that might bring her that. And she had expected that she would be alone in this journey of hers but now she had Ash and the others. That night when she had sneaked in Ash's room, she had thought a lot about what to do, whether the decision of bringing him along would be right. But now she was sure that it wasn't completely bad.
"Meditating?" asked Ash entering the room and taking a seat on her bed.
"Yeah, I used to do it when I was learning jujitsu, but then I stopped for a while, thought I should start again" she said getting up and rolling the mat. She bent down to pick up the mat, which gave Ash chance to appreciate her ass. As he had expected she looked great, the training had kept her body in shape and it made him realise just how lucky he was to get to see her like that so close. He could almost feel the smooth curves of her body.
"You don't have to worry about the forest so much, it could have happened to anyone of us" he said.
"I know, but it's my mission, and I am supposed to help, but it looks like all I have done is received help and be a burden" she said.
"Trust me, you are not a burden" he said. She quickly pulled over an oversized shirt. It came just below her waist, still revealing a lot of ass and legs which Ash was glad to get to see more of.
"So how about a movie or something?" said Ash.
"Geez, I guess that's what normal people do for fun, but nothing boring" she said.
"How about a horror?" he said jokingly.
"Whatever" she said.
They went to the living room, it was a cozy place Ash thought, the floor was covered with a thick and warm rug, Vanesss got the fire burning in the fire place, while Ash found a nice movie. Then they settled on the couch in front of the large screen.
"Now that i notice, your aunt was kind of rich, this house is pretty nice and big" he said.
"She didn't have a lot to spend her money on, no family to take care of Or overseas trip" explained Vanessa.
The movies started, they had ordered food from a nearby place, and to Ash's delight Vanessa had summoned a nice bottles of old whiskey and wine.
"Whiskey?" he asked when she brought the bottle.
"My aunt liked it, I don't, I prefer wine" she said.
Pizza and whiskey was a favourite combination for Ash, plus the company of Vanessa, this night couldn't get better he thought.
They were sitting side by side in the middle of the sofa. Ash would glance at Vanessa ever so often, he couldn't concentrate at the movie, as the whiskey started going to his head, he became more relaxed and leaned back.
Vanessa was also getting relaxed, she curled up her legs under her, which made her knee to rest on top of Ash's leg. Now the contact was made, all he could think about was her presence just beside her. The night was cold and he could feel the heat radiating from beside him.
He again looked at her, his head was a few inches above her, so he looked down at her, as she brought the glass to her lips and took a sip, his eyes focused on those red lips and then down her neck, to the rising chest, as she breathed in and out slowly the movement was hypnotizing. He stared at the rising and falling mounds with half open eyes, he was in a daze now, his head was buzzing. He took a long breath looked away and down at her leg coming out from under the shirt and resting on his leg and placed a hand on her lower thigh.
The feeling and the action brought a little soberness in him, the whiskey made him relax and not make any sudden moments, he felt the warm skin. He felt the muscles underneath, they were soft and hard at the same time.
He had completely forgotten about her reaction so he slowly glanced sideways at her.
She was still looking forward at the screen and taking sips.
He kept looking at her and slowly increased the pressure under his hand, he squeezed, his fingers and they sank into the soft flesh.
She didn't make any move or show any sign of reaction. He slowly started moving his hands upward.
His hand reached her mid thigh, there was much more skin and muscle here, much more to grab and squeeze and feel.
Then it happened as his fingers curled around her lower thigh a shiver ran from her leg up her whole body, it wasn't a shiver of cold but of excitement.
His eyes we're fixed on hers, so he was able to see when she very slightly moved her eyes to glance at him. He hadn't expected her to be like that, even more he hadn't expected himself to be the first one to make a move.
But now he knew that she was feeling it too although for some reason she was playing a game of not reacting, maybe she wanted to see how far I would dare.
But her reaction earlier however slight if might be had ended the game for him.
He removed his hand and turned his body towards her, her eyes widened slightly but she reacted too, she placed her glass of wine away and turned.
Their heads came together and as close as possible, they waited for a moment, to breathe in each other's smell and then their lips met.
Ash found kissing Vanessa was probably the best thing he had ever done, he couldn't describe the feeling, it was the feel of her, the presence of someone he really liked, that made the whole thing really special.
The lips moved with haste, at first there was a little hesitaion then the excitement built up slowly and then the passion flowed in.
Their tongues met and intertwined.
He tasted her and the wine, she tasted the whiskey and probably for the first time liked it so much.