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"He hung up," Komi murmured to herself, looking at her phone with a smile, trying to hide her embarrassment from her mother. Without checking the phone, she went to the kitchen, leaving her mother, who was persistently trying to know more, behind.
"Shouko, wait! Let me hear what you were talking about," her mother followed slowly, while giggling.
As Aki hung up, he lay on his bed lazily. The lights were still out, so it was dark, but he could see the lights from other houses through his window, and only the light from his laptop screen was illuminating the room.
After a pleasant chat with his follower, specifically her, Aki decided to sleep. As he wasn't feeling hungry, he decided to sleep and eat when he felt like it.
Ring ring...
"Humm, Kamiya-san!" Aki exclaimed as he looked at the name on his phone screen. "Hello?"
"Are you not coming?" Ai's voice rang from the other side of the phone.
Aki looked at the time. It was already past 9. "Maybe tomorrow. I'm tired, so I will rest," he replied.
"Have you eaten?" Kamiya asked worriedly. She knew from her experience with him that he often ate packaged food instead of homemade meals, except for the times he ate with them.
"Humm, I have," Aki lied, "but now that you mentioned it, I feel hungry. Are you in the dining room?" Aki asked.
"No... if you're hungry, I will bring something to you," Kamiya said, worried.
"No, it's fine. Just answer my question. Where are you now?" Aki was not really hungry but was in the mood to tease her, so he continued to play his game.
"Umm, I'm setting the table," she replied.
"That's great. While you're eating, keep the phone near you so I can hear you chewing."
"Eh? Why? That's a rather unique request?" Kamiya exclaimed with embarrassment, multiple thoughts circulating inside her head.
"Why is he asking that? Isn't he embarrassed? I feel embarrassed for him. It's good he asked me, but if he asked someone else, they might think of him as a pervert, right?"
"Just do it, okay?" Aki requested again, holding back his laughter.
"Okay..." although she was embarrassed, Kamiya agreed to Aki's weird request.
"Are you listening?" After some minutes, Aki asked.
"Um..." Kamiya replied nervously as she sat down, still waiting for her mother to come.
"It's embarrassing, you know," Kamiya said one last time to reconsider his request.
"Then feed me," Aki responded after some thought.
Hearing his words, although puzzled, feeding him would be better than him listening to her chew. So she asked him, "How?"
"Humm, that's a good question... Do it like this: act like you're feeding me through the phone, then you eat."
"..."
"Hey, don't be quiet all of a sudden," Aki said, feeling Kamiya's sudden silence. "I just want to know the feeling of being fed."
"I can do that tomorrow. Doing it over the phone is weird," Kamiya finally replied in a meek voice.
"No, I don't want to. Feed me now, or I won't talk to you tomorrow." Now he was blackmailing her.
"Sigh, you're really stubborn... sometimes," she sighed, but deep in her heart, she thought, "You know I can't stay a day without hearing your voice." Thinking about him ignoring her made her sad all of a sudden. "Say ahh," she replied.
"Ahh," hearing her, he opened his mouth, anticipating Kamiya's next move.
Ai took a piece of fish from her plate and brought the chopsticks near the phone, closing her eyes and imagining herself feeding him.
"Is it tasty?" she asked, waiting for his reply.
"Yeah," Aki responded.
"How do you know? I didn't even say what I was feeding you," she chuckled, trying to hide her embarrassment.
"Maybe because you fed me... Even if it's poisonous, I might like it," Aki responded.
"You and your way of speaking," Kamiya confronted him in a low voice, her heart skipping a beat.
"Haha, now I'm full. Now I can sleep well," Aki whispered into the phone.
"Are you really fine? You said you were hungry before..." though she played along with Aki's game of feeding him, it was all just an imagination, so she was still worried.
"Yes, but I'm full now. You fed me, right?" Aki responded calmly.
"That..." Kamiya was having a hard time arguing with this stubborn friend of hers.
"Okay, eat well and sweet dreams, my Kamiya Ai-san. Good night, Ai-san... Here's a kiss for you. Chuuu..."
"...Good night, Aki," she responded, puzzled by his actions today. "Did he drink?" This was the only logic she found for Aki's more flirtatious behavior today. Thinking he might have been drinking, she ignored his last words, though she found them heartwarming.
As she looked at her phone, which had a wallpaper of Aki, she smiled. "My Kamiya and a kiss, huh... I will have great dreams tonight."
"I didn't notice my daughter being so bold..." A familiar voice came from in front of Ai, and cold sweat ran down her face. She slowly looked up and saw her mother already eating.
"Mom... How long have you been here?" she asked nervously.
"Oh, now you notice me. As you can see, I've already finished eating by now," Hina, Ai's mother, replied.
Hearing her mother's reply, Ai's heart stopped for a moment as she looked down at the table, seeing her mother's plate nearly empty. 'So she's been here the whole time. Ahhh, I want to die! It was so embarrassing. Aki Shijo, I will hold a grudge against you, you bad person...'
"So, how far have you two gone?" Hina asked with a teasing tone.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Ai, pushing her embarrassment aside, was puzzled by her mother's question.
"Don't play dumb... I heard everything and saw most of it," Hina responded, making Ai look down with a red face.
"It's already obvious. No one will question your relationship after witnessing both of your behavior. Like, who feeds their own meal to someone over the phone? Before you tell me some silly answer like 'friends,' I also heard him calling you 'my Ai' and sending you a kiss."
"..." Now Ai didn't know how to explain this misunderstanding to her mother. The most concerning matter was, "Mom, how did you hear him? I was certain I didn't put his call on speaker..."
"Oh, you were so concentrated that you didn't notice me even if I was near your ear," Hina replied nonchalantly.
"I am going to my room," Ai exclaimed as she ran off, unable to face her mother anymore.
"Eh, Ai... you haven't eaten..." Hina exclaimed, seeing her daughter running off.
"I am not hungry..."
"Haha, ahhh, I didn't realize... She is of that age now... But... What if she suffers like I did... Shijo-kun is a good boy, but I need to make sure he won't hurt Ai... Or else..." Hina trailed off, a serious expression replacing her previous smile.
(The Next Morning)
Aki woke up like he usually did, rubbing his eyes. As he looked around, he found the situation rather strange. Slowly examining his surroundings, he noticed that he was sleeping on a luxurious king-size bed scattered with various luxurious women's clothes. The house itself was extravagant, filled with high-tech machines, automatic cleaning robots, and appliances like a refrigerator and air conditioner.
However, the most concerning discovery was when he examined his own body. "My chest? No, no, I worked really hard to grow them..." Panic surged through him as he ran to look in the mirror.
Several minutes of silence followed as Aki stared at his reflection. "Wow, he is so handsome," he exclaimed, admiring the face in the mirror. Then, suddenly realizing something, he opened his pants and his face turned deep red. Quickly closing them, he whispered, "Let's ignore what I saw today..."
He collapsed to his knees, distressed. "What is going on? I was sleeping peacefully in my village, my house, my room. What am I doing in a different house, different room, and in a male body? For God's sake, I am a girl... A pure village girl. I saved my chastity for my husband, and now I've seen... a monster. What the hell is this dream?"
Ding dong
"Aki, it's me, Ai. You're getting late, hurry up for school," Ai called, making the supposed Aki jolt.
"What should I do now? Yes, that's it, I must be dreaming, so I should follow the normal routine... Right. School, school, school uniform." As Aki searched for a uniform, he landed his eyes on the girls' clothes scattered on the bed.
"Hmm, is this boy a trans? Why does he have only women's clothes on his bed?" Then he spotted a school uniform, the one Aki bought for Kamiya yesterday. It had a unique design but was still acceptable to wear in school.
As Aki put on the girl's uniform, his neck-length hair, which had been tied back, was released, making him look perfectly beautiful. Staring at the mirror, the girl exclaimed, "Why is he more beautiful than me, even though he is a man..."
With a sigh, she resigned herself. "I should be going. The girl outside might break the door..."
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I want to write moreee but I don't know how to manage my time....
But if u comment or reviews i might get motivated.
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