Hey, Best Friend. How About A Kiss Today Too? - Chapter 54: "...Body, wipe...?"
“…Body, wipe…?”
They spent a twisted yet blissful time entwined on the bed, repeatedly kissing each other.
As the outlines recognizing each other began to blur and sweat mixed so it was indistinguishable whose was whose, Sagiri muttered incoherently.
“…Body, wipe…?”
“Huh?”
Even I, in my rough breaths, could only ask back with confusion. As our bodies, which had been pressed together, separated, bringing with it both loneliness and the cool air from the air conditioner to be finally felt. Perhaps the air conditioning in this room was too effective in cooling down the heated skin as our thoughts mixed.
“At this rate, we might catch a cold.”
“Well, can’t be helped.”
Perhaps my head was still heated, and I think Sagiri said that not out of concern for her health but for mine, from the way she phrased it at least.
Both of us slowly raised our upper bodies from the bed. The towel that had been covering us was now crumpled at our feet.
Sagir, slightly swaying, stood up and unsteadily made their way to the closet, grabbing a towel. Along with it, they picked up a sports drink bottle from the desk and almost collapsed as they sat next to me.
The bed creaked loudly.
“Mmm… Phew… Here.”
“Thank you.”
Perhaps the way Sagiri drank the sports drink felt oddly sensual because we had been kissing until just now, or perhaps it was because we were sitting shoulder to shoulder.
After hydrating herself, Sagiri handed me the half-empty bottle. I took the room-temperature drink and gulped it down to quench my dry throat.
Come to think of it, the first time we kissed, it was also initiated by an indirect kiss, I thought.
“Here, take this.”
“Oh, uh…”
Next, Sagiri handed me the only hand towel. It felt soft and fluffy, like the ones you find in hotels.
“Look over there.”
“Huh? Sa-Sagiri!?”
This wasn’t the time to be thinking about such things.
Even though Sagiri and I were leaning against each other on the same bed, when she suddenly turned away after handing me the towel, to which I took a deep breath.
And then, she started taking off that loose T-shirt.
In an instant, her white skin was exposed, covered by her long, white hair.
The image of her beautiful back and slender waist that flashed in my eyes at that moment was firmly engraved in my brain.
“I told you to look away.”
“Well, that’s because you suddenly started taking it off, didn’t you!?”
“…I can’t wipe myself off properly if I don’t take it off.”
It’s not like you can’t wipe properly.
Sagiri, hiding her chest with the removed T-shirt, turned back to me with their back facing, looking down shyly.
This situation, their expression, and their words were all unfair.
“But still… No, it’s fine…”
Various protests crossed my mind, but seeing them all being dismissed, I shook my head.
I’ve already said that it can’t be helped if we catch a cold. There’s no turning back now.
“I’ll just wipe your back, okay?”
“Yeah.”
Finishing it quickly would be for both Harugiri’s health and my own sanity. As I looked again at their skin, like a work of art, I couldn’t help but swallow hard.
“Alright, wiping now…?”
“W-Wait a moment…”
“What!?”
Sagiri turned her back to me, holding the removed shirt against her chest with her left hand while her right hand reached around to hwe nape, gathering her long, beautiful white hair and letting it flow forward.
Her back, their waist, everything that had been hidden was now exposed on the bed.
And for just a moment, as she gathered her hair, just for that moment, her large chest, a part of it not completely hidden by the shirt, was visible from behind.
I immediately bit down hard on my lower lip.
“Okay, please.”
“A-Alright.”
Sometimes, there’s relief in pain. Today, I learned that firsthand.
With that lesson etched into my heart, I might be invincible now.
Regaining my composure, I wiped Sagiri’s sweat-drenched, translucent white skin with the towel in my hand—
“Ah… Hah…”
—In an instant, her body trembled. Sagiri curled up their back, stifling her leaking voice with her hand.
“I-It’s… ticklish…”
With her ears turning bright red, she muttered so.