Parents remarried. Now my lover starts referring to me as "Onii~chan" - Chapter 2 Part 7

To be honest, I had more of a personal reason behind it.

If, at night, I did go into Neneka’s room, I was afraid of the possibility that I might not be able to sleep later on.

Neneka, while at home, already smelled good. I was sure Neneka’s room would smell charming as well.

In a lovely smell, I would be alone with Neneka in her loungewear in her room… If that were to happen, my conscience inside me would start fighting each other.

My reason against my instinct

Between calm and passion, I was sure I would have a hard time keeping my reason and instinct at bay.

“Okay. Then, rule number 5! I won’t go to Daiki’s room every night. If I bring my study tools along and accidentally get caught in your room, I wonder if I could use an excuse like being taught by Daiki or something?”

Neneka being still unaware of my personal complexities, proceeded with the discussion.

“I think that’s all good! Also, the time till you could stay in my room at night… let us make it till twelve o’clock midnight.”

“Okay. Rule number 6! I could stay in Daiki’s room till twelve o’clock at night. But well, since I get sleepy after eleven o’clock, I might end up going back to my room before anyways. If I fell asleep in Daiki’s room. Daiki might get into trouble after all.”

Imagining Neneka sleeping in my room suddenly made my heart start pounding faster.

“And the most important rule number 7! Acts that seem to expose us as fellow lovers are prohibited in front of our parents! Let’s be careful.”

“Yeah. Let’s be careful.”

It was a rule made so that our parents wouldn’t find out that we were lovers in hiding.

However, this rule would cause Neneka to develop a particular type of feeling towards me later on, which was something yet unknown to me.

Later that night.

After work, our parents got drunk and happily mingled with each other.

They were staring at each other while whispering to just enter each other’s ears so that we couldn’t hear them.

It was nice to have a peaceful dining space filled with happy auras. But seeing my parents flirting their hearts out without minding me in front of them instead made me highly annoyed

–Let’s quickly eat and scarp into my room as soon as possible…

Watching my parents flirt didn’t do me any good.

It made me feel like watching a scene from a romantic drama but unable to empathize with it even for a bit. Since they were newlyweds, my parents were the only main characters present there.

It was strange that the children were supposed to likely stay in a moderate relationship compared to their parents, who provocatively indulged in love affairs.

–Hmm? Neneka?

Neneka, who was sitting right next to me secretly went on to touch my inner thighs.

Then she started to stroke it with her fingers.

It tickled.

All of a sudden, without any notice, she started playing such a prank. Which, in turn got me feeling a little impatient.

“What happened?”

I asked Neneka in a low voice.

Then Neneka pouted her mouth and whispered.

“I’m starting to envy them…”

“Eh?”

From the blind spot of our parents, Neneka started constantly stroking my thighs under the table.

Could it be that she was inspired by our parents’ lovey-dovey attitude and now also wanted to flirt with me?

–No, no, no.

Calm down, Neneka!

Parents aside, we couldn’t flirt openly.

Intending to say no, I took Neneka’s hand and removed it from my thighs.

But Neneka’s hand soon returned.

I removed it again.

–But, it would just return back yet again.

When I looked at Neneka, intending to say, “Hey!” Neneka smiled as if she was enjoying a delicious meal.

How come she was having so much fun? If our parents found out, it would definitely be a huge fuss…

I moved Neneka’s hand time and again, but no matter how many times I did, it returned.

I gave up and started putting my food in my mouth, maintaining a poker face so that our parents wouldn’t find out that Neneka was messing with me.

Then suddenly, Neneka said.

“Onii-chan, the rice fell on your thighs.”

“Eh?”

When I checked my thighs. There were no grains of rice there.

And there was just Neneka’s left-hand. Her fingers moved smoothly, writing something.

–Lo-ve?

I could see letters written under a trajectory by her finger.

When I glanced back at her, Neneka had a pretty smile on her face. My heart suddenly started beating a lot faster.

–Even if she did such a cute thing, I couldn’t react in any way right now, okay?

While feeling a little dejected, I returned to eat my meal.

For them not to be suspicious of Neneka’s mischief, I had no choice but to remain calm and collected.

As I was about to ignore this whole happening, Neneka started poking my thighs as her fingers began writing something again.

–Da-i-ki?

Even though I was trying my best to keep our parents from finding out, Neneka urged me to reply right now.

Our parents were absorbed in their own love talks.

I wondered if they would get suspicious if I moved a little?

I made up my mind and reached out to Neneka.

–I love you as well… Should I write that down in return?

Keeping my eyes on my food to avoid letting our parents find out, I secretly reached out to Neneka under the table.

And then… my finger stroked Neneka’s thighs, trying to write the letter “I.”

–“Hya-nh!”

When Neneka suddenly let out a scream and trembled.

My mother and Neneka’s father also reacted to this and turned their attention to Neneka immediately, whose face was blushing red.

Neneka’s father asked.

“What’s wrong? Neneka.”

“Eh, no? No, nothing! Nothing at all, just, I guess an insect just bit me… on my hand, I think!”

While Neneka waved her hand sideways, I gently put back my hand on my thighs after it got treated as an insect.

–Damn close…!!

I was wearing knee-length pants, but Neneka was wearing shorts.

I must have carelessly  touched the part where there was no cloth… Unknowingly, stroked Neneka’s bare thighs directly.

Perhaps, the way I touched her tickled her and she unintentionally let out a loud voice.

“Fufu. Neneka-chan’s voice was as cute as a kitten.”

“Ehehe… is that so?”

My mother laughed.

Neneka also laughed it off while deceiving them.

–Yes. I also thought that she had a cute voice too…

If it was just the two of us, seeing Neneka’s bright red face might have even made me feel pleasant.

However, having made her raise her voice in front of our parents made me feel guilty to the point of feeling like, what the heck was I even doing?

Even though we discussed between ourselves that we would not act as lovers in a place where our parents were around… It was way too early to break the rules just after making them.

Neneka couldn’t keep her promise, and I, got easily swayed by Neneka.

I remembered the feeling of my fingertips which touched Neneka’s thighs. I clenched my fists.

–It was so smooth…

I thought I was reflecting… or trying to reflect on what I did. However, there was also a part me which wasn’t able to reflect properly.

It didn’t seem like I was in a position to blame Neneka too much.

If I was going to touch her anyway, I wanted to feel her more properly, or I should just ask her to let me connect her with my boyfriend’s privilege next time. Such indecent thoughts started to overflow into me.

–If she gave me a lap pillow… or something like that, it might just feel terrific…

And when I was lost in such thoughts, Neneka’s grandmother’s face came to my mind.

I was glad that this happened after she went back. I really thought that from the bottom of my heart.