Girlfriend?

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(MC POV)

"Well, today's my day off actually. I'd only thought about chilling and relaxing."

"Is that why you decided to drink your ass off last night? To think the Ethan I knew became a drunkard after all these years~"

"It wasn't like I woke up planning to drink in the night, especially not to the point where I blacked out either."

"Oh so did a coworker of yours take you out to some bar? You got to be careful you know? It's not just women who get roofied, it's men too."

"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm not that careless."

She tilted her head a little to the side with a teasing smile and half closed eyes.

"Oh?~ Is that right?~"

"Y-yes… anyway we actually drank at my place."

"Oh we?"

"Yeah, it was just me and my boss, not too many people. Say do you have anything you have to do? Since I'm free I'll keep you company."

"How sweet of you! You know I think you make a great boyfriend and it seems my position is vacant, why don't you fill it up for me?"

"Heh, why don't we give it a week first. Aren't you a little too eager? Besides, what if we've changed too drastically since the last time we saw each other?"

"Hey! We've immediately gotten along after all this time haven't we? I'm sure just a few minor changes won't be a deal breaker for me! You know what I think? I think we should talk about this again later, after all you're recovering from a hangover and you're not in the right mindset. Why don't we go out together? I need to do a little shopping anyway."

Not wanting to delve into that topic again for the time being I agreed.

"Uh alright then let's go I'll accompany you. Since I live around here I can show you a good number of places around too. 

I know a good and cheap place to eat nearby. I'll even pay for your food this time as a little reunion gift, you can thank me later. 

Well, I think my sight should be fine now, if anything happens you're right here next to me, isn't that right?"

"Oh? So you want me to be next to you, but you won't accept my offer? Did I just get friendzoned?"

"Help me up, let's just go out for the day alright?"

"Heheh, alright."

She pulled me up and together we left her apartment. The blinding sun from earlier wasn't killing me at the moment so I took it as a good sign. 

She drove us over to my nice and cozy little shop that sold bagel sandwiches and doughnuts. The shop was just a small local place that I occasionally went to. I already knew what I wanted, a bacon, egg, and cheese in an everything bagel, but Racheal took a few moments more before deciding on a simple bagel with eggs and cheese.

She occasionally eyed my food and I could already tell she wanted to try it.

"Do you want a bite?"

"Ah? Are you sure you already took a bite out of that?"

"Just bite another part then, I have a co-worker who really likes for us to share our food so I'm used to it. Besides, I consider you even closer than they are so there's no problem."

She took it in their hands and quickly peeked at me once before taking a clean bite over where I had bit before. I was a little surprised that she bit it there even though she just asked about me having a bite, but whatever.

After that she said she needed to go to a store to get some supplies, of course I was simply in tow after guiding her to a place where I frequently shop.

I figured she might go and get food related items, but I was very quickly proven wrong as she brought me to the women's lingerie section.

"Uh, Racheal."

I asked the woman who was currently shifting through a few sets of lingerie that hung on a rack.

"Yes?"

"You know what's wrong, why am I here?"

"No reason in particular, say would you come with me?"

"In there? The changing room?!"

She either really wanted to show off herself to me or I was like a level 99 friend zone where not a single thing I would ever do would count as sexual towards her. Of course clearly wasn't the latter so I was left with her wanting to show off.

"What? You don't want to? Come on, I'll let you have a little feel. On the house~"

My mouth opened with the words on the tip of my tongue, but my mind wandered elsewhere. In the end I accepted and stood in the corner of the little room. 

I watched her as she took everything off piece by piece with her body turned away. She even sensually shook her body occasionally as if taunting me a little.

"Hey, do you want to feel it?~"

"Yeah, of course."

She turned back to me at this moment.

"Ah? Hey! You're supposed to be flustered! Why aren't your cheeks red?! Damn you and your "experience," you're not easy to tease anymore!"

"So you gonna let me cop a feel or you going back on your word?"

"I won't go back on it- Ah! Hey I wasn't ready yet!"

The moment I gained her affirmation my hands reached over her bra and felt their large volume within for a moment before I squeezed.

"Since when did you say you had to be ready?"

I squeezed once more, but her reaction was a little much this time, even overkill for what I even did.

"OOhh! AHhh!"

She exaggerated her moaning so loudly that I got a little scared. What if someone came over to check on her and there happened to be a man in the woman's changing room, gripping onto her breasts. Yeah not such a great look for me.

"I-I think I'll be outside."

"Hey! You looked flustered, so hidden sex in public places gets your heart up, huh?"

A smug smile adored her face as she watched me leave.

"Wha-! That's such a farfetched conclusion, but… you… n-nevermind."

"Fufu~ I'll have to consider it in the future then."

I turned my head back to look at the smug woman to no avail.

"Just come out when you're done."

"Don't worry I won't be long."

As I left I leaned against the entrance to all the dressing rooms with my eyes closed. 

Suddenly, I felt a few pokes against my cheek and when I opened them expecting Racheal an entirely different person was the focus of my view. A familiar woman from work stood in front of me clutching a small bag in front of her.

"Ah, Hannah, what are you doing here?"

"I'd like to ask you the same thing Ethan, why are YOU here, in the women's section? It didn't have anything to do with that scream I heard a little bit ago, did it?"

"Well, actually a little bit…"

At that moment I heard the sounds of someone coming out and the person I saw next was none other than Racheal. As soon as she appeared I felt the pressure around me become a little heavier and awkward at the same time.

"Racheal, this is the employee I was talking about earlier, Hannah, she's basically my only friend in the company. Hannah this is Racheal, my childhood friend who coincidentally happened to move into the apartment right next to me."

There was still a strange feeling around, but it must've been me going crazy as it seemed to disappear without any notice.

"So, you're that employee my childhood friend has been talking about? It's nice to meet you."

Racheal put a little emphasis on the words my and nice, pausing for but a moment after saying each word. She extended a hand out waiting on Hannah to shake it.

"Ah, a childhood friend huh? The pleasure is mine."

Even Hannah herself put a little emphasis on childhood before they shook hands with each other.

"Come on Ethan let's go!"

"Goodbye Hannah! See you at work"

..

We soon came back to my apartment since I actually had furniture and we sat down on my couch.

Two hands suddenly appeared clasped onto my cheeks and forced my head to turn towards the owner of said hands.

"Ethan, look at me! I wanna tell you something okay?"

I looked directly into her golden eyes which were filled with determination. There were hints of hesitation within that seemed to tell of her worries.

I reached up and grabbed one of those hands on my cheeks and pulled them down.

"Alright Racheal, go ahead I'm listening to you."

A moment of silence passed by as her mouth opened and moved, but no words came out, then closed once more after half a dozen seconds. I waited another moment before I decided to speak, but only then did she voice out her thoughts in a serious voice.

"Ethan, I've loved you for a long time now, but never had the courage to tell you. I was scared that we wouldn't even be friends anymore if I failed. I only realized that I might've lost my chance to be with you after you were gone from my life. But now that I have this second chance I don't want to let it go.

Ethan, will you be my boyfriend?"

I looked at her in a bit of shock as memories from my past resurfaced. All those times we were together and we had actually been feeling the same about each other!? We were both just equally afraid of the same worst outcome possible, yet to actually think it would have turned out for the best if one of us actually gained the courage to do so.

'Heheh, were we really such dense bastards that we didn't notice each other's feelings all these years? I'd like to think I've improved at least some from my experience.'

I raised a hand over to cup her cheek as I caressed it a little.

'I guess it's time I stop wallowing in alcohol to forget. Racheal says it usually takes a year and with her by my side at least I won't be so lonely. Perhaps, it's what Diana would have wanted too. I guess I have to move on at some point, might as well expedite that process a little.'

I smiled and gave her a simple reply.

"Alright Racheal, you win. I accept your proposal and confession."

"Fufu~ Wise choice! I'll sweeten up this deal for you. My body is exclusively yours and these, what would you call them? "Mommy Milkers" are all yours, heheh. You only had a taste of it earlier today, I know you want more~

You know, you weren't very slick when you were staring at them with a hangover this morning. I could have already envision the scene as if your eyes focused and zoomed onto them."

I was planning to kiss her to seal the deal, but after mentioning what I did in the morning I felt a little embarrassed. Not to let the mood die though, I went on regardless.

We brought our faces close together and I stared deeply into those enchanting gold eyes of hers. She brought back a few loose strands of her similar golden hair then finally those soft lips from this morning pressed themselves against my lips once again today. 

I thought that would be all, but she actually dared to stick her tongue out to try to pierce my defenses. She had another thing coming for her consequence of trying that on me though.

I purposely cracked my lip's defenses open for hers to slip in and once I had her where I wanted I countered her offensive. My tongue twisted around hers twirling around it as I occasionally sucked on it as well. That soft and wet tongue was captured by me at this moment.

It was quite apparent to me at this point through her eyes she was entirely surprised by this set of events. Her eyebrows arched wide open and I even felt like her eyes were going to glaze over so I finally ended it.

"Haah, haah… wow. My first kiss was so… intense. Heheh, Ethan you really need to show off that much?"