[D11, EN, Closed] Pent Up Feelings

[Yasuki Honoka]

Honoka's brow furrows a little. That promise was sweet, it was everything she wanted to hear. Yet, there was something to Honoka that was ever a strength she could rely on even in her happiest moments. Taking a step back, centering herself with focus on the physical feelings, the way Umiko's fingers felt against her but also how the room felt always a little crisply cold.

"I would wait for you forever, Umiko-chan. I'm..", she brushes her thumb, kneading it against Umiko's hand reasserting focus there for a moment, the hand she was reluctant to let go of. "Am I being foolish, Umiko-chan? Suppose it makes more sense, if you are leaving, that we might not tether ourselves so with how uncertain it all is. But.. it has to work out sometimes, right? Otherwise those stories... those stories of old love that lasts and waits forever wouldn't feel so right, right? Is coming back to me something you really want?"

[Yasuki Umiko]

Umiko closed her eyes and sniffed back a sob as she gave Honoka's hand another squeeze. She merely gave a few small nods without giving her answer audibly. Yes, you're being a little foolish...Then again, I've been really foolish myself...

She found herself thinking of the Festival of the River of Stars and the planning she had left for that, which was unfortunate that she won't be here to see to it herself. That was a tale that immediately went to her mind, although it wasn't a completely happy sort of story. She opened her eyes and let out an involuntary giggle before mustering a smile. "I suppose you're right about that. I'd like to think so too that one way or another, we'll see each other again."

There was a deep nod given to Honoka, her eyes staying with her as she did so, just to show how serious she was. "I love you, Honoka-chan. Even if I have to move oceans and stars, I'll come back."

[Yasuki Honoka]

Honoka's smile brightens slowly like a rising moon. Nodding, a sniffle, she brushes her hand along Umiko's side. Looking over to the window where they should have a better view of the fireworks display, and admittedly it would be so much cozier. With her plan in mind she would return to Umiko's eyes.

"Then I promise I will always have a place ready for you here. Just like this," she makes a nod over toward the couch where most of the gifts and snacks had been set up earlier, "every time you're ready, and any time you can; I will find a way to put pause to the very flow and demands of time itself if I need to, to give us just a few moments."

"I won't let anyone stop me, not even my father," she says, and brings in that wash of real. Stopping time itself was a romantic gesture, a promise that she'd never be able to actually achieve. Her father though? Now that was something real. That was the kind of love that exists even outside of the story books. That's the truth to what those grand gesture promises speak of.

"Which means," she says, and moves her hands to take both of Umiko's and give them a little up and down shake with a squeeze. "We have to enjoy now while we can, as much as we can. I have snacks, I have a couch, and... I have you. So, let's enjoy the fireworks like we never have before!"

[Yasuki Umiko]

There was perhaps a moment when Umiko didn't even realize the tears from her eyes until her cheeks were wet. Umiko wouldn't dare interrupt Honoka, well, until it was too late. She let out a small gasp and gave her eyes a quick dab with the back of her hand before smiling at her once more. However, with her next gesture, she couldn't help herself from placing a hand atop Honoka's hand before moving to brush some hair from her cheeks.

Promising each other the universe? Possible. Stopping time? Well... "Honoka-chan! This is silly...but at the same time, I feel it could be very possible with you, with us...

Umiko gave Honoka's hands both a squeeze when they were taken. Fireworks? Oh right, fireworks... She had forgotten for a moment. Actually, she thought that they might have happened already...

"Yes! Right! We need to spend this time!" She gave Honoka's hands a shake, probably never had been more excited for fireworks before. The excitement probably got the better of her that she would lean in for another kiss.

[Yasuki Honoka]

Getting much more comfortable with this, and seeing Umiko's excitement, Honoka smiles ever so brightly into that kiss. Hands moving with a little trepidation after being in her own mind a little, and remembering to do things slowly so that Umiko can have her say.

Honoka's hands would start at Umiko's arms, and with intent move their way down to the handle just at her hips again. There she would hold, and pull Umiko into the kiss a little tighter and a little closer. When the kiss would break she would wrap her arms around her, stepping off the stool so she can get a good hold, and just hold her really closely and really tightly. Feeling her between her arms.

When she would break the hug she would smile, looking at Umiko and then to the couch. Then.. to a nearby staircase. A view out over the bay wasn't only available from her living area. That much was certainly true.

"Should we go over to the snacks now?" she asks, there's a leading in her tone that suggests another option is coming but she gives the space enough for a pause, a breath, a last moment to rekindle her bravery despite how, from the outside, the answer was altogether certain. "Or.. we could move all the snacks upstairs? It might be more comfortable..."