Published at 9th of April 2019 05:00:06 PM Chapter 113
With the field trip formally at an end Christina focused on her remaining shoots . She would have preferred to study together with Ulf, but he needed to clear out his last remaining subjects before the next group with paying course attendants arrived .
She hated that, but she went through with her work, and she even built a small reputation for having an uncanny taste when it came to pick out which clothes were best for a certain shoot .
After that the positively most boring week in her life started . Principal Nakagawa acted as her teacher, and she was the class . The days started at seven and ended at ten in the evening . She only got breaks for two meals, and all the while the hotel echoed with the activity of Ulf and the others running workshops . There was only silence when they were out walking talking .
In three days she nailed her make up exams but for Japanese . Then it was cramming Japanese thirteen hours a day . At night she was so tired she even forgot to sneak out of her room twice, and even when she slept in Ulf's arms she barely had the energy to enjoy a quick kiss and the feeling of safety when she burrowed her back tightly against his body .
Ryu and Yukio never said anything, and neither did Noriko nor Kyoko when she stole her way back early mornings .
On the verge of breaking down, after over a week's worth of cramming, she finally passed her last exam . That made her by a wide margin the worst freshman in all of Himekaizen . She didn't care one bit . Cramming hell was over and there were still a few days left of summer break .
That was yesterday, and now was her first morning of freedom . She woke to the amused snorts of Ko-chan .
'When did I crawl back to my room?' Christina stretched, or rather tried to .
"Careful Christina, those are my eyes . "
'What?' She opened her eyes . 'What!' She hadn't . Crawled that is . She lay half naked in Ulf's lap showing lots and lots of leg . He had only made sure to cover her torso . By the window Ryu and Yukio sat watching the courtyard . Christina wasn't fooled for a second . Both boys were too adamantly not looking at her now, so she understood they had taken a good look earlier .
"Gah!"
"The snoring beauty," Ko-chan said .
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
"Urufu, take this one as well, there's more snot," Ko-chan suggested and handed him a paper wipe .
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
Ulf wiped her nose . "Sorry, now it's gone . "
Christina hurried to cover her legs . "Why is everyone here?"
By the window both boys turned . Yukio gave Ko-chan a guilty look, but she just stuck her tongue out at him .
Ulf bent over Christina's head and caressed her hair . She closed her eyes and concentrated on his fingers in her mind . Feeling his hands massaging her head sent shivers of longing through her, but she quickly sent those thoughts away . She forced her eyes open again . "Ulf, why?"
She felt his thumb gliding along her ear . "Last day . We were planning," he said .
His eyes were large and brown . A deep, warm and caring brown; a little like her favourite chocolate . And she could see how his hair one day would be just as black as other Japanese .
"Why didn't you wake me up? What if Nakagawa finds out, or your guardian?"
Ko-chan snorted again, and she was joined by Noriko . "Do you honestly think Sato-sensei doesn't know already?" the latter said .
That made Christina sit up straight . "Trousers Ulf . " He leaned away and shoved them to her under the cover . "Where's my bra?" she whispered to him .
"Here . " Noriko shouted in reply, and the bra came sailing through the air .
'If Ko-chan is blushing like that what do I look like right now?' Christina gathered up her bra, and after she had slipped into her trousers she quickly left the room and ran for her own .
'Maybe sleeping in my underwear with Ulf isn't so smart . But I want to be close to him, and it's not like we do anything . ' She changed clothes . Underwear and the T-shirt she had slept in went into the pile of dirty clothes . On her way down to the reception she popped in to the room where the others still sat planning and picked up her socks from yesterday .
For the first time since coming to the resort she didn't know what to do with her day .
'Maybe I'll look for grandpa . There's so much for us to talk about . '