Falling
Author: Anita
Fandom: Takarazuka RPF
Characters: Tsukishiro Kanato / Akatsuki Chisei, Kazama Yuno, Umino Mitsuki
Genre: yuri, romance
Rating: PG 13
Summary: Chisei thinks she's finally found the one for her in
Kazama Yuno. Yuno, despite their year-long relationship, started
displaying worried over Chisei's tightness with Tsukishiro Kanato. But
it's normal to message one of your best friends nonstop, right? To make
it worse, the two are to spend month apart when Chisei and Yuno find a
confession Kanato wrote in the past, and Yuno is convinced Chisei was
the intended recipient. How can Chisei prove to Yuno she's imagining
things and maintain both her girlfriend and her friend who's also a girl
when it's no secret she considers Kanato the most beautiful woman ever?
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Falling
Chapter 12
Despite what Ari had said, Reiko probably kept a tight schedule in her mind for each of the places she’d listed. When she tried to go to the small farm and give food to the goats and look at the llama, Reiko had said they’d lose the timing for the capibaras. Ari had known the show wasn’t open all the time, when she’d made her own schedule, but forgot all about it. The dogs wearing Santa clothes were also out of the way, but Reiko had made sure they got there in time, or it would have been another miss. As they finally enjoyed the farm animals, Ari couldn’t stop thinking about that.
“You wanted to horseback ride, no?” Reiko asked after they took all the pictures they could. Did that also have a specific time to happen?
Frowning a little and holding back a smile, Ari nodded. “Let’s go?”
They were already on the back of a quarter horse each and going around the place carefully. Well, Ari was going as slowly as possible, while Reiko tried to accompany her slow rhythm, seeming more used to it.
“How could you learn so quickly?”
She deadpanned, “It was for a play.”
“That’s cheating!”
“I didn’t know we were competing.” She made her horse go faster until they seemed miles away. Ari would never reach them, and might as well just get down. Before she could take more than five steps, Reiko made a turn and joined her again. “I wish we could bring our phones; I’d save the picture as my wallpaper.”
Ari didn’t react. “You used to seem so nice when you transferred. Deep down you love teasing me.” Her sullen face was just an act, however. She did look pathetic trembling on top of the horse, but she’d pay that price if Reiko really used her as a wallpaper. She decided to add, “Good for you that you can’t photograph this, or I’d sue you for unauthorized of my image.”
Reiko chuckled. “I’m glad you never saw my other wallpapers; I couldn’t afford all that money.”
What did she mean? Was there a more normal interpretation? Ari’s ears were burning as she wondered when and which photos of her would have become a wallpaper. Not that she wasn’t guilty as well, having used photos of the two even after she had already been dating Yuno. But she did have a reason that now she knew painfully well.
“We still need to get to that slide...” Reiko commented, with her eyes focused on the horse. Was she embarrassed about what she had said? Had Ari’s imagination been correct? No, they could just be some weird wallpapers without a glimpse of anything related to Ari.
“Let’s go to that craft food place first; they seemed to have some delicious stuff.”
Reiko didn’t even consider the suggestion before saying, “It’s either that or the slide.”
“But...” Ari pouted but resigned herself. It was already amazing Reiko was making sure they got to the attraction in time instead of having the perfect excuse to escape it. “Okay!” Thinking like that had revigorated her. “Let’s go!” The horse confused her movements with hints to trot faster and corresponded with a sudden movement that made her shriek. That next seconds was just a blur before she came to herself hearing Reiko’s laughter. Opening her teary eyes, Ari looked around. The horse hadn’t moved more than a few inches, despite all the flashiness. “I thought it would start cantering and go out of control, and I'd fall and lose him to the wild...”
“Those are a lot of thoughts for just one scare.”
“When did you become the adventurous one and me the one who prefers the dry land?”
“I would have been able to hold it, and they probably have safety measures to prevent that. Such as a horse who wouldn’t go out of control for more than a second.”
The scare was already behind because Reiko’s amusement was beautiful against the sun. Ari could stare forever. So she took the truce with all her might, but at times like those, when being with Reiko made so much more sense than anything else could ever make, she felt lost and second-guessed herself for allowing another fake date to break her heart in even more pieces.
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Reiko had not only done the slide, but she’d remembered to go to the ropes. As they finished the course, Ari thought back at all they had done in only three hours thanks to her. She felt so tired now. On the other hand, her head hadn’t thought of Yuno for a long time, although her heart never forgot to swoon for Reiko.
Ari looked at her phone. “I need food; we should definitely run to catch anything still open.” Somehow, it was almost four, closing hour for most of the restaurants. “Do you think the ones outside stay longer?”
Reiko had also been checking the time when her eyes jumped. Considering they had made it to the ropes at twenty to four, was it that surprising? “I thought we’d have a few minutes to catch the train, but the City’s last one was more than ten minutes ago, and we’ll never make it to the other side of the park to catch the last Village Train… I should have calculated it better.”
It was cute how worried she was about some fake train ride.
“Then let’s do something nearby, we still have like two minutes until most of the last rides! Or we can just eat, that would make me very happy too.”
Reiko’s smile lacked enthusiasm. Her eyes returned to the map, surely set on finding whatever they could reach in a minute. “There’s only the Ferris Wheel and the Go Kart. I can’t find information for the buggy ride; I know there should be one right next to us.”
Without thinking, because that would entail wasting time, Ari grabbed Reiko’s hand and ran to the easiest of those to spot.
They were panting, and Ari felt lightheaded. It was literally last minute, but they made it to the Ferris Wheel even before they did the final call for the visitors nearby. In a blink, the man from the staff sat them side by side in a pod and remembered them to close their belts before closing it.
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