ASUKA<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Listen... If you want to continue this, all you have to do is ask me, okay?"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I shuddered as her warm breath caressed my ear and the softness of her lips brushed my flesh. I was as squished up and as small as I could be in the corner of the cubicle and her body was still squashing me there. As she breathed her chest pressed a little more firmly against mine and inwardly I whimpered. Her breath smelled faintly of beer - I was reminded of Kaji and my gut did a flip.<br/><br/><em>If only <span class="bbc_u">he</span> would come into my shower...</em>A little bloom of something warm and wiggly tickled in my middle.<br/><br/>Then she was gone.<br/><br/>Released from the trap of her wet body I slid slowly down the tiles and crumpled up in a small ball, hugging my knees, my hair plastered down by the rushing water. I placed two fingers to my lips where she had kissed me.<br/><br/><em>What's happening to me? A woman kissed me! Oh, my God I must be sick! Perverted! ... I'm not a pervert! I'm not! Mother, I'm not!</em><br/><br/>Ten minutes later and after a not very efficient shower I wrapped the towel round myself and stepped out. They were both in the living room. I felt the blush rising, I couldn't help it, and avoiding their eyes I stalked past and into my room, my face about the colour of my plugsuit.<br/><br/>Ten minutes after<em>that</em>, my mind not really working at all, I found I'd put on my school uniform, even though I doubted I would be hearing more about Second Impact today~<em>It's a cry of denial, Asuka, you want to be at school and not in Madam Frankenstein's lab, or you want to be out of there as fast as possible...</em><br/><br/>I didn't go back into the living room, but put my shoes on in the entryway and opened the front door.<br/><br/><strong>"Well? I'm going!"</strong>I shouted and strode off along the apartment's public corridor...