Story: Tepid Temperatures (chapter 1)

Authors: [ Biohazard . Kitty ]

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Chapter 1

She’s coming over tonight, to see him.Damn him. ‘Seeing them together sickens me, maybe not physically but sure as hell mentally nauseates me.’

‘I want her, but I can’t have her.’

The German rolled her eyes as she lazily plopped down into a laying position, resting her head on the fluffy white pillow to her bed. ‘I’m annoyed and on edge, I don’t think I’ll come out of my room tonight. But I want to see her, her shaggy moonlight blue hair, her flawless ivory skin, and most importantly I crave to see those cherry red eyes of hers.’

Suddenly there was a knock at the door, making her flinch in a surprised manner. “What?” The fiery red head spat out rudely, rolling onto her side to face to door, yet she was too lazy to sit up.

“Hey Asuka, Misato called… she won’t be back from NERV until late, so I’ll have to go to the store to pick up a few things for tonight.” His tone of voice irritates Asuka. “Would you… uhm… mind letting Ayanami in if she gets here before I return?”

‘‘There he goes, asking me in that stupid timid voice of his.’

“Yeah, whatever.” The Second Child replied as she scratched her cheek and sat up. Suddenly she smiled without really realizing it; she gets tosee her with out Shinji being there… at least for a while

Asuka looked down at herself, ‘eck, not like this am I walking out there’. As of currently Asuka just had a tank-top and some panties on… what? She didn’t do anything all day, so she hadn’t gotten dressed yet.

Getting out of her bed, she wandered up to her closet to grab something to throw on.

Asuka settled for something simple, yet attractive looking, but not to the point it looked as if she were dressed up for seeing the First Child. A tight fit, thin, long sleeved shirt, the sleeves ending at her elbows. The shirt had a hood and a pocket in the middle, the whole shirt was pale pink and fading blue stripped. Since it was a warm day, and not exactly cool in the apartment, Asuka slipped a pair of light blue jean Capri’s.

Her icy blue hues gazed over her red neutral clips, biting her lip slightly, than letting her gaze slither to a light pink ribbons that matched her shirt. Grabbing the ribbons, Asuka wandered out of the room and into the bathroom.

Asuka’s cheek twitched seeing herself in the mirror, her hair was a mess. It was lightly frizzed, strands going every which way, and defiantly needed to be brushed.

Just as she finished tying her coppery locks in her usual style, a light knock at the door could be heard, making a faint smile curl onto the German’s lips. Feeling the smile rise to her lips, Asuka instantly shook her head to rid herself of the smile. She had to play it cool and be a bitch; she couldn’t lead the First Child on.

Opening the door Asuka felt her breath catch in her throat, there stood Rei. She wasn’t in her usual school uniform, she had only seen Ayanami in either her school uniform or plug suit… this was… nice to see her in something different. In a vibrant turquoise, blue, and white thin stripped shirt, it was tight but not too tight of a shirt. The sleeves were long, they were a solid turquoise, the sleeves were a little long and covered her knuckles. Her pants were simple, plain dark blue jeans. The clothes weren’t very eye catching, but they were for the German.

Realizing that she was staring, the Second Child made an unauditable ‘ahem’ and straightened out her face while narrowing her azure eyes, “Oh... it’s you.” Asuka said in an unamused voice, which was the exact opposite of how she really felt. “Shinji went out, he’ll be back soon,” Asuka said in a fake annoyed voice as she opened the door wider for the blue haired teenager.

Rei nodded her head slightly as she walked further into the apartment while Asuka shut the door.

Asuka stood there; her back pressed against the door with Rei’s back facing her. The Second Child lowered her head to make it look as if she were looking at the ground, but she let her eyes wander upward looking through her bangs at right at Ayanami. ‘…Now what…’ Asuka thought to herself, feeling herself lose her usually mean exterior.

“Where did Ikari go?” Rei asked curiously as she turned to look at Asuka, whom still had her head downward and back pressed to the door.

Looking up, Asuka answered, “Well Misato was suppose to run to the store to pick up some stuff for dinner after her shift at NERV let off, but she’s being held back at NERV for a while. Shinji went off to the store instead.”

Rei stood a tad awkwardly, feeling uncomfortable to be stuck under the hard gaze of the German.

“Well, this is stupid just standing here. Let’s go into the living room and watch TV or something.” Asuka said trying to seem as if she didn’t want Rei’s company.

Asuka felt a weird familiar flutter in the pit of stomach; she was walking by Rei’s side into the living room. Rei usually made her feel like this, and up until now Asuka could suppress her feelings, but as of late she had been having strong urges. She couldn’t stand the idea that Rei was indeed with Shinji, them together just made Asuka want to bite her lip until she bleed to keep herself from screaming at the pair.

As they got closer into the living room, Asuka felt Rei accidentally graze her ivory knuckles into Asuka’s hand. Asuka looked to Rei, to realize that Rei was already looking at her. Asuka felt her breath catch in her throat, a strong flutter pasted by her… she felt week in the knees.

Just as Rei began to pull her gaze away from Asuka, she suddenly felt herself being pushed against the wall. Before she could bring her gaze back to Asuka, she felt a pair of lips drive into hers. Her ruby eyes went wide, this wasn’t by any means soft and gentle, Asuka had pressed her lips hard and lustfully against Rei’s.

Rei stood there, shocked and unmoving, as she felt herself being pushed a little harder into the wall. Her hands remained at her sides; where as Asuka’s feverish hands were cupping her cheeks, keeping her close.

This seemed to go on for perpetually, Rei still unresponsive as ever… that is until Asuka slowly removed her lips off of Rei’s pale one’s, at that Rei felt her heart pang strongly. Asuka’s lips had barely left Ayanami’s, she could still feel Rei’s warm breath before she let her pearly pink lips travel down—planting small kisses as she went—to Rei’s neck.

On the crook the pale girl’s neck, Asuka planted a firm kiss on the warm pulsing skin but then Asuka nearly jumped out of her skin as she felt a pair of hands be placed on her waist. Her exceptionally dark lusty eyes snapped up to look at Rei, her eyes almost mirroring her own.

Asuka felt herself paralyze, stuck under those yearning wine eyes, very unaware to the pair of lips coming to her own.

Only centimeters away, but Rei completely stopped as they both heard the sound of the door jingling open.

Asuka looked back from Rei, panting loudly, before furrowing her eyebrows and shoved Rei’ away from her and dashed to her room.

The red head leaned her head against the door, wondering if Rei would mention anything. So far Asuka didn’t hear anything of interest, just the sound of Rei’s foot steps into the kitchen and Shinji setting the grocery bags down while happily greeting his girlfriend. Asuka’s stomach twisted… girlfriend… jealousy followed through her like a poison. She clenched her fist; she could just picture Shinji right now, probably holding her hand while he kissed her cheek. Asuka narrowed her eyes, looking off to the side, ‘He’s too much of a wimp to do anything with her, just grade school hugs and childish kisses… he doesn’t deserve her, she could get so much more out of me.’

Asuka was snapped out of her hateful thoughts, hearing Shinji through her door, “Are you alright? Your cheeks… they’re red.” Shinji paused his concerned talking for a second, which the Second Child guessed he touched her cheek, “they’re really warm.”

Asuka’s heart rate spiked, she could almost feel Rei glancing at her bedroom door. ‘Don’t say anything… don’t say anything’ Asuka breathlessly begged in her mind.

“The temperature in here is rather tepid,” Ayanami replied rather stiffly. Asuka let out a breath of air, almost relieved as she turned and slid her back down the door until she sat on her bottom.

[End notes: Reviews would be nice, since, ya know, I actually liked this oneshot I did. I know it's probably not my greatest, but whatever, review anyways.]

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