Keeping with the theme of today (apparently), we’ll call this Uihai’s first time. 😉
“Ui, you’re the sweetest.” Hairu laughs at the melon buns in his hand.
It’s after midnight, but he knows she’s been stressed about the Rose investigation lately, and so he’s shown up on her doorstep tonight after she sent him a text asking for T-Human or Valium.
“Sweets for someone sweet?” Ui suggests.
Hairu gasps. “You are precious!”
“Not really. It was a bad joke.”
“The best jokes are bad.” Hairu points at him. “Now come in and enjoy melon buns with me.”
Hairu brews coffee, though she seems energetic as ever.
“Do you ever get tired?” Ui asks with a small smile.
“I’m exhausted now. But you excite me.”
Ui’s cheeks turn crimson. He squeezes his eyes shut.
“What?” Hairu pauses. “Oh!”
When Ui opens his eyes, he sees her face hovering inches before his. “Do I excite you? Hmm?”
“I – uh – Hairu – ethics -”
“Ethics have to involve love, right?” Hairu smiles.
Love.
She said love.
Ui hurls himself into her arms. He kisses her with an intensity he’s never imagined before. He wants to drown in her.
Hairu has never been kissed before. But now she feels her body changing in ways she’s only read about, and she can only think to guide his hand to her chest so he can feel it, too.
He pauses their kiss to listen to her beating heart. “You’re beautiful.”
I have a heart. I’m a human, not a ghoul. Hairu wiggles herself against Ui, and his breath catches.
“Do you have condoms?”
Ui chokes. “I – no?”
“I do.” Hairu grimaces. “Left over from my roommate’s stash before she moved out. But I imagine we can help ourselves. If – I mean, do you want to?”
She wants all of him. She can’t waste another moment. She loves Ui, and she loves that he loves her.
“I do.” Ui pushes back his ethics demons, and allows Hairu to draw him into her bedroom.
Soon they’re tangled together, and she’s giggling and he’s astonished at his happiness.
When he finishes, Hairu cries. “That was the most beautiful thing ever, Ui.”
In the Garden, sex was reproduction. She dreamt of fairy tale love and sex as making love, but she’d never imagined that could be her reality.
“No, you’re the most beautiful thing ever,” Ui protests, and she draws him close for another kiss.