Upside Down

Taking Chinatsu"s hand, we head back up to my room, lock the door and undress. I lay down on the bed with a sigh and Chinatsu lays down on top of me to begin kissing me. I break our kiss a couple of minutes later.

"Chinatsu, I love making out with you, but we made love through my nap time today and, as much as I want to make love to you again, I"m exhausted. Do you mind if we simply cuddle and go to sleep?"

She smiles at me. "Not at all."

I pull her to me for a soft, slow, deep kiss. A little later, I break our kiss. "Thank you Chinatsu."

She climbs out of bed to turns off the lights. Returning, she snuggles up against me and kisses my cheek. "I love you Sora. I"m sorry I made this past week so hard on you."

I look at her. "I love you too. Honestly, I don"t care about that. I"m simply happy you"re back to being you. Chinatsu?"

"Hmm?"

"Please, don"t ever do that to me again. I promise I"ll do anything you want, just don"t do that to me. I don"t think my little heart can take another round like that."

I can barely make out her face in the dim light from outside as she sits up to look at me. "Sora, I don"t want anything from you other than your love. Well, occasionally, your panties too."

I grin and shake my head. "You"re a very naughty girl."

"Nuh uh, you have that wrong. I"m your naughty girl and you"re my naughty girl or did you forget how excited that made you?"

"No, I didn"t forget, but you made me far more excited when we got back home. It"s not a good idea for me to go without panties. I get wet far too easily."

"Do you think I don"t? You don"t think I"m strange do you?"

I shake my head. "No Chinatsu. Well, if you are, then so am I, since it excited me too... Come here you naughty girl, cuddle with me so we can go to sleep."

[Wednesday, June 10th]

I should know better, but I was so tired, I never thought of it and now, it"s come to this. I wake up with a damp feeling between my thighs. I glance at the clock over my shoulder. 2:30 in the morning. Chinatsu has her arms around me, which means I have to wake her up to be able to get up myself.

"Chinatsu?" I shake her gently.

"Mmm… What"s wrong Sora?"

"I"m stupid, that"s what"s wrong. I should have put in a tampon last night and I forgot to do so. I started and I can"t move with you holding me like this."

"Okay. Stay still or you"ll make a mess. I"ll go get a washcloth to clean you off, then we"ll take a shower after that."

I sigh. "Thanks Chinatsu. I"m sorry."

"No need to be sorry, I"ve done it too. I"ll be right back."

She climbs out of bed, throws on her nightgown, and disappears out the door. A couple of minutes later she comes back in and hands me the washcloth and I quickly clean myself up.

This reiterates my idea of having our own bathroom in the new house. If we did, we wouldn"t be taking a chance of waking our parents to clean me up.

Looking toward Chinatsu the light from the hallway behind her highlights her curviness through her nightgown. I literally want to tear her nightgown off, throw her on the bed, and spend the rest of the night making love to her.

"Sora, what"s that expression about?"

I tear my eyes away from her. "Sorry. I have no idea what"s going on with me right now. The light behind you highlights your body through your gown and all I can think about is ripping your nightgown off and messing you up."

She chuckles. "Oh. Sora, it"s common for girls to get aroused when they"re having their periods. You already know I"m yours whenever you want me."

Slipping my nightgown on, I kiss her. "Thank you, more than you know, thank you." Then take her hand and lead her to the bathroom.

After I quickly shower, I fix my previous oversight, and we head back up to my room so we can go back to bed. After all, I have my appointments with Airi and Emi today.

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The alarm screaming at me at 5:30 wakes me. Slapping it off, I groan because I"m cramping badly this morning. Unfortunately, it"s looking as if I"m going to be one of those girls with bad periods, who are only able to function with medication.

Note to self: talk to Dr. Sato about this. Maybe he can give me something that will take care of the worst of this and not make me groggy.

"Sora, are you alright?"

I nod and give her a weak smile. "I"m okay, just having bad cramps at the moment."

"Hang on, I"ll get your meds."

She hops out of bed, grabs the drink and a couple of pills off my desk, then returns. Handing me a couple of pills and the drink, I take them and set the drink on my nightstand. Putting a pillow against my stomach, I look at Chinatsu.

"You know, I love being a girl." She nods. "I love that I"m able to have your baby," at which she grins, "but I hate this part of being a girl."

Chinatsu leans in and kisses me softly. "I understand. Even the girls that have a mild period complain, which reminds me, mine should start Friday or Sat.u.r.day."

"So close to mine?"

"Simply the way it has worked out. My last one was when you were in the hospital after the attack… Ready to go take a bath?"

"Definitely. Chinatsu?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you."

She looks at me with a confused expression. "You"re welcome, but why are you thanking me?"

"For coming back to me."

She shakes her head and sits beside me. "No Sora. I should be apologizing to you over and over, but I"m not going to do that. Airi"s right. Fear is a corrosive thing. It feeds on itself. I was so afraid of losing you that I kept hurting you. Do you remember when you had your panic attack outside of the hospital?" I nod that I do. "When we got home you said a lot of hurtful things. I knew you didn"t mean it, but now, I see that was your fear talking."

I nod agreeing with her and take her hand. "Chinatsu, how about we do this, we talked about polygamous marriages already. I want to marry you, I really do want you as my wife. I planned on waiting until we"re older before I talk to Dad about it, but I suppose I can do it sooner, rather than later, instead. I"ll talk to Dad about filing a case for us so we can have polygamous marriages just like men are able to. That way we can get married and we can get married to whichever boy we fall in love with too. We"ll probably have to talk to the boys about it beforehand though. I don"t think they would be appreciative of being blindsided with an "Oh, by the way," kind of thing. Will that work?"

She looks surprised. "You really mean that?"

I chuckle. "Of course I do."

"How will that work?"

"I don"t know since I haven"t given it any real thought. That"s something we"ll have to discuss sometime. Right now, let"s go bathe so these d.a.m.n cramps will ease off."

While we were in the tub she brought me to o.r.g.a.s.m again. I"m not complaining mind you, but as bad as I was feeling I had to wonder. I now know why she didn"t want to wake up Honoka to come bathe with us.

"It surprises me that you did that with the way I was feeling."

"I did it to help you feel better. My cramps can be fairly bad at the beginning and our gynecologist told me to m.a.s.t.u.r.b.a.t.e because it helps relieve cramps,"

"I thought that was a myth. I"m so glad its not. Thank you." I look back over my shoulder and kiss her.

After we get out dry off, I change my tampon, and we dress, Chinatsu heads upstairs to wake Honoka while I head to the kitchen thinking about what to make for breakfast.

I kind of want to try making the breakfast ca.s.serole Mama talked about the other day. It"s simple and sounds delicious. The ca.s.serole itself is rather easy to make, onions, eggs, cheese and American style breakfast sausage. Some hash browns and croissants would go excellent with that. I need to make sure we have everything though. You know, the way our family is growing we need a bigger refrigerator.

Delving into the refrigerator, I find we have everything I need to make it. Grabbing the items I need, I set them on the counter, turn on the oven, and pour some oil into a pan to heat, then shred some potatoes to make the hashbrowns.

As I"m finishing that the two of them come back in.

"Morning Sora. What can I do to help?" Honoka asks.

"Morning Nee-chan. Would you crack a dozen eggs and scramble them for me?"

"Sure, let me get some water first."

Chinatsu comes up behind me and hugs me around the waist. "You seem to feel a lot better."

"I do. Thank you for earlier. I love you, but I"m busy, so let me go. Would you mind making some tea?"

Have you folks ever have a perfect start to a day? Yes, mine started off with cramps, but those aside, I"m having a perfect day, I"m happy and my sisters are with me, helping to make breakfast. What can I say, I love my family and being with them makes me happy.

At least, I am, until Honoka knocks a gla.s.s onto the floor, shattering it, just as I had picked up the pan with oil in it. When I freeze up, I drop it, covering my forearm and hand in oil. It takes a few seconds for the pain to register and a scream rips its way out of me.

When Honoka looks at my arm, her look of absolute horror tells me everything I need to know about how bad it is. No sooner does she drag me over to the sink to run cold water across it, than Mama and Dad come flying into the kitchen.

"What happened?" Dad demands.

Chinatsu looks away from me to Dad, to reply, "Sora has a really bad burn."

Mama and Dad comes over to me. "Sora?" When I don"t move from staring at my arm, she lifts my chin to make me look at her. "Sora?"

"Y-yes?"

"What happened sweetheart?" She asks me gently.

"I-I think my PTSD just hit me again." I say haltingly.

Mama looks at Honoka. "Okay, tell me exactly what happened."

"I"m not sure. We came in to help with breakfast. Sora asked me to scramble the eggs. I got a drink of water first, then accidentally knocked my gla.s.s off the counter with the mixing bowl, and right after that Sora burnt herself."

Mama sighs. "Okay, I think I know what happened then… Sweetheart, come on, we have to take you to the hospital."

"No."

"Sora, we need to get this looked at."

"No, I don"t and you know it too. Give the nanites a few minutes and this will be gone. It hurts a lot, but I don"t need to see Dr. Sato."

"Mom, what caused it?" Chinatsu asks.

"The gla.s.s shattering."

"It"s my fault?" Honoka asks.

"No, it"s not anyone"s fault except Akiyama"s. The gla.s.s breaking is just a trigger, don"t feel as if this is your fault."

"Mama"s right Nee-chan. Come here." I wrap my good arm around her. "Don"t worry, I"ll be fine in a minute." I shake my head and chuckle softly.

"What"s funny Sora?" Honoka asks.

"It"s not really funny, but it is. If I hadn"t gotten burnt you girls would still be dealing with me in panic mode. Last time this happened, it took me over an hour to calm down. Ask Mama and Chinatsu, they bore the brunt of that."

I see Chinatsu nod out of the corner of my eye.

"Sora, go sit down until this heals. Honoka, Chinatsu would you mind cleaning up the oil before someone slips and gets hurt? I"ll go get dressed and then make breakfast… Sora, what were you making?"

"The breakfast ca.s.serole you told me about, hash browns, and croissants." I tell her as begin to sit down at the table.

"Okay, sounds good to me. I"ll be back in a few minutes."

I"ll tell you, this hurts like h.e.l.l, not to mention it"s gross, but as I watch, the skin grows back on my arm and hand. It"s completely healed in less than ten minutes. Nanites are some truly amazing little machines. I already had plans on doing it, but I"m definitely following Mother and Father into the field.

I was a little hungry earlier, now I feel as if I haven"t eaten in a week and I"m starving. Apparently, the energy cost of healing this is pretty high.

Once Honoka and Chinatsu clean up the oil, I shoo them out of the kitchen and tell them to go watch TV, so I can once again work on breakfast. It"s not long after I start that Mama comes back in and takes my arm to look at it.

"It"s fine Mama. It doesn"t hurt."

"I a.s.sumed it was, but I wanted to see for myself. Okay, what"s next?"

Once we finish making breakfast, we sit to eat and Dad takes his turn to look at my arm. Shaking his head he says, "Amazing." I can"t disagree.

[NTI Medical Center 10:00]

Of course, I told Airi about the PTSD attack this morning. I ask her when it was going to go away and find out there"s no cure for it per se. I"ll learn to how to mitigate the effects it has on me with time. I really didn"t want to hear that. She tells me meds would help with it, which brought an immediate, "No" from me. Nodding as if she already knew, which she should have, she began the rest of our session.

Emi"s acting p.i.s.sy when I go see her.

After a couple of minutes of this, I ask her, "What"s your problem?"

"As if you don"t know."

I give her a confused look and say, "If I knew, I wouldn"t be asking, now would I?"

She simply looks at me for a minute, then, "You really don"t know?"

"No, I really don"t. Care to enlighten me?"

"I thought you called the director about Monday. I was called into his office and chewed out by him. I almost got fired."

"Emi, I"d never do something like that. If I had a problem with you, I"d bring it up with you. I think I know who did though and I apologize. It was probably my very overprotective parents that did it."

"Sora, I"m sorry. I shouldn"t have a.s.sumed it was you. Regardless, I"m sorry I didn"t notice I was overworking you. I promise, I"ll pay more attention."

And truthfully, she did. When we ended the session today, my arms were tired, but I could still use them, so that"s a bonus.

After cleaning up and dressing, we head back to the house. My phone chimes on the way. Unlocking it, I look to see I have a text from Ryu, which brings a delighted smile, telling me school is out Friday and they would love to see us.

I tell Chinatsu and her smile tells me all I need to know. I reply to him telling him we"d love to see them, but I"m busy in the morning with appointments and send it.

Less than a minute later, I have a reply from him telling me that"s fine, just tell him what time, and they will come to meet us then. The thought of seeing him again is making my little heart flutter. I send a message back saying I"ll have to ask to my dad and I"ll let him know.

With that in mind, let"s send Dad a text and get an answer. I doubt he"ll have a problem with it and Mama will go along with what he decides unless there"s a good reason not to. Typing in my question and telling him the day for all of this I send it. Less than five minutes later, he responds with he has no problem with it, but he wants us home by 9:00. Smiling brightly, I show the text to Chinatsu, who also smiles.

Switching threads, I send a text telling Ryu there"s no problem we can go wherever as long as we are home by 9:00. He replies almost instantly asking what we want to do. Laughing to myself, I send one back saying isn"t that the guy"s job to plan the date?

He sends back a text a minute later, how about mini golf and dinner? It sounds good to me. I show the text to Chinatsu, who says, "Sure, sounds like fun." I reply sounds like fun and say 4:00. That"ll give me time for a nap after my appointments. If I"m honest though, I could care less what we do as long as we do it together.