• "Okay! Time to pick roomates!" Alyss said once we were at Rei's huge beach house. "Okay, Alice goes first!" Alyss anounced. "I pick Alyss!" Alice said. The two girls hugged. Next was Jing "I don't know......Hideki?" Jing asked. Hideki shrugged, but nodded. Next was Cruz "Rei." he said. Rei blushed, but nodded. Next, Yoichi "You all know who I'm going to pick." Yoichi looked at me. I sighed and nodded. That left Himeko and Jun'ichi. I saluted her as me and Yoichi went up to our room. It had two seperate beds, a tv, and a desk, plus a ceiling light/fan. "It's cool in here." I muttered, almost to myself. "Aw man, there's two beds." I heard Yoichi mutter. "You're a real pervert, you know that?" I said. "But, I'm your pervert!" he said. I put my suitcase on the bed and started unpacking and putting my cothes into this dresser near my bed. Yoichi lazily placed his suitcase on the side of his bed and flopped down in his bed. "It's comfortable here." he sighed. I took out a ziplock bag from inside my suitcase. Yoichi sarted scratching his nose. "You didn't." he looked at me. "I did." I said. "Why?" he asked. "Just for fun!" I admitted. "You're a devil." he said. I unzipped the bag. His ears and tail appeared. I came over and held it out in front of him. Stars came in his eyes as he tried to get it. "Man, you're so cute like this!" I gushed as he started after the catnip. There was a knock at the door. I quickly stashed away the catnip and Yoichi returned to his humanself. "Come in!" I said. Himeko and Rei came in but only to say "We're going to the lake for a swim, so hurry up, c'mon!" and they left. I went into the batheroom to change into my same red and black two-piece swimsuit. I just put a skirt on and no shirt, just the batheing suit. It was really hot that day. I opened the door and Yoichi was already waiting for me in a white t-shirt and his own swimming trunks, not to mention his usual sharktooth necklace. "No shirt?" he asked. "No need." I retorted. It wasn't a long walk from the house to the lake. The lake wasn't fairly big, but not in any way small either, in fact, it had a waterfall. After removing the skirt, I was the third to jump in, right behind Alice and Himeko. At one point, I ended up hitting my head into Yoichi's. "Ouch!" we exclaimed in unision. "Uh, hey." I said. "Come underwater with me." he said, and pulled me down. I held my breath as we swam downwards. Yoichi swam up and placed his lips onto mine, and suddenly, we were able to breath. I was able to gasp for air as we kissed, which should have been impossible, being underwater. I loved kissing Yoichi. I was in love with him, despite his perverted side, and with each kiss we shared, I knew he felt the same. "Yoichi?! Sayomi?!" they were calling our names. We looked at eachother, an unhappy look in our eyes, but swam up to everyone else. They all looked at us, worried "What's up?" I said. "What's up?! You two were down there for nearly 20 minutes! What were you doing?!" Alyss yelled. "Making out." Yoichi said flatly. Most of our friends blushed a little, but than they started teasing. Which encouraged Yoichi and made me blush to my roots. But, eventually, they did let it go and we continued our swim. When I was getting out for a rest, well, there was like this small deck that started from the egde of the lake to a couple feet out into the deeper part. And, as I got out, Yoichi got out after me, slung me over his shoulder, ran to the end of the deck and went in with me still on his shoulder. I swam back up. "Yoichi!" I yelled. He just grinned at me, than planted a kiss right on my lips. "You idiot." I said against his lips. "Isn't that what you love about me?" he said againt my lips, his sweet smelling breath filling the air. I just laughed and continued kissing him. At night, back in our room, we were on my bed, together while whatching some tv. "Hey, Yoichi, tell me something." I said as Stewie started smaking Brian saying "Where's my money!?" (I love Family Guy!). "Anything." he said as he layed his chin on the top of my head. "If you're a cat, how come you're not bothered by the water?" I asked. "I said I had most, not all, of cat's attributes. You don't see my hands as paws do you?" he asked, raising up his hands. I laughed. He started tickling me, not hard tickling, but soft tickling. Which made me laugh even more, suddenly, he just stopped tickling me, and started hugging me. "I love your laugh." he whispered. "Now I know you're coming onto me." I said. He chuckled "And if I am?" he asked. I didn't get to answer when there was yelling outside the door. "Chiyo?! What are you doing here?!" that was either Alyss or Alice. "She followed me all the way here?!" hissed Yoichi in an unbelieving voice. "Where is my beloved Yoichi, you witches?!" that must've been Chiyo. "You do know your beloved Yoichi has a girlfriend, right?" that was Himeko. "Yes, we are completetly in love!" Chiyo said. "Can I kill her?" I asked. I heard Yoichi laugh softly. "Not you! Sayomi!" that was Rei. "Who's that?" Chiyo asked. I lowered the tv a bit to hear them better. "She's Yoichi's girlfriend!" Alyss or Alice said. "Oh, they put you in a tought spot, didn't they?" Yoichi said. "I think so." I said, sighing with him. "What?! Yoichi is cheating on me?!" Chiyo yelled. "He was never going out with you!" Alyss or Alice said. "Whatever! Now where is he!?" Chiyo yelled. "Like hell we'd tell!" Rei said. "Than I'll kick down every door down until I find them, starting with this one!" Chiyo said. "Let's go!" Yoichi hissed, swung me on his back, and we jumped out the 3 story window. Yoichi landed softly on his hands and feet, than quickly regained balance. "To the woods, catman!" I said, teasing a bit. "Whatever you say, princess!" he said, teasing back. I heard a door breaking as we left "Damn." I muttered. "That's Chiyo for you." Yoichi sighed.

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