Jon was utterly captivated; there was no anythingelseintheworld except the connection between himself and Ann. Her lips were so soft, alive against his. And then when her tongue met and danced against his it was unlike anything else in his life. All of a sudden the teen putting himself through such a fireworks-inducing trip was finished, leaving Jon to come back down to Earth. 'First kiss. And after only a not-date of dessert and library, too.'
Ann's head on Jon's bare chest, the timing couldn't be worse for Johann Sebastian Takahashi's mother to check on why her son hadn't come to breakfast. At no reason to knock even if her high school male had been changing, the 46-year old Asian woman made it one step into the room, froze in fury, and stormed forward like a bull that had seen the red of her own livid face. Shrieking in Japanese followed, both of them at full volume and top speed as Jon tried to defend himself and the troubled refugee here in his room. Long story short, Ann was snatched by a wrist like a harpy and bullied out of the house, Jon came running after her through a side door within minutes after grabbing up the bare minimum like shoes and Ann's dropped cell phone.
"This way. So I don't just get picked up by car." Instead of heading for the road, he cut a diagonal through the back yard and in between houses to the other street behind. Crossed that road and kept going in the same diagonal trespass. "Needless to say, it was psychotic of me to have a girl in my room overnight," he said bitterly. "But that wasn't the problem, though. She was refusing to let me stay with you while you talked to the police and got your next safe home, your parents' house or otherwise. Mother wanted to kick you to your own devices and send me to school as usual. You asked about staying there during the day, but even though I figured that was impossible and we hadn't figured anything out yet about that, I wouldn't have gone to school without figuring out someplace safe for you to be, Ann." Which brought him to the present, didn't it. Leading the way hand in hand as a pair of refugees now, one step at a time.