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11.5. Elise dreams of Yuna

The world seems slightly off. There’s something in the air that Elise can’t quite explain. It’s as if everything is covered in light but warm fog. Looking around, she’s sitting with all her friends in the cafeteria. This rarely happens. Aside from her friends sitting beside her, Elise doesn’t recognize anyone else in the room. Her attention shifts when she spots Nat seated on the cafeteria's far end with Yuna.

Yuna tells a joke that makes Nat laugh hard enough to hear. Nat grabs hold of Yuna’s hand right after. Seeing this, Elise jumps out of her seat. She clutches her chest, startled that she’s jealous but unsure why.

Elise walks toward them while trying to figure out why she’s so bothered. “Why didn’t you two invite me?” She asks the pair.

“What are you talking about?” Yuna scoffs, “What makes you think I want you to sit with us?”

Elise, now more confused looks at Nat. She’s looking away, ashamed. “I thought we were playing nice.”

“LOL! You have some nerve, Elise.”

“Just leave us alone,” Nat sighs.

“I’m lost.”

“Stop pretending you’re okay with me and Nat dating all of the sudden. It’s cringe.”

“Oh…” Elise feels like her heart just got slapped and backs away.

Her fixation doesn’t leave Yuna and Nat afterward. The conversations of her friends around her are nothing more than white noise while Elise watches. Yuna has always been friendly to Nat and only Nat. Elise just never knew it was because they were dating.

When did this happen? I thought she agreed to be my friend. Was that all just a dream?

Lost in thought, Elise doesn’t hear the bell ring. By the second ring five minutes late, she’s the only one inside the room. Her trance is broken when and nudges her shoulder.

“Yuele!”

Her boyfriend stands behind her, dressed far differently than she’s used to. Yuele wears an oversized tank top and five inches reamed shorts much akin to the other boys in school. Even his hair is far different and too short for her liking. When Elise stands to hug him, she notices just how taller Yuele has gotten.

“You okay, love?”

“Better now!” Elise nods and breaks away.

“What was wrong?”

“Yuna was back to her old self again. Even worse, she’s dating Nat.”

“Oh, right. I’m sorry. If we go get Boba, will that make you feel better?”

Elise nods and takes hold of Yuele’s hand. “Perfect timing. You’re just who I wanted to see.”

“Aren’t I always?” Yuele smirks before leading Elise outside to the hallways.

“Watch your ego.”

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“Hmm, and lose my shine?”

For a brief moment, Yuele lets go of Elise’s hand to push the doors open that lead outside. At the same time, Elise hears Yuna’s laugh which catches her attention. When she turns her head back, Yuele is good. Looking around, he’s nowhere in sight.

“Yuele!” Elise calls out when she steps outside. She doesn’t even notice just how dark it is now. Her anxiety blinds her to all the things that are out of place.

A whistle of wind tickles her ear and she mistakes it as a voice. When Elise jolts her head toward the direction it came from, she’s shoved and slams against the wall. Elise opens her eyes and sees she’s pinned against the wall.

Yuna has one of her arms pressed against the wall just above Elise’s head. The other is lifting her chin up with the index and middle finger. Elise notes that Yuna towers over her.

“Don’t look so scared,” Yuna giggles.

“What do you want?” Elise says abrasively.

“I should be asking you that, love. Are you jealous? Are you jealous that I’m with Nat and not you?”

Elise gulps and then slaps Yuna’s hand away. “No.”

“I think you are,” Yuna smiles.

“Then you’re imagining things.”

“What if I told you that it’s you that I really want?” Yuna moves her body closer and lifts Elise’s chin again. “Isn’t this what you want?”

Elise stays silent and stares at Yuna’s lips as they ever so slowly inch their way closer. Her eyes close right when Yuna is an inch away. A spark of electricity ignites in between just before their lips brush.

Elise giggles, breaking away from their kiss, “You kiss just like Yuele.”

“Don’t talk about your ex, I’m your girlfriend now.”

“Right, sorry,” Elise kisses her girlfriend.

Yuna breaks away to take a small breather. “If I was Yuele, would you do?”

“Isn’t it obvious?”

Elise wraps her arms around Yuna and takes a light bite of her neck. The upper region of her pelvis begins to heat up the more they continue to kiss each other. Then Elise feels Yuna placing her palm under Elise’s shirt, right on her stomach. It gently travels down and nudges itself inside her pants.

Then Elise feels a finger.

-

Elise nearly jumps out of her bed when she wakes. Her lower stomach still burns and it takes a while to catch her breath. Realizing it was all a dream, Elise calms and even laughs at the ridiculous dream she just had. The details become harder to remember while she tries to play it back.

Once she gets dressed for school, all Elise can remember is how Yuna had her pinned against the wall and the first kiss they had.

There’s no way that could ever happen, Elise thinks. Yuna isn’t like that. I’m not like that.

Though, I wouldn’t mind.

Elise quickly expels that thought from her head.

The dream is still all Elise thinks about as she takes her seat in her first class. Nat says something to her but it’s ignored. From the corner of her eye, Elise spots Yuna walking in. Yuna smiles and waves at Elise before taking her seat.

“You’re staring,” Nat notes.

Yuna looks over to Elise and smiles again.

The second their eyes meet, Elise feels just how red her cheeks become. She buries her face down between her arms in embarrassment. The only thing on her mind is the faint memory of how Yuna’s lips felt in the dream. Elise tries her best to convince herself that it’s all a dream and it doesn’t mean anything.

Nat looks over to Yuna, then to Elise. She smiles, wondering what could have happened that would make Elise so flustered. If anything were to happen, she would know the second after it did. Perhaps this is just Elise being startled at new emerging emotions.

Whatever it is, Nat just wants Elise and Yuna to kiss already. They already act like a couple.

Yuna bites down on the head of her pencil while she listens to the lecture. It phases right through her as she only has one thing on her mind. If it wasn’t for that stupid dream she had, Yuna would have bothered Elise like any other day. She had similar dreams before so she doesn’t know what makes this one so different.

Either way, Yuna tries her best to act normal around Elise for the rest of the day. She notices Elise doesn’t even attempt to look at her, but it’s better this way today. Yuna can barely hold it together as it is now. Yuna feels her lips with her fingertip. As Yuele, she has already kissed Elise enough times to last a lifetime.

The one she had as Yuna in that dream, well it felt so much better.