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We were walking quickly toward the old farmers' neighborhood, which nowadays had only one resident: my uncle.
"You still call Mr. Alfred 'Uncle'?" Tomy-chan asks me curiously.
"Well, even though he's not blood-related, he always lived in my relatives' house, and I always saw him as Uncle..."
The truth is, there was some suspicion surrounding my uncle's past.
He was a middle-aged Western man; when my relatives moved out, he bought the entire agricultural neighborhood land. Now, only he is there. He never leaves there for some reason, and that's why I visit him from time to time.
"...I remember he used to give me sweets..." Tomy says, smiling sweetly.
"Yeah... even though he went to my parents' house less often, he always brought gifts for me too." I smiled at the memory of the past.
Alfred came to this region when he was still young with plenty of money but no family, and that's why he ended up getting involved with us.
"...But you never brought me with you before..." Tomy-chan said softly.
Well... the reason I never brought her before is because... when I was younger, I saw Alfred looking strangely at Tomy-chan when she was in the pool... I didn't understand the intention behind that look; it could be so many things.
Most likely it was something innocent... he always seemed like a good person.
I once also found porn videos on Uncle's computer and he seemed interested in women...
I looked at Tomy-chan... who had a body similar to hers.
Large breasts, wide hips, and a big butt. And to be more critical: Tomy-chan had the most violent figure of all the women I had ever seen. In other words, if Uncle was interested in this body type... my childhood friend would be the perfect woman.
She looked like a very popular character in the anime universe, the Ero Goddess...
My childhood friend hated being stared at. That's why I preferred to keep my distance from Uncle's house and never took Tomy there again.
The last thing I wanted was for her to deepen her social phobia.
I always protected her from uncomfortable situations...
"It's just that he doesn't like messes."
"I see..."
I lied. What mess could my dear girlfriend-chan cause?
"...Then why take me today?" she asked, holding my arm intensely.
I looked at her and saw her eyes trembling... social anxiety was emerging again.
"It's just that we need to go to the plaza soon..." The reason was that I was anxious to go see the beggar, and therefore I didn't want to waste time going to her house and then returning to the plaza.
"...Okay then..." Tomy-chan nodded slightly. With every step closer to Alfred's house, Tomy became more withdrawn.
"W-Will it take long...?"
I looked at her, surprised: she seemed to prefer going to the perverted old beggar over my uncle...
"Doesn't the old man bother you anymore?" I couldn't help but ask.
Could the damned pervert have dug a place through Tomy-chan's shields?
"...He bothers me..." she denied with a shake of her head and spoke softly. "...But he makes me less nervous..."
I felt a pang of discomfort. Tomy-chan felt more nervous with Alfred, whom she had known since childhood, and less with the old pervert... she found the harmless presence of one more tolerable than the bold touches of the other...
"...but Mi-kun is always looking at me with such intensity..." she smiles brightly as if it were the most important thing in the world. "So... so it's good to go there..."
I understood that in her mindset, the beggar's increasingly constant presence was a way to be with me... a way to do a 'normal' activity with me, something that made me... interact more with her... I neglected her a lot from the moment I fell in love with Rey-chan... and now... now my childhood friend accepted things, even strange ones, just to have me focused on her...
And the fault for this behavior...
It's completely and entirely mine.
Was this... good? Was I making the right choice...?
I looked at Tomy, who seemed happy, and smiled, swallowing my discomfort.
"I-It'll be quick, then we'll head straight to the plaza."
Tomy-chan seemed happier lately...
Woof! woof!
When we got close, my uncle's Doberman started barking.
"Puppy!" I looked at Tomy, who suddenly became happy.
There were two things that could cheer Tomy up like this: dogs and sweets.
She was never allowed to have one when her parents were alive, and after they passed away, she never tried to get one.
Probably because I'm scared...
I'm terrified of two things: dogs and spiders. I prefer cute kittens...
I flinched when I heard the barking.
"Let's go!" This time it was Tomy who pulled me. I followed, hiding behind her.
Woof! woof!
The Doberman barked at me, but for some reason...
"Good boy!" I looked at Tomy, who was carelessly stroking the beast's head. The dog seemed to like her just as intensely; it licked her hands and furiously wagged its tail.
Tomy-chan's pants seemed about to tear... maybe I chose clothes that were too thin for her...
I backed away and went to my uncle's door, always watching the dog. But the dog didn't even seem to remember I existed.
Ding-dong!
"Coming!" I heard Alfred's footsteps.
Tomy-chan ran to me the moment she heard his voice.
The door opened, and a very fat, middle-aged man appeared, smiling. His presence was expansive, seeming to fill the room.
He was too fat...
"Mikio!" And then he pulled me into a tight hug. "Uncle..." I said muffled.
He let go of me and looked at me. "You look handsome!" And then he looked at Tomy and smiled more brightly.
"Tomomi!" And he took a step toward her with open arms... Tomy flinched, and Alfred stopped and scratched his head, embarrassed.
"...Oh, right... I'm sorry." Then he searched his pockets and found a chocolate bar.
"Take it!" And he tossed it to Tomy-chan, who excitedly grabbed the sweet and ate it quickly.
Cute... She looked like a hamster...
"Did you come to pick up the package?" he asks me as he steps inside the house. "Come in."
For some reason, a package arrived for me at my uncle's house.
"Was it tasty?" Tomy smiles and animatedly shakes her head, a flake of chocolate on the corner of her lip... I reached out my finger and wiped it away.
I offered the finger with the leftover chocolate to her.
"Suck it~" I provoked, speaking in the tone I usually used in intimate moments.
Tomy-chan blushed but brought my finger to her lips and sucked slowly; I felt her cute little tongue explore my finger.
She was addicted to sweets and ate them regularly, but for some reason, she didn't gain an ounce of weight... I looked at her large breasts and big butt.
Did the fat accumulate there...? I looked at my crotch... if I ate some too, would my...
"Look, it arrived yesterday afternoon, it has your name on it." Alfred came back with a wrapped box, interrupting my revolutionary thoughts.
"I didn't order anything..." I murmured softly, holding the box curiously.
"Do you want tea? Coffee?"
I looked at Tomy-chan, who was anxious to leave.
"...I made chocolate cake." When Alfred's words came out, Tomy looked at me with shining eyes... her eyes said 'let's eat!'.
All it takes is having sweets in the equation... for her to try and endure the shyness... in moments like this, I saw cuteness in her. A genuine smile formed on my lips.
"We accept."
"Good! What do you want?"
"Coffee."
Alfred smiled and excitedly went to prepare our snacks.
I sat with Tomy at the table, looking at the nostalgic house and remembering the past.
Tomy wasn't so shy before puberty. Before, she was timid, but she ran around alone, wearing lighter clothes... she ate sweets, tried to adopt stray dogs... she played in the pool without caring about others...
I looked at my girlfriend-chan, who clung to me.
But in puberty, her body became more and more sensitive... and she started avoiding any contact with other people.
She always complained to me that her body had become strange... I never really understood what she was trying to say...
It was normal to become erotically aroused at that stage of life... but she seemed to be dealing with something of a greater dimension... a less simple intensity than everyone else's.
It got worse when for some reason she started attracting more and more stares... no matter where she went, there was always some look that made her hide.
And then, finally, her personality changed completely.
She no longer wore light clothes, no longer went out alone, no longer did things she liked, like swimming, running...
Her world was limited to only one thing: Me.
But she seemed happy with that... and for that reason, I never tried to help her... if she was already happy, what else did she need...?
I need to pay more attention to her...
"Ready!" Uncle returned, holding a large tray with the cake and the coffee pot, and placed it on the table.
He served Tomy-chan and me.
"Thank you," "T-Thank you."
He sat down, and the chair groaned under his weight.
"Hahah, I'm fatter, I need to lose some weight." He patted his big belly. "Does Tomomi still do Yoga?" he asks curiously.
Tomy nodded affirmatively in response. She did... but no longer at the gym, now it was just inside the house.
"...I need to learn something..." he says thoughtfully.
"Uncle can swim," I tried to give him an idea, he looked thoughtfully at the pool but said nothing.
A realization came to me. He was too fat to get in alone... right?
We talked a little, and I started looking anxiously at the time.
"...Now that everyone's gone, it's lonely here." Alfred looked at the pool. "Not even the pool is used anymore..."
In the past, the Uncle's house was full of people, someone was always playing in the pool.
Phew— I sighed with nostalgia.
"Times have changed." Alfred agreed. "...unfortunately..."
I looked at Tomy-chan, who also had a sad smile.
Clap! (Sound of clapping.)
"I know!" Alfred looked excited at us. "Summer is coming, you could spend a few days here like in the past."
He stood up slowly and pointed to the pool.
"You can play there like in the old days!"
I felt uncomfortable and looked at Tomy, who also didn't know what to say. The weather was really hot, but...
"...You can sleep in one of the guest rooms..." Uncle started planning everything alone.
Tomy anxiously squeezed my hand, and I gave a light squeeze, saying 'it's okay'.
Then Uncle looked at us and noticed our discomfort; his happy demeanor deflated.
"...Ah... I'm sorry..." He sat down sadly. "...It seems I got carried away... haha..."
I looked at Tomy, who was eating another slice of chocolate cake... I thought she was more anxious... I suppose it's the politics of cake first, problems later.
"Well... we'll think about it, but we've got plans..." I tried to sound reasonably interested.
Alfred realized I was pretending and smiled lightly.
"It's okay... but think about it..."
He looked at Tomy and then at me.
"I don't mind if you sleep in the same room..."
Those words struck Tomy-chan like lightning; she straightened up in her chair and even stopped eating the cake halfway through.
"...Together..." she murmured softly. Apparently, he landed a critical hit...
We said goodbye to Alfred and started walking toward the plaza; I put the package in my backpack.
"What do you think..." I asked Tomy.
She blushed: "...Maybe it would be nice..."
"Which part? Reliving the past, swimming, or..." I looked at her provocatively.
She became lovingly shy. "...Sleeping together..."
I laughed and gave her a small kiss on her sweet lips. It tastes like chocolate.