دانلود رمان انگلیسی “آداچی و شیمامورا” – جلد. 11

FOR VARIOUS REASONS—various, varied, variable reasons—Adachi was trembling, and I was gripping her right leg in my hand, entranced. “Entranced”? Don’t ask. Like a cicada, the vibrations rose from deep within her. My ears resounded with the tick, tock of the clock on the shelf; with perfect clarity, I could see every dust mote in the air. My five senses were heightened…and yet my brain was filled with static. Now that she was at my house, we were supposed to be planning our trip, and I was having trouble remembering how exactly that turned into this. Perhaps the all-engulfing summer heat had dehydrated my common sense. You know, as a joke. Incidentally, we were playing a little game called “see who can make the other blush the hardest with a kiss.” Naturally, the one who blushed the hardest lost. Kissing in an “unusual” spot scored highly, and we awarded points based on our own judgment. So far, I was the undefeated champion. My prize: this suffocating heat and not much else. So there I was, gazing at Adachi’s leg up close and debating where to kiss next. At this point, she was blushing all the way down to the soles of her feet. Then again, I didn’t exactly spend much time looking at other people’s feet, so for all I knew, maybe they were always red. Her toes were as slender as the rest of her; curiously, I gave one a poke, and her entire ankle joint flinched. Only then did it finally occur to me that maybe, just maybe, I was being a bully. “What do you think, Adachi?” “Huhwha? About what?” Her ears were like the wings of a bright red butterfly—how artistic. An idea struck: I could kiss her ear. But were ears an “unusual” place to kiss? Given that it was left to my own judgment, the rules of this game had fallen apart right out of the gate.