Snippet #372575

Naoki did her best to not flush up like a beetroot as she approached Sogo as calmly and neutrally as her pounding heart and absolute mortification could allow. She kept her eyes down as she walked, but raised them to look the older, pervy player right in the eye and gently took the piece of paper from his fingers.

“This isn’t mine.” The brunette said, hoping her voice was only wavering in her head. “It belongs to a friend from school. She has very strict parents, you see, who tends to go through her things without her permission and… She wanted me to keep this safe for her.”

Lowering her gaze, Naoki began to fold the paper into two, then four, then eight, her fingers shaking slightly from anxiety of being seen right through. The Sohma physician had a very uncanny ability of doing that to her. Slipping the extract into her hot pant pockets, she looked at Sogo again, trying not to sneer at his smarmy smile. Being disgusted by his behaviour just seemed to make him worse.

“Thank you for retrieving it for me.” And with that, Naoki forced out the nicest smile she could manage at that moment and moved to slide past him.