\'Hey Shinji, you wanna...\'

Shinji was reclining on the sofa and thumbing through take-away menu’s when there was a knock at the door. He could tell from the knock it was Rei. It was timid, unimposing... and cute. Rei was the only one who knocked anyway. Shinji had mentioned the bell before, but she seemed largely uninterested in it.
‘Shinji, get that!’ Asuka yelled from her room.
Shinji heaved himself off the sofa and opened the door. Rei stood there, blank faced, wearing a light blue dress and clasping a red handbag in front of her. Shinji wasn’t sure if it had anything in.
‘H-Hi, Ayanami...’
‘Hello pilot Ikari.’
Shinji manufactured a gormless smile.
‘Er, c-come in!’
‘Thankyou.’
No sooner had he shut the door than Asuka blustered in from her bedroom, her flaming hair streaking behind her. She put her hands on her hips and grinned.
‘Ah, wondergirl! Glad you could make it out of your nuclear bunker to spend a little time with your friends.’
Rei eyed her coolly.
‘Joking of course,’ Asuka said with little sincerity.
‘Well, we haven’t ordered anything yet. Pizza good for you Rei?’
‘Yes. Thankyou.’
‘Good! Well, since you’re vegetarian, I’ll order you a vegetable one. Me and Shinji will get a large one between us with some pepperoni, onions and peppers.’
‘Hey why don’t you ask me what I want?’
‘Dummkopf! Me and Rei are the girls, so as long as we’re happy you should be happy too...Honestly, men these days have no sense of chivalry. Perverted jerks!’
‘Asuka wandered in to the kitchen and grabbed the phone to place her order.
Shinji sat back down on the sofa and smiled nervously at Rei.
‘Umm... you’re welcome to sit down, if you like, Rei?’
Rei smiled gently at Shinji and sat next to him. She was a little closer than Shinji had anticipated, but that was fine. When the two of them were together, particularly since the fifth angel attack, he sensed a deep and intuitive understanding between them. It was almost as though they were in their own little world. They sat for a minute, never speaking, but luxuriating in each others presence.
Asuka hung up and strode over to the living room, plonking herself roughly in an armchair, agitated.
’Half an hour! I’m starving! Pass me the remote wondergirl!’
Rei stared, affronted, but reluctantly leaned over and complied.
‘ThankYOU!’ Asuka smiled to herself. She loved miniature victories, although they were all she seemed to get these days. She immediately turned to her favourite soap opera. Shinji groaned audibly, and even Rei managed a resigned sigh. Asuka directed a swift kick at Shinji’s outstretched leg.
‘Ow!’
She smiled, and the three of them settled down in to an unspeaking drudgery of early evening soap- opera. Asuka noticed them becoming progressively more bored.
‘Don’t worry you two. I’ve got something I think you’ll like to watch later. In fact...’ she gave a sly wink, ‘I think we’ll ALL enjoy it.’
Shinji and Rei froze, a mixture of surprise and concern on their faces. What on earth had Asuka got in mind? Before they could think on it any further, the doorbell rang. Asuka sprang up and grabbed the money left by Misato off the kitchen table, rushing to answer the door. After paying the delivery man she came back and sat down with a pile of steaming boxes. She opened the top one and looked inside.
‘Catch, wondergirl!’
Rei was almost knocked unconscious by the flying pizza box, a startled expression on her face.
Asuka handed the second box to Shinji, keeping the third on her lap. There two complementary garlic breads, which she placed on the floor in the middle of the three of them.
‘Shinji, fix us some drinks will you?’
Shinji knew better than to argue with a hungry, thirsty Asuka. A few minutes later and the three of them were munching and slurping their way through their junk-meal in a manner that only home-alone teenagers can ever manage. Rei was a picture of decorum, nibbling at her pizza and sipping her drink. Shinji was more clumsy, coming close to spilling topping down his shirt. Asuka was simply voracious. As she wolfed down vast quantities of pizza, Shinji had to stop and wonder how she maintained her figure. He found himself subconsciously drawn to Asuka’s silky smooth teenage legs, somehow plump and slender all at once, with her floaty green skirt barely concealing her-...
Asuka had caught him. He quickly averted his eyes in fear, certain she had seen him and not daring to look back at her until they had finished their meal. If he did, however, he would merely have seen her smile.
A quarter of an hour later and the floor was strewn with crumbs. The three teens were stretched out on the sofas, willing their food to digest and berating themselves for eating so quickly. Even Rei, proportionate to her appetite had over-indulged. Asuka glanced at the clock: quarter past 9. Misato wouldn’t be home until midnight at least. They had the time. She smiled inwardly to herself. She had been planning this for a while. Ever since Shinji had saved her life that day, she had known she wanted to do this. She had her suspicions before, but nothing would force her to act. Now, however, she was filled with gratitude and lust for the boy who sat just next to her, watching TV with a glazed look on his face, completely ignorant of her intent. She recalled the first time she had met him: ‘Doesn’t look like much...’ Maybe not... but he was so much more than that. Rei was compliant. She liked Shinji, and Asuka was sure she’d be up for it. She smirked as an image of wondergirl frenziedly masturbating herself to orgasm over Shinji entered her head. She was surprised at how... arousing she found it.
‘May I use the bathroom?’ Rei asked Shinji politely.
‘Oh, sure.’
Rei gently alighted and shuffled inconspicuously out of the room. Asuka decided now was the time. She leant over, a broad smile on her face and her eyes glistening.
‘Right, you!’
‘A-Asuka? What have I d-done?’
‘Well, idiot... you saved my life.’
Shinji smiled hesitantly, unsure of Asuka’s intent, not daring to even hope that the beauty in front of him could be making any kind of romantic declaration.
‘Yeah...I’m...sorry?’
‘You’re sorry? Stop apologising for everything dummkopf, I’m trying to thank you!’
‘I’m sorry, I didn’t mean, I...’
‘ARGGGHHH!!’
Shinji was silent as a mouse. Asuka regained her composure.
‘Anyway. Turns out we live with a very dirty woman. Though I guess you already knew that, right?’
Shinji’s eyes widened.
‘You mean Misato? What do you-?’
Asuka lifted up the cushion next to her and pulled out a DVD, tossing it to Shinji. On the cover were various images of hardcore sex acts being performed. Shinji was speechless. Asuka smiled at him.
‘I was looking for her lavender perfume. Kaji won’t buy me any, and I thought I’d wear it when me and Hikari went to the cinema last week. So I looked. I didn’t find the perfume, but I found that... on her damn bookshelf! So brazen. The second-impact generation are so cheap and shameless!’
Her momentary indignation evaporated.
‘So... we’re gonna watch it.’
Shinji’s words were jammed in his throat. He couldn’t believe it. A few minutes ago: pizza. Now: hardcore porn, with Asuka. The images on the cover looked at least as graphic as anything he’d seen on the internet. Then he remembered Rei.
‘Ayanami-‘
‘Oh she’ll be fine! Even freakozoids like her have a sexual side.’
This roused Shinji’s curiosity, and all of a sudden he realised he was sat next to a very sexual young girl who was showing him her sexuality freely in a way she never had before. He had to risk it.
‘So...you...have that side too, then?’
Expecting a stinging rebuke, his heart leapt when Asuka’s eyes softened and her cheeks reddened.
‘Oh ja...’
For a moment she licked her lips silently as Shinji looked at her. The moment was broken by Rei’s re-entry.
‘What... is that?’
Shinji froze. How would Rei react to their proposition? Luckily Asuka did the work for him.
‘Oh Rei, we’re gonna watch some porn. Wanna join in?’
Asuka waved the DVD in Rei’s direction. Shinji couldn’t bear to look. After a few seconds, he heard a timid but enthused reply.
‘Yes... yes. It may be pleasant.’
‘Course it will!’ yelped Asuka in happy affirmation. First of all lets clear all this stuff away. Just stick it in the kitchen, Shinji.’
As they were removing empty food and drink cartons from the lounge area, Shinji’s legs wobbled so much that they barely kept him upright. Was this happening!? In those few minutes, he radically revised his perceptions of the girls he was with. Asuka was clearly horny. Rei was up for it too. Now was as good a time as any, and how many boys wouldn’t kill to be in his position? The shock began to dissipate, and with it an erection was swift to follow...