Written back in 2007 for 15Pairings.
Title: "Lilies"
Theme: #5 'flowers'
Pairing: Shimako/Noriko
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Maria-sama ga Miteru.
Noriko was a brave girl and very in touch with her common sense. Still, she didn't quite know how to handle the task of getting Shimako to kiss her. Noriko herself abosolutely refused to iniciate it (not out of fear of rejection, no, it was only a matter of seeming insolent) and then learned ten thousand new things about being shy. And frustrated.
Shimako was a lily in her eyes, a delicate flower - and so she waited. Flowers are prettier when you admire them from a distance and they wither once you steal them for yourself.
She could swear she could smell, almost taste lilies when Shimako smiled and pressed her lips against Noriko's. Just like that, out of the blue, one rainy afternoon.
That was when Noriko lost all of her anxiousness and understood an obvious truth- Shimako was a wonderful human being, but a human after all - breakable, worrying, warm and reachable.
Yes, Noriko fought for breath still refusing to break away from the kisses, Shimako was a flower that wouldn't wither when she stole it for herself.