I recently began reading an adult manga story. It was fascinating, and now it's got me thinking about writing something similar. But of course, I'm not going to make it a graphic novel; that would be weird.
The story is a simple encounter of a young girl, still in school, and a female grad student. They meet on the commuter train, and the younger one finds herself being drawn to the older, basically wanting to see her every day at the same time, and trying to attract her attention.
In our culture, this would be described crudely as 'stalking', a very derogatory word for something that is perfectly natural, and in my opinion, harmless.
After a couple of weeks, the older girl drops a book, which the younger one hurries to pick up, and they get to talking, and the older girl invites the younger one to her apartment, and very gradually they indicate to each other that they are attracted to each other. It is the very gradual pace of the story that I find most romantic!
After they have done this for a couple of days, they kiss. Both of them are thrown off balance by the kiss, and they part, planning to meet the next day. The next day, they kiss again, and then their clothes come off, and it gets very heated. At this point, the artwork goes off the rails; in his (or her) eagerness to depict the intense intimacy of the two girls, the artist resorts to various cliches, which lead me to believe that it is a boy (or a guy, anyway; hopefully even an adult male will be a little less ignorant about sexual procedures!) and both girls have an intense emotional response to what they're doing.
Over the next few days, there are other issues that come up: jealousy, curiosity from classmates, embarrassment due to various events, all sorts of interesting episodes.
It has been a great experience, but I wish I had some creative input to it.
KHB
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