You're the coolest, Mamoru

Chapter 11

Usagi

So, first of all... the menus...here you go."

The waitress brings us two thick black books that look more like the heavy tome on Greek mythology I have at home. I'm a little disappointed when I open the first page; no All You Can Eat offer is to be seen there.

What a pity.

But instead, I discover something awfully delicious as I flip a few pages further.

"Tonkatsu!!!"

I exclaim in delight and clap my hands together loudly, so that Mamoru immediately looks up at me from his menu reading. Just at that moment, I notice that he has put on a pair of glasses.

Wow, never in my entire life I've seen anyone look as damn sexy with a pair of vision aids as Mamoru Chiba...and then he takes them off with another slow, erotic move...there! There's that famous one raised eyebrow, a mini smile plays around his gorgeous, sensual lips,..Tadaaa:

Mr. Right!

"So would you like to order schnitzel?!"

"Yessss please, oh my gosh, I'm sooo excited!!!!"

Mamoru seems quite amused at my effusively positive feedback. He flips his card closed energetically and grins broadly at me.

"Well, I'll take that too...is that your favorite dish?"

"Oh, I have many, believe me. Right now my parents are out of town and unfortunately I don't get the pleasure to eat Mom's wonderful home cooking."

A gentle smile now makes its way onto Mamoru's face. Awww, I'm melting more and more, with every second actually that the two of us get to spend together so beautifully undisturbed. I want so much to stop time and enjoy these wonderful moments with Mamoru forever. My pangs of hunger are turned off, my worries about my possible loss of essential memories are locked out of this space we are in...just gazing deeply and longingly into each other's eyes.

Here we are just Mamoru and Usagi. In a completely normal life. Like Mamoru wished for me before he closed his eyes forever... And exactly in this moment of realization it's over again with the cosy togetherness, with the beautiful harmony between us. With all the romance. Here is something in the room...that is as big as a huge, fat, pink elephant!

"Have you chosen yet?"

The nice waitress snaps me back to reality...and Mamoru too, apparently, because he's now looking at me with a very serious face. I collect myself for a moment and then smile up at the waitress.

"Twice number 34's please and..." - short pan to the dream man in front of me, no, does not look like alcohol, - "uhh...two diet Coke's, please."

"Coming right up!" is flouted back at me, and just like that, Mamoru and I are alone again. Placing the order is absolutely my thing, I'm not going to be talked into it. Which obviously doesn't bother Mamoru a bit, because he sits upright in his chair and looks at me almost expressionlessly. I sigh heavily once and lean back in my chair.

"Okay" I begin, because somehow I have the slight feeling that it is me who has to start here. Otherwise this is going nowhere!

"I...have...memories."

Something flashes in Mamoru's eyes at my statement, but he says nothing and continues to look right into my eyes. Fine, it's my turn again. I really need to get this off my chest right now.

"Actually, I've had them for a while. More specifically, since I first met you in your apartment...if this was even for the first time I met you..."