Body Language (MewGulf AU)

🌞Chapter 22🌻

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"Shall we go?"

"Okay."

Gulf grinned.

"It's going to be different from the other places we've gone to before, right? Looking forward to it. I've wanted to go to a bar at least once anyway."

"Amazing." Mew's eyes were wide open. "Managing to evade everyone like that. And here I thought you were stupid! I thought I was going to get it out of you."

"Rude as ever, Mew..." Gulf pouted. "Doesn't matter how hard you try. I'm not giving into your scheming."

"Scheming? I'm not doing anything of the sort." Mew sipped his coffee. "I'm only being truthful. I just wanted us to be an official couple. I'll just have to be patient if that bothers you."

Gulf didn't reply, continuing to eat his meal in silence. Answering any more of Mew's questions would just be digging himself into a hole. "Do you have class today?"

"Yep. Until fifth period. You?"

"Just third period left now. I'm going home when I'm done."

"Hey, that's cold. Wait for me."

"I have to do my laundry and chores, so I'm going home. I'm not going to wait for you."

"Yeah, I don't want to go, but I can't skip this fifth period. I know! I'll give you my key. You can wait at my house."

"I don't know how long it's going to take me to finish everything, so I'm not going to wait at your house."

Mew clucked his tongue at Gulf. "It's my dream to have a loving partner to welcome me home."

"You just won't quit, will you?" Gulf grinned. "You just want me to say yes to everything you say?"

"Of course. And then we can finally get down to telling everyone that we're official."

"Hmph, okay. Interesting. Shall we rock, paper, scissors for it?"

Mew looked stunned at Gulf's proposal. "Rock, paper, scissors?"

"If you win, I'll say yes. And if you lose, no. How about it?"

"Oh, damn, you're so annoying!" Mew fiddled with his hair. "You're usually so slow, but now I find that you've decided to get clever. Whatever happens, no one's going to take that seriously!"

"Oh, you figured me out?" Gulf laughed. Satisfied with his meal, he clapped his hands together, picked up his trash and stood up. "We're kind of the center of attention here, so I'm going. What do you want to do tonight? Want to go and get some food?"

"What are you saying? Of course I'm going to agree to eating. Where are we going?"

"Well, if I make dinner, wanna come over?"

"Yeah!"

Throwing the empty coffee cup into the trash can, Mew stood up and chased Gulf. Catching up with him, Mew hit Gulf's back with his hand and then whispered in Gulf's ear.

"Don't say such adorable things. It makes me want to take you right here and now."

"...when you say it like that, it's almost believable. Coming?"

"Of course I am. As soon as fifth period's over, I'm coming straight over."

"Okay, well I'll try to make something that you like," Gulf whispered. Mew stroked Gulf's hair.

"Something I like? Can I eat you?"

Gulf tried to stop himself from blushing. He stepped hard on Mew's foot. "OW! Why did you do that?"

"What happened?"

"You stepped on my foot!"

"Oh, sorry, I tripped."

"On what?!"

"Anyway, I'm off to third period. It's almost time for the bell."

"Liar! It's not anywhere close to an hour yet!"

"Can you not read the time?"

"One minute you're adorable, the next you're a bastard! In bed..."

Gulf slapped his hand over Mew's mouth. And then he panicked.

'What am I doing? How am I going to get out of this?'

This was Mew's fault. Because he was the one who threw out that obvious statement, everyone was going to insinuate the worst. The seconds felt like hours and then Gulf finally smiled and said,

"You know that you can't just let out our private secrets like that."

Mew looked confused and then in a rare moment, behaved like an adult. And when he was released, he said something amazing.

"You're right. That's between the two of us. Not something we should talk about. What, after the way you so lovingly proposed to me..."

'Oh, my God. I want to kill this boy right now.'

Gulf ignored Mew and left the cafeteria. Mew strolled after him.

The moment they left, everyone started to loudly debate whether the two of them actually were an item or not.

TBC