"A Love Story" Kaede and Shuichi

Chapter 18

Kaede's POV

My fingers were dancing across the keys, the symphony filling my ears. I closed my eyes and I could see all the notes flying by in my head. I grinned wide. "I love hearing you play, Kaede."

My eyes bolted open and I snapped my neck to my side, Shuichi sitting peacefully next to me on the piano chair. He gave me a handsome smile and I realized before I could comment on his sudden appearance..

"Shuichi! Your hat! It's gone!" I exclaimed, turning toward him. His cheeks tinted pink and he darted his eyes.

"Y-Yeah, I decided to take your advice and be more confident. I can't avoid eye contact forever.." He gave me a shy smile and my eyes were wide with joy.

"Eeee!" I hugged him tightly. "Yay! That is so awesome!" I let go of the hug to look at him again. "You are so handsome, Shuichi."

He gave me a charming grin and leaned in closer to me. Shuichi wrapped his arm around my lower back and drew me close to him. "Thank you, Kaede. You are so beautiful, pretty, gorgeous.." He grasped my face in his soft hand and our faces were so close our lips almost touched, and he gazed at them. "You're perfect to me." He kissed me and I wrapped my hand around his neck, heat rising in my cheeks and body. The kisses got more passionate and I put my fingers through his hair. He broke the kiss and chuckled against my lips.

"Wh-What? Why'd you stop?" I pouted.

"Aren't you gonna answer the door?"

"What?!"

*Ding dong*

"Hmm?" I said, half awake and half still in a dream. "No.. that was a dream I didn't want to leave just yet." I thought and rubbed my eyes. I slowly sat up in bed. I crawled out of bed and stumbled toward the door. I opened it to see Shuichi, dressed way better than me. He was wearing his usual school outfit, and I was wearing pastel pink pajama shorts with a matching soft, thin cotton, pastel pink and white shirt. I rubbed my eye instinctively again.

I blushed at my unprofessional attire, and his formal one. "H-Hi, Shuichi."

Shuichi's POV

My eyes widened as I couldn't stop staring at a sleepy Kaede, not letting my eyes skim down her. "I-I'm sorry, Kaede! I d-didn't mean to.. uh," I stuttered sheepishly and darted my burning eyes away. "She looks so cute, sleepy, soft, comfy... STOP SHUICHI!" I scolded myself in my head.

Kaede giggled, and I returned her gaze. "It's okay! Seriously, it's fine," She reassured. "I'll go change."

"No- it's okay- I mean- y-yeah go change," I stumbled, completely red by now. "That was probably the dumbest thing you could've said," I thought.

"So you want me to stay in this? Is that what you're saying?" Kaede teased, smirking at me. I couldn't even meet her gaze.

"N-No! I want you to wear what your comfortable in!" I said, flustered out of my mind.

"Okay, well I'm comfortable," Kaede said calmly. I sighed, and regained my composure.

"Okay, I am too."

Kaede smiled at me, her hand resting on the door. "Okay, so what are you up to?"

"I just wanted to see what you were doing, dinner is in an hour so I was curious if you wanted to hang out beforehand."

"Oh, okay! Sure! What should we do?" Kaede asked, I gave her a shrug.

"I don't know, anything with you is fun." She blushed with a satisfied grin.