Bringing Out a New Detective

After school

Hi is this Kaede?
Hi Shuichi!!

How clueless he is makes my body feel full of sugar. I pause the video I was watching. 

Sorry I was so quiet, I'm a  bit shy.
No worries ('ω｀*)
Do you want to sit next to me at lunch tomorrow?
Sure. 

He's so reserved and straightforward, I hope my friends will like him.

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Lunch finally rolls around, my friends and I gather up in the hallway. 

"Wait, guys. I want to wait for someone."

"This better not be Kokichi." Maki glares, expecting the worst.

"No, no! It's a guy called Shuichi."

"A guy..." Rantaro teasingly repeats after me.

"I-it's not like that!! I only met him yesterday!"

"Well, alright then." Maki said relieved. She can be such a bossy big sister sometimes.

"K-kaede?" I hear a small voice behind me, I spin around excitedly.

"Hi Shuichi!! I'm so glad you came!" I smile and blush.

"Thank you for inviting me..." He blushed as he turned to the side.

"No need to be formal, it's ok!!" I reassured him, he seems to need a lot of that...

We all walk to lunch and sit at Kaito's table, his gaze instantly goes towards Maki as he greets her and drives her away from our group. We all conversate as normal, until Rantaro finally brings up the elephant in the room:

"So, Shuichi... How do you know Kaede?"

"She invited me to lunch yesterday, I hope that's ok..."

Rantaro let out one of his low-pitched, carefree laughs. It seems as if he's already within our group. I can't take all of this friendship things... I don't want to just be Shuichi's best friend. I want to be his, I want him to be mine. Has he noticed my gaze? Does he think I'm weird? The anxiety sets in. If I keep this feeling in, it'll eat me up. I can't take it anymore. I can't stop looking at him and imagining all the things we could do together...

I want him to hug me, I want to be his girlfriend. I want to feel his skin against mine... I want to feel all of him. Every, single little bit of him. 

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It's been weeks now, he's become close with all of us. I take out my phone from my navy blue school bag, and finally muster the courage up to text him. 

Do you want to come over for dinner? Watching movies alone is so booring  ('〜｀*)('〜｀*)

Sure, let me change :)

His texts have become less formal recently, I guess he really likes me. If only he knew about my feelings towards him...

DING DONG!

I opened the door, and there he was. Standing all shy and stiff, his lips thin. 

"Hey Shuichi!" I squeeze him into a hug, which he returns. I breathe in the smell of his lovely, sophisticated cologne. I could drown in purely the clean scent of him, everything about him is so perfect... I run up the stairs, practically dragging him with me, our feet stomping against the soft carpeting of the staircase.  "Take a seat!" I let my bodyweight plop down against a purple beanbag, its contents rustling upon impact.

He soon sits down after, leaning back into the beanbag. I can't help but smile, which he notices and responds with his own.

I put a DVD into the DVD player. I hope he enjoys the movie-