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Morning

When you woke up the next morning, it was because there was a rustle by your side. You opened your eyes to see Hitoshi trying to sneak back in bed. He smelled of laundry detergent and linen, no doubt he was washing the bedding from yesterday.

"Laundry love? This early?"

"First off, yes I've been doing it for about an hour and our sheets are gonna be dry soon. And second, it's not that early. I think it's like 9 already." He gave you a small kiss on your forehead and cuddled up with you.

"Has anyone else gotten up?" You grumbled into his chest where your head laid.

"Not that I have seen. But I'm fairly sure they got in closer to 2 or 3. So I'm gonna say they won't be out of their rooms till at least 10:30 at the earliest." Now he was running a hand through your hair, soothing you with his low voice and soft touch.

"So what I hear is that we have an hour to ourselves this fine morning." Lifting your head, you looked at him. Giving the biggest puppy dog eyes you possibly could.

"You see, you could be wanting one of two things, and I would be up for either. One, quality time, where we go out to a nice breakfast and have a walk on the beach. Or two, we make love until we can't anymore. You want to elaborate which option you meant?" He responded in a hushed tone, as if there were listening ears turned towards your private plans.

You weren't gonna lie to yourself, the latter idea was on your mind before the first. But after he brought up the idea of quality time, it sounded like a better way to spend your day.

"Well, I won't lie that the fucking was my first idea, but we can do that later especially since your birthday is tomorrow. So, right now I want a nice brunch and a swim."

He nodded and flushed at the fact that you basically insinuated you would gift him birthday sex tomorrow. But continued to join you up stairs to get ready for your outing. You put on your bikini underneath a flowy skirt and tank top. It was a nice 80 degrees with clear skies.

As you waited for Hitoshi to finish brushing his teeth you searched for restaurants near you. But Hitoshi interrupted you saying he already had a place in mind. You walked only a few blocks to end up at a cute French bakery. You both ordered and sat at an outside table. Talking about this and that until you landed on the topic that always seems to come up in conversations alike. The future.

"So, obviously we have been given the choice to pick our dorm mates next year, and we would pick each other?" You nodded in between his pause of approval. "But technically we don't have to dorm, it's just recommended for second years. So basically I was thinking, what if we moved into an apartment together?"

You stopped breathing for a second, processing what he just said. Many questions filling your head caused you to stutter.

"O-okay. Let's just backtrack a step here. First, obviously I would love to live with you, but I can't afford that right now. You know that Hitoshi. I have just enough to get through college, barely enough at that. And I really don't want to worry about dealing with school and work at the same time, it will just stress me out. And not to—"

"Okay calm down." He cut you off. "Let me explain okay? I know you don't love it when my family and I spend money on you, but I was talking with my parents about some stuff."

"What type of stuff?"

"Some 'stuff' along the lines of being with you, and how I want to stay with you. I guess." He went quiet and shy, like what he was saying you weren't supposed to hear. You melted at what he was saying whether he wanted you to hear it yet or not.

"You know I want to be with you right? For as long as I can and as long as you will have me. I love you, most ardently." You loved sappy shit but never really said anything like this out loud to him before. At least never really talking in the sense of a future with him.

"You are such a damn sap, but I love you for it. Seriously though, I want to live with you, in our own place. And my parents are actually pushing for it, they said they would pay for it while we are still in school. After that it will be our problem."

Again, a little shocked by everything going on you paused for a second.

"If you think about it we could spend that money on a lot of other things and stay in the dorms for another year. But also we won't be paying tuition either so maybe it would cancel out? There's a lot to think about, can you let me think about it? And we can talk more about everything later?"

"Yeah of course. You're right there are a lot of factors. How about we spend a day just making a pros and cons list sometime, I know you like to visually see everything." He was serious, you could tell he wanted to legitimately take everything into account with you.

"Cool." And right when you said that your waitress brought the food to the table. You enjoyed a comfortable meal and left back towards the house afterwards. Realizing that Hitoshi forgot to put on his swim trunks, so going straight to the beach was out of the question.

As you walked into the house, now around 11:15, you were greeted with a pancake flipping Ashido and an unknown person. Confused you reacted in the only way you knew how.

"Morning." You said in your best George Weasley voice you could muster.