Childhood Love

Chapter 14

Edgar POV

This morning, Hiroto called me. 'There's a problem with the budget of the student council. Could you come over please. It won't take long.' he said.

"Ok. I'm coming right away." I went out of my room and sticked a note on Aki's door, then headed to school. "What's the problem?" I asked when I arrived.

"Our budget is really tight and with the opening of the football club, we will have to do renovations and buy the equipment needed." he explained. "We won't have enough money to investigate the club."

"Hmm. We will have to do a fund collect. We will do it Monday."

"Thank you for your help."

"It's normal." I went out and glance at the time. It was half past ten. I went to the station and saw Aki sitting on a bench.

"You're early." she said when she saw me.

"Yeah. It was about the budget. We will be doing a collect on Monday."

"Oh."

"Should we get going?" I asked.

"Sure. Where are we going first?"

"How about a movie?" I suggested.

"A horror one?" she asked.

"Horror? You won't be afraid, will you?" I teased.

"No, I won't. You know that I love horror films." she pouted.

"Ok. A horror film then."

"Yay!!" she shouted and I chuckled. I went to buy the tickets while she went to get popcorn. The film was really terrifying, well as expected of a horror film. At the end of it, we went out and I could see that she was still a bit afraid.

"Are you hungry." I asked her and she jumped. "You still afraid?"

"N...no I'm not." she said, her voice shaking a little. "I'm just really hungry that I can't do anything."

I know that she was lying. But she sure was hungry. Her stomach let out a loud growl. "Let's go eat something." I told her grabbing her hand.

Aki POV

He grabbed my hand and we went to a restaurant. We ordered some dishes and drinks. "Erm...could you let go of my hand now?" I shyly asked. He was still holding my hand and I must say that they were warm. I blushed at the thought and he let go. We ate silently and it was awkward so I started a conversation. "So...you are not really Japanese, are you?"

"Why asking this so suddenly?" he looked at me surprised.

"Well...I had only known you...since last year so... I just want to know your childhood and family. If you don't want then..."

"Fine, no problem." he said and I lightened a bit.

"My mother comes from Argentina and my dad from Japan. When they got married, my mom moved to Japan and she sometimes returned there to visit her family." he started. "I was born here but my parents sent me to Argentina to study when I was six. I returned here last year at the request of my mom wanting to spend more time with me." he stopped and looked at me."That's all, not really interesting I know. How about you? You barely talk about your family. I know only your aunt so no need to talk about her."

I really didn't want to talk about them. So I lied."There's nothing special about mine. It's just a family like all the other."

"What about your friends?"  Hearing this question, my heart tightened.

"Oh, I had a lot. But since I moved here, I had lost all contact with them." I lied. For the rest of our date, we didn't talk about this matter anymore. We enjoyed ourselves in an amusement park and went to the aquarium. You could say that it was the perfect date.