With You | Thoma x Ayaka | Genshin Impact

Dreams

      "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with one step."

       - Lao Tzu

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   Ayaka woke up and saw that the sun was setting... it had been noon when she had fallen asleep! Thoma was still resting on her shoulder and was letting out soft snores, if Ayaka could recall, Thoma had the last break of the day so that means he was off work.

    "It would be nice if we could stay like this forever..." Ayaka mumbled and leaned her head against his once again, drifting off to sleep.

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      "Young Lady, are you in here?" Kazari asked, knocking on Ayaka's office door. No response.

     Kazari had been looking for Ayaka for a while, ever since Asagiri had told them about a new schedule that Ayaka had made, Kazari had been searching for her Young Lady to thank her.

      "It's time for her to go to bed..." Kazari mumbled and opened the door just to double check. When she entered, Kazari didn't see Ayaka sitting at her desk nor the chabudai. Kazari was about to leave when she saw Ayaka leaning against the wall with her head resting on Thoma's shoulder and Thoma's head leaning slightly on hers, both were fast asleep.

   Kazari knelt down and saw that even thought they were sleeping, both had faint smiles on their faces. Kazari saw a thin blanket in the corner of the room and draped it over the two of them, leaving the office and firmly closing the door.

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    Thoma opened his eyes, whew, thank goodness. Ten minutes before Kazari entered the office, he had woken up and saw that he had been asleep on Ayaka's shoulder, when he straightened his head up, Ayaka's plopped down on his shoulder creating a beautiful commotion of feelings in his heart.

     Anyway, back to what happened, Thoma enjoyed the fact that his girlfriend was resting on him until he heard Kazari knock on the door and quickly pretended to be asleep. Sadly, he couldn't help but smile, it took everything he had to not show his huge grin.

    "Still though, it's quite late," Thoma noted, "Hm? Wait, Kazari still doesn't know we're dating... why didn't she try to wake me up?"

    Thoma leaned his head back onto Ayaka's and then mumbled, "Does she know?"

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    It was early in the morning, Ayaka woke up to Thoma still beside her and a blanket over the two of them, who put it there?

    "Ah! Kazari might be worried about where I am!" Ayaka realized and stood up.

    "Oh! I didn't realize you were up!" Thoma exclaimed, startling Ayaka slightly.

    "Thoma? What time did you wake up?" Ayaka asked.

     "Erm... just a while ago?" Thoma raised his eyebrows, to be honest, he hadn't slept after Kazari left, he felt completely refreshed.

     "Thoma, do you think Kazari knows we're here?" Ayaka questioned frantically.

     "Don't worry, I woke up last night when she came to look for you and said that you were tired so she left you here." Thoma reassured, a complete lie. Thoma just didn't want to worry Ayaka about Kazari possibly knowing about their relationship, though... shouldn't he tell her that he told Abdiel?