Caffeinated Love - ShirabuxReader

Chapter 4

"Babe!" I later recognized Shirabu's voice and immediately spun around. He just called me babe. Oh my god. But my heart was totally beating for another thing right now. I nervously looked at the gang and realized they had stopped midway. Shirabu walked up beside me and slid his arm around my shoulders.

He guided me around, and away from the group of smokers. "Shirabu-kun..." I was touched to see him grasp the situation so well. He smiled down at me, turning around to give a deathly glare at the gang. They rolled their eyes in response and never initiated anything else.

As soon as we were in the clear, I couldn't help but give a sigh of relief. "Are you alright? They didn't do anything to you while I was inside, right?" He gave a worried sigh. We took a detour to a small park en route back to campus. He was looking at me, waiting for my confirmation.

"I'm fine. They didn't get to do anything, thanks to you. And you really do have your words all planned out, just like last time, don't you?" I giggled and recalled how he self-proclaimed me as his girlfriend when we first met. I thought Shirabu would brush it off, saying that it's nothing much. But he stayed silent.

I cleared my throat, feeling like he was going to say something next. "The first time I met you, that was totally unplanned. I mean I planned to call out to you using that. But ya know, not in the hopes to make you my real... girlfriend," he said as we found a bench to sit on. "Mhm, and you did it in such a cool way," I sugar-coated it, hiding my inner fangirl.

He suddenly faced me, grabbed a hold of my hands and his face was super serious. He held intense eye contact, I couldn't even look away from his gorgeous double eyelids. "But when I called you babe just now. I meant it," he said with determination. My heart was beating wildly against my chest right now. Is this a confession? Was he confessing?

"If any other guys were to hit on you, or harass you. Or if we ever go out with friends and family, I would... I would very much be happy to be able to call you my girlfriend. For real this time," he squeezed my hands and confessed. I saw his adam's apple move, showing him taking a hard gulp.

I felt his hands shaking from gripping mine so tightly. I'm the luckiest girl on earth. Oh my god. To be able to be confessed so beautifully by my crush of two months. A reciprocated feeling. "I really thought you weren't interested in having a relationship since you were so focused on studying!" I couldn't help but laugh.

But I returned the same strength in our intertwined hands. His expression was unreadable as I haven't given my answer. "But I think I would be very much pleased to hear you call me your girlfriend," I smiled brightly in return, giving him my answer. He took a split second to process that.

And he suddenly let go of my hands, went up to my jawline and gently pulled me towards him. Before I knew it, we were locked in a kiss. It was softer than I had imagined. It was as if I could sense his emotion behind it. Relief, happiness and protectiveness. Yeah, I want to be his girlfriend.

We slowly separated from the kiss, all dreamlike stance. Shirabu seemed the most out of it and finally returned to his senses by covering his tomato red cheeks. "Oh my god. (Y/N), I'm so sorry I rushed. I was just... so happy. I got ahead of myself..." he took my hand and placed it on his forehead, hiding from me.

"No, it's alright. I'm happy too! I can't believe we had mutual feelings. All you did was study ever since I met you. I spent my work timings thinking about how you were nonchalant all the time when you're in the cafe! I thought I'd never had a chance," I brushed his hair back and adjusted his angled bangs. The bangs which I loved so much too.

"What? No way. I was panicking every time I ordered from the counter. I would normally just order and leave. I wouldn't even sit in the room..." he sounded depressed since he found out his actions the past two months were ineffective. "But when... did you start having feelings for me?" I was genuinely curious since I couldn't tell except the occasional awkward eye contact we had in the cafe.

Shirabu froze up, but his answer was direct to the point, "since the very start."

A/N: It's a really short ending but I'll make it up by having Shirabu's POV in the next chapter!

- JW.lazrendo