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"Haruto...?"
The said boy looks up, eyes wide—taken aback. Shoulders still heaving up and down with puffs of smoke escaping his mouth as he catches onto his breath with hands resting on knees; it seemed as if he just ran through a marathon. Wait did he?
"Aer—," he clears his throat—embarrassed how low his voice sounded—standing upright, "Park Aerum?"
The woman was too stunned to speak.
Still standing in her PJs, with a toothbrush in her mouth and foam smeared across her chin, Aerum gapes at the boy with bewilderment who in turn shifts uncomfortably under her demanding gaze with a sheepish smile on his face.
"This is for you," Haruto shoves a bouquet to her face with a ninety-degree bow.
"How—How did you know where I live?" The blonde asks bowing back as she accepts the flowers with flushed cheeks. "Oh wait." Her face heats up darker than before as she recalls her over-excited self texting the address to her 'boyfriend'. Fuck the adrenaline to be honest.
Is this really The-Park-Aerum I talk to? The lad wonders rubbing the back of his nape—awkward, not knowing what to do with his hands that were free now.
The duo stands in silence for a moment, thick tension looming in the air before Aerum decides to break it, "Come inside," she says making way for the ravenette at her door, "I still have some time to get ready haha,"
"Oh haha thank you, take your time though. I'll be waiting,"
"Thank you, kind sir," She chuckles, "You look cool by the way," Even prettier in real life—extra-fine today. Assuming it's good to keep the rest to herself, for now, the girl shuns her thoughts.
"Thank you," Haruto looks down at his fingers, "You look nice too—I mean I know you will when you get ready if you doubt it. Not that you look bad right now either, I find your Spongebob pants—" he pauses to catch his breath finding the right words to continue, "...quite endearing?"
Their cheeks burn red putting tomatoes to shame.
Aerum laughs, fanning her face "It's so hot in here, no?" to which Haruto agrees with the same enthusiasm fanning his face back, "I'll get you a drink, come sit."
"It's fine," He waves her off, "You should get ready instead,"
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She takes longer than expected.
Haruto sits restlessly tapping his foot on the floor in the living room glancing at his wristwatch once in a while. He was bored out of his head to say the least—playing with his fingers, admiring the fresh black polish he hurriedly plopped on it (just an hour before the date).
Sinking further into the couch, he rests one hand on its head—unconsciously spreading his legs in the process—with a weary sigh as he looks at the time. Looking around the apartment, Haruto loves how organised and right in place, everything is—not to mention how big it seemed for a university student.
Come to think of it, his mind wanders knitting different possibilities of her riches munching the cookies served to him by his date a while back, she is renting the most expensive package out of all and then this apartment. How did she manage all this—
Loud yowling and scratching on the windowpane from outside snaps him out of his little train of thoughts and he immediately scolds himself for being so nosy. Turning around, he sees a tiny paw sticking in through the small gap between the window.
Still confused, Haruto opens up the window nevertheless to let the poor kitty in as an act of kindness only to be slapped across his face in return.
"Ow, what was that for?" He grumbles only to come face to face with an even grumpier cat with 'BOB' written on his collar chain. "Goodness! Hi Bob!" He holds his paw, shaking hands.
Bob slaps him again before jumping out of his arms onto the couch—where Haruto was once sitting on—wiping it clean with his tail and finally seating his ass down.
"Hey, do you already hate me so much?"
The cat stays silent glaring dead into his dark brown eyes. As he takes a step closer, Bob gets up on his claws ready to pounce on the stranger with his wagging tail. He is Aerum's hero for nothing. To speak of which, where is Aerum? Where is mom? And who is this stranger? Who dis dude?
The mommy's boy side of Bob kicks in on the prolonged absence of his mom, Park Aerum, in the household. His mind fogs up with hundreds of questions beginning with his missing mother and an empty stomach with no feeder and ending with the strange man in his living room who gawked at him with big stupid shiny eyes as if he had never seen a cute cat his entire life. What an idiot.
"Excuse me?" Bob begins, but all Haruto hears is a purr—enough to melt him into a puddle of what humans say 'uwu' and going into a frenzy over it. The said boy takes out his phone, ready to record whatever Bob has to say next.
God is it humiliating. Letting go of his comfortable position, Bob jumps down the couch to search for his owner followed by Haruto fangirling over all his moves with his camera on—lost in the heat of the moment.
Bob casually walks into the room; the room where Aerum is supposed to be changing, pushing in through the small gap in between.
It doesn't take long for Haruto to figure out a half-naked woman standing in her bra and a skirt—her hair all over the place staring at him with horrified eyes with a packet of condoms in her mouth—on his camera.
Mind still a fuzz, the reality finally hits Haruto when the packet of condom comes flying to his face, dropping in his hands. Okamoto 0.01.
His face heats up for the nth time today as his gaze drifts between the packet of condoms to the blonde standing in her bra and finally ending on the camera still recording everything in his hands.
"WAIT! I CAN EXPLAIN!!" Both scream at the same time.
Well at least, mom isn't dead. Bob smiles to himself in glee, relieved as he still has a feeder... oh, and of course his mom! He is a good boy, after all, a mama's boy.
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A/N : godddd :( i had such a massive writer's block, feels good to be finally productive in the end. i really missed this book and writing pls if you're still reading this tysm & ilysm <3
also, thanks to each one of you for 500+ reads >///< apologies for it being short lol but i hope u liked the chapter !!
