The Way He Looks At Her

Chapter 6

As I woke up, I said, "Good morning" to Haru and then told him, "I'll be right back, I'm just gonna get freshened up." He said, "Good morning" and continued to cook breakfast. Of course, mom and dad were out of town, so we didn't have to rush or anything. After I freshened up, I met Haru in the kitchen and sat down at the table and told him, "You didn't have to go through the trouble of making breakfast for the two of us." He insisted that he couldn't let me starve which was repayment for the party yesterday. After breakfast, we both got ready to clean up and while I was collecting the plates, he suddenly grabs the plates out of my hands, and I accidentally dropped the plates. When he grasped his hands toward me, his hands touched mine, which felt like a shock of electricity. I apologized and we cleaned up the mess. 

We both washed the dishes together, one washing and the other drying, I splashed water on his shirt along with him laughing and sprinkling water against my skin as retaliation. In the end, we were both pretty drenched and decided to get cleaned up. He said, "Can I use your shower?" and I responded, "Yeah, upstairs door to the left." and he walked up the stairs. I grabbed a water from the fridge but I remembered that he doesn't have a towel. I hurriedly grabbed a clean towel from the laundry room and ran up the stairs and opened the door. Suddenly, I dropped the towel from shock. I forgot to knock and now I see Haru COMPLETELY NAKED!!! I turn around in completely dumbstruck and said, "You forgot a towel." I laughed awkwardly facing the opposite way from Haru.  Stuttering, I say, "I-I'll just meet you downstairs when you're done." I close the door and while walking down the stairs, I repeatedly hit my head against my hand from the amount of embarrassment that I had just experienced. 

30 minutes later* Haru comes down from the second floor while wiping his hair with the towel. Soon, we meet each others eyes and he starts grinning. I turn red from the embarrassment and told him, "I'm sorry, I should have knocked beforehand." He said, "It was an honest mistake, it can happen to anyone." We sat down on the couch and watched some TV when we both heard each others stomach growl. When we checked the fridge, it was completely empty so we decided to walk to the supermarket and buy some ingredients to make some fried rice. We stopped by the convenience store and bought some ice cream on our way back to the house. He soon left after we ate lunch, in which he cooked again but I helped around the kitchen by washing the vegetables and prepared the table for us.  

On Monday, I went to school and it was a pretty normal day, I didn't have breakfast because I was late but overall I had a good day. Later when I went home, I found out that mom and dad came back. They had brought back a souvenir from their trip. It was a snow globe which had a cute little puppy playing in the snow inside of it. I sent a picture to Haru but he never responded. On Thursdays, Haru and I would usually meet at my house so he can tutor me but since testing was over, there was no need for him to come over anymore. Since that weekend, I haven't talked to him for awhile and the times we texted were infrequent.