Imperfect match // Daiki Aomine (Kuroko no Basuke)

21. Change of mood

Coming out of the shower, she finds him spread on the bed, asleep. She changes into her underwear, chuckling at the thought that he is missing out the view when he is just there and would be mad at himself if he knew.

After towel drying her hair, she gets dressed in a thin black short sleeve blouse and white shorts, and quietly lays next to him, making sure she doesn't wake him up by making the bed move too much.

Facing him, she looks at his profile. He's so freaking handsome and he hasn't changed yet, so his chest is still bare. Looking at his dark skin, she notices areas when the sea water has evaporated, leaving thin streaks of salt crystal making a random pattern.

She wants to lick it. She won't. She doesn't want to wake him up and she is genuinely tired out.

She falls asleep.

For a while, both of them snooze peacefully.

Rolling to his side, he feels his leg touching something and opens an eye. Seeing her facing him, he remembers where he is and pauses.

She's so beautiful when she sleeps, her still damp hair brushing her face. He strokes her cheek and, listening to his heart galloping, adrenaline rushing through his veins as he imagines her smiling, he finally realises his feelings for her are becoming more than just lustful.

It scares him. He can't have that. It complicates things.

He should have seen it coming, seeing how he felt when she was giving her attention to Kagami. Jealousie, that's what it was.

She's the one who was worried something would happen if she was to sleep with him and he's the one realising that he is catching feelings even without having had sex.

If they just had had sex back then, if she hadn't been so hard to get, it would have been easier. Maybe... maybe not.

He needs to stop this before it's too late.

Checking his phone to see what time it is, he shuffles and wakes her up involuntarily.

Her sleepy smiling face when she sees him, makes his heart pinch.

"Hey." She says.

"Hey. We should get up and get moving."

"Is there a rush?" She mumbles, her hand moving to his warm chest.

He briskly moves away from her, getting up.

"I need a shower before we leave."

"Want company?" She asks cheekily.

"Nah I'm fine." He says, disappearing in the bathroom.

What's going on? She's confused.

Even if they were in a rush, he would usually make some sort of sexual innuendo but he looked dead serious before leaving to wash up.

Maybe it's just her. She's still a little sleepy after all.

Stretching across the bed, rested, she feels nice. This bed is really comfortable.

She puts her white trainers on, grabs her bag and goes to the living room where a couple of them are watching a basketball game on TV while the others are sunbathing or reading on the terrace.

"Hey! Did you sleep well?" Kagami asks jumping off the sofa.

"Very well thanks. Just what I needed."

"Good. Where's Aomine?"

"In the shower." She says.

"Oh... I see..." He says awkwardly, making assumptions.

Going to the kitchen, she gets a drink and, about to leave, she ends up face to face with the tall guy, Atsushi.