Love Far Beyond the Ashes

Dating Advice

Shion pov: I feel like I was too rough on Aqua. I really just told her off. I tried to get rid of her. I don't want to have to reject her. I love her way too much, but a witch can't date a woman.

"Choco-sensei!" I cried out.

"Eh, what, Shion-sama?" Choco-sensei asked

"It's horrible!" I cried

"What happened?" Choco-sensei asked

"I can't date Aqua!" I said

"Why not?" Mel-senpai asked

"Because I'm a witch, and witches aren't allowed to date!" I stated

Choco-sensei stood up and slapped me across the face. "Witches haven't had that stipulation for years; what the hell?" She said

"Look, witches aren't very progressive." I love Aqua, but back in the day, loving her wouldn't even be possible. It still isn't, but at least I can have feelings for her. I just can't date her. I want a normal relationship!" I said

"The whole point is that witches aren't at that point anymore; you've progressed to the point where dating is allowed; you just have convinced yourself that it isn't; you need to move on." Mel-senpai said

"I'm also afraid of asking her out because we just got off a fight, and I'm afraid she is still mad at me for lashing out on her," I stated.

"Look, you both are morons, and you understand that you aren't the brightest, so please just look at it this way; she won't say no, you made it up." Choco-sensei said

Her words were mean but true. We are both PON women, and we do understand that, but at the same time, it doesn't excuse my Kusogaki nature.

"How would you flirt with Aqua?" I asked

"Well, I would ask Aqu-tan out to dinner, maybe ask if she wants to take a bath with me, or ask if she wants to pin me down in bed and eat me up." Choco-sensei said

"Choco-sensei, I can't be that bold with her!" I said

"I'm joking, but you should take her out to dinner just you two, and then when she is at her highest emotional peak, you ask her out, maybe kiss her." Choco-sensei said

"K-K-Kiss her!?" I yelled

"Yes, and please be quiet; she can probably hear you." Choco-sensei said

"Choco, you really aren't giving her good advice." Mel-senpai said

"Mel-sama I am not really trying to push her along; I need her to learn how to do things herself!" Choco-sensei said

I knew that's what she was doing, and I appreciate that she's kind of doing some things and is putting some effort into helping me with this.

"Aqua-tan is a cutie, so you don't want to lose her to someone else, right?" Choco-sensei asked

I knew that there may be a possibility that she'll move on from me if I don't ask her out, but I don't know if it's too hard for me to show my emotions since I'm a witch and supposedly evil.

"Look, Shion, don't be too overbearing; women don't really like that, especially Aqu-tan since she's timid." Choco-sensei told me

Have I been overbearing before? Since she's my maid, I used to work her like a horse. She was overworked for sure, and I basically had her strapped to my thigh.

"Aqua seemed happy with you, despite how you may have treated her in the past," Mel-senpai said.

"I guess I'm not really one to really think about that stuff and feel bad, but this time I genuinely feel awful. I love her way too much for my own good," I told her.

"Well, loving someone isn't a bad thing, but forgetting yourself in the process-have you forgotten the reasons you are? Do you know why you love her specifically?" Mel-senpai asked

"I do. Aqu-tan was always nice to me despite me being a witch, and she did everything for me," I said.

Choco-sensei nodded. "Think about those things," she said.

I knew that that was a decent thing to do, but I can't really think of anything right now. My brain is empty.

Choco-sensei stood up and caressed my face. "Change your feelings," she whispered.

I shivered at her voice. Usually, I expected her to have flirted with me or kissed me by now, but I could tell she was past that and was serious about helping me get with Aqua.

"Okay, I love her, but how do I verbalize that to her?" I asked

"You need to set the mood, make a perfect setting for your confession, and then it'll happen." Mel-senpai said

"If you got into that fight around now, when you two met up, you would have kissed and been together." Choco-sensei said

"I was under the impression you were dating," Mel-senpai said.

"Not entirely; we both never asked each other out; we have kissed, but that's pretty much the extent of it," I stated.

"That's still one step; it works." Choco-sensei said

I need to do more than kiss, but then again, our kisses aren't out of love; we were experimenting, and we didn't know if we were going to like it, but we did.

I don't really get it at all, but Choco-sensei says we aren't doing this right; we can't kiss at all without feeling we have been, but that's not right.

"Can you try to kiss her again now that your feelings have awakened?" I was asked

Choco-sensei had a good point. I nodded and I smiled, having a thought about stuff. I can kiss her if I just try. All I have to do is try and not back out last minute. It's not like I'll back out last minute. It's not like I will forget my words when I try to ask her out.

I can do this. I will do this because I love her. And that is the truth