For The Eternals

What a naughty little cupcake

I felt the light on my face. I opened my eyes and saw the sunshine coming through the blinds. I saw the watch and it showed 7 am.

What?? 7??

I never woke up this late. Thanked God I didn't have a schedule today. So I laid down again and watched the sky.

The moment of last night came to my mind. It was awkward but like I said, I didn't regret it.

Furthermore, I liked it, and if there's a chance for it to be happened again, I would take it.

What can I say? I liked the kiss.

One reason I liked it was because the naughty novel I'd read. That's like it burned my desire that so long time just sleeping somewhere. But the real reason I felt it that way because what I had in my mind, my body, and my heart. There's a pull that made me built a special feeling for them. The way they talked, the way they walked, the way they took care of me, and the way they saw me. The pull made me felt the interest about everything they did.

I laid down for a few minutes more before I felt a terrible need to release myself. I woke up and went to the bathroom. After doing my business I walked out. That's when I heard a knock.

Who's that?

I walked to the door and opened it.

It's Theo.

He looked nervous. He looked everywhere but me. I still felt the embarrassment, but looking at his action now made me grinned.

"What can I do for you, Theo?"

He tried to looked at me in the eyes, but still felt the nervousness.

"I.. I.. I'd like to say something to you."

I nodded. I opened the door wider and let himself in. But he widened his eyes and shook his head. Looked like he's recoiled of that idea. He just stood there awkwardly, and I waited for his next move.

"Amy.."

Amy now? Not cupcake?

Looked like he's very serious now.

After inhaled and exhaled for many times, he opened his mouth.

"I didn't regret what happened. I.. I just.. I like it so much. In fact, I like it too much and afraid I can't control myself and do something that make you don't like."

He said to the last sentence with a single breath. He's very serious now.

What's the meaning of his words? He's afraid he made me uncomfortable? But he liked the kiss. That's the important part.

I held his hand, made him looked at me. I could see his eyes, it's full of hesitation. It's not a rejection of my action, but it's a fear of himself.

"like I said before, I don't regret it and never will. I like the kiss too. In fact, I initiated it. But I know it's too early for us to do that. I didn't think my action would affect you this much. I didn't think what's the effect of my action and what would happen afterwards. I just like the moment."

I paused for a second, searching at his reaction. He looked at me intensely, he's also waiting for my next words.

"How about we know each others more and decide what our next move. So, if it's happen again, we don't feel any hesitation if it's going further. How about that?"

He looked surprised. I counted a few moment he just looked at me, maybe wondering what I had said.

"So.. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I conclude that you think we feel uncomfortable doing the kiss because we don't know each other. So you suggested that we know each other better so if there's a chance when we kiss again we won't feel uncomfortable, and we're even able to move it further without feeling any discomfort. Am I correct?"

Well.. Maybe.. So I nodded.

"I guess so.."

He grinned wide, almost touched his eyes.

"what a naughty little cupcake!"he bopped my nose with his finger.

I touched it unwillingly . That's never happened to me before. I was a little bit surprised.

"let's get down." Then he walked away.
"you almost skip your breakfast. Henry made toasts"

I realized I was stunned in my feet before he walked further. I closed the door and walked behind him. I could saw his face was red. Is he blushing? That brought smile to my face.

We walked for several minutes. I looked at my surrounding but found no one.

"Where's the others?" I asked Theo wonderingly.

"everyone has something to do. They left before breakfast. Henry also left after he made you the toasts."

He answered my question when we entered the dining room. I could see the mountain of toasts on the table, accompanied by a few jars of jam. There's a strawberry jam, peanut butter, blueberry, chocolate, and one I didn't recognize. What's it?

I looked closer and saw the jar had no label. The color of the content was like strawberry jam, but it has darker color. It also didn't have any traces of seed, peel or texture of strawberry. Just red, very dark red.

"What's this?" I asked Theo. He's shocked seeing the jar. He took it from my hand.

"It's Henry's experiment. You won't want to know what's in it. It's horrible."

He walked to the kitchen to put the jar in the fridge.

Well.. That's not what I expected. He looked so anxious about that jar. Henry always made good food. Why this one's horrible? And if it's horrible, why Theo still keep it? Why didn't he just throw it away?

I wondered what's it's content, but I let that slide. He must had some reasons of his action. I then took a toast and put some peanut butter on it. Theo also did the same. We ate the toast.

"What will you do after this?" Theo asked.

I raised my shoulders, "maybe just sitting in the library, finding books for my project."

He nodded, "you wanna finish it today?"

I shook my head, "no.. It still has a long way to go. I just read some books to get the material. I still don't write anything yet." He nodded his head again while chewing his next toast.

"wanna go out with me?" when I bit my strawberry jam toast, he suddenly asked the question.

Did he just asking me out? I chewed my toast.

"to where?"

"I wanna buy something. That won't be long, I will go to a shop." He asked me not only with his words, but also his eyes. I could see his hope through them. Well.. That made it sound way more interesting.

Why not?

I nodded my head, "ok" then I could see his wide smile.