Muse On Ice

16.

This time at Shibuya station, I'm not lucky enough to navigate through without any hiccups. But I guess the empty shinkansen on the way here makes up for it.

I arrived at the cafe 5 minutes early, so I took a seat where we sat the last time. I toy with the charm on my phone, waiting for Yuzuru. Why am I so nervous? It's not like this is a date or anything.

*Yuzuru's POV*

The soft sound of bells ring in my ear as I enter the cafe. I scan the room, my vision darting from one person to another, until I land on a familiar silhouette. I go towards her, smiling politely as I take a seat. She fumbles with her phone, trying to stand to greet me. I wave my hand, gesturing for her to sit down. I order two coffees for us, an americano for her, and an iced latte for me.

I take out my IPad, showing her my plan for my new program. A messy whiteboard filled with notes and pictures, which I spent the last few weeks working on, I guide her through it, showing her everything, all my ideas, my doubts, my planned jumps, including one quad axel, and costume ideas. She listens to my every word, nodding occasionally. I really need to thank her for being so patient with me.

After I'm done, she takes out her sketchbook, adorned with drawings and stickers of every colour on the cover. She starts sketching out a base of me, then drawing on something like a long coat, followed by a shirt under it. She shades it black, or is it gray? She finishes off with drawing on some cool-guy biker fingerless gloves. She writes down notes at the side, arrowing them to different parts of the sketch, then pushing the sketchbook to me.

" It's really messy, but are you maybe thinking something like this?"

I study the sketch, reading the notes at the side and processing everything. She takes out some small patches of fabric in a clump, and picks out some and places it next to me.

*Suzuka's POV*

I wait for his reaction, though it's not the best work of mine, I'm just too excited for some reason. He goes back to his IPad, and opens a pinterest board, and shows it to me.

Its filled with some video game character, its oddly familiar, maybe Himari played this game before.

" I'm thinking something more... like knight-y.. If that makes any sense." He chuckles, pressing two fingers on his temple.

I try to think of something, but I can't focus. I can feel his gaze that I've wanted so desperately lately, and I'm looking everywhere but him.

I finally turn to him after my inner-voice hyping me up for a minute or two.

" What?" Shit. That sounded so rude.

He smiles at me, like the smile when we were in "The Elevator"

" Nothing, just... you seem stressed. Don't be. Nothing I showed you is official, you are the first person to see all these, not even my mom knows, so no deadline, no pressure, just have fun with it."

I try to nod, and I'm sure that came out totally weird, but I couldn't care less.

He turns toward his black messenger bag, and takes out a small white gift bag and hands it to me.

" Your necklace."

This is definitely going to be reported to Himari.

sorry for not posting anyth for A WHILE im back frm vacation rn so ill have more time to write and publish smt:))

-sophia