Wait for You (wlw) (Bitter spin-off)

twenty-nine

Mei's pov

"We've been dating for less than three days and you want me to meet your parents?" I asked as we got off the train.

"I didn't mean it in that way! Like, not in a making a big deal about it way. But we're both leaving again tomorrow and since my parents wouldn't care if you come over, it'd be nice to spend one last night together. I swear they'll be completely cool about it, knowing them. And they won't be home until later tonight anyway" she said.

"Are you sure?" I asked, still not fully convinced. "I don't want it to seem like I'm inviting myself in your house"

"You're not because I'm inviting you" she said. "If you don't feel like it, that's okay. It was just a suggestion. We still have this afternoon and tomorrow morning to spend time together" she added in a reassuring tone.

"No, I'd like to come to your house. If you really think your parents wouldn't make a big deal about, well, us" I said. "And it's not that I'm scared that this will mean we're like, official, I'm happy about that. Of course I am. I'm just maybe still not that good at these things, relationships and all, and...it's not you, it really isn't. I just-"

"Mei" Vic cut me off as she stopped walking. "Those thoughts didn't even cross my mind. It's okay, we don't need to do anything you're not comfortable with. It was just a thought"

"Okay" I said, taking a deep breath in. "Sorry for-" I started to say, but she kissed me before I could end the sentence.

"Don't be sorry" she said with a reassuring smile.

"I...okay" I repeated. "I do want to come to your house, though"

"Yeah?"

I just nodded as she squeezed my hand, realizing how I definitely wouldn't have accepted something like that in any other previous relationship. It would have probably made me freak out and make some stupid excuse up to get away from it. But I actually didn't mind at all.

Just twenty minutes later we ended up on the rooftop above Vic's bedroom, the one we had our first kiss on. Or our first romantic kiss, at least. She'd taken me back there a few times after that during the summer, but it would always inevitably lead me to remember that moment, the anticipation and the excitement of it.

"This place certainly brings back some memories" Vic said, as if she'd just read my mind.

"It does, doesn't it?" I nodded. "I'll never forget that moment"

"Yeah, me neither. It seems like just yesterday"

"Definitely" I agreed, moving closer to her. "What made you want to kiss me that day in the first place?"

"You just looked very kissable" she said with a giggle.

"What does that even mean?" I shook my head.

"Okay, well...I guess I just felt like something was changing between us, there was something more than friendship with occasional benefits. We'd opened up to each other and I could tell you didn't allow yourself to be so vulnerable with many people. Something just clicked in me once we were up here looking at the sunset together, I couldn't keep denying what I felt for you. Which sounds very cheesy, I know. But you asked" she said, leaning her forehead against mine.

"It's not cheesy" I laughed lightly. "I felt the same. I wasn't completely sure on what I was feeling at the time, but I definitely felt the same"

"If I hadn't kissed you, you wouldn't have had the balls to be the one to initiate it" she confidently said.

"What? That's absolutely not true" I immediately said, crossing my arms in disapproval.

"It is" she giggled. "It's okay, though. Everything turned out to be fine, and that's what counts"