Guardian Angel | Toru

Chapter 3: The Beginning

It took longer than I thought, but I eventually finish water coloring my client's banner. Right now, it is 11:00 PM | 23:00 and I feel as though I am going to pass out from exhaustion. I feel even more tired than usual because of the call I got a few hours ago. It just won't escape the back of my mind at all. I don't even know if I heard everything the man said correctly. I have never refused any of my client's requests before and I wasn't going to stop then.

Resting for a bit won't hurt...

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"Excuse me."

"Five more minutes....," I groggily mumble as I continue to rest my head on top of my not so clean desk.

"What..?"

Woah. What a deep voice.

Hearing such a voice makes me slowly and slightly open my tired eyes. Realizing where I still am, I feel as if my eyes pop out while the top half of my body quickly jolts up. Once that happens, the light shining from the sun that seeps through the glass windows ahead blind me, causing me to squint at such a sight. But when it comes to the tall figure in front of me...

"GAHHh," I scream and jump in shock, almost falling off my chair.

Because of instinct, I hold onto the edge of my desk right when I feel the chair sliding and tilting to prevent myself from making an even bigger fool of myself by falling. I then rub and blink my eyes a few times in order to get a clearer vision of the person in front of me.

"Good morning. My name is Toru and I'm here because you said you agreed to work on the album cover for ONE OK ROCK?" the man in front of me bows in respect and then speaks.

Before speaking though, I swear I almost see him break into a chuckle since I catch his lips crack into a side smile.

"That's right- That's right! I'm sorry for the informal introduction. I assumed that I was supposed to be contacted beforehand, so I wasn't ready," I unwillingly shout while quickly getting up from my seat to respectfully bow back and apologize.

"My name is Y/N and you said you are..?"

"It's Toru. Nice to meet you."

"You too."

We both speak and slightly bow to each other again.

Wait....TORU???!!!!!!!

"Instead of my manager, I thought it would be better if I came to see you in person. I have a rough sketch of how we want the cover to look like," he speaks again, trying to take out a folded piece of paper out of one of his pants pocket.

To not make the situation worse, I hold my words in and quickly take a glance up and down at the tall yet slim man before my eyes. If I can compare him with a picture I would, but there is no need to because he really is Toru from ONE OK ROCK. The hot but also cute, tall leader with dyed hair who I despise. Did I just compliment him? No. I just used my little sister's own words to describe him....Okay, I admit he is pretty good looking, but that is not going to change my view of the guy.

Toru, who has black shades lifted up to rest on the crown of his head, a plain shirt with dark-colored faded jeans, and a pair of running shoes, unfolds a folded piece of paper and slides next to me to show me a sketch of a drawing.

"This is what we're expecting it to turn out as."

Toru then explains how him, Taka, Tomoya and Ryota want everything to turn out. Most of the time, I can't pay attention or listen to what he is saying, zoning out.