Be Mine

Chapter 8: Bowling

                 

It's been a week since Subaru found out about my feelings for him. I wish I could say that he felt the same for me. But it's the opposite. Things have become a little awkward between us. So much that our other three friends have noticed. To make everything worse, Mai has been trying really hard to get Subaru back. I do hope that's what the problem is and it has nothing to do with something I have done.

         I can tell that something has been bothering him as of late. He seems really distant. Like his mind is else were. Every once and a while I would find him with a confused look on his face. Like he was thinking really hard about something. I would try to ask him about it. He would always shrug it off and tell me it was nothing for me to be concerned about.

The thing is, it does concern me. I worry for my dear friend. I can tell that something is bothering him. I hate seeing him like this. All I want is to see him happy. To see that happy care free look on his face. I just wish that he would tell me what's wrong so I can figure out a way to help him.

That's what I thought of now as I sit on a chair. Watching as the brown headed vocalist takes a drink of water. Putting the lid back on the water bottle, his eyes traveled over to me. He noticed that I was staring at him. I quickly averted my eyes away from him. When I looked back up he was smiling at me. Smiling that cute smile of his. "Why were you staring at me?" he asked. Sounding a bit innocent.

         A light blush colored my checks. Embarrassed that he caught me staring at him. "I... um... Sorry I was just thinking." It was true. I was thinking. To deep in thought to notice that I've been staring at him. I really hope that he doesn't think that I was thinking of anything perverted about him.

The sweet innocent smile that he was wearing only seconds ago turned into a sly smile. "Thinking we're you?" he walked closer to me. Stopping only feet away from me. Smiling all the while. "What were you thinking about?" he asked. He lowered his voice a few notches. Making it seem like he was flirting with me. Wait is he flirting with me? No, he's probably just messing around.

I shook my head. "Don't worry it was nothing bad. I was just thinking about our music is all." I lied. I knew that if I told him what I was really thinking about he would be worried. Then things between us would get awkward again. That's the last thing that I wanted. I didn't want to push too hard to get answers. I knew that he would tell me what's bothering him when he is ready.

Slowly, he nods his head. Raising an eye brow at me as if he didn't believe me. He opened his mouth to speak but before he was able to say anything Kazuki walked into the room. "I have an idea." He announces. Walking over to us. Following close behind him were Tomoya and Koudai. All of them were smiling. Oh god. They have something planned. Subaru and I turned to look at the other three that just joined us. "To help get rid of all the stress that we have I thought that we should go bowling tonight. It would give us a chance to mess around and acts like the immature teen agers that we all know we are."

He smiled at the idea. It would give a nice opportunity to relax. Allowing us to mess around. And hopefully it will ease the tension between Subaru and I. it will defiantly help get our minds off things. I nodded my head in agreement. Liking the whole idea. "Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun." I said, giving my friends a toothy grin.

Subaru agreed with Kazuki's idea. Once we all agreed we headed out of the studio. Not having to put our interments in their cases, for they were already put away. Leaving the building we went down to the train station. Taking the train that lead into the down town area. From the train station we walked to the bowling alley.

It wasn't that bad of a walk. In fact it was rather relaxing. The air was warm but had a slight breeze. Cooling the air off. It was night time all ready. The sky was dark. The moon luminescing the night sky. Quite a few stars were seen from where we were walking. Although the city light did make it hard to see the stars. Not a lot of people were out tonight. As we walked we joked around with each other. Doing mostly small talk. Discussing music and what we should do for our upcoming lives.