Love Song For The Broken Heart

Chapter 8: Building The Trust

Word Count: 1848

Kota's POV:
I looked through the list I made up and sighed to myself, I can't believe that I'm actually going to go through with this I mean this was Nagito's idea but its gonna make me look like and absolute moron, ah well no backing out now, here goes nothing. I walked out of my room and down the hall until I was standing outside of Kiera's room I knocked on the door and waited until she answered it. Once the door opened she smiled when she saw me and stepped back so I could come inside,

''hey Kota what's up?'' She asked 

''um I was wondering, you know how you've started to trust me a little I was thinking that, you know if you wanted we could do a few trust exercises and games together to maybe build that trust a little stronger. I know it sounds stupid but.......are you laughing?'' I asked trailing off when I noticed her trying to hold back her laughter 

''snrk......hehe I.....sorry but you wanna do stuff like......trust falls? Hahahaha!'' she giggled before bursting out into full on laughter, so much so that tears started to from in the corner of her eyes and she was gripping her stomach since she was laughing so hard. 

See normally I would be insulted but to be honest this was the first time I got to see her laugh like she meant it and not only that she had been smiling a lot more around me recently and it made me happy to see that even if it was slow and bit by bit that she was gradually feeling a bit better about her life here and that she was starting to want to be around me more. I mean just yesterday she was asking me if I would go over a couple lines with her in the script but when we went over it she got it perfect as if that was just an excuse to spend time with me,

''I'm sorry Kota I didn't mean to laugh at your idea'' she said after finally calming down at least to the point where she didn't need the wall to keep her balance, I smirked slightly

''its fine laugh all you want after all it was Nagito's idea I just thought it would be funny to go along with it and see what happened haha'' I said laughing at how ridiculous the idea really sounded coming out of my mouth, she giggled again then placed her hand on my shoulder, which was becoming more regular too she didn't mind sitting closer to me or lightly touching my shoulders it was nice 

''no its actually a really good idea, I really wouldn't mind spending some more time with you to build my trust, I would love to be able to depend on someone and trust them again. Its been hard but you've been making it so much easier so thank you Kota, now come on lets go to your room and see Nagito's idea's for this'' she said with a smile as she walked out of her room and towards mines. I placed my hand on my shoulder where hers was just seconds ago and felt myself smiling and blushing to myself,

'she just said she doesn't mind spending more time with me, and that I've made this easier on her because she wants to be able to trust me. That makes me happy just like her smile and laugh does' I thought to myself, yeah as this trust building time had been going on I had started developing a small amount of romantic feelings for her. I didn't know where they came from and they were only faint but they felt right non the less

''are you coming Ko?'' Kiera's voice snapped me out of my thoughts as she said my nickname that normally only Nagito called me when he was joking around I could feel myself starting to blush more but I forced it down and turned around with a smile,

''yeah I'm coming!'' I replied as I followed her back to my room, I showed her the paper that Nagi had written up making her giggle at a few of the options but we picked out a few we liked and decided to go with them, we started with the basic ones like the trust fall.

''Y... Your sure you'll catch me right? I'm not the fondest of heights'' Kiera muttered as she stood on the edge of my bed with her back to me,

''that's another new thing I know about you now huh? And I promise I'll catch you, trust me'' I said with a gentle smile, even though she couldn't see it she seemed to relax a lot more and nodded