Poppy and Lotus [COMPLETE]

•❀Eight❀•

"Aomori-San! What a pleasant surprise!"

I jump excitedly out of my seat and reach to shake Hinata's hand the moment he walks through the door. As always, he was smiling brighter than ever and lit up the tiny, barren (for now) Flapp club room. Not to mention he looked like an angel with his long blond hair pulled into a small ponytail.

I had a thing for guys with long hair...

Hinata's long graceful legs carried him over within minutes. He had a very intimidating height -- I think I'd overheard someone say he was about 6'3? He had to be over 2 heads taller than me.

I had a thing for guys who were tall, too!

"You're surprised? You were staring at me so intently during your presentation I felt I had no choice but to join." Hinata handed me the paper and I barley even had to glance at it to know I wanted him in my club. Someone as beautiful as him? TONS of girls at our school would want to join.

"Just a little surprised...I thought someone like you might be too busy..."

"Of course not."  Hinata looked me deeply in the eyes and I had absolutely no idea what to do except stand there and stare back at him bashfully. I began to sweat drop and blush all at the same time. Hinata's gorgeous gaze made me feel like a little school girl. I mean....I already was but...

"Hinata! My man! Nice to see you!"

I roll my eyes when Ren stood out of his chair to slice his arm in between the two of us and shake Hinata's hand. Hinata's gaze left mine and the spell wore off as he smiled kindly at Ren. I'd known since freshman year that the two of them were pretty good friends. I think the popular kids in school are usually in the same sort of clique, as much as they'd deny their popularity having anything to do with it.

I sit down at the desk and review Hinata's application very briefly. Even though it wasn't necessary -- I really wanted him as a club member and it was exciting to receive it, I knew the best thing to do was wait at least a few days to give him the news.

Hinata and Ren spoke at least 10 minutes about some kind of game they'd seen on TV last night while I looked at other applications. When I sifted through at least all 25 of what I'd gotten so far (even the ones that Ren stamped "REJECTION" on for the dumbest reasons), I put all the papers down and took a nice deep, satisfied breath. Hinata said goodbye to us both and headed out of the room.

Ren sat back down at my side as I played something on my phone, and for a moment we just sat in silence. I could feel his eyes on me the entire time, but just decided to wait for him to say whatever he was planning too.

But my patience was running thin. I was getting annoyed the more time dragged on, so I set my phone down and turned to see him looking at me expectantly with his enchanting blue eyes. He looked like a little kid anticipating a moment of praise for his hard work.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" I laughed uncomfortably and Ren slid an arm in between the seat and my back to pull me close to him. I decide not to fight against his show of affection and simply look up at him with a raised brow in anticipation of his explanation.

"Ayame..." he leaned close so his warm breath was on my cheek. His voice became low and playful in my ear.

"...Let's go on a date, shall we?"

SugarSugarHeart and BonbonLove's July 31 Day Writing Challenge Day 9

The two of us will post a chapter every day this month of one of our stories! If life happens and we don't get a chapter up, we make up for the days with that number of updates (multiples) in one day. Or just as much as possible before the month is out lol.