Nobody to Love

Our First Date

   It took us some time to walk to the center of the city, so we passed time by messing around and asking simple questions like our favorite music genre, live musicals we've seen, classical authors, etc. Since it was so late at night, not many places were open besides casinos, bars, and clubs. Sure we were in the city, but this place isn't like New York or L.A. where there's still crowds of people hanging out at night no matter how late it may be. All the restaurants, stores, and entertainment places were closed unless we found one that was open 24 hours. I know I planned to just stroll along the sidewalk at night but now that I'm actually doing it, it feels boring and I'm worried he's thinking the same thing.
  "Hey, don't stress so much. I know my work hours are crazy so it's expected to not find anything open right now. Anything we do is fine with me," Suga says to calm me down. I guess he could see through my calm act that I was panicking.
   "Want to try going to a bar or club? Maybe a casino?"
   "Um now that I think about it, I take back on saying anything," he says in a shy way and I laugh, it was kind of cute.
   "That's fine. I wanted things to be chill tonight so we could talk more because that's what we've been trying to do these last few days."
   "Me too, that's how I feel! I guess we could try looking for a store that's open right now and buy some snacks to take to a park or something."
   "Sounds good to me."

   At the store, we get half a basket full of snacks for us to share and of course I pay for it. As we're walking around looking for a good place to relax at, we find a 24 hour café. It's a little bit chilly outside so we get coffee to warm us up and when I'm about to pay, he places his hand on my arm.
   "I'll pay for the drinks since you payed for the snacks."
   "No it's fine, I'll pay."
   "You don't have to, I can pay for it."
   "Suga, I'm taking you on a date, so please allow me to pay for the coffee," I say, making the both of us blush.
   "That'll be $8.60 for the two coffees," the cashier says and I hand her the money as she hands us our drinks. "Have a nice date," she says making us blush even more.
   We walk a little slower this time so we can sip on our coffee. At first we were silent, trying to get over hearing what the cashier said to us but soon enough we started talking again. From aimless wondering around, we found a small shopping center that had a benches for us situate ourselves on. We talked some more and dug into the snacks we bought, enjoying the night sky and cool breeze. All was calm until Suga spotted water spouting out from the ground towards the back of the shopping center. It was one of those fountain things that had water shoot up from the ground and you were able to walk around and play in it. Suga got excited about this all of a sudden and says, "cmon, lets go! I wanna go see that fountain!"
    He takes me by the hand and we run to the fountain together. Without a second thought, he jumps right into the water and calls for me to join him. I take off my jacket and put down all of our stuff on a bench near by. I join him; we're running around in the water playing tag, laughing till our stomachs hurt, and overall having so much fun. All of this could've happened for only 10 minutes, but it felt like it lasted for hours. We finally stop running and stand there in the water laughing at all of this. I take a step closer to him and take a part of his hair blocking his face to put behind his ear. He has a shy smile on his face as he comes closer to me and bites his lip. This is it, it's that moment in the movies where everything is moving slow and we're about kiss. With each second we move a little bit closer to each other. He's parting his lips so it can fit with mine. I watch him close his eyes right before I close mine, his face right in front of me. We almost kiss but suddenly the water stopped spouting and a cold breeze hit us, sending shivers throughout our bodies.
   We walked out of the fountain, trying to squeeze out any water we can from our clothes,and went to the bench to grab our things. Both of our drinks weren't hot anymore and nearly empty so we threw those away. I picked up the bag of snacks and held out the jacket for Suga to use.
   "No, you're freezing. I don't want you to get sick tomorrow. You should use your jacket."
   "You're freezing too, and I don't want you getting sick tomorrow either. You can take my jacket and we'll rush to my apartment to warm up there. Does that sound fine?"
   "Yeah, let's do that," he says smiling at me, and turns around so I can help him put on the jacket.

   When we arrive at my apartment, I see Suga's bodyguard parked there but he's not in his car. I figure he's walking around waiting for Suga to call him. We walk in and I immediately turn up the temperature for the heater. I go to my closet to get towels and extra clothes for him to change into. His body is more slender than mine but we're the same height so my clothes should fit him fine.
   "Here, you can change into this. By the way, I saw the car your bodyguard drives parked outside. I think he expected you to call him for a ride home so he stayed back."
   "Yeah, I expected that. Thank you for the clothes."
   I heat up water on the stove so I can make hot tea for us to drink something and warm ourselves up. I turn down the temperature because I don't want it to be too hot in here, being a nervous wreck is already warming me up.
Seeing him walk out the bathroom wearing my clothes and having messy hair makes me blush and I can see him blushing too. I go to the bathroom and see that he nicely folded up the wet clothes he was wearing. I think I should put these in the dryer along with my clothes, so I get undress and walk out the door with a towel wrapped around my waist and Suga is standing there.
   "Oh my god I'm so sorry, I was just about to knock on the door and tell you that I accidentally left my clothes in the bathroom," he says being super flustered and starting to get red.
   "I-it's fine, I was going to ask you if you wanted me to throw them in the dryer."
  "Yeah, that's fine..," he says like he's embarrassed, and then quickly looks me up and down. He immediately gets red.
   "Hey, Suga, you alright?"
   "Y-yeah, I'm fine. I-I'll just go to the living room now."
    I put both of our clothes in the dryer and go back into the bathroom to change. By the time I'm done, I've only then just realized that I had that whole conversation with Suga, being half naked, and now my whole face is red.

"Do you want a blanket? I can get one if you're still cold," I say walking to the couch.
"No, I'll be fine. Thank you, though. And thank you for the hot tea."
"No problem, I hope you enjoyed it."
"I sure did..," he says as he gets up and reaches over me to place his cup down on a coffee table. But he accidentally loses his balance and falls onto my lap. He quickly scoots to the side to sit back onto the couch. "Oh my god, sorry I didn't mean to fall onto you like that!"
"Hahaha! It's fine, Suga. I guess you're just falling for me," I say with a smirk that makes him blush.
"I guess I am," he says softly as we gaze into each other's eyes for a short moment. I notice him look down at my lips, and I do the same thing. We move in closer, heads turning to the side for us to kiss. Our lips are barely touching and he puts his hand on my shoulder. Everything is still and we're a second right before our lips twine together, but then he gets a phone call. His hand quickly slides off my shoulder and touches my chest, sending a shiver throughout my body. Mad and embarrassed, he whispers "shit" to himself and he answers his phone, it's his body guard. "Sorry, that was you know who. He's back so I'll be going now."
We both get up to walk to the door and he says, "thank you for tonight, I really enjoyed being with you. I guess I'll see you at my next show." He's going to open the door and leave, but I don't want to end this amazing day like this. We were just about to kiss and now he's already leaving. I have to make a move, this is my last chance.
"Wait!," I reach in front of him to close the door. I put a hand on his shoulder directing him to turn around and face me. He looks at me with a curious face, I know he's waiting for me to do something.
"Yeah?," he relaxes and leans against the door as I stand in front of him, sort of pining him back. I really didn't think this through, what the hell am I doing? I guess any bold move I make right now would help me out instead of standing here doing nothing. We're staring at each other, he's waiting and I'm tensing up. I cup his face with my hands, hesitate for a second, then kiss him. We stand still, enjoying what we have right now. Soon our lips start to move a little bit more, but still slower than our uncontrollably fast beating hearts. This moment feels so right, I want to stay like this longer. But I know he has to go, so I stop to look at him and he opens his eyes to look at me too.
"I'd like to thank you as well for tonight. And just know we have more dates to come after this."
"I'll be looking forward to all of them." I open the door for him and he walks off to his car. I wait to see them drive off and wave goodbye. I clean up a little bit and hear the dryer stop. I guess I'll have to see him soon to return his clothes. I clean up the kitchen and find a letter next to the tea saying, "thank you for the tea Daichi. Btw here's my number ..." I don't use my phone often but I guess it's good that I have his number now. I send him a text telling him it's me and he replies right away with 'hey ^.^'. I'll reply to him in the morning, for right now, I'm going to get some sleep and dream of everything that happened today.