A Teasing Love

Confessions

 Ako's POV

Butterflies fly in my stomach as I feel his warm lips brushing against mine. I'm glad that he understood the hint.

He hesitantly pulled away, not sure if he had understood the clue right. As he saw my bright smile, he smiles widely too.

"You have no idea for how long I waited to do this." He says and my hear skips a beat.

I go in my tip toes and kiss him again. He wraps his arm around my waist and my arms go to his neck. I smile in the kiss causing him to smile too.

We pull away, still in our positions. His eyes were carried with love as he looked at me.

I stroke his cheek with a warm smile.

"You know, if someone had told me a few weeks ago that I would be like this with you, I would call him crazy."

He smiles while leaning again. "Same here." And closes the gap between us again.

Mahiru's POV

"Well," He scratches the back of his neck. "This is not how I wanted things to go."

My heart drops and I find it difficult to breathe. My hands start trembling and I feel my eyes getting wet. I knew it. I got rejected. It seems that my heart is tearing apart and I can't do anything to fix it.

I was about to get up and apologize when he spoke.

"I mean I'm the boy. I should be the one to make the first move."

I look at him abruptly. What does that even mean? My heart is jumping and my head seems to spin around as I'm not understanding anything.

He didn't seem to notice. "In this cases I'm old school. I think that it should be the boy to confess first. But you, my dear, were faster than me." He finally moves his gaze to me with love on his eyes.

I was too confused to say something. My throat was dry and I was still trembling a bit.

He finally notices my state. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"I-I'm not understanding a thing, N-Nozomu." I stutter.

He grabs my hand and intertwines his fingers with mine. I look at it amazed.

"I like you too Mahiru." He confesses with a warm smile.

My heart was going crazy by now. "Y-You do? W-What about Aria?"

His gaze never lefts mine. "I liked Aria-chan. But you, Mahiru, are the girl that I like now. You are the only one that occupies my heart." He squeezes my hand.

I blink and my will was to pinch myself to make sure that this was reality.

"Are not you going to say anything?" He asks, his cheeks tinted pink.

"I'm having difficulties in thinking right now." I manage to say.

"So would you mind if I did a thing now?"

"A thing?" I ask, confused.

He was already leaning in. My body understood first what he was about to do because he was leaning in too. My brain understood later.

His lips were soft as I thought. One of my hands goes to his left cheek and Nozomu's hand goes to my right cheek. Happiness explodes inside me as we were kissing. Happiness not only because of that but also because I wasn't rejected.

We pull away just a bit so I can still feel his breath on my lips. His gaze was profound and I was feeling myself loosing energy.

We both smile. "So I suppose that we are dating now?" He whisper.