Can I help?

Chapter 4

A few days later...

Hide's P.O.V.

I was at a after school thing. It was basically students showing off what they did in art and/or writing class. I came here because I said I would be here to support some my students that were in it. Ichika was here to, but she didn't preform. I guess she had to help the teacher out. Which meant Kaneki was here too, because he would have to take her home. I've been thinking about them both lately. More about what he told me, and maybe him. I can't get my mind off him. It's like I'm a high school girl with a crush. I sometimes stay up at night thinking about him. I know I'm gay, I just don't know about him. Because he doesn't look like he's looking to get in an relationship again. He's already tried and kinda failed. That and I don't know if I'm allowed to date a student's parent.

The show was eventually over and the parents got up, along with their kids. There was other teachers here besides me. Some parents started talking to the teachers. I got up and started talking to this one parent. After a little bit, some one tugged on my shirt. I turned around and saw it was Ichika.

"Hey Ichika." I said as I bent down to her level. She held my arm and tugged on me. "What is it?" She just continued to tug on my arm, I guess she wanted me to follow her. "Sorry, I'll go see what she needs." I said to the parent I was talking to before following Ichika. She held my arm the whole way. She lead me to her dad, he was talking to Ms. Mado. Ichika got his attention when we got to him.

"Ichika, I told you to stay near me. There's a lot people here I don't want to lose you." He said when turned around and bent down, I don't think he noticed me. So, Ichika pointed to me. Then he looked up. "Oh, hey. Did she go get you?"

"Yeah, she did." Great, now I'm getting nervous. Then Ms. Mado gave me a playful punch on the back. Like she was telling me to do something. I did talk about Kaneki once when we were eating lunch and grading papers together. She's the only one that kinda knows about I feel about him. And I guess Ichika joined in. I wanted to sighed at this, but didn't.

"Can I ask you something?" I said.

"Yeah. You don't always have to ask to ask me something, you know."

"Alright, uh, wha-what was can we exchange ph-phone numbers, so could I could keep you updated on Ichika when she's at school?" I could feel Ichika and Ms. Mado face-plant.

"Sure." He said as he started to get his phone out of his back pocket. Then Ichika hit, more like a hard pat, on my back. "Ichika, you know you aren't allowed to hit people." He said in a stern voice. But she push herself up against me, but not hard enough to push me over.

"I-I was also wondering if you would like to hang out sometime?" I said before Ichika hit my back again. "Date! I mean date!" He just looked at me for a couple seconds. It was like touring minutes to me.

"I don't really see why not." He said before I let out a sigh of relief. But at the same time, I felt like he was saying that to be nice. We did exchange phone numbers before we went home.

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