Can I help?

Chapter 9

Hide's P.O.V.

I was still sleeping when there was footsteps coming to my bedroom before something walked over and sat on the edge. Then they started to lightly shake me.

"Hide, wake up, please." I heard what sounded like Kaneki. I groaned before opening my eyes. I looked up at him, he wasn't wearing his reading glasses or black jacket.

"Is something wrong?" I asked as I rolled onto my back and rubbed my eyes. He seemed to get a little nervous.

"I-I, uh, can't sleep." He said before I looked at him.

"Why not? Is my couch uncomfortable?"

"No, I don't really know why I can't sleep right now."

"You want to lay down with me? Will that help?" I said before he blushed.

"Yeah, maybe."

"Okay, come on." I said before pulling up the blanket let him under. He laid down next to me on his side with his back turn to me. I made sure the blanket was over him before I rolled onto my side and wrapped my arms around him. We laid there for a little bit before he said something.

"Can you please talk to me?" He said.

"What did you want to talk about?"

"I don't know just something."

"Will talking to you help you fall asleep?"

"Maybe."

"What do you usually do when you can't sleep?"

"Work on the book I'm working on. Or if I don't have a book to work on, I try to find ideas for a new one. Or take a sleeping pill, but I don't know if you have any."

"I don't because I don't usually have trouble falling asleep. How about you talk about Ichika when she was younger? I don't think you told me a lot about that."

"You don't have kids do you?"

"Nope, never really been married either. But I was engaged once."

"To who?"

"My boyfriend at time, but we weren't working out before our wedding. Least we broke up before we got married because a divorce can be hard to do."

"Yeah, no kidding. I guess you're still wanting me to tell you about Ichika."

"Yep."

"Okay then, she was born a bit early. She was supposed to be born on December 28th, but she choose to come on the 2nd of December. The joke before she was born was she was going to be my late birthday present. After she was born the joke changed into she was my early birthday present."

"When is your birthday?"

"December 20th. Ichika was really small, but not dangerously so. Just an affect of being born early. She was a normal baby, you couldn't see something was up with her. One time when Ichika was two years old, me, Touka, and Ichika went to rabbit island for Touka's birthday. I was pulling Ichika in a little red wagon and an officer came by and gave her a ticket for being to cute. Because she was sleeping on her back and had her sun hat under her head."

"Did you actually have to pay the ticket?"

"No, it was just a joke. Since Touka had a normal day job and I was usually home writing a book, I ended up taking care of Ichika during the day. I basically became a stay at home dad, and still am. We least didn't have to pay a babysitter, or leave her with one of her uncles everyday. Because they of work they need to do."

"What do they do for work?"

"They both work at a place where they have to do a lot of leafing. I think it's some sort of factory hat makes magazines but don't really use mercies to pick up the loads, probably to save money. So, can imagine they're both a little buff. But Ayato dose airbrushing on the side as a hobby and a little extra money."

"He's an artist I guess."

"Yeah kinda. He's really good at it too." We just continued to talk back forth after that for a little while. And as I thought we were both falling asleep, I accidentally mumbled out an I love you. To which he stiffed and I figured out what I said. I was about to apologize before he rolled over to face me. He had a pink blush painted on his cheeks and tears were forming in his eyes. We just blanked at each other for a few moments before he said something.

"Really?" He asked.

"Yeah, I guess. I didn't mean to mumble that out. I think I'm just really tired. Maybe I shouldn't had said that on only our second date. I'm probably saying that a bit quickly and..." I was about to continue to ramble before he nuzzled his nose into my chest. I stopped talking and blushed.

"It's okay. I don't mind. I guess I love you too."

"O-Okay then." I said before he put a hand on my cheek and looked up at me. We just stared at each other for a little bit. The baby fat on his cheeks, his beautiful steel grey eyes, the blush on his cheeks, and his perfectly kissable lips. Before I knew it we were leaning in for a kiss. Our lips met for a sweet little kiss. His hands were on my chest. When we pulled away, he smiled at me and I smiled back. Then he snuggled into my chest and wrapped his arms around my torso. I wrapped my arms around him too. We both fell asleep with a smile on our faces.

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