Ao Haru Ride - Our Little Secret

Chapter 1

It was never our point to hide our love from the world, from our friends, our family, but it was the best thing to do and you'll get why. Maybe some day we'll be able to tell the truth, because I hate lying, especially to Yuri-chan and Shuko.

"Futaba, wait for me."- when I look behind I saw Kou, running after me. I immediately stoped and standed near the professors room.

"Hurry up or will miss the train." - I said loudly enough so he could hear me.

And that was when the door of the professor's room opened suddenly and he came out. It was Kikuchi Touma. The things between us were still a little awkward since I had broken up with him because I still liked Kou, I mean not like, I actually loved Kou and I still do, but I never intended to break Kikuchi-kun's heart, but I couldn't do it anymore. I wish we could just go back being friends, but even though his friends hate me, I don't think that Kikuchi - kun hates me, I think that he's just hurt.

"Hi."- he said with an awkward expression. I kind of felt bad, but would have been worse if I had kept pretending to like him.

"Oh, hi."- I answered surprised. I definitively wasn't counting on that.- "I'm sorry, I didn't notice that the door had opened."

"It's alright, I'm just get going." - and he just walked away. That was way too awkward.

"There you are!" - I exclaimed when I saw that Kou was finally standing by my side.

"Let's just go home, alright?" - he was acting strangely, maybe he saw me talking with Kikuchi -kun and that's why, but I'm not sure.

On the way home he didn't said a thing and I started being worried. And then, I finally got the courage to ask him.

"Kou, you didn't said a thing since we left the school, are you okay?"- I wasn't sure if I was going to get a straight answer, but a least I decided to try.

"It's nothing, don't worry."- I wasn't convinced, so I decided to try one more time.

"Come on Kou, I know something's up, just talk with me, please, I'm your girlfriend after all. If you can't talk to me then with who will you talk with? And please don't say Kominato-kun." - I sounded so desperate.

"Alright, it just boders me that people thing bad things of you just because you dated Kikuchi when you still liked me and then left him for me." - hearing that I realized that the other students probably thought that I was a bitch and a slut and that probably bothered Kou because he really cares about me.

"Kou, I didn't realized that it bothered you that much. I'm sorry." - by saying that the tears started to roll over my face, but I haven't noticed yet, only after Kou starting to hug me and saying that it was ok.

"Hey, listen to me, its not your fault. You couldn't predict that this would happen. Come on, Futaba, stop crying please, I hate seeing you like this." - hearing those words made my heart skip a beat, even though we were already dating, sometimes he just made me feel like this, which I loved. -" You now what, let's do something before we go home, what do you say?"

He was just facing me with his cute dark brown eyes, I loved when he made that expression, and I couldn't resist saying no. -"Alright, fine, you know I can't resist when you look to me like that."- at the same time those words were coming out of my mouth, I smiled a little.

"See, you're smiling again already, you have a beautiful smile, you know?" - I blushed instantly. - "Come on, lets go"- he was really happy with my answer.

...

We step out of the train and started walking. I had no idea were he was taking me, so I was a bit anxious. I kept asking myself where were we going until I finally let my thoughts leave my head. - "Kou, where are we going? Are we there yet?"

"We're almost there, just a little more, alright?" - he said softly. His voice sounded so peaceful.

"My feet hurt already, and I'm starving. Can we stop and rest a bit?" - I knew what he was going to say, but I wanted to give it a shot.

"Don't worry, we're already there. So, what do you think?" - I stoop up my head and looked around. At the beginning I didn't saw anything special, but then I just felt it. It was a weird feeling, but I felt happy. It was a really beautiful greensward full of this amazing marigolds and this wonderful trees with this pretty pink flowers. The wind just made them fall from the tree, making a spectaculars view. - "It's speechless, isn't it?"- he was looking straight into my eyes.

"Yes, it's a perfect and a romantic view." - I answered looking to him with a big smile. I decided to tease him a little to see what he would say. - "So, how many girls have you bring here, I bet that were lots of girls." - I laughed

"None, you're the first one, so I thought it could be our secret place." - he winked and I blushed a little. He could be really cute when we wanted. I noticed that he was blushing a little too, so I thought about teasing him a little more.

"Why do we need a secret place? I mean, we already have the shelter on our old school, that for coincidence we always end up there when its raining." - I really wanted to see what he was going to say.

"It's because.. you know.. don't make me say things like this you know I'm going to be embarrassed.." - this was way to fun, I was trying hard not to laugh.

"Please, just say it." - I looked straight to his eyes, I knew he wasn't going to resist.

"Fine, it's because people who love each other should have a place where they can show their love to each other without anyone watching and comment what we're doing and mainly don't judge us for showing our love." - those words went straight to my heart and made me turn into a tomato, I was really red.

"I love you Kou" - by saying those words I approached him and kiss him deeply. After a while he gently pull apart and we just standed there looking to the landscape. 

He gently whispered to my ear - "I love you too. I wish we never had to leave this place, that we could stay here forever." - I turned around facing him with a huge smile and laugh. He pulled me closer kissing me. He's right, I wish we never have to go. This is really the perfect place for us. 

...

On the way home, we saw a couple taking a walk, they seemed happy. Seeing them holding each other hands with they fingers interlaced. How cute. That made me think that me and Kou didn't seem like a couple at all. I mean, some students now that we're dating, although some of those students hated me because they were friends with Kikuchi-kun and they weren't happy about what happened, but beside them and our friends, I can't think of anyone else who knows. We're quite discrete, but not on purpose. What would happen if everyone new about us? Would they hate me because of some girls have a crush on Kou? Or would they hate Kou because some boys have a crush on me? This last part seem a little unlikely, because of my image, which isn't the most feminine. I'm literally a boy's repellent.

"Futaba, what are you thinking now?"- hearing those words made me came back to earth.

"I was just thinking how the things would be if everyone knew that we are dating. It's silly, never mind."

"What are you saying, that would be amazing!" - was he serious? Maybe he was just messing up with me like always.

"Are you serious right now?" - I felt dumb by asking him this.

"Yeah, I am. Why? You thought I wasn't, didn't you?" - yep, I was really dumb.

"You're always messing up with me, so I thought that was one of those times" - I was really embarrassed. 

"I mean, it would be great if everyone knew the way we feel about each other. There are definitely a lot of couples on our school, but we wouldn't be the first one showing our love in public, besides, my brother isn't in the school anymore, so he wouldn't be annoying. Let's do this way: Tomorrow, we're going to walk to school together holding hands like that couple form earlier and even inside the school we're going to do that and see the people reaction, what do you say?" - he was really excited, the last time I saw him this way was when we made summer plans last year and even then he wasn't so exited like this.

"Let's do it!" - This was my answer and now I might regretted. 

This talk was the beginning of many lies, troubles, fights, discussions... I wish I never had said something like this, because was the worse thing that happened to all of us.