Smile For Me

Our Everyday

Since then he has always been following me.

Everyday went as usual we would go to school, eat and talk.

It was nice talking to someone.

Or was it because it was him I was talking with?

Wait?

What the hell was I thinking?

"Hey! Shuichi! I'm here!"

I snapped back to reality by this guy here calling my name while shaking his hand in front of me.

"What is it?"

"It's nothing! I just wanted to say your name!"

His smile was gentle, but because of that smile I was lost in thought again unable to realize that he was already caressing my cheek.

"Stop it. There's nothing good about my name"

I tried taking his hands off my cheek.

But he suddenly cupped both of them with his hands. Despite of his smile being bright and warm his hands were the opposite, it was cold.

Leaning in and looking straight at my eyes.

"There IS something good about your name.........."

"Because It's YOURS....."

I suddenly felt my cheeks heating up.

"The more reason as to not like it more..."

Letting go of his hold on my face. He opened the paperbag he was carrying, grabbing a piece of sandwich from inside, taking a bite of his sandwich and gulping it down.

"It's because that's the name your parents gave you isn't it? They must have thought about it a lot before giving it to you. No ?"

Parents huh?

"They did."

"And if your name is what makes you as Shuichi isn't it good enough as it is ?"

Giving me his signature smile at the end.

"Why are you like this?"

"Like what?"

"Like making me feel like I mean something when I really don't in the first place? I've done nothing but be the kid who always try to hide from his peers, uninteresting, a loner with nothing good at but solving crimes?!"

I don't know why I was getting so emotional over this but my heart feels like its about to explode just like when I'm reading a book, waiting for what's to come.

He cupped my face with one of his hands and the touch gave me a bit of a tingling sensation.

"Because you are...."

It felt like the world stopped for a moment.

"For someone who is a junior detective you should have determined what you are to me based on the evidence alone...."

"Huh....?"

"What I'm saying is...."

He was slowly closing the gap between us.....

"I Like You"

The once small space between us was no more as he kissed me on my lips.