Our Little Story (A saiouma story)

Episode 8: Freezer Hugs

3rd Person POV

Both boys awake on their 7th day of the 10 day period. They sat up in their beds and blushed at the events that occured the day prier. Both came to the conclusion that they may like the other, and liked their pressence. They got dressed and opened their door to go to the dinning hall. On their way out of their dorms, they spot each other and walk together, chatting. Shuichi has a slight blush on his face, and Kokichi is doing his best to hide his. Kokichi decided to sleep in today, just so he could walk with the detective, even though he would have to miss his morning time with Kirumi. The boys sit next to each other while they eat, Kokichi is teasing Shuichi, and Shuichi becoming more flustered. 

When they arrived, most students were already there. It seemed that the others have also been getting closer to each other, seeing as they would sit next to them and talk about many things in a comfortable manner. Everyone else finishes their breakfast, and the two boys stay in the dinning hall to continue their chat about random topics. Shuichi gives the leader another ticket, feeling the thumping in his chest become more audible in his ears. Kokichi put it in his pocket like he normally would. He's been collecting and pinning the tickets he's recived from Shuichi on his wall. He would always blush whenever he looked at them, and feel his heart skip a beat when thinking about him.

"What should we do today, Kokichi?" Shuichi asks.

"Hmmmmm....let's have another tea party Shuichi!" 

"Okay."

Kokichi's POV

I run to the kitchen to get some tea cups and tea. I remember Shuichi liking green tea, so I make him some, and I get myself peppermint tea with LOTS of sugar. I walk back to Shuichi with a big grin plastered on my face. 

"Thank you Kokichi." He says with a blush. I giggle at his red face and sit across from him.

"Your very welcome Mr. Detective."

We drink our tea and chat. I've noticed that he's more composted and comfortable talking to me than others. It makes me happy he feels comfortable with me. We finish our tea, and I suddenly get a fun idea.

"Hey Shuichi...." I say.

"Yes?"

"Let's have a competition!"

"Okay. What kind of competition?"

A grin appears on my mouth as I stand up.

"Let's see who can last in the freezer the longest!" The freezer is surprisingly big, so we can both fit in there. 

"Um..why?" Shuichi asks with a tint of nervousness in his voice.

"Cuz it's fun!!" I exclaim.

".....I guess it couldn't hurt to try." 

"That's the spirit Shuichi!"

I led Shuichi to the freezer and opened the door. He took a pause, and hesitently walked into the freezer, myself walking in after him. The freezer doesn't lock so I closed the door and reasured him of it. The freezer wasn't very cold. I decided to make conversation with him so make time go by faster.

We took turns asking each other questions. I asked about the reason he wears his hat. He said that after he solved his first detective case, the culprit gave him a look that pracitcally scarred him. And because of that he doesn't like looking people in the eye. I've noticed that when we hang out, he looks at me more than he would look at others. Suddenly the cold air surrounding me, became warm as I started blushing. I let it stay, seeing how I would last longer in the cold with it.

Shuichi on the other hand, was shivering. 

"Feeling cold Shuichi?" I asked with a smirk.

He doesn't respond and just continues to shake. I shuffle over to him and wrap my arms around. Not only is it a way to get closer to him, but because we are in a cold place, it isn't out of the ordinary that I do that!....Right?

His body becomes super warm and his face is noticably red. He wraps his arms around me and my body warms up as well. I feel....safe in his arms. We stay in that position for a few more minutes, until I pull away and stand up.

"Well, I think that's enough! If we stay in here any longer we'd be popcicles!" I exclaim, reaching a hand out to him. 

He takes his hand in mine and stand up still shivering a little.

"W-why'd we even g-go in there?" Shuichi stutters.

"Because it's fun!" I say throwing my arms in the air.

"I wouldn't really call that 'fun'."

"Then why'd you agree to it if it wasn't fun?" I ask with my signiture smirk.

He looks away with a blush tinted onto his cute face.

As a way of warming up, we gather some blankets and go to the AV room again. We both sit on the couch together with blankets covering us. I move closer to him until we are almost cuddling together. I rest my head on his shoulder and I can feel his body becoming significantly warmer. We put on a movie and he wraps an arm around me, looking away. I cuddle into his shoulder and continue to watch the movie.

After a while, I look over to him. He's sleeping. He's cuddled into the blankets which make him look ten times cuter. I chuckle and let him sleep for a little while longer. After about ten more minutes, I nudge him awake. His half-awake face makes me smile and blush. We go our seperate ways. I go to my dorm, and cover my face with my hands and let out my blush once I close the door to the room. I hugged him and we basically cuddled together!! I plop on my bed after changing into some comfortable clothes.

I really do like him huh? The thought never really occured to me until I talked to Kirumi about it. Does he like me? His blushing face says a lot but I can't know for sure. Everything about him makes my heart skip a beat. From his adorable face, to his amazing personality. I've thought about my dream guy before but, I never thought I could ever potentially meet him. Just saying that in my head makes me cringe. And with Shuichi in my mind, I close my eyes and let sleep engulf me.

I hope he likes me, because I don't think there's anyone who could ever top him.

I didn't have a whole lot of ideas for this one, sorry. Anyways Happy New Years!! The end of this story should be approching soon. Thank you for reading! <3