Prismatically Sweet

CHAPTER 6: "SILVER GELATO"

JAY' S P.O.V.
I turned out to be very confused by Leo but mostly by my response to him. I had never liked someone off the jump like I did him. Yes I did say like...of course no one knows about this, but I have to accept that it is what it is, even though I will keep to my resolve to say goodbye at the end of this vacation.

These past 4 days, after we meet, have been a world wind. The first day after our introduction we all went out to sight see the architectural beauty of the city. He made sure to take us to see the art gallery which I think was for my sake. I found that extremely sweet of him, to think of what I would like to see. I remember over hearing N saying: "Jay and Leo are as complicated as this painting I don' t even know how to start to figure them out!" What was so hard to put together about us? I wonder what he was referring to.

The second day we stayed at their bungalow, and spent the time watching our favorite anime movies. Turns out that we all are big fans of the same anime and well. Who would have guessed? At one point of the day we got so comfortable with each other that we were practically leaning on one another and he kept mumbling under his breathe. He even surprised me by saying: "In my life had I meet an otaku that was as normal as you?"

This was said by him in one of his soft spoken murmurs, to which I answered "You look like you stepped out of a manga. Has anyone told you that?" Why did I say that?

On the third day Pye gave us a cooking lesson, cookie making with Leo was fun. He has such a huge sweet tooth and an even bigger appetite. "Stop eating the dough or you'll be left without enough for your cookies, Leo!"

Pye sounded sweet but from experience I know she wasn't just kidding. In the kitchen things had to be done right but when N slipped and the flour from his mixing pan came up like white smoke, we all just laughed it up and dusted each other off. Leo helped dust the flour out my hair and wiped some off my check. I felt my face redden at his touch. It felt very intimate to have him so close.

On the fourth day, we took a day long hike up a mountain to an observatory, so we could do some constellation watching. I found myself looking at him and thinking to myself that he was as strange as the Milky Way. That was the day I realized that I started to like him without knowing.

We were standing taking turns to look into the telescope and I have no clue where Pye or N had wondered off to, when two young ladies came up to me. "Excuse me?" One of them made hand gesture for me to come to them. I walked over to them puzzled. "We are sorry to interrupt your date but can we ask you something?"

"It is not a date. What gave you that idea?" I was surprised that people saw it this way. Technically it was a date but I don't want it to seem that way.

"Well" the other girl said "We have been watching you and well he has never taken his eyes away from you. "Anyway we wanted to know if he is Jung Taek Woon, the singer songwriter." I didn' t know what to say but I wasn' t going to lie.

"Oh, are you fans of Taek Woon?"

"Who isn't?" They looked sheepish as the said together in almost a squeal.
"Can you get us his autograph? "

"I can try" I took their book and headed over to Leo. " Seems like you are very recognizable." He turned and looked at me like he didn't understand. "Those lovely girls over their want your autograph." I told him as I looked over my shoulder at the girls.

"Why didn't they ask me directly?" He looked kind of embarrassed.

"Well they didn't want to be disrespectful to your date." To that he gave a low chuckle and walked over with me toward the school girls. He was shy but sweet he asked their names and wrote a message to each one with his signature on it. Before we knew it other people recognized him and he ended up giving out more autographs.