Beside You - RamKing

Chapter 9

* Rams PoV *

"Can you do me a favor?"

I chuckled slightly when reading the question and gave him a bright smile before saying:

"Sure, whatever you want, P'King"

His eyes went down to look on his new samsung j4+ again, which he held in his left hand, slowly typing in something.

A couple days had passed since we postponed the decision about our trip, and seemingly the posibility of us all going there made King more determined. He had gotten the bandage off his left hand, since his twisted wrist seemed to be alright now. Of course, that made it way easier to actually communicate with him, since he could now type in his phone even if it took some time. Additionally, the cover for his head injury got removed as well, since it was healed enough. We had to be a bit careful for now though, but the others already called me overprotective as I was, so this wouldn't be a problem.

But NO, I wasn't overprotective. I just made sure he didn't got injured. Not even the slightest bit. So when he read a book, I turned the pages so he wouldn't get a papercu ...

Okay, maybe I was a little overprotective.

I felt him pulling on my sleeve slightly, so instead of drowning in my thoughts like normally, I looked down on the phone screen again, eyes widening by the favor he wanted.

My cheeks grew hot and I quickly looked away, trying to hide my level of embarrassment from my boyfriend. How could he ask such a thing?

"P'King~ ", I tried whining, to get on his soft side and him quickly forgetting about this. Or else I would be in a tight spot.

But seemingly fortuna wasn't on my side today.
When I carefully tried taking a glance at him, he had 'crossed his arm' our new term for the action when you normally cross both arms to indicate your point, but since he only had one arm free to use, he couldn't do the crossing part anymore. So his left arm was just somehow hovering over his chest.

"If it makes you happy", I sighed, rubbing my eyes and feeling the heat appearing in my ears this time.

"Tell me when you felt for the first time, that you started liking me."

P'King really knew how to make someone embarassed, didn't he? No wonder he always got so good grades, if he could be on point like this.

When was the first time? When I prevented him from falling, while working on our faculty project? When he helped me out with that homework? When he gave me this summary for the subject? When was it?

After a while in silence, I looked up to him.

"When I met you for the first time, you seemed to be a weird person. So talkative. Bothering a stranger. ", I stopped for a moment to slightly remember that situation.

"You were ready to help and gave me something to feed the dog... but your reaction when it came was priceless. Back then.... I thought you were interesting. A weird person. But not a bad one."

He carefully placed his left hand in mine before leaning back against the headrest while listening to me.

"The first time I realised that I had feelings for you... or that I developed them... was this one day. When you recognised that I only talked to people I was close with. And when you said, you would get close to me so I would talk to you too.... I felt... I was so surprised. There was no reason for you to approach me. But you did. You were so bubbly and open to others. You didn't judge anyone. You were just yourself."