How We Met (Taiyou Kobayashi x reader)

Chapter Five: Falling Snow

A/N: Guess who's back from the dead!? Me. Sorry for taking an extra week off than noticed. Anyways back to what you've all been waiting for!

(Y/N) POV:

Sometimes the things Taiyou did would piss me off or scare me.

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Thursday December 20th

I've avoided Taiyou since that day in the cafeteria. Nothing against him, it's just that my feelings get mixed up at random around him. Sure, I didn't plan on avoiding him forever, only long enough to sort things out.

It was right around six, the sun had already set and it was time for me to meet Taiyou for the project. I snuck my way towards Taiyou's dorm room. In a bag were the tiles along with pencils, black sharpies, and my laptop. I figured we'd need to look up reference photos and sketch the piece first. There was also the manga volume I had to return to Taiyou.

I knocked on Taiyou's door and no answer. Two times and yet no answer. Again for a third and nothing. Was he even home?

"Should've gotten his number." I whisper to myself.

"You want my number? Bold of you isn't it?" A voice whispered near my ear.

I jumped back and against the door. There stood Taiyou in a simple gray hoodie and black jeans. He was bent over from whispering in my ear.

Taiyou blinked, stood straight, and started laughing. "I didn't expect that reaction!" He moved to unlock the door I was pressed against. "You're gonna hafta move ya know."

I swallowed hard and nodded. I slid to the side and Taiyou opened the door. He waved me in once inside. I took off my shoes by the entrance and gently dropped the bag by the entrance.

"Welcome back to my lair." Taiyou spun and threw himself on the bed.

"Yeah lair... Anyways, I brought my laptop to look for references. I trust your drawing skills to sketch it out on the tiles." I pulled my laptop out of the bag and looked around. "You don't have a chair?"

"Nope! Either sit on the floor or the bed with me." Taiyou winked.

I stared at him trying to figure out where he got his confidence. Yet also, I don't know what I thought letting him mess with my head. Taiyou noticed me staring and sat to the side of the bed.

"Care to join me up here?"

"Yeah no." I sat with my legs crossed on the floor in front of the bed so Taiyou could also see.

We started looking through Google images for something we could agree on. A couple under the cherry blossoms, that's what we agreed on. Easier said than done.

For the next few hours, Taiyou pointed out whatever he liked but they all seemed so complicated to fit on only nine tiles. Eventually, we agreed on a single cherry blossom tree in the middle and a couple as kids on the left of it. To the left of the tree was the man proposing to the woman.