One Wish

CHAPTER 41

  We hear footsteps come down the hall. Seven has finally woken up. "Good morning, Luciel." "Haha, good morning, Seven." He rubs his eyes under his glasses. When he sees me he gets very nervous. "O-oh, MC, I'm sorry I fell asleep! You know how my sleeping schedule is." I smile and stand up to follow Seven to his room. "It was nice to talk with you," and I bow in front of Rika. "I'm very happy we got to chat. Have fun with him, haha." That sounded very wrong.

When we get to his room, instead of sitting on his chair, he sits on the bed. I sit next to him. "Did you want to talk about something, Seven?" "Well, yeah. It's pretty important." "I'm all ears," and I turn toward him, so we're face to face.

"Hmm... Let's say there's a girl I like. An amazing girl. She has beautiful laughter, so I always want to make her laugh. She always goes along with my jokes, no matter what they are. She looks just... perfect. She's just a perfect girl. Just my type. I would like to ask her out, but... she's way too good for me. She deserves so much better, but... I don't know what I'll do when she would end up with somebody other than me." He hugs his legs. "What should I do?"

"Hehe, well that girl sure is lucky. Hmm... Well, let's say it was me. If a boy would come to me and say all this, I would say yes to that boy right away. Because 1) he was brave enough to say all this and 2) he was brave enough to tell me that before anyone else. I don't know who that girl is, but I would give it a go." "Have you ever been confessed to?" "Come on, the guys from the last school hated me. Of course I haven't been confessed to."

Seven's eyes then suddenly widen and he looks at me. He then grabs my wrists and tells me: "What if I told you, that I was describing you?" He looks at me very intently. "I-I'd be very flattered, haha. Why do you ask?" "Oh god, you're dumb," he whispers under his breath. "MC, I-"

Ha.. ha... My phone rings. Again. You just have the perfect timing don't you? Before I could take it, Seven grabs it, declines the call and turns off my phone completely. He then does the same with his phone.

"Nothing can disturb us now... MC, I love you. I'm not kidding, I really love you. If you want, I can list all of those things again and more. I asked that because I wanted to know your answer if I were to ask you. I'm so happy you said all those things to me." What the...? He's talking so fast I can't understand a word. I put a finger on his lips. "You're talking way too fast. Calm down." "Haha, I'm trying, I just... Oh god I actually said it." He's in hysteria right now.

"It's so funny that you're so happy, even though I haven't told you my answer." He stops immediately. "Please don't disappoint me." I'm silent for a moment. I'm so confused. "I have never thought about our relationship like that. So that's why you were so sad..." "Haah, dummy," he chuckles. "Anyway, yeah, I forgot. Do you feel the same way?" His smile and blush seems so genuent. My fingers are also getting pretty numb, because of his squeezing.

"I... I don't really understand. Why would you say that to me?" "What do you mean why?" "I mean... You don't care about me, so why would you say that?" "W-what...? I-I..." "That's what you said back then, so... I don't know why you would say that." "MC... you know that I didn't mean to say all that..." "But you were thinking about it. You were thinking that about me, but you just hadn't told me that yet."

Seven looks at me surprised. Did he really think that I would accept his confession, after what he said? He looks down and then starts to cry. I feel bad, but... "I- krgh, you know that it's not true, hrgh. You-, you know I care about you more, sniff, than I do about myself, krgh." He's squeezing my hands so hard now, that it's painful. "I care about you so much. I would really kill myself if I could save you through it."

"Please let go of my arms, it hurts." "No, you'll go away then! I want to be with you! I know I'm selfish, but I don't want anybody else to have you! I'll break if I lose you!! Everything will be reset if you leave me. Nobody can ever make me as happy as you can!" He then pulls me into a hug. He's hugging me way too strongly that I'm about to lose my breath.

"Let go of me, Seven! I can't breath like this!" I forcefully try to push him away. He didn't move much, but enough so I can breathe again. We stay like this for a while. He's still whimpering and hiccuping. I finally say something, "Tell me... what were you thinking at that moment?" "I... I was so angry. I felt the same I did after I found Saeran - I felt like no matter what I do, I still don't get what I need. It sounds very selfish and all, but I know that if you won't be by my side, I would probably do something really stupid at some point."

"I can only guess what you mean by that..." I whisper to him. It would sound ridiculous to hear it from the fake Seven's mouth, but it doesn't sound so out of the blue for the real Seven. "Hey, MC. I just want to ask you. If I wouldn't have said all those things that day, would you go out with me?" "...," how should I answer that? "... Yeah, I probably would give you a chance..." Seven sighs.

"Is there anything I can do for you to forgive me? I don't want me or you to get hurt because of a misunderstanding." "Hmm... can you tell me everything that you like about me? Every little detail." "Yes, of course!" He lets go of me, only holding my hands. He then starts to list down everything he likes about me. He really does like everything about me. Maybe he does care about me...? These words don't seem fake. He's a lot happier when he's saying all these things.

"Well, how long did I rant for?" "Uhh... about 15 minutes." "Oh, that came out longer than I thought, haha." We both laugh. "What else can I do for you?" "Hmm... list everything you think I like about you~" "Oh, umm. I'm guessing you like my personality, because you're still sitting here." "Yeah, I like your personality. You're so sweet and caring." "Hehe, thank you. Hmm... You probably also like my body. You said I look sexy~." "I said you look hot, haha." "Okay~ Oh! You always say that I have pretty eyes." "Yes, you're right."

"Hmm... I can't think of anything else really. Is there anything else?" "Heh...," I smirk at him, "I guess I like everything about you too, haha." "W-wait! Really?" I sit up in front of him and look at him. His surprised face is so cute. I put my hand on his cheek. He blushes and snuggles into it. He puts his own hand over it, "Your hands are so warm and soft. I would really like to hold them for forever."

"Umm, you asked me something before. Do you mind asking it again...?" I start to blush. "I... I love you, MC. Do you feel the same way?" He starts to blush as well. What should I do? I do like Seven a lot. He always makes me happy. I guess he does care about me if he remembers all those things about me... "Well... I forgive you what you said back then. I guess you really do care about me. So, if you want to, then we could try to date. I have no idea how that works, but I guess we'll figure it out together, right?"

Seven's reaction is so funny. He's very surprised at first, but then starts to laugh. "Ahh, oh god. I don't know how to feel right now. Ha ha, I'm so happy." We both laugh. "I'm so happy to see you happy, haha!" We then hug each other.

"I'm sorry I did all this to you. I really didn't think you would think of me like that." "Really? Not even once?" "Okay once or twice yeah." He laughs, "One day you're going to pay for making me go through all that, haha." "Oh gosh. I don't know what pay back means to you." "Want to find out?" he says again with his flirty voice. Now I have every right to be scared when he uses that.

"What do you want to do with me, then?" He looks at the clock and then bites his lip, "for 15 minutes, I can do whatever I want with you~" "W-whatever you want?" "And you can't stop me. You have to go along with it." Okay that's a tricky one. How do I get out of this? "I won't go that far, if you're afraid of that." "What will you do then?" He chuckles, "I don't want to ruin the surprise. I can't do much in 15 minutes, if that comforts you." ... "10 minutes." "14." "11." "13. Final offer." Well 2 minutes are still something, right? "How will I check the time? I can't see the clock." "I'll tell you when it's up." I look to the side and blush.

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