𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 - 𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘰 𝘬𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘰

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Tetsurō shook his head in defeat and sat up beside her.

"Is it girl trouble?" She asked, reaching up to try and tame his mess of hair. She wasn't a particularly short woman, but she still had to reach significantly to be able to touch the back of his head.

Tetsurō huffed. "Is this your explanation for everything?"

"This coming from the man who claims every girl in school pines over him," She raised her eyebrow.

"Not every girl," Tetsurō said, resigning himself to the fact that his mom would read into his words.

"Ha! I was right," His mom exclaimed, shoving him in the shoulder and almost knocking him face first onto the floor. "Details, baby, give momma some details,"

"Her name is Rini Yamazaki." Tetsurō gave in finally.

His mom scooted to sit facing him, prepared to listen.

Tetsurō inhaled. "I have a crush on her and she hates me because I'm a jock,"

"Out of all the reasons she could hate you she chose that?"

"Can we try to exercise a little bit of sensitivity in this discussion?"

"Yes, sorry. Continue,"

"She's popular but not like I am—people like her because she's respectable and mature, you know?"

"What does she look like?"

"She's really short; she comes up till here on me," Tetsurō indicated below his shoulder with his hand held horizontally. "She has a button nose and pretty blue eyes, and she has dimples when she smiles. She's so beautiful but modest about it, like she doesn't want people to look at her too much." He felt his cheeks heat up when he mentioned her eyes.

His mom only smiled.

"Even though she's flirted with me in the past, I'm pretty damn sure she hates me...maybe she's one of those girls who plays hard to get just to see how long she can keep a guy's attention,"

"Maybe, but I get the feeling you would have caught onto that,"

"Yeah..." Tetsurō knew she was right. Yamazaki wasn't that kind of girl.

She didn't realize she was hurting him, and that might have been what hurt the worst. But Tetsurō tried hard to push those thoughts from his mind. He wanted to give himself some time to process this. More then that, he wanted to grant Yamazaki the space she had asked for.

"You'll figure it out. You're a smart guy and I know you don't think about this stuff lightly," His mom was saying.

He felt a faint smile grow against his lips. His mom knew him better then anyone, and she knew exactly what he needed to hear.

He felt better now.

He was figuring it out.

♥

𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒓'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆

𝘪 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘪'𝘮 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘪𝘵. 𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘰 𝘪 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘪 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘬𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘰, 𝘴𝘰 𝘪 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘮?

𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅! 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓!