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It's it's close to one in the morning and here I am sneaking into Anita's room. I can't believe I'm doing this, shit, if I never came back here with her this afternoon wouldn't have happened either.
〈 Flashback
"Red? What's up? You've had this serious face for the last couple of minutes?" I notice the show is paused and she's looking at me with curiosity. We split off from the team after we ate and we came back to Anita's house since I did agree to come back to watch anime with her so here I am. It's not something I'm interested in watching but I can't complain since she was considerate enough to choose one that's filled with action that I might like. Even though I told her she didn't have to, she just pouted cutely saying she already made up her mind.
We're on the fifth episode and we started off sitting close to one another, our legs brushing against one another, shoulders touching each other. Slowly with each episode it's just instinctively we got closer to one another and now I have my arm around her shoulder while she rests her head on mine. I just want to fucking kiss her already.
"You don't have to worry about me, I just had some things on my mind," I answer as she keeps staring at me.
"No, if something is bothering you, you can tell me," she says as she shifts in my arms to get a better look at my face. Her face is filled with concern, her lips in a soft pout for me not telling her anything. You know what, to hell with it. I place my hand on her cheek, stroking my thumb on her face. I watch her pupils dilate eyes widening as she looks at me in surprise. I lower my face until my lips are hovering over hers and our breaths mingle with one another.
"I want to kiss you," I whisper out, voice low and her cheeks redden. We're at a standstill, even if I want to kiss her I'm not going to do it without her consent; I'd be a piece of shit if I did. Her hands reach out curling around my shirt as she pulls me down in a kiss. I'm startled for a moment but when I get my bearings my fingers thread through her hair as I kiss her back.
It starts off chaste, her lips are soft against mine and there's some hesitancy at the beginning but when her tongue twines with mine, my ears don't miss the soft whimper coming from her. I pull back from her so the both of us can catch our breath. Her eyes are glazed and her cheeks are even more red. She bites her lips and shyly looks away from me but I touch her chin turning her towards me.
"Don't hide from me, it makes me want to kiss you again," I say with a soft smirk and she reaches up to take my hand from her chin, fingers playing with mine in nervousness.
"Why?" she asks.
"Why what?" I ask her.
"Why did you kiss me?" she repeats.
"Because I wanted to," I answer plainly and I watch her facial expression turn to one of anger. She moves out of my arms and stands in front of me with her arms crossed.
"Because you wanted to?" she questions, her voice rising with each word. Shit, I should have explained better since she now thinks I just did that with no feelings. I stand up and pull her into a hug resting my chin on her head.
"I kissed you because I wanted to Anita. I have feelings for you. I like you," I explain. She's silent for a couple of moments but the next thing that happens is that she wraps her arms around me and returns the hug me.
"I like you too," she quietly mumbles and I'll probably take this to my grave but my heart quickens when she says that. I move my head back to look at her and she has a smile on her face. I go in for another kiss but I'm stopped when I hear the front door opening. Anita pushes me down on the sofa and she jumps onto the other sofa.
"Anita I'm home- What are you doing here?" one of her older brothers demands as he glares at me.
"Noah, he joined me for a movie marathon," she explains. I guess my welcome here is over and it's best I leave before the rest of her siblings get here.
"I should be getting home," I tell Anita as I stand.
"Let me walk you to the door," she tells me and moves from her seat on the sofa and walks me to the front door. I say goodbye to her brother who just continues to glare at me and follow her to the door."I don't want you to leave yet," she says as she holds onto my sleeve after I put on my shoes. I don't want to leave either but I'd rather not talk about us getting together with her family here as an audience.
"If you don't mind, how about I come back later tonight, we haven't finished talking," I whisper.
"There's a big tree next to my window, I'll leave it open but text me when you're almost here," she whispers back. I step forward and swiftly kiss her cheek.
"I'll see you tonight." I step out of the house and go to my car that's parked at the curb. Things have officially changed between the two of us and I don't think it'll ever be the same again.
End of Flashback 〉
It's not the first time I've sneaked out, I had to wait a while for my parents to go to bed and also make sure the twins stayed out of my room; the last thing I need is for them to find out I'm gone. Since the distance between the two houses isn't far I jogged back to Anita's house so it's a bonus that I'm getting a workout in. I find the tree that's next to her window and climb it until I reach the sill.
I jump into the room and see Anita lounging on her bed with a tablet on her lap and earbuds in her ears, unaware of her surroundings. All she's wearing is a loose shirt and a pair of shorts. Even with her dressed simply like this I still find her cute, beautiful, sexy; I can't just pin one word to describe her. I take off my shoes and approach her, touching her shoulder and she jumps in surprise before she realizes it's me.
"You startled me," she says taking her earbuds out of her ears. She leans to the side to place it plus her tablet on the table while I take my phone out of my pocket and place it on the table next to me.
"Sorry about that. I did text you but it seems you were busy with whatever you were watching," I say, taking a seat on the bed beside her. "But I'm here now, so let's finish what we were talking about earlier." If all goes well, I'll be having a date with this girl and ask her to be my girlfriend.
"You said you like me and I like you," she says in a matter-of-fact voice. "And we kissed," she adds as she blushes.
"You liked it," I say, a smirk on my face as I take her hands into mine. "But don't worry I liked it too."
"I never said I didn't," she sulks as she turns away from me as I laugh. "So what now?"
"I want to take you on a date and also ask you to be my girlfriend," I reply bluntly and she turns to look at me, eyes wide before nodding her head.
"Tell me when and where, I'll be there," she tells me with a soft smile.
"Are we going to tell the team?" I ask her and she shakes her head.
"Can we hold off telling them for now? I don't want our relationship to be focused on instead of volleyball. Though Connor and Sean will most likely figure out what's going on before we even tell them," she chuckles.
"I'm pretty sure those two are gossiping about us behind our fucking backs," I comment as she continues laughing, eyes crinkled and a wide smile on her face. She's so fucking cute.
"We're officially together now?" she asks once she's calmed down. I remove my hands from hers and place them on her face, leaning into to give her a soft kiss. She kisses me back and I can say now I will never get tired of this. She's so addictive. I move from her and lay my forehead on hers.
"Does that answer your question," my voice gruff and she lets out a giggle along with nodding her head." So what are we watching?" I ask settling against the headboard of her bed.
"I'm continuing what we were watching earlier, do you mind?" she asks holding up her tablet and one side of the earbuds.
"No, I just want to spend time with you," I reply as I put my arm around her shoulder as she cuddles into my chest. I take the earbud from her as she places the tablet on my thigh; a sense of peace washes over me that whatever tension that's been between us is gone now. For the next hour, we spent the time quietly watching the show. When the end credits appear on the screen I realize Anita has been sleeping away on my chest, I guess I got invested in the show that I didn't notice.
I slowly remove the earbud from her ear along with mine, pausing the show so the next episode doesn't start and place her tablet on the bedside table. I carefully remove my arm from her shoulder and settle her down on her bed before covering her up with her blanket. I brush her hair from her face and gaze at her sleeping face. I kiss her forehead and walk over to my shoes and sweater while also turning off the lights in the process.
"Goodnight Anita, I'll see you tomorrow." I take one last glance at her before going out her window and jogging back to my place. I don't see any lights on as I get closer to my house so I assume I'm in the clear as I quietly unlock the door. It turns out I'm wrong as the foyer lights turn on and I'm met with the sigh of Chris and Daniel.
"Well well well, look who decided to sneak out, right Chris?" Daniel asks Chris in a mocking voice.
"I wonder what happen if the parents found out," Chris continues, they both have devious smiles on their faces. I roll my eyes as I take off my shoes and walk past them.
"It's none of your business where I went and if you want to snitch I'll make sure practice is extra hard for you two," I threaten. They see I'm dead serious and they both nod their heads in agreement. "We have practice in the morning so, get to sleep," I tell them as I go upstairs to my room. I close the door behind me and strip out of my clothes falling back onto my bed in just my boxers. Tonight went better than expected and sure this might sound a bit possessive but now that our feelings are mutual I don't plan on letting Anita go
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"Chris and Daniel hurry up, we're going to be late," I yell to them from the kitchen. I take a seat at the island as my mom cooks breakfast for my dad and brother.
"Are the three of you going to be back home for lunch?" she asks while flipping a pancake.
"Most likely unless the team has plans for lunch, I'll let you know if anything changes," I tell her as Daniel and Chris come downstairs with their bags. "We're off now, bye mom," I say kissing her on the cheek. Daniel and Chris say bye to her as they follow, my mom echoing their goodbyes. From behind me, I hear the twins having a rock, paper, scissors battle; they do this every day to see who will sit in the passenger seat.
"Yes, it's my turn today," Daniel yells aloud.
"Get in you two, you can gloat in the car, Daniel," I tell them as I unlock the door, drive out of the driveway and down the street with more speed than usual. "You just had to be late you two," I mutter under my breath when we hit our third red light. I look at the time and see it's ten minutes to nine. When the light turns green I hit the gas and continue driving until we reach school.
"We're going to have to run," I say as we grab our bags. Another car enters the parking lot and parks irregularly next to mine. Anita rushes out, bag thrown over her shoulder as she jogs to the entrance.
"Morning, you guys late too?" she asks when we catch up to her.
"Chris and Daniel know how to take their sweet time," I answer and they both look at me offended I say that. Anita looks down at the time on her phone and her face pales a bit when she sees the time.
"Practice is starting in five minutes!" she exclaims. We all look at each other and run into the school. We continue running and just as we reach the gym, I pull Anita back and let the twins continue running ahead of us. She looks at me in question and I simply kiss her cheek in response.
"I wanted to say good morning to my girlfriend properly," I smirk. She rolls her eyes but a smile still breaks out on her face.
"You haven't officially asked me to be your girlfriend yet and we're still late Red," she says grabbing my hand and pulling me with her to the gym. She drops my hand and just before she opens the door she looks me in the eyes and says with a teasing smile, "Try not to think about me too much." She enters and I'm left smirking from what she said. She's right. Although we are together she's not my girlfriend just yet but that's something I'll definitely be changing that soon.
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A/N So yes, that just happened. It finally happened. Our favourite MC's confessed!! And I'm so happy it was from Red's p.o.v so we can see some emotion from him and it seems it's just exclusive for Anita. I know it's been months since I've edited a chapter but thank you all for having patience for the story. And Red, Chris, and Daniel just have sibling vibes going on, another favourite part of the chapter.
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