Aria's POV
Okay, I have a confession.
For the rest of my life, I haven't had any official boyfriend. So, this whole thing with Haruto— it felt really new, yet thrilling as fuck.
I kept staring at my hand, which Haruto was holding tightly and warmly. I always thought skin-ship is burdensome, like holding hands, but here I am licking on my own saliva— of course. Turns out, I love holding hands so much.
"Why do you keep staring at our hands?"
Haruto's deep voice was realizing me from my thoughts. He looked at me curiously.
We were in the restaurant near the Momochi Seaside park, enjoying our— ahem— first lunch date— ahem. Of course like the usual couple, we were sitting side to side, so we could holding hands easily. Again, I always cursed at the couple who foolishly arrange the sitting like this— but yeah, I love it too. Don't mind me, just me being a clown, like always.
I shrugged. "Just enjoying my tiny little hands on your pretty long hands."
Haruto laughed. "You're right, your hand feels so tiny inside my hands. It's cute, though."
Oh my God, love is weird . I was never happy whenever someone said if I'm tiny (it's different when I said by my self am tiny. The rule: only me who could degrading my self, not other people), but here I am— feeling ecstatic because of being called tiny and cute by my boyfriend.
Shit, did I just say Haruto as my boyfriend???
"That is not fair, you baka." I mumbled, holding my ecstatic and embarrassment feelings.
"I love it, I love it when you're shy." said Haruto with his warm and bright smile.
I gave him a look. "Haruto, it's only our day one, yet you try so hard to make me die young at this point."
"Day one? So, we're kinda in the official relationship right now?" he asked with excitement that he couldn't hide.
I face-palmed my self.
"Okay, let's make a serious conversation." I said while letting go of Haruto's hands.
"Okay, but is it necessary to let go of my hands? I want to keep holding hands with you." Haruto said with his pouting lips, creating an unconsciously cute gesture which gave tremendous impact to me.
God, this kid is seriously won't give me an easy way, isn't he?
"Haruto, please. I'm trying to focus here."
Haruto laughed in amusement. He gently patted my head. "Yeah, okay. I'm sorry, it's so fun to tease you, Aria-chan."
Correction: did you mean, to mess with my heart?
I cleared my throat, just because. I was about to spill my serious concern, also do's and don'ts rules on our relationship right now— when bunch of new visitor on this restaurant were coming in. Mostly were young girls, and from my peripheral vision, I could see they were checking on Haruto.
Well, even though this kid already in disguise (mostly on his head and face part), his whole body appearance is attractive a lot. Like, he was eluding tons of pheromone and charisma which attracting young and healthy woman. And his clothes right now? It was a chef's kiss, which adding more gigantic attraction to him.
"Let's go somewhere else, shall we?" I asked Haruto in my perfect low voice, so that brats couldn't hear me.
"Why?" Haruto asked confusedly. I gave him a signal code with my eyes, glancing at that young girls who shamelessly keep checking on Haruto.
He realized immediately, then he cleaned up his things scattered over the desk, which I followed. We were rushing to the cashier, leaving those shameless girls who still swooning over Haruto even until we we were dissapeared.
Sorry girls, better try your luck on another handsome guy.
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"Uhh, where exactly are we going, Aria?" asked Haruto curiously.
We were wondering on the beach house aimlessly. Not particularly aimlessly, I tried to find some private spot, so me and Haruto could talk in peace.
"To some quite place in here, where nobody's around." I answered.
"What for— oh." Haruto stopped walking, which made me stopped too.
"Why are you stopping?" I asked confusedly.
Haruto scratched his head awkwardly. "Err, Aria. I think if we want to do that, better on my home though. Sure we can find a time when mother's not around."
"What do you mean, huh? I only want to talk to you, why we it has to be your home?"
Haruto's eyes are widening. "Talk? Oh. You want to talk?"
I frowned. "Yeah."
"So why we have to insistently finding this private place, huh? Why don't we talk on the restaurant though?"
"Because there was a lot of people there, stupid. And why it has to be private place— because I didn't want to risk it other people would checking up on you again, like when on the restaurant. Don't you get it?" I asked frustratingly.
Haruto's cheeks were blushing. "Ah, okay. Sorry." he said weakly.
I gave him a look. "What were you thinking? Tell me!" I gripped his arms playfully.
"Oh, look! We can talk there." said Haruto, ignoring my question which I must added, while pointing to the small aisle between the houses, completed with sea view in front of it. It was a dead-end spot, so there's nobody's around and no one walking surround there. It was the most perfect place indeed.
I nodded approvingly, then we went to the spot. I leaned back to the wall behind me. Haruto followed me besides me. The aisle relatively narrow and small, which making the spot felt so private— intimate. I could hear, smell, and feel Haruto's presence more clearly too. It gave this weird feelings again, crawling from my core.
Shit, focus, Aria.
I cleared my throat. As well trying to clear my dirty mind too.
"Okay, so," I started to talk. "I want to make it more clear between us."
"Hmm," Haruto muttered vaguely.
"You know my concern with our relationship, right? I don't want your future career being affected by this. So, whatever happened between us— I think it's wise when we keep it for only this week."
"What?" Haruto looked at me, frowning. "You mean, this is temporary?"
"Yeah, after this, I have to go back to my home— and you have to go back to South Korea too, we will living and continue with our own path. Do you think there's a future for us?" I asked him sadly. Shit. I shouldn't sounded sad like that.
Haruto remained silence though, so I continued. "I don't want being fed up by those sweet lies such as 'we can continue this no matter what happened'. There's no such things. Nevertheless, I want us to make the most of our time during this week. I promise, I want to give it the best for this relationship. For us."
Haruto still remained silence. His head was looking down, but I could see that his eyes were gleaming— which I worried if he would start to cry in anytime by now. He wouldn't, would he?
"Let's make a bet, then." he abruptly said. He finally looked up to me now, staring deeply to my eyes.
"What? What bet?" I asked cluelessly.
"I don't know how deep is your feeling to me right now, Aria-chan. Nevertheless, if your feelings for me go much, much deeper after this, I want us to continue the relationship despite of the boundaries we would had." He said confidently. "If you didn't, then I'll agree with your condition."
I stared at him in disbelief. "That's not fair!" I disapproved.
"Why? You're afraid you'll fall deeper for me, Aria?" He grinned widely, which made me blushing as hell.
"NO! Shut up!" I shouted frustratingly.
"Then, let's bet." Haruto insisted.
"You never make everything's easy for me, Haruto." I whined.
"Oh, I'm not the only one here." Haruto said with a huge hint of sarcasm.
"Okay, fine. Let's bet." I finally agreed.
"Fine. But you have to be honest, otherwise I won't let you go home peacefully." He threatened.
"Sure!" I replied. "But what if you're the one who falls deeper, though? What will happened?"
Haruto stared at me— lovingly.
"I think I can't fall deeper for you than I do right now, Aria." he whispered softly.
My. Heart. Is. A. Mess.
"HARUTO."
Haruto was laughing, hard. "You have to look at your face!" he said between in his laugh.
"I'm so gonna kill this brat." I muttered angrily. Haruto stopped his laugh, and now he was looking at me in amusement.
"Don't. At least, wait until our week is over, though." he replied jokingly, which I gave him my rolling eyes as a response.
"Wait, you haven't answered me. What if you're the one who falls? What's the conditions?" I insisted him to answer me.
He stared to the ceiling on op of us, his lips pouted cutely. He was thinking seriously. "Then, I'll granted your wish. Whatever you want." he replied carefully.
My eyes were widening, feeling excited. "Really? Anything?" I confirmed. Haruto nodded, which made me squealing. "Okay, the game is on." I said cheerfully.
"But there's one more conditions might happened, though." said Haruto with an unpredictable tone from his voice.
"Like what?" I looked up to him, trying to see his expression— then I regretted it instantly.
Haruto was leaning closer to me, until his face was leaving almost no space from my face. His wide, beautiful eyes was in the same level of my eyes. We were staring deeply, to the point I could see my reflection on his black eyes. His white, warm breath softly blew over my face— which adding more hotness to my face that already felt hot.
"Aria," he called my name softly. I didn't response— LIKE HELL I COULD. Haruto's left eyebrow was turning up, might waiting for me to response, but I gave him nothing— so he continued.
"How about we fall together, instead?"
Then, his lips was gently brushed mine.
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A/N
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