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[weedlikespirit]

Hello! My name is Shiemi Moriyama and I have a question.

Has anyone suddenly remembered anything weird?

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[reflash]

[He doesn't kiss her. Her hands are on his neck, gentle as she adjusts the collar, a brush of fingers, the pressure of the collar adjusted and resettled. It's electric. He can't think, he can't breathe. She looks at his throat with slightly parted lips and he doesn't lean down, doesn't kiss her, as much as he desperately wants to.

Instead, she raises herself onto her tiptoes and---

oh

oh


]

..Shiemi-san?

[He asks, senselessly, no real question behind it, just dazed astonishment. He's wanted that for ages, years even. He likes her. He likes her so much he can't breathe, so much that there's nothing in his always-racing mind except I like her so much.

He wants to kiss her.

He reaches out, rests a hand on the side of her face. Leans down.

He doesn't kiss her.]

Can I--? [Is he even allowed to? After all this time, after knowing her, after she knows him more than anyone else does, is he allowed to kiss her?]

[weedlikespirit]

[ Can he...? Her lashes flutter with his question even as she leans her cheek into the warmth of his hand. Her heart is racing a thousand little butterflies in her chest.

Can he? ]

Un!

[ She nods. ]

[reflash]

[His heart is pounding. His hand moves down her face, light touch until he tilts her chin just slightly up, until he leans down and presses a gentle kiss to her lips.]

[weedlikespirit]

[ If Shiemi's face was red before, and it was, it's that much more red now. She can't hear a thing over the sound of her heart swelling in her chest, racing in her ears. She doesn't go up on her toes this time, but she does press her lips gently against his in return. ]

[reflash]

[He pulls back after a moment, his face as red as hers.]

I've wanted to do that for years. [He admits quietly, a little embarrassed by the confession. Maybe he shouldn't say it, maybe it's weird to admit it, but he needs her to know.]

[weedlikespirit]

Y-you have?

[ For years? When had he...? ]

[reflash]

I have. I've liked you for a long time.

[weedlikespirit]

I had no idea.

[reflash]

I know. [He says, and oh how much he knows it.] It was supposed to be a secret.

[weedlikespirit]

Wh-why was it supposed to be a secret?

[reflash]

[Because he loves her so much. Because when she smiled at him he feels his heart will burst. Because the quiet moments alone with her stand out bright and shining as the happiest of his life.

Because if she rejected him, if a confession from him ruined their friendship, he couldn't stand to lose her.]

Because my life isn't easy. [Before Rin awoke, the secrets hanging heavy over him. After, it somehow all got worse.] I didn't want to drag you into it.

[But now it's out in the open. Hopefully it doesn't make him sound like a creep.]