I groaned and rubbed my face with my hands as I died again in our game, causing Kazuto to win again. He smirked at me and I glared.

"I suck at this." I complained. He had been attempting to teach me how to play his new console game for hours and I had yet to beat him.

"Yeah you do." He said with a chuckle.

I shoved him lightly, laughing a little. "Fight me."

I could tell from the look in his eyes as I said those two words, I'd made a mistake. My feeling was correct when he started tickling my stomach and sides.

I gasped and tried pushing his hands away. Kazuto just laughed and continued tickling my abdomen. I giggled uncontrollably and begged for him to stop.

I tried moving away from him and ended up falling off of my chair in the process. I huffed as my back hit the carpet. Kazuto followed after me, landing on top of me and sitting on my legs. He kept tickling me even while we were on the floor. Making me fight to catch my breath and calm my insane giggling.

"Ka-Kazuto- please stop-" I whined.

"You're the one that told me to fight you."

"I didn't mean like this!" I huffed.

"Would you rather I kiss you?" He teased.

I nodded quickly, willing to do anything to make him stop. "Yes!"

Kazuto stopped tickling me and surprised me by instantly pressing his lips to mine.

I began kissing him back and breathed heavily through my nose to calm my breathing after being tickled. He smirked against my mouth when I kept kissing him, probably expecting that I would've pushed him off.

My relationship with Kazuto had been complicated since he and Asuna had stopped talking. We had kissed a couple times, I had always gotten flustered and shoved him away. I hung out with him a lot now and we had many awkward moments. I was still in love with him, and I was pretty sure he liked me now as well from his actions.

Kazuto broke from the kiss and looked down at me. My cheeks burned and my heart felt like it was going to pound out of my chest.

"You liked that, didn't you Rika?" He said mockingly.

My face grew warmer as I shrugged.

Kazuto grinned. "Aww, you did."

He lowered his head and started kissing along my jaw and down to my neck. My breath caught in my throat and I wriggled beneath him, fighting to get him off of me.

"Stop it!" I said sternly.

Kazuto quit kissing me and rolled off my legs. He stood up and chuckled as he looked at me, pouting up at him.

"You know I hate it when you do that." I griped.

"That's why I do it." He said before sitting back in his chair.

I got up and sat next to him in my chair. As he went back to getting the game up, I rubbed my neck where his lips had been. I sighed quietly to myself. I really wish I wasn't so terrified of doing anything with him.

I looked at him, staring intently at his computer screen. I felt like I was betraying Asuna by doing these things, she was my best friend for so long. Though it felt so wrong, I still wanted to kiss him more and more.

I began playing another round with Kazuto, once he had gotten it ready. I guessed I would just enjoy being in his presence until I was courageous enough to actually act on my feelings toward the boy.