Chapter 1: What is this feeling?

Yume's POV

It's another beautiful day, where I can go practice early in the morning, and do my daily routine, and chat with my friends of course! I wake up and immediately yawn. I go and change into my practice clothes, and went off to start improving my Aikatsu! I go into a daily jog in the misty fog, to just suddenly know I was tired, but I kept going.

I jogged while going into my thoughts, until I suddenly bumped into someone, I fell straight on him and didn't even notice that I was jogging because of my wandering thoughts of what I should do today to improve my aikatsu even more. As I fell straight onto him, I noticed I accidentally fell on a guy. "Ahh, Gomen'nasai!" I said, my face growing more red by the minute due to my embarrassment. I knew I was making a horrible impression to someone, and my thoughts wandered off to the worst scenario possible, so I thought that maybe this guy was hurt because of me, or maybe someone who would really be mad about this! I finally snapped back to reality when I noticed the guy saying,

"Would you get off now, little tomato?"

My cheeks were red and it grew to my head. I got frustrated and mad from him always calling me a tomato, or at least I think that is the best way to put it.

"I told you to stop calling me that!"

He smirked his usual way, which only got my head to grow more red. I went off of him, and continued jogging, and he did also. When Subaru and I were jogging, I ran faster, trying to leave him all the way back, as if it was a race. I don't know why. I guess my competitive side got into me. I continued running, only to figure that Subaru gained speed, so I kept running, and running, until I used all of my strength to get all the way ahead! Of course I was sure not to bump into a bush like last time, but I still won! I knew I used too much strength and energy as when stopped for a rest. I was feeling deeply tired, strangely tired, until before I knew it, my vision went into a sudden blur. I collapsed right on the spot, fainted and lost my conscious before even fully reaching to the floor.

Before I knew it, I was finally getting back my senses, awaking from my slumber in the nurse's room. My vision started to clear when I finally saw a person in front of me. Subaru. As soon as he noticed I was awake, he gave me a cup of water and put a towel soaked of cool water on my forehead. There was intense silence while he was naturally doing all of this. I just didn't know what to say. As soon as he was done taking medicine out of a drawer, he came back towards me. He sat down, and waited until I was settled. I was even more red than ever..

"Thank you.. Subaru." I nervously said towards him. He just put on his usual smirk and said in his usual cool toned voice,

"The nurse said that you had a fever, she told me she needed to help another student who is also ill, so make sure you get plenty of sleep and drink this medicine, okay?"

I felt tired, hot, and I didn't want to do anything. I was in a really childish mood for a reason, so I guess I just was really stubborn and didn't want drink the medicine.

"I don't want to drink the medicine now, can I drink it later?"

"Oh come on, say ahh.." Subaru replied.

I was startled. He was feeding me the medicine. It made my face so red for some reason, like usual. But some of my instincts got the best of me, and I played along.

"ahhh, *gulp*."

"Okay, I think this just settles it, I guess." Subaru said, not knowing what else to say.

I didn't know what to say either, it was just awkward silence. Subaru finally broke the silence when he said,

"Well, I better be going now, see you later tomato."

When Subaru was about to get out of my reach, I grabbed his hand tightly, not knowing why my hand instantly went as my instinct. I could tell Subaru was startled when I grabbed him, but then he had a confused face on, and I suddenly noticed I was still holding on, but I held his hand tighter.

"I'll be lonely if you leave.."

I saw him smirk when he said,

"Can't you text your friends, or don't you have any?" He teased in a silly voice.

"Stop! Of course I have friends! I'll be texting them now!

"Okay then, seems you won't lonely anymore, besides, I have to go meet up my friends now."

As he was walking away, I decided not to text my friends. I didn't want to text my friends, knowing they were all busy, so I just sat there and felt lonely. I sat there, resting, listening to the intense silence, when I noticed my heart aching as soon as Subaru had left. I didn't know why. I thought maybe I just needed a break, but I felt the pain in my heart. I ignored the pain, so as I sat there, I thought,

"Okay, Subaru left because he was busy, right? Yea, that's probably it, or maybe he left for his friends like he said. Those two choices seemed reasonable, wait why am I thinking of this?"

But then I went into a more.. negative thought.

"Wait, did he leave because he didn't want to see me?"

That's when my heart ached even more. Why was my heart hurting so much? Why? This never happened before, so why now? I kept thinking, unable to sleep, but couldn't find the answer. The intense silence in the room broke when my phone received a text. It was from Subaru!

"Have a good sleep, Little tomato. "

He sent me a sweet lullaby, and I naturally fell asleep, happy as a daisy, since I got his text. What was this feeling as I was dozing off? The feeling where butterflies are in my stomach, and my heart is just fluttering, just because I got this text. I don't know, but I hope soon I will figure it out.