Hello.~ Just thought I'd make a Leon/IA fic and see how I like it. So far, I think the pairing is adorable. What do you think of it? Anyway, I hope you enjoy.~ I do not own Vocaloid, but I do own the plot to this story!

I blushed when our hands touched for the first time. He smiled, his eyes saying that it was cute. His expression was soft and cool. He was kind and loved to garden like I did. That's how we got to know each other. It all started with a tulip patch, that's when I blushed and when he smiled. We were reaching out for the same flower, a tulip, so it was only natural that our hands would meet one another.

As time went on, I got to know him, and he got to know me. He was a kind gentle person who loved plants like I did. In fact, he was a botanist, the very thing I was studying to be. His favorite flower was the tulip, and ironically enough it was my own favorite flower.

Time went so slowly when I was with him, and I knew that I was falling in love with him. I often wondered what he thought of me, was I pretty? I had never thought about it. Really, I hadn't. I had spent all my time focused on my love for botany, that I hadn't even thought about myself.

So the more time we spent together, the more I was self-conscious. I liked him after all, and a part of me wanted him to like me back. But I couldn't say if he did or if he didn't for sure. He was hard to read sometimes, it was like watching an unruly plant grow differently than you had expected it to. But that's also part of why I liked him so much. For the first time in my life I met someone who wasn't shallow or misguided in what he wanted to do.

He had told me his goal after becoming a botanist was to raise a family. Did he have a girlfriend? I certainly couldn't ask his sister Lola, she was very… Gossipy, to say the least. Yet here I was fawning in my own feelings for him, I didn't know what to do, or even what to tell myself.

"Aria…" He says softly to me while watering the tulips.

"Y-Yes?" I stammer and blush slightly, feeling like an idiot.

"I have something I want to talk to you about later, would you mind joining me for dinner?" He smiles politely and my heat skips a beat. He was asking me out to dinner… But for what? Certainly he couldn't like me, could he?

His lightly blonde bangs flitter in the breeze, and I gulp looking into those deep teal eyes of his. I feel like I'm about to choke up, but my voice comes out just fine other than being a bit quiet. "O-Of course. I-I mean, that is to say, I would be… Happy to join you for dinner." I wanted to say that I'd love to join him for dinner, but I thought that was too eager and foolish of myself.

The blonde man that I find myself falling for over and over again smiled sweetly before speaking in a nice calm tone. "Great. I'll pick you up at eight. How does that sound?"

I nod lightly finding it harder and harder to try and speak. "That's good, I-I'll see you then." And with our parting goodbyes he leaves and I'm left alone standing in the garden that we tend together. My heart is thudding so loudly I bet even the plants can hear it now.

I stare at the tulips mentally asking them what they thought. And I knew they wouldn't respond. Yet, all the same, I felt like somehow they might help me through this. "Does Leon have feelings for me?" I pleaded. I heard nothing, I only felt a faint breeze run through my long locks of white hair. "Could he really love me back?"

So, cute.~ I hope you enjoyed.~