HI! I know this chapter is very very short. Normally it's not my style to write such short chapters, maybe in the future I will update it so it becomes longer again... But for now, this is all my brain could handle. Please enjoy!


"Ugh..." Annoyed I tap my foot on the ground and keep on adjusting that one pluck of my hair while I wait for my blind date.
"I knew I shouldn't have trusted you, Liz.." I tell myself as I check my watch once again.

Okay, so let's do a recap. I haven't had a boyfriend in years and quite honestly, I didn't need one. However, my best friend Elizabeth, or Liz, INSISTED I'd go on a blind date with this Japanese swimmer guy she met not too long ago.
"He is SO handsome! If it weren't for my boyfriend, I would've done him already!" - I can still hear her high-pitched voice.
So here I am, waiting for 30 fucking minutes, somewhere in the middle of Sidney at a stupid whale festival. I adjust my pluck again.

"Ehm.. Hello? Are you Liz's friend?" I turn around and the first thing I see are a pair of fury red eyes. For a moment I was silenced - I was stunned. Hell, I couldn't speak or move or do anything at all. He is not like the Japanese guys you mostly see in karate movies. He is... Something different.
"Hello?" He repeats. The Japanese accent can be heard clearly, but it doesn't annoy me at all.

I shake my head a little and scrape my throat. Come on, girl, I tell myself. Get yourself together.
"Hi, yes I am indeed Liz's friend. Nice to meet you, mister...?"
The red-haired guy in front of me laughs widely, showing his teeth. Shark teeth?
"My name is Matsuoka Rin. Or well, Rin Matsuoka in English." He keeps on smiling. It's hard to look away from him and I find it rather uncomfortable.
"How about you?"
I laugh a sheepish laugh - fucking hell, behave yourself! - and I stick my hand out to him, only to feel the strength in his handshake. I tell him my name and my eyes move from his eyes to his nose, his jawline, his collarbones, his arm muscles... I hate to admit, but Liz was actually right. He is one of the most, if not the top one, handsome guys I have ever met. Though those teeth are strange and I do not get the hype for the red hair on guys, it makes him different and therefore really attractive.

"Let's walk, okay?" Rin smiles at me again and he grabs my hand. I feel a bit shocked at his choice of manners of meeting a girl for the first time, but I follow his lead, walking a bit behind him. I can see his back muscles through his shirt and the soft breeze blows through his fluffy dark red hair. He talks A LOT, but I can't seem to listen. My focus is completely off. He's a swimmer, well he SURE got the swimmer's body. I'm not even the kind of person to look at someone's appearance first, but I can't take my eyes off him. He has this capturing aura hanging around him and seemingly, I'm not the only one who thinks so. I can see all the girls we pass staring at him like I do. I smirk, giving myself a mental pet on the shoulder. I am not the most beautiful girl here in this city and yet he thinks I'm good to go. Well, at least, that's what I think. It's what I am hoping, actually.

"Don't you agree?" Rin's question snaps me out of my thoughts. His bright smiling face makes it hard to tell him the truth of me not listening to anything he said just now. I have to think of a witty response to make him think I was listening, but to let him explain again what he told me.
"Uhm.. Uhm.. Yes?" I bring out. Well, that did not go as planned. I feel my face reddening and my inside voice gives me a facepalm.
"Awesome!" The tall guy yells out enthusiastically. "Let's go then!"