Nagisa ran until he was too tired to run anymore and sat heavily on a bench. He had just confessed to Rei and the idiot had thought he was teasing him! He'd thought Rei was supposed to be the clever one and didn't that mean that he was supposed to be able to figure out when someone was being serious and when they were only teasing?
He looked up as he heard running footfalls making their way towards him and saw Rei standing in front of him, his hands on his knees and Nagisa's bag on his shoulder, panting. Why is he so out of breath, he used to be on the track and field team before I convinced him to join the swim club… Just how fast was he running...?
After a moment of catching his breath, Rei looked up at Nagisa, "Nagisa-kun. I am about to do something and if you don't like it, you have my permission to hit me." He stepped forward and swallowed and Nagisa thought he seemed a little nervous.
"W-what are you going to do?" Nagisa became just as red as Rei when he brought his face closer to the blond and whispered that if he didn't like it he needed to stop him now. Nagisa just swallowed and closed his eyes as the taller boy closed the gap. The contact was brief but it was enough to turn Nagisa's face crimson as Rei pulled back and rested his forehead on Nagisa's. He wanted more though so he pulled Rei's mouth back to his own.
Their lips melded together for longer this time before Rei broke away to look at Nagisa's face stammering out, "Nagisa-kun… I think… I think I like you too…" He pushed his glasses back onto his face shyly and sat next to him, taking the smaller boy's warm hand in his own.
Nagisa smiled at him timidly, "R-really? I'm glad…"
"I guess this means I can…" He turned towards him and took both of his hands in his own, his voice taking on a serious tone, "Nagisa Hazuki, would you like to go out with me?" His face reddened as he looked into Nagisa's eyes.
Nagisa's face turned pink as he stammered out, "Y-yes of course" and he beamed a wide smile at Rei who was smiling back just as widely.
"Thank you, Nagisa…"
Nagisa remembered the events of earlier and his blush darkened, "Sorry I got so angry earlier…"
"No… I'm sorry I accused you of teasing me… I just…" Rei looked down at his feet and Nagisa frowned, "I thought it was too good to be true is all…"
Nagisa saw Rei's ears redden as his feet drew circles in the dust on the ground, "Of course I was being serious about it." He blushed as Rei squeezed his hand and he laid his head on the taller boy's shoulder. "Let's not worry about what happened earlier, okay?"
"Yeah." He turned his head to nuzzle against Nagisa's soft hair and his heart rate increased.
"Should we go back to yours and keep studying?" he smiled up at Rei, having noticed his heart beat pick up.
"S-sure, come on then." He stood up and adjusted the long forgotten bag full of cake that was resting on his shoulder. Seeing this, Nagisa offered to take his bag but Rei refused, pushing his glasses back onto his face.
Nagisa grabbed Rei's hand, "Thank you Rei-chan!" as he started to skip back to Rei's house, Rei stumbling along behind him. "Rei, you used to be on the track and field team! You should be able to run better than this!"
"Nagisa! You're not running, you're skipping!"
"Skipping is far cuter than running! You should skip too~"
"I do not skip, Nagisa. I think we should stop before we fall."
Nagisa slowed down and let go of Rei's hand to open the bag that was still on Rei's shoulder, "Do you want some sweets?" He mumbled through a strawberry lollipop.
"Uh… That depends…" Rei started to get flustered thinking about whether Nagisa intended to feed him or not.
"You can just take whatever you like from there!" Nagisa smiled happily, sucking on his lollipop.
"Ah… Yes.." Rei fumbled the backpack off his shoulder to take a look inside. "Nagisa… These sweets are all… Strawberry…"
"Well strawberry's my favourite flavour!" He made happy noises as he ate the lollipop in his mouth.
"I know that but… All of them?!" Rei shook his head in disbelief, "I think I'll just wait till we get back to my house and have some fruit…" His home appeared around the corner just as he said this. "See? We're nearly there now."
"Eeeh fruit's boring! Sweets are better~" Nagisa giggled.
Rei smiled as he heard his favourite sound, Nagisa's laugh, "Yes but fruit is better for you, Nagisa-kun."
"I guess~~, hey, Rei-chan, do you have any fruit juice at your house? I'm thirsty" He latched onto Rei's arm as he opened the door.
"We should do… The fridge is just though there. I'll get you a glass."
"Thanks Rei-chan~" Nagisa skipped through to the kitchen and opened the fridge, squealing as he saw the tropical fruit juice in Rei-chan's Refridgereitor and shouted, "YOU HAVE TROPICAL JUICE! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW! YEEEEEESSS!"
Rei nearly fainted when he heard Nagisa say that he loved him, even though he knew he didn't mean it like that, and dropped the glass which shattered with a loud crash. As he attempted to clean up the glass, he got a long gash across his palm and cried out from the pain.
Nagisa, who had come running when he heard the glass smashing, started to panic when he saw the blood gushing out of Rei's hand, "Oh my god, Rei are you okay?! Um! Um!" He rushed over to the cupboard, grabbed the first aid kit and started to treat Rei's wound. "You shouldn't try to pick up broken glass…"
Rei blushed with shame and the feel of Nagisa's hand on his, "Ow! That stings!" He jerked his hand back and cradled it as Nagisa started to dab his wound with disinfectant.
"Rei, give me back your hand. I'm not done yet." Rei apologised and slowly extended his hand for Nagisa. The blond finished wrapping the bandage and tied it up, "There you go, that should be better now."
"Than- Nagisa what are you doing?!" Rei grabbed Nagisa's hands when he stated to pick up the glass, "Please don't do that! I don't want you to get hurt! I…"
"Don't worry about it, Rei-chan! I know what I'm doing." Nagisa smiled at him.
"How can I not worry when I know how much it hurts?" He frowned as he clasped Nagisa's hands between his tighter when he tried to pull away again to clean up the glass.
"Rei… Honestly, it'll be fine."
"No, I won't allow you to!" He pulled Nagisa into his chest.
"R-Rei!" Nagisa exclaimed, "But we need to tidy it up at some point…"
"Not right now…" Rei buried his face in Nagisa's hair as he breathed in his familiar, comforting scent.
Nagisa turned pink as Rei nuzzled his hair, "Aren't we meant to be studying?"
Rei blinked at the mention of studying and released Nagisa, clearing his throat and stammering an apology whilst straightening his glasses where they had slipped slightly when he was pressing his face into the soft blond hair on top of his boyfriend's head.
"We could just not study…"
A blush snuck its way up Rei's neck, "Well, what would we do instead of studying?"
"U-uh I'm not sure…"
"Oh… W-well how about a movie?" He got up and walked over to the TV to look at the DVDs.
"Do you have any horror films?" Nagisa grins at Rei's back.