Drabbles… Drabbles… Drabbles…
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Starting today… I won't change the rate since the rate reached M. But I'll tell in the description of the proper rate of each chapter…
Rated: T
Genre: Romance
Characters: E. Ryoma and R. Sakuno
DISCLAIMER: Definitely not the owner of TeniPuri… sighed…
The Deal
Drabble Summary: He agreed that he would help her with her English lessons that day but on one condition… Find that out…
I wish you would tell me
How you really feel
But you'll never tell me
'Cause that's not our deal.
~Best Coast-Our Deal
"You've got all these wrong."
She almost jumped from where she was sitting when she heard his voice inside the library that Friday afternoon. His hand was scanning all the mistakes from her notebook while he was standing behind her. She took the courage to look up to him.
"R-ryoma-kun… w-what are you doing here?" she asked the boy.
The boy looked back at her and made a look that everyone knew, "I'm the library's representative. Of course I'm here."
"E-eh?" she was shocked. She knew that Ryoma was the library's representative because he preferred quiet places to stay other than tennis, "Y-you don't have tennis practice today?"
"It was canceled for today, didn't you know?" Ryoma sat beside her and grabbed her notebook.
Sakuno was blushing as she couldn't grab her notebook back, "I-I've been here as soon as the class ended. I needed to finish that today so that I could pass that tomorrow."
"Un," He replied still scanning her work, "you have all day to finish this lesson."
She looked down when the boy said that. English was very hard for her and she couldn't understand those words just for a day. She fidgeted as she thought of something;
"R-ryoma-kun… c-could you do me a favor?"
"No." he replied hastily.
"Mou… y-you haven't heard my favor yet." She pouted.
"I know what you are trying to ask me," the boy said still looking at her work, "these are all wrong."
She leaned closer to him, "That's why I want you to teach me."
"SHHH!"
The people looked at them as she made a noise inside. The librarian warned them to keep quiet. She leaned back to her seat after apologizing around them.
"Okay."
"Eh?" she looked at him.
"I'll teach you," he said closing her notebook, "On one condition."
She blinked her eyes twice, "W-what condition?"
He looked at her and said with his monotonous tone, "You will know later."
She wondered about his words. He was going to help her under one condition that she didn't know. That was somewhat unfair to her. But the boy agreed on her request. Besides it's just for the day and she thought that she could do whatever the condition he was about to ask her later.
"Well?"
Without a second thought, she nodded. The boy opened her notebook once again and started revising her work. The boy explained things to her in an easier way, easier than their teacher explained from the class. After a series of explanations, she did the work herself. She was absorbed about doing her thing that she wasn't aware the boy was busy staring at her. It took two hours for her to finish the lesson. She handed her notebook back to him and the boy scanned them all over again.
"It's better than before. You can pass it tomorrow." Ryoma announced to her.
Sakuno was happy about the result of her hard work but she was not finished yet. She stood up and said, "I'm sorry Ryoma-kun… I need to type and print this on the computer as my teacher wanted a copy for herself. Y-you can go home ahead of me if you like, a-about our deal… y-you can tell me that tomorrow… a-and thank you for today." She explained and went to the computer station without waiting for his reply. She didn't see the boy's reaction after that.
She began typing the words on the word processor. Good thing that she was fast when it comes to typing. It was not that hard to finish her work. She could finish the lesson in less than two hours. She was typing for thirty minutes already and was again absorbed on her activity.
"Are you done yet?"
She looked behind her when she heard someone's voice, "R-ryoma-kun! W-why are you still here?"
"I've got nothing to do. I don't mind spending time in the library though."
She nodded, "I-I see," she looked back on the screen, "W-well… I think I could finish this for less than an hour."
"Un." He said as he walked to a shelf and looked for an interesting book to read. The library would close around eight so he thought that the girl could make it.
After 45 minutes of typing she was done with it but the problem was the size wouldn't fit into the margins. She didn't know where the settings for the margins. She thought of fixing them once she was done typing everything.
"What's the matter?"
She looked to see Ryoma staring at the screen once again, "U-uhmmm… I-I couldn't find the settings for the margins… so…"
Ryoma sighed and said, "Let me."
When he said that, she looked back at the screen and removed her hand on the mouse. She placed her hand near the gadget. The boy leaned closer to her ear making her heart to beat faster. She flinched and blushed when the boy touched her hand… not the mouse. The boy began searching for the settings with his other hand.
"R-ryoma-kun…"
"Hn." He replied. His eyes were still on the screen.
"Y-your hand… t-that's my… " she couldn't bring her words.
"I know."
She blushed on his words. He knew and yet and he was touching hers. She looked down on the keyboard. She noticed that the boy was using the tab and short cut keys. He was definitely a genius as he fixed the margins of her lessons.
"It's done."
She looked up at the screen. It was all done and everything was in place. But the boy was not planning to let go of her hand yet. Then she noticed some words below that she didn't notice the boy typed a while ago. Her eyes widened as she read the message;
'Go out with me.'
She didn't know how red she was at that time. The boy was still leaning near to her ear.
"Will you?"
She gasped when he spoke to her ear. Her heart was beating so fast and it took a minute before she nodded slowly.
"Good, I'll call both our guardians; I'll take you home a little late today." With that he leaned back and telling her that he would be waiting outside.
Situations were slowly registering into her mind. Ryoma wanted to go out with her… tonight. Then she remembered the condition he was telling her;
"S-so that was the deal he was talking about?" she whispered to herself. She got up and had everything packed up. She secured the lesson inside her bag after she printed all of them and went out the library to meet with the tennis prodigy outside.
9:30 Pm:
Ryoma was taking her home after eating from a burger shop. He took her to a pet farm before the farm had it's closing time, they both learned that they loved pets although; she couldn't take care of one. They took a walk from places that they could spend before eating dinner. And now the deal was about to end as the boy decided to take her home. It was new to her but she was happy that she was able to have a 'date' with him for a day.
"T-thank you for today… R-ryoma-kun and for the lesson." She said as they reached her porch.
Ryoma stared at her, "Tomorrow after practice, I'll make sure we can go to a nicer place than today."
"E-eh?" she blinked her eyes twice, "W-what do you mean by that?"
Ryoma walked closer to her making her blush again, "I'll take you to nice places, far away from our senpais."
"R-ryoma-kun… I-I thought I made the deal already." She felt awkward as the boy was really close to her. She had to ask him thinking that he was not satisfied going out with her today.
"You did."
She blushed really hard as the boy leaned to kiss her on her right cheek as he raised his other hand to touch her left cheek. He boy gave space between them but she knew that the boy was aware of her flushed face. The boy smirked confirming something to her;
"You agreed to become my girlfriend, so what do you expect?"
Her eyes widened as her blush brightened. He stared at her for a while before turning around;
"I'll see you tomorrow, do not forget. Ja." He waved his hand after saying that.
She touched the cheek that the boy kissed. She wasn't able to reply back at him. She found herself whispering something;
"T-that was his… real condition?" Her heart never stopped from beating irregularly that night.
~Owari~
Done! Actually, I got this idea when I was touching the mouse that I was using during my work. To think, that just using the mouse from work could give me such an idea of this drabble… tee hee hee… so much of the computer usage…
Total Word Count: (1,481 words)
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~MitsukiJunko~
