Within twenty minutes, Emiko and Aomine had made it into their neighbourhood, trudging along until they reached Aomine's house. As Aomine opened the door, they immediately heard the sound of his mother's calm voice.

"Daiki, is that you? I've just finished making dinner. Is Emiko-chan with you? I made her favourite." The middle-aged woman turned around to see the two teens. Her eyes immediately fell on Emiko, who still had a tear-stained face. "Oh, sweetie, did you have a bad date? It wasn't this jerk's fault, was it?"

"Hey!" Aomine complained at his mother's insult.

Emiko shook her head with a small smile.

"Come in, come in. I've made chicken teriyaki and miso soup." Aomine's mother gently guided Emiko to the kitchen where the food was waiting.

Throughout the entire meal, Aomine wouldn't keep his eyes off of Emiko. She gave him a few questioning looks now and then, but each time he would snap out of his gaze and revert back to his food until she stopped looking.

"So tell me about this boy you've been going out with. Daiki hasn't stopped complaining about him for the past few weeks!" His mother giggled.

"Mom!" Aomine complained once more.

Emiko let out a short chuckle. "He's just one of my brother's teammates from Seirin. Although, I don't think I'll be going out with him anymore." Aomine looked up curiously at her statement

"Oh? Why's that?" His mother asked.

"He's just not the guy for me, I suppose. Plus, I think I like someone else." Emiko muttered, picking at her food.

"He wasn't the one who ruined your date, was he?"

Emiko shook her head. "No, it was…" She looked up at Aomine.

"My date," Aomine stated, "she was stuck-up and rude. I don't think we'll be seeing much of her anymore."

"Well, that's good." Aomine's mother smiled. "Anyone who thinks it's okay to upset our dear Emiko-chan doesn't deserve our friendship."

Emiko smiled at the woman. Just like Aomine, she had a natural talent for being able to say the right thing at the right time.

The trio finished their dinner with a few embarrassing stories told by Aomine's mother. The teens washed their plates and headed upstairs to Aomine's room. Once they got there, Aomine flopped onto his bed and stared at his TV blankly. Emiko looked around the messy room, finding multiple gravure idol magazines lying around.

"You know, you should really put these away when you have friends over." Emiko sighed, picking up the magazines and piling them on his desk.

"Why? It's not like you don't know that I read them."

"What if you have a girl over? She'd think you're a pervert." Emiko began gathering up his dirty clothes and placing them in his laundry basket.

"You're a girl."

Emiko paused, looking at Aomine. She sighed, "That's different."

"How is that different? You've got tits. That means you're a girl. Do you think I'm a pervert?"

Emiko's face went red as she crossed her arms over her chest and sat on the edge of his bed. "Please don't talk like that."

The blue-haired girl felt the bed shake, then a pair of arms wrapped around her waist, as well as a pair of legs big-spooning her own. She felt her face heat up when she noticed his hot breath on her neck.

"I'm sorry about tonight."

Emiko was shocked at his words. She'd only heard the boy sincerely apologize one other time in her life. The time before was when he accidentally sent her to the hospital by hitting her in the head with a basketball. And it wasn't even his idea to apologize then – it was Tetsuya who forced Aomine to visit her hospital room and say he's sorry.

"Don't worry about it, Dai-chan. Your mom cheered me up. I'm fine now." She said with a soft smile, placing her hands over his. Aomine pulled on her waist, causing her to lie down on top of him. "D-Dai-chan, what're you-" Emiko felt a warm hand slap over her mouth.

"Shut up." He muttered, keeping his hand there. "I'm trying to sleep."

The girl's face heated up once more, causing a smirk to make its way onto Aomine's lips – not that Emiko could see it. "I-I can't sleep like this," She rolled to the side so she was facing him, "You're gonna have to move…" Aomine pulled her into him again, this time with her face squished against his chest. Being a well-endowed girl, Emiko couldn't find any comfort in this position either. "Dai-chan…"

"Hmm…?"

"This hurts…Can we find a different position?"

Aomine smirked. "Wow, Emi. It sounds like you're talking about something completely different."

Her face went red for the umpteenth time that night. "That's not what I meant!"

Aomine chuckled as they rearranged positions so he and Emiko were laying side-by-side. He frowned when she didn't immediately cuddle into him.

"You couldn't stop hugging me the last time we slept in the same bed. What's going on?"

Emiko stared at him with wide eyes. "N-nothing. I just…"

"You just what?" He moved closer to her.

Emiko looked away with pink cheeks. "People kept saying that I like you, so…"

"Why would that matter?" Closer.

"I didn't want to make it awkward…"

"Why would it be awkward?" Closer.

"Because…" She could barely speak anymore. His face was too close for her to not blush as much as possible. Emiko sighed. "Why do you get such a kick out of making me uncomfortable?"

Aomine smiled as their noses touched. Not a smirk – a smile. "I'm testing you."

"For what?" She groaned. He had played enough games with her over the years that she was entirely fed up with them.

"To see if you'll let me kiss you or not."

Emiko froze, eyes wide at the navy-haired boy in front of her. He wanted to kiss her? "Dai-chan…you…" His lips were inching closer to hers with every word she managed to stutter out. She turned her head to the side, causing him to pause. "Nevermind." She said, turning away from him entirely.

Aomine let out an audible sigh before wrapping his arms around Emiko's waist and squishing his head into the back of her neck. They fell asleep in that position, both dreaming of each other.


Hey, sorry it's short but no one's commented on the last chapter yet, so I'm a little disappointed haha!

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