Note: Inspiration – Valentine's of course :)
11) Valentine's
Chocolates. Boxes full.
Shiki catches up to her a while later. His arms are loaded with brightly colored boxes and his face is flushed. He finally got away from the swarm of girls at his gate.
"You're not going to eat all those, right?" Rima asks, looking disdainfully at the gifts.
"Do you want some?"
No! She stiffens, walking ahead faster. A hand grabs hers.
"Rima?"
"What?" It comes out sharper than she intends it to be. Or maybe it didn't. She doesn't know. She's just annoyed right now.
"Did you make me any?" He asks. Are you jealous?
"You have enough." No. Why would I be?
"But I rather eat yours." Yes. You are.
After a few minutes of silence, she reluctantly pulls out a neat, black box with a silver ribbon. He smiles, knowing it's the homemade pocky she makes for him every year.
Pocky beats chocolate any day.
Shiki opens the box and takes a bite out. It's delicious.
Happy Valentine's Day.
Without words, he hands her a black rose with a white ribbon from his jacket pocket.
Happy Valentine's Day.
Shiki has kept all the boxes she's given him. Those are the only boxes he's kept.
She doesn't know.
Rima has Aidou preserve all the roses he's given her. Encased in everlasting ice, they're tucked away in a special box underneath her bed.
He doesn't know.