Prompt: Phobias

Caffeineshipping

When you looked at her, you wouldn't think she was scared of anything. The girl was always smiling, the grin lighting up her bright face.

But Jaiden knew better. He knew what she was scared of. And he would protect anyone from finding out or using it against her.

Because she was headstrong, stubborn and confident.

She didn't want anyone to know the things that made her cower, whimper and just for a moment be fully vulnerable.

She had a few phobias.

The biggest was pyrophobia- the fear of fire. But no-one could ever blame her for that. She'd had a traumatic experience.

He knew she had a strange fear of going under train tracks. And the way that she would avoid it and go around if possible and how she would scream every time someone tried to take her under.

And she had a fear of hurting her friends. That's why she'd-rather sorrowfully-rejected him. While it was true that most of her friend would be overjoyed at the day they finally started going out, there was one friend who would be angry, sad and hurt if it ever happened.

He respected her for it, he really did, but he knew Mina better than that. And he knew that she was hurting over it just as much as he was.

This phobia had to go.

Because as nice as it was to consider other people instead of herself, he knew she would eventually break down if it kept going on, this was a phobia that was actually harming her.

He looked over to her, watching her sigh as she pushed her lunch across her plate.

He scooted closer. It would start now.

He leaned close to her ear.

"Go out with me," he said, "The only way for you to overcome that fear is to face it head on."

She looked at him, her green eyes shining with uncertainty.

"Please," he added, "I'll just keep asking until you say yes anyway." This earned his a giggled and a playful swat on the back of his head.

"Fine," she said, "but only to face my fear." He grinned. He knew better. And judging by the red on her face after his lips pressed into the side of her face, she knew that he knew better.

A/N: I dunno, it;s just been a while since I've done a caffeineshipping. Thought it was about time I did another. Even with a sucky prompt ;P

Review and tell me what you thought or Mina's weird fear of going under trains ;P That's not a joke by the way. It's terrifying!