He stumbled when a wave of applause broke into his calm.
He realized that he had lost himself among his own sensations when he heard her sing, to which he tried to regain normality in his way of sitting before being noticed by someone.
Kotoko bowed in thanks for the applause, smiling at everyone who applauded endlessly.
When she finished, she ran in his direction, something he didn't think possible.
"What did you think?" She immediately dropped a hand over his, causing him to open his eyes spreading the orbs of his brown eyes to the point of threatening to leave his position, his heart ripped from his chest in a violent jump, and a jolt of sensations invaded his body in a matter of thousandths of seconds. He looked at her sideways, paralyzed with emotion.
Kotoko did the same, she watched him until she caught what she had done with him.
She released her hand, dropping the jaw of shame, denying with both hands the air that was a mistake; error, he told himself, not taking the opportunity to take her hand.
"I'm sorry!" She exclaimed in alarm, shaking her head. A faint blush appeared on her rosy cheeks in a slightly pale pink color that he felt in her regret. She had had a different reaction to the previous ones ... "It was unconscious." She excused herself by saying that phrase over and over again until he was fed up with it.
"Enough!" He burst in, raising his authoritarian voice. "With one time is enough" He frowned trying to tie up ends with Kotoko's reaction that made him feel excited somehow. Yes there was hope for him.
"Eh, yes" She muttered, regaining her sanity.
A few seconds passed that for him, they were uncomfortable, but he didn't know if they were equally uncomfortable for her or just a time to analyze the situation she unconsciously caused, if the case was going there.
"Anyway" Kotoko spoke, moving a few inches away from him. You didn't need to be an idiot to understand that she was uncomfortable, or rather, disturbed by her action. "What did you think of the session?" She asked with a nervous laugh.
He raised his eyebrows, looking at her sideways, demonstrating his impetuous attitude that had inevitably remained fixed on the bench. He felt taken by surprise, but aware of what was going on around.
"Nothing bad." He repaired dry.
"That's good" She sighed.
Their eyes met again simply by inertia, doubting whether to speak or remain silent, even when he did not know what to do in a situation of that caliber. It was as if they put a problem in front of him and there was no way to treat him but to intrude into the bowels of his mind to such an extent that he would achieve some kind of introspection that would allow him to say something coherent.
But, she looked so cute, and he so clumsy for love. He wanted to slap in that sense in which she expected a reaction from him, which was not so much more than pure silence.
Kotoko's cell phone rang from the pocket of his jeans at the bell of the song "Secuencia inicial" by Soda Stereo. She signaled that she would answer the call, to which he nodded.
"What's up?" She picked up the cell phone in an abrupt tone. "Oh, yes, Ryo."
Naoki rolled his eyes as he pressed his lips to rage; that friend annoyed him just by hearing his name.
"You can't?" She asked in anguish. "Well, I understand if you can't go with me," she said safely, sitting in a better posture giving her a relaxed air. "I can go alone without problems." She waved her hand in a disinterested air as if she hadn't cared.
Instead, Naoki felt interest in the conversation, especially in the sentence 'I can go alone' and where could she go alone?
"Have fun, bye!" She hung up the cell phone.
She by placing it in her jeans pocket, she pulled her hair back in a gesture of preparing to march to the supposed destination she would go to. She stood up in spring by jumping forward with both feet.
"Where are you going?" He questioned before she could leave; He was not yet willing to part with her so soon. Kotoko stopped, stopping her next move, stirring up in Naoki a sense of relief noticing that she had heard him.
"To the Shibuya district" She replied in surprise, raising a finger toward the exit of the school. "Why?" She wanted to know, recovering from his sudden question.
"I accompany you" He offered himself looking disinterested in his tone of voice, but nevertheless his actions proved otherwise. "I have nothing else to do and I don't feel like going home so early" He said complainingly, putting both hands in his pants pockets.
She gave him a scrupulous look, placing a finger under her chin indicating she was thinking; in what he, very desperately awaited her response.
"Well, you can come." She agreed with a complacent smile.
That was the answer he wanted.
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P.S. What do you think? Apparently Kotoko is already falling in love with Naoki! And he doesn't fully understand it, but it does not matter, there is already a greater connection between them that not even Kin-chan or Matsumoto can intervene.