I sit in Kyoya's lap for a while before I move back to my seat and fall asleep. I wake up a couple of hours later. I look up to discover Kyoya sleeping with his laptop on his lap.
He must've fallen asleep while working. Poor guy. He's been working so hard lately.
I sneak over and gingerly replace the laptop with a blanket. After slipping the laptop into its case, I grab a bottle of cranberry juice and sit back down. I reach into my bag by my feet and remove a book and my earbuds. Plugging in my earbuds, I scroll through my music before deciding on the musical Finding Neverland.
After an hour or so, Kyoya wakes up.
"Hey, Sleeping Beauty. Did you have a nice nap?"
"Mmm."
"Sounds like someone's not fully awake yet. Perhaps a loving kiss from his girlfriend would help?" I lean over and give him a kiss. As I start to lean back he pulls me closer and kisses me again.
"Mmm. Now I'm awake."
I chuckle. "Oh, what am I gonna do with you?"
"Marry me?"
"Well, I don't have much choice in that." We both smile. "Guess it's a good thing I already agreed."
"You know, I don't ever recall being asked if I wanted to marry you."
"Hmm. But let's be honest. You'd marry whoever you're dad arranged for, wouldn't you?"
"You have me there."
"I guess we'll just have to learn to like each other in our many years to come."
"I suppose." We both start laughing. "How are you feeling?"
"Hmm. Hungry."
He snorts. "Well, we can remedy that." He raises a hand and a flight attendant brings us rice and chicken.
"Ooo. Fancy."
"Oh yes. This is a delicacy in American colleges. Those students would kill to have something as fancy as this."
I laugh. "I've seen the food they eat. I'm sure they'd be fine with pizza. Or mac 'n' cheese. Those are fancy enough for them."
He giggles alongside me. After we settle down he asks, "Now back to my question, how are you feeling?"
I shrug. "I'm not as sad. I still feel a little melancholy, but I'm accepting it."
"Good. Let's dig in shall we?"
"Don't need to tell me twice."
After we finish eating, we fall into a peaceful silence while he works on his laptop and I read. We like that for hours. No noise is made until I finish my book and I look up at Kyoya.
"Babe? Are you ok?"
"Huh?"
"Your face is all scrunched up. You look frustrated. What's up?"
"Oh. It's the club's budget. I don't know how, but somehow we're gonna be short this month. I can't figure out what went wrong nor can I figure out how to solve it."
"May I?" I gesture to the laptop.
"By all means," he says as he hands it over.
I quickly skim through everything. "Well, here's where you went wrong." I point to a number on the screen. "You forgot a zero here. And here, you averaged too much. Also, if you want to cut costs, you should look into alternatives for this and this. I know that there are cheaper options that are still fairly high quality. Oh, and this. You don't need to spend so much on this for events. The ladies never bother with it as much, so you're overstocking there."
Kyoya is just shocked for a second. "How did I not see that before? And how have I never thought of alternatives? Or of checking how much the ladies actually consume. I'm such an idiot."
"No you're not. You're overworked. You're stressed. Between your family and the club, you're putting too much pressure on yourself. I've been thinking it for a while, but Kyoya you need a break."
"No. I'll be fine." He takes his laptop back.
"No." I shut the laptop. "You need a break."
He stares me down and I stare right back. We continue our showdown until he finally breaks.
"Fine. Since you're so stubborn and will just bother me until I relent, I may as well save us the effort. How do you propose I take a break?"
"I'm glad you asked. Come here." I scoot over and motion to the spot next to me. He gets up and moves next to me. I raise a hand and the flight attendant from before brings us a large balnket and a big bowl of popcorn. I pull my laptop out of my bag and pull up my movies. "We're going to watch Rodger's and Hammersteing's Cinderella, the 1997 version."
He just looks at me like I'm bonkers. "Just humor me, ok?"
He sighs. "Fine."
