He didn't know when exactly it started happening - maybe somewhere around the start of their seventh grade, or maybe halfway through it - but he started liking the sound of her name.
At first it was only the sound of it. Anyone calling for Sora would get his immediate attention, her name breaking through his concentration of whatever he might be doing at the moment. He found himself looking up whenever her name is called, unknowingly waiting for her voice to reply back. Then it became more.
It was not her fault that her name meant "sky" and thus wherever the sky is meant to be mentioned in his Japanese literature, he would find her name. Soon, even seeing it written started catching his attention, making his eyes linger on it more than any other word.
He discovered his preference to her name when he found himself using the word "sky" unnecessarily in his Japanese essays, just to give himself a reason to write her name. Of course, with that discovery came denial then disbelief then embarrassment then self loathing for being so stupid and unbelievably pathetic, but in the end he came to the same conclusion.
He liked the sound and sight of Sora's name.
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She thought it was too silly to be possible.
How could it be?
She couldn't explain why his name gets her attention; even the slightest, most careless mention of his name. She couldn't think of a reason as to why the most unrelated conversations becomes suddenly interesting if his name is mentioned. She felt at loss for a reason as to why his band posters or more specifically the name "Yamato" on them captures her eyes even from a distance.
She got immensely embarrassed and confused when she found herself smiling unnecessarily whenever typing his name for her essay on "Yamato era of Japan". Not to mention how she felt her spirits lift whenever she recognizes his deep voice in the mixture of several voices in the room.
It was so silly and so embarrassing. Surely it was impossible, right?
She can't be liking his name, certainly? The sound of it, the sight of it. Of course, not. How pathetic she has to be to like his name?!
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A/N: A bit slow on updates, yeah, considering I already have them written down. I guess I'm just getting too distracted by Merlin and how much I ship MerlinxMorgana (a.k.a Mergana). I have decided to write a fanfiction for those two 'cause they both are just AWESOME together!
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