Chapter Forty Nine: Isn't It Romance?
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Song Playing: Moonlight Becomes You
Theme 98: Writer's Choice- Romance
It had been a small practically insignificant moment that neither of them probably even remembered. The weather had been freezing. Quite literally. Since ice slicked streets were not conductive to safe trips home via roller skates, she had been forced to trek to her house the old fashioned way.
It was cold miserable work and she had been trying to cut down the amount of time she spent outside be making her way via the main road as opposed to the more scenic route she usually preferred. She had been a half a block away when she saw them so she couldn't hear what they were saying but she had immediately recognized the two familiar figures exiting the coffee shop.
Now it wasn't unheard of to see Mamori nee-chan and Boss Hiruma together. Even if it was in a public setting. So she had been getting ready to give them a shout out when she witnessed something that caught her greeting in her throat.
They appeared to be in their usual state of comfortable confrontation. She looked like she was giving him a piece of her mind while he was giving her toothy smirk while talking on his cell phone. Her sleeves were tangled and she was struggling desperately to shrug her coat on with no luck.
Then his smirk became noticeably less smug. It fact it looked almost happy as he closed the phone in his hand with a snap. One hand depositing it into his pocket as the other reached up and aided her in her struggle. Carefully he held her heavy coat up by the collar, guiding her arms into the sleeves. As she secured the buttons he pulled down her hat even further down her face to cover her eyes.
She flailed for a moment before righting herself. Her head snapped up, an angry remark surely residing on the tip of her tongue; when he bent down to press his mouth against hers. When he pulled back any ill feelings she had towards him were wiped clean off her face. A small smile took up home in its place.
If that wasn't shocking enough he then proceeded to tuck her into his side, making sure that he was closest to the street, and began leading them down the sidewalk. She scooted a little closer and did nothing to discourage the direction he was taking them. Like this was an everyday occurrence.
By now she was slowly losing the feeling in her fingers. People were giving her strange looks at the same time they were giving her a wide berth. Yet none of that seemed to catch her notice. Her feet were rooted to the spot and, even though they were long since out of her sight, she felt that if she so much as breathed wrong the moment she had just witnessed would be ruined.
It was the single most romantic thing that Suzuna had ever seen.