"Just promise me one thing…"
He looks at her warily.
"What?"
"Don't fall in love with me," she states with a serious face before turning around and running behind a tree.
He stands in the same spot she left him. Frozen. Well, not completely frozen as his heart races, and his blood rushes to his cheeks in embarrassment.
He looks at her as she glances over her shoulder to wave him over to where she's at, and he clumsily walks over toward her.
She frowns.
"Kurosaki-kun!" She whines in a whisper. "We'll be caught if you aren't more secretive!"
He clears his throat.
"Inoue…we are standing behind a tree that is one-inch wide. I'm pretty sure we are far from being inconspicuous."
"But we have disguises!"
His eyes sweep over her, and he shakes his head. Although she's wearing a disguise, she is only drawing more attention to herself with her doctor getup that she borrowed from his dad.
"Not great ones," he counters back as he looks at the scrubs he wears.
She clicks her tongue as she focuses back on their target.
"Well, I think we look unrecognizable! Tatsuki-chan has no hope in catching us!"
He sighs as he runs a hand down his face.
"She's waving at us, Inoue!"
She stills before turning around fast, and she seems like she tries to run away from Tatsuki's sight because she crashes into him.
His arms immediately go around her to keep her from falling.
She looks up, and he holds his breath as she blushes.
"Sorry, Kurosaki-kun. It looks like our mission failed."
He rolls his eyes.
He already knew that they might fail when she came to his home and proposed this ridiculous idea of trailing after Tatsuki because she's been acting strange recently.
But honestly, the second she recited that line that she heard from an action movie they saw together a week earlier, he knew the mission would end in failure. Because he couldn't promise her the one thing she asked for. Because truth be told, he's fallen in love with her a long time ago.
He guesses some promises aren't made to be kept.