Serizawa hoped that this date went well.
Chips? Check.
Popcorn? Check.
Soda pop? Check.
Dusting? Check.
Sweeping? Check.
Laundry? Check.
Clean couch blanket? Check.
Several movies about dogs in the que? Check.
Several episodes of the original run of the Junk Food Fighter? Check.
Rescue hamsters cleaned, watered, and fed to Sho's specifications? Check.
Emergency numbers stuck to kitchen fridge in case he had a heart attack and died? Check.
This date was going to go well.
She was coming over to watch a movie…which he knew just meant watching a movie. They went out together after work a lot and those dates had been nice but they had never been to either of their apartments. Well he had walked her home a couple of times but he had no idea what her apartment looked like past the genkan. Sho offered to go look in her windows and report back his findings but Serizawa that nothing about that idea was good. If she wanted him to know what the inside of her apartment looked like then she would have invited him in herself.
She hadn't.
Though she had, last time they'd been out together, said that she'd be interested in seeing some of his models after he showed her pictures. That had turned into them hanging out and watching a movie. Well she said that they could do whatever he wanted and he said…well he had to think of what they could do together after they looked at his models because as numerous as they were it wouldn't take that long to see them all…and he wanted to spend a lot of time with her…
Movies took up a lot of time.
And everyone loved movies! Well maybe not the blind…or maybe they did. He'd ask Shimazaki. He liked listening to the TV while he fell asleep…but also he could see. Maybe, actually, he shouldn't ask Shimazaki that. That might have been a bad question to ask. He didn't know. Maybe he should ask Miss Reigen when she came over. She was good at talking and things.
Or maybe not. He didn't want to turn the first time she ever came over into a social skills lesson.
He didn't know what he wanted it to turn into but an impromptu social skills lesson was something that he was not interested in. He knew that…he knew that he wanted to hold her. He wanted to cuddle and hold her and kiss her and all of that. He also knew that he wanted…well he knew what he wanted but he would wait for her to initiate. It was one thing to…he knew that his communication skills weren't the bets but he didn't want to put any pressure on her. This was still so new…he didn't want to ruin things with her. She was so…everything.
And he did not want to lose her.
He checked, double checked, and triple checked again. The apartment was clean, he had plenty of snacks, he didn't stink, his clothes were clean, and Sho knew not to come popping around tonight. Not that he didn't like hanging out with Sho, he did, he just didn't want Sho to come around when he was on a date, that was all, and he was sure that Sho felt the same way now that he was in a relationship. Wow. Sho had a boyfriend. Now Serizawa knew what people meant when they said 'they grow up so fast'.
Serizawa wondered if the same applied to him.
A year ago he had been trailing after the President. He had given Suzuki his love and devotion…and his life…and that had gotten him nowhere. Well it had gotten him to her. A year ago he…he had been so sure that he loved Suzuki…that he'd die without him…and now here he was in his own apartment with his girlfriend about to come over and he was going to have a regular movie date with her and…and this was everything that he ever wanted.
He felt…he knew how he felt.
And it was scary. He felt the word, the shape of it, on his tongue. Love. He loved her…and he knew that it was too soon for all of that. He still had so much of his own baggage to unpack when it came to that. He couldn't just go throwing that word around until he was totally sure. He knew that he cared about her, that he wanted to spend time with her, and that he would do anything for her. That was more than enough for now. She was more than enough for now.
She was more than enough for him.
Reigen knew that she wasn't enough for him.
She had been nothing but a neurotic mess all day and he deserved so much better.
This had been a bad idea. She had just been rambling like a drunken parrot the other day, that was all, she had no idea that her words would lead to…this. She had been telling him about the kids and their impromptu sleepover and it somehow turned to the subject of how they had no idea what the other person's apartment looked like and how she was sure that his apartment was full of all sorts of cool models and she really wanted to see them…not a lie at all…and now she was heading over to his house in the middle of the evening for a movie date.
She had been on plenty of those.
Hell, she had been the one to explain to Mob what Netflix and chill meant…and why she should never use that phrase when describing the movie dates that she and Haystack went on…ones that Reigen could have lived a long, long, long life without knowing about. She hoped to God that Mob's movie dates were rated G. Nothing 18+ or even 15+ yet. No. Nope. Mob was too young and Reigen was not old enough for Mob to be going off and doing…stuff like that.
Adult stuff.
Stuff that Mob was not ready. If Reigen wasn't ready then Mob wasn't ready…well the thing was that Reigen was ready…so a better comparison would have been…but this was not the time to be making weird standards up. Nor was it the tome to be speculating on Mob's love life. Nope. That was Mob and Haystack's business and theirs alone. Reigen was not stalling for time by speculating to herself the details of Mob's relationship with the boy of her dreams. Nope.
She could leave the house at any time.
She totally could. She had her comfy shoes on, she was standing in the genkan, and her bag and keys were in her hands. Just her normal bag, not her emergency overnight bag complete with mini toothpaste, deodorant, and a change of clothes. She knew that she wouldn't be needing that bag. She and Serizawa wouldn't do anything more than they already had. They had kissed, and they kissed regularly, and Reigen was grateful for what she had and who she had it with. Really, she was. They kissed and that was enough.
Even though a kiss could last for more than five seconds.
And it could involve more than pressing their lips together like a couple of nervous kids.
And also he could touch her somewhere besides her hands, hair, or waist if he was feeling adventurous.
She would never push him to do anything, though. He had his limits and if he wanted more than what they were doing….she knew that she was shitty at this sort of thing. This sort of heavy duty communication. She knew that they had a talk about this, about voicing their needs, but these needs…she was having trouble voicing these needs for the first time in her life. She knew what she wanted, she knew that it wasn't wrong for her to want what she wanted, but she also knew that she didn't want to put any pressure on him. Intimacy, the kind she wanted, was tricky at the best of times. The two of them had so many issues that their issues had issues. She did not want to make it any worse.
She was not going to ruin their relationship because she really wanted to make love to him.
That would have been selfish, pushing him towards something that he wasn't one hundred percent ready for. She had needs, she was a grown woman after all, and she could deal with them on her own. He was her boyfriend. She loved-she cared about him a lot. This was about more than sex. He was more to her than a warm toy. He was a person with feelings, a lot of them, and he did not need her pushing the complicated intimacy that sex brought onto him.
She could divorce her feelings from the act of it.
But she didn't want to, not with him…and that was kind of scary. As scary as it was for her it must have been even worse for him. He was a virgin. She hadn't been a virgin since middle school but she remembered all of the messy, complicated, and ultimately painful feelings that came from her first time. She did not want to make him feel the way she had felt.
It wouldn't be the same.
She wasn't going to pretend that she didn't even know him, afterwards. She wasn't going to hurt him like that…or in any way. She…she had a lot of very strong and very complicated feelings towards him and she knew that she would never do anything that had even a chance of hurting him. He was…he was someone she cared about so much…more than she had ever cared about a guy before. She wanted…she wanted a lot with him…a lot that she knew not to ask of him…yet…
But it would all be a moot point if she didn't get her ass out the door already!
Serizawa knew that he needed to stop watching the door.
He had started playing a game to calm his nerves. Super Bomber Man. Usually it calmed him down…but not now. Now he just could not stop staring at the door and…and yeah, he could not stop staring. If she had been an esper then he could have sensed her...but he knew that she was coming. She would come at the agreed upon time. She was his girlfriend and she had no reason to just ditch him like that. Unless she changed her mind…
If she changed her mind he would have understood.
He would have been hurt but he would have totally understood. She had other things to do with her time than come to his tiny apartment to look at the models he'd spent way too much time painting and then sit on his tiny couch and watch a movie with him and let him hold her close and maybe even kiss her…she had other stuff to do. Probably more important stuff. She led a very busy life and he didn't and even now he had nothing better to do than play-
This was negative self-talk and he needed to stop.
He needed to do like his therapist said and not put himself down. He needed to bring himself up. He had a girlfriend and she wanted to be with him. She was the sort of person who spoke her mind always so if she didn't want to come over or to be with him at all then she would have said something to him. He had to stay positive and not put himself in a negative headspace because then this night really would end up being awful.
He had no reason to feel like this.
A knock at his door.
He really had no reason to feel like this.
Reigen knew that she had no reason to feel like this.
So nervous, so incredibly nervous. She was being dumb. Nothing was going to happen. Nothing like what she was thinking, anyway. Nothing like what she was hoping. She was just going to come over, spend some time with him, and then head back to her own bed in her own apartment. Simple. Very simple. Nothing at all like what she was thinking. Nothing at all like what she wanted…and tried to stop wanting this. This was not like kissing him. This was…she had no idea if he wanted to do anything and she was not going to put pressure on him. None at all. He was…he was someone she cared about and she was not going to mess this up.
No matter how badly she wanted to.
And yes, she wanted to.
"M-Miss Reigen! You're here! I mean I knew that you'd be coming over around this time, I don't know what I'm so surprised about…not that I thought that you wouldn't come or anything like that. I mean if you wanted to just stay home or go out and do something else then I would have understood…not that I expected you to…" he was so cute when he was nervous. Well he was cute all the time but he was especially cute when he was nervous. It was endearing, so endearing, so endearing that she just wanted to lean up on her tiptoes and kiss him-
Hey, she could do that now!
So she did. She leaned up and gave him her best rated G for general audiences peck. The kind that left only lipstick, and even then not a lot of it. The kind that made him blush and made her blush and if they had been anime characters they would have had those blush stickers and it would have been cute but Reigen knew that she just looked flushed. It wasn't a good look on her, she knew that, and she wished that she had worn more makeup. She didn't know why she wanted to hide behind layers of cream and powder and highlighter and concealer and blush and bronzer, it was just Serizawa, but she kind of wished that she had. She hadn't, though, because it was best not to wear heavy makeup on these sorts of dates.
Not that this would be 'that' sort of date.
"C-Come in!" said Serizawa. Wow…that had been so…wow! He would never get tired of kissing her. It had been nice, so nice, and he kind of wanted to do it again and again and again…but that was not what his was about! It was one thing to kiss her, that was just…well it was a lot of things…but to ask her to do any of the stuff on his mind, well, she would be fully justified in running away screaming.
Also it wasn't polite to make her lurk in doorways.
So he invited her in. He moved out of the way and…was she shorter? Oh no, she was normal sized. The answer came to him when she stepped into the genkan. She usually wore high heeled shoes even though they looked kind of difficult to walk in. She was good at it, though, walking and even running in them, so good at it that he hardly even noticed that she wore them….and she hadn't been, then. Her shoes were a lot shorter and that made her a lot shorter…and it was kind of cute. Seeing her like this. She had her hair down and she was kind of red…oh! She had freckles! They were so…she was so cute. Pretty. Beautiful. Captivating. He would have thought of more synonyms but he didn't have a thesaurus.
He didn't even think that there were words for how he felt about her right then.
Reigen didn't think that there were words for what she felt about him right then.
"Wow, so this is where you live! It's nice, really nice! I can't believe you built all of those models…I mean I totally can but it's like…wow! You're entire wall is covered in…I can't even recognize most of these…not that it's a bad thing! I haven't really kept up with stuff, not since I was a kid…not that I'm calling you childish! I mean, I just mean, that this is really cool. This whole thing is really cool. Can I see them? Oh, can I touch them? No, wait, that was a dumb question. I don't want to fuck-mess! Mess them up. They look like they took a lot of work! More than I could have put in…too much self-depreciation is unattractive, Arataki…um…hey! My shoes are facing the wrong way. I'll just…God I am so rude…" Reigen knew that, at this point, she was just saying words. She was pacing around and talking and he was just watching her and she was embarrassing herself and she knew that she should have just shut up but she…she could not. She might have said the wrong thing if she took a pause. Like how he managed to look good in anything, even just slacks and a button down. Like how she had forgotten how tall he was, or maybe she had just forgotten how short she was in proportion to him…or how his hair looked nice when it was a little longer but not long enough to stick up on it's own…and how badly she wanted to reach up and-
Reigen was, as the kids said, thirsty as fuck.
It was a combination of how she felt about him, how effortlessly attractive he was, and how long it had been for her…how long it had been since she had been with another person. She hadn't had a dry spell this long since before university…and that was a terrible reason to act like this, to want to…to even consider putting pressure of any kind on him. Nope. This went at his pace.
"O-oh! Here, let me!" said Serizawa. She had been pacing around his apartment looking at everything…and he had no idea that all of this was so fascinating to her. He was glad. He was so glad that she wasn't bored even though it was kind of…overwhelming…just a little. He was glad that she gave him something to do, even if it was as simple as making sure her shoes faced the right way. He just needed a moment to ground himself, that was all.
"T-Thanks." Said Reigen. He used his powers to face her shoes the right way. She forgot how to breathe. That was….that was so sweet of him. It was sweet of him to think of her like that and it was…cool…to see him use his powers like that. If that was even the right word for it. She had seen him use his powers a thousand times, maybe even more, but there was just something about the way he had been…he had been thinking of her and listening to her and…and it felt nice.
This whole thing felt so nice.
There were other words to use, of course, besides nice but nice as the word that fit the situation the best. He was a nice guy. This was a nice place. This was going to be a nice night. She wasn't going to mess this night up. She said that she wanted to hang out and see all of his models and that was what she was going to do. Nothing more. She wasn't even dressed for the occasion. Not this occasion, her clothes were fine for this occasion, at least she thought that they were. She had no idea if-
She was being too self-conscious.
Serizawa knew that he was being too self-conscious.
He stuttered and stumbled as he explained all of his models to her. He couldn't help it. It was a combination of how he felt about her and how he felt about himself. He knew that he could be very childish. Hell, his best friend besides her was a thirteen year old boy. She was so much more mature than he was…and she could have gotten someone so much more mature than him. He knew that this was just more negative self talk. She liked him. She was in his apartment because she liked him. If she wanted to be with someone else then she would have been with someone else. Logically he knew that she was her own person, her life was her own, and if she didn't want to be with him because he was awkward or immature or whatever then she could have just walked right out that door. He knew that she wanted to be with him…but why?
More negative self talk.
He should have been happy. She was in his home for the first time and he knew that this should have been a happy occasion but all he could think about was all of the things that he was doing wrong. He was boring her. He was showing her how immature he was. He wasn't enough for her. Now that she'd seen the way he lived and the things he liked she'd think to herself that she could do so much better…
It wasn't easy.
But she seemed interested. She asked a lot of questions and talked a lot, which meant that she must have been enjoying herself since she really liked to talk, and that must have been good. She listened and never once said anything about his stuttering and backtracking and how he'd just sometimes catch sight of her and how beautiful she was and just completely lose his train of thought. That was good. She was just so good to him…and he liked her so much…and he hoped that this was going well. It was hard to reconcile the worries in his mind from what was really happening.
She was enjoying herself. That was what was happening.
Reigen wondered if he was actually enjoying himself.
She talked too much when she was nervous. She never let him have a word in edgewise and while she was trying to change that change was slow going. Mainly because she need to fill up the atmosphere before it got awkward. She was gushing at him and she knew it. She had seen pictures of his models after he'd built them but she had no idea that he had so many….and how much work went into them. The detailing on some of these was so intricate…and he had done it all by hand. He was amazing. Reigen knew that she would never have had that kind of patience.
He had a lot of patience though.
For her. For all of her gushing and rambling. For how annoying she must have been. She knew that she could be really annoying. She hadn't changed, much, from when she was younger. When she liked a guy she still hovered much too close and talked far too much…but he didn't seem to mind. She had to remind herself that he was nor like everybody else. That he was someone who cared about her and wanted to be with her, annoying habits and all. Even if she did talk way too much. He didn't care at all about her annoying habits.
Speaking of annoying habits.
She needed a cigarette. She hadn't smoked in a while, she didn't want to make his apartment smell like smoking, but she really needed one. It started during the grand tour of his apartment and it reached it's peak when they moved to his couch. To watch a movie. Nothing more. Nothing more than her hand in his and her head on his chest and his other hand in her hair. Nothing more than her leg bouncing and her fingers drumming against her arm.
She really needed to quit smoking.
"A-Are you ok? I mean if you're bored we can watch something else or do something else or-" said Serizawa. She was bouncing around like she was bored. It would have made sense, he wasn't very interesting after all. He had thought she would have liked this movie but he also had others that she would have liked if she didn't like this. He just hoped that she wasn't so bored that she felt like going. That would have been…he knew that she had to go eventually. She had her own home and her own life and all of that. He just didn't want…he wanted to be with her for as long as possible. And not just because he so rarely got to have her this close for this long. She was leaning up into her and he was holding her hand and touching her hair, which she said was ok, and she had her head on his chest and it was just so…it was good. So good. So…intimate…not like that! No, he would never ask that of her. This was just…the other kind of intimate. The kind that wouldn't send her running if she knew what it was that he thought about morning, noon, and night.
"I'm not bored I just…sorry. I just haven't smoked in a while. I get kind of jittery when I don't…yeah. It's not you, it's me." Said Reigen. It was a bad habit. It was an expensive habit. It was one that she never should have picked up in the first place. She didn't even have the excuses her mother's generation had. She knew starting out that it was bad for her. She knew that there was a very good chance that she would end up addicted….and now here she was. She had been cutting back more lately, especially after the kids had stolen her cigarette case and almost ended up in the same boat that she was in now, but she could not completely quit.
"Oh! You can smoke in here if you want, this building allows smoking. I don't really have an ashtray but you can ash on the floor if you want." Said Serizawa. Well that was certainly a relief. She wasn't bored of him. She wasn't just itching to get out and get back to her own life. She wasn't itching to spend her day off with someone else than the guy she saw every single day. Good. That was…that was good.
"No, it's ok. I'll live. I need to cut back anyway, it's a bad habit." Said Reigen with a shrug.
"Oh…ok, if you want to." Said Serizawa
"What's up?" asked Reigen
"Um…I kind of…you look kind of…I like watching you smoke. I don't know why, you just look-" said Serizawa
"Cool?" asked Reigen
"Yes…and attractive, I guess. I don't know. I just like how you look so relaxed and um….yeah." said Serizawa. He didn't have the words for it. The way she looked when she leaned against a wall, her cigarette between two fingers, her eyes deep in thought. The way her lips looked when they were pursed around her cigarette…especially when she had that really bright red lipstick on that she said looked tacky but wore anyway….she was just so pretty…
"Thanks…but I won't smoke in your house. I mean thank you for thinking…um…yeah. It's flattering but once you get that smell in it never, ever, ever comes out and trust me, you don't want your apartment smelling like mine." Said Reigen. She laughed at the end, a self-depreciating sort of laugh. That just caused him to hold her hand tighter. God, he was so close. He was so very close and she…she may have been bouncing around for two reasons. She decided to focus on the first one. She was not…she was not going to ask him for something that he may not have been ready for.
"I really wouldn't mind. I only want to make you happy. That's all." Said Serizawa. He kind of wished that she would stop bouncing around like that. He was holding her hand and touching her hair and that should have been more than enough for him. She was his girlfriend and he had to be respectful of her. This wasn't like when he kissed her. This would have been much bigger than that…and even that had been a lot. She could have just been kissing him because she thought that he wanted to and…no, she had wanted to, too. That was a risk that had paid off but if he were to ask her to do…anything…then that might have ruined everything that they had together. He did not want to ruin it all even though her skin was so soft and she smelled so nice, despite what she thought about the smell of smoking he liked it, and her hair was so long and soft and her hands were so soft and he wondered if the rest of her was just as soft and-
And then he made an effort to stop wondering about that.
And to stop his hands from wandering. Her hair was long. In touching it he kind of ended up touching her back. Her shirt was soft, it was made of silk maybe or something like it, and it felt nice…so his hand was trailing up and down her back a bit. Which was ok because her hair was there and she said that it was alright if he touched her hair. The problem was that her hair may have been long but it didn't go down to her waist….but that was where his hand wandered down to…
He loved it, there, that dip in her waist. That dip that his hand fit right into. He had touched her there, before, when he picked her up that one time…and it had been amazing…and now he wants nothing more than to pick her up again even though there's no reason to do so and also she would probably have thought that he was weird for even thinking those thoughts.
"You do make me…happy." Said Reigen. His hand had moved a little far south there…and she was not going to stop him. She didn't want to stop him. She leaned a little more sideways, then, just a little. Enough so that he could move to her stomach. She had on a blouse and a skirt but his hand across her stomach still made her heart race and her skin break out in goosebumps. She wasn't telling him to do anything, he did this of his own volition, so it was ok. This was ok with him and it was more than ok with her.
"I do?" asked Serizawa. Ok, he had no plausible reason to be touching her stomach and he knew that he should have stopped but she…she hadn't smacked his hand away or asked him what the hell he thought that he was doing or expressed any sort of displeasure…actually she was turning a little red and she was biting her lower lip and he wished that he could have taken a picture because there was something about her expression that did more for him, then, than anything he had ever seen before and-
"God yes." said Reigen. That came out a little more breathy than she had wanted it to. She couldn't help it. He was…well he wasn't doing much of anything and that was the best and the worst part. She wanted him to move his hand up, move it down, move it somewhere but he was just hovering somewhere in the vicinity of her bellybutton. It made no sense. She was fully dressed and his hand was on her stomach of all placed but here she was sighing and bouncing in place like he was…yeah. This was…she did not understand herself sometimes.
"Oh." Said Serizawa because, well, he could not make words at that moment. She was…she had never spoken to him like that before and it…he wanted to hear her say that again. He wanted to make her make that sound again. He wanted…he wanted a great many things in that moment. He let his fingers trail higher, just a little higher, he isn't going to…well he wants to…he wants to more than anything else in the world and-
Maybe he had gone a little too high.
Because she had leaned back into him kind of hard which meant that she was more than aware of…things that he would have rather she not been aware of. He sat up quickly, his face red, and his eyes unable to meet hers. How could he have been so dumb?! Now she was going to want to do nothing more than walk outside that door and-
"I'm sorry. I pushed you too far and I'm sorry. I can go, now, if you want." Said Reigen. She had been so stupid. She didn't even have the excuse of being drunk. She had been stupid and now he probably wanted her out of his house but he was too polite to throw her out and-
"What? No, I don't want you do go. I'm the one who messed up. I shouldn't have been touching you like that or…or think about you like that. That was…I'm sorry." Said Serizawa
"No, no, don't be. I'm the one who pushed you way too far. I never should have asked you to-" said Reigen
"You didn't ask me to do anything, I took it upon myself to-" said Serizawa
'I didn't mind at all and I thought that you didn't mind-" said Reigen
"I wanted to and I thought that you wanted to, too, and I-" said Serizawa
"Wait…you wanted to….I'm sorry. I just…" said Reigen
"I wanted to touch you like that…and I'm sorry. I pushed you too far and if you want to leave I completely understand. I'm very sorry, Miss Reigen." Said Serizawa quietly. To his surprise she didn't get up and leave, no, instead she stayed seated right beside him and took his hand in hers.
"We…I guess we both want to…yeah. I'm sorry I just…I really like you and I don't want to push you too far but I guess….I'm bad at this. Asking you what you want. I just assumed…and I know that I shouldn't have, now. I just…I want…I want a lot and I'm not sure if what I want is something that you're ready to…to give and I don't want to put any pressure on you." Said Reigen
"I…I feel the same way. I really care about you too and I don't want to ruin this. You…you mean a lot to me." Said Serizawa. There was some silence, then. He wondered for a moment if everything really was ruined, now, between them. If by talking about it, getting it all out into the open, they had made it impossible to ignore and now instead of dealing with it they had no choice but to go their separate ways and-
"We suck at this communication thing, don't we?" laughed Reigen. God, they just kept going round and round and round with this. At least he was being a good sport about it. Most guys would have just packed up by then but he…he put up with her and all of her idiosyncrasies.
"It's hard sometimes." Said Serizawa. This whole thing…when he had someone he cared about this much it seemed like everything could be a pitfall. It was kind of like playing pitfall. One false move and you were done for only there were no second chances…and he had to stop thinking of her like that. She cared about him. She put up with all of his awkwardness. She had even given him a second chance. He had caused so much trouble in the past but she had still given him a second chance…and that was why he loved her.
"It is but…but I guess that maybe it doesn't have to be. I just…I'll just ask you. Do you…what do you want? From this? From me?" asked Reigen. She was prepared to hear whatever he had to say. If he wanted to cuddle they'd cuddle. If he wanted to kiss they'd kiss. If he wanted her to go…no. He wasn't like that. No matter what happened, how annoying or awkward she was, he still wanted to be with her. He cared about her and she…she loved him for that.
"I want…I want to be with you and to…I want to be with you." Said Serizawa trying to find words for everything that he wanted. He wanted to hold her, to kiss her, to pick her up, to make her happy in every single way a man could make a woman happy.
"So do I but what…but what do you want…I guess right now." Said Reigen. Too vague. She didn't want in general or the far future. She needed right now. She needed to know what he wanted right now because her mind always took her to the worst option when she speculated on her own and she was getting sick of it.
"What do you want?" asked Serizawa. He needed to ask her. He needed to know what she had in mind because he…he had a great many things on his mind involving her right then and there and not all of them were platonic.
"I guess that I…I really want to…I really want to kiss you and…see where it goes." Said Reigen. Her face was red, so red that she wondered if she was going to pass out. She didn't know what was so…so embarrassing about this. She really wanted, in that moment, to make out with him even though she was an adult and adults…they did not use the word make out. Even in their minds. She wanted that sort of physicality with him…not sex but physicality… and she had asked for it so many times before…but never from him…
And she had no idea what he was going to say to that.
"….I would like that a lot, too." Said Serizawa