Yuiko's point of view
Sometimes Leo could be such a kid. He ate his ice cream too fast and got a brain freeze. But he is also the cutest and most handsome man for me. He looked at me after he discovered his ice cream had dropped to the ground. He looked like a lost puppy who just got yelled at. But I knew better. He could be deadly and he was strong. He had shown his strength more than once.
"You can taste it" I said and held my spoon out in the air for him to take it. He didn't take it. He opened up his mouth and closed his eyes, waiting for me to feed him. I blushed and did just that. He licked my chocolate ice cream of the spoon and we giggled together. He took my hand and steered me down the street. We didn't walk far but he suddenly stopped and turned towards me and smiled mocking me.
"This is all you get to see" he said and put his hands over my eyes and moved me forward with him behind me. "Leo, please. You have to be careful, there are moving cars here." I said worried we would be run down by a passing cars because of his carelessness around traffic. But we only walked about 6-7 steps down the street before I heard a wussh and I felt hot air on the part of my face that Leo didn't cover with his big hands.
He let go and I blinked a little and found my focus again. I looked around and my eyes grew big. It was an apartment center (don't know what it's called) for students just down the street from our school. I looked at Leo with shock and worry. "Your dad gave me this." He said and placed a magazine in my hand publishing two rooms' apartments for two students. "We are allowed to live alone after our marriage" he said and smiled down at me flashing his tiger like K9s. a worried look came over his face and he said: "that is, if you want to of course?" Are you kidding me? Does he think I want to stay with my dad when I can move in with Leo? But what about money? Dad and I don't have those kind of money to buy an apartment. "What about my share for the apartment?" I asked. But he just smiled at me. "You don't have to worry about money. I know you don't have a lot, but once we are married all my fortune will be yours too. And there is no argument about this. If we are to be together forever, and we are, then my money is yours and I want that" he said and quickly shifted his focus to a man that walked towards us. "Hello I'm Haru and I will take you on a tour of the selected apartments." He said and bowed at us holding his business card. Leo took it and we bowed together saying "please, take care of us."
We rode a company car around to the different locations of the apartments. The first two flats was a real disappointment. They were old and in one of them I saw cockroaches in the kitchen cabinets. I wanted to leave as soon as I stepped inside. The third and fourth place was nice but still not quite right. I loved the fifth flat we were shown and I don't even want to tell you about the last place se saw!
In the fifth apartment, if you would call it an apartment. It was more like a house for me but the salesman insisted it was under the category "apartment". It had a nice sized entrance and a short hallway down towards a staircase and on the left side there was a doorframe without a door that led to a living room with a kitchen. The kitchen had a window over the sink so you could look down the path leading to the front door. On the opposite wall there was installed a glass sliding door leading out in a small garden with a fence all around. The staircase led us up to the "bedroom" as he called it. There was no walls, no doors and no windows. The staircase just led to a flat surface under the roof. But the previous owner had painted a jungle theme on the roof with wild colors and beautiful birds and a cute big cat. It was magical. Almost like the birds were alive.
All this time Leo had stood in the back letting me decide where and what I wanted to live in. but as soon as I saw him look up at the roof painting with a sad look in his eyes and stretching his hand towards the big cat and bird. That was when I knew Leo's wasn't born to live in an apartment or in the city.