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Simple Words- Chapter 8: Ice Cream
Written in Tohru's POV
The bell rang. School was over and I rushed in packing all my things to meet Kyo. I stuffed all my papers into my backpack and threw my pencil in. I roughly grabbed my composition book and ran to the other end of the room to put it away. Papers were sticking out and I smashed them down and zipped up my backpack, I just couldn't wait; it was actually our first date!
"Tohru, calm down." Uo said. "You're gonna die of a panic attack if you rush so much!"
"I know Uo! I'm just so happy!" I smiled and looked up at Uo.
Uo's eyes filled with tears and she wiped them away gently with her right arm.
"You're growing up so fast!" She said while choking through tears. She opened her arms and pulled me into a bear hug. She was squeezing me so hard that I could hardly breathe.
"Uh, Uo. You're chocking me."
"Oh, I'm so sorry Tohru!" She let go of me and held onto my shoulders. "Now, you be careful okay?" She sounded so much like a mother; it touched my heart and warmed me to know that they care about me so much. I nodded my head and ran out of the class to meet Kyo.
It wasn't so hard to find Kyo. Just look for an orange haired guy amongst the brown and blacks. I headed over to him and covered his eyes with my hands from behind.
"Guess who?" I said.
He lifted his arm and gently rubbed on my hand. He chuckled and said, "It's my dear loving girlfriend!" I released my hand from his eyes and gave him a peck on the lips as he turned around to see me. He held out his hand and I took it. His arm gently holding mines, we swung our hands back and forth as we walked out of campus and I leaned against his shoulders. Everyone stared at us with their mouth hung open in shock as we passed. But we didn't care and just continued walking.
"So where do you wanna go?" He asked me.
"Anywhere's fine." I said, "Just as long as it's not an expensive place."
Kyo laughed and gave me a noogie. My hair frizzed up and I laughed with him.
"Don't worry about price!"
"Well, okay then. Why don't we go to the ice cream parlor and get some ice cream?" I asked.
"Okay," he said. We headed over to the ice cream parlor and talked about what happened in school today along the way.
After walking for a couple of minutes, we arrived at the ice cream parlor. We opened the door together and the bells above us chimed as it opened. Once opened, we were greeted by the cold breeze coming from the air condition machine. The cold breeze coming from it blew against my face and made me shiver. Kyo must have noticed that I got cold because he released his grasp on my hand and put his hand around my waist and pulled me closer to him. Warmth filled me as his touch comforted me and warmed my heart.
You could smell the aroma of ice cream in the air and smell the cookies & cream birthday cakes that the shop sold. The tiles on the floor were checkered and had a combination of red & black alternating with each tile. There were round tables for two scattered around the parlor and a counter on the side like the ones in a sushi bar spreading across the room. The cushion of the chair was made up of red leather and the metal part was black.
We headed over to the glass and browsed through all the flavors they had. There were just so much! I couldn't decide in what to get. There was Mint, Chocolate, Vanilla, French Vanilla, and Cake batter, Strawberry, Watermelon, orange sorbet, cotton candy and so much more that I couldn't list all of them. Each flavor was very eye catching: the bright green from the mint, the dark brown of the chocolate, the milky whiteness of the Vanilla and the bright pink of strawberry.
I thought about what I was going to get and in the end, decided on getting a scoop of strawberry and chocolate ice cream with whip cream and a cherry on top of it. Kyo got the cake batter flavored ice cream and mixed it with French Vanilla and had cookie dough as his topping.
We took our ice cream from the counter after paying for it and went over to a table. I scooped a chunk of ice cream and stuffed it into my mouth. The flavors of strawberry and chocolate filled my mouth and I savored the taste of it before swallowing it, the coolness of it relaxing my throat and relieving me from the stress in school.
I took another scoop and asked Kyo, "You want some?" He opened his mouth in respond and I gently put my spoon in his mouth and pulled it out. The ice cram gone from the spoon. He scooped a chunk from his ice cream and moved his spoon towards my mouth. I opened my mouth and welcomed the taste of cake batter and cookie dough. I took another scoop from my ice cream and fed it to Kyo. Whip cream brushed against his lip and I leaned over to kiss him. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes when there was a chime from the bells as someone entered the parlor. We released from our kiss and whip cream was now smothered on my lips. We looked up to see who entered and saw Yuki, catching his breath with a look of terror and worry in his eyes, and those eyes were looking at us.
Okay, so that's the end of the chapter! Thank you for reading and please kindly leave an honest review. Why does Yuki look so worried? Find out in the next chapter of, "Simple Words."