Hikaru

"I don't know, Lin," I said into my cell phone. "They might not have it in English here. It'll most likely be in Japanese." I hit the fridge door close with my hip after I pulled out a bottle of Shamrock's Mocha Café milk. My cell phone was in between my shoulders and on the other side of the phone line was Lin Yi Ling, one of the few friends I had that were girls

"But you can translate it for me!" Lin cried.

I picked up a butter knife and opened a jar of Nutella and started spreading the Nutella on a slice of bread. "But what if I get lazy?" I asked, mimicking her tone. "I already am feeling lazy." Nutella drizzled on my sweatshirt and I wiped it off with my thumb. "Crap, I just washed this too."

"Ugh, just check if they have it, Hikaru! I wanna read it so badly!"

"Fine. I don't even know what's up with you and your yaoi manga. Sometimes I wonder about you, Lin."

"Don't question me and my interests in yaoi. Just don't forget my manga, okay?"

"I'm making no such promises," I said. I slapped another slice of bread on top the Nutella-covered one and grabbed my Mocha Café and sat down on the couch.

"Oh, come on," Lin groaned. "Hey, have you talked to Ludwig yet?"

I took a sip of my milk and almost spewed it. "No, I haven't talked to him yet," I said shakily.

"What do you mean 'no'!" Lin's voice ran through my ears. "You're practically living together—"

"It's only for break, Lin, and—"

"—and think of how romantic it'll be on Christmas and then when the New Year comes around—"

"Can I just eat my sandwich?"

"No, Hikaru. You're listening to me at the moment and if you eat that Nutella sandwich right now, you won't hear a word I'm saying."

"How—"

"Anyway, Hikaru. You two have the most amazing chance to be together but you're just not taking it! Take it, Hikaru! Go up to him and tell him that you love him!"

"Lin."

"Yes, Hikaru?" Lin asked.

"Damn you," I said. "I'm gonna go eat my sandwich now, okay? I'll call you later, Lin."

"Don't forget my manga!" Lin cried. "That's the only reason I—"

"Goodbye, Lin," I said, laughing. Then I clicked the end button on my phone and picked up the remote for the TV. I covered myself with a blanket and played the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie that I had put on earlier before Lin called when Ludwig entered into the house. His clothes were covered with melting snow and his face was flushed. I stared at him as he took off his boots.

"Um, what happened to you?" I asked when he sat down on one of the other couches.

"Snowball fight," he replied with a shiver.

For some reason, I couldn't take my eyes off him. He was so damn beautiful at that moment that I just kept staring at him. Finally, his shivering broke me out of my daydream. I stood up and put the blanket around his shoulders and made sure that it didn't fall off him. As I turned away, he grabbed my hand and I looked back at him.

"Your skin is cold," he said, putting my fingers to his face.

"You need the blanket more than I do," I told him. "You'll get sick if you don't get warm."

"But you're still freezing."

"I'll be okay, Ludwig." I tried to pull my hand out of his grip but he wouldn't let me go. "Ludwig…"

"Why aren't you talking to me?" he asked, gripping my hand tightly.

"I am, aren't I?" I said as casually as possible.

"But you wouldn't talk to me before. You wouldn't look at me at all. Not at school or when we came here. It's been a week since school ended for vacation and you wouldn't talk or even look at me." His voice seemed angry and hurt at the same time, and it made me stop trying to pull my hand out of his.

Instead, I looked into his light blue eyes and let my fingers intertwine with his. I felt my eyes get hot with tears and my hand started shaking in his.

"What's wrong, Hikaru?" he asked, his voice softening.

"I wanted to," I whispered with my body starting to shake. "I wanted to so much but I couldn't. I—"

Suddenly, he pulled me toward him and I felt his lips press on mine. His kisses were gentle and soft at first but once he took my face in his hands, they got rough. Ludwig pulled my closer to him and started kissing my neck and made his way up to my mouth. I wrapped my arms around his neck and I felt his hands starting to pull up my sweatshirt but I grabbed them. I broke away from him and stared at him.

"I'm sorry," I said. I pulled away from him and sat on the other couch and wrapped myself inside another blanket. I put my head on the couch's armrest and continued to watch the movie without thinking about it.

A Note from your Author:

I know it's sudden but yes, Lin and Hikaru are friends. I thought that since Hikaru had a lot of friends that were guys, I decided to make Lin/Taiwan friends with Hikaru. Their meeting was in cooking class and it involved a frying pan and a certain Japanese boy with soulless eyes *cough cough* Kiku/Japan *cough cough* and a certain Hungarian girl that had to pry Lin from almost killing Hikaru with a frying pan.

I don't know what is up with these girls and frying pans. Jeez.

Anyway, thanks for reading and enjoy!