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For the next two nights at the pizzeria, Sora did not see Leon there.
She thought it was peculiar, seeing as he had been showing up almost every night last week. He did come around closing time to pick her up and drop her off at the dorms, but they only had 15 or so minutes together. She'd thank him and give him a kiss, but he broke it off before it got heated.
How weird.
Wednesday night, Karen caught Sora looking around the place as she went to pick up orders and greet guests. Karen laughed at the restless energy that seemed to radiate from her co-worker. There was a lull in business before the late dinner rush, so Karen made her way over to Sora.
"Are you looking for a certain tall someone?"
Sora eeped at the sudden presence of her friend. "Don't creep up on me!"
"Sorry," she said, but without much meaning behind it, "So? What's with your impatience?"
Sora looked around them and then she lowered her voice to tell Karen about Leon's behavior. The teen hmmed and nodded. When Sora finished talking, ending with the little tidbit about their next date for Thursday, Karen gave a wide grin.
"Sounds like he's adding in some suspense. 'Absence makes the heart grow fonder' or something along those lines."
Sora blinked and then lightly slapped her forehead. Of course.
He had done it before with their Friday date.
Karen mischievously nudged Sora with her elbow. "You two have something special planned, eh?"
Sora's cheeks tinted a little. Karen needed no other answer.
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All Thursday, the two did not run into each other.
Sora copied Leon's move and decided to suspend their meetings until for tonight. As a result, she grew a little nervous but was filled with a new sort of excitement for the possibilities of the unknown things to come.
She was giddy and she could not stop the feeling.
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Leon buttoned up his grey dress shirt with thin silver stripes.
When he wore another grey shirt, he had noticed that Sora stared at him repeatedly when he wore it, even though she had not been talking to him at the time. Seeing as he wanted her attention on him, a grey dress shirt seemed to be the best idea.
As usual, he left the top buttons undone and then buttoned the cuffs.
It had been rather hard for him to not see her, having wanted to build up the anticipation for tonight. He hoped he had not misread the building tension between them and had not misunderstood her meaning by suggesting a night in at his place. That said, if he had and she was not ready, he would not push for it.
Though, he knew it would be the greatest restraint he would have to do.
Finished with the cuffs, he looked up to catch his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His usually light grey eyes looked a few shades darker as his thoughts made him burn even more in desire for her.
It's curious how someone as positive as her can affect me in such a manner.
He was not easy to move in sympathy; his blasé mask did not come down often, yet he had subconsciously done it a few times with her. He had even laughed a few times, which was something he could not recall doing in the longest of times.
His phone alarm went off in his room, snapping him out of his thoughts.
It was time.
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Quickly changing in the pizzeria bathroom, Sora twisted her hair up and clipped it with a black flower shaped clip. She looked over her eyeliner work and made sure that she hadn't been sloppy in doing it.
Her phone sounded off; she eeped.
The sound echoed in the bathroom. Good thing I'm the only one in here.
That would have been a little embarrassing. She dug her phone out of her bag and turned off her alarm. Leon should be here soon. She put the phone back in along with her little make-up bag. Then, after ruffling the loose hair at the top of the hair twist, she took a breath in and walked out.
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Leon stood by the entrance of the pizzeria as he waited for Sora. Karen stopped by to see if he wanted any food from there to go.
"I have pre-ordered two salmon risotto dinners along with a tiramisu for pick up."
The teen nodded her head in approval of his preplanning. "Alright, let me go check on it."
She walked away.
Soon, he saw Sora coming over to him in a very light blush short dress with only one long sleeve, leaving her other shoulder bare to his perusal. A thin black belt matched her heels and the black clip in her hair. He liked the way the material of the skirt easily swished with her steps, constantly keeping his attention on her.
She stopped in front of him, her eyes looking over his attire.
When she made her way to his eyes, she bashfully ducked her head a little with a rosy color on her cheeks. He had not seen her do something like that and he found her slight shyness to be strangely endearing.
"You look good," she said.
And there's her spark. He slipped a hand into his pocket. "You look lovely."
Her cheeks deepened in color. He wanted to kiss her right then and there, but Karen came over with their food, causing him to pay for the order instead of indulging in her lips.
"I don't mind chipping in," she said next to him.
"It is not an issue." When he saw the light frown on her face, he added, "You will be my guest tonight; therefore, it is my part as host to feed you."
The answer seemed to have mollified her somewhat.
"Let me at least take the dessert box."
He relented. "As long as you don't peek," he said with a tease.
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