For a second there, I forgot I was in her school, of all places. A place filled with people, young people, who like to gossip.
So, I happened to forget to care about people seeing or hearing us. I think she forgot, too.
In any case, soon after I was done yelling at her, really soon after we started hugging it out, the door opened.
And then I remembered everything.
Like a deer in the headlights I stared at the fuming teacher. He demanded to know what was going on. Of course, he was asking Gumi, his student. His student, which I happened to be hugging to death.
Behind him stood Miku, Rin, Len, and two dozen other acne-riddled, pubescent creeps who had no idea what the hell was going on. I'd bet there were more behind them.
Slowly, I let Gumi go, still staring at the teacher. I tried to make it look innocent enough. Well, a hug is innocent. I tried to make it look like we didn't just have a lover's quarrel or something.
Turns out, Gumi didn't give two shits. She openly answered the teacher, in front of twenty-something visible kids, that we were just talking something out.
We're coworkers, hiccups are bound to happen at the office or wherever they imagined we worked. So, that was a sensible answer, I suppose. She could have stopped there. But no, the teacher had to be a teacher and he started insisting. He asked why it couldn't wait, and why I had to barge into 'his realm of teaching'.
I just said that Gumi didn't care. She really didn't anymore. She didn't at all.
'Love doesn't ever wait', she said.
I felt my neck snap when I turned to look at her as fast as I humanly could.
She was smiling. That meant the hiding part of our relationship was over. We were officially out. I smiled too.
The teacher started stammering something, Miku clapped, and forty-something eyes were darting all over the place.
Love?
Fuck yes, I love this girl. And she loves me too.
Gumi decided before me to kill all remaining doubt. Because fuck doubt. She kissed me, possessed, smiling as she did so.
You know me. Of course I returned the kiss. The others could go screw themselves sideways; it was the best kiss of my life and I was savoring it.
After that woke me up, I regained my straightforward, tactless way of mind. I grinned at the teacher, who had decided to stop trying and had finally shut up. I kissed Gumi's brow, and told her that I'd see her later that day, at work.
Then I apologized to Sir-Realm-of-Teaching for the intrusion and made my way out. All I needed was a pair of sunglasses, because I was that guy in the movies who walks away from explosions without looking back.
Except I looked back, just to wave to my girlfriend before I disappeared.