Chapter 11

"Kei!" I turned around to see Miss Amakata running towards me in the hallway. As she reached me she bent forward and placed her hands on her knees for a few seconds so she could catch her breath.

"Miss Amakata?"

"I need to ask you something." She looked at me with a serious face.

"What is it?"

"It's about Haruka."

"What's wrong?"

"Scouts have been calling me, but he doesn't seem bothered. Also, he still doesn't know what he wants to do with his future, so I was hoping that you could talk to him."

"I guess I can give it a shot."

"Thank you, Kei. Now I have to get to my class, but I'll see you later." She waved as she turned around and made her way to her class. I sighed as I continued to walk towards my next class.

"People really need to stop asking me to talk to others."

"Mom?"

"Hm?"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Of course." I went to stand beside her in the kitchen as she began to get dinner prepared. As she peeled the potatoes I grabbed the knife and began to cut the vegetables.

"You love dad, right?"

"Yes."

"How did you know? That you loved him?"

"Oh Kei…"

"What?" I stopped chopping as I looked at her. She just smiled as she continued to peel the potatoes.

"Your father and I broke up for a bit during university."

"Really?" She nodded her head in confirmation.

"We had been dating throughout high school, like you and Haruka, and we thought that some space would be good for us. I think we lasted about a week before we were calling each other all the time again." She laughed at the memory from her university years. "You see, Kei, love is a weird thing. It's different for everyone. For us it was the fact that we could never be away from each other. It hurt too much to part and all we needed was one week to figure that out. For your grandparents it was the fact that they felt like no one else understood them, but each other."

"Really?"

"Yes. Kei, I can't tell you what love is, but I can tell you that you'll feel it. You'll know when you're in love."

"Are you sure I won't mistake it for like…a stomach ache?" She laughed at my naivety before replying,

"No, you won't. But I will say, I've seen the way Haruka looks at you and that's the way I saw my dad looking at my mom."

"Are you saying he loves me?" I practically shrieked. She laughed at my outburst before calming me down.

"I'm saying no such thing; I'm saying that you're special to him, Kei. I think that's the only reason why your father hasn't thrown him out the nearest window." She joked.

"The sad part is that, he probably would throw him out a window." I sighed out of frustration.

"It's because he loves you."

After dinner I looked out my window and saw it begin to rain. I had remembered what Miss Amakata asked of me, so I grabbed my umbrella and began to make my way over to Haru's house, but when he didn't answer the door I wondered where he could've gone.

"If I was Haru, where would I be?" I asked myself before the idea popped right into my head. As I made my way to the all too familiar building I began to think about what my mom had said to me before dinner.

I believe the hardest thing to grasp when it comes to emotions is what you're truly feeling. I've never completely known what I was feeling at any point in time and I don't think I ever will, so for my mom to say that I'll know when I'm in love completely threw me off.

But as I continued to walk memories of Haru and I went through my head. Like the time that I got so afraid of a scary movie that Haru held me in his arms until I fell asleep and he let me sleep at his house that night because I was too afraid to go sleep by myself in my bed. Or the time when I had fallen ill and Haru came over during the day and made me chicken soup, so I would feel better.

Many people didn't understand Haru and even then I didn't understand him. He was extremely simple that it was almost too hard to comprehend. However, he continued to surprise me as he opened up a little bit more everyday. I would have never thought that he would openly kiss me in the middle of the mall, but it usually was whenever he wanted something…it was usually my homemade cupcakes. But he continued to mature and change and I was happy that I was a part of that.

When I rounded the corner I saw Haru swimming in the pool. As he began to swim towards me I knelt down and used the umbrella to cover his and mine. He looked up and gave me a confused look.

"What're you doing here?" He questioned.

"I wanted to ask you something."

"But it's raining."

"Thank you, Sherlock. I didn't know it was until just now." I sarcastically said. "Haru."

"Hm?"

"You know you mean a lot to me, right?"

"I know." As I continued to look into his beautiful eyes he slowly leaned upwards and placed a soft kiss on my lips. "You mean a lot to me too."

"You've been kissing me more often now for some reason." I gasped.

"I can stop if you wan-"

"No, no! I never said that, but come on, you should get home before you get a cold." He lifted himself out the pool and I walked beside him towards the area that was protected from the rain.

"Did you come all the way out here to tell me that?"

"No, but it can wait, for a later date."

This one is longer than the past chapters! Hopefully this made you go 'aww'! Leave me a review telling me if you ship these two together! :D

-xoxo