‘That’ Side Character Chapter 42: Are We Dating?

He looked at you and you smiled, but when he didn’t look away you got kinda shy and averted your eyes.

Kenma had noticed you now and put the PSP down so he could pay you a bit of attention, then he reached out for your face so that he could touch you.

You felt his hand on your cheek and looked back at him, your eyes locking with his.

“I’m not going to kiss you quickly this time,” he said as he leaned in slowly.

You stayed still and watched his lips come towards yours then you closed your eyes as you connected with him.

It was another closed mouth kiss and you enjoyed that one.

He pulled back and you crawled a little closer, putting on hand across his lap so you could be closer to him.

“I… like your kisses,” you said softly, looking at his lips for another one. 

This time when you kissed, your lips parted a little and so did his, deepening the kiss just a fraction.

Your body buzzed with this type of kiss and you both froze with lips locked together.

After a few seconds, you pulled back. Kenma was blushing a little and you didn’t quite know how to handle how you had felt with that kiss so you just cleared your throat and flopped backwards.

“If I was a star I would make sure to shine directly over your house,” you said randomly and Kenma cracked a small smile- that went unseen by you since you were smiling up at the roof.

“I wouldn’t want you to be a star,” he said softly, “how am I supposed to be close to you when you’re a star.”

“Oh my god that’s so… sweet? It’s sweet in a weird way,” You chuckled internally to yourself.

You were going to reply him but by the time you looked up over your body, down to your feet to say something to him, he was playing his game again.

You sighed happily and lay back then shut your eyes.

Unbeknownst to you, you fell fast asleep. You hadn’t realized it yet, you thought you were just daydreaming but you had completely left – mentally, and your body had checked out of consciousness. 

The next time you woke it was morning and you roused quickly and sat up.

There was a blanket over you, even though Kenma’s bed blanket was under you, and he was still sitting at the end of the bed, playing his PSP, but he had a blanket around his shoulders.

“Hey. Sorry. I fell asleep,” you apologized as you sat up.

“It’s ok,” he said, not looking at you, since he was mid boss fight.

“Did you sleep?” you asked him.

He stopped playing then- since he had passed to the next level in the game and the PSP was swapping to the next scene, and looked at you, the light from his PSP lighting from under his chin, up over his face.

“Yeah. I slept, then I woke up maybe a half hour ago. I wake early to play,” he said, then looked back down to his game as it started playing some kind of opening music.

“Oh. Ok. Did you want food? I can make us something,” you said, pushing the blankets back and getting off the bed.

“Yeah, toast,” he said, tapping the buttons.

“Toast it is!” you announced as you headed off to the stairs then down to the kitchen.

It was while you were there in the kitchen, happily playing housewife, that you realized that when you confessed to Kenma he hadn’t actually replied and told you he liked you back… and nothing had been said about you both being officially official.

You had kissed so that was a great sign but you just wanted to make sure that this was a real thing.

After making the food, you headed back up to the bedroom and sat the plates down on the bed.

“Hey umm… random question, but are we… like… dating now?”

Kenma looked at you.

“Yes?” he replied.

“Oh, ok sweet, I just wanted to check because we never said anything about girlfriend and boyfriend so… y’know…”

“We kiss though?” he said, mildly confused.

“Yeah. I know. But I dunno? I’ve never had this happen before so I’m not sure what the next steps are?” you said with an embarrassed chuckle.

“This is my first time too, but you said you like me, and I like you, so I thought that was it,” he replied.

“I guess it doesn’t need to be complicated, huh?” you said with a smile as you picked up your food and took a bite.

You both ate for a bit before your brain offered you a question from the question box in your mind and you made a noise to get his attention while you chewed your food down.

“Umm… when did you start liking me?” you asked, “I thought you didn’t like me at first.”

“I didn’t,” he replied bluntly and you sweatdropped at his honesty, “I’m not really one to be drawn to people who talk a lot. I guess I like quiet.”

“Oh.”

“I don’t know exactly when it was, but I just like your company. You’re happy,” he said, looking at you from behind his fringe.

Your face felt warm as you smiled bashfully and looked away.

“Well… I think I started to like you when I was holding your PSP in the gym and you kept looking at me. Well… you weren’t actually looking at me, as it turned out, but still… it gave me butterflies in my tummy.”

“Oh,” he said softly, “yeah. I guess I kinda was looking at you.”

“But I thought you said you weren’t?” you asked, reaching for more food.

“Now that I think about it, I did pay attention to how you were watching me.”

“Oh,” you said with a smile, “I like watching you play.”

“I’d rather be sitting in my room playing games with you laying in my lap,” he replied and your stomach shut up shop for the day, refusing to work since nerves had infiltrated and stormed the place. 

“Well… I can sit in your lap now… If you like?” you asked.

“Ok,” he said as he sat back and you crawled into his lap then lifted his plate up so you could feed him while he played his game with his arms around you and his chin resting on your shoulder.

To anyone else it might not have been much but you were LOVING this.

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