Picked Up A Strange Knight (MewGulf AU)

🌞Chapter 9🌻

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With all the basic necessities of life taken care of, four days after Mew had crossed over, he said that he wanted to learn Thai. Because of my language cheat, I was the only person he could seamlessly speak to, and it really was tough to live without knowing how to read letters. Also, having to hear him say ‘I can’t read it” every time was tough on me, too. Though I’d been intending to take it slow at home today, Mew’s request was more important, so we headed over to the bookstore. It was kind of embarrassing to bring up to the register a whole bunch of children’s books and worksheets for learning how to write. I must have looked like a doting dad or something…

From there we went to eat lunch at a small family restaurant. The staff’s attention to care impressed Mew, who exclaimed, “Wonderful!” He seemed to think that this was a high-class restaurant, so I let him keep thinking that. He got excited over the drink bar, and I felt both pride and embarrassment when he started crying tears of happiness over eating a parfait.

This guy seemed to like sweet stuff. As he cried and said, “I’ve never eaten anything this delicious before!”, all I thought was, what the hell should I do? A good-looking guy poked at a strawberry parfait while sitting opposite of him was me, who was sipping coffee. I felt pained by the stares from the surrounding tables, and though with each additional one I felt that I really couldn’t do this anymore, I looked back with a cool and unruffled expression on my face… It, it really was difficult. I have a glass heart, so I almost didn’t survive.

My vacation days quickly ended. On a horrible Monday morning, my alarm went off. As usual I angrily shut it off and got up. Next to me, Mew looked over with a sleepy expression.

Ever since that day we shared a bed, for some reason this guy asked to continue sleeping together, and kept sliding in next to me in bed. Was I the only one who felt like it was weird for two guys to sleep next to each other like this…? Or rather, was it not weird for two male comrades to keep sleeping together while sharing the same painfully narrow bed?

Though I pondered that question, the guy in front of me would certainly say ‘This is normal, of course’, so I wondered if, maybe, I’m the one who’s weird? That question haunted me every day since.

And so, this morning, rather than looking at me in anguish because of how I’d woken him up, Mew greeted me good morning while smiling with his sleepily narrowed eyes. When I saw that, the venom left my body. Things were pretty good now, so I guess there was no need to worry about what I’d been agonizing over before. I threw my previous doubts out of my head and returned the greeting to Mew. Making sure not to step on him, I carefully got out of bed. While I went toward the living room, behind me Ilias leaked out a yawn and followed me out of bed.

“My bad, I didn’t mean to wake you. Today I’m going to work, so you can just go back to sleep.”

“I see, so you’re working…”

He made a surprised face. I apologetically left him alone and headed towards the bathroom. I washed my face and brushed my teeth, and when I went out back to the living room to grab a change of clothes, a nice smell drifted through the room. I spotted Mew in the kitchen, his back turned towards me. Seeing my student preparing breakfast for the first time, I felt somehow moved.

Usually I let the alarm ring three times before I start to get up, just barely making it to work. This morning, though, I had felt guilty over disturbing this guy, and that’s why I had risen on the first ring. Because of that, I had some minutes left to spare so there was plenty of time to eat the breakfast that this guy made.