❝𝕄𝕠𝕞𝕠𝕜𝕠 𝕚𝕟 𝕋𝕠𝕜𝕪𝕠❞✔️ (1)

❤︎Chapter Thirty-One❤︎

"Aww, he's such a sweetheart!"

Yuji and I lay down on the blanket I brought with me, playing with his puppy after eating our snacks. He had insisted on us going out for lunch and made reservations at Ren's restaurant. We had such a fun time together. I brought us snacks and desserts and we'd been laying on blankets chatting and getting to know his new puppy ever sense.

"Its decided!" I snatched up the tiny puppy and stood up, swinging him gently side to side, "I'm naming him.....Mochiiiiiii!"

Yuji beamed up at me, the sun illuminating his precious smile. I grinned back down at him and felt warmth spread through my chest like it did every time he grinned at me. Upon seeing his reaction to the name, I swelled with pride and pulled the puppy close to press our cheeks together. He turned his little head and started to give me happy wet kisses.

"Yay! Yuji we're dog parents together!"

I put the puppy down and he ran to go and chase after a butterfly. Yuji and I kept a watchful eye on him while he played like he hadn't a care in the world. It got me thinking about my childhood back when I didn't care about anything except being the first one on the swing at the playground.

When I turned to look at Yuji, I got an idea and nudged him with my arm.

"Hey, you. We're good friends now, aren't we? When am I going to see some baby pictures?"

Yuji rolled his eyes, "Oh, please. Those are hidden very safely at my mother's place, never to be revealed to the outside world."

I wrapped an arm around Yuji and yanked him toward me so we went toppling over sideways. "Come on! Don't you think I deserve to know by now?! What were you like as a kid?"

Yuji lay back on his back and looked up at the sky. When the puppy realized he was down at his height, he ran over and sat down on his chest, bouncing up and down when his male owner started to chuckle. I lay down next to Yuji and couldn't help but feel excited at the closeness of our bodies lying comfortably side by side.

"Fine, I'll at least tell you that. But then you next."

"Deal."

"Well...to put it short, I was really shy and cowardly as a little kid. I was really skinny and pretty short throughout my childhood and the kids at school used to pick on me for it."

My eyes got wide in my surprise. I couldn't imagine Yuji Oshiro as someone who was ever bullied. Let alone small. He was so much taller and stronger than me...not to mention confident and outspoken. The more he told me about him, the more intrigued I became.

Which is why I asked him in the first place.

"I didn't have that many friends...I was kind of alone, I guess."

"Aww...poor Yuji. If only you lived near me. We would have had so much fun."

"No doubt."

"So when did you...you know..blossom?"

😂"Blossom!" Yuji laughed, "Well...I think it was after the 8th grade. I finally gathered up the courage to ask out the cutest girl in school. I had a crush on her since the 6th grade."

Damn, probably his first love.

"Really? What happened?"