11 A new way to start the day

The morning, a time of the day which begins with the sunrise and ends with the sun shining bright on top of our heads. My mornings before were all the same, wake up, still not move from the futon, check the time, widen my eyes, and the moving at the speed of light. That was how my mornings usually would be but now...

"Hmm, Kazu-kun, not there...If you say so but it is so embarrassing."

...I wake up to this mumbling of the school princess, Tsubaki Ai. A girl how I thought was way over my league and someone I thought I will never even interact with.

But here I am, listening to her mumble my name with whatever fantasy going on in her head whilst hugging me burying her face in my chest. Even imagining this situation was something unbelievable for me but who knew this was how my morning would start. Her personality is...full of surprises to say the least. She is quite daring yet an embarrassed girl, acts cute sometimes and when she gets angry, even god will probably cower in fear.

Also, did I mention she is a half-vampire whose mouth is really close to my neck?

"Mhm, it's so big Kazu-kun. I don't know if I can f-"

I don't want to hear the rest of this because if I did, I will not be able to hold myself back. My heart is already beating at a dangerously high rate and add this to what she was mumbling, I will probably lose myself.

Feeling the need to get out, I tried making her let go of me but she had the strength of a superhuman. Even if I tried my hardest, she did not budge at all. On top of that, she tightened her grip even further. Please have some mercy on me, god. I will start believing in you so let me out of this situation.

I poked her cold cheeks but she just grumbled a little and continued sleeping. What do I do now? I tried one last time to get out but she tightened her grip yet again but this time it was a little different. She was shivering.

"Kazu-kun, please don't leave me. Please, I will do anything you say. I don't want to lose you too."

Hearing the sudden pleading words from her mouth made my heart sink. No way can I now leave her like this. I wrapped my arms around her and gently stroke her hair making her calm down and stop shivering. I don't know anything of the things she has seen but I could say that we had our similarities too. So, I have to strengthen my body and heart.

"I am right here Ai, close to you. I won't leave you," I said softly. Seriously, what is with this sudden development?

"Hmm, Kazu-kun, I will eat you up tonight," she mumbled in her sleep. No, seriously, what is with this development?

I stayed like that waiting for Ai to wake up and finally she did wake up. Her sleepy eyes were still yet to completely open. She could not think straight right now but I felt her arms loosen around my waist. I quickly made her let go of me and slid out of the bed. Ai was still sleepy so I decided to leave her in the bed.

I went to the bathroom to freshen up and also take a bath at the same time since taking bath in the morning was something that was made my habit by mom and dad. Fortunately, Ai did not pull off any stunts so I was able to bathe peacefully. I got out and quickly dried myself, wore my clothes, and dried my hair. As I got out, I saw something I was not prepared for.

"Ahh~, Kazu-kun's smell is still here. I can't get enough of this smell. Ahhhh."

She was sniffing my pillow. So this is why no bath time attack today. This is more disturbing than I thought. I cleared my throat getting her attention and as soon as she saw me standing there, Ai's face turned red and she hid her face in my pillow. Let's have some fun with her.

"What? Why are you embarrassed Ai? You know if you wanted to do that, you could have just asked," I said in a teasing voice and she started flapping her legs on the bed.

"Itsh Kazhu-khun'sh faut," I heard her muffled voice while she still did not let go of my pillow.

"Anyway, the bathroom is free so you can get cleaned up. I am heading out to buy the ingredients for today. Anything you want to eat?" I asked her and she quickly jumped out of the bed.

"I will come with you," she said quickly rushing towards the bathroom.

I did not even have any time to react to this and I was just standing there like a lost duck looking around thinking what to do. Having the feeling that if I did not wait for her, she will probably kill someone, I decided to wait and read some mangas. Fortunately, she even brought them here and placed them on a bookshelf which looked a lot tidier than how I did it.

I just had a corner for all my mangas and light novels which were just dumped there. It was something I am not really proud of but I was too lazy to do anything for them though I am surprised how I have all those and never lost one. Scanning through the shelf I finally found what I was looking for. It was a manga adaptation of a light novel I really liked. Though I know what happens in the story I bought the manga anyway because I was a very big fan of the author and also the mangaka who illustrated this one.

Opening it and finding the place where I left it off, I sat down on the couch and started reading it. The story followed our main character who was just a popular college-going boy. He was living a happy life with a friend group and being good in both academics and sports. Though, one day he wakes and found some female's clothes in his closet of which he had no recollection of buying. Finding it strange, he checked the receipt and it had his name on it. He decided to not throw them away since it was still paid with his money but as the day passed, more stuff that a girl used was filling up his room and he had no idea what was going on. He consulted a psychiatrist and he said that he might have split personality disorder and believing that, he decided to record himself with a camera for an entire day. When he woke up and found more female stuff and phone numbers of guys he never knew, he checked the camera and then his eyes widened as he found that...

"Kazu-kun, I am ready," I heard a voice from behind me and saw Ai ready in outdoor clothes standing before me."How do I look?"

She twirls around showing me the dress she was wearing. She wore a plain white t-shirt under a red jacket and skin-tight black lowers which were showing off her figure really well.

"Is this a way to make me feel jealous?" I asked her and she tilted her head in confusion. "Boys will probably be ogling at you in that so is this your plan to make me jealous?"

"What? No, that is not why I wore this," she said sounding a bit worried. "Maybe this is-"

"Beautiful."

"Huh?" she said hearing me interrupt her.

"There is only one thing I can say about you in this outfit," I said while walking towards her and placing my mouth near her ear. "Beautiful."

As I stepped back, I saw her pale skin turn bright red as I saw steam coming out of her head. This was the only way to deal with her. I know that I cannot get away from her now that I am in all this mess so the only way to make her from being jealous and hurting someone is by this. I just had to keep her happy and in a good mood. Quite a hard task but if done properly, she is just another lovely girl.

"Now shall we?" I said offering my hand and she averted her face and held my hand. "I will take that as a yes."

Looking at her and then back at me, I am sure we will be attracting a lot of attention mainly due to the fact that just how different we were. On one hand, there was Ai who just looked stunningly beautiful and then there was me, who was just an average boy. I now even curse myself for wearing something too casual while Ai had put so much effort into how she looked. It kind of made me feel bad.

After we got out of the house after getting our money and phones, we head out of the building and as expected, the moment we came out, all eyes were on us or more specifically on Ai. I just looked like a crow standing next to a swan. She had a big smile on her face as she started dragging me to the convenience store. It was also a good call to bring Ai with me since I am not really well versed with the area while she was.

We reached the store and now that I think, just for a trip to the convenience store, she didn't really have to dress up like that.

"But then I want to look good whenever I am out with Kazu-kun so he only looks at me," she said almost as if reading my thoughts.

"You know, I should be the one saying this since I am the less attractive one here. I just stick out like a sore thumb," I said but Ai squeezed my hand.

"No, Kazu-kun is really handsome. You just don't realize that and your red face is so cute," she said going off in her own fantasy.

"So what do you want to eat for breakfast and lunch?" I asked changing the topic.

Ai put her finger on her chin as she started thinking while I looked around and looked for ingredients for dinner. I decided to keep it a surprise as a little payback.

"How about we eat omelet rolls for breakfast and then it has been really long since I last had curry," she said to me in a thoughtful voice.

"Roger."

I started going around the store looking for ingredients and putting it in my basket. Ai was sticking to me like a bodyguard all the while but still looking around like a kid. I heard the sound of bags being touched again and again but decided to ignore it. While looking around, I felt the stares of people on us but that is probably because of Ai who is just a people magnet. Once done with the shopping, I got in the line with Ai standing behind me.

"Next please."

I walked forward and put my basket down and then a mountain of candies, chocolate, and other sweets was rained down in the basket. I turned beside me looking at the perpetrator with a blank stare while she had a smile on her face. I let out a sigh and picked one of each sweet.

"We will also have this," I said passing the sweets I picked out and turning towards Ai. "You go back and put all this back."

"Eh? Why? I don't want to. I really like sweets and I know you also don't hate them so what is the problem?" she asked me in an innocent tone as if I had said no to a child.

"No means no. I was thinking of baking a cake for you but if you want these sweets then looks like that can wait," I said putting the rest of the sweet which suddenly disappeared.

I looked and found a running figure of Ai who was running around the store putting all the stuff she bought back. Looking back at the store clerk, I shrugged my shoulders and got the ingredients and paid for it. Luckily, I had some money in hand right now.

"Here, you go," said the store clerk and I nodded and took the change along with the ingredients.

I met Ai at the front of the store as she miraculously put all those sweets back in their place. Instantly, she clings to my arm with a big smile on her face. Not shaking her off, we walked out of the store, and again, all eyes were on us. I let out a sigh and continued heading back. On the way, we didn't talk much but felt like there was no need to. The silence did not feel awkward but rather peaceful.

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