"We'll be downstairs. Take a rest now," Haru told Kyoko. He was about to stand up, but apparently, Sakura was tugging the bottom hem of his shirt.
Kiyoshi smirked, "Seems like you would not be staying downstairs, but would be sleeping next to that lovely woman on your bed, Haru."
"Just stay with her for the meantime and go downstairs once she turns to the other side of the bed," Mei suggested while reaching for her boyfriend's hand.
Her boyfriend held her hand and faced Haru, "Didn't you two sleep together when you got drunk, so what's the matter now?" and a smirk escaped from his lips.
Mei lightly hit his arm and pushed him out of the room, "Don't mind him. It's been a long day for you too, so you should also take a rest now. Oyasumi!" She took a quick glance at Kyoko and Sakura, who were already both sleeping, before switching off the lights.
When the door shut, Haru looked down and covered his ears, which already felt warm. Feeling dazed, he stared at the floor as he still couldn't believe that he just got his first kiss from Sakura. It was only then that he realized that their lips would have touched again if their friends had not come, and just by thinking about the possibility of having another kiss with her made his heart pound fast.
"This is bad," he muttered under his breath whilst he rubbed his chest to calm himself down. He then checked Sakura, who was already facing the other side of the bed, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Haru decided to sit on the floor instead, leaning his back against the edge of his bed and resting the back of his head on the mattress. He fell asleep after a couple of minutes and woke up at around two in the morning when he decided to take a shower. After taking a shower, he entered the bathtub and relaxed in the warm waters of the tub. However, a moment later, he heard someone open the door.
'Did I forget to lock it?' he thought.
Through the frosted glass shower screen, he saw the pink hair color of the person who stepped inside the bathroom. Worry appeared on his face as he carefully, but quickly got out of the tub and dried himself up. He continued peeking through the glass, and when she checked herself in the mirror, she almost felt her heart drop!
"Haru! You scared the shit out of me!" Sakura exclaimed, and as she gazed at his reflection in the mirror, a red flush spread across her cheeks.
Haru's side was leaning on the screen while only wearing a towel wrapped around his waist, showing his firm chest, long torso and defined abs, and v-line. Of course, even if she was still dizzy and her sight still blurry, she still took notice of his cherry blossom tattoo on his right shoulder down to his arm.
"I should be asking that question," he walked towards her with brows knitted together. "Why are you awake anyway?"
"It's not my fault you forgot to lock the door, mister," she rolled her eyes and felt her head throb further. "Ugh, I feel so sick… I feel like I'm gonna throw up."
He was swift to pull her arm close to him when she unexpectedly leaned towards the wall and almost bumped her head on it. "Do you still feel like throwing up?" he inquired worriedly, and he wrapped an arm around her waist while holding her other arm.
Sakura only placed her hands on the counter with her eyes closed, redness still visible on her cheeks. He patiently waited for her answer while rubbing her back comfortingly.
"Err… maybe I just need to pee," she slowly opened her eyes but tripped on his foot when she turned around. Of course, with his quick reflexes, he caught her with his arm right below her underboob!
"Hey, you okay? Did you hurt your foot?" he questioned, and when realized his arm placement and how warm her body was, he felt the blood rushing up to his neck up to his face, and his friend down there twitched beneath the towel.
When she shook her head, he also shrugged off the unnecessary thoughts and helped her walk to the toilet.
"I'm just going to put my clothes on real quick. I'll wait for you outside, but call me whenever you need help!"
He let go of her when she reached the shower screen and dashed back to his room. Since Kyoko was sleeping there, he turned off the lights before putting his clothes on, and then went back to Sakura and waited for her outside the bathroom.
Almost 10 minutes had passed, but she was still inside the bathroom. He knocked thrice, but there was no answer. He knocked once more, "Sakura, I'm coming in."
When he stepped in, he saw Sakura already sitting on the floor while resting her head with her eyes closed on the glass screen. Haru rushed to her and got down on one knee. He studied her face first before asking, "Sakura, are you awake? What happened?"
However, there was no response from the lady.
As Haru fixed her fringes, he right out assumed that she had already fallen asleep. He stared at her face before scooping her in his arms and bringing her back to his room. After he gently laid her down on the bed, Sakura called his name faintly.
"Hmm? I thought you're asleep?" he responded quietly and pulled the covers up to her waist.
"The secret," she whispered, looking at his sculpted face and wet disheveled hair.
"You can tell your secret whenever you want-"
"My first secret was… about you falling asleep kissing me…" there were some pauses as she talked, and she spoke so inaudibly that he had to lower himself down to hear her clearly. "But you already know about it…"
The fact that she could still recall that made his heart start to beat so loudly, tinting his cheeks and ears with red.
"My new secret I don't want to share with anyone is…" she mumbled as she leaned her face closer to his.
Haru fixed his gaze on Sakura's heart-shaped lips when she mouthed something that he couldn't decipher at all. She then said goodnight before closing her eyes; her voice was fading, but his heart was still restless in the middle of that night.