After we finished our food Hiero kept glancing at me as though he wanted to say anything. I watched out of the corner of my eye as I watched the world outside the one way window. I watch Hiero as the skyline dimmed and the clouds looked rimmed with gold. I began to feel at peace under Hiero's eyes and his presence was welcoming to me. Sitting in a diner for hours together truly helps ease awkwardness.
Finally I turn to face Hiero and I slowly memorize his face. This man is beautiful not much different from a living statue full of unique qualities and features. I admire his slim nose that doesn't take up his entire face but holds a sort of strong gentleness to him. Without realizing it a sigh escapes my lips. I hold my hand up to cover my mouth and blush as Hiero's eyes stare into mine.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you that I wanted to take you on a date... I- I I've never done this," Hiero pauses. "I mean I've never gone on a real date before," he explains. He looks at me, and I can see his eyes are full of earnesty and unsureness.
"I've only been on two sort of dates before this one so I don't really know what to expect honestly," I pause and realise I didn't mention any objection to this being a date and the happiness that spreads in Hiero's face makes me yearn to stay with him. "I I-I mean if this is a date I- I wouldn't really know," I mutter and blush.
Just like that Hiero and I begin seeing each other. We begin to take strolls together in parks in different cities after we realize it's quite hard to stay close to our homes without running into our coworkers. We don't even tell our friends and begin a secret relationship.
We're together for six months and the farthest we have gone intimately is to sleep in each other's embrace but we have yet to become completely intimate even though the current culture has greatly devalued holding on until marriage to become intimate partners we still value each other as respectable individuals.
In the end of our sixth month together and beginning of our seventh month together, an old friend and apparently his first love interrupts our quickening slow burn. Hiero tells me she is the only other woman he has history with and then he presents a ring and gives me a sudden proposal. He explains he bought it before he she had appeared and he explains he intended to propose on my birthday. With those words he holds my hand and drops one knee.
"In this life to marry you will leave me with no regrets, our love may be a fragile secret to the world but I want the world to know, I love you dearly. Aranlua," he vows to me. In my mind the last few months have passed too quickly and I feel like I want to spend forever with Hiero. In this life I'd like to live without regrets, and to marry Hiero I'd also have no regrets.
"If I marry you in this life, I'll be happy to gold no regrets," I say and say a checked up half way in tears "Yes, I do,". With that we start making preparations for our wedding while still trying to keep it a secret at work until our wedding invitations are ready. As Autumn draws nearer Hairo and I begin to live together and thus we begin to deeply explore more of each other, both as individuals and who we are together.