After his long, peaceful sleep, Yuu had been awakened by the sounds of the birds chirping nearby, along with the light peeking from his curtains. He remembered the sensation on his arm and the warmth he shared with the girl he loved as they slept together. However, he immediately came into and realized that the girl, Aoi, was already out of the bed, in fact, out of the room.
๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ? ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ต, ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จโฆ. ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ?
A few questions popped on top of his head as he slowly stood up. He tidied up his bed and did a few stretches to wake his body up. He opened the door and started walking downstairs. As he was walking down the steps, his nose tingled from the smell coming from the kitchen.
"Oh, Yuu. Good morning. Wait a bit, breakfast will be ready soon."
"G-Good morning? Wait, why are you cooking?"
"Why, you ask. Didn't we talk about this yesterday?" Aoi answered with a bewildered face as Yuu saw her continue cooking the scrambled eggs.
"Now that you mention itโฆ." he didn't say anything else, or rather, he couldn't. He was too mesmerized by the sight of Aoi cooking in an apron with her hair up in a ponytail, so instead, he just went to the sofa by the living room and simply waited by looking at the news.
The news he got when he opened the TV was luckily what he'll be needing, or rather they'll be needing for school days. In short, it was the chance of rain. The TV showed that the chances of rain for the day is 50%.
50% ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฉโฆ ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ขโฆ.
That's true, Yuu had never left his umbrella even once. Even if it has 0% chance of rain with a cloudy sky, blocking the sun, he had never left it. Reason for it was it was given by someone he loves, and to think that the same girl is now standing in the kitchen, happily cooking with her apron on, not only as his girlfriend, but as his fiancรฉ.
"Yuuโ can you help me prepare the plates?"
"Yes, coming."
Yuu immediately turned the TV off as he was called by Aoi, who was done cooking. They prepared their food and placed it on the table.
"..." after the two of them sat before the table in front of their foods, Yuu seemed to be troubled about something as he stared at the plates and bowls lined up in front of him.
"Are you sure you can only cook ๐ด๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ foods?"
"Eh? What are you saying? Aren't these simple?" Aoi only replied in a calm voice.
Yuu thought to himself, ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ? as he looked at the plates and bowls lined up. What is lined up are fried salmon, Miso Soup, a bowl of rice, some tamagoyaki, a tea for her and a coffee for him.
The coffee and Miso Soup he could understand why there is one in front of him now. What he can't explain is how she had a salmon cooked, he remembers, or rather, he knows that they didn't buy any fish yesterday. Forget being punctual, prices of salmon aren't low. Yuu took a quick glance at the kitchen and noticed something unusual, andโฆ unexpected.
๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ?! โฆ ๐๐บ ๐ง๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆฬ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ฆโฆ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จโฆ.
What he saw in the kitchen is a whole salmon, perfectly filleted, leaving a minimal amount of flesh on the carcass, which would take a lot of skill. Along with that, the kitchen was used cleanly, even the sink had no dishes, which is pretty much kitchen etiquette that even he knew. Even so, it was too clean and too beautiful to look at.
"Wellโฆ let's leave it at that, shall we? Let's eat." Yuu had chosen to not bother asking her how she could do such feats, so he suggested eating.
The two had started eating. Slowly eating down the fish, sipping down on the Miso, reducing the rice, and enjoying the tamagoyaki.
"Ah~ that was delicious!" Yuu exclaimed as he sipped down on his cup of coffee.
"Really. I'm glad." Aoi said with a relieved tone along with a slight sigh of relief.
"..." Yuu stared blankly at her while sipping down on his coffee, with slight redness of his cheeks peeking out.
"I-I'm gonna take a bath!" Yuu stood up and sipped the remaining coffee down and marched straight to the bathroom.
"Take your time." Aoi picked up the mug and started washing the dishes.
๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ป. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ตโฆ.
Yuu took about 5 minutes in the tub, thinking about Aoi, until he realized that they had classes today so he finished up his bath, changed the water and started drying himself up with the towel.
"Aoi, it's your turn." Yuu called him as he continued wiping his hair with the towel as he came out the bathroom door.
"Yeah." Aoi, remembering as well that they have classes, rushed into the bathroom.
Yuu changed into his uniform in his room and went back downstairs, and to the changing room of their bathroom.
Their bathroom consisted of two rooms, one as the main bathroom, and the other as the locker room along with a sink and a stupidly large mirror.
He took the toothbrush from the one drawer of the sink and filled a mug from the same drawer and started brushing his teeth. A few seconds later, the door from the bathroom opened and there exited a freshly bathed Higabana Aoi.
"..." Yuu stared at this mesmerizing sight, showing Aoi in her bathrobe with a towel on her head. Neither side minded this, but they for sure are blushing. Aoi then walked towards him and took her toothbrush from the drawer and started brushing her teeth.
A few seconds in, Yuu spitted the contents of his mouth and started gargling the water, and spitted it as well.
"Mmm." Aoi gestured her hand at him as Yuu gave her the same mug of water he used. Aoi then started gargling as well, and both had finished. They returned their toothbrushes and slowly walked outside, until Yuu realized something.
"We're acting quite the newly wed couple, huhโฆ."
"Well, aren't we gonna be the future as well?"
"That's right."
"Then, I'm gonna change my clothes."
"Sure."
After the short, but meaningful exchange, Aoi had went upstairs into her room to change into her uniform.
๐๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฉโฆ
"Let's go?"
After a few minutes, over an hour before their classes starts, the two had left their house.
"You have the key, right?"
"Yeah."
Yuu had locked the door and asked Aoi about the key as they exited the gates. Apparently, Yuu doesn't like keeping stuff as important as that. They had two keys, one hidden for an emergency, and the other on their hands, specifically Aoi's.