My eyelids are slowly lifting as I slowly begin to wake up, and I can now see the room's ceiling. I turned around to find myself on the left side of a big bed. I turned to the right side of the bed and noticed Mariane still peacefully giggly asleep. Perhaps she was having a pleasant dream. I then sit down and place both of my bare feet at the side of the bed after slowly stretching my arms and legs.
I rubbed my eyes, got to my feet, and moved cautiously in the direction of the door. I didn't realize I was wearing cute pink girlie pajamas until I stopped to check the mirror next to the closet while I was still moving. I was startled, but I quickly realized that I had no other clothes with me when I arrived at this house other than my school uniform. Mariane, however, had some unisex clothing, so I guess I was lucky.
I proceed downstairs and head for the kitchen. When I turned to face the living room, I noticed Choco and Flora dozing off on the couch. I grinned at how adorable they were.
I put on the apron and got ready with the omelet ingredients I had seen in the recipe book. I have been practicing it for a week, so I know it will taste nice. I then added oil and heated the pan on the stove. I cracked two eggs into that heated pan, added the other ingredients, and scrambled the eggs. Then I realized that I had truly forgotten that it was supposed to be an omelet, but it was already too late for me to care.
I placed the plate of scrambled eggs on the table. I gave it a taste to see how it would be, and it was still wonderful. I then brewed coffee for Mariane and myself.
From behind me, I heard several footsteps. Mariane, who had a dreamy expression on her face, suddenly hugged me as I turned around.
"Yawn. Good morning."
She chuckles as she gives me a tight hug, refusing to let go. My right hand gently stroked her head as I positioned it there. The moment she released her hold, I looked down to see that her slobber was all over my chest. Since I didn't really care, I instructed her to sit at the table. And then set her food down in front of her. Then, as there was still drool in my chest, we ate the food I prepared. I was too lazy to get dressed and did not want to change.
Since I don't have many outfits that I can wear casually within the house, she spotted my chest and recalled this.
"Let us buy you some new clothes."
"Sure"
We soon finished eating our food. We then get ready to go shopping. We told Flora and Choco to watch the house. We then ride the broom like it was a flying motorcycle.
We arrive in the city. We can see a lot of shops, restaurants, and other things that are ordinarily seen in the city. We entered one of the famous clothing shops. There are a lot of kinds of clothes we found, such as dresses, shirts, pants, hats, and more.
We looked around for clothes that could fit me perfectly.
Minutes later, we had finally decided on the clothes for me. I noticed that Mariane did not buy any clothes for herself.
"Could you wait at the door? I want to look for some hats."
"Let me help you find some."
"No need to help me; just wait there at the door for me, okay?"
"Okay..."
I came to look for the hat aisle. When I arrived, I saw cool and cute hats. I found a pink bucket hat with cute bear ears and an ordinary black Breton hat. I could not choose between the two hats, so I bought them with the money I found in the previous dungeon where we met the skeleton mage.
I came back to the door, and Mariane was there looking at a paper bag. She looked like she was wondering what was in the bag, but I did not show her.
While we were walking after we got outside of the clothes store, we saw a fancy restaurant. Since I still had a lot of money, I tried inviting her to eat fancy foods with me.
"Wanna eat?"
"Sure, why not?"
We entered the restaurant. As we entered the restaurant, I noticed that it did not have that many customers, but the place looked really fancy. We were assisted by one of the workers to a table. We sat down, and then the worker gave the both of us menus. We only ordered carbonara. And the worker took the menus and went to the chef to let him know our orders so that he could prepare our food.
I started to notice that most of the other customers were looking at us. Maybe because I was not wearing expensive clothes; rather, I was only wearing an ordinary grey hoodie and jeans. Mariane was wearing a beautiful dress, and she looked okay.
"For some reason, a lot of people are looking at us," Mariane said.
"Yeah, I noticed that too, maybe because of my clothes."
"Wanna look for another restaurant?"
"It is okay; let us just ignore them."
"If you say so..."
Then someone delivered our food to the table we were at. Then they served us red wine. She took a bite of the carbonara.
"Mmm, this carbonara tastes good!"
She looked like she really enjoyed the carbonara and the wine as well. I feel like I have seen this before, but I am not sure where I saw it. While I was thinking of it, I suddenly said the word "cute".
"What?"
"I just think you are really cute eating that carbonara."
Her face suddenly turned red. She hid her face under her hands. She then peeked.
"Stop looking stupid."
I then also ate my food. It tastes really good, and then I sip my glass of wine. The carbonara and wine taste really good.
"It is really good."
"I told you so."
We continued eating. When we finished eating, we wiped our faces with the tissue on the table. I noticed she missed a spot where there was a little bit of cream from the carbonara on her face. I wiped it off using the tissue I was using. She blushed, looking at me. I did not know what to do. "She looked really beautiful just looking at her white skin, her beautiful sapphire-colored eyes, her cheeks being red, and her glossy red lips" is the first thing that comes to mind.
"That was my first indirect kiss."
"Wait, what?"
Maybe I am an idiot, but it feels really good to be able to see Mariane's embarrassed face. We paused there for a minute.
I signaled the worker from earlier to come, and when he got closer, I asked for the bill. He gave it to me, and I noticed it was really expensive, and some people started laughing when they saw me checking the bill. Perhaps they were expecting me to be someone who could not pay the bill. I took two gold coins and three gold coins out of my pocket and gave them to the worker. They were all shocked after seeing the gold coin.
I pulled Mariane's hand out as we walked to the exit, holding each other's hands.