She quickly covered both ears with her hands. "I don't want to hear it. How many times do I have to tell you that that idea is not mine but Jen's?"
He is laughing while removing Aki's hands. "In the first place, do you really know that, Akiko?" He asked without letting go of her hands.
"Heh!"
"Or maybe, you need to enroll in my class," There was a mischievous smile on his lips.
"What class?" she asked.
How he loved to look at her, when she started to annoyed with me. Her lips were tingling and twitching. Only now does he realize that he loves to annoy it because he enjoys watching it.
He still remembers that she had bitten her arm before because she was so annoyed. After that it was terrible to apologize to her.
"I teach lessons in French kissing maybe you don't know, Miss? Because we are best friends, you have a fifty percent discount. Fair enough?"
"Your face is thick!" she said then withdrew her hands. "I know you are an expert in that but never teach me like that," she said.
"Seventy percent?" smiling he said.
"What?"
"Seventy percent is the discount I will give you, you don't want to?"
"She laughed, very funny."
"Ninety percent?" he raised an eyebrow as he bargained.
"The nerve!"
"Okay. For the sake of our friendship, just give me a soft drink. Oh, there, that bargain."
Suddenly it burst out laughing. He liked the sound of her laughter.
Why is it that he only now focuses on how he really feels for Akiko? When he is sick, your face is the only thing that makes him feel better.
His desire to improve the game intensified when he saw it sitting on the bleacher and watching him. When he has good news, he wants this girl to know. His chest heats up when he sees it hurt when talking about her mother.
This is the first time he wants to be there in the happiest and saddest moments of his life. His day is not complete without seeing it.
During summer vacation, they are still together. Wherever he goes on vacation, she is also there. If she just can't come, he won't come either. It was just like their field trio in Baguio when they were in their third year of high school. She had chickenpox so he did not come even though Akiko purely convince him to go .
He cared for her. Not just as a friend. More than that. He not only immediately realized because they were always like that. With their closeness, he did not notice that he looked at it more than friendship as it felt for him.
He is sure that this is the only woman he wants to be with until they both achieve their dreams. He wants at every stage of his life, he turns around, this is by his side.
Nothing else.
He loved her, too. There was no doubt that.
She quickly showered and changed her clothes when she realized she might be late for Billy's championship. It was three o'clock in the afternoon when she came home because his instructor did not come to the last subject.
She fell asleep and woke up at six o'clock so she was in a hurry. They did not meet all day Billy she avoided it.
She is mad with it. Yesterday when she was waiting for his practice to end ... because they were going home together .... She saw Debbie was there again. When his practice was over, Debbie still talked to him.
He did not immediately get dressed because Debbie even talked to him. Her annoyance increased when she noticed that he seemed to enjoy talking to the woman. It prompted her to wait a moment. Debbie herself wiped away his sweat.
She even heard his colleagues shouting at Debbie because of the woman's courage to approach him.
"Go, Debbie!" she even heard the cheers of a group of women in the front bleacher on the other side of the gym. Debbie is probably their friend.
"C'mon, Debbie, do the dare!" she even heard a woman from that group shout.
She saw Debbie whispering something to Billy which seemed to surprise the young man. She was just surprised when Debbie grabbed Billy's neck and kissed him on the lips.
Shout to Debbie's teammates as well as Billy's teammates. She was so annoyed that why she left it and went home first. She turns off the cellphone because it will definitely call her.
In every Billy game she sees Debbie there too. It was only that day that it happened that even in practice it was there. She was annoyed with Billy because he seemed to like what Debbie did. But no matter how annoyed she was, she could not bear not to watch the young man's final game.
Its Championship. Best of five that. Two all of the standings of the two teams. That day it will be known who will be the champion that year. She wouldn't miss it for the world. Because she knew how important that was to Billy.
"Billy?" she exclaimed, at the same time spitting on her watch.
"Why are you still here? Seven o'clock of the game, right?"
"Maybe you won't watch the game thats why I picked you up for sure," he told her.
"Of course, I'd be there."
"I went to you earlier in your last subject but I didn't catch up with you."
"We don't have a class because we don't have an instructor."
"Are you still mad at me?" he asked.
"No"
"I did not know that Debbie would suddenly kiss me. She said her friends challenged her so that's why," he explained softening her heart.
"Come on, you might be late," she invited him. She was about to pull it when it stopped her by the arm.
"I don't like Debbie, Aki," he confessed to her. He felt her heart beat faster.
"I'm not trying to flirt with her. I didn't expect her to kiss me like that."
"Billy, I'm not asking ....."
"Y-you left without a word last night," he said with difficulty. "You're turning off your cellphone. I know you're mad."
"I'm not," she said softly.
"We'll talk later," she said softly while staring at him.
He kissed her on the forehead while holding her two hands. Her chest tightened. She thought that was all there was to it. She did not expect its lips to go down to her pitiful lips. She closes her eyes automatically.
The kiss they shared was short but she felt the softening of her knees caused by the force of its impact on him.
It was just a smack for crying out loud!
She has not been kissed yet but she knows that smack is very different from French kiss. But she felt like that too with the force of impact on him.
Billy never kiss her on the lips.
He never did. Before.
He often kissed her on the cheek or on her forehead. But never on her lips. Why does she seem to want to celebrate? Was there any reason to celebrate at all?
"Aki ...." he heard it say "Aki?" its repeated but in a louder voice.
Oh, that's Billy. It was only then that she realized that her eyes was still closed even though she had already released him.
She quickly opened her eyes.
He smiled as she looked at her.
To be continue......
