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2 pm on a sunny Saturday at a convenience store.
“Is that all?”, hesitated the cashier seeing that the woman before him was occupied, daydreaming.
She had her hands under her chin and eyes that were looking not at him but to someone or better somewhere away.
But it seems his voice rouse her out of her little fantasy.
“Hmm...Yes, I think I have everything I'll need” she said, blushing. Embarrassed of not only daydreaming in the middle of shopping but with the contents of the 'dream' as well.
“Then have a wonderful day. And please come again”.
With that, she was off. She took a moment to recollect herself.
Azusa adjusted the bags on her arms and looked at her watch, she still has plenty of time to prepare, she’s glad she wake up early today. besides she’ll probably sleep late tonight, she blushed at the thought.
She lowered her head a little so she could hide her blushy face and grin. She was anticipating the night.
Because that's her 1st anniversary with her amazing, but occupied, boyfriend.
As she raised her head she saw something, at the other side of the street – Furuya Rei was leaving a restaurant accompanied by a woman and the woman was grabbing his arms.
Azusa was shocked, she covered her mouth with one hand while the other clenched, her eyes widened and she turned away, she doesn’t want to see it. She doesn’t want to see him with another woman. It hurts.
His name is Furuya Rei, but she met him as Amuro Tooru and he was her former coworker at cafe Poirot. She had a crush on him and though it was pointless, for such a guy like him would never look at her that way. She confessed and was rejected, she thought it was expected. he had reasons, reasons he could not date her or anybody. For some time their relationship got awkward but once she started to act as nothing happened, he did the same and everything returned to normal. Except it didn’t, and one day, he vanished.
3:30 pm at Azusa's apartment.
as Azusa arrives at home her previous enthusiasm is gone. But she still needs to prepare the dinner, she has an anniversary to commemorate and her distress isn't her boyfriend's fault.
She’s just upset to see someone in the place reserved for her.
5 pm.
She’s in the kitchen finishing preparing the dinner when she hears the sound of her apartment door opening, it’s her boyfriend.
He’s here, sooner than she thought. not wanting to face him right now she says without turning “W-what are you doing here?” “I finished for today and came to help you.” “Oh is that so?... How was work today?” “Good, I finished this job, and *he approaches her from behind, hugs her, and kisses the back of her neck* starting now I’m all yours”
“all mine huh?” she says turning and pushing him away, putting some distance between them. He thinks she's acting a little strange.
“yes so we can take that trip, do you have a place you want to go?” he tries to hold her face in his hands but she walks from him, she’s angry, mostly with herself for letting the scene she saw disturb her to this extent but this hurting just won't go away “not really” “are you okay?” “Yeah, but [please just shut up me] you sure sound happy about finishing this job” “of course I’m, now we can have some time for ourselves” “so you're happy hmn...so this work must have been difficult [shut up]” “you are acting strange” “I’m not” “are you mad?” its not his fault. [just shut up Azusa] “I am not.” she says trying to convince herself of that. “your face says otherwise”
Yes, Amuro Tooru vanished.
but he returned to her life as Furuya Tooru. and now he is her boyfriend.
“Azusa-san, are you mad?”
“no, I’m not, I just think your work doesn’t look so difficult when you go to restaurants with a beauty on our anniversary” now, she did it. The cat is out of the bag.
“what? You saw me today?”
“yeah, Furuya-san I saw you ‘working’ ” she regrets saying it the moment it leaves her lips.
He told her all about his job, he's a detective that has to work undercover sometimes, and it's thanks to the nature of his job that they could meet. It's a dangerous job that could get him killed and there she is acting like he's having fun behind her back.
She feels horrible and tears start trailing down her face.
“I’m sorry-”
“I’m sorry you had to see that”, he says as he approaches her and pulls her into a hug.
“aren’t you mad?” “about that?” “about me acting this way even though I know it's just your job.”
“I am a little sad about the way you talked... but I can understand how you feel”
He didn't like how Poirot's clients looked at her, and how they flirted with her and worse, thought she was flirting too while she was only doing her job.
“really? I’m so sorry”
“by the way, that exactly did you see?”
“I saw you two leaving the restaurant and she holding your arm”
“what? You Only saw that part?”
upon hearing this she pulls away from his embrace, her eyes widened “what? Was there something else?”
he stayed there in silence
“answer me, Rei Furuya, did something happen between you and that woman?”
“Sorry, but I had to do this…”
“I can’t believe you did this...you lied to me? Right now?”
“Sorry...you can punch me if you want.”
he looks at her, she looks really cute with puffed cheeks and narrowed eyebrows.
"This was not the time for that".
"Sorry I just wanted to uplift the mood...and take a little revenge
that woman was our informant but it turned out she was the chief, true culprit trying to frame someone else, right now she must be having a fun conversation with my colleagues on headquarters".
he holds her face gently and raises her head, making her face him.
"She doesn’t know anything about me, not my name, not that I do, that I like, she’ll never get to know the little things that make me, me"
he can see she's blushing, even the tip of her ears. she looks so cute to him.
"because I’m yours, and I only need you to know me".
"T-the dinner is ready. Are you hungry?"
"Hmn I think I’m feeling the other type of 'hanger' "
"what?"
"I’m thirsty"
he lifts her into his arms and starts walking towards her room.
"I'll start with the main course."