Night had soon transit with noon and the regularly seen stars and clouds appeared above. Yozora and Soocheol sat on the rooftop of the café they were sheltering in. Two cans of carbonated drinks on either sides of them, half way done as they take occasional sips of it-wishing it was cold for better taste.

Instead of the drink,it was the atmosphere they were in that was cold. Tensed and awkward. After what had happened between them few hours ago.

Flashback

Soocheol pecked her soft lips before he locked eyes with her,words slipping out of his mouth on their own accord.

"I love you..." He held the sides of her forearm in a firm gentle manner as if she would runaway any moment. He didn't want things to be any more difficult between them. He wanted to solve it and straighten things up here and now.

"I love you Yozo-" He was about to repeat his words another time to help her with letting the moment seep into her more. When suddenly she pecked his lips too. Covering her mouth right afterwards in realization with her eyes wide open. A pink tint crept up on her cheeks when she heard a chuckle from him and her hands moved to cover her whole face.

"Hey...you alright?" His smile could be noticed from his words. He reached out to her hands and held them. Peeling them off of her face slowly to see the girls face all flustered and glowing red.

She didn't know what she did at all. Her heart was beating fast when he kissed her and her reaction just happened before she could comprehend. Yozora never had thought she would do something like that, especially after rejecting him twice now.

"Hey...it's okay,you didn't have to be shy about it" He smiled at her to assure that she didn't do anything wrong at all. He enclosed the space separating them to get both their eyes interlocked.

But even before their eyes met,a loud snarling screech came from the back. Both of their heads quickly snapped towards the direction to see a purple sphere climbing up the counter with two more of them followed. A huff of annoyance left from Soocheol as he unwillingly let her hands go and grabbed his riffle that was resting on his shoulder. Yozora searched around for her to see it resting beside the coffee machine which was just two-tree steps away from the same counter those dreadful creatures were on.

"Well screw me..." Yozora sighed before pulling out her spare gun she carries for emergencies. It won't kill any of the spheres but just to slow them down till she gets ahold of her riffle.
"Will gladly do so but after we get through this. Will that be okay?" Soocheols remark made Yozora eye him from the side for a brief moment. The boy grinned at her before sending a wink.

"Let's get this done already,I'm craving for a cup of black coffee" She changed the topic as she held the gun infront of her with both her hands. Aiming at them and shot one of them,making the other two come at them.

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"That was unexpected..." She breathed out falling ontop of Soocheols spread out arm. Both of them were panting from the load of spheres they had to shoot.

"Who knew they were more hiding inside the backroom...ha..." He remarked the moment they saw more spheres crawling through the backroom when they were shooting.

"Atleast we got some killed huh?" She looked over at him with a smile,still breathing heavily with exhaustion.

"Guess so..." He laughed pinching her cheek by his free hand.

They stayed there in silence for a few minutes to let the tiring feeling fade away from them and finally when they felt at rest,Soocheol spoke up turning to her with his arm still under her head.

"Well...what do you say?" Yozora tilted her head to face him. Looking between the celling and him for a moment. She was about to answer his question when he cut her off.

"You don't have to respond right away,just...give it a thought...You have plenty of time till we go back to school..." He said, suspecting that he might have made her uncomfortable.

"Okay but,what about Nara and Taeman?"

"Well Kimchi likes Nara too and I feel like she likes him back and Taeman,he and Yeonjung look better honestly" He chuckled at his matchmaking earning Yozora to laugh along with him.

"Oh you...." She squealed at the way he coupled up his friends. The moment stretched further with them making jokes and laughing at them. Forgetting their worries and all that was going around them. Feeling the world slow down with only them existing. It felt mutually nice. The times when they were under the moon,talking about things out of the blue-it came back to them. But this time,it felt different.

End of Flashback

"Welp,when do you think we should go back to them?" At last Yozora decided to break the silence with a random query.

"Uh it has only been two days and we have collected too much of rations. We'll leave them at the hideout and change directions tomorrow..."

"Alright..." She replied followed with more silence. Both of them just stayed there watching the sky. Having their beverages and lightly swigging their legs in the air in boredom.

"Um so...are you going to sleep first or...." She looked over at him, expecting to hear him offering her to sleep first as she feels tired after all the walking and mostly to escape the weird out situation. Soocheol laughed seeing right through her for why she said that.

"Hey,are you feeling akward after what happened?" He asked keeping his drink down.

"Uh...well...It's just...I don't know what to say..." She said looking away and scratching her nape leaving the boy in a light chuckle.

"Well if it makes you uncomfortable, we can just go back to how we were and later on-you can maybe give me an answer? How does that sound?" He suggested but Yozora quickly refused.

"What-Uh no no it's not that,just...well um...ugh I don't even know why I feel like this" She facepalmed herself and huffed. Soocheol couldn't help but to smile at her.

"Nevermind let's just keep going with conversing till we feel sleepy" She shook her head and her body to get rid of the feelings and turned to him with a tight smile to which he returned warmly.

"Ehem...so uh...let's get to know each other more with 20 questions-what do you say?" She proposed the idea.

"Well I don't think I'll last for 10 questions but sure" He agreed and moved on.

"Okay you go first" She gave the first chance to him.

"Hm..." He looked away with his index and thumb holding his chin.

"Do you like Tae-Man?" His first query made Yozoras expression fell flat.

"Really? After all that happened today?" He chuckled at her scratching his nape.

"Okay fine. Um at first I kinda did..." She glanced over at him to see him holding an expressionless face "But now I don't..." His face instantly lit up with that.

"Woah what duality..." She shook her head with laughter.

"Ok my turn..." She stated "Uh whats your ideal first date?" His eyes widen at her question but replied either way.

"Maybe a day at the carnival or a movie date?" He said and she nodded her head.

"What nickname would you give me?" Yozora took about few seconds to think and then answered.

"Meowie?" She laughed afterwards "Ok sorry but that sounds weird..." She still laughed leaving Soocheol wondering why she chose that?

"Why that?"

"Your smile reminds me of that smiling cat emoji so I thought of that" She explained "But give me some time I'll come up with something better-oh wait what about....Mine~" Her lips spread in a sly smile as her eyes observed the boys face. He looked taken aback with his eyes flickers to focus somewhere else. He was feeling butterflies at that moment.

"Ooooo It looks like you like that oooo~" She teased and nudged his elbow.

"I-I think the earlier one was better" He said still not looking at her.

"Hey hey I was just teasing-I'll come up with something better hm?" He didn't mean it when he said that. He actually liked how that smoothly rolled of her tongue and out her plush lips only for his ears to hear.

"Okay now my turn...what nickname would you give me?" He looked at her for a brief moment and squinted his eyes thinking.

"Uh,since your name is Yozora...I-" He was cut off by her before he could continue.

"Wait you think my actual name is Yozora?" She asked amused and he nodded his head as a 'yes'.

"Wait seriously?" She asked again.

"Yeah. Why isn't it your name?" The dumbfounded boy asked her.

"Aniya that's my code name my friends used to call me back in school. It's Japanese for night sky" She revealed the truth behind her unique name.

"Oh,we knew it sounded different and Youngshin said it sounded Japanese so we thought that you might beso as well" He voiced out the reason why he and the others though Yozora was a Japanese nationality.

"Well yes it is Japanese and it means night sky but no I'm also Korean" She said.

"Then whats your real name?" He asked getting curious of what her actual name could be.

"Uh-Uh one question at a time and right now you have to give me a nickname" She reminded him.

"But how am I suppose to give you one when i don't know your name?"

"Just think of what reminds me of you" She said hoping for something cute.

"Um...well..." He was trying to think of what reminds him of her as she stared at him in anticipation.

"S-Sweetie..." She felt her stomach flip for the way his English pronounciation made his voice sound just an octave deeper. It didn't even sound like he was asking it as a question and just sounded like it was his last choice to name her that. Now it was her who was looking away from his gaze.

"What?D-Don't you like it?" He worried about making her feel uneasy with the way he had said it.

"Ok moving on..." She cleared her throat and went on with the game for about 15 question but mostly them just goffing off on random topics. They were laughing as if there was no tomorrow and was on the edge of falling off the building if it wasn't for the other holding them back.

The night soon went on and Yozora was the first to fall asleep on his shoulder. Soft snores coming from her as she tugged on his arm which was around both of her arms-seeking for warmth. Soocheol smiled patting her head and slowly moved to lift her up in his arms. After a small struggle he safely got her and walked downstairs to where they had made a small fort to sleep in.

He laid her down and covered her in a duvet before he sat few feet away from her with his riffle in hand. Hoping she will have good dreams in her sleep.

To be continued🎐

Written: 11/06/23
23/06/23
02/07/23
Publsihed: 03/07/23

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