Oliver was gazing on blankness when he heard the clinic door click open. Half-expecting that it would be Len, he sat straight up and greeted the visitor, "Hey, Le-"

Who is this blonde girl?

Oliver simply stared at her in question. He was never the type to start conversations.

"Sorry, Did I intrude on you?" The girl asked politely, guilt forming on her face.

"No, I-I just thought you were someone else." Oliver stammered.

"My name's SeeU." She introduced herself politely, "I heard what they did to you. It sounded horrible."

"Yeah." Oliver simply agreed.

"I also came from another country." She told Oliver, tearing up, "what they said were- unacceptable."

Oliver silently agreed, She too came from another country? Oliver felt more comfortable with that knowledge as it was something he could relate to.

"Look what they've done to your beautiful face." She said in a soft tone. Oliver blushed at the remark, he had never been complimented by a girl before, especially not by one he had just met mere minutes ago.

He stared at her, took into him her characteristics and properties. Blonde hair, mature, and blue eyes that somehow reminded him of Len. It was to no surprise, that Oliver found her to be beautiful; charming.

She strode closer to Oliver, taking a seat beside him.

"Would you come with me?" She asked in a half-whisper.

Oliver furrowed his brows - err, brow. "To where?"

"To my secret place."

Her answer had left him not the less, but the more confused. Who brings people they had just met to their 'secret' places?

Just then, Luka came back, "hey, who are you?" She asked, clearly untrusting of her presence.

"I'm SeeU, I'm in the same grade as Oliver." She explained.

"So you two are friends?" Luka asked, suspicious.

"Yeah." She answered.

Friends? Since when were we friends? We just met!

"Alright then," She spoke half-approvingly, "I'll let you stay for now."

"Well, I need to leave now, bye!" She waved, exiting as quickly as she had come in.

***

Len was walking home from school when an unfamiliar voice called for him. Len looked back to see who it was, but he couldn't recognise her with her light blonde hair.

"My name's Aria..." she blushed.

why was she blushing?

"I..." she nervously started. "I like you..." she mumbled.

"I-I'm sorry." She stammered before leaving in a run.

Len took a while to process that, another two to finally understand. I have a... an admirer?

How could this be true? Nobody had ever liked him, ever. Len didn't know what love felt like. After all he had never crushed on anyone before.

Maybe this could change my life!

Len ran after her, which was surprisingly not that hard, maybe the practice with Kaito and the others payed off.

"Wait!" Len shouted, almost desperately. Panting for breath as he stopped right behind her.

As soon as the girl looked back, his lips were locked, he couldn't say anything... he didn't know what to say to her. He hadn't even sorted his feelings out yet, and he didn't want to lie... not about such a thing.

...

The girl nodded, understanding what Len had tried to say but couldn't. She caressed his hair, his back, his everything, calming him down.

Len had never felt this much care in his life. Perhaps it was best of fate that they had met that day. Len watched her long hair, swaying in the gentle breeze; her smile, showing sympathy; her chest, modest in size.

"Th-" Len cried, overwhelmed with the amount of attention he had received, more so that it had been someone from school.

Len suddenly realised something. He was a male, and yet, he was the one being cared to. Shouldn't it have been the other way around? Maybe he had been weak... maybe that was why they kept picking on him.

Had he been stronger, more dominant, more assertive. They'd never pick on him as they had done... right?

and perhaps, I could've prevent her from leaving so early.

He almost broke down in another sob at the thought, but he quickly recovered. Len pulled away from her arms' embrace and looked at her in the eye. "I think I like you too."

Do I?

"Great!" She squealed happily, "Let's plan our first date together!"

"Huh?" Len replied in quite a shock. Of course this was expected, but why didn't he seem as enthusiastic about it as he should have? Was it the constant pain he had to put up with in the past affecting him even now? Or was it something else?

"Do you not want to?" She asked in a confused manner.

"No-no... it's not that," Len answered with a shred of confidence, "I'd be happy to go."

"Are you free on Sunday noon?" She asked expectantly.

Len nodded. He was pretty-much free whenever. After all, he didn't have any parents to tell him to study on certain days.

"Do you have a number?"

"No," Len answered. Dammit, why couldn't I have had one!?

"It's okay. Let's meet up at the café near school, sound good?" She smiled.

Len nodded, "yeah."

"I need to go now," she said, hiding a degree of guilt in her tone, "See you on Sunday!"

"See ya!" Len forced a smile.

Len took a deep breath and tried to reflect on what had just happened. I got a girlfriend, great... But what does one do with a girlfriend? He didn't know.

Len continued on his walk back home, his mind filled with unanswered and then unanswerable questions.

***

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