Here you go!
Part One:
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Several hours later, you were curled up on your favourite armchair, reading, when you saw someone perch themselves on the arm of the seat. Slipping your bookmark in to mark your page, you looked up to find Kevin smiling down at you. “So I’m awake again.”
“I can see that,” you replied carefully, placing the book down on the table.
“We should probably talk about before,” he said seriously.
“Right. Yeah,” you answered, feeling your heart sink. Of course, now was when he told you that he’d been exhausted, he’d had too much caffeine. He hadn’t known what he was saying, he was sorry for getting your hopes up. You’d had feelings for Kevin for a while now, but for him to return them? That’d be ridiculous.
“I didn’t really go about things earlier in the right way,” he said, confirming your worst fears. “It wasn’t very romantic.” Wait. What? That was unexpected, to say the least. If Kevin was hoping to be romantic, that would suggest that he was trying to impress you…
“Wh-what?”
“Here.” From behind his back, he pulled out a bunch of leaves from one of the trees outside, which he’d tied together with a rubber band. You raised an eyebrow at it, and he looked down sheepishly, scratching the back of his neck awkwardly. “Yeah, I know. This isn’t very romantic either. But I couldn’t really go into town to get a proper bouquet, so it’ll have to do, I guess. For now, anyway,” he added.
Your lips curled into a grin, and you looked up at him, your eyes shining. “Screw romance. This is pretty perfect, Kevin.” And it was. Because it didn’t matter that these weren’t roses, tied together with a vibrantly coloured ribbon. It didn’t matter that this wasn’t a candlelit dinner. What mattered was the way Kevin looked at you, as though you were something rare and special, something to marvel over. Sitting there, feeling him look at you in such a way, you didn’t care that this wouldn’t be considered conventionally romantic. All you cared about was that he made you feel loved, and beautiful, and no roses could buy that feeling.
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