-Yoru-

"Hey, wake up. it's morning already! We have to go to school!" a soft voice woke me up.

"Mmmm, why? What day is it?" I asked without even thinking about the fact that someone else was in my room.

"Come on, Yoru. It's Wednesday. Jeez, just wake up already! We're gonna miss the bus." he answered and I noticed his slightly annoyed face leaning towards me as I opened my eyes. If you want my opinion, this guy leaned in a little too close!

"OH MY GOD!" I jumped out of my bed sheets as soon as I saw Hiro. I completely forgot that he stayed here last night!!

"You're up! About time! You have no idea how many times I've tried to wake you. I'm going home to change clothes. We'll meet at the bus stop, okay?" he said as he grabbed his bag literally running out of my room, without even giving me a chance to reply. Not that I had anything to say anyway.

I had no choice but to get ready quickly and leave the house. As I did that, I tried to remember everything that happened last night. I was worried that I had forgotten something again. All I remembered was that we were chatting, studying and then went to sleep. "I guess that's everything." I thought. I wrote those on my diary really quick and went running down the stairs. Right when I was about to leave, I saw my mom coming out of her room.

"Morning Yoru. Sorry I came home this late yesterday. There was a special event at the restaurant and I-" she said, before I stopped her.

"It's okay mom, I know. You should be sleeping though. I have to go." I answered in a hurry, hoping that she didn't notice Hiro leaving earlier. I didn't even know why I didn't want her to notice. Maybe it was because I didn't want her to start asking any questions that I wouldn't know how to answer. For example "how come he's the only friend that I ever invited to sleep over". If I told her that I never actually had any friends she'd be devastated that I lied to her all this time. Even if I only did it because I couldn't have her worried about me. "Plus, I don't even know if I should refer to Hiro as a friend." I thought. It was true that I felt comfortable being myself whenever we were together and he seemed like he didn't mind that at all. That's why I wanted to befriend him, but I still got nervous around him occasionally. There was this time though, that I was completely calm and relaxed. Almost at ease. It was when we were just lying, looking at each other. "Wait, isn't that kind of a weird thing to do with someone? I just felt like it at that moment. I hope he wasn't uncomfortable." I was talking to myself as I saw Hiro on the other side of the road, waiving at me.

"Seems like we can still make it just in time!" he said while I was crossing the road.

"Sorry about earlier. I'm not a light sleeper, as you can tell." I laughed.

"Nah, it's okay. The worst thing that could happen is miss first period. Or I could just leave you lying there and go to school by myself!" he teased me.

"Heyy, not fair!" I pouted. "Fine. Next time I won't forget to set the alarm, okay?" I said as we went on the bus.

"...Next time?" he answered some seconds later. I couldn't exactly understand the face he was making. I could tell that his feelings were mixed though, so I started wondering if I said something wrong.

"Well... yeah... we still have to finish this project, don't we? I mean... if you don't want to come over to my house we can-" is what I said but

"No, I mean... are you okay with me staying over again?" he answered before I could finish my sentence.

"Well.. yeah... I'm mostly home alone anyway. Plus it'd be troublesome for you to leave late at night." I replied but I didn't know if that's what he wanted to hear. His little grin some seconds later though, told me that he was a bit more than okay with what I just said?