Dream Star

"Kiryu?"

"Lila .....are you getting addicted or something?"

"To cuddles," he murmured. Indeed, they aren"t exactly strangers. But is it okay for her to hug him for so long?

"Didn"t you say you were mine? I know we"re not dating anymore. But isn"t cuddling okay?"

Where does she get this logic from? Oh well, since she"s being so open about her feelings. He"s hardly going to shoot her down about it. Still, whenever Lila act"s like this, he cant calm down. Kiryu bends forward and brings his lips to the nape of her neck, "I"m hungry, Lila."

Kiryu wrapped his arms around her and brought them closer together. "It"s okay, isn"t it?" he murmurs against her ear.

Lila looked around, "Um, is it bad? If you get blood from me, I...I don"t know," Lila murmured.

Kiryu"s gaze softened, "So, hugging is fine but taking blood isn"t?"

"I-- I"m sorry, um, I guess it"s okay. A little bit?"

"Just a little," Kiryu nodded in agreement.

...

"I"m sorry, can you stand?"

Lila hits him, and Kiryu laughed as he crouched down, "I drank a bit too much."

"Idiot!" Lila scolded, "Aaagh, you bit so hard too. Haruka is going to kill me."

So it wasn"t that she was reluctant to let him drink her blood, but worried about the marks. "You can cover the marks up, you know?"

"I know that, but Haruka is very good at detecting these things."

Detecting? More like he probably hara.s.ses her until she spills. Hara.s.s.. He recalled what occurred the other day. Kiryu shook his head, don"t think about it too much.

"A year or so has pa.s.sed since we entered high school, huh? I"m not sure if it went by fast or slow. I had a lot of trouble getting used to things here."

Indeed Kiryu wondered for a long time, if things would work out. Peoples and all that. All of it was suffocating to him. He was on the verge of quitting. But then she showed up, and everything changed drastically for him, "But eventually I had a lot of fun. Plus, I"m glad we got to go to the same school, regardless of everything."

Lila sweatdropped, "Haha, it was kinda hard to keep up sometimes, though."

Hard to keep up, huh, she didn"t make that obvious at all. Lila always ran straight ahead; she overcame all obstacles. Even when she was on the verge of breaking down, nothing stopped her from getting back up.

But thanks to Lila he came this far. Which is why asking again shouldn"t do any harm, "Hey Lila. I know you"ve made your mind up and all. But I still have to ask. Are you sure that you don"t want to come with me now?"

His gaze darkens slightly," Also..."

Lila shook her head in understanding, "Thank you. You"re worried about all those rumors about me, right? But it"s fine I"ve got friends I can rely upon. Besides, I doubt it will make much difference," Lila laughed, "We had plenty of problems as a couple after all."

"I regret it," Kiryu murmured. But the girl didn"t hear him.

"There will always be hate, conflict, jealousy in the world. It"s upsetting. Despite how beautiful the world is, something ugly exists."

As Lila said this, she walked slightly ahead of him her arms to the side as though she was trying to balance herself.

"But I still love this world despite its faults."

His eyes went wide at the girl"s words, she really is amazing.

Lila turned to him and smiled, "I will catch up to you one day. So wait for me okay Kiryu?"

...

Park

"Why did you want to draw so suddenly?" Kiryu asked. When Lila asked him if they would go to a nearby park, it surprised him a little, so with sketch pads and a few art supplies, they headed to the nearest park.

Lila laughed, "It"s been a while. So I thought I might as well, and the weather is good."

He looked at the girl dumbfounded and sighed the weather? It"s freezing, and she has a fever. Well, it should be fine since he is with her.

"Uwaah, you"re so skilled, my Kiryu. It looks like a photo," Lila exclaimed, "I can paint well, but whenever I sketched or drew anything. It always seemed to lack some form of detail," Lila sighed.

Kiryu looked over at the girl"s sheet of paper. Indeed, it was like what she said. Lila isn"t gifted when it came to art like her parents, and yet there is something special whenever the girl drew anything.

"Must be nice for you. You can draw anything, and you"re a good artist. I envy you at times. But due to my feelings, that envy quickly faded. In your um drawing Kiryu, I pretty. Do you really see me like this?"

He glanced over and saw how shy Lila had become, and tapped his pencil on the pad. Instead of drawing the scenery, he ended up drawing her like he usually did.

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"Well, I have been doing this since I was small. The old geezer man is also an artist from seeing him draw so much. I started to draw too. That"s the reason I started drawing, that"s why I exploded too."

Her sweatdropped as she recalled one of their first meetings. Come to think of it, yeah something like that did happen. "Ah, so that"s what happened."

Kiryu is the one who taught her after all, to express the emotions she always seems to suppress into her paintings. And Kiryu"s painting, his drawings, even his rough sketches, always expresses the emotions he"s feeling. That may be why she"s known about his feelings for a long time since he always drew pictures of her.

Her thoughts broke off when Kiryu pulled her into his lap, "Wah!"

"Well, this position is fine."

"W-were too close," Lila murmured. But Kiryu looked at her like he didn"t know what was going on.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Geez, forget it, besides it is comfortable.

Yosh, she can draw better like this. Power, power! Feeling his lips brush across her hair, she laughs softly. He"s all flirty with her. Lila picked up a pencil and started sketching, despite their position, Kiryu was doing the same. He"s using his left hand; she hasn"t seen that in a while. Kiryu looks so different when he"s using his left hand.

Lila looks over at Kiryu"s work, and her cheeks redden. Ah, it"s her. He"s drawing the scenery with her standing up in the same position as earlier. Kiryu"s memory is very good. In Kiryu"s eyes, is she really this beautiful? Maybe he needs to get his eye checked. "What"s wrong? Your hands have stopped moving."

"My Kiryu, you should go see an optometrist."

Kiryu looked at her in complete disbelief, "You! Dam it, "he mutters.

"Kiryu, when do you think you should go? You don"t have any upcoming breaks, not that I know of, anyway."

His lips brush against her ear, and Lila panics.

"Etto, um?" Lila exclaimed. What is he doing? If he tries anything, she should hit him, shouldn"t she?

"My eyesight is perfectly fine; I know exactly who I"m touching and who I like."

This idiot. Don"t say things like that to her; it makes things difficult.

"So, Lila, do you still doubt me?"

"How could I, stupid," Lila looked down, as she felt his lips brush on her neck. The slight contact made her shudder, "Kiryu, I can"t draw like this."

"Hm? Then, I"ll help," Lila suddenly felt Kiryu grab hold of her hand...

He"s holding her hand!! Her hand! This is bad; she shouldn"t let him hold her hand.

"So where was I?"

Acting so nonchalant is sly! Geez, she is no match for this person, is she? But didn"t she know that already?

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Despite the uselessness of that old man, he was surprisingly really goods at drawing. He had to admit that he learned quite a bit from him, "Really, it"s much better to be free and to be able to draw anything you want."

As he stole a glance at the black hair expression then, Kiryu sees an expression on her face that he had never seen before. It"s different, a completely different look. To think that even now he still finds many, many more different sides of her. Lila suddenly stood up, "Huh? Where are you going?"

Lila said nothing and took his drawing, "Let"s put this drawing on the ground. Like this that way..." he watches as she rearranged his drawing on to the ground, "If you put the picture you drew of me here."

His eyes went wide. Lila smiles, "See, it looks like I"m sitting on the ground."

Indeed, the drawing that merely looked like a still photograph seemed to be coming to life much more. It caught the people in the parks attention, "How beautiful."

"So realistic."

It didn"t just gain the kid"s attention. But the adults pa.s.sing by, "Why would you look at that..."

She really is.... out of his reach. Although that was already the case, to begin with when she does things like this. It reinforces that view.

"Being able to draw people"s attention with a single act of kindness and effort. That"s her talent — the one who released me from my prison. And allowed me to be free was her," Kiryu murmurs as he watched the black hair girl smiling happily surrounded by the little kids. Without Lila, he"s nothing. He will revert to being an empty sh.e.l.l.

"I"m alone, and that"s why my paintings are empty."

That"s wrong,

Though Kiryu can"t say, she"s never been alone - since for sure she"s experienced loneliness. However, Kiryu could argue against the comment about her paintings. From the very start, she has always brought her drawings to life to such a degree.

Lila has always shone brightly whenever she paints. For sure, even if he isn"t beside her, she will be able to convey those feelings no matter what even if they aren"t together in the future. Is there no chance anymore? Kiryu wondered at times.

As he was thinking this though, Lila rushed up to him and puffed her cheeks up, saying, "Instead of staring, give me a hug." A light chuckle escapes his lips as he wrapped his arms around her.

....

Teras.h.i.+ma Household

"Your fever went up again," Kiryu murmured as he laid her back down onto the bed, "Sorry for bringing you out for so long."

"Aha, I"m okay, Kiryu. It was fun," Lila trailed off, "Spending time with you is a lot of fun."

Kiryu smiled and grabbed hold of her hand, "Then let me take your pretty hand"s hostage for a bit."

"Kiryu, you know me and Haruka went to an amus.e.m.e.nt park in England. It was really fun, and a boat ride too!"

"Ah, what you planned before?"

Lila pouted, "How come you knew?"

Why wouldn"t he? She was making plans with another guy. Isn"t it natural that he knows about it? Lila suddenly laughed, and Kiryu looked away, she must have just realized. Shoot, how embarra.s.sing? Lila"s gaze softened, "You know Kiryu, being with you was a lot of fun and while our relations.h.i.+p went off smoothly. We were always running away from our problems. We confronted nothing. The more we ran away though, the more the guilt built up."

"Back then, I was content," he murmured, "Even though we were running away from reality," he didn"t care about what other people thought. As long as he had her beside him, nothing else mattered.

"I know, but that was wrong, the two of us..we.."

Noticing her eyelids drop, he bent down and gently kissed her lips. It was faint but a kiss; nonetheless, Lila looked at him dazed, and Kiryu smiled, "Sleep well, Lila."