After Shinning left mysteriously again , I picked up my binder from Ai’s hands and placed it on my desk. Ai didn’t look too happy with what I did. He gave me a pout. Wait. He’s pouting?
I immediately turned towards him and stared. His eyes flickered as he looked down at the wood floor. Ai slowly looked up and crossed his arms.
“I want to analyze what you have written in that binder” he said and gave me a frown.
“I…okay then” I said looking confused.
First he pouts and then he gives me stern look. I really want to know what’s going inside his head. I placed the binder back into his hands. While unpacking my belongings, Ai stared intently at my notes scribbled here and there on the paper. Ai flipped through a couple of more pages before closing the binder.
“I have a question for you (y/n)” he said. He stood up and gave me back my binder.
“What is it?” I said. I took the binder from him and placed it on my desk.
“What is this ‘love’ that you mentioned a lot in your notes?” Ai said.
I choked on my salvia. He doesn’t know what love is? I knew he was emotionless but to this extent? He needs serious help! Maybe that’s why Shinning assigned me to ‘teach’ Ai. I laughed nervously. Ai raised his eyebrow and coughed, getting my attention back.
“Oh sorry,” I said. “I was thinking of a good explanation”. Yeah right. I am such a liar.
Ai looked bored waiting for my answer. I smiled nervously. Hopefully he’ll understand, right?
“Love comes in different forms” I said. Ai tilted his head at this.
“It could be friendship, family, or even a romantic kind of love” I said, playing with the hem of my skirt.
Ai looked pretty confused. His eyebrows were furrowed. He looked like he was processing his thoughts. He finally spoke up.
“What is romantic?” he asked. “I don’t understand that term you used”.
“It’s when you love a person very much and would do anything for that special someone. I mean- well you have to experience it first in order understand. I never experienced it so I can’t really explain it that well” I said playing with a strand of my hair. Ai looked at me and nodded.
“So why don’t we both try to learn it together?” he suggested. Heat rushed to my face as he closed his eyes and started whispering to himself. I heard bits of ‘formulas’ and ‘theories’ through his whispers. I sweat dropped. He is serious about this. I don’t have a problem with this…even Shinning said that it is okay to fall in love.
Ai opened his eyes and went to his desk and pulled out a sticky note. He wrote something on it quickly and handed it to me. I skimmed through the words and numbers. It looks like an address.
“You will be accompanying me to visit the professor,” he said. “I have notified him of our visit”.
“What time are we leaving?” I asked him as I finished unpacking my things.
Ai held out a piece of paper to me and yawned. I took the paper from him. Ai headed towards the bathroom with a set of sleepwear. I could hear the water being turned on. I wonder why he’s showering. It’s still early. I looked at the paper I received.
“Eeek!” I squealed as the paper unfolded by itself. The next thing I knew I was swimming in paper. It took me a while to untangle myself from it. I looked to the side to see the top of the page.
“5:00 wake up,” I shouted. “That’s early!” The faucet turned off and Ai appeared next to me.
Ai looked at me pointed to the bottom of the page. “It’s bed time” he said. I rolled up the paper to see the bottom.
“This schedule is amazing yet horrifying” I said as my knees collapsed on me. Ai looked at me weirdly before shrugging his shoulders. “I’ll take that as a compliment” he said. He tucked himself into his bed and fell asleep.
I sighed as I looked at the long hectic schedule. When does he have time to write all of this? There are so many things to do tomorrow! I’m not getting paid enough to do this. I grabbed my clothes and went into the bathroom to wash up. The bathroom was surprisingly very neat. It was literary shining and glittering. Ai is a perfectionist but I can’t help but feel that he’s missing something.
A/N: Short chapter! I know I’m sorry guys. I know it’s the break but I have so many projects to do as well as homework due on Monday! So I decided to upload this a.s.a.p! I’ll submit another chapter later this week or next week…hopefully. Just like reader-chan in this story, I have a lot of things going on right now. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter!