"What if i told you i have always a crush on your ever since the beginning?" Arianna tilts her head as she hugs her knees, sitting on the bench on the sidewalk on the park.
Looking at Klein by her side with yearnful eyes, the tiny bits of sparkle glowing and wincing at the man she yearns, its not that something you will notice unless you take the courage to look them in their eyes, and that's what Klein is incapable of doing right now.
"Ummm... Isn't that a bit too sudden?" Klein said as his head look in random direction, incapable of looking at the raven black haired woman by his side.
Its noon, within the fresh vegetation of the park, Klein and Arianna took their date abruptly but simple.
"What does it matter? Sudden or not, the truth is that... I. LOVE. YOU." Arianna said her words careful, slow, but powerful with each word, she meant it.
"Oh-" Klein became even more flustered, his consciousness and attention slipping away due to a sense of panic or the feeling of being overcome.
At first, she said she has a crush on him, but the following words 'LOVE', that's different, that's strong conviction in of itself.
"But still, i don't know how to take this. Heck, i never had a girlfriend let alone a female friend in my whole life."
Arianna with her puppy eyes suddenly winced hard, and clenched her fists, it was as if she was getting rejected despite her obvious advances.
"Miss Arianna, i think it would be better for you to see someone else, im not someone worth your time, please. Forgive me, but i can't accept your feelings!" Klein stood up and crossed his arms, but respectfully said his words.
"Klein..." Arianna then briefly spoke, she opened her mouth lightly.
"Ye- Yes?!"
"Would you like some ice cream?"
"Eh-?!"
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Walking through the park, Klein and Arianna found a small shop that sells ice cream, Arianna paid for two, and gave one to Klein. After a small walk again, they sat on a nearby bench once more.
"Try it."
"Okay."
Licking their respective ice creams, Klein was momentarily calmed down, his attention gone nowhere, just at the thought of pleasure and eating his ice cream.
But out of nowhere, a face swooped in his view, and Arianna suddenly snatched Klein's cream with her mouth, swallowing it whole in one go.
"Hey! Miss Arianna, that's mine!" Klein was surprised and a little bit angry as his food was stolen away just like that, he protested and faced Arianna's way finally, unbeknownst to him, finally meeting her face to face.
"Yes, but also, what's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours." Arianna gleefuly laugh before putting her ice cream right in front of Klein's mouth.
"Taste it!"
"Wha- but you've already licke-" Klein tried to protest hard, despite the obvious feelings he wanted to anyway, and as such, before he could even finish his sentence, his head was grabbed and dunked right into the cream's.
Splash
Klein's face was then covered in ice cream, he tried to flail around, but he was too weak to do anything further for Arianna was way stronger than he is right now.
"Hmph! Hmph!"
....
"Sorry, sorry, my bad." Arianna apologized gracefully as she wiped Klein's face with her handkerchief, while he was sitting, looking defeated, and overpowered by the woman he secretly admired for a long time.
"But still, i know im doing something abrupt, you're taken aback, by that logic, i think this should be fair and square." Arianna then wiped her fingers on the last remaining piece of cream on Klein's mouth and licked it with her tongue.
That look, it was so sensual from such an innocent looking face, Klein felt a hard on all of a sudden.
"Damn." Klein said.
"I always wanted to love someone and be loved truthfully, do you know how painful it is to realize one's worth, and see for yourself you can be something, more than what you think you are, but getting rejected is like a slap on the face for that. An outright rejection not just of your feelings and emotion, but like as a whole of your whole existence?" Arianna then returned back to her position where she raised her legs and hugged her knees as she sat Klein's side on the bench, unable to fully compensate and scared of not being realized by the other party.
"I love someone, that someone is caring, funny, thoughtful, and loveable, that person would be you, Klein Moretti. If you reject me now, i don't know how i will take it, in fact, this might be our very last moment if you completely reject me. But if you truly do, i can't do anything further but love you from afar where even i can't see you anymore, I love you, Klein Moretti, please." Arianna on the verge of begging and crying, is practically on her knees, yearning for the affection of the man right beside her.
"I-." Klein was truly lost, unable to respond to her heartful and thoughtful confession.
What if the person you have a crush on also said she has a crush on you, and then you suddenly realized whether what you're feelinv right now is just temporary lust, a desire for the other person, or true love where you wish them to be happy and the best for them.
Klein, never knowing how to love or ever experiencing true love, but only admiration from afar, was hit with a realization.
"Sharron?" the name of another woman slipped out right from his tongue, even Klein was surprised at the suddeness of it.
"Sharron?" A lightning just struck Arianna's heart, like a nail puncturing her through.
She's been mindful and thoughtful, willing to share her love one from another person who's also willing to love them back truthfully, but the thought, the idea that she's just secondary, the fact she's lesser, not equal, or was never given the full brunt of affection, it hurts, it hurts her to the core.
"Do you also have a crush on Sharron?" Arianna spoke briefly.
"I don't know, but Miss Arianna-." Klein tried to answer.
'Is this how Sharron was also feeling back then?'
Either way, Sharron or Arianna, Klein would be saved as long his feelings was clear, and the characteristics was pushed back in time, back into his back, the two can't be done seperately, they must be done correctly, at the same time, but still, at this very moment, it was as if, Arianna wanted to win over something, that feeling of trivialism, a momentary, small but big realization, it could make her very happy.