Chapter 187: Make sure you are healthy before any kind of exercise
Natha smiled--widely, and even...smugly. As if he was proud that he fell for me at that first meeting.
"Oh, gosh--" I buried my burning face in my palm. "I don’t even remember ever saying that!"
"Well, to be fair, you were delirious and in critical condition," he shrugged.
I gasped, looking up from my palm. "Ah, yeah, I was getting scolded so much,"
"You are reckless from the beginning," he shook his head and let out a sigh, as if I was a naughty child that had caused him many heart attacks.
Wait...I think he also like this when he visited me again after that. He was one of the people who scolded me, but I remembered feeling happy because he scolded me out of worry, not because I became an inconvenience from fainting.
Perhaps...that was the beginning of my crush. During the entirety of that winter, he was the constant warmth to my otherwise lonely nights. Although, at that time, I had no courage to carry any hope. I knew that he showed affection to me, but I constantly worried that it might be my wishful thinking. No more. A delusion to cheer me up.
Today, I knew it wasn’t.
"But you know," I leaned forward to whisper in his ear. "I wouldn’t be able to meet you that night otherwise."
"That’s unfair," he frowned slightly as I pulled away with a giggle. He pinched my cheek as he said in a stern voice. "How can I scold you if you say things like that?"
I giggled again, and continued even after he kissed me in response. Circling my arms around his neck, I felt his fingers tickling my side, and I laughed some more.