storypaint | First Date Smitten (Eriol/Kaho)

Comm: 30_romances
Words: 380
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Title: First Date Smitten
Author: rhap_chan
Theme(s): 23. Roses; daisies; carnations; water lilies; [Or any random flower]
Pairing/Characters: Hiiragizawa Eriol/Mizuki Kaho
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura belongs to CLAMP.
Summary: Kaho falls for Eriol after one day. His hand in hers felt so right.

For their first date, he brought her flowers, four beautiful red roses. She was flattered, but asked why there were four.

"There will be four of us, someday, and it will be grand," Eriol said confidently. She laughed a little at his determination. This was only their first date, and already he was planning for a family of four?

They made an incongruous statement together. Many people gave them second looks. Was this an affectionate mother and her son, or something else? He held her arm like a gentleman and wouldn't let her pay for anything.

After a while, she stopped thinking about how things looked, and started considering how things felt. She'd never been so intellectually stimulated before-- he could carry on a smart conversation about many topics. He was well-read in the classics and well-versed in history. He was explaining to her the flaw, as he saw it, in C. S. Lewis's Narnia series, which she had enjoyed, when she realized that this really was a date.

She liked him, and she had liked Touya, but this was something fuller, richer. This man-- he wasn't a boy, really, and that was a fact she had understood intellectually but now understood emotionally-- was sweet and smart. He flirted with her and he actually made her giggle. He didn't mind when she lost the car because he memorized parking places. And his hand in hers felt right.

When she got home that night she put her roses in water and wondered when she was going to get to see him again. She was already looking forward to their next date.

The phone rang and she answered it. "Kaho?" he said, and it sent shivers down her spine. She took the phone into the bedroom and sprawled out on her bed, listening to him talk. She felt like a teenager again, like she could just talk with him until dawn.

"Kaho," he said around two a.m., when sleepy pauses began to insert themselves in the conversation, "will you marry me someday?"

Her brain wanted to protest that she'd only known him for a couple days, but her heart sung that they'd known each other forever, since before they were born.

"Yes," she said, and thus did a three-person family become four.