"Where should we go today?" I ask my girlfriend while blushing as the memories of the night come rushing back into memory. Touko rises out of bed also blushing looking out the window, deep in thought she turns to look at me still flustered and grabs my hand and says "I don't care, as long as I'm with you. Yuu I love you". I dont hesitate and say "I love you too Touko". Touko's eyes widen as I say that and stutters "Did... did you just say my name without any honorifics?". I didn't notice it at the time but after last night I guess I was comfortable with calling the person I love just by her name, as she means much more too me now than a senpai. "Yeah I did, is that ok?". Touko replies straight away "Of course it is! I've been wanting you to call me by my first name without senpai for a while now". Touko, still holding my hand squeezes it and leans in and kisses me. I close my eyes still amazed that my heart still races everytime she kisses me. After the kiss, Touko gets out of bed and stretches, then realising that she was still naked, looked at me embarrassed and quickly put on her dressing gown. I didn't know what my facial expression was at this time as Touko looks at me with a sly smile and says "What? Are you disappointed that I'm covered up? You're such a perve Yuu". I abruptly reply "Stop calling me that! Besides it's normal for me to like seeing you naked isn't it?" While Touko was getting flustered again with that question, I use this opportunity to get out of bed and stretch in front of her before getting my gown on. I look at Touko and she was staring at me in bewilderment. "Who's the perve now?" Touko, her face ready to explode just smiles at me and grabs my hand and leads me out into the kitchen, my eyes drift towards the leftover cheesecake. Thinking about food made my stomach grumble and Touko laughed and asked if we should have the cheesecake for breakfast. I obviously agreed so we both sat down at the table and ate our sweet breakfast. Halfway through I suddenly felt my heartbeat fasten and quickly asked "Touko when are your parents getting back?" She calmly finished her piece of cake and said "They shouldn't be back until 2 or 3 so don't worry. Besides you said you want to go somewhere today didn't you?". With my heartbeat returning back to normal, I think about what we could do. Then an idea struck me, something that couples do all the time.

I laid out the picnic rug as Touko placed down our sandwiches, the sun was out and was quite warm so we picked out a spot under a tree to get some shade. "This was a great idea Yuu". I blush with embarrassment "I guess reading all those romance manga I got some ideas for dates". Before we start eating, Touko gives me a quick kiss and says "I'm so glad I met you". While eating we were reminiscing on how different things could have been if I never joined the student council, and speaking of school, it brought up a topic which we both knew had to be discussed. "Touko, how are we going to act at school now, I mean the only two people who know we're dating is Saeki-senpai and Maki-kun." Touko thought it over for a second and replied "I guess we just act like we always do at school, we were always friends so people know that we're close and we always showed our affection privately, so nothing changes". Now came the next part of this conversation that we also knew had to be discussed. "Do we tell our parents that we're dating?" I'm already imagining my Mom scolding me and taking me out of school or my family thinking I'm weird for dating a girl. I look over at Touko who also seems to be having the same thoughts as me looks up and says "I think there is someone we can tell that will understand us and give us some advice on what to do". I turn my head is bewilderment as Touko takes out her phone, I thought she might be texting Saeki-senpai but I couldn't have been more wrong.

15 minutes had passed and I was trying to interrogate my girlfriend who she messaged and she wasn't giving anything away telling me "it was a surprise". The smile she had when saying that gave me goosebumps, who did she message? I'm starting to sweat thinking of all the possibilities and playing out every interaction in my head. Just as the pressure was starting to mount I heard a familiar voice behind me that made me jump. "Yuu, you look so tense what's wrong?" I turn around and see my older sister smiling, I didn't expect this and I immediately turned to Touko who nodded her head, this is who she wants to tell!

Rei sits down on the picnic rug and looks at both of us. "Nanami-chan you said you wanted to talk about something, can I take a guess at what that might be". Looking at my sister she doesn't seem mad or confused she almost seems to be smiling, could she be misinterpreting what Touko asked her here for? "You two are dating aren't you". I immediately turn my head away starting to feel flustered and my heart starts to race, I can't talk. I suddenly feel arms around me and they're not Touko's. I look up and my sister is comforting me, "Yuu, you don't need to be embarrassed, it doesn't matter to me if you're in love with Nanami-chan. I'm proud of you". I can feel tears welling up, as they start to drip, Touko hands me a tissue and smiles at me. After wiping my tears away, Rei moves back to her spot and looks at both of us. "Rei, do we tell Mom and Dad?". Rei looks at me not with the smile she had before and answers "Not right now I don't think so, Dad would be shocked but deep down he's a softie, however Mom is different. Especially since you stayed over at Nanami-chan's last night, I don't want to pry but if it was like me staying over with Hiro when I was younger I know what would've happened last night." Hearing that made both me and Touko go red. Rei smiled at both of us, "I think what you two should do is keep this a secret between us at the moment and down the line when the time is right you can tell Mom and Dad. Nanami-chan what do you think?" Touko nodded her head and said "I don't think telling my parents right now that I'm dating Yuu would be a good idea either, I don't know how my parents will react with me dating another girl. But I'm more worried that I let Yuu stay with me last night and I don't think they would let me see Yuu again". Rei smiles again at us and gets up. "Yuu I need to get going, I've got work soon, don't worry about our parents now just enjoy your time with Nanami-chan and worry about that day when it comes. The same goes to you Nanami-chan, just enjoy the time together". As my sister walks off I smile to myself relieved that she accepts my love for Touko. I turn to look at Touko who is smiling at me and says "I figured your sister must have known there was something going on between us earlier because she sent me a photo of you sleeping on the floor". "Wait... what!? When?" Touko starts laughing and shows me the photo, "When I asked for the cheesecake recipe, she must have known I liked you back then otherwise why would she send me that". I now start smiling to myself and say to Touko "I told you that you're the perve you have a photo of me sleeping without me knowing". Touko then stutters "I...I'm not perve! I thought it was cute so I kept it!" We both start laughing and go in for a kiss. "Your parents will be back soon won't they?" Touko looks at the time and gets up and stretches, "Yeah I guess we should pack up and go back so you can get your stuff".

On our way back to Touko's place we both held hands since it was a quiet day with no one around. Not a word was said we were both smiling happy to be in eachothers company and to have some stress alleviated off our shoulders.

After packing up my things at Touko's house, I go over to her and kiss her and tell her thankyou for the past 24 hours. It would be a day I would never forget and neither would Touko. After the kiss she cuddles into me and whispers "I love you". I respond immediately and whisper into her ear "I love you Touko, I'm looking forward to doing this again".

"I love you, see you at school tomorrow". Touko blows me a kiss and I turn around to walk home. The entire way I couldn't stop smiling. This is the happiest I have felt in my life.