“Well, we’ve never had many chances to speak before, have we?” Kevin shrugged as he grinned. “So I’m glad we finally have this chance.” Kevin turned his ridiculously charming smile at me. “So no more of the Miss Business stuff, okay?”

I’d never actually had that smiling face directed at me before. It was stunning, being so close to it. But… I kinda liked it. Even though I felt really anxious, I tried to shake it off and nodded with a slight bit of hesitation. “Got it.” It took a second for me to get the words out, but I managed to spit out “I… I’m also glad we finally get to talk.”

“Really?” Kevin grinned. “Good.” His grin seemed to grow, if that was even possible. He gave a small laugh, and all I knew is that I had to quickly change the subject.

“Oh hey look!” I grabbed a paper off the table. “Karuizawa have a special at this resort.” Grabbing the paper about the town in Nagano.

“Awesome!” Kevin read over the paper. “Okay, so lets look at this…” He skimmed over the article. “Karuizawa?”

“Yeah, it has a famous summer resort.” I nodded. “I think a lot of the resorts there have tennis courts. We’d be able to find a place to stay that has everything we need.”

“Hhhmmm…” Kevin read over the brochures. “You know so much…”

I could feel my face turning warm, so I shook my head quickly. “No, not really… Oh look they have a special!” Changing the subject was becoming a specialty of mine.

“And they have tennis courts too!” Kevin’s face lit up as he read over the same brochure. “I’m really glad I picked you to help me…” Kevin’s eyes dropped back to the brochure before I could look him in the eye to see if he had actually said what I heard. Instead all I could see was a much more gentle smile than his normal one curling at the corners of his lips as he became incredibly focused on the brochure. “So this one would be okay? It can fit our whole club?”

“I think so,” I read over the paper as well. “I’ll call to double check.”

As Kevin began flipping through the brochure cheerfully to find a phone number, I gave a sigh of relief as I slouched back into my own chair. The way that we had managed to connect so casually so quickly caught me off guard. “Planning with Kevin is way more fun than I expected…” I’d be lying if I said I wanted to be working on the trip from the beginning, but as I sat next to Kevin working with him, it was hard to even remember my reasons for hesitating before.