After Hearing Matsuda's Innocent Heart

[Airi's POV]

I'm an ordinary high-school girl, except for one not-so-ordinary superpower: when I touch someone, I can read their mind.

My boyfriend is a student at the prestigious university next door—handsome, sharp-tongued, curly-haired, looking like a delinquent who could knock out anyone with his boxing skills.

The first time we met, he wore an openly annoyed expression.

Then I bent down to pick something up and accidentally brushed his leg.

Inside his head I heard: "So cute."

I looked up; the curly menace still looked as irritated as ever.

Me: "?"

As we slowly grew closer, I discovered the tough shell was fake: he’s actually pure, shy (?) and slow to warm up. For a while we only held hands and hugged, nothing more.

One day he grudgingly fed me a bite of food; his fingers touched mine.

I heard: "I wanna kiss her."

Me: "??"

Later, after we’d kissed and his ears burned scarlet, I decided he wasn’t so "slow" after all—just a sharp-tongued, devoted knight of pure love.

On my birthday, long after we started dating, I tried to sneak some alcohol (we’re barely a year apart). He wouldn’t let me, so I watched him drink instead. Soon he was tipsy.

When I went to steady him, his mind whispered: "I wanna [beep—] her."

Me: "???"

[Matsuda's POV]

I’m your average college guy: good grades, solid build, life goal—one-on-one spar with the Commissioner-General of Police.

My girlfriend is insanely adorable.

I’ve also got a childhood buddy.

And my campus is next to an awesome hardware shop.

Future? Bright.

Except… my girlfriend seems to read minds.

One afternoon we shared shaved ice. She was so cute eating it that, when I casually wiped a smear from her lips, she stared me straight in the eye and said: "You want to kiss me."

My brain exploded.

【Reader Notes】1. Cute JK Airi x Sweet Matsuda. 1v1 fluff, day-to-day lovers. Adult moments begin after legal age per Japan’s newly-lowered laws; nothing happens before. 2. Loads of private head-canon, timeline tossed out the window, pure daily life, canon characters OOC. 3. The plot is: DATE MATSUDA. 4. Please don’t mention this fic under other fics, and vice versa.