Because It's Something Only I Can Do for You

At last, after a whole week, I surrendered—or rather, gave up.

The awkwardness between Derek and me was rising by the day, tracing an exponential curve.

Especially at night.

After spending all that time lying in silence, staring into each other’s eyes like crazy as we worried about what might happen the next day,

I inevitably found myself in the morning lying with my head on Derek’s arm.

Apparently, tomorrow we’re stopping in a city along the way to resupply for a while.

Wouldn’t it be better to do something about this awkwardness before then?

So the method I chose was……

“Ahem. Y-Yuria? Sleep well tonight, too…… What are you doing?”

“What does it look like? Hurry up and lie down, so I can lie down too.”...