The moon and the sun

After saying goodbye to Yumehime, I returned home with my heart still pounding. "We're together, I made it!!! She's mine!" I screamed with happiness in my room while my mind raced: dates, outings, holding hands, eating together, and so many other things... plus, he even gave me his contact information."Good! It's time to be a man!" I said proudly, picking up my phone and texting him, "Tomorrow afternoon... do you want to go out? Not under the stars. Under the blue sky." I sent.While waiting for the reply, I started to think about what to do. "We'll see each other at the park, okay, but then? Will we just talk?" But then the reply came, "The blue sky is more demanding than the stars.""It doesn't forgive those who pretend." "But... I think I could trust your sun. Okay." Tomorrow afternoon. - Good!! All calculated!! She fell at my feet!! - But then another text arrives, "Hayato." "Don't get too big for your boots." Silence... "I didn't fall at your feet." "I just decided to walk beside you." "And if someone were to fall..." "I hope we're both close enough to support each other." I was... shocked... surprised... even scared, I texted him, "ehhhhhhh?!?! You read my mind??! Are you spying on me??! Three seconds pass. Five. The phone vibrates. "If I were spying on you, I'd already know what you're wearing." Pause. Then immediately after: "And no, I don't want to know." I blushed alone in my room. Another text. "Hayato... you're transparent when you feel confident." One last notification. "I don't need to read your mind." "I can read it in your eyes." Silence. My heart races again. And then the last, soft blow: "Tomorrow, try not to trip on the way to our 'almost not date.'" I was shocked... "Okay, maybe I overdid it," I said to myself. "Well, keep calm, it'll just be a normal date, no need to act like a hero," I thought as I fell asleep looking at Yumehime's messages. In the morning I woke up at noon, and the first thing I looked at was my phone, which had a notification: "See you at 3 PM at the park." Okay... 3 PM, I still have 3 hours. I jumped up and washed up, then I had breakfast, still excited, put on some casual clothes, and left the house, an hour early. When I got to the park, she was sitting on a different bench than the one at night. The sunlight caresses her black hair. Her black dress is lighter. Her blue eyes aren't as deep as the starry sky... They're alive. I approached. "You're early," I said. She looks up slowly. A small smile. "How early are you?" "...An hour." She tilts her head slightly. "I'm an hour and five minutes early." The wind moves her hair slightly. "I didn't want to keep you waiting." Then she adds, more quietly: "And I didn't want to risk the sun finding me unprepared." "It's strange seeing you like this. During the day you seem more… vulnerable. I thought you were a nocturnal creature." She blinks a couple of times. "Night creature…?" An eyebrow raises slightly. Then she crosses her arms with a feigned look of offense. "So you think I dissolve during the day?" "A step forward." "Or do I turn into stardust?" "Maybe I'm nocturnal because at night people lower their defenses. "During the day, it's more difficult. "The sun is unforgiving." "Then she half smiled. "But today I decided to take the risk." Then she lowered her gaze. "I'm not a nocturnal creature, hayato. "I'm just someone who found a Reason to go out in the light, too. Then she added, more lightly: "And anyway... if I were a nocturnal creature..." She leans a little closer. "You wouldn't be here looking at me like that." She looked at me. "So... I'm passable even in the sun?" I immediately got embarrassed and replied, "Yes!! You're super passable!! Even super cute in the sun!" I snapped back. "Super... passable?" An eyebrow slowly rises. "Is passable the word you choose?" She crosses her arms, but doesn't really seem offended. She looked at me with that expression somewhere between amused and "I'm judging you a little." "So, in the sun I'm... acceptable?" I panicked for a moment, but then suddenly her smile melts into something sweeter. "Super cute in the sun, but..." She repeats that part quietly. "Thanks." Then she looked up again, more lively. "Be careful, though." A step closer. "If you keep going like this, I might think this is actually a date." "And not a 'almost no date.'" She looked me in the eyes. "Can you handle the sun, Hayato?" "I... I think so..." I replied uncertainly. "But... what do we do now?" I asked innocently. "What do we do..." She tilts her head slightly, the sun illuminating the blue flower in her hair. "So you came without a plan?" A half smile. "Very strategic, astronaut. At night we look at the stars. During the day... we can look at people. Or are you afraid someone will see us? We can walk. We can sit somewhere where there's no symbolic bench. We can do something normal." A pause. "Or… You can surprise me." I was embarrassed. "So, hayato…" You made me go out in the sun. Now tell me what you have in mind. - I thought, ugh! What am I going to do now?! I thought she would think of something! Calm down, think about what they would do in an anime...- "Shall we walk?"- I said, with a hint of panic. Silence. Yumehime looked at me. Then a slow, real smile. - "Let's walk... Simple, I like it." So we started walking, not too far away and not too close, just... together. - "At night we stood still, during the day we walked." - "Maybe that's a good sign." - After a few seconds, in a light tone: - "You're not trying to imitate an anime, are you?" - A small sideways glance. - "Because if you start stumbling strategically to hold my hand… …I might notice." I blushed softly and took his hand gently, looking away. "How do you know what I'm thinking? Am I really that predictable?" I said, still embarrassed, my gaze averted. He returned my handshake, and Yumehime lowered her gaze to our hands. Then he slowly intertwined his fingers with mine more closely. Not forcefully, naturally. -You're unpredictable.- His voice is softer than it was at night. -You're transparent. When you want to appear confident, you talk too much. When you're nervous, you look away.- A small smile. -And when you're happy... He squeezes my hand lightly. -...your fingers are shaking a little.- Your heart skips a beat. -I can't read your mind, hayato.- -I'm looking at you.- A pause. -And I like looking at you.- The sun is high. Then he tilts his head slightly. -You're only predictable in one thing.- Brief silence. -You don't stay still when your heart tells you to move.- But that's not fair, I thought... this girl knows so many things about me that even I don't know... and yet... I know nothing about her. "You... who are you, really?" I said confidently. She slowed her pace. The sun illuminated her profile. "Who am I...?"It's easier at night. I can be the one who talks to the stars. I can be the girl who seems to know what to say. A pause. Her fingers move lightly in mine. During the day... A small breath. During the day, I'm just a girl who's afraid of not being enough. I'm afraid of being too quiet. Too complicated. Too... full of things I can't explain. The wind blows lightly. Then she finally looked up at me. I'm not a mystery. I'm not a creature of the night. A half smile, more fragile. I'm just someone who's learned to hide well. Silence. Then she added, more sincerely: And maybe... I'm trying not to do it anymore. Who am I, really? She looked me straight in the eyes again. "A girl who wants to be seen." I listened to her words in silence and said, "I'll look at you. Tell me about yourself. I want to know more about you."