The Other Side of the Coin. (Agatta's POV)

What am I going to do?

My life is over now!

Even though we just got everything sorted out recently, I still have problems with my boyfriend. I know for a fact that I love him and I got all the proof to indicate that he feels the same. However, when it comes to naughty stuff I can't help but get scared and try to flee.

This morning everything was going well, we had breakfast, got ready for school and everything, but once we stepped outside it was clear that his parents were busy doing… stuff. You couldn't hear what they were doing, but since we saw his father gulping down a bottle of stamina enhancer the night before it was clear what was going on over there.

My first thought was 'poor man', because he took that beverage so Impo's mother would be so busy that she wouldn't try to meddle in our affairs. However, a second, bigger thought came to me. I remembered that my mom also gives those kinds of beverages to my father from time to time, so, I was wondering if one day I would do the same to Impo. I couldn't help but held onto that thought for quite a time, and I got so nervous that I told him:

"It seems that they were still busy, right?"

What's wrong with me?

Where did that come from?

I'm such a horrible person.

However, he reacted differently than what I expected. He invited me to a date. Just like that, out of nowhere, just as I did, it caught me completely by surprise that I immediately agreed to it. But there is one major problem with that:

I don't know how dates work.

We have surely hung out many times before. But we usually just go eat something and that's it. I don't know if the clothes that I own are good enough for dates, or if I should do something special with my hair for the occasion.

Looking at how hopeless I am, I decided that the best course of action would be to ask for help from someone who might have a lot of experience in the matter, Sume.

After our long chat on the roof we exchanged contact information, she told me to call her if anything happened or if I had any questions, and that was exactly what I needed right now.

I texted her before classes started asking for us to meet at school, if possible at lunch time. She answered just a few moments after I sent the message that it was fine by her, and also asked if everything was okay. I replied that it was, I just wanted some help because Impo just asked me on a date, and I lacked the knowledge to accomplish such a feat.

This time she saw the message immediately, but she took about a minute to answer back. I know she was probably laughing at me, and I have no one to blame about that but myself. I have never liked romantic movies or novels. I've watched some romcom animes, but only for the comedy, I don't pay attention to the romances at all. I don't like TV dramas or any of those sorts of shows, and I'm not exactly the girliest girl of all time. I love using sportswear as my usual clothes since they are comfortable and I also like to lay around my house all day on weekends.

When lunch time came I excused myself with my friends telling them that I had to meet someone, and since Impo left the classroom before I did they thought that I was going to meet with him somewhere. So they all let me go without making a big deal out of it, they all just had little smirks in their faces, probably thinking of something Impo and I wouldn’t even do if we were actually going to meet somewhere outside the classroom.

I tried to go upstairs, where Sume’s classroom is, but she was coming down at the same time.

“You two could not be a more perfect match for each other.” She said as soon as she saw me.

“What do you mean?” I asked her.

“Oh, don’t worry. You’ll see.” She simply answered. “Let’s go to the cafeteria, I didn’t bring any lunch with me today, so I’m going to buy some.”

On our way to the cafeteria we just spoke about food, which I'm thankful for, because I didn't want people to eavesdrop on us talking about me being so pathetic at dating.

"So what's exactly what you'll like to know about dates?" Asked Sume once we got to a table after buying her food.

"Pretty much everything. It's not a joke that I don't know anything about that sort of stuff."

"Yeah, but I mean where do you want to start and where do you want to end. Are you planning on popping your cherries or you just want to kill some time together?"

I flustered when she asked that. I guess it could be seen like we were trying to do that, but I wasn't thinking of it that way, and Impo surely wasn't either. I think.

"No, no, no. We are just- We just want to- eh…" I nervously attempt to answer.

"Okay, okay. If you say so then I guess it is true. But why are you so nervous then? If it's just about hanging out then you two should do something as simple as take a walk, see a movie at home or just go eat something." Then she paused for a second to ask: "You have done that at least, right?"

"We have but…" I replied. "But after all that has happened this week it's just that… I don't know, I feel like we should do something out of the ordinary, and maybe that's what he's thinking too. That's why he asked me out in the first place."

"You might be onto something there, I can't lie." She answered. Her face was calmed and seeing how she easily understood what I was trying to say made me feel relieved. "Okay, I'll help you. When is your date?"

I opened my mouth with the intention of answering the question. However I realized that I didn't know when we were going out.

"I don't know." I said while I leaned back to my chair.

"We are off to a great start then!" She sarcastically said.

As we were returning to our classrooms, she told me to ask Impo to make our date on Sunday, so we could make a plan for it on Saturday. Surprisingly, I didn't even need to ask Impo for it, he suggested me to go out on Sunday because he 'needed to do something' the Saturday before, and given that I also had plans for that day I didn't try to know what he was going to do on Saturday, that question never crossed my mind.

When Saturday arrived I met with Sume in the central mall of our city. We met past 2 o'clock, so it was somewhat crowded already.

"So, any ideas of what you want to do on your date?" She asked me after we greeted each other.

"No…" I replied. "I can't think of anything."

"Well, how about we start it by defining what you think it's 'out of the ordinary' for you? That way we can think of a plan for tomorrow."

I fidget a little trying to find the correct answer to that question. But as she saw that I wasn't answering at all she tried to give me a little push.

"Let's see… What have you guys done when you went out? Even if you had no romantic plans."

"We have gone to eat, we have done that several times."

“So that’s a big no then.”

“Well…” I replied. “I mean, we surely would like to eat something after our date…”

“Okay, then let’s pick a place you haven’t visited so it can be special!”

“Eh… I wouldn't recommend that…”

“Why not?”

“Well… we both eat a lot, and surely I don’t have too much money to spend, and he most likely doesn’t have it either…”

“Not a problem, we can find a new place you two haven’t eaten that is cheap.”

“Well… that is unlikely…”

“Why?”

“We have checked a lot of places, and the ones we found good are already sorted.”

“Okay. You know what, that’s ok, you should probably go to eat midway through your date, that way even if you are doing something different you won’t feel it as much if you go eat at a regular place.” Sume replied. “Yeah, you know what?That's perfect! Now, what would you like to do on the date then? Watch a movie? Go to an arcade?”

“Is that last one a good idea?”

“I think so, at first I was a bit skeptical about it, I thought those were places where only kids go, but they are a lot of fun and have a wide variety of games for all ages.”

“Really? That’s great!”

“Yeah, you should probably try it, it is also something that most boys are not too confident to suggest for a date, because they are also afraid of being seen as childish. So you should tell Impo to go there yourself, I bet he will love it!”

“I’ll do it, thank you.” I said with a big smile.

I was very happy that it all seemed so easy. I felt that all my worries were for nothing, that as long as we were together everything was a fun thing to do.

Suddenly our talk was interrupted by the arrival of two of her friends, the same two that were with her the day they were bothering Impo. They had some bags with them, showing that they were there on a shopping trip.

“Yo, Sume! Thought you said you’d be busy today.” Said one of them.

“I am, actually I’m in the middle of it.”

Apparently they didn’t see me at all when they found their friend, because they looked at me and seemed shocked at the fact that I was the one sitting across from her.

“Girlfriend-san?” Said the girl that spoke before.

I have never got any nicknames, but I was sure that ‘Girlfriend-san’ was not a good one. However I didn’t say that out loud, instead I just nodded my head to greet them.

“Oh, so you two are making up?” Asked the other girl. “Cool, let me join in too.”

“Yeah, me too!” Said the first one.

So they took the two vacant seats in our table and then they continued:

“Hey, I… I’m sorry for what happened the other day with your boyfriend. We… we weren’t serious, it was all just a joke.”

“Yeah, no hard feelings right?”

I recall they actually looked pretty serious about it, but okay, it’s better to move on than be chained forever to those bad feelings, so I replied:

“It’s okay, it’s all in the past now.”

“Cool.” Said the first one, as she gave me a little pat in the shoulder. “So what are you guys doing here?”

That was definitely the shortest apology ever, but okay, I didn’t want that to made me lose my focus on tomorrow’s plans.

“Nothing important, really.” Replied Sume. “She just asked me for a little help with something.” She continued.

It was clear that she was trying not to tell them what we were talking about. And I really appreciated it.

However, after she said that the other two girls looked straight at me. Their faces showed even more shock than before, and then a gaze of concern took them over.

“Don’t try it.” Said one of them as she put her chair closer to me. “If it was anyone else it would be fine, but if you try it with your boyfriend you are not going to like the results.”

“Yeah.” Said the other one imitating what her friend just did. “You are going to get hurt if you try to put all that in your mouth!”

“W-what?!” I asked.

“Girls, she didn’t ask me for that.” Said Sume.

“Really? But all the girls always ask you to teach them your mouth technique!”

WHAT!

WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT?!

You know what, I probably shouldn't ask that.

“NO!” I interrupted. “She’s just helping me to plan a date!”

“A date?” They both asked at the same time.

It was already late, I revealed what Sume try to help me get undercover. I was sure that they were going to ridiculize me, but instead both grab one of my arms each and said at the same time:

“You have to go to an arcade!”

Eh?

“They are super fun and there are a lot of good games in them!” Said the one on my left.

Eh?!

“Exactly, you should totally have your date there!” Continued the one on my right.

EH?!

“I have an idea!” Interrupted Sume. “Let’s take her to our favorite one in this mall, that way she will see it by herself!”

“Yeah, let’s do that!” Replied both of them

And they left their chairs and dragged along with them.

On our way there they were complimenting the place we were going to and telling me how much fun it was.

Given that they were dragging me like a horse cart I wasn’t paying attention to where we were going, and at an intersection with another hall we got mixed up and they almost hit a group of men walking on a perpendicular direction to ours, but I wasn’t as lucky as them, because I did crashed against one of them, and given that he was taller and stronger than me the impact made me fall to the floor.

Even if it wasn’t a big fall I still was a little hurt by it, so I didn’t get up on my own immediately, but as the good man he was he approached me saying.

“I’m sorry. Are you ok-”

But he didn’t finish his sentence, and as soon as I heard his voice I recognized who he was. Standing before me was Impo, with an intrigued look on his face.

“Agatta?” He asked as we made eye contact.”