My Unrequited Love Is an Absolute Secret - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95

My mother gestured toward the House and asked.
“Why don’t you come inside and have dinner with us? You’ve gone through so much trouble getting here.”
“No, thank you. You must already be tired, and I couldn’t possibly impose.”
Aemerus declined politely.
With a guest in the House, it would be difficult for them to rest comfortably with all the attention required.
I had no intention of disrupting their peace.
Simply having a moment alone to talk with Harry was more than enough to satisfy me.
“Very well, then.”
“Don’t stay outside too long.”
“Understood.”
My parents carried Robin, who had fallen asleep on the drive, and entered the House first.
Watching their retreating figures, Harry quickly climbed into the passenger seat.
“I missed you, Aemerus.”
In truth, I should have said this the moment I first saw him.
Given the circumstances, our reunion had unexpectedly been marked by tears.
As Harry extended both arms, Aemerus smiled and embraced her.
“I missed you too. Really.”
He was surprised as he stroked her hair.
“Your hair seems to have grown a bit while we haven’t seen each other?”
“Ha, well, it must have grown some.”
Though it probably hadn’t grown noticeably enough to warrant such surprise.
Harry giggled softly, her face nestled against his chest.
“And you’re wearing a necklace I haven’t seen before.”
“Oh, this?”
Harry pulled out the necklace that had been hidden beneath her clothes.
“Grandmother gave it to me as a birthday gift. She wore it at her wedding.”
“It suits you beautifully. It’s meaningful too.”
“Right? I’m planning to wear it to prom.”
Aemerus gazed down at her radiant smile and gently pulled away.
“I have a gift for you too.”
“A gift? What is it?”
“Reach under the seat.”
Harry drew her legs together and slipped her hand beneath the seat.
“It’s heavy. What could be inside?”
Harry retrieved a beautifully wrapped rectangular box and shook it gently, trying to discern what sound it made.
Aemerus laughed at the anticipation radiating from Harry’s face.
“You can open it.”
“Okay.”
I moved the box to the back seat for a moment before tearing open the packaging.
The moment the wrapping fell away and the bare box was revealed, I let out a delighted shriek.
“Headphones! And these are really expensive ones!”
They were headphones that cost well over a thousand dollars.
While an adult might not bat an eye, for a high school student, the price tag was somewhat daunting—which is why I’d been stubbornly using my old pair that was practically falling apart.
“Your old ones have been deteriorating. Since you’ve become a lyricist, you should use proper equipment.”
I laughed somewhat sheepishly at being called a lyricist.
“A lyricist? It sounds nice, but the song isn’t even finished yet, and I haven’t made any money from it.”
“You became a lyricist the moment you wrote the lyrics.”
Aemerus had a point there.
Either way, I did need new headphones.
“Thank you, Aemerus. I’ll use them well.”
Filled with gratitude, I pulled him into a tight embrace around his neck.
Aemerus seemed satisfied with my reaction, but then hesitated before speaking.
“I should have bought you jewelry instead.”
It seemed he was comparing himself to the pearl necklace Aemerus’s Grandmother had given me.
I shook my head with a smile.
If he’d offered jewelry after only a few days of dating, I would have felt burdened rather than delighted.
“No. I really like this.”
“Really…?”
Aemerus asked back with a shocked expression.
That foolish look was so endearing that I clutched my stomach and laughed.
“I’m joking.”
Since Aemerus still looked unconvinced, I made it clear.
“Every time I wear these headphones, I’ll think of you.”
Only then did Aemerus let go of his suspicions and relax.
“If there’s any defect with the product, let me know. I’ll get you a replacement.”
“Okay.”
With the pre-prepared birthday gift handed over, his purpose was fulfilled.
But neither I nor Aemerus wanted to part ways.
After all, it had been a whole week since we’d seen each other.
This was the first time we’d gone so long without seeing each other after seeing each other every day at School.
Being newly in love added a certain poignancy to it all.
As I played with the soft hair at the back of Aemerus’s head, I let out a quiet sigh.
“Thank you for everything—the birthday gift and all of it. I almost ended today on the worst note, but thanks to you, it looks like it’ll end on a good one.”
I couldn’t imagine what would have happened without Aemerus.
The thought alone felt suffocating.
I was lingering, unwilling to part from him.
“I could make you feel even better.”
“…What?”
What had I just heard?
While I was doubting my own ears, the distance between Aemerus and me narrowed.
Seeing her caught off guard, unable even to think of closing her eyes, Aemerus let out a soft chuckle.
“What are you trying to….”
Harry’s question faded quietly beneath the gentle contact that followed.
Soft lips met carefully.
The moment Aemerus nibbled at her lower lip, Harry’s body flinched.
But she didn’t pull away.
Instead, she slowly closed her wide-open eyes.
Confirming that Harry wasn’t refusing, Aemerus swallowed a trembling breath.
He couldn’t believe he was kissing her—the girl he’d only dreamed of—and that she wanted him too.
“Harry….”
There was a time in the past when he’d despaired at the fact that only he couldn’t comfortably call her by her nickname.
But now that he’d earned the right to call her by that name, he found himself less fixated on the title itself.
As Harry had said, the fact that few people called her by her actual name pleased him.
And… she wouldn’t confuse who was kissing her with Jessie.
It was then that he felt a base satisfaction he could never voice before Harry.
“Okay.”
Harry whispered.
“Do more.”
A mere brush of lips wasn’t enough.
She’d become an adult after her birthday had passed—there was nothing to hold back anymore.
Harry looked up at him with sparkling dark eyes, so endearing that his chest ached.
In truth, he was already at his limit.
His hands trembled as he forcibly restrained the urge to touch her.
The blue veins standing out on the back of his hands were unmistakable.
“Mm?”
Harry cupped his cheek and coaxed him.
His body responded first.
Aemerus deepened the kiss, pressing into her mouth.
Their breaths tangled together in a frenzy.
A euphoria like becoming one with her spread through Aemerus’s entire body like poison.
“Wait…. Wait a moment.”
After boldly initiating the kiss, Harry suddenly pushed his shoulders back.
It was her first time dating a boyfriend, her first kiss, and Harry couldn’t find the timing to breathe.
Aemerus had been relentless, giving her no room to catch her breath.
Fortunately, he yielded readily to her push, stepping back.
“Haa….”
Harry gasped for breath, then suddenly burst into laughter.
“Your face is completely red.”
She reached out and touched Aemerus’s ear.
The warmth radiating from it was so intense that, with a bit of exaggeration, it felt like she might get burned.
Seeing Harry’s eyes widen, Aemerus laughed.
It was an instinctive gesture to ease the mounting tension.
He couldn’t have her getting scared and running away.
“My heart is racing too. Want to check?”
He mimicked a docile animal, lowering himself as much as possible.
He waited patiently for Harry to approach him first, to reach out her hand.
How long had he been holding his breath, waiting?
Harry’s hand moved carefully to his chest.
“Oh…!”
The moment her hand made contact, she gasped at the powerful heartbeat she felt.
“Are you… going to collapse like this?”
Her innocent question made Aemerus laugh genuinely.
“If I die, write this on my tombstone: ‘Found happiness in death after a kiss with my beloved.'”
“What are you talking about? You want me to become a widow before we even get married?”
Harry giggled and took his hand.
“But honestly, my heart isn’t much different from yours.”
Harry brought his hand to just below her left collarbone.
He felt a heartbeat as lovely as when cradling a kitten.
Her heart was clearly racing just as fast as his.
“I’ll have to be buried next to your grave.”
Watching her giggle, Aemerus shook his head.
“Harry, this is your fault.”
“What is?”
He didn’t get a chance to answer.
A second kiss followed immediately after.
More relaxed than before, the two of them locked lips while gazing into each other’s eyes, grinning foolishly.
If not for their parents’ call telling them to come home at a reasonable hour, they would have spent the night right there.
“This is a problem.”
“Why?”
“I don’t think I can keep our promise to keep dating a secret at school.”
Harry laughed at Aemerus’s words.
She thought he was joking.
“You’re being dramatic.”
“I’m not. What if I can’t help myself and kiss you at school?”
“Then there’s nothing we can do about it. What’s the big deal? Except for the fact that I’ll be hated by the entire student body for stealing the school’s most desirable guy.”
At Harry’s words, Aemerus let out a groan.
“I’ll hold back. I don’t want to see you suffer.”
“Okay.”
Aemerus kept his promise.
At least until February of the following year.

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