Sweet Promise

Morning

In the quite cute room, there's a girl in her teens who just awoke, as it's already been her biological alarm to awake at that time.

The girl slowly got up from the bed, with her eyes still half closed. She tried to open the curtain and let the sun bathe her through the windows for a while.

After taking a sunbath for a while, like she usually does, she is finally fully awake, as if she were a plant that needs a sun to hypothesize.

She then walks out of the bedroom, stops her walk for a moment, and glances at the room beside her bedroom, which is usually empty, with a weird expression.

"Last night..."

She sighs softly with a faint blush on her cheeks before continuing to walk to the bathroom, which is on the same floor as her bedroom.

Opening the bathroom, she quickly grabbed her toothbrush and applied some odol to it before brushing her teeth while staring at her reflection in the mirror.

Akira! Later, when we get big, let's get married!

Married? What's that?

Just promise me!

Well, I don't know what you mean. But, okay, I promise to marry you when we get big.

Yeah!!! I love you, Akira!

The faint blush on her cheeks became more colorful and brighter, and her usual flat expression suddenly showed a different type that showed she was in an embrassed state right now.

"Uhh..."

She was so embarrassed as the memories of her childhood suddenly appeared as a dream, where she watched the interaction between two children who were glued to each other while spending their time together no matter what they did.

No, maybe more like, she was the one who always followed him and always pestered him for whatever he did.

It's said she fell in love with Akira, as that man always notices her presence and doesn't even lose sight of her.

The girl was born with a weak presence, and it became worse every day, which sometimes made her parents forget about her.

She was on the verge of crying whenever her parents seemed to neglect her, but slowly she became accustomed and realized that she had an abnormal state that made her be ignored by her surroundings.

The first time she and the boy met was when the boy was 6-7 years old and came to her house with her parents.

It was a short meeting, but later it was the first and last time they met, as the boy's house was far from her, where her mama said it was in the countryside.

10 years have passed since their meetings, when she just became a high school sophomore with the boy that she had loved and promised to marry.

He grew up and became a versatile boy who had an incredible charm look that she bet instantly became a hot topic and center attention in the girl community at her school.

"What should I do from now on?"

The girl asked herself in silence while raising her mouth from the foam toothpaste inside her mouth, washing her face, and applying some light skincare like she usually does.

After doing her usual ritual routine in the morning, she then walks down to the dining room, which merges with the kitchen, as those two have just been divided by a half-wall partition.

She usually checks if her mother needs her help or not with breakfast.

"Ah, good morning, lovely daughter Megumi!" The mature woman in her early 40's greets her with a bright, lovely smile while wearing her usual mama's clothes and an apron in the front.

"Good morning, mama." The girl greets her back before looking at the breakfast, which has more luxury and variety than usual at the dining table.

Her mama, who noticed her gaze, smiled sweetly. "It's just this time, as it can also be a greeting for Akira, who is going to live with us from now on."

"I see..." The girl nodded before looking at her surroundings, and she didn't find her childhood first love nearby.

"Akira was going out not long ago; he said he wanted to look at the surroundings while jogging."

Megumi nodded in silence before sitting on one of the chairs while grabbing a vase of water, pouring it into a nearby glass, and drinking it.

After that, she was silent for a while before turning her head to see her mama, who was busy cleaning the kitchen.

Remembering that embarrassing dream of hers made her want to ask something of her mama.

"Mama, can I ask about something?"

"Hmmm? Just ask, sweetheart."

"Umm, did I and him really meet in the past when we were still children?"

Megumi Mama, who was busy brushing the stain in the kitchen, smiled faintly.

"What's wrong? Suddenly ask that? Of course, you two met in the past when you were still children."

Megumi smiled heplessly as she just wanted to make sure, then opened her mouth again to ask more advanced questions about her childhood past.

"Then... did we... I mean, mom, know that I have always been glued to him and made promises that we were going to be married?"

She cannot help but cup her face with her hand, as her face is kind of embarrassed.

Hearing the next question made Megumi Mama cannot help but laugh, then look at her daughter with a teasing smile.

"Oya-oya, it seems last night there's someone who had a glimpse of the past in their dream."

Megumi does a fake cough while avoiding those teasing gazes from her mama.

Megumi Mama, seeing her daughter be embarrassed, seems to have hit the jackpot; this made her laugh heartily without saying anymore.

Megumi, who already confirmed her dream that contained her memories from the past with Akira, cannot help but sigh softly.

'What should I do? It's kinda awkward to face him now.' She cannot help but complain in her heart.

It was all in the past; it was just a sweet, childish promise that she forced him to promise her.

She, who recognizes herself as an ordinary girl, cannot help but blame herself for falling so easily in love with him at first sight.

It was even her cousin, a son of her mama's youngest sister.

She loved him, and forcing him to make a promise to marry her when they grew up made her feel shudder, as, in common sense, she was already in the realm of forbidden love. 

Incest.

She was an ordinary girl, but that doesn't make her hopeless and ignorant about those things.

'Yeah, just act like normal. Maybe that guy also forgot about those childish promise between us'

Kaito tried to compromise herself to act like normal, as it was all in the past.

That's what she thought in the moment before she heard their house's main door being opened by someone.

"I'm back, Kato-san!"

"Ahh, welcome back, Akira. Quickly change your clothes and wash your face."

Megumi Mama smiled sweetly at Akira, who just came back from jogging with his training clothes and was slightly wet on his face, the tip of his hair, and some of his exposed skin.

"Okay, kato-san!" Akira nodded, then looked at Megumi, who stared at him with a somewhat shocked expression.

"Ummm, morning, Megumi." He smiled softly before walking upstairs and getting into his bedroom.

Megumi Mama couldn't help but sigh softly. She took off the apron from her body and washed her hands before joining her to sit in an empty chair in the dining room.

"That boy really takes all the perfect aspects of my sister and her husband; I wonder how many girls already fall for his charm, right sweetheart?"

Megumi Mama cannot help but smile as happily as her daughter, Megumi Kato.

Seems to experience the second time of falling in love at first sight with the same man.

(End of the chapter.)

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It's short, but I tried my best to get back into my prime state and had at least 1500+ words in the next chapter.