What?!!

Although she looked like this, her thoughts weren't what I thought.

She was just excited from the idea that just came to her mind.

She came up with the idea to go someplace a bit isolated from the rest of the people and lit some fireworks. From those that are being selled at the shops.

To be honest the way she proposed it in the beginning made me think she was talking only about the two of us, but in the end she completed her sentence with "I think everyone will like it".

But I guess it's for the best because I wouldn't want to do something like this alone with Sato-san. It would just be weird.

And thus, as we wanted to keep it a secret from the others in order to surprise them, we told them to meet us on a location to our right side a bit far from where we were sitting that had almost no other people around.

After I searched for my wallet, to at least pay for the fireworks as it would hurt my pride if I was to let Sato-san pay, even if it was her idea, we set off for the shop that was near us in the hope of finding the fireworks. Because we weren't even sure if we were going to find any.

And in case we couldn't find our backup plan was to buy drinks for everyone and stare at the full moon that was clearly visible from the beach.

"Takahashi, I want to ask you something." She said right before we arrived at the shop.

"What is it?"

"Um, I'd like to get to know you better, so could you tell me about yourself?" She said with a serious but at the same time cute face.

In the beginning I thought that she wanted to learn more about me because she was really interested in me for some reason and, I'm not gonna lie, that made me happy. But my expectations were shattered with her next sentence.

"Don't take it the wrong way, I'm only asking because I should be able to act better when I'm around you so our secret won't be discovered." She continued.

Honestly, even though I was her friend and had been known her for quite some time that angered me. The reason behind her question angered me.

It's true that although we have been friends for quite some time we don't know much about each other because we never talked about our personal life, but she could have just left the sentence as it was without continuing like that.

I thought that she might really want to come closer to me, but it seems I was wrong. She's quite selfish it seems. Not caring about others feelings.

"There's no need for you to learn more about me. Either way our relationship won't last long. You can just act like always." I replied with a cold and somewhat annoyed tone.

Honestly, I don't know why that affected me so much. I told myself that I should keep my distance from Sato and not develop feelings about her for exactly that reason. But it seems my heart doesn't comply with my mind.

Sato-san probably understood that I was annoyed because she didn't ask anything else.

Once we arrived at the shop we started looking around for fireworks while trying to avoid eye contact no matter what.

The atmosphere had become quite awkward between us and I didn't know what to do.

But as it's my fault that we're like this, I'll have to find a way to fix it.

And the fireworks that I just found gave me the perfect idea to make up for my previous behavior.

After paying for the fireworks we started heading for the meeting point.

And again we didn't exchange a single word. But I would soon fix that.

I told Sato-san to go with others and prepare them for the show, without telling them what was all that about, while I would prepare the fireworks and set them ablaze.

I knew how exactly to set them as I had done that once before with my father, a long time ago. But I never forgot it cause I had so much fun that time.

And after setting all of the fireworks Sato and I had chosen, I placed the one I had secretly bought.

It was one with a heart shape.

It was this one that gave me the idea of how to apologize to Sato and at the same time make the perfect atmosphere.

I set that one to be the last one to take flight and run towards the others to make it in time.

Everyone was sitting on their towels that were placed on top of the sand and were looking at the sea.

Sato-san was sitting alone in the back without taking part in the conversation the others had.

I quickly sat beside her and tried to catch my breath.

"I hope you're ready, it starts soon." I said with a little bit of excitement.

But my excitement went away the moment I saw Sato nodding with a somewhat sad face as a reply to what I said.

Not gonna lie, I felt horrible at the moment and cursed my previous actions, but at least the moment for me to make up had arrived.

With a playful noise the first fireworks were launched in the air and beautifully illuminated the sky under the moonlight.

Everyone was left speechless at the sight of that.

And I can't blame them. It was a spectacle to behold.

That's when I tilted towards Sato-san and whispered to her.

"I'm sorry about my previous behavior. That was truly immature of me. It was at the heat of the moment that I didn't think rationally. I know that those are just excuses that make me feel lighten the weight of my actions. But I wanted to tell you that I really feel sorry for making you feel like that. I honestly apologize."

"I-it's not like I was mad or anything. I was just worried that I did something to upset you. I'm glad that everything is fine now." She replied with a smile.

I was happy to hear that. In fact, I was so happy that I again stopped thinking logically and said something that would make me feel embarrassed for a long time.

"Hey, Sato-san?"

"Hmm?" She turned her head towards me.

"I honestly like you."

"H-huhh?"

"I know that you don't have any feelings for me as we're childhood friends, but I promise you that till the end of our fake relationship I'll make you fall for me. And we will have a real one." I said, sitting up and synchronizing my movements with the special firework that made a heart around the moon, which illuminated both of us in a vivid yet romantically way.