Jude finds out that he is going to get married to Maki Matsushime a girl of noble origins, and David finds him and consoles him in a very tender way. (they are 17 years old.)
POV: DAVID
It was almost six in the afternoon and I had just finished booking Jude and Joe's birthday party with the old Royal team,the others of the Raimon and some of Inazuma Japan "what a relief... I was starting to lose hope that I wouldn't find all those places for everyone" I thought as I walked back to my dorm room.
And I started fantasizing about what a wonderful sightand by wonderful I mean my roommate, Jude, yea I know i am hopelles romantic but...
I think I've had a crush on him since we met in the sixth grade, even though at first I thought it was admiration but as time went by I realized that that irrational nervousness, the feeling of butterflies in my stomach, those hopes of a possible hug or even more...
I shake my head, I had to sleep the thought of the party and rest as I should.
as soon as I put the magnetic card near the door it opened, I entered I changed my shoes with the usual house slippers.
"Fine father, as you wish..." "Yes, everything is ready" "Good evening to you too" I managed to hear those few words that Jude had said on the sofa while I'm in the corridor while he on the phone with his father, but I perceived something unusual in his voice like a sense of bitterness and sadness, even if almost all his conversations with his father have this tone but this time it seems more serious, but they have always had a very complicated relationship.
I heard him sighing, I approached the living room and saw a scene that seemed to me a mirage caused by tiredness, Jude Sharp was crying, the brilliant game marker who had brought Japan to the forefront of the world, was sitting on the sofa with his elbows resting on his knees with his head bowed down shaking like a leaf in autumn, and both the phone and his precious glasses, a gift from his sister that he never took off, were leaning next to him on the sofa, the scene ended in the blink of an eye, cause he noticed my presence and quickly got up to put on his glasses, raising his nose and wiping away a barely visible tear.
And he said "I'm fine, it's just an allergy nothing serious..." and taking a deep breath and heading towards his room, but I stopped him by taking him by the wrist "Jude, please, what happened?" he remained silent, so I continued to speak "you can't assume that I believe in something stupid like an allergy after you were on the phone with your father, and you ended up crying and shaking" he remained silent again still turned away, sigh exhausted and continue "Jude please tell me what happened, I promise you would have all my support in any situation or whatever it is but please talk to me...", finished speaking I close my eye, and wait for an answer from the brunette.
I don't know how much he really knows, how much it hurts me to see him sad and heartbroken, the last time I saw him like this was when Ray Dark died and at least 3 years have passed...
"I have to get married" he says suddenly, and in that moment the whole world falls under my feet, "what?" I reply in a low voice, letting go of his wrist, "I have to get married in a few months to Maki Matsushime, she is the daughter of one of my father's collaborators and he promised me in marriage to her", instinctively I take him by the waist and hug him, I put my face in the hollow of his neck, I feel him stiffen under the touch but slowly I feel him touch my hands that are still close to his waist, I move away and rest them on his shoulders and then find myself face to face with him again.
and he did something unexpected, he hugged me, and put his arms around my neck, he was shaking and I returned the gesture by hugging him, caressing his back, occasionally touching his hair that he now kept free except for a little ponytail.
we spend several minutes like this but they seem to never end, which is what I hoped, but Jude stops and then looks into my eyes and takes my left hand kissing it, I feel my cheeks become hot, and he rests it on his cheek "thank you so much David, you always know how to make me feel better..." he suddenly says to me and there I feel myself blushing even more but I also see in him a light blush in his candid and perfect cheeks, "you don't owe me anything Jude, you know that for you I will do everything to see you happy" I replied, and probably I get closer without knowing it because I saw him blush more, "I know and I thank you for this..." I smile and said"even if the whole world were to collapse beneath us, you and I, we will never part".
His face had become a mixture of pink and red, perhaps from embarrassment or from the honeyed tone of my words, and I laughed and then, getting closer to him, I touched his lips, still red from crying a few minutes before, and he, who before was hesitant and doubtful, reciprocated with more passion and excitement as if the event of a few minutes before had never happened, and I said, the fateful words that would change our relationship forever...
"I love you..."
POV: 3 PERSON
"and so was the story of how me and your father kissed for the first time, the end" the kids sitting at the table were shocked after the story of their dads "so our father's father wanted to marry him off, even when he is clearly not attracted to the female gender and you kissed him like that!?" asked the older girl, gesticulating in the air in surprise like the Italian she was, "well yes it went like that" the blue one replied to his daughter "and anyway you are the ones who asked how me and Jude kissed for the first time!" he continued returning to the ovens, the little purple one started to speak "anyway it is really a very sweet story David!" with a sign of approval from the middle brother "I agree with Luke" and while the kids were still talking aboutthe story, David thought back to the moments after the first kiss with the brunette, and certainly those details would not have been appreciated by his children so he kept them to himself waiting for his beloved to recreate them.