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L'Illustration horticole : Gand, Belgium :Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6679213
I giggled, kicking my feet on my bed and smiling like and idiot as I thought back to this afternoon. It was like from a movie or a book when I entered the club grounds and while everyone was training in the outside sport fields behind the small main building, there was just him, sitting on a bench under the roof of the open porch, reading a book with a blue bag next to him. Slightly messy brown hair, not that long, not that short either. Leaned back against the backrest, arm propped up on his hand, holding the book in front of his face. It hid everything but his eyes, with their soft gaze that travelled upon the letters of the pages. The sunlight shining on him made him look so enchanted. I adjusted the bag I had slung over my shoulder earlier and glanced down on the time on my phone, it were still fifteen minutes until my lesson started. I stepped closer, sitting down on the bench next to him. Not quite knowing how I should act, I stared at the floor below my feet, hugging my bag and playing with my fingertips. In the corner of my eye, I saw him place the book down on his lap. "Are you new? I haven't seen you around here before" he spoke, his voice calm and just as soft as how soft and kind you'd imagine the gaze in his eyes to be. I hummed in agreement "This will be my first lesson today. What about you?" In the back of my head a little voice did peek out to tell me that he had obviously implied earlier he had been in this club for longer, but I quickly shut it down, wanting to hear nothing of the sorts. "I've been in this club for almost six years now, if you need anyone to show you around, I'll most definitely be able to lead you anywhere" he chuckled. "I'll come back to that later" I laughed lightly. "So why are you sitting here instead of training?" I asked. "I kind of messed up my time plan so I was here way earlier than I was supposed to be, you?" I smiled "Same thing here but rather too early than too late" he nodded at my words "That's right" he smiled to himself. Upon closer inspection, I noticed his hazel eyes that I thought were brown before and his smooth lips that had a natural healthy pink color. He had freckles but not very prominent and only around the nose. But the prettiest point, in my opinion, was the small mole right below his eye. I ripped my eyes away before I seemed too weird. "What are you reading?" I asked, glancing at the drawing of a lily inside the book. "It's a book about flowers, basically all about them, meanings, cultural significance, where they are from, what effects they have and stories and legends behind them. My favorite parts are the legends" he grinned. An intrigued smile spread over my face, admittedly a little bit more of an intended and planned reaction than what it seemed like but still driven by genuine interest. "How interesting! What's your favorite flower yet?" He hummed, looking through the book until he had found the page he was searching for. He held it up for me to read. "I don't have a favorite yet but this one fits you a lot" I heard a laugh in his voice as I stared at a white camellia, reading the text below it. "In the victorian era, this flower symbolized the words "You are adorable", today they stand for purity and innocence as well as also often admiration and respect." I laughed but we were quickly interrupted when boy with a tennis racket peeked around the corner "Come on, you are late even though you were way too early? Hurry up man" the friend of the boy urged. "Oh yeah, of course" he packed the book into his bag and rushed to his friend, though not before turning around a last time "I'll see you next tuesday here again? Promise I'll be too early as well" I smiled, nodding as I watched him hurry to his lesson with his friend. Needless to say. I spent the rest of the day smiling like an idiot on every occasion that my head even gave the littlest bit of space for the memory of him to resurface.
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I got out of a toxic friendship everyone cheer! This is a new era for me, I'm actually writing something happy
Karasuno's practice had just finished and your boyfriend was exhausted after dealing with his students for hours without a break due to an upcoming match.
You expected him to arrive late, or even forget about the little date you wanted to have with him at the park. Yes, it's weird to have picnic dates so late on the night but you really were hoping to spend more time with him.
Your gaze fell to the bouquet of white camellias. Which is said to represent an innocent love, just as if it were an infant's love. It's also said it symbolizes feelings of esteem, gratitude and adoration.
Thus being only a portion of all your feeling towards Ukai, who's been your companion through bright and dark, an escape from routine in any capable form the word encages.
Watching him at some of his trainings, as a student and as a teacher has made you feel really proud of him and the way he cares and observes every little detail on everyone is fascinating.
His way of cheering you up or making you laugh through tears, it's all precious to you. So you thought of a way to make him see it.
He did arrive a little late than agreed, but it didn't matter to you.
Rising from the blanked spread on the grass to your feet with the flowers on your hands behind your back, you smiled brightly at him.
"Sorry for the delay" he said panting a little, just to try and wrap his arms around you to envelop you in a hug. But you had to stop him.
"Close your eyes for a moment please" you said, watching him carefully as he raise a brow in suspicion but obeyed.
You pulled out the bouquet to smile once again "Here! For you!".
He opened his eyes and saw the posy of white nature being bathed on the moon's light, just as your closed eyes from the big smile that formed by and for him and only him.
After you explained to him what your research for a perfect present made you buy, through some home-cooked meals prepared hours before your cute reunion, Ukai couldn't help but laugh at your innocence and effort for the perfect date you were living right now.
"What a vice it is to look at you when you smile".
Okay, but genuinely, every single one of my canon run Dragon Age series characters has fallen for the character who intended to betray them but fell for them along the way anyway, despite knowing every second that this would end in flames.