"Hey Erwin, wake up"

"Aw... aw aw aw..."

My cheeks, it hurts, someone is pinching my cheeks, I instantly woke up after all those pains, the first sight of my morning is uncle Alto standing next to my bed and still pinching my cheeks.

"I'm up uncle, I give up... I give up..."

I grab uncle Alto's hand and pull it off my cheeks, I can feel my cheeks are all chubby now because of it.

"Uncle Alto.. why are you being so rude like that"

I'm still rubbing my cheeks to wash away the pain from being pinched that hard.

"How long are you going to sleep? have you forgotten that we will visit your sister today?"

*Gasp...

I FORGOT.....

I quickly jump off the bed and run to the bathroom, how can I forgotten that we will visit Ilya-nee and Elis-nee today, I was so pumped up yesterday and I even can't sleep at all just thinking about how pleasant her hug would be after not seeing each other for a while, I miss my big sister so much and already wanted to hug her and cuddle to our heart content.

I think I was just too excited of wanted to meet Ilya-nee and introduce Aura to her, I just kept thinking about that all time and spend the night without even sleep a single wink, I even don't remember when did I start to fall asleep and got oversleep and wake up late.

I hang my towel to dry it near the window and then run back to my room, I see uncle Alto is sitting on the sofa, waiting for me to get ready, I see Aura is sitting on the other sofa, she is still keeping some distance with uncle Alto, she notices me and she starts fidgeting with her top button and I can see her cheeks a bit red, she's trying to send a cute little warming smile, it piercing through my chest and I just blushed, my face starts to feel like boiling because of the embarrassment.

I just quickly turn my head to hide my face, I don't want to show her my expression, I went upstairs and quickly went inside my room.

"Uwah.... what was that"

I close the door and just standing there, stunned and can't believe with what I just saw a second ago, Aura smiled at me for real, she actually did it, I cover my face in embarrassment and slouched, I scream in the deep of my heart, maybe I won't wake up from this delusion and just drown deeper to it, but uncle Alto's call is pulling me out from this euphoria, I quickly grab my bag and went downstairs, I think being so pumped and look forward to this trip can be worthwhile, I can prepare earlier yesterday because I was looking forward to this trip.

"Alright uncle Alto, I'm ready"

"Alright then, let's leave now, we need to make sure to arrived around afternoon"

"Wait for a second uncle Alto, before that, do you know where Elis-san's house is?"

"Who do you think I am? I travel around to a lot of places, of course, I would know Gaisras's family house, even their branch where your sister's at right now"

"Where is it?"

"You remember that little village where you got into trouble with that rude spiky-haired guy? it's not too far from that village"

Suddenly Aura who's standing behind uncle Alto turns her face away, I looks at her in confusion, I can't really see her face because of her long black hair is covering those cute face of her, the earing I bought her yesterday come into a sight hanging, those silver snow earing dazzled my eyes, I can't take off my eyes of it, but I quickly shook my head and pay my attention to uncle Alto again.

I nodded to answer uncle Alto's question, I remember that time those guys actually picking a fight with me, I still remember the pain I got after that spiky-haired guy threw me to the wall before.

"Well then, Aura-chan too, let's get going now"

I and Aura wait in front of the house while uncle Alto went to get the horse cart we use for this trip.

"Are you nervous Aura?"

I look at Aura fidgeting her hand, she looks nervous, so I have to meltdown this situation to wash away the awkwardness, but then I remember what happened yesterday, and without me knowing it, my face starts to blush, whenever I see her face my heart will start to race and it's so hard to calm it down.

I try not to make it obvious that right now I'm so happy that I could stand to each other like this without her making distance to me.

Ahh... I want to hold her hand right now, I want to touch those silky and beautiful skin, I try to move my hand a bit to reach her hand, I don't want to make it obvious, but, I really want to touch her hand right now.

*Gasp...

Again, those guilty feelings suddenly appear inside my head, I clenched my fish and pull back my arm and put it inside my pocket.

I let out a deep sigh to calm myself down, just what am I thinking right now trying to attack a girl like that, and I haven't even introduced her to Ilya-nee and Yuika, and what am I thinking right now? I'm still a little kid, I can't just break our friendship like this.