Trying something new
Xu Minghao x Reader
Fluff
900 words
You tightened the shoelaces on your skates pulling the strings on every cross, finishing with a bow. You took a deep breath and looked up. Minghao had already finished putting on his ice skates and was looking at the ice rink that people were excitedly skating on. Couples holding hands, stealing a kiss here and there. Kids holding on to their parents, almost falling multiple times.
Minghao wasn't smiling, but you knew he was enjoying the sight. For some reason, even though this was just your third date, you felt like in some perspectives you already knew Minghao inside and out. But in other things you couldn't read him at all, you had no idea what he was thinking.
“Are you ready?” He didn't look around, eyes fixed on the rink.
You stood up, stretching out your arms to keep your balance. If you already had trouble doing that off the ice, imagine what you would be like on the ice.
It hadn't been your idea to go ice skating. Minghao had texted you this morning asking if you would want to come. You honestly hadn't expected him to want another date, that was one of the things you couldn't read about him. You didn't think he liked you enough for yet another date, you were already surprised he had wanted a second. He hadn't seemed to enjoy himself at all that time. He had smiled, sure, but when he dropped you off he had seemed so cold. Hadn't even kissed you…
So the text you had gotten this morning had been a pleasant surprise.
“Yes,” You replied, hoping you sounded certain of yourself “let's go.”
He turned around, smiled gently, and took your hand to guide you to the ice. You heart beat like crazy because of his warm touch.
He didn't let go, not even when he walked onto the ice. He looked at you when he noticed you hesitating. Ice skating wasn't at all one of your specialities. You had barely ever done it, but whenever you did you always miraculously ended up falling within the first couple of seconds of even only standing on the ice.
He saw your hesitation and smiled a charming smile, he even let out a chuckle that made your heart skip a beat.
“Come on, I won't let you fall.” he sounded patient, as if he could, and would, literally hold onto you for hours on until you learned how to properly skate. The look in his eyes made you feel determined, encouraged you to step on the ice. The only reason you didn’t fall was because Minghao had been holding onto you tightly and miraculously managed to keep his balance. It did manage to make him chuckle, which didn’t help matters and only made you more nervous.
“You’re doing great!” he encouraged you while laughing as you lost your balance again and he had to keep you from falling.
You managed to hold balance by holding both his shoulders “I don’t believe you.” standing the way you were standing now, you two stood very close together. And to make it even worse, he held on to your waist.
He chuckled again, this was the most you had heard him laugh in all the dates you had gone on so far and you were loving it.
“Now we’ll just slowly..” he looked at his feet as he started skating backwards, slowly, so you could slowly skate forwards. Why was this guy good at everything he did? Who on earth could skate backwards?
“That’s good right?”
You smiled kind of awkwardly, taking one of your hands off his shoulder to put a stray hair behind your ear.
Slowly but certainly you managed to go from holding his shoulders to merely his hand as you skated around. Talking and laughing. He felt way more sincere this time as the two other times you had met up before. He clearly enjoyed this, seemed more open than before and was even cracking jokes every now and then.
After skating hand in hand for way longer than was necessary, you just really loved holding his hand, he told you to try skating without holding on to him this time. So you awkwardly let go. Everything seemed to go well… but then you fell.
The two of you laughed, just as some people around you, and decided to call it a day. So you took off your skates, he bought you two a hot chocolate and brought you home after that.
He stopped his car in front of your house and walked you to your door. There you awkwardly thanked him for the nice night you had had before turning around to open your door.
But he stopped you by taking your arm.
He was looking at the ground “Could I… May I… Will you let me try something?”
You had not seen him this shy before, his cheeks had turned slightly pink and, though his eyes were partly covered by his hair, you saw he wasn't sure where to look exactly.
“What do you mean?” You asked confused. What was it he wanted to try?
Suddenly he looked up, lips slightly parted, eyes slightly closed, looking at your lips “Could I kiss you?”
(So apparently posts with links don't show in the tags? That would explain why my last two posts didn't get notes. So I'm gonna try posting this without the usual masterlist link but you can find that in my bio. Let's hope Tumblr fixes that soon.)
