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The school building comes into view as Mitsuba walks. Nene is beside him, rambling about Amane as usual. He rolls his eyes. This specific fixation on Amane had lasted longer than expected, almost 3 whole ass months of just "Hanako, Hanako, Hanako". He was more than sick of it.
As they approach the building, the bell blares through the halls.
"Shit! Nene, we're late!" He begins to run, praying that he can just slip in unnoticed.
"Waa-! Sousuke wait up!" She starts to run, catching up rather quickly. When they finally get inside, they quickly switch their shoes and straight book it to their respective classes.
Mitsuba makes it to the classroom to find Mrs.Yako looking at him with disappointment. Mrs.Yako was like a maternal figure to a lot of people in the school, including him, despite not having any children of her own. Not because he doesn't like his mom, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's just that his mom isn't around all that often. He ends up spending more time with Yako and bonding a lot with her.
"You're late, Mitsuba. All the other students have already begun their work. Set your things down and get started. He nods, moving past her and into the class to set his stuff down. He pulls out his assignment and whatever pen he could find in his pocket and gets to work. The minutes on the clock went by agonizingly slowly, the ticking of the clock above the door slowly getting to annoy the living shit out of Mitsuba. He looked up at said clock, glaring at it as if that would stop it's relentless ticking. Of course, it didn't. He sighs. still an hour left in class. He looks back down at his barely completed packet, a few answers scribbled down sloppily.
He pulled out his earbuds, selecting a random song to pass the time. The melody filled his ears, drowning out the clock and disgruntled sighs of other students. He closed his eyes, humming along with the smooth melody. A few students cast weird looks in his direction. Not like he can see them.
After a while, Yako tells them to put away the packets. Mitsuba takes out one of his earbuds, carefully putting it in his pocket as he slides the assignment back into his bag. Mrs.Yako begins explaining some upcoming project that no one cares about. Mitsuba thinks to himself.
-Wonder what shenanigans Kou is up to right now. I think he has math right now? And then next period we have Science. Wait no, ELA. No, yeah, science. I haven't seen Kou around too much. Hope he's okay. Wait, why do I care? Shut up he's fine.-
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Kou sat in class, earbuds in. But he wasn't paying attention to the music. His whole brain was Mitsuba, Mitsuba, Mitsuba. Why couldn't he get that idiot out of his head?!
He put his head down, trying to think about literally anything else. Other friends, school, upcoming assignments, ANYTHING. Kou likes girls! He's straight! Not that theres anything wrong with liking guys or anything. He just wasn't someone who did! Right? RIGHT?
These thoughts raced through his head as the teacher droned on about some formula that he wasn't gonna memorize. He had never considered the thought of liking boys. Sure, he could recognize when a boy was "cute" or whatever, and he sometimes got flustered when he was around certain guys back in junior high but that didn't mean anything. Sure it didn't. Unless... maybe it did? But he still liked girls. How did that work?
He sat up as the bell rang through the hallway, signaling the end of class. He had next period with Mitsuba. Science probably. These days he didn't care enough to remember anymore. He just went wherever Mitsuba did.
He packed his things and walked down the hall to Mrs. Yako's classroom to wait for Mitsuba. He noticed that Mitsuba seemed to like her a lot. Most students did. She was like a mom to most. They also seem to have matching personalities so-
Mitsuba finally walks out of the classroom. He seems happier than usual for some reason. When he sees Kou he practically jumps out of his pink sneakers.
"Holy shit you fuck! Jesus Christ, you can't just jumpscare me!"
Kou laughs at Mitsubas reaction. He really was a drama-queen sometimes.
"Oh calm down, we have to go to our next class. ELA, right?"
"No dipshit, its Science."
The two start walking to their class, bickering and fighting the whole time.
~ I'm totally gay.~