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“Delivery guy says that it’ll take another three days for the furniture to come,” Arashi said, pressing a button on his phone. “Good thing we brought our futons, huh?”
Aki and Junpei groaned. It was all good and well for Arashi. He was going to use a futon regardless, but they much preferred the comfort of a bed. Not to mention they didn’t consider buying padding to make the futon softer. It was going to be such a pain on these hardwood floors.
“It’ll be fine for a couple of nights,” Arashi reassured them with a bit of a sympathetic smile. They really were hopeless at times. “Alright, I’m going to try to get some shut-eye. See you two in the morning,”
“Yeah,” Aki yawned. “That does sound good. G’night,”
“Whoa wait, are you two kidding me?” Niina exclaimed. A wide grin appeared on his face as he then placed his futon on the floor of their living room. “This is our first night, and you wanna spend it separately? Look at all this space we have! This might be the only upside to not having furniture yet,”
“Oh! Like a sleepover… except that we all live here,” she laughed, placing her futon beside Niina’s and sitting down. “Seems like fun though! I haven’t done this since high school,”
“I have training pretty early tomorrow though,” Arashi replied, crossing his arms, his brows furrowed a bit. “You do too, for that matter, Niina,”
“Yeah, but this’ll is way more fun. No worries, sempai. I’ll deal with the consequences of my actions tomorrow,” he said wrapping his arm around Aki and pulling her close. There was a soft chuckle in her voice as the younger boy pressed his cheek against hers. “Come on Arashi, you know you wanna~”
“Please Arashi~?” Aki joined in, batting her big eyes and giving off an air of faux-innocence. “It’ll be fine, I promise,”
Arashi looked at the two with skeptism. Their antics were not as endearing as they would like to believe. At least, that’s what the young man kept telling himself. But there was always something always made it difficult to say no to them. Especially Aki. The way she’d tilt her head or send him a glance; her singsong voice and the way she would sway her hips or cross her legs. How she managed to always grab his attention, he never understood why.
Well actually, he did understand why, but he didn’t want to dwell on it too much.
“You two…” The star judoka let out a long sigh and then gave a half smile, dropping his futon beside theirs and dimming the lights. “Just for tonight.,”
The two cheered and quickly hugged Arashi once he sat down with them. The hugs were strong enough to pull him down (or perhaps he just sort of let them) and turned quickly into the three of them lying down, side-by-side, their fingers interlocking with one another. Niina, Arashi, and Aki. It had been awhile.
“Ground rules for tonight,” Arashi said, closing his eyes. “We try to get some shut-eye in an hour, and no trying to steal the padding from my futon,”
“Why are you looking at me when you say that?” Niina protested.
“Because I know you’re going to try since you didn’t think to get yourself one,”
“Yeah well, no cold feet touching mine! Because… well. Wait, Aki is the one with cold feet- anyway! No hogging the covers,”
A laugh escaped Aki as the two started to bicker. They were adorable.
It was a bit hard to believe that this was all real after all this time. A year may not have seemed that long to others, but to go from hanging out after school everyday to just seeing each other every other month together… it was weird. But now they were finally back together. It wasn’t going to be easy, but she was sure that they could do it.
“Here’s to our first night,” she said with a smile as she sat up. She then leaned over and gave them each a small peck on their lips which seemed distract from their little spat. In the dark, she could still see them smile slightly.
“So… how are we going to celebrate this momentous occaision?” Niina said, and hint of playfulness in his voice.
“I have a few,” Aki responded. “If we’re not too loud,”
“If it is what I think you’re saying, then it’ll be impossible to stay quiet,”
“I’m not sure we want to wake up the neighbours on our first night,”
Before the two boys could continue, the sound of two soft thuds could be heard as her pillow made contact with the boys’ faces.
“And that’s two points for me,” Aki said triumphantly. “Wait-
What did you think I was talking about?”