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4 - At a bar
28 - “If I kissed you right now, what would you do?”
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Having a crush is a lot of hard work.
Especially when that crush is the one and only Mikaela Shindou, president of the student council, most popular boy in the grade, and gorgeous beyond belief.
Sitting in class, Yuuichirou Amane found himself distracted quite often by the beautiful sight of Mikaela’s blonde locks. Of course, he was supposed to be studying, but who has time for studying when you could be entranced by your crush?
Shinoa Hiiragi, the tiny, annoying girl who sat beside Yuuichirou, wasn’t taking it much longer.
“Hey, Mikaela, do you have a pencil I can borrow?” She asked, sweetly enough, but of course there was a hidden motive. When Mikaela turned around to answer Shinoa, he caught Yuuichirou staring at him.
He didn’t think much of it, other than ‘he’s probably just thinking hard about his work’, but he did hand Shinoa a mechanical pencil. Then, he noticed something.
“What’s wrong with the pencil you already have?” Mikaela gave her a confused look, then gestured towards the wooden pencil sitting on Shinoa’s desk beside her notes. “Oh, it’s dull,” Shinoa responded quickly. “I can’t write with it.”
Once again, she was given a strange look. “It looks sharp to me.” Shinoa panicked internally, but kept her cool. “Oh, uh, the eraser’s also out.” Mikaela did notice her lack of an eraser, but he knew something was off. “Okay…” With that, he turned around in his seat and continued to study.
Yuuichirou was furious at Shinoa, who was giggling quietly to herself. He leaned over to “whisper” to her.
“Shinoa, you brat! Why’d you do that?” He growled angrily at her face of humor. “Jesus, Yuu, you can’t whisper, can you? The whole class can hear you,” Shinoa mumbled back to him, noticing the professor’s eyes laying upon the two.
“Not when you expose me in front of Mikaela! You know how much I like him; this is serious , Shinoa! Do you want me to tell Mitsuba about how you hopelessly stare at her ‘beautiful, thick calves’?” Yuuichirou ‘whisper shouted’ back at her, but it wasn’t very effective. The whole class was looking at them now, including Mikaela and Mitsuba, who sat nearby.
Yuuichirou noticed eventually and flushed red. Immediately, he shut up and went back to studying while Shinoa laughed under her breath.
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That night, Yuuichirou, Shinoa, and another friend from a different college went out to have a drink. More bickering ensued in the car.
“So why exactly did you feel the need to ask Mikaela for a pencil earlier, Shinoa? I think Yoichi here is very interested in our tea,” Yuuichirou grumbled and knowingly watched Shinoa, who was driving, through the rear-view mirror. She looked back at the two in the back seat and explained.
“Well, you were very interested in the back of Mikaela’s head, so I thought you might just want to see his glamorous face too!” Shinoa giggled evilly, noticing Yoichi’s reaction was similar. The raven-haired ball of anger snapped his head towards Yoichi, who was stifling his own laughter by covering his mouth with his palm.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, that’s just funny,” Yoichi chuckled. Before Yuuichirou could reply, Shinoa butted in.
“We’re here! Are you guys ready to have a drink?” Shinoa grinned and gave them a thumbs-up. Yuuichirou rolled his eyes and got out of the car with Yoichi.
Once they got inside and seated, they resumed their conversation, unaware of their surroundings. “You know how much I like him! I don’t want to ruin what little friendship we have, even if it is just being classmates.” Yuu groaned and leaned back on his stool as he took a drink.
Just then, a hand was placed on his shoulder. It was that of Mikaela Shindou’s, needless to say Yuuichirou was shocked when he saw the blonde’s sapphire blue eyes staring into his emerald ones.
“Hey, can we talk, Yuuichirou?”
Yuuichirou nearly spit out his drink as he sat up and spun around nervously. “Of course! What about?” Mikaela glared at him and Yuuichirou felt his heart drop. “You know ‘what about’.”
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The boys stepped outside and walked around the building into a small alleyway, where they had their ‘talk’. They stood opposite of each other, leaned against the bordering walls.
“So, about what you said in class today,” Mikaela spoke seriously and crossed his arms. “Is it true? Do you like me in that way?” Yuuichirou’s eyes darted about as he mumbled to himself in stutters. “No! Well, I-I mean, I don’t know, really, but that’s not the point! Why do we have to talk about this?”
Mikaela’s eyes widened as he saw straight through Yuuichirou’s coverup. “I know you like me the way I like you, Yuu-chan…” The raven’s face went ruby red at the cute nickname. He tried to hide that he was flustered, but failed.
Mikaela walked towards Yuuichirou and placed his hand against the wall behind him. His free hand went to the underside of Yuuichirou’s chin.
“If I kissed you right now, what would you do?”
Yuuichirou’s brain went berserk. There’s no way this could be happening.
“Well?”
Yuuichirou snapped out of his thoughts and responded. “Well, I d-don’t know,” He stuttered and gazed at the ground, blushing like a madman.
“Why don’t we find out?”
Before Yuuichirou had a chance to reply, Mikaela was leaning in. The hand that was previously on his chin was now snaking around his waist, and the hand that was on the wall was lightly pushing Yuuichirou’s head towards his own.
Their lips met in unison as Yuuichirou’s arms naturally wrapped around Mikaela’s neck. It was slow, sweet, and disastrous all at the same time. The two were pressed against the wall, dependant on each other.
After what felt like eternity, Mikaela pulled away, faces still minimal length apart from each other. “Yuu-chan, I think we feel the same,” The blonde confirmed, pulling Yuuichirou into a tight hug. “I love you.” He continued, feeling the smaller boy rest his chin on his shoulder.
“I love you too, Mikaela.”