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Tonight was supposed to be a normal movie night.
Tonight was supposed to be the time their friend group would get together, assign someone's house as their destination, and watch a random movie whilst having fun with the snacks provided.
Hey! Let's stay up all night this time instead of going to bed after watching! It'll be fun! Tsukasa had suggested the day before, and Amane didn't know what had gotten over him, but he agreed to it. They decided the next place would be theirs, since their parents would be out for a trip and wouldn't be back until next week.
It would be good. His brother even picked a good movie for everyone to watch, fortunately (he knew the last time Tsukasa picked a movie for them it didn't really end well).
But it seemed tonight wasn't going to be like most movie nights from before.
The comedy playing softly on the TV continued, Tsukasa having fallen asleep halfway through. Kou had excused himself to the bathroom, and it left Amane, Nene and Mitsuba still watching the movie.
Well, mostly Amane and Mitsuba. Nene had happened to also fall asleep, head on Amane's lap as they all sat on the long couch.
Much to his chagrin, though, Mitsuba wasn't passing up the opportunity to tease him, snapping pictures of the two with his cellphone. The guy was lucky he couldn't move or he'd risk waking Nene up.
"You seem to be enjoying yourself, crazy knife." The smirk on Mitsuba's face and the shutter sound of his phone camera was enough to send Amane into a flustered panic.
"N-no. Shut up. And don't call me that, it happened like last year." Ah, that one time he was cooking in home economics class, unintentionally scaring Mitsuba (who happened to stop by to borrow some utensils for their class) with his dubious knife-wielding skills.
Wasn't his fault he gripped the knife differently. That's just how he works.
Another picture taken. "Don't lie. Your crush on radish-senpai has been obvious since day one. It's so obvious, it's pissing me off."
"Then why are you taking pictures then?"
"Blackmail."
Amane sighed, choosing to ignore Mitsuba and turning his focus to the still sleeping Nene on his lap. He put a hand on her head, stroking it, hoping to at least make her feel a bit more comfortable.
She stirred a bit, and instead of waking up like he expected, she buried her face further into his stomach, hand clutching on his shirt as she mumbled some gibberish in her sleep.
He almost choked at that, turning even more red when Mitsuba's silent wheezing was heard next to him. That lucky bastard should be glad he wasn't able to get up right now, or else he'd be in big trouble.
How dare she act so cute even when sleeping?! She really had no idea the effect she had on him at all.
Like he had the guts to say such a thing to her, anyway. But it was moments like these that he admittedly treasured.
"L-look at you! Someone's falling even more in love!" The pink haired boy whispered, trying real hard not to laugh out loud.
"Shut it! You're going to wake her up!"
Too late, however. Nene had awoken from all the laughing and moving around, sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "Huh… What's going on?" She asked sleepily.
"Nothing. Go back to sleep." Amane carefully pulled her back down, this time on his chest, shooting Mitsuba another glare.
"Okay…" Nene didn't even try to pry any more questions, and she immediately fell back asleep, snuggling up to his chest with a final yawn.
At the sight of Mitsuba's knowing look, Amane pointed an accusatory finger at him. "Not. Another. Word."
Finally, Mitsuba slowly left his side of the couch, stretching his body up. "Fine. I'll leave you two for a while, I'm kinda thirsty." And before Amane could say anything, he had left for the kitchen almost immediately.
He sighed once again, leaning forward and resting his face on Nene's hair. At last, some peace and quiet and no annoying friends teasing him with his painfully obvious crush.
"Getting all chummy already, hmm?" He heard Tsukasa speak to his other side, showing that he had been awake the entire time.
Ah, fuck.
When Kou returned, he found Amane ignoring everyone else's eye contact as he continued to hold the sleeping Nene in his arms, and Tsukasa sitting with that shit-eating grin on his face and a bump on the top of his head.
"...did I miss anything?"