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It should be another normal school day.
Shoto and Shu were living in the same community and being friend of each other for years, hence they met the nearest bus stop and go to school together every day. It is just like a norm that you need to each breakfast every morning.
This day, Shoto arrived first and waited for Shu until saw a bus left, he felt like weird so immediately gave Shu a quick call. “Hey Shu, I am on the bus stop for 20 minutes, where are you now?”
“Sorry, Yam is malding as I feed him late, you know my parents are on trip these days. I should be quick though, don’t wait for me, Shou, you go back first.” Yam’s (Shu’s big dog) fierce barks went through the phone, however Shoto trusted in Shu’s calm voice, he got on the bus along with the queue.
They usually meet up early therefore even miss a bus Shoto still had time left, he decided to wait for Shu in front of the school main door, but eventually he was pushed into school area by the tide of people who hit the bell rings.
"Shu!! I want to wait for him! Let me wait for him!" Shoto was trying to step out to the main door.
The teacher on duty caught his arm, "Hey boy, bell rings. It's time to go to the lesson."
Shoto and Shu always go to school together, well-known by the class. When they saw Shoto came alone, they generally looked for what's happening, one or two toxic mouths made joke on that's why he has no bitches. Teenagers were oral fighting each other for the little silly thing, the protagonist didn’t care.
Shoto's mind only had Shu. Shoto was worrying about Shu and blaming himself. He should know Shu is the person who underrates the seriousness of what happens! Yam is a fierce dog, even it has been petted since it was a baby, it hasn’t learnt much from its calm owner. Shu can control it 100 times, but what if the 101 time not? Accident happens? Maybe there is bus robbery? Huh? Shoto’s mind came to a lot of possibilities. In fact, Shu didn't reply messages or pick up the calls since then. After the teacher came in, Shoto still kept trying to connect him with phone under the table.
The yellow highlighted bangs boy finally appeared in the middle of the class, the teacher peacefully let him get back to the seat after he perfectly solved the mathematics question on the board.
Shu and Shoto went to the rooftop, their Shangri-La in school, for lunch. On the way, Shu was enjoying on his diversified topics, like he learnt a new species of banana, he dreamed that he had four selfs. Shoto kept silence until they had arrived the rooftop, "Don’t you have something to say, Shu?"
"Oh haha, I overslept in the bus." Shu took it easy and simple.
However, the purple boy still didn't give up. He stared at him, "Really no sus? Like bited by Yam, or kidnapped by a sorcerer? "
"Lmao Shou? I haven’t known you are so good at imagination! I literally just overslept." Shu petted Shoto's head with gentle laughing. “It took me some time to wait for another bus to come back and that it. No sus, or I swear."
The one inch shorter was never an obstacle for him to pet his purple boy, especially they were just sitting around. Shoto is a sensitive teenager, he always wants to be like a top, mature man, and he gets fury when people treat him like a little boy, but he opens the door for the one in his cozy zone, like Shu. Or just Shu.
“I don’t need your swear, dude, you know I can fucking swear a lot.” Shu – the homophonic jokes enjoyer, laughed so badly from his heart.
Shoto was pacified. Once the nervous eased, he started getting sleepy. Shu went to canteen then, he claimed to buy some milk for himself and did Shoto a favor to buy something keep him awake.
He came back with a carton of milk, and, a bottle of sparkling water.
“Sparkling water? Why?” Shoto took the transparent bottle from Shu, wondered.
“Ayo, it is not possible to buy energy drinks or caffeine in school, you know. It is the alternative.” Shu took out a paper cup, opened the bottle and the carton, pulled the liquid to the paper cup until it is a thing, gently shook the cup, then gave it to his neighbor, “You can call it…Wilk. Try it. Trust me, it works.”
Shoto is not dumb. He trusted Shu a lot but might not include this. He asked Shu, “If you can keep smiling and say POG after drink, then I will taste it.”
Shu took a sip, smiled like a Budda, said a strong “POGGGG!” convinced Shoto to follow him. He was too nervous on that, didn’t even realize he sipped the same place as Shu did.
“Ewwwwwww!!! It’s so fucking awful WTF!! Damn Shu Yamino you’re a lier!! Is it fun to see me like an idiot, huh?!” Shoto was crying with malding. Poor but adorable, Shu couldn’t stop laughing.
“Nah, nah, nah,” Even so, one thing he didn’t want to be misunderstood, “I truly want to fulfill your requirement as possible. I don’t cheat you, see, you are now awake.”
Shoto couldn’t deny it, but he also couldn’t settle the anger of drinking a shit. He crabbed some Onigiri from Shu’s lunchbox as revenge.
The two boys didn’t come to school together, but they went after school together, as usual. On the bus trip, Shoto felt like exhausted but the mind still very active, he changed different position still couldn’t fall asleep.
“It is all your fault, Shubert.” Shoto let his head sway as the bus went, and finally resting on Shu’s shoulder. “Sing for me, Shu. I haven’t heard you sing for a long time.”
Shu could not reject the blue-purple puppy eyes, the affectionate voice. It would disturb others if singing, but he could hum. His humming was blowing into Shoto’s ears, his tenderness was caressing Shoto’s head.
The head resting on Shu’s shoulder became heavier, Shu confirmed the boy fell into sleep. He then took out his phone, scrolled to music playlist. It showed the last play was this morning 9AM, which was the time Shu was on the way to school.
Right, he fell asleep on the bus, and the song was the reason.
What song has such power to influence the boy that has strong self-control?
It is not really a song, it is “Shoto’s humming” as it is on the title.
Shu put his left tail finger so close to Shoto’s right, he tried to hook his finger for one second, eventually just let them side by side, pretended to be natural, pretended they are just friends a little longer.