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Harumi wakes up in the middle of the night, grumbling as he adjusted back into his pillow. He has no clue what time it is; but he knows his alarm is not going off at the moment. So he’d much rather get back to bed. Not wanting to give his brain enough time to fully wake up and then refuse to allow him back asleep. He feels movement in the bed, and that makes him freeze.
That certainly wasn’t him moving.
Harumi shifted, opening his eyes and glancing at the other person that was currently in his bed. The other person being no other than Akihiko. Right. Of course. They’d been studying later than they should’ve been. (Harumi most definitely did not want to study at all, especially on a friday night of all times! But Aki had been so anxious for an upcoming test or something and Harumi wanted to help. (Not that he’d admit that.) So he had agreed to study with him. He immediately regretted this, as Harumi would’ve rather been doing anything else with his time.)
They must’ve fallen asleep while studying. Evident by the light still being on, and the textbooks and notebooks and other various school supplies scattered across the bed and floor now.
He briefly curses himself for deciding the couch was too uncomfortable for them to study on, insisting they study in his room instead.
And of course; there was Akihiko. The boy had taken his blazer off much earlier in the night, left in the rest of his uniform. His tie loosened as well (at this point it was barely still on). His hair was a bit of a mess now, adding to the relaxed look of the brunette.
Harumi can’t help but stare; because Aki looked so peaceful right now. And he had been so anxious before. Well, he was always an anxious wreck. But there was definitely something different between a socially anxious Aki with his people pleasing habits, and an anxious with test nerves Aki.
He watches the slow rise and fall of the other boys chest, every little movement monitored. He decides not to read into why he was so fixated on the brunette right now, because that was a dangerous line of thought for a very tired Harumi.
Harumi is momentarily jealous of Aki’s peaceful sleep, because he was tired and he very much did not appreciate his brain waking him up at.. whatever time it was.
He convinces himself for the time being that his staring at Akihiko was purely because he was tired. He also convinces himself that Akihiko being nearby didn’t make his passage into sleep any easier than it usually would be. Not reading into it was much more convenient right now.
Harumi slowly moved to be a bit more comfortable, not wanting to wake up Aki as he did so. Maybe he should, or at least Harumi should move to the couch. But Aki definitely needed the sleep, so he let him. (And Harumi didn’t want to be booted to the couch.)
He rolls his eyes, what was this? Some cheesy romance book? One bed trope? Ridiculous. Gross, even.
Still, he’s tired. And he’s certainly not wanting to move out of the comfortable bed at this moment.
Oh well. It’d be a problem for morning Harumi, like the mess in his room, he decides as he drifts back into sleep.
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Aki usually woke up early, even before his alarms. They were set as a just in case, really.
So waking up in silence was normal!
Waking up in bed with another person was very much, completely, not normal.
Aki sat halfway up, seeing Harumi, still fast asleep. Harumi?!? What was Harumi doing in his bed?? Or.. what was he doing in Harumi’s bed..??
He set his hand down onto a pencil, reminding himself that they had been studying last night. Did.. they fall asleep? That.. made sense, he guesses. He looks at Harumi again.
Aki would never admit it, but Harumi was pretty. Aki wanted to reach out, and-
And then reality catches up with him.
Theyslepttogetherinthesamebed! HeandHarumi(inthemostliteralsense)slepttogether!!!
His face turned red, and he jolted up at the realization. Maybe a little too fast. He let out a yell as he tumbled off the bed, crashing onto the floor gracelessly.
Once he gathered his bearings, he looked from his spot on the floor to the bed. Harumi leaning over the bed ever so slightly, sleep still evident in his face. He had definitely just woken up, Aki feels bad for waking him. ”Morning-..“ He was cut off by a yawn, “..-sleeping beauty.” Harumi teased. Blinking the sleep from his eyes.
Harumi just woke up, and he still can’t catch a break??
Aki opened his mouth to speak, but words failed him. So instead he used his hands to cover his face, which was a bright shade of red at this point. Which only seemed to add fuel to Harumi’s amusement.
⭐️
The two didn’t talk about it much further. Harumi had joked about how much of a mess Aki had made of his room with all his school supplies, prompting Aki to start cleaning up. Of course, Harumi followed along, cleaning up as well.
They made a couple jokes about how cheesy it was, and that was that.
And if it began to happen more often going forward, well.. it was purely coincidental.