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"I want a girrrrlllllllfrieeeend...."
Rensuke pulled his headphones off and turned around to glare at Hijita. Hijita, who was slumped over on his bed, groaning aloud into the room. He rolled his eye and put his headphones back on, continuing to do his homework. However, at some point, he felt Hijita drape across him and push his headphones off.
"Nyuuuudou...."
"What the hell!"
He shoved Hijita off and turned around to glare at him. Hijita pouted up at him, making Nyuudou glare at him again.
"Why do you get a super pretty girlfriend?!"
Hijita continued whining, making Nyuudou cover his ears in annoyance. He didn't know what had exactly spurred it on, but Hijita was getting whinier and whinier about not having a girlfriend. Then Nyuudou realized.
Fuji and Ogoso started dating. Sano and Mame. He and Kuniko. Koizumi and Yuri.
Everyone was getting a partner in his eyes.
"Hijita... maybe you'd get a girlfriend if you stopped whining about not having one!" He'd also prevent himself from getting murdered by his roommate by ceasing his whines.
"But, it's so unfaaaair!"
"I don't know how! You don't even ask girls out, you only try to look up their skirts and admire them from afar!" Nyuudou huffed. "Until you actually ask a girl out, I don't want to hear any bitching from you!"
He furiously put his headphones back on and turned his music way up to block out any additional whines. He opened his phone and texted his frustrations to his girlfriend.
Me: I swear, Hijita is going to actually kill me
Me: Because I am about to blow a goddamn gasket.
Kuniko <3: Come on Ren, he just wants a girlfriend. That's understandable.
Kuniko <3: But I can imagine it's annoying
Kuniko <3: Why doesn't he just ask Beniko out? I mean, they like each other, right?
Rensuke thought about that. They did! They really did! So why was it so hard for Hijita to even think about asking them out! He sighed and threw his head back, leaning further to see Hijita sulking in the corner. He scoffed.
He wasn't getting involved in this.
He wasn't.
"We're getting involved in this."
He stood over the table of his friends and girlfriend. Kuniko, Mujina, Tama, Fuji, and Ogoso. He called them all in because, despite what he promised himself, he needed to get involved in this.
"It was been 2 weeks since the last relationship was initiated, and he has not shut up." He sat down, sighing heavily.
Fuji shrugged and put her arm around Ogoso. "And? What do you intend on doing about it?"
"Hijita likes Beniko." Rensuke nodded at all of them. "Beniko likes Hijita. What we need to do is, we need to get them together."
"Why." Mujina raised his hand.
"Because..." Rensuke put his head in his hands, huffing. "I cannot keep hearing him. Bitch and moan about not being in a relationship."
Tama whined. "Poor Hijitan..."
"So! We need to get them dating! Like now!" Rensuke huffed. "More like yesterday..."
Kuniko patted his head. "Well, I think I have an idea, Ren-kun."
He looked up at her. "Huh...?"
"I think... we should set them up on a blind date!"
Fuji gave her a dubious look. "How is it blind if they know each other?"
"Blind only means they don't know who the person they're going on a date with!"
"..." She gave her a bored look. "Is that not what I just said."
"No, you don't get it." She chuckled quietly. "A blind date simply means you're getting set up and you don't know who the person you're being set up with is. It could be someone you do or don't know, you just don't know who exactly was chosen!"
Fuji nodded, knowing. Ogoso looked between all of them.
"I-Is that the way we should go about doing this?"
"I don't see any other way!" Rensuke threw his hands up. "They don't seem to know or want to accept the fact that they do like each other. So, if this is the only way they'll like each other and finally go on a date, then dammit let's start planning out their blind date!"
In a week, their plan was finally set up. Kuniko and Tama managed to find a way to get Beniko out of her room and Hijita jumped at the idea of going on a date with someone.
All it took was getting them to wear something that one would wear to a date and soon they were out.
"Beni-chan is in place! Over!" Tama clicked off the walkie-talkie and smiled when he and Kuniko saw Beniko sit in one of the booths
"Hijita has entered the building. Over." Fuji nodded and turned back to Ogoso, both of them flipping their menus up to hide their faces as Hijita passed by them.
Rensuke and Mujina finished their costumes and watched Hijita as he approached the table...
"Beniko?!"
"Hijita?!"
They both jolted back where they were, clearly not expecting the other. Hijita looked around, seeing if he was in the wrong place. But when he saw the table number, he realized... he was at the right place.
"You... you're my date?!"
"How do you think I feel!"
Hijita sat at the table and looked around. "So... they were trying to set us up..."
Beniko watched him and snorted quietly. Hijita cocked an eyebrow at them and smiled softly.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing..." They smiled at him. "I guess I was just thinking about them. The fact that they were setting us up with each other. It's kind of cute."
Hijita blushed softly at their laugh and he looked away for a second.
"Uh... Beniko."
"Yeah?"
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Shoot."
He looked back at them. "Do you like me?"
Beniko was silent for a moment. They looked at the table and scratched at something for a moment, while made Hijita look away from them.
"I knew they were setting me up with you."
He looked back up at them. "Wait, you did?!"
"Well, duh. Who else would they try setting me up with." They gave him a bored look. "Anyway... knowing that, I still came here. I got a nice-ish outfit on and I showed up to see you on your date."
He watched them for a moment before laughing along with them. "Yeah... I guess I did get all dressed up for you, Beniko..." He rubbed the back of his head before pausing. "...Wait... wait, does that mean-?!"
They grabbed his collar and pulled him across the table, before kissing his cheek.
"Yeah. I do. Jeez, I can't believe it took you that long..."
Hijita watched them, trying to process what they just did.
"...Ah."