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You couldn’t stop the loud sigh that escaped you as you dropped down onto the concrete, leaning up against the wall behind you heavily. Toge looked at you with a raised brow, head tilted slightly in question at your apparent exhaustion, or at the very least frustration.
“Ah, nothing much. Just Gojo being.. Gojo.” You replied with a grunt, and Toge nodded sagely in response, understanding more than well just how frustrating interacting with Gojo has the capacity to be. A beat of quiet passed between you, before Toge nudged you with his elbow. When you looked up, he was offering you an earphone, his phone in the other hand with spotify open.
“Thanks.” You said as you accepted the earphone, then leaned back against the wall, eyes closed to just enjoy the music. Something about Toge’s silence was always a unique comfort, able to just exist without having to say words. More than once you’d sat together in silence and texted back and forth so you wouldn’t have to say words out loud. Briefly, you opened your eyes to look at the boy beside you, only to find that he was already looking at you. He quickly flicked his eyes away, but you watched the blush creep up his pale cheeks despite his tall collar covering his face. A soft laugh escaped you unbidden, and you shuffled a little closer to press your shoulder to his. You were able to watch as Toge turned to look up at you again, meeting your eyes.
Neither of you said a word as your hands inched closer until your pinkie fingers were linked, eyes still fixed on the other’s. A warm smile tugged at your lips, warmth rising in your own cheeks at the soft intimacy of the quiet moment shared. The song playing in Toge’s earphones changed to one you were more familiar with, the gentle guitar strings coupled with the soft lyrics of a love song only adding to the atmosphere between you. If someone else were to recount this moment to you as a story, you’d laugh at how cheesy it was, but while trapped in it for yourself all you could think about was how romantic it felt.
The song transitioned into its chorus, and you moved your free hand like you were possessed, unable to stop yourself as it lifted to his face. Toge broke eye contact with you only to watch your hand move as it inched closer, but he didn’t try to stop you, curious as to what you were intending to do. Gently, you tugged down the zipper on his collar to reveal his flushed face, and the small hesitant smile on his lips. Your touch was reverant. First the tips of your fingers made contact with his temple, then slowly traced across his browbone and down his nose, across and around his eye, then downward until you were gently cupping his jaw. You’d never done something like that to someone, you couldn’t explain if someone asked why you’d felt the need to do it in that moment at all. But it felt right, as his face leaned in against your palm, a grounding weight there. Toge visibly swallowed, and you could feel the way his breath caught slightly where it was releasing from his nose.
“Has anyone ever told you how beautiful you are?” You whispered, no longer able to stop yourself from saying the words aloud. Toge’s eyes widened, his pinkie tightening around yours where they were still connected between you both.
“God, I didn’t want to need you.. yet here I am.” Came next, uttered from your lips like a forbidden confession, whispered as if you were afraid it would break him, or maybe you.
The song changed again, another soft love song, something about longing and adoration. You thought it fit the moment quite accurately.
It was only natural when the two of you began to lean in. Or maybe it was just him that moved, or just you. It wasn’t clear in the moment, because the only thing you could focus on were his soft lips and the thunderous beating of your own heart. When your lips connected, you felt the soft exhale of air from Toge’s nose, as if he was relieved to be touching you. You couldn’t agree more. For months you’d been dancing around each other, terrified to ruin the strong friendship that you’d formed and lose the strong base you’d created that brought comfort to the two of you. Not anymore. You wanted him to be yours far more than you cared about the risks. Besides, something told you that this wouldn’t be short lived.