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Langa drags himself out of bed leaving a pillow with small strands of blue behind. This morning would be especially lousy since langa didn’t get any sleep, he was too busy— busy thinking about Reki~ Reki’s dashing smile, his bed head, the way he deflects his questions, the pout he gives when Langa says he can’t go to that nights beef. Langa loves it all, in fact he loves it so much he can’t stop thinking about him. Snapping out of his trance she scrubs his teeth and dashes downstairs. (evading his mom to avoid THE talks) He flies straight out the door and into Rekis arms… or he would’ve at least if Reki didn’t move out the way.
“Dude…what’s with you today,” Reki questions before setting his board back down. Eventually, Langa sits up from his tumble and rubs his growing sore spot. After a while Reki forgets about the question he asked and doesn’t care when he doesn’t get a response from Langa, he just continues talking.
”And that’s when I got this scare, you remember? Yeah when I had that beef agains the pred- I mean Adam” Langa couldn’t care less what the readhead was yapping about he had one thought and one thought only on his mind when did Reki get so hot!? He got so caught up infact he didn’t evade a rock with his board and faceplanted, great another sore spot.
“Okay Ice Prince, seriously what’s wrong this is your second tumble today, is something on your mind?” Reki tilted his head in concern and furrowed his brow as if he didn’t ask the question. Langa short-circuited first the nickname then the genuine concern, it was all to much. The Ice prince was feeling the farthest thing from cool. Under this pressure he said the first thing that came to his mind.
”you!” He blurted then quickly turned his head feeling embarrassed from the aftershock of his answer. He’s never seen Reki’s gears grind in his head so much since their time together then he did now, after some resolve in his head Reki smiled.
”aww bro I think about you a lot to,” Reki beamed yess this was Langa’s chance, “I mean who wouldn’t think about their best friend a lot!” Anddd miss gosh dang it. Langa’s smile factory reset as he got up and skated last Reki in dissapointment. Reki was living rent free in Langa’s head and something needed to be done about it. After school Langa apologized to Reki for not being available tonight and headed straight to Joe’s restaurant, I mean if anyone knows about this being gay thing it would HAVE to be Joe Langa thought. As he entered without shock Joe was flirting with his situation ship frenemie cherry. This might take a while Langa thought.
“Look you broad gorilla!” Kaoru argued “it would be beneficial to combine businesses!” Kojiro put his hand to his face and shook his head.
“Look princess I just- oh…” he takes a step away from cherry “heyyyy Langa- ehh why are you here? Shouldn’t you be I dunno doing something stupid with Reki?” Langa looks away at this comment.
”I came here to talk about Reki, so no I don’t think I should be out goofing off with him right now” Langa sighed. Kojiro’s face sprang in realization. He walked over to Langa and sat him at a booth where he, kojiro, and kaoru would talk.
”trouble in paradise kid?” Cherry questioned.