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Sho frowned as he watched Leo tap furiously at his screen.
"Dude....eat your fuckin food." The plate of ultra-hot chili ramen was getting cold in the table.
"Yeah, whatever." Leo rolled his eyes and huffed, sending his tweet and then slapping his phone down. He ate angrily while Sho regarded him with a rasied eyebrow.
"The fucks wrong with you?"
Leo looked at Sho with annoyance and slurped his noodles.
"That NPC is the problem. Ever since I made that post calling them my girlfriend, followers have been bitching."
"Isnt that what you wanted? A few days ago you were laughing about it." Sho starts cleaning after confirming that the dish meets Leos impractical level of spice.
"It -was- funny but now it's just annoying. Everyone keeps calling them a Basic Bitch or an NPC, its every other comment. So unoriginal."
"That's what you call the honor student all the tim-"
"And when it's not regurgitating the same stupid one-liner, it's moaning about how someone else would be such a better fit."
Leo steamrolled Sho's comment and then picked up his phone with a scoff.
"See? Listen to this, "She is too boring for you Leo, you would be such a better match with Anastasia" as if that Kardashian copying nepobaby is half as interesting." Leo reads the text aloud before scooping more noodles into his mouth.
"Is that the blogger that keeps getting a new baby animal every few years?" Sho puts his freshly cleaned knives onto the magnetic board you talked him into getting to save on space.
"Yeah, she keeps hopping on trends. She ditched the Italian Greyhound and got a micro husky- whatever the fuck that is." Leo slathers a piece of his pork belly in sriracha before popping it into his mouth.
A new voice joins the discussion as you pass by Leos table.
"That sounds unethical. Hey Sho I know it's late, do you have anything you could whip up for me?" You peer up at Sho as you lean against the truck. The dark circles under your eyes and your unkempt hair say enough- you just got back from another mission.
"Hm...sure I think I have something I can whip together. But dont get mad at me if it doesnt turn out." Sho easily relents and begins rummaging through his fridge.
"Youre cooking is always good, thats why I can never get mad at anything you do." You tease back- it was no secret that food was the way to your heart. You had a wealth of patience for anyone who offered you snacks.
Leo grew tired of listening and scoffed.
"Did you get so tired of flirting with that musclehead so you had to move onto a guy in love with his motorcycle?"
"Shut up man." Sho responds automatically. You sit down across from Leo.
"I also love Bonnie." You say matter-of-facty while resting your head on your arms.
"Gross." Leo rolls his eyes and aims his phone at you. He takes a couple pictures, decides on one that is decidedly your worst angle in the worst lighting. His snickering makes you open your eyes.
"What did you do?" You are annoyed when you speak to him and lacking the familiarity that you hold for Sho.
"Just want the internet to know my relationship with my girlfriend is going well." Leo shows you his recent post with a sly grin.
Having learned better, and too tired to care, you don't bother reading it and once again shut your eyes.
"As long as you aren't trying to extort Tohma-senpai again." You sigh.
From inside the truck while he heats up your food, Sho opens his phone to view the post.
Your picture is edited with several heart emotes with a caption reading "Best Girlfriend Ever<3 She ordered 23,456 yen worth of food but forgot her wallet, shes so silly!" The comments are already scalding as they tear into your character. Sho peeks out to see Leo smugly scrolling through the comments before he reaches out and pats your hair.
"Ah, NPC-chan you're such good rage bait~" he coos.
"You're welcome." You sigh out, apathetic and clearly more invested in watching Sho than listening to Leo. Sho snorts as he brings you a bowl of ramen and your eyes light up. Truthfully you deserve the ramen for enduring Leo. In a short amount of time you had adjusted miraculously and frankly it saved Sho a small change of worry over his psychopathic friend. Typically this unbothered attitude would set the chic influencer on a revenge scheme but without realizing it, he had become endeared to your attitude. The two sat with you and chatted as you ate your food. Sho eventually kicking Leo when he tried to get a picture of you eating.