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Takeuchi was laying down on his bed, eyes closed, while Mukai was on the floor beside him writing something down in his note book. Normally on a normal day, Hirose would be here and do all the talking or just eat while watching stuff on his phone. But today he wasn't here because apparently he was out for “something important”.
It was calm, peaceful until a sound was heard. Takeuchi took his phone, kinda annoyed that someone disturbed his peace. He looks at the notification, it was Hirose who sent a message on their group chat.
“What’s up ?” Mukai said, finally looking at Takeuchi.
“It’s Hirose…” The boy grumbles when he clicks on the notification. As he read the message his phone almost dropped as he flashed a horrified expression on his face.
“Uh… are you okay, dude ? What did he send ?” Mukai decided to get up and sit beside the boy and lean his head close to the phone to see what could possibly make the boy in that state of shock. When he read the message he couldn't believe his eyes.
The message was simple.
“It finally happened. I found the one.”
Normally they wouldn't be shocked if someone else sent a message like that, but we are talking about Hirose Aiki here. Takeuchi always asked Hirose if he found any girl cute, since middle school and he would always answer the same thing “They are cute I guess… but not my type you know ?”
Mukai immediately took Takeuchi's phone from his hand and wrote something down.
“Seriously ? Who ?”
“Nakamura Okuto.” Mukai read at loud.
….
“Who the heck is Nakamura Okuto ?” Takeuchi finally came to reality. Mukai thought for a minute “Uh… isn't the guy with super dark hair who doesn’t talk to anyone ? Well except for Hirose and Kawamura I think…”
“...” a silence took place. “Of all the people he took that guy. Seriouslyyy !!!” Takeuchi whines.
“Well he doesn't seem that bad… he's probably that kind of person who looks cold at first but is really nice when you learn about them.”
Before Takeuchi could answer Hirose sent another message.
“We should all hang out together !! You will see that Nakamura is actually a really good guy.”
Takeuchi took back his phone and just sent a simple “Alright” before turning off his phone.
“Ugh… I can’t believe I have to come with you guys instead of my amazing and beautiful girlfriend.” Takeuchi sighs. “You should be grateful, Mukai, because if I wasn't an amazing friend I would leave you alone being the third wheel.”
“I never asked you to accept you know-”
“JUST BE GRATEFUL !!”
The next day went as usual, pretty boring, Takeuchi trying to be close to Mukai so Hamaoka could be happy, a pretty normal day.
When the end of the day came, Hirose grabbed both Takeuchi and Mukai hands and dragged them to Nakamura’s table. The poor boy got scared when he saw three boys running towards him, one of them looking tired, the other annoyed and one having the biggest smile ever.
“Nakamura !! Let’s go home together !” And that's when the three boys froze for completely different reasons. Nakamura was shocked because his Hirose wanted to go out, for Mukai and Takeuchi it was from embarrassment. ‘Did he just high pitch his voice right now ???’
As they walked out of the building, Hirose was stuck to Nakamura's side like glue, while leaving his two other friends behind.
“Seriously ?! He dragged us to do the ride just for him to only talk to his crush ??!” Takeuchi was fuming with anger as he kept glaring at Hirose from behind.
“Yeah but that's not the only thing… Did you hear his voice … ?”
“Please don’t talk about it or I will die of embarrassment.” Takeuchi could feel goosebumps just by remembering the earlier interaction. “I sooo wanna tell Nakamura how fake his little Hirose is…” He smirks. “That would be good, don't you think ?”
Mukai sigh, is he the only normal one here ? “Let’s not do that… I mean Hirose did a lot for you with your crush so the least we can do is just act normally…”
Takeuchi grumbles, Mukai huffs and mutters “Maybe we can make fun of him when Nakamura is not around, happy ?” The boy's mouth twitched upward again.
Throughout the whole ride Takeuchi and Mukai kept noticing some stuff, not only Hirose changed voice but also became more touchy. He was so unnecessarily close to Nakamura, he always had an excuse to touch his arm and always tried to have his arm around his neck.
The ride was long but they finally arrived to the point where Nakamura had to go to his beloved home to Hirose dismay. Nakamura mumbled some thanks and quickly walked to his home. Hirose turns around and looks at both of the boys standing there looking more than annoyed.
“...”
“You two are still here-”
“Well yeah we are still here ???? What do you mean ?!!!!” Takeuchi yelled, stepping toward Hirose.
“Ohh Nakamura let’s go home together and let’s invite my friends so they can see how great of a couple we are !!” He mimics Hirose's high pitched voice he used when Nakamura was still around.
The lover boy blushed slightly and frowned. “I definitely don't sound like that ! And if you want to talk to him so badly, do it yourself !!”
“Do you notice how different your voice sounds when you are with him ?” Mukai interferes.
“And what if I do uh ?” Hirose looks at the spot where Nakamura was just minutes ago. “...”
Takeuchi let out a gagging sound, Hirose glared at him. “You can’t talk Takeuchi knowing what you did just to win Hamaoka-”
“CAN WE SHUT UP ABOUT THAT ALREADY ??” An angry Takeuchi decided to turn around and go home. “I’M GOING HOME.” Mukai and Hirose stand there looking at him. “MUKAI GET YOUR BUTT HERE NOW !!!” The boy just nodded to Hirose and went towards his angry friend.
Hirose stood there looking at the spot again. “Am I doing too much…?” He whispers, but then he remembers how blushy Nakamura was. “... Nah.” He giggles and goes toward his own home.
The next few days were “normal” well Hirose started to include Nakamura everywhere. Study session, work project, even inviting him to lunch. Mukai had the chance to talk to Nakamura only once when Hirose was out to get something, apparently the conversation was awkward as hell but Nakamura is a cool guy.
Takeuchi didn't get a chance to even approach Nakamura, Hirose would always spawn out of nowhere and take Nakamura as far as possible from him. ‘What’s his problem ??!’ Takeuchi once though but then he remembers he flirts with his friends because of Hamaoka… ‘Yeeeah….Maybe that’s why.’
Anywho, today they were at the library, they had a test and of course Takeuchi didn't study, Mukai didn’t have to, Hirose did but still wanted to hang out with Nakamura and Nakamura was nervous to fail so he decided to study one last time.
“Here dude.” Mukai placed a water bottle in front of Takeuchi. “You look like you’re gonna pass out.” Takeuchi let out a groan and took the water bottle.
As he opened it and drank it, Hirose decided it was the best time to say the cringiest remarks ever made.
“Wow Nakamura !! Your hands are huge !” Hirose gasps like it was the most shocking thing in the universe. He took Nakamura's hand and placed it over his. “Look !! I'm jealooouuus !!” Hirose let out a little laugh.
Nakamura was dying, his face completely red, we could even see smoke coming out of his ears. Takeuchi choked and was coughing his soul out. Mukai was patting his back while trying to maintain his poker face. Trying very hard not to cringe.
When Takeuchi finally calmed down. He went back to his studies…..
Well he was trying.
Because studying while your friend and his crush looks like they are on their honeymoon phase is not for the weak.
Mukai was trying so hard to lock in while Hirose kept saying stuff like “You are so smart Nakamura !! You should teach me some stuff too ! I’m not that smart you know…”
Or “your handwriting is sooo classy !!” all this while still holding Nakamura hand and being super duper unnecessary close to him. Poor Nakamura, he was about to pass out.
Because of this Takeuchi didn’t study half of the stuff he needed. He will probably fail that exam. But at least now the nightmare was over.
When they got out of the library, Takeuchi immediately took Mukai's hands and ran away.
“SORRY YOU KNOW WE GOTTA GOOO !! SEE YA !!” and they ran off.
As soon as they arrived at Mukai’s home, Takeuchi laid down in the boy’s bed. “Who told you that you could go lay on MY bed without my permission ?”
“Myself and I honestly deserve it after surviving this,” he muttered. “Did you see how cringe that was ??? My face hurts from forcing myself to not laugh !!”
“I never thought Hirose would be the type to do the ‘let’s compare our hands size together’ thing…” Mukai sat on the floor, he opened his bag and got his phone. “Talking about him, new message.”
“Seriously… give me that !” Takeuchi took the other man's phone as he looked at the screen.
“You're way too comfortable with my stuff, dude.” Mukai exhale.
The other boy ignores him as he looks at the message.
“What was that for ??”
“What was that for ??!” Takeuchi imitating Hirose's voice once again. He wrote down my message so hard and so fast. Mukai was worried that it would be the last day for his phone.
“What did you send ?”
“I just wrote everything he said today with a bunch of emojis.”
“Dude…”
“Chill out, he probably knows it’s me !! You never use emojis, not even when you are sarcastic.” The next second Takeuchi gave back the phone to his owner.
Mukai looked at the screen as Hirose was typing something. “Come oooon !!! It wasn’t that embarrassing…….. right??”
“I’m sorry to break it to you Hirose. But it was.”
“:(“
Takeuchi leans over to see the message. “Ugh…” he took the phone again.
“Don't be dramatic, at least your boyfriend seems fine about it……..” he passes the phone back to Mukai.
“Yeah. We shall make fun of you from time to time but as long as Nakamura stays blind I think you can work something out.”
“You know it's super confusing seeing you two sending me messages with the same phone.”
Mukai fixes his screen for a few seconds then looks at Takeuchi.
“Where’s your phone-”
“HAHAHAHA what phone. What even is a phone anyway.”
“... Takeuchi.”
“Alright I broke it !!!!”
“Again-??!!”
Another day with Nakamura around. At this point he was part of the group even though only Hirose talks to him. Mukai wants to talk to him but the only thing he knew about Nakamura was his love for octopus and honestly he didn't want it to be the only subject of their conversations.
They were walking home as usual, Hirose was doing most of the talking as usual, Hirose was doing his ‘only for Nakamura’ special voice as usual, Hirose was super close to Nakamura as usual.
But something unusual happened, Nakamura cracked a joke, a really silly one that made Mukai crack a little smile and Takeuchi snicker, but apparently to Hirose it was the funniest joke ever.
“POUAHAHAHAHAAA !! YOU’RE SO FUNNY NAKAMURA !!!” The black haired guy as usual was blushing like never before.
“Seriously………” A deadpan expression is played on both of the boys' faces. “It’s not that funny boy, get up……”
“He’s not beating the allegations I fear……”
As they walked Hirose was still walking, and because he was busy laughing at Nakamura's silly joke, he didn't see what he was stepping on so he fell down. Now that’s pure comedy.
“BAHAHHAHAHAH-” Takeuchi of course took the opportunity to laugh as loud as possible.
Mukai just shook his head. You see, both of them don't help Hirose because they know that Hirose doesn’t cry easily, especially to pain that he have a high tolerance to it .
So they waited for him to get up, but he didn't. Instead they could see tears forming in his eyes. “Ouch…”
‘... There’s no way’
“A-Are you okay, Hirose ??!” Nakamura asked as he knelt down.
‘...... There’s no freaking way.’
“It hurts a little…” Hirose sniff.
‘Lord save us.’
They walked home with Nakamura having Hirose on his back, having the time of his life.
“Can you believe that….” Takeuchi still has that shocked expression on his face. “Maybe we are in a dream…… or hallucination…” he continues. Mukai didn't say a word.
We finally arrived where Nakamura and Hirose take different paths. Nakamura looks at Hirose's face, he looks half asleep. He then turned to the two boys.
“U-uhm… could you take care of Hirose… please.” They both looked at him with a poker face expression. One so strong that it made Nakamura nervous. “Y-You two must be tired !! I can bring him home-!!”
“Nah don’t worry, dude.” Mukai went behind him and carefully took Hirose. “Go home, okay ?” Nakamura could only nod and he waved to all of them. “Thanks..!!”
“...”
When Nakamura was far enough, Takeuchi finally moved. He stepped closer to Hirose, putting his hands on his shoulder.
“WAKE UP, MAN !!!” start to shake Hirose to finally wake him up fully.
“Uh ?! Ugh stop !” He took Takeuchi's wrist to stop him and finally steady himself. “... Where’s Nakamura ?”
“That’s seriously the first thing you ask ?!”
“He went home and told us to take care of you.”
“He did ? Nakamura…” he blushes slightly.
“DON’T IGNORE ME !”
All the three of them are in Hirose’s room. Hirose was on his phone giggling from time to time. Mukai has his eyes closed thinking about something. And Takeuchi was staring at Hirose for so long without blinking his eyes might pop out.
“Hirose…”
“Uh ? What ?” Hirose had this bored look on his face. The expression that Nakamura never got to see because that boy was his favorite.
“I never saw you cry or laugh that hard. Not even once.”
“Well there's a first to everything I guess-”
“THAT JOKE WASN’T EVEN FUNNY-”
“IT WAS !!”
“You two stop.” And they did. Mukai sigh. “When will you confess already ? So we can finally go back to normal ?”
Hirose cheeks heat up as a smile forms on his face. “Well you know… haha I didn't really think about it yet !!!!”
‘Liar.’
“Who knows, maybe he will catch the hints and confess to me first !!”
‘You’re being delusional right now.’
“Plus I don't know if he really likes me like that…”
‘And now you are blind.’
This is going to be a long year.
Takeuchi was laying down on his bed, eyes closed, while Mukai was on the floor beside him writing something down in his note book. Normally on a normal day, Hirose would be here on his phone talking to Nakamura. But today he wasn't here because today was an important day.
It was calm, peaceful until a sound was heard. Takeuchi took Mukai’s phone. He looks at the notification, it was Hirose who sent a message on their group chat. Takeuchi got up from the bed to sit beside Mukai to read the message together.
“I did it.”
Another message.
“:D”
“We're together now !”
Mukai and Takeuchi both looked at one another.
‘We’re finally free !!”
…
Yeah no.
Takeuchi and Mukai sat down and they looked at Nakamura. Hirose arms around Nakamura, super close, laughing out loud and keep complimenting him on various and random stuff.
“...”
“Do you think the only way for them to stop is them breaking up ?”
“They would probably still be on each other I fear….”
“Some bullshit…”
Sometimes they wish they weren't good friends.