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Reki was skating along the pavement to find Langa at their usual meet up spot before school. As he drew closer he could make out the shape of the taller boy leaning against a pole, his back turned. The redhead had a huge grin plastered across his face as he flicked his board up and caught it. He'd really been enjoying school since the Canadian snowboarder transferred not too long ago.
"Heyy, Langa!"
Langa slowly turned to look at Reki who was now right behind him waving, a dead pan look took over his face as he scanned over the energetic form before him. His facial features were slightly blurred and disfigured, as if someone had taken a picture of him while shaking thier phone. He sighed as he finally locked eyes with Reki then scoffed and glanced down at his feet.
Reki took a careful step fowards and gingerly put his hand on Langa's shoulder.
"Uh, you ok man," Reki said, a hint of concern dripping into his voice as his smile faltered. Langa could be blunt sometimes but he would never scoff at Reki like that.
"Go away."
Reki slowly retracted his hand and his heart plummeted to his stomach as his smile dropped.
"W-what?"
The redhead scanned Langa's face for any hint that this was some kinda fucked up joke or something. He found none.
"Langa..."
"I said go away, I don't like you, you freak," Langa spat, venom lacing his words.
Tears started gathering in the corners of Reki's eyes.
"What are you talking about? Langa-I..we-,"
Langa bent down slightly so he could be eye level with Reki and came up close to his face. He stared into Reki's shiny pupils as a small smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. It wasn't one of those smiles he would be sporting while watching skate videos with Reki or when he finally nailed a particularly complicated trick, no, this smile was soulless and it terrified Reki.
"I. Don't. Like. You. I never have, nobody else likes you either."
Langa was still smiling at him, unblinking. Reki shivered, Langa was never like this. Langa was always nice to Reki, there's no way he was just faking it all this time. Right?
"What do you mean?!" Reki grabbed hold of the boy infront of him and started shaking him hoping to snap him out of whatever trance he was in. "This isn't like you!" A singular tear fell from his eye and glidded down his cheek.
"You're the worst skater out of everyone at S. Nobody wants you around."
Reki was absolutley crushed. He values Langa's opinion over anyone else's, even his own at times, so if Langa was saying this stuff then did that mean....
Langa wasn't smiling any more. He shrugged Rekis hands off then shoved him onto the road. Hard. The sky transitioned from a bright summers day to a rainy night, the clouds blocking out the moon as Reki hit the tarmac. His skate board skid across the ground and Langa was gone. Just as Reki was getting up he flicked his soaked hair out of his eyes and was met face to face with two blinding lights.
Crack.
Reki sprung up from his bed panting hard. His heart was beating so fast in his chest it felt like it would fall out.
"Holy fucking shit." He managed to force out when he got his breathing under control. "What the hell was that..." He lifted his hand to rub at the wetness gathering around his eyes. Langa wouldn't say that shit... He didn't mean it, it's not true.... And so what if he wasn't as good a skater as everyone else, they were still his friends...
"Ughhh, this sucks," He muttered as he pouted and dragged his hand across his face.
Reki leaned off the side of his bed and grabbed his phone to check the time. 03:18. At least it wasn't a school night... He really wanted to talk to Langa right now.
You: hey (:
You: are u awake rn
You: i mean its fine if u arnt
You: nvm its kinda late rn haha
You: or early ig
You: ...
Langa<3: reki?
You: oh hi (:
You: sorry if i woke u!!!!
Langa<3: its fine i was alredy awaje
Langa<3: awake*
Langa<3: r u ok ):
You: Yea i just had a weird dream and coldnt sleep >:
Langa<3: im coming over
You: WHAT??!
You: like rn??
You: 0:
You: LANGAAAAAAAAAA
Langa<3: yup, i just texted my mom (:
Langa<3: ill be there in like 10 mins
You: ok (: (: (: (:
Reki lay on his bed while staring up at the celing. He just couldn't get that image of Uncanny Langa out of his head no matter how hard he tried.
"Ughhh, stupid dream, weird, uncanny lookin' ahh Langa."
The boy huffed as he turned to the side and curled up in his covers.
"How bout I stare at you all creepy lookin' then push you onto a fucking road and see how you feel. Stupid piece of shit, why'd you have to say all that rude stuff..... Totally uncool..... "
Just as he was in the middle of his rant he was startled by a soft tapping sound on his window. He went over thinking it was a bird or something but was taken back when he opened the curtains just to see Langas nonchalant face staring back at him, as if it was perfectly normal to climb up to your boyfriend's bestfriend's window at three am.
Reki stood there in awe for a second, because what do you mean Langa climed all the way up to his room just because he couldn't sleep?! He's just been reminded for the hundreth time today why he's madly in love with his best friend.
Langa was clinging on to Reki's windowsill for dear life, he ditched his board near the front door after skating over as fast as he could. He gave a sheepish wave to snap the groggy redhead out of his daze.
Reki snapped back to reality and yanked open the window in fear the other boy would fall to his death and pulled said boy into a bone crushing hug.
"Dude Langa you're crazy for comin' through the window like that!" Reki pat him on the back whilst grinning.
Langa shrugged, a little embarresed flush creeping onto his pale cheeks "I didn't wanna wake your mom up by knocking on the door..."
"Pfftt, it's fine don't worry bout it man." Reki waved his hand dismissivly, then, as if he had forgoten something he paused and quickly reached out a hand to grab Langa's chin, pull his face closer so they could see eye to eye and started examining the icy blue eyes and supprised expression seemingly searching for something.
"uhh, Reki?"
"I need to make sure you're not Langa Backrooms Edition."
"Uhmmm...."
"He was in my dreams. Nasty old fart...."
"Wait is that why you couldn't go to sleep?"
"Smile."
"What?"
"Just do it Langaaaaa."
Langa gave the boy an unsure little smile that fit his face perfectly and Reki's poor heart melted with affection and sheer relef because Langa was finally back to normal with his adorable little grin heating Reki's face up to a colour almost identical to his hair.
Reki finally pulled away and let the poor guy who just got here (still in his polar bear pyjama pants and shirt by the way) a bit of personal space.
"Did I pass the test?"
Reki choked back a cough. "Uh, Yeah," he chuckled nervously while rubbing the back of his neck. He then recovered from whatever the hell that was and put his arm around Langa's neck as he led the taller boy into the room only to get his foot tangled in the strap of his school bag. Uh, oh.
The two boys came crashing down to the floor with a thud and now were bacically lying ontop of eachother in a tangle of limbs.
"Ow..." they both said in unison. They turned their heads slightly so they were facing eachother, golden brown eyes staring intently into gentle baby blue. Reki took in the sight before him, Langa's pale skin and features were illuminated by the faint glow of the moon shining trough the still open window, the breze catching his hair and tossiling it ever so slightly, blue locks intertwining with red. Langa stared back at him taking note of the beautifully sun kissed skin dotted with freckles. They both blushed a little as laughter bubbled out of Reki's throat and broke the silence growing in the room.
Reki got up and closed the window then offered a hand to the boy still sprawled out on the floor. Langa gratefuly accepted and wobbled into a standing position.
"Reki why's your room always so messy?" Langa complained as Reki, quite forceably kicked his school bag under his bed.
"It's litterealy not, your such a neat freak Langa!" The boy was now waving his hands around in the air trying to empithise his point.
"Say that to your maid femboy anime drawings on the floor..."
Reki jumped down and slided across the ground to snatch the pages away and hide them behind his back as he got up.
"Hey you can't say much I saw you trying to draw one before too!" he yelled while pointing an accusatory finger towards Langa.
"That's not the point," Langa said as he crossed his arms. "The point is you left them on the floor... What if your mom came in?"
Reki shuddered.
"I don't know about you but I think I'd die of embarrasment."
"Okay, Okay, no more weird drawings on the floor. got it..."
Reki shoved the pages into his desk then looked back at Langa who was now sitting on his bed and kicking his flip flops off. He skated in those?!. He didn't really know what to do now that Langa was actually here and confirmed not to be evil so he said the first thing that came to mind.
"Wanna eat food or somthin'?"
There was a pause as the other thought.
"Sure."
Reki's sisters were all on a sleep over at their grandparents house so they didn't have to worry about waking up anyone because his mother is a very heavy sleeper.
"So whatya want?" Reki sang while rooting thrugh all the cabinets.
Langa rubbed his chin in thought.
"Uhm..... I'm kinda craving bread right now."
"Bread???"
Langa shot him a grin.
"Yup."
Reki shot a grin back.
"Dude you're literaly so weird!" he laughed while wiping the corner of his eye. He looked in the cabinet the bread was usually stored in and laid eyes on the empty packet just as a memory flashed into his mind....
"Come on girls! Hurry up and finish your sandwiches before you have to go!" His mother was rushing around the kitchen triying to clean up after his little sisters.
"Reki how many slices of bread do you think I could fit in my mouth at one time?" Did he hear that right because what the hell???. He turned around to see Koyomi shoving at least ten slices of bread into her mouth.
"What the...."
He looked across the table to see his two younger siblings also trying to devour as much bread as possible.
"Koyomi! Now look what you started!!" he exclaimed as he gestured to Nanaka and Chihiro.
"mhmph."
Reki clenced his fist as his eye twitched and closed the press.
He turned to face Langa who was now standing right beside him. "Heh, sorry, looks like we're outta bread.."
The other boy's shoulders slumpped and he was pouting. He looked genuinley crushed by the fact there was no bread. Reki reached over to pat his back, looking at him with sympathy.
"It's okay because I actually have an idea!" He took his hand off Langa and with one hand on his hip and the other reaching to the bridge of his nose to push up his nonexistent glasses as he proclaimed, "We're gonna make banana bread!"
"Uhh... Do you even know how to bake? I don't think this is a good idea..."
The boy in question was already advancing toward the fridge.
"Don't worry Langa, I've seen my mom do this."
He scratched his head in thought as he looked through the contents of the fridge. He wasn't lying when he said he'd seen his mother do this.
"Okay, so I know you definitely need eggs and milk... Langa, can you get the flour and sugar?" He turned to call over his shoulder, "You know where they are right?"
Langa opened the cabinet he'd seen Reki's mother open a few days ago and saw two containers of flour, a bag of sugar and a bunch of other random ingreedents. One of the flour lables said sfr flour and the other said flour. Of course Reki wouldn't specify which one, why would he. It was kinda cute how exited he was over banana bread....
"Uhh, Reki?"
"Yeah?"
The redhead started walking over to where Langa was, looking for the right ingreedents and scratching his head in thought. His hair was really messy, silky blue strands sticking out in every ditection. It usually wasn't like this but then again he usually didn't wake up and skate ten minutes as fast as he could in the wind at night. His hair looks adorably soft right now.
"Which flour is it?"
Reki shoved his head into the cabinet beside Langa's to get a closer veiw.
"Hmmm.... Prolly this one." He grabbed the flour flour and the sugar.
"Wait what do you mean prolly this one? I thought you said you saw your mom do this before!"
"I did."
"..."
"Once.."
Langa dragged his hand down his face.
"It's fine there's litterealy no difference anywayss!"
Langa put his hands up in mock surrender, "Okay, you're in charge of getting the rest of the ingredents, mister smart ass.."
Reki smirked. "I'll just pretend I didn't hear that!" He then collected the butter from the counter and two bananas from the fruit bowl, they were just the right colour to make the bread sweet.
"So do we just mix these all together?"
"Yup"
"I'll put the eggs in and then you put the bananas in."
"Okay"
Just as Reki leaned down to grab an egg his hair fell into his face and stabbed his eyes, thats when he realized he wasn't wearing his signature head band!
"Wait, I'll be back in a sec, just gotta get my head band!" He laughed then pointed to his head.
"Ok Rapunzel"
"Rapunzel" blushed then stuck out his tounge as he quietly ran back up to his room.
Langa had already put the eggs and the bananas in the bowl before Reki got back. What's taking him so long, he probaraly can't find it....... He looks so pretty when he get's all flustered like that...... Wait why did I think that....... Does this mean I wanna like, make out with him or something...... Bro this is so weird.....
"Heyyy! Guess who's back!!!"
"Rapunzel."
"Hey!"
Reki gently slapped Langa on the back of his head then stood beside him to look at the contents of the bowl. Eggs and banana. Yum.
"Oh, you alredy put the eggs in! That means it's time for phase two!" The boy did a dramatic twirl then held up a peace sign and winked at Langa. It was getting hard to beat the gay alligations with how red that made Langa's face.
Reki picked up the bag of sugar and began pouring it into the mix. Langa grabbed the bag back when it looked like the entire thing was about to be poured in.
"Wait aren't you suppoted to like measure it out or something...."
"Yeah but you can do it by eye, well I can do it by eye anyways. The sweeter the better am I right?"
"..."
Reki rolled his eyes as he picked up the flour.
"Wait how much butter do I put in??" Langa realised this was probably a stupid question and his guess was as good as Reki's.
"uhh.."
Reki leaned in so he could inspect the half melted lump of butter, his puffy hair brushing off Langa's chin.
"Just chuck it all in."
Langa shrugged as Reki returned to the flour.
"Your the boss!"
And in went the butter.
"I'll mix!" Reki grabbed a wooden spoon out of a press and started mixing. But....... His dumb ahh forgot to close the lid of the flour and his elbow collided with it at full force, he dropped the spoon nearly knocking over the bowl aswell (thankfully Langa's spidey senses went off..) in an attempt to catch the flour but all he did was change the direction it fell causing both him and Langa to be absolutley covered head to toe in white dust.
"ouu shiii-"
"Reki!!!"
The pair turned to face each other and as soon as they saw eachothers flour covered faces they burst out laughing. Then Reki started coughing up flour and Langa started slapping his back full force because he obviously didn't want his home boy to die before he could confess his love.
"Dude, STOP!!! I'm not dying anymore!" He waved Langa away but continued to clutch his stomach due to laughter.
"You may not be dying right now but you sure will when your mom see this.."
"It's fine, we can clean it in the morning, she'll probably sleep in anyways."
He looked over at langa again who was still covered with flour, the clumps were caught in his eyebrows and long lashes it was also covering his hair. Reki almost laughed at the thought it looked like a huge dandruff infestation then realised he's in the exact same situation. Dang, why's Langa gotta be so freaking beautiful even when covered in fucking flour...
He was startled by Langas hand coming up to whack the flour out of his hair. He totally didn't blush
"Hey!"
Reki decided to fight back and started tossling Langa's hair too. Now here they are, at four AM tackling flour out of eachothers hair in Reki's kitchen whilst making banana bread. Tonight was gonna be a looong night.
Finally, twenty minutes later the bread was in the oven and the flour was barely mostly cleaned up.
"How long did you say it needed?"
"An hour."
Langa took his phone out of his pocket to check the time. 04:23.
"Okay, we'll check it at like twenty past five then."
"Okie didily dokie"
"..."
Reki cleared his throat.
"Let's just go to my room to pass time."
Reki and Langa were lying stomach down on the floor beside eachother while watching funniest skate fails on Reki's phone which was balanced against the leg of his desk. They were using on arm each to rest their chins on and one arm to wrap around the others shoulders. They were totally not playing with eachothers hair or anything.
They were both half asleep when there was a particulary bad fail and some dude in the backround started spewing a string of curses so loud and creative and definitley not PG that Langa and Reki startled.
"Hmmhhpphhh...... Langaaaa, wha' time is it?" The boy in question sat up, regeretfully taking his hand out of Reki's birds nest and checked his phone.
"Quarter to six...."
"..."
"..."
They both got up and dashed to the kitchen as fast as possible, uncaring of their protesting muscles that ached from laying on the hard floor for so long. When they reached their destination they could smell the bread. It did not smell edible....
"Noooooo."
Reki could have sworn he actually saw a tear run down the pale boys cheek as he laid eyes on the charcoal lump that was banana bread.
"Heh, don't worry I can save it.."
Reki took it out of the oven, trying not to wince at the smell and sight. It smelled like the devil itself crawled out of some hole in Reki's kitchen and farted or mabye even sharted judging by the look of the "bread".
Langa drapped one arm across Reki's neck and leaned his weight on him as he dramaticaly pressed his other palm into his face, looking away from the monstrosity before them. "No Reki, it's too far gone, we should have used protection."
Reki's felt his face heat up as he used a knife to try scrape off the burnt bits, the bread didn't even rise. It was a total failure (geez, who woulda saw that coming).
"Langa, I think it's too late for an abortion!"
"It's okay my love~"
Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!!! Langa just called me his love!!! And not just of skate boarding this time!!!!
Langa grabbed the Satain Shart out of Reki's hands and bit into it.
Reki jumped back from him, absolutley mortified.
"What the fuck?!"
Langa covered his mouth with his hand as he rushed over to the sink just in time for the black goo to dribble out his mouth and plop into the sink with a sickening splat.
He turned to look at the disgusted redhead and gave a shaky thumbs up.
"so...good...."
He then turned the tap on full power to rince the rancid taste out of his mouth.
"Bleh...."
Reki came over to pat the others back.
"Thats rough buddy."
He guided the gloomy Canadian to his room and sat him on the bed.
"Wait here I'll be right back!"
While Langa was patently waiting for his crush to come back his eyes caught something of intrest on Reki's desk. So he did what any normal person would do and let his curiosity guide him. His heart skipped a beat as his eyes laid upon the most glorious portrait of himself he's ever seen. It was a beautifuly stylised pencil drawing of him on lined copybook paper, slightly turned at an angle and smiling softly, his hair and eyes were shaded in lightly with a blue coloured pencil. Right above the drawing was his name scribbled in chicken scratch with a blue heart beside it. To say he was blushing madly would be an understatement.
He heard a set of footsteps shuffle up the stairs and quickly sat back down on the bed. Reki emerged into the room with the biggest bag of multicoulored lolly pops he's ever seen in his life!
"Why the fuck do you have enough lolly pops to feed a family of sixty seven for sixty seven days?"
"Uh.. cause I'm a big back and I love sugar?"
"..."
"Fair enough."
Reki scooted in beside his Boy That's a Friend on the bed so that they were both sitting near the pillows and leaning against the frame (and eachother).
Langa romantically gripped Reki's bare foot with his bare foot, making sure they intertwined toes as Reki opened the triple xxl big back extended family sharing bag of sweets and poured a bunch of them out. There must have been at least one hundred different flavours to choose from.
"Let's eat as many as we can, as fast as we can!" Reki had the biggest grin plastered across his face.
This little shit-
"Threetwoonego!"
"Eh?!"
The little redheaded gremlin was alredy unwrapping his rainbow lolly at the speed of light.
"Come onnn, Langaaa. I'm gonna eat them all-" He shoved the candy in his mouth and startred chewing, all you could hear were the clicks of the lolly hitting against his poor, poor teeth. Langa decided to go for the same "rainbow flavour" as Reki, but unlike that gremlin he didn't chew....
This cycle of Reki being a menace devouring the snacks and Langa admitidly chewing some too (not as much as Reki though) continued for about ten minutes before the pair had finally slowed down.
Reki had a red cherry and strawberry flavoured lolly pop in his mouth when he noticed something about Langa's blue "ice dragons ballsacks" flavoured one (it didn't actually taste like balls.)
"Hey Langa..."
They were both extremly sleep deprived at this point.
"Hmm..."
"Stick out your tounge."
Langa looked at Reki for a moment then shugged his shoulders and stuck his tounge out not even bothering to remove the lolly.
"Ha.... Your tounge's fuckin' blue..."
Langa had already guessed that.
"Can't say much dumbass..."
"My tounge's blue too?"
Langa stared at Reki's red stained lips as a blush stated to grow on his face and he looked away.
"Somthin' like that...."
He looked back at Reki and they locked eyes. Reki stared him up and down taking in every thing from his flour covered pj's to his glistening blue eyes and stained lips.
"We should kiss." Reki said, fully serious. so serious, in fact, he actually took out his lolly pop
No way! Langa stared at the boy in front of him his already scarlet face growing hotter. It's safe to say he was left speachless because that's exactly what he was about to say.
A shy blush creeped onto Reki's face as he seemed to realise what he just said.
"Wait I mean only if you want to cause y'know, it would be kinda weird to go around kissin' your home boys, hahahah. ha...."
Langa gulped. It was now or never. Both him and Reki were delinquent skater boys and even though Langa gets conffesions every other day, nither of them have ever kissed before.... There's a first for everything am I right?
Langa spat his lolly out, grabbed Reki's chin squishing his cheeks together, and pulled him in till their lips met all in quick succession.
Both boys were frozen for a breif moment as they prossesed this foreigin feeling but then they melted into it. It felt like all the tension left their bodies as Reki softly grabbed the back of Langa's head and twirled the delicate strands around in his fingers as their souls intertwined.
Reki didn't know if he believed in the divine but he was pretty sure making out with Langa was fucking the closest he'll ever be to it.
When they pulled back they both looked at eachother in awe as they gasped for breath.
Langa looked down at the hand he used to pull Reki in then back up to the boy in question.
"That was....."
"Incredible..." The redhead finshed, looking at Langa with sparkling eyes. He then furrowed his brows as he lifted his hand up touch his lip. His finger came away purple.
"Purple?"
Langa's cheeks were rosy red.
"Uh, yeah your tounge was red."
Reki smiled.
"Dude we have to do this shit again some day!"
He tackled Langa down and burried his face in the blue, slightly floury fabric of his shirt.
"Sure"
Langa wrapped his arms around his boyfriend.
It may have been half six in the morning by the time they got to sleep but Langa couldn't care less. And if skating to Reki's house in the wind at 3AM was all he had to do to experience this again then so be it.
The last thing Masae Kyan expected to see when she walked into her kitchen was definitely not whatever the hell this was. There was little bits of flour everywhere, knifes, spoons, forks all just laying about, The sink was filled with random utensils, cups, plates, bowls and last but no least just to put the cherry on the cake there was a charred loaf of...something just sitting on the stove with black dust around it and chunks missing, that had better not be a bite mark.....
Luckly the culprit, culprits? left suspisiously foot shaped flour marks in a trail going up the stairs.
She followed the footprints untill they came to a stop infront of Reki's room. She braced herself for what she was about to see but when she opened the door, a small smile tugged at the corners of her lips.
Her son was sprawled out in a tangle of limbs on his bed clinging onto Langa his "friend" their toes intertwined as they gripped onto eachother, both covered in flour.
And if she thought anything about the red and blue lolly pops on the ground and the purple stains around the boys mouths, well, she didn't say anything.