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13: thank u bubbletea

warnings: fluff, expletives, mentions of blood, fake dating music prof au!

summary: if your favorite bubble tea shop was offering a buy one take one offer, you are sure to redeem it. the catch is, only couples can take this offer, very fitting for the upcoming celebration of Valentine's day.

but eddy, as a professor had no time to mingle with other people.

so he dragged his friend, brett to join him to get one free bubble tea.

thank you so much for the AU suggestion of fake dating au _Hiraya_ !! p.s. i enjoyed writing this from start to finish so thank you for the prompt!! I also deeply apologize for the long delay...

this is sweet and sickening fluff, you have been warned.

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This little hidden crush he's had with his colleague was never going to show, he didn't feel like the one who confessed so easily, more likely he didn't feel like the one who gains relationships from other people in an instant.

It takes time for him to completely indulge himself from other people.

And Brett was no exception.

Right from orientation week, they acquainted each other well. Both of them were hired as music professors, specializing in advanced violins in the string sections. That meant seeing a lot of each other during breaks, having the same or different kinds of lectures to teach, most importantly witnessing teen prodigies or young violin Gods at their department.

It wasn't too long that they realized their friendship has become, splendid. It was nice having company on the campus especially when you're surrounded with caffeine monster students, piles of paperwork, snobby professors, professors who don't give a shit, and the decent people left.

Brett wasn't even sure where this crush stemmed from, it's a blur between the lines of dates and months. Somewhere along the lines of their secret getaways of achieving their precious bubble tea sneaking outside the campus during lunch breaks, or their discreet attempts at going at a nearby bar but will spot a student so they return to their professor mode trying to socialize with them and guiding them so no student will get drugged or worse.

It was those little moments he was sure to lavish, and yeah, he's had moments like these with his friends too. What makes it different is . . . Eddy himself.

How he's way more asocial than any introverted freshmen combined, but when asked of his lectures a mysterious hint of confidence resides in him. How he'll conduct in the air with headphones in, closing his eyes and feeling the music, not even noticing that he's inside the office and thanking all Gods existing that it was just the two of them.

And there are also times when they're alone by themselves grading up paperwork, not noticing that the afternoon has slowly bled into the night. Their eyes almost falling out of their sockets but coffee keeps them alive and shaking, then they'll keep each other company for as long as they're both permitted to.

As the months have turned into years, he's always kept a gaze in him, one that Eddy wouldn't notice. He was discreet, he didn't want Eddy to know. It was selfish, it was selfish to think that he wanted Eddy all to himself. Whether as a friend, or something more.

But he would never admit that to him.

He can't, nah, that's going too far.

For now, he continues to cheer for him. Be with him for as long as Eddy likes, he cannot admit to him so easily that sometimes he craved their hugs, he longed to held his hand if it's alright, he wants to kiss his cheeks when they're both alone inside the office. Maybe squish them too as a bonus.