I Love Anxiety - Tamaki Amajiki x Reader

Chapter 25 - Ice Cream

"Wow... So he's been visiting you?" Tamaki asks me. I can tell he seems a bit nervous about it. "H-has he said anything about me?"

I smile at him. "Yeah." Jiji jumps a bit at that. "He told me to tell you sorry for being a jerk to you."

The boy's eyes widen in surprise. "He did?"

I nod. "Oh, and he also told me that I'm destined to help all these spirits find their way to the afterlife. I don't know what that's supposed to mean, but that's the reason I was given this quirk. I don't know what'll happen if I don't do it, though."

He frowns a bit. "Every spirit?"

I nod. "I don't know how I'll be able to do that, but I guess I kinda have to." I slide out of bed and go to the dresser.

"That's... A lot of spirits." He says.

"Yeah... It is. But if they're here, aren't they here for a reason?" I ask.

He gets out of bed and comes up behind me. "Not all of them."

When he wraps his arms around my waist and sets his chin on my shoulder, I chuckle. "Oh yeah, what's up with yesterday?"

He blushes a bit. "What do you mean?"

I lean my head on his. "You're usually not that touchy and you seemed a bit tired. Did something happen?"

His grip tightens around me. "Well... Actually Kamado and Inosuke were at the festival..."

I frown. "Did they pester you?"

He shakes his head. "Not really... They just made fun of you."

When he buries his face in my neck, I smile. "Did you say anything back?"

He pauses. "Well... I got really mad. I was actually gonna... I don't know... Hit them? But Mirio stopped me before I could."

My eyes widen with surprise before I laugh and turn around in his arms so that I'm facing him. I hold his face in my hands and look at him in the eye. "It's okay. If someone makes fun of me, you don't gotta worry about it. There's always gonna be people out there who don't like me."

He blushes, looking away. "But I don't understand why they don't like you."

I put my forehead to his. "No one will understand that. The only way to move past it is to not let them know that it bothers us."

He nods in reply. I smile before pecking him on the lips. "C'mon. We have a tiny break now. What do you wanna do?"

His face turns more red than before and he sits on the bed. "I don't know."

I chuckle. "Alright, we'll figure something out then."

***

"Oh c'monnn, lemme do it. Please?" I ask, expanding a hair tie with my fingers.

He buries his face in his knees. "It might look weird."

I laugh, sitting beside Jiji on the couch that sits in the commons of our dorms. "You won't look weird, you'll look cute. I wanna see what it looks like."

He sighs before turning his back to me, hugging a pillow.

I smile before gathering his hair, leaving the strands that cover his face, and tie it up in a ponytail. "Alright, now look at me."

As he slowly turns back around, I notice his intense blush. When I see his face, I freeze, staring at him. He looks away nervously. "I-is it weird?"

I grab his face in my hands, surprising him. "I'm gonna need more hair ties. You look absolutely gorgeous, I'm trying more looks on you."

His face is still red at he stutters. "Wha- but I- I-"