MY ROOMIE NIGHTMARE 【佐久早 聖臣】

ROOMMATES | ACT Ⅹ

INT. UTOKYO HONGO CAMPUS — MORNING

The size of the campus dazed KOYAMA into a temporary existential crisis. Students flocked the area with their own stress marked in the frown lines between their eyebrows.

KOYAMA's heart delighted in the way sunlight hit the newly born leaves of the awakened trees.

SAKUSA
(Concerned)
Are you okay?

KOYAMA
I'm totally fine.
Just a little taken
aback by the immensity
of this campus.

KOYAMA
(Content)
I've never had an
early morning feel
so bright.

SAKUSA
You're easily
amused.

KOYAMA
I hope you mean that
in the nicest way
possible.
(Glances at Sakusa
from her peripheral
vision).

SAKUSA
(Shrugs).
The interpretation
is up to you.

KOYAMA
When you say it like
that, I just know it
isn't what I want to
hear. (Pouts). Why do
I even try?

SAKUSA
Do you always talk
this much Koyama-San?

KOYAMA
Yes, yes I do!
(Blushes).

KOYAMA
I'll shut up now.

SAKUSA glances down, expecting to see an angry faced brunette, but he sees an embarrassed woman instead.

KOYAMA tends to play with her hands, and to keep her body hunched into itself. Everything about her behavior screamed "low self-esteem", and SAKUSA wondered why she behaved in such a way.

The raven believed the brunette to be outgoing, but the first, and now second time, he spent with her in public, she looked as stiff as a board.

SAKUSA hated crowds, but that didn't mean he felt particularly anxious. He just didn't like people touching him and getting in his personal space when it wasn't necessary.

SAKUSA
(Cough).

KOYAMA
(Looks up).
E-Eh?
Did you say something
just now Sakusa-San?

SAKUSA
(Shakes his head).
I didn't.

SAKUSA
In your schedule,
you have study hall,
right?

KOYAMA
I do.
Why?

SAKUSA
I do too.

KOYAMA
(raises her voice).
What time?!

SAKUSA
(Cringes).
Low— I mean,
12 to 1:15.

KOYAMA
Cool, me too!

SAKUSA
Right.

KOYAMA
(Purses lips).

KOYAMA
Uh, want to be
study buddies?

SAKUSA
(Looks away).
Sure.

KOYAMA
Good, because I wouldn't
have let you say no anyway.
I don't know anyone here.

SAKUSA
I'm sure you'll meet
people.

KOYAMA
Ah, don't get my hopes
up Sakusa-San. I may be
comfortable with you, because
I have to be, but around other
people I don't know, I really
suck at socializing.

SAKUSA
(Deadpan face).
Sounds stressful.

KOYAMA
With that enthusiasm of
yours I'd rather you
make fun of me then
agree with me.

SAKUSA
(Sigh).

The duo walks in silence. KOYAMA suddenly sneaks a glance at SAKUSA's side profile. A peculiar pair of moles above his eyebrow catch her attention, and she can't stop looking at them, until SAKUSA looks at her.

The brunette's face turns bright red, and her heartbeat accelerates.

For a moment, KOYAMA had forgotten about SAKUSA's subtle beauty. The man was absolutely breath-taking. With a narrow nose-bridge, strong cheekbones, and soft heart shaped lips, KOYAMA didn't doubt that SAKUSA had admirers.

SAKUSA
(Genuinely confused)
Is there something on
my face?

KOYAMA
Pfft, absolutely not, pfft.
I was lost in thought, probably,
so I spaced out. So happens that
I spaced out while looking at you.

KOYAMA
(Whispers)
and I may have lost
my sanity as well.

SAKUSA
I—

KOYAMA
Your moles are
cute though.

SAKUSA
oh.

KOYAMA
I'm bad at
dissimulation.

SAKUSA
(Weirded out)
Okay.