Photograph (Mikey x Reader)

01

Present Time
Year of 2009,
4 years later

           
           

"Jiro! Jiro! I'm baackk~"

A soft smile played at his lips as he heard the wailing of a human siren who loudly slammed open their wooden door. Picking up a plate of dorayaki and stuffing some of the bean delicacy at his mouth, he slowly made his way out the dining room to greet and lay his eyes on the person who can't come back home in a less noisy way.

Standing there on the living room is a fresh from Safari L/n Y/n with a professional camera hanging at her neck and a bright grin pasted at her face.

You just came from a foreign business trip and came back home without notice. Two months ago, you went to an expedition to Safari and assisted a famous photographer. Being a talented and aspiring photographer yourself, trips to foreign countries like this are already the norm in the Sano household including your unannounced return whenever your job is finished so no one was particularly surprised when a lunatic suddenly slammed open the door and yelled like crazy.

Hearing that you're back because of the loud commotion, Emma rushed out the kitchen to greet and throw her arms at you. You've been living with the Sano's for 12 years now. Taken in by their grandfather at the age of five by your deceased parents favor, you grew up side by side with the Sano siblings and became extremely close, treating each other like family. Everytime your photography job is finished, this is the house that you come back to, the Sano household, together with Sano Emma and Sano Manjiro.

Your family.

Smiling at Emma and hugging her back, you grinned as both of you let go of each other and your eyes met the boy who's leaning at the wall while eating a dorayaki and staring at you.

Seeing him reminded you of your latest work that you wanna flex. "Now, now. Look at this masterpiece!" You bragged and fished something from your bag. You took out a brown folder from the bag and opened it to pull up a developed picture of a scene you captured in Safari. "Pretty great, right?"

"It's pretty, Y/n-chan!" Emma was fast to compliment you as soon as she laid eyes on the picture. You already showed your talent many times to them and even if you showed them shit, Emma will stil smile at you and say that she love it.

On the other hand, Mikey slowly walked towards your direction and leaned his face to the picture to observe it closely. Munching a dorayaki as his eyes trace a line on the picture you're holding, he looked up at you and met your eyes. "It's a pair of giraffe fucking." He stated bluntly while still munching his favorite food.

What he said wasn't wrong. You're literally just showing them a wildlife photo of two mating giraffes. You captured every artistic aspect of the photo and applied every law of photography to make the picture aesthetically pleasing, but it doesn't changed the fact that it's a photo of two giraffes getting their hots for each other.

Rolling your eyes at Mikey and scrunching your nose, you held the picture carefully as if it's a treasure. "It's art, dude. Art with fancy font."

"The only art you compliment are the yaoi mangas at your room." Mikey sounded so innocent when he dropped your secret nonchalantly and in a casual statement.

And you who fell for the nonchalant tone, didn't denied the fact. "Exactly. It's a live action yaoi in Safari that I caught on cam—" The information slipped before you can even seal your mouth making your eyes widen by the stupid mistake. Emma twirled a strand of her hair hearing your slip up while Mikey was merely sitting at the couch and smiling at you in a goading manner.

"Those are two male giraffes, no?" Mikey confirmed making you pout and playfully glare at him.

"Dude, why are you like that~" You whined and plopped your body down next to him, not trying to deny what he said since it's the truth. 94% of giraffe mating is homosexual in nature and that's what you encountered at Safari during your expedition. Amazed by this curious fact, you captured the rather intimate scene in a photograph. But that's neither here or there. Now that you're back, you just wanna indulge yourself by talking and teasing your best friend of 12 years.

Sitting down next to him at the couch, you scooted yourself nearer to him as his sister went to the kitchen to get you snacks. "So how you doing?" You asked casually, staring at him particularly at the earring dangling at his left ear. You have the same one since it's the earring that both of you made when you were 15. You even remembered how you pierced his earlobe back then making you chuckle. "You got a girlfriend now?" You teased. You're gone for months and it won't be strange if your best friend already found a special someone by that span of time.

"Nope." He answered bluntly and for some reason relief rushed through you.

Smiling broadly, you looked at him in the eyes. "Then, boyfriend?" You kidded making him flick your nose. "I heard you have a friend called Takemitchy."

Mikey sent you a threatening glare making you laugh at him. Sitting more comfortably, you leaned at the couch and stared at him. Your goofiness slightly gone. "So, did you missed me or something?" You asked half-seriously, hoping to see his cheeks dusted with red like those times whenever you flirt with him as a joke.

Placing the empty plate at the center table, Mikey sat crossed-legged on the couch and faced you. "I did."

You chuckled, drowned in your delusions. "Oh dearest me~ Don't deny that you missed me. I know you do—— bitch what?" You stopped in your tracks when his words finally sinked in. "You're not flustered?" You asked hurriedly, looking closely at his ears and cheeks. Placing the back of your hand at his forehead to check his temperature, your brows raised when you realized he's not sick. "Strange. You don't usually say embarrassing stuffs like that."

Seeing that your hand is still at his forehead and the close distance between the two of you, Mikey silently took your hand and placed it at his cheek. "It will be more strange if I didn't missed you."

For the past two months he waited and waited for you. Like those days whenever you're out abroad, he wait by the window sill thinking when the hell will you come back... What kind of commotion will you cause when you arrive home...

If you'll still come home to him.

But seeing that you're back and in front of him, Mikey can't help but smile in relief. Kneeling at the couch and inching nearer to you, he placed a soft peck at your forehead making you close your eyes slightly at the contact.

"Welcome back, Y/n."