sickly sweet ( k . saiki )

FAMILY PICTURE

It was the same as any other day. She put on her new outfit, said goodbye to her family and got her driver to drive her to school. The prestigious high school wasn't bad. The lobby had Starbucks, Olive Garden and a lot more; it was pretty loud.

Rei and [ y / n ] settled down in their seats, finishing off their breakfast.

As the lesson began, [ y / n ] became more and more reckless. Looking back at Rei multiple for a small amount of entertainment, but Rei was too busy writing down notes.

She huffed, looking back to the enormous whiteboard. The teacher was talking about something about the structure of a narrative or something in the lines of that.

Just like every spoiled child, everybody was goofing around. It seemed like the only people who were concentrating were the people with scholarships- and Rei. Sometimes [ y / n ] wondered why Rei even cared, but that was just regular old Rei, respectful and too serious.

Without the entertainment of Rei, [ y / n ] just talked with anybody around her. She was flinging paper aeroplanes into the sky and laughing a bit too loudly.

Then finally it was the end of the lesson.

[ y / n ] got all her things and waited for Rei to finish off her notes, scrolling through her phone and groaning and sighing impatiently.

Finally, they ate their mini lunch of Shushi.

Nozomi was acting weird. Like weirder than she usually would be. Normally she would be yapping about her Twitch following or wanting to smoke weed. Rei was normal, her nose in a book and a frequent break to her phone.

Nozomi was fiddling with her Mui Mui shirt, frequently looking up at [ y / n] and trying to play it off if [ y / n ] looked back to her. "What?"

"No-Nothing!" Nozomi jumped, trying to giggle it off.

"Nozo, you know you can talk to me about anything, right?" [ y / n ] assured, being a bit nicer than she would typically be for Nozomi, to be honest. Rei looked up.

The girl looked at [ y / n ] and back at Rei and back at [ y / n ] again, biting the inside of her lip. "Do you remember when I said that your boyfriend looked 'oddly familiar'?"

"Well- not really." [ y / n ] answered, nearly choking on her drink with the sudden topic of her 'boyfriend.' Rei shrugged.

Nozomi shoved her hand into her tote bag, taking out her phone, swiping through her pictures, a million selfies in the way. Then finally, she stopped as [ y / n ], and Rei stared at her curiously. "I-I found this."

It was a picture of Saiki holding a child. Right next to the most beautiful girl she had ever seen.

"Wh-Wha-What is this?!" [ y / n ] half yelled, taking the phone out of her hand as Rei chokes on her drink.

"Is that Saiki?" Rei says after recovering from her choke.

"No shit." [ y / n ] remarked, glaring at the photo.

Sure Saiki was her fake boyfriend, but that doesn't mean she wasn't shocked. Her mouth dangled open, and she didnt knows what to say. So did Rei and Nozomi, who stared at her and didn't know if they should be silent or to comfort her.

"The caption says- I saw this p-power couple at an amusement park, and I had to upload it." [ y / n ] reads, narrowing her eyebrows.

"W-Well, th-they might of- I- found that thing somewhere and trying to found it's mom or something." Nozomi stuttered, trying to cheer up [ y / n ], who looked like a stone, as she stared at her phone.

"Did you just refer to that child as a thing?" Rei yelled.

"At least I'm trying to cheer up [ y / n ]! It looks like you care for that child than [ y / n ]." Nozomi rebutted.

The two continued arguing as [ y / n ] continued to stare at the picture, not a thought behind those eyes. Until finally, she realised she was supposed to think to carry on with her life.

"Guys, shut up." She mutters, putting the over-decorated phone on the table.

"Ugh." Nozomi groaned, both of them sitting down. [ y / n ] put her elbows on the tables, placing her palms to her face, groaning. Saiki is 17 years old, th-that child is at least 4... H-HE DID THE NASTY WHEN HE WAS 13? With someone wh-who's obviously out of his league-?!

Jeez- why do I even care? It's 2021; teenage parents are normal. Nozomi and Rei aren't sceptical about our relationship, r-right? I guess to them, Saiki ch-cheated on me, right? Fuck.

"I'm going to skip school; see you guys later." [ y / n ] muttered before any of them could say anything. Nozomi watched as [ y / n ] took her purse and walked out of the store. Rei sighs.

Her heels clacked through the hallway as she stared at her phone as she shoved through people in the wide hallway. She tapped the call button, putting it up to her ear as it went almost instantly silent. She was pissed, "Ugh, he must be in class."

She called her driver, flopping onto the back seat, not knowing what to do. "Mr Kim?"

"Yes?" Mr Kim replied.

"Shina's uh- helper? Manager? Do you know his number?" She asked, looking up from her phone.

There was a slight silence. "Well- yes, why? Do you need it?"

"Uh- kinda."

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