𝚋𝚊𝚓𝚒 𝚔.

chapter 13

･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

The exam period was creeping behind a corner and
it didn't take long for both of you to go into a some sort of routine for his tutoring. Of course you didn't spend time together constantly, you had to have time for your own studying alone as well.

But on another occasions, even when you studied on your own, he still managed to crawl into your apartment and practically do nothing but chilling on your couch in the living room.

"To what do I owe the pleasure of you coming to my place"
You held the door open for the male to walk into your apartment as If he owned it.

Honestly, sometimes you wondered why he even knocked.

"To me being bored"

"Classic"

Shutting the door behind him, you heard his steps towards the living room.
"Do you have snacks?"

"Stop destroying every crumb of food I have left dammit, go to your place to eat"

"Nah, mom's been nagging me constantly"

"Oh, I wonder why it is this time", rolling your eyes, you took your seat by the table in the kitchen area, right next to the living room where the male went to. From your perspective you could see the tv and the couch that was placed in front of it, with its back faced towards the kitchen itself.

The male slumped against the f/c lawson styled sofa, resting his face on the pillow by the armrest.
Turning on the tv, he switched a few channels until his eye caught a familiar movie he remembered from his childhood.

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

"Ahhh he looks so dreamy with his long hair", you coed as you stared at the television screen.
Since his mother wasn't home, it was easier for him to stay at your place.
Your grandma never minded anyways.

The boy rested on the couch, silently reading some magazine while the girl laid on the floor with just one pillow to hug while on her stomach.

"Who is?", Keisuke asked visually annoyed by the comment, side eyeing who you referred to as 'dreamy'.
Why did you need to be so close to the tv anyway? It ticked him off even more combined with your comment from a moment ago.

"Him"
His eyes switched from the actor and landed on the radiant smile on your face that squished against the pillow underneath and your eyes that reflected the moving pictures of the screen you refused to take your eyes off.

*ੈ✩‧₊˚

The faint memory of the feeling lingered in his guts and he didn't know if he hated it or rather missed it. For just a brief moment, the tv screen blackened. Catching his reflection in it, he noticed how long his hair actually became.
Baji ran his fingers through his raven locks, wondering why he decided not to cut his hair the way he used to.

Actually he knew the answer to that already.

Laying on his back, his head rested on the arm of the sofa. The soft rustling of the papers could be heard from the table in the kitchen area behind, mixed with lowered tone of the tv.
Slowly he threw his head over the curve of the armrest, his eyes taking a peak at the h/c girl who focused on the studying.

As If hypnotized by her, his soft gaze rested on her profile more than he intended to. His ears blocking any other sound around him, loud scenes from the movie became white noise.
She turned her head just for a bit, catching only upper half of his face staring at her behind the corner of the sofa like some sort of a cat, before he retrieved himself from slight panic.

What If she noticed he'd been staring at her? He wouldn't want her to think he was some kind of a creep. From all the people, just not her.

"Do you need anything?", you asked the male who couldn't even be seen from your perspective anymore since his form stayed hidden behind the back-rest of the furniture he laid on.

"Ugh... um... no-", his face started heating up, his cheeks turning slightly red from not just embarrassment, but the fact that he just thought about her in non friendship kind of a way.
He thought he'd never felt this way ever since he was a kid, but apparently the old feelings never seem to die away.

The thing that saved him from his own feelings and the girl who questioned his odd behavior was his phone suddenly beeping.

╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╮

ೄྀ࿐ Chifuyu ˊˎ-

u free to hangout?

ೄྀ࿐ Baji ˊˎ-

no
busy

╰━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╯

It was an obvious lie Baji wanted to slap himself for, but then again, he couldn't help it. He started getting used to her presence, even just lazing around and doing nothing.

Although, her being around him like she used to when they were kids stirred something within him that has yet to come to surface.

-ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈