• 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒 ━━ saiouma

🌙 04 // the project.

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"Okay, good afternoon everybody!" Shuichi's teacher, Sayaka Maizono, greeted.

The class greeted back, and from then on the class was silent for quite a while as Sayaka continued to teach them.

// [ timeskip ]

"And, you are gonna have group projects to make a report essay about Chapter 1 and 2 on the book 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow'. Your partner will be the person sitting beside you right now, and this project will be due tomorrow," She smiled as the bell rang, "So, good luck everyone! See you tomorrow."

Shuichi stayed calm as he walked through the hallway to get home. he thought everything was going fine until something clicked in his mind:

His partner would be 𝘒𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘪, as his seat was right next to him. But the problem was, Kokichi had already left the school, and they needed to do the project today ASAP. Would it be too late to run after him?

He quickly sped up, letting our a sigh of relief as he saw the short male walking down the street in front of him.

"Ko—ki—chi!" Shuichi said between gasps of air, "Thank god you're here, we need to do our project!"

"Shoot — I forgot. I wasn't planning to go home anyways, so do you have the book? I've read it but I don't have it anymore." Kokichi asked.

"I don't either .. How about we go to the library around here and borrow it?" Shuichi replied softly.

"Yeah, sure," Kokichi answered.

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"We're here! Now come on, we only need to take the book and go." Kokichi grinned.

"Wha — Were not gonna steal it, obviously!" Shuichi replied in distress.

"Jeez, obviously I meant that we were gonna borrow it. Don't take the things I say that seriously — unless I'm actually serious." Kokichi smirked.

"Noted." Shuichi replied as he opened the door to the library.

Once they got in, Kokichi's eyes immediately aimed for the book. However, it seemed to be on the tallest shelf and Kokichi .. had problems trying to take it.

"Come on, what's taking so long?" Shuichi whined.

"Ngh — I give up, hold me up for a sec." Kokichi groaned.

"What!? I'm not gonna hold you!" Shuichi yelped while he hid his face which was starting to redden.

"Do you wanna get this book or not?" Kokichi asked, slyly.

"Whatever.. are there cameras here?" Shuichi asked back.

"Hm, I dunno, I don't care that much, just help me get this damn book!" Kokichi whined.

"Okay, okay, give me a second .." Shuichi said, giving up.

He carried Kokichi slowly, basically giving him a piggybank ride but he wasn't moving.

"Do you have it yet?" Shuichi asked lazyly.

"I'm trying, what do you think I'm doing? Staring at it?" Kokichi said in an annoyed tone.

"Just hurry up, I don't want someone to walk in and accidentally see this .. interesting scene. How would I explain this?" Shuichi asked.

"You got a point there. Yeah, I'll be quicker, hold o—" Kokichi's words got cut off from the sound of someone opening the door.

"T-THE HELL!?" Miu slammed the door open, "KOKICHI!?"

"Ah, um, I — I can explain .. ?" Shuichi nervously laughed.

"Shit!" Kokichi shouted.

"Kokichi!" Shuichi screamed, "Language!"

"Okay, I got it! Put me down now." Kokichi ordered.

"Yeah, hold on." Shuichi mumbled as he put Kokichi down.

"And, mind explaining what just happened like 5 minutes ago before I tell the whole class tomorrow!?" Miu snickered.

"Miu, shut it," Kokichi groaned.

"Um .. sorry?" Shuichi apologized.

Kokichi then bumped Shuichi's hand, "Don't apologize, idiot, you did nothing."

"Are you two boyfriends?" Miu asked, smirking.

"W—What!? No! We just met today!" Shuichi shouted as his face turned into a tint of crimson red.

"Wow, so all those years we spent in kindergarden AND primary meant nothing to you?" Kokichi puffed his cheeks.

"Kokichi!" Shuichi screamed again.

"Childhood friends, eh?" Miu asked again, with a bigger smirk this time.

"No!" Shuichi denied.

"Enemies, actually," Kokichi corrected Miu, "But I guess being friends wouldn't be that bad, right, Shuichi?" Kokichi grinned.

"Shut it .." Shuichi covered his face again with his hat.

"Anyways, emo boy! I haven't introducued myself to you, so I will. My name's Miu—fucking—Iruma, the gorgeous girl genius!" She said proudly.

"Ah, right .. nice to meet you, Iruma, my name's Shuichi." He replied softly.

"Anyhoo, Shuichi, come on chop chop we needa go to your house!" Kokichi snickered, grinning.

"Ohhhhh, sleepover huh? Are you both gonna fuck!?" Miu asked, laughing.

"For God's sake Miu, were in highschool, just let us live our lives!" Kokichi whined while Shuichi just burried his red face in his hands.

"Okayyy, I'll let the two of you have your time, bye—bye shitheads!" Miu quickly left while she snickered.

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"Hi, can I borrow th—" Shuichi's words were cut off by the leader's.

"HEY! RAN-RAN! Why are you here?" The leader asked, confused.

"I need to guard the library till like, 4 PM because I was caught skipping class," Rantaro replied unenthusiastically, "What do you need?"

"Like I was saying, I need to borrow this book." Shuichi said.

"We need to borrow this book." Kokichi teased.

"Okay, sure, how long?" Rantaro asked.

".. A day? I mean, the assignment is due tomorrow, so .." Shuichi answered.

"Okay, you're good to go." Rantaro said.

"Yaaayyy! Thank you, Ran-Ran!" Kokichi smiled.

"Yeah, thanks," Shuichi smiled too.

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"Oh and, about Miu before. She's a pain sometimes, sorry Shuichi." Kokichi frowned.

"Yeah, it's fine, should we go to your house or mine?" Shuichi asked.

"I already said it earlier, yours, duh!" Kokichi exclaimed.

"Okay, okay, let's go." Shuichi smiled as he walked outside the bookstore with Kokichi.

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