After being moved away from everything she knew and loved, Akai Kuroo comes home to her family and finds out that she cares a lot more about her neighbor, Kenma Kozume than she thought she would. When she enrolls in Nekoma High School and becomes cl...
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I went to bed angry that night, I didn't text Kenma or call Mei. I just angry cried myself to sleep. I think sometime around midnight Kenma came to the window but I pretended not to hear him. The next time I woke up was because of Suro, he was knocking on my door,
"Akaiiiiii"
"What do you want Tetsuro." I groaned, sitting up in bed.
"I wanted to... talk... to you."
I could tell he was drunk, maybe high, but definitely not sober. So, I opened the door just to see what he was gonna say. That's also when I found out he was drunk, he was holding a bottle of vodka. I don't know if he had mixed it with something before or just taken swigs out of the bottle but I thought it best to take it away from him.
"Hey give that back!"
"I'll give it back tomorrow. Promise." I put the bottle onto my dresser.
"Well, you aren't one to keep promises." he mumbled.
"Are you just here to make fun of me or tell me something?"
"Oh yeaaaaa... I wanted to tell you that I'm sorry for making you cry. It made me sad." He explained, now sprawled out on my bedroom floor.
Damn... he does have feelings. I forget that sometimes. Anyway, this is really sweet, like bring me to tears sweet.
"Really?" I ask, getting emotional.
"Yeah. I don't like making you cry, but you were mean first." he confirmed, making eye contact now.
"Well, I'm sorry for making you cry too I don't like making you cry either. And Suro?"
"Yes?"
"Why didn't you want me and Kenma to date?" I asked him, knowing he would actually tell the truth if I asked right now.
"Because I didn't want to feel weird around him. He was my friend first so no matter what happened I was gonna stick with him and if your guys' relationship sucked and ended like shit I didn't want to be caught in the crossfire or have a weird tension every time he came around. Also, I'm too young to be an uncle." He laughed out that last part, I just rolled my eyes.
"Oh my god, are you ever going to stop saying that?" I rolled my eyes at that stupid comment he kept using.
"Not until I'm 30."
"30?!"
"30."
"Jeez, I gotta wait that long to have kids?"
"Yep,"
"Eh it's okay... kids are annoying anyway."
--
I and Tetsuro just talked the whole night, I guess that means we made up but I'm not sure. All I knew is I wasn't mad anymore, I'm not sure about him, or Kenma. I gotta talk to him. Anyway, now Suro was experiencing the after-effects of alcohol, which is really funny.
"Here, it'll help with the headache," I said handing him ibuprofen. Right now he was hunched over the toilet, he drank more than I thought.
"Thank you, Akai, but can you please just be quieter."
"HUH WHAT WAS THAT?" I yelled, smiling.
"I hate you."
"Aw, I love you too bro."
One of my problems had been solved, my brother didn't actually hate me anymore, Thank you for alcohol, but now I had to deal with Kenma.
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I hesitantly knocked on the front door of his house. It opened to reveal Mrs.Kozume had opened the door,
"Oh hello Akai, how can I help you?" she smiled at me.
"I just wanted to talk to Kenma for a few minutes, that's all." I explained, smiling back at her nervously.
"Okay well, he's just downstairs," she let me in to her home.
"Thank you," I said heading down the stairs and into Kenmas's room, he was sleeping.
I sat down on the edge of his bed and swiped the hair on his face to get a good look at his eye, it had gotten better, but still not very good. And I guess this woke him up because he started shifting around and opened his eyes.
"Akai?" he mumbled, seeming confused.
"Mhm, I came over to talk to you." I explained, my voice almost at a whisper.
"What did you talk about?"
"Us,"
"Okay well that seems like a hard conversation so can you just lay with me for a few before we both end up crying?" he said, reaching towards me.
"I suppose I can do that for you." So I crawled into bed with him and he laid on top of me with his head on my chest. Talk about Deja vu.
We woke up a few hours later, I guess "I just wanted to talk to him for a few minutes" didn't exactly work out.
"So,"
"So."
"Have you talked to Kuro much?"
"Yeah, we made up, I think. He was drunk and- ya know what I'll just tell you later. I just wanted to know what we were gonna do, and what's gonna happen with us." I explained, talking slow... unsure of what to say.
"Well, I think everyone knows already, so we don't have to worry about that?"
"Yea I suppose. But I really just wanna know how you feel. I know what I want, but if you don't-" I started to ramble and get nervous at what could happen.
"Akai-" He said lifting my head lightly so I would meet his eyes, "I love you more than anything, and I want to be with you."
"Kenma, I- I love you too," I could feel my cheeks burning and my eyes getting watery, "and I want to be with you too."
