CherryLatte

Shit

... "That's ok. I love you." *

Tash was too busy feigning indignation and trying to push him away from her, but she heard it. She stopped fighting him. She was snuggled into his chest, but she was suddenly glad she was in this position. If she was anywhere else, she would be forced to look at his face. She sunk her head all the way down between his arm and chest and gripped onto his shoulder. She hid there, afraid to look at him, into those big brown eyes. Afraid she might look into them, and they might reveal to her that maybe, she wanted to say it back.

She spent the rest of the night there. He stroked her hair until she fell asleep.

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They say there is a thin line between love and hate. Who they are, I don't know. Which one comes first? Can you start to love someone you hated? Can you hate someone you loved? If you watched enough TV you might think so. You might even start to fantasize about having a love story of your own play out as this quite overused trope...

Tash was now sitting in the library reading through Ren's essay hurriedly before he got here. Understandably, she didn't get the time to, last night.

Ren showed up and smacked down the copy of her essay.

"What is this?" he asked her.

"Huh?" She took a look at the several markings she could see on what was just the front page alone.

"Your worst draft is usually better than my final submitted versions...usually" Ren eyed her suspiciously. His eyes caught on to her, now busying with his draft. "Are you having an issue outside of school? Is it family?" he asked.

"No...?" she shook her head. Was she having an issue?

"Then how come you're not your super organized self?" he inquired.

Tash didn't say anything. She looked down at his paper and kept reading. But nothing she was reading was registering in her head. They were just words to her. She smacked her red pen down on the desk. Ren jumped from the suddenness.

"I think I like someone," she looked at him.

"Okay, who is it this time? Which character? Or is it someone from a show?" Ren sat back ready to be amused. He waited in anticipation wanting to find out what had captured her attention this time. He remembered fondly when she was convinced...and tried to convince him too, that she was in love with Richard Grayson. Yes, Nightwing. There was not a single Nightwing comic that she hadn't read. The worst part about it was that she tried to get him to read them too. Why he took the bait he didn't understand. But he found that while Nightwing was a cool guy, Red Hood was way cooler.

Tash rolled her eyes, "This guy I met"

Ren's eyes almost bulged out of his head. "You met him? It's...a real person?"

Tash sighed. "I know right?"

Ren, "Who? When? How?"

Tash, "None of that matters! I might really like this dude! What do I even do about that?"

Ren, "Pfftttt this has got to be the plot twist of your life."

Tash, "You can't say something more useful than that?"

Ren, "Like what? You either like him or you don't. If you like him then you like him. You have to know what you want if you do. If you don't like him then don't waste your time. Or his. Poor guy."

Tash scoffed. "Whose side are you on?"

Ren, "Any guy that can have you this flustered is a person whose side I'm gonna take."

Tash shook her head and threw his essay at him.

Ren, "Now, I have to know! Who is it? Does he come to this college?"

Tash, "No. He's...wellll...."

Ren, "Well?"

Tash, "Remember that museum we went to?"

Ren, "Yeah I was there the whole time you didn't meet anyone new there."

Tash, "..."

Ren collapsed on his chair laughing. "Shut the fuck up! No. No? Right?" Tash let him have his moment. "Hang on a second...But I...everyone thinks something is going on between him and professor Laryn. We've seen them in the department and on campus so many times. Are you sure you're not being delusional?"

Tash kicked his chair.

"But we just went there yesterday how can you like him already?" Ren questioned, amusement on his face.

"I met him way before that" Tash admitted.

"So...hahahahahahahaha so yesterday you were just there...wait does he like you back?"

And so Tash told Ren everything. Albeit, a short version, with the details nobody needs to know left out.

Ren, "Well shit...Now that explains why your essay is...well, it's shit."

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a/n 

So this really amazing artist did the cutest art for Keva and Tash!