"You always say that, y'know," Ryujin said, drawing lazy circles on the cat eyed girls arm with her fingertips.
"Do what?" Yeji asked.
"Say the same two numbers when you're making up the math problems. Four and twenty-seven," the other girl replied.
Yeji laughed, shifting her attention from the
clouds above me to the sky in Ryujin's eyes, which were absentmindedly looking towards a bunch of flowers in the soil.
"I'm just saving us as best as possible. Don't pay atterntion to what I'm saying, it's not what matters," Yeji said.
Ryujin was referring the the math problem Yeji had come up with in her head as a small group of friends walked past them. While they may not have been paying attention, she took the opportunity to pretend to be giving the girl above her a 'tutoring session' conveniently as the small group strolled by.
One of them eyed Yeji and Ryujin unconvincingly, probably due to their positions, with Yeji laying her head in Ryujin's lap, as she sat with her legs crossed, and arms leaving faint but sweet touches on the brunettes upper body. Yeji doubted tutors were this comfortable with their students, but neither of them seemed to mind it.
The only other option was to jump suddenly from their embrace and pretend to act natural, which they may have done before in their earlier stages of talking, but now they opted to just stay where they are and just take the narrowing stares from strangers in stride.
Although their little tutoring session wasn't fooling anybody, it made the woman above Yeji laugh when she did it, so she didn't mind continuing.
"Still, I just think it's funny that you always say the same numbers," Ryujin said.
The older of the duo shrugged. "It's not intentional."
Ryujin simply shook her head with a faint smile she was trying to hide, but to no avail. The cat eyed woman could see through her antics very easily.
Yeji reached up to take her lingering hand in hers, giving hers a squeeze, which in exchange she got a flash of pearly whites.
They both opened their mouthes at the same time, probably to say something cheesy or too flirtatious to not be seen as romantic, just as two more students come through the doors of the building next to them.
"And when you subtract that four from the square root of sixteen, twenty-seven minus five, plus three, will be your final answer," Yeji explained, confidently.
One of the girls in the group of friends struggled to hide her both confused and deeply concernedexpression as she did the math in her head, obliviously seeing the nonesense in Yeji's flawed gibberish.
The woman above her struggled to hide her amused expression and the small giggles that threatened to come out of her.
"They definitely think that gay people can't do math," Ryujin said with a shake of her head.
"They wouldn't be lying," Yeji said, a smile playing on her face now, as she stared at the girl beaming down at her.
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Story by @sishaniel
