1038 : 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙤

024

narrator's pov

"ruto-shi, i bought you a can of coke~" junkyu wrapped his arms around ruto's shoulder as he handed the coke.

"see? i totally care about you, even more than jaehyuk" junkyu rolled his eyes at jaehyuk who was busy reading his literature book, but looked up as soon as he heard his name. he just gave junkyu a 'shut up' look and returned back to reading.

silence.

junkyu and jae were unfamiliar with this silence because usually, haruto would call junkyu a bird that tweets nonstop (if yk yk🥰) but instead, he was dead silent, just walking with his hands in his pocket and his eyes fixed front.

junkyu looked at jae as he looked back, shaking his head not to talk about it. indeed jae knows what's with haruto but doesn't want junkyu to worry. junkyu just tilted his head as he let go his arm from his shoulder, watching haruto open the can of coke with sleepy eyes.

the trio walked home with bickering from junkyu and jaehyuk, but mostly it was junkyu tweeting according to haruto.

"okok, we get it, you have repeated the same story about that puppy a couple of times already. this is the 6th time.." jaehyuk muttered.

"hmph. looks like you cared, you even counted the amount of times i repeated!"

"so you would know how many goddamn times you talked about it."

before jae and junkyu could start cursing at each other and throwing punches, haruto had already stepped closer to his house which was just 2m away.
he left the two confused and even managed to shut them up. haruto just waved at them while still walking straight, leaving them speechless.

"grandma, im home." ruto dragged his voice as he unlocked the door of his. as he stepped into the house, the first person he sees was y/n. she was the only one in the kitchen while chopping up some cucumbers.

haruto was about to call her but then stopped himself. he just took his shoes and socks out and headed to the toilet to wash his hands.

"grandma's out buying groceries." y/n spoke while her eyes were still fixed at the cucumbers.

haruto just nodded in return and they're back to the awkward silence. ruto scratched the back of his nape while walking to his room with his eyes looking at her. she didn't bother to look at him at all. ngl, this hurt haruto a bit. he realised they would just remain like this if they don't sort things out.

"about earlier." he decided to explain.

y/n stopped chopping the cucumbers.

"i.. really needed to talk to you but rin had to interfere. I'm sorry-"

the sound of chopping interrupted his words. he let out a sigh as he looked away from her. it was obvious, she didn't want to talk about it. so ruto just let it be and entered his room with his door shut.
meanwhile y/n glanced at the door of ruto's room, with a slight ache in her heart.

she then looked back at her cucumbers, while proceeding to chop a few more and then preparing the other ingredients. then she stopped what she was doing as she closed her eyes and sighed.

"please, let our friendship return back to normal." she whispered in her heart with hope.

y/n's pov
the next day..

"alright alright settle down school"

the whole school hall kept quiet upon the yelling from the principal. it was a wednesday morning at school and the students and teachers have gathered in the hall for some sort of speech i guess..