warning ! not too proof read and rushed a bit.
Nene had successfully avoided Amane for the past 3 days, skirting around the edges of town or dodging behind alleyways whenever she saw him shopping in the market.
She was now hiding inside Aoi's house, where she actually spent most of her days. She had been avoiding any mention of Amane's name for the past day or two, changing the topic whenever he came up.
"Okay, but actually Nene, are you guys like, a thing?"
Nene shook her head back and forth, flustered.
"No!! We are NOT a couple!" She put her hands up in front of her and waved them too.
"Jeez, sorry. But if there isn't anything going on between you two, why are you totally ignoring him? I work in the smack-dab center of town, I can see you dodging corners to avoid him."
"Ahaha..-" Nene giggled and scratched the back of her head, she had been caught. "It's uh, just.. well, Tsukasa was saying something weird...something about us kissing and I got embarrassed and ran.."
Aoi covered her mouth. "Oops.. that may have been our fault.."
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Amane had been spending the majority of the past couple days locked up in his and Tsukasa's shared room, escaping only when he felt trapped inside the walls to go to town.
The embarrassment of knowing his little (only by a couple minutes, Tsukasa always argued) brother had told the girl he possibly had a crush on that he thought they were kissing was eating him up inside, too ashamed to even look into her face.
She probably thought he was weird now, and wanted to distance herself from him. Little did he know, Nene was thinking the exact same thing.
"Ughh, Tsukasa! Why'd you have to go and say that to her?" He groaned, sliding slowly off the couch, head towards the floor.
"Say what~?" He said, sing song, as he doodled little ghouls on a scrap piece of paper.
"You know! About us.. like, ugh, I cant say it. It's too embarrassing. You know what you did!" Amane covered his face with his hands, voice muffled.
"Tee hee~" Tsukasa grinned and continued scribbling.
"Hmph.." Amane sat up, now fully on the floor, and decided to take a stroll out to town so he could clear his head. Surprisingly, he hadn't seen Nene around town at all recently, but that was working in his favor, I suppose.
What didn't work in his favor, though, was Nene also taking a walk at night. And with her guard down, not expecting to see Amane there, she wasn't ready to duck into an alleyway, resulting in an unfortunate situation of them standing face to face, very awkwardly.
"Um.." Nene crossed one arm over her stomach, turning her head away.
"Hi.. I haven't seen you around too much.. You haven't been avoiding me, have you?" Amane laughed. He wasn't serious, of course, but humor was his coping mechanism through awkward or hard times.
"A-Um.. sorry.. I just didn't want you to think I was weird."
Amane wasn't actually expecting her to be honest. "Oh.. It's fine, I guess I was kinda thinking the same thing."
"You don't think i'm weird because of what Tsukasa said?" She asked, bashfully.
"Nah, not at all! Tsukasa just says some weird stuff sometimes. You uh, still wanna be my friend, right?"
Nene nodded with a red face, and passed off the fluttering in her chest as being embarrassed, that any boy would make her feel this way, and it definitely wasn't Amane. He totally wasn't he type, anyways.
"Definitely."
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The snow had thawed now, but that didn't mean it got any warmer. Nene was still freezing her ass off sitting on a park bench, the group all waiting for Mitsuba who had most likely slept in again.
"It's so cold, why are we even going ice skating in November anyways?" Tsukasa laid flat on his back in the snow, a scarf covering the lower half of his face.
"Because, Tsukasa, we're all super bored and what else are we supposed to do?" Kou snapped back and tossed a handful of snow on his face, playfully.
"Well, maybe the author could write their fanfic instead of procrastinating all week..-" Amane covered Tsukasa's mouth and hauled him up.
"Okay, heading back on topic. I'm about to go bust down Mituba's door." And so they waited for another 5 minutes, but eventually giving up and going over to Mistuba's street.
"Mitsuba, open your door right now!!" Nene pounded on the oak door, the sound slightly muffled from her wool gloves.
Slowly, he opened the door and stared out at the group of people on his porch, wrapped in a blanket. "Did you guys actually wait out in the snow for 30 minutes? HAH!" He snorted and rolled around on the floor, as they all watched, unimpressed.
"You're a massive jerk," Kou stepped past his body which still lay on the floor and helped himself to his kitchens supply of hot chocolate, getting enough mugs out for the rest of the gang.
"Well it's too cold to go anywhere, so we're gonna stay here." Kou decided for the rest of them, Mitsuba scoffing, but not objecting.
Nene and Amane sat down on the couch, a little too far away for anyone else to have room.
"You guys are taking up the whole couch, move it!" Aoi scooted Nene to the right, so her and Amane's legs were almost touching. Her face burned but she couldn't move back, Aoi now taking up her previous spot.
She heard Tsukasa giggle quietly behind the couch, and when she turned around she didn't see him there, but she did hear Amane gasp lightly and lean into her body.
Tsukasa had sat down next to Amane, and to avoid being sat on he scooted to her side instinctively.
Nene swore she saw Aoi and Tsukasa share a glance, but it was gone in a flash and she was again reminded of her body pressed against Amane's, even if it was only their shoulders and legs.
Later, Aoi and Tsukasa had gotten up to grab their mugs of cocoa, but Nene was already fast asleep on his shoulder. He sat still, not wanting to wake her up.
Slowly, he fell asleep too, to the sound of her soft breathing, his head rested against hers and unconsciously, she dragged her hand up and put it on his other shoulder, now giving him a bit of a side hug. Which was cute, but also very embarrassing, since she practically cuddled him in his sleep, even worse, at a friends house with multiple people over. She dug her head into the crook of his neck, pulling him closer, absorbing some of his heat.
Now of course, Amane didn't mind being cuddled by the girl he liked, but waking up to see his entire friend group standing around them 'aww'ing was not the best way to wake up.
His face immediately went red and he sat up, Nenes hand falling onto his lap. He brushed her arm off his lap and stood up, which woke her up in the process.
Nene sat dazed on the couch, slowly rendering what happened in the past few seconds and her face quickly flushed to the same shade as Amane's.
They both excused themselves to one of the two bathrooms Mitsuba had, leaving the rest of them giggling to each other and whispering their theories.
okay so ik this was kinda short but i wanted to get a feel for making short chapters.
I used to write chaps about 2500 words, but i might start writing some about 1500 instead.
That way, not only would the chapters come out faster but there would most likely be more going on and be a bit less boring.
ANYWAYS, get ready, because right about now and the next chapters are going to progress alot more now! :DD
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【𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚎𝚜】>Amanene - TBHK< .••°
Fanfiction.••° Yashiro Nene lives in a small cottage deep in the woods, and once a week she travels through the forest to the village to buy groceries. Recently, a boy named Amane has seen her around and wants to work up the courage to speak to her. just re...
