Strawberry Blond

✨[Act 3, Scene 2]✨

a/n: I don't remember if I've mentioned this, but I have a couple of Spotify playlists that I made to accompany this story. If you're interested, you can find the link to them in my journal on quotev :)

Ignorant.

Arrogant.

Overall unpleasant.

Those were words that described Seo Tomoya. Well, at least (Y/N) would describe him that way.

"I've never heard of this place," Tsubasa informed her.

"Well, I hear about this place all the time," (Y/N) stated, "I work here."

"Really?"

"Yeah," She nodded, and then spoke sarcastically, "Nothing gives me more joy than serving people overpriced coffee that they could easily get at the Starbucks three blocks from here."

"Well, it certainly is homier than Starbucks," Tsubasa chuckled.

(Y/N) had more than an hour of time to kill since she had left the campaign meeting earlier than she initially expected. In exchange, she decided to get coffee at her workplace with Tsubasa.

She had totally forgotten that Gakushu didn't want her meeting with him at all.

"What were you doing after school anyway?" (Y/N) inquired, "Class ends at like, 3:15."

"Soccer club," Tsubasa answered, jokingly gloating, "Captain stuff. No big deal."

The two teens sat at a table, each with their own drinks.

"Also, you said you wanted to talk speech advisor to speech advisor...?" (Y/N) brought up.

"Oh..." Tsubasa started, "It's because I had a request for you and Asano."

(Y/N) raised an eyebrow.

"Please make my sister lose."

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"Once upon a time..."

"Once upon a time?" Gakushu raised an eyebrow, "I am in no mood for your literature, Ren."

However, the brunette kept going.

"There was a princess who came from a foreign land, living in a kingdom she had not visited in quite awhile. However, the thing about this princess was that she was so eloquent with her words that it didn't require her to cast a spell in order to entrance the people around her."

Gakushu's movement paused, and he began to understand what Ren was getting at.

"The princess became friends with a bard. They became so close that the princess considered him one of her closest companions.

"However, instead of reciprocating those platonic feelings of friendship, the bard wanted more. He fell deeply in love with her. So much so, that he didn't know what he'd do with himself if she had rejected his feelings. So, he marinated in his love for her for several years.

"Now to have an attraction to the princess, one had to have a certain kind of taste and determination. This was because she was not easy to please."

Ren looked at Gakushu suggestively. The strawberry blond scowled, "What?"

"Keep that in mind, Asano."

"Hmph..." Gakushu let out a scoff as Ren continued.

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Even with a previous falling out, the bard still loved the princess. He did everything he could to prove that he had changed since their falling out, and they became close once more.