Shinazugawa, Tomioka, and Kukichi, where all currently decorating Kukichi's room with all the new things Tomioka bought.
They surprisingly fit the current room, the colors perfectly balancing each other out.
"Tomioka, put this over there," Shinazugawa said, as he threw Tomioka a small picture frame.
{Bro istg I cannot do 3rd person 😬}
-Tomioka Pov- "Tomioka, put this over there," Shinazugawa said as he threw me a small picture frame. Inside the frame it had a hand drawn picture, I'm assuming made by Kukichi.
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I gave him a slightly confused look, before putting the frame on the wall.
Kukichi was on Shinazugawas shoulders, finishing painting the top of the walls. The paint was dripping everywhere, but Shinazugawa said he will clean it afterwards. He seems calmer?A month ago he would definitely have popped a vein from anger.
"Done!" Kukichi said, I glanced over at where she was painting, it was one huge mess, most of the paint was on Shinazugawa rather than the wall.
I couldn't help it, I let out a soft chuckle. Shinazugawas eyes lit up, he immediately started pointing at me and jokingly yelling "Who are you! Your not Tomioka! He's never happy!" He even got Kukichi to join in at some point.
At some point we got back to finishing her room, but Shinazugawa kept on making jokes about me actually having an emotion. He'd randomly come up to me and jokingly whisper say "Are you drunk?! Really you smiled?" And a bunch of other things.
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It was now lunchtime, Shinazugawa is surprisingly good at cooking. He made Kukichi Takikomi gohan, which she absolutely loved. She was in the dining room while me and Shinazugawa were in the kitchen, having a conversation I always dread.
"Tomioka, just eat this atleast," He said while shoving a ohagi in my hand. I don't think I have much of an other option, so I hesitantly took a small bite out of the ohagi. It tasted good, yes, but the rotting feeling in my stomach was the complete opposite.
"Okay, now just eat real food." He handed me a plate of rice balls,
I could just throw this up later, right? Yeah, I can please Shinazugawa by "eating."
I hesitated before taking a bigger bite out of the rice balls. It took awhile, but I did manage to finish most of the food. Which wasn't alot, there were only 3 rice balls, but Shinazugawa seemed satisfied.
We finshed up the last touches on Kukichis room before I went to my room and set everything up, it only took half an hour.
While I was cleaning up some trash in my room Shinazugawa came in, he had a more serious expression, did something happen? "Shinazugawa, is something the matter?" I asked, instantly regretting it.
"I know what you did," This sounds like it's going to have a bad ending, what did he find out? How bad was it?
"Why are you purposely making yourself throw up?!" He tried to keep his voice low, but wasn't very successful.
"W-what? I didn't do...that, Shinazugawa." I said while desperately trying to prove him wrong, even if it was true. "Tomioka, I'm not stupid, it's pretty obvious that you purposely harm yourself one way or another!"
"You can't keep starving yourself! Your actually going to kill yourself!"
Does he actually care? Why now? This whole time we've known each other, he decide's to care now?
"Why...do you even...care about it?" It slipped, I didn't mean to say that.
-Shinazugawa Pov-
"Why...do you even...care about it?" Why do I care!? Is he serious!? He doesn't actually mean that, right?
I looked at Tomiokas expression, he was serious.
Had I really been so horrid to him that he can't even believe that someone cares for him? Or that I care?
"I care!I know you don't believe that anyone cares for you, but Kocho, Oyakata-Sama, the Kamado kid, Kukichi, me, all care for you." "But why now!?" Tomioka yelled, he seemed to be spilling the emotions he hid so far away.
"Why, after all the time you spent criticizing me, why now are you suddenly caring!?"
"Because I'm Sorry!" I desperately yelled, I wanted him to believe me, I wanted to fix everything I messed up, I want a another chance.
