*:･ﾟHard To Love ･ﾟ:*

CHAPTER 5 - teachers pet

SOUSUKE
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— ONE MONTH LATER —

"Yeah, like that." I carefully peer over Kou's shoulder as I watch him snap a photo of some bugs he found. "Man, I think I'm finally getting the hang out this!" He smiles and grabs the photo out of his camera once it finishes printing and waves it around mercilessly.

I've been mentoring this jerk for about a month now since he apparently has no prior knowledge regarding photography, even though he managed to get into a school that specializes in that sort of thing. After I told him off that one night a while back, he hasn't tried coming onto me since. That is of course to my face. I still catch him staring at me every now and then.. but I've honestly come to peace with it. I'm used to having eyes glued on me all the time even though it's different with Minamoto. It might just be because I know he's heavily into me.

"Don't get ahead of yourself. You said that yesterday and all your photos came out looking like crap." I kneel down beside Minamoto and grab his photo from him, carefully placing it in the folder that him and I have been sharing. I had never realized that someone could be as bad at photography as Mina is, which is surprising. Even after all this time, he's still awful. "Hey, you never know. Maybe I became a photo wiz like you overnight!" I softly scoff and look at him as he looks back at me with a smile. "Yeah, sure. Now let's try shooting something from long distance." He nods and follows my finger with his eyes as I point over at some people hanging out a little ways away from us. "You said in class that you enjoy shooting street photography, so you have to live up to that." "I only said that because that's what you wrote down on that paper." "I saved your skin and that's all that matters. Okay.. now—" I scoot over in front of him and signal for him to bring his camera up to his eye. "—remember what I taught you, you have to adjust your brightness so that it corresponds with your zoom and focus accordingly." He nods as he begins to fidget with his camera. "Woah Sousuke, those are some ghastly pimples on your face." I softly grunt and hit him in the shoulder as he laughs. "Shut up, this is serious!" "Okay okay! I was kidding by the way, so no need to get all weird and emo about it. You have flawless skin as always." "I know I do, now point your camera towards those people over there. I'm gonna start adjusting the focus and brightness so let me know when it's clear." Minamoto nods and sits there patiently while I start messing around with the lenses and the scales, stopping once he gives me a signal that it's clear. "Alright, now snap your picture." I look back at the people as I hear the camera shutter, then I look back at Minamoto once he has his photo in his hand.

It's hard to explain. I can't bring myself to say that he's somewhat good looking, but I can't deny it either. Maybe it's just his golden retriever type personality that's been having my head on a swivel lately, or it's the fact that it excites me to know that he looks at me and not all the other people who are clearly looking at him. I've basically grown into a massive narcissist without all the guilt, which is one thing that I never would've expected to become.

"Say, I'm totally starved. Can we call this photo session quits and go grab a bite?" I softly exhale before giving him a slight smile and nodding. "Alright.. you worked hard today and hardly annoyed me so I won't starve you." I get up and wipe my legs off before looking down at Minamoto, who in which was still sitting on the ground. "You think you can help me up?" He smiles and holds a hand out to me. "You're pushing it." "Come on.. what if I told you that I'd be buying lunch? You'd help me up then, right?" I softly exhale and look away before looking back at him. "I'd honestly just say give me your wallet and then proceed to leave you here, but I'd feel awkward eating in a restaurant all on my own so you're lucky." Minamoto smiles widely as he feels me grab his arm, but he just watched while I struggled to pull him up off the ground.