𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐞 - 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐲𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬

your losing me

[ lowercase intended]

y/n always liked being nested in her room while listening to taylor swift or lana del rey's music while reading her romance books.

her room, a mess of how many books that were randomly piled at each corner of the room. the table, the corners of her bookshelves and under her bed.

her laughter, her disappointing grunts whenever a character from her book does something stupid or embarrassing, the angry mumbles and her cries of joy whenever she finishes a book.

"y/n."
a soft and calm voice calls to her as she hears her door being opened, she looks up and sees draken, her best friend, peeking. "still reading? it's 1 am." he says as he steps in and picks up the books that fell from the pile that was on her table.

"really?!"
she asks surprised as she took her phone, it was 1:22 am in the morning. she sighed, "sorry i was just caught up with this book, yuzuha recommended it to me." she says as she takes a bookmark on her bedside drawer and places it on the page where she last read. she placed the book down on her bed and helps him clean up her mess.

after a while, they were done cleaning as draken sighed at her. "you need some sleep." he says as he gently brings his hand to her cheek and gently caresses it.

"your brothers left for a while and left me here to look after you." he says and soon withdraws his hand, you looked at him and smiled, "aww thanks kenny." you spoke as he sighs at the nickname. 'you and manjiro are siblings.' he thought, "i'll make you some warm tea, be back." he says as you nodded and he exited your room and went to the kitchen. you looked around your room, it was neatly clean and organized now. your books being arranged alphabetically, and some were arranged under your bed inside an organizer.

you went back into your bed and opened your phone and suddenly you got a message notification from mikey, you opened it and read the text;

'y/n is ken-chin there? can you tell him to come here in the shrine we need to talk about something.' he texted as you hummed and replied; 'yeah sure, he's just making some tea but i'll tell him once he's done.' you wrote and sent it to him.

you placed your phone back into the drawer's top next to your bed and got your book and read where you left off. draken soon returns holding a hot cup of tea for you and him to drink, you glanced at him as he places the cups down as he drags your chair and placed it near your bed and sat down.

"manji, texted me." you spoke as you placed the book down once more as you got your cup and leaned on the headboard as you took a sip. "why?" he asked as he swirls his finger on the edges of the cup, "he said go to the shrine, he wants to tell you something." you replied and hummed.

he nods as he sips again.

"y/n.. what are we?"
draken suddenly asks, you looked at him confused to his question. "aren't we friends?" you answer, not sure of your reply either.

yet, are friends supposed to steal glancea at each other whenever mikey's friends come over. or do friends stare at each others eyes, lovingly as they held each others hand, seemingly not wanting to let go. or are friends supposed to kiss each other with so much affection, with so much willingness, do friends look like lovers.

draken looks away as he nods at your reply. "yeah.. friends." he mutters as you look down at the tea. "kenny.. i, you like emma and i know you like her too." you spoke, your words hitting the male like a truck.

why were you telling him this?

"then what about you? don't you like me?" he asked as he places the cup on the table as he reaches for your hand, he took it and gently intertwines your fingers with his. you looked at him, unable to form words as it felt like your mind went foggy and your throat unable to say the words you wanted to say as it felt like something in your voice was locked deep down inside you. you couldn't answer him as he gently squeezed your hand.