Treehouse

I stretch, leaning back on the beanbags. I look up, and see the empty glass bottles I've hung up glittering in the sun. a soft breeze comes through the small window, making the bottles clink like wind chimes. The sun shines in my face. I huff and slip on my sunglasses.

"Have I ever told you that you look kinda like Gojo from jujutsu kaisen?"

I jump, almost letting out a small cry. When I turn my head to see who's there, I see him standing on the ladder, his top half resting in the doorway. One look at my face and this little shit bursts out laughing. I throw a pillow at him.

"Ok, ok, stop, I'm sorry," Austin has to bite his lip to stop giggling. As much as I hate to admit it, despite technically being angry at him, his smile makes a warm feeling bloom in my chest. He crawls all the way in, closing the small door behind him, before nestling into a spot next to me.

I elbow him gently, even though we both know I'm terrible at holding grudges, especially against Austin. I give in and rest my head on his shoulder.

"Why do I look like Gojo?"

"Pale, really light hair and eyelashes, blue eyes, etc."

"My hair isn't really spiky, though."

"It can be, with a bit of hair gel."

"Hell to the no."

He laughs, and takes this opportunity to run his hand through my hair, lifting my bangs until he can see my whole face.

"You have a big forehead, Juno."

"Fuck you."

He smirks and raises his eyebrow. "Guess you took that literally, huh?"

I can feel my face heating up again.

"I think I have a type," he suddenly says.

"Oh yeah? And what's that?"

"People... with J names."

"...what."

"So first, in third grade, I had a girlfriend, Jessica-"

"Austin why the fuck would you have a girlfriend you're literally gay."

"Compulsory heterosexuality and shit, plus she gave me all her goldfish for like a week."

I snort. He rolls his eyes and continues.

"There was Jeremy after that, then that one guy Javier, then I had a whole Justin Bieber phase, but we don't talk about that..."

I snicker, because we are very much going to talk about that later.

"...And now, I have a boyfriend named Juno."

He kisses the tip of my nose. "Mi perlo." (Yes I know it's technically perla but chat gpt said it works so uh yeah pls don't attack me)

"Do you call me that because of my albinism?"

Austin pauses for a moment, before opening his mouth to speak again.

"I mean, that's more like an added bonus. I mostly call you that because pearls are rare, and special, and you find them inside of oysters in the ocean."

"What does the ocean have to do with this?"

"You hold the ocean in your eyes."

I don't know what to say, because what the fuck are you supposed to say to that. I slip my hand into his, our fingers intertwining. His brown skin against my almost white skin. I look up. His roots are starting to grow out. The reddish brown of his hair, the little white streak he added because he said it made us match. Looking at him right now, I'm feeling so many emotions, my chest feels like it's about to burst. My greek is absolute ass, but I know enough to know this:

"Σ' αγαπώ." (I used google translate sorry if there's any mistakes)

I say it under my breath, even though I know if Austin could hear, he wouldn't understand it.

Hey... so I wrote this...

Hope you enjoyed

If you haven't guessed based on the title they are in a treehouse

It's been a while since I properly sat down and wrote smth so I'm a bit rusty

If anyone out there would be willing to give me constructive criticism PLEASE DO I would very much like helpful feedback in order to improve

I'm basically just gonna be putting random short stories of my OCs on here (not sure if they're going to all be related but in the same universe) so if you'd like to see more of that do stick around

also I don't really have a proper ship name for these two (Austin x Juno) so if you have any ideas I'd like to hear them

Thank you so much for reading have a nice day/night

- JJZ (that's my signature now)