Better with you - Gojo x Geto

Chapter 10

-Geto POV-

Right now me and Satoru are sitting right beside each other on my couch about to watch a movie, and Satoru is leaning his head on me. If I'm being honest, it feels different than normal. He always leans on me, wraps his arm around my shoulders, gets close to me. He's a very touchy-feely person, but today it feels different, and I don't think he feels that way. It feels more... intimate. I don't even know what I'm thinking.

"Here's the movie I wanna watch! It looks pretty good right? Shoko told me about it." It looks like an action/romance and to me it doesn't look that good, but I'm willing to give it a chance for Satoru. I turn it on and after about 15 minutes of watching it, we realize that it's pretty bad. The dialogue consists of multiple girls asking a strong looking protagonist to save them. It's a typical harem, one of my least favourite genres.

"Suguru, I think we should watch something else. This is crazy bad, I don't know how they made the preview look so good." Satoru says. "Yup, do you wanna play some video games instead?" I ask in a smug tone. I am way better than Satoru at almost all video games, especially the fighting ones. He just spams the buttons but I have played games so much so that I know cheats and strategies to actually win.

"Ok fine... but you have to go easy on me!" I grab my controllers and turn on my favourite fighting game. "Get ready to be absolutely destroyed." We start fighting and it feels like 2 seconds later he's dead and I am the winner, like always. "Hey Suguru, that's not fair..." Satoru says as he lightly punches my arm. "Ok, I'm sorry I didn't go easy. Wanna do one more round? Ill actually go easy this time, I'll basically let you win." He seems happy about this and so we resume the game.

As promised, I let him win. "Hahaha, that's what you get!" He looks really cute while saying this. Man, I seriously need to stop thinking that stuff. What would Satoru say if he found out I was repeatedly calling him cute inside my head? I'm not supposed to think my best friend is cute... am I? I mean, it isn't that crazy to call someone cute. Just cute, like a puppy or a baby duck. Completely normal!

"Oh shoot! Sorry Suguru, I forgot that I had a dentist appointment. I definitely shouldn't have eaten pancakes for breakfast. Have a fun day!" Satoru says all this while rushing out my door, still wearing my clothes. As soon as he leaves I call Shoko.

"Hey Shoko, is it normal to think your best friend is cute and think it on a daily basis?" "Woah uhhh, well, do I know this best friend? I kind of need some context." She asks. "Yes, you know hi-...  the person." It sounds like she realized who I am talking about. "Ohhhhh... well, I think it's normal. Actually, I think it might make this "person" happy if you told them about this opinion of them being cute." "No, he will definitely think I'm weird if I tell him!"

"There's no point in telling him anyway. He already gets enough compliments from all of his stalker fangirls. I'm a guy, that would make it even weirder to tell him." I say. "Well, you never know. Maybe, a compliment coming from you would feel different for Satoru. That's just a chance, if he asks don't tell him I said anything like this to you. Just tell him, he'll be happy!" "Yeah, I'm not so sure. Bye Shoko, have a fun date!" I say as I hang up.

Now, this gets me thinking. Would Satoru, a guy, appreciate a compliment like "cute" from me, another guy? Again, there is no real reason I should be thinking about telling him. I'm allowed to have thoughts to myself but the thought of seeing him happy because of something I said... that's something I love experiencing. Y'know what, next time I see him I'll just tell him. I don't care if he gets weirded out, that would be better than thinking about this stupid cute thing all the time.

I wonder if he thinks I'm attractive too. I mean, I definitely don't get as many compliments as him with his unique features and nice face, but I still get some compliments. I'm pretty tall, and a lot of people like my hairstyle even though I barely put any effort into it. People sometimes compliment my looks too, but I'm not sure that I'm actually that attractive. My sister who is supposed to be visiting me this week is really pretty.

She always got asked out by a bunch of guys every year, and she also has a likeable, confident personality. Sometimes I wish I was more like her, but my parents are more supportive of me for being the sorcerer. They don't say it but part of the reason they take better care of me is because recently Riko came out as pansexual, and they are not an acceptive family when it comes to things like that. 

I was really proud and happy for her when she came out, and I knew that she was really happy to have someone in our family that supported her, even if it was just her brother. Once, my parents were going to kick her out of the house after they heard that she was going on a date with a girl, and after that as I had already moved out I stopped contacting them. It honestly disgusted me that they would kick their own daughter out of the house for something like that.

They definitely wouldn't be happy if they found out 2 of my bestfriends (Shoko and Itadori) are in the Lgbtq+ community, but that's why I'm so happy that I learned to accept. I wouldn't be friends with any of them if I followed in my parents mindset.

1005 words!

Hope you enjoyed!

(Actually, 3 of his best friends are in the Lgbtq+ community, but Satoru hasn't come out to him yet.)