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( 09 ) ❛ cupid? what'd you do to me ❜
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Yushi had a bit of a dilemma. He kept repeating two scenarios in his mind as he lay flat on his bed. To be honest, he had been trying to avoid Aeri recently. Not because he didn't want to see her—well partly because of that and partly because he lowkey feels like his mystery girl was Aeri all along.
It made sense to him (although he wished it didn't). The girl always seemed to be in a rush and that night, the girl was rushing which is why they bumped into Yushi. And the fact he felt that tingling sensation electrocute him twice? It was just by touching her, too! It was a detail too good to be ignored.
But the thing is, Yushi couldn't bring himself to genuinely like Adachi Aeri. Not when Sion obviously pines for the girl. Not to mention another one of his friends, Riku, who seemed to have something going on for the girl as well.
However, how was he gonna stop the uncontrollable beating of his heart? Was this some sort of game? Did Eros shoot an arrow at him or something? If so, did he always have this underlying attraction for Aeri? Since when? Since the day Sion kept talking about nothing but her? Did he seriously fall for her after hearing nothing but stories about her? There must be something deeper about this, and so he tried to recall far back into the past and that was when it clicked to him.
He had met Aeri before Sion could. He had met Aeri before she even became the camp's matchmaker.
It was back when Aeri first joined the camp and she hadn't been claimed by Aphrodite yet. He could remember the girl sitting next to him at an arts and crafts workshop.
Yushi was quietly immersed in his work when a girl tripped over, knocking down his canvas. His canvas was thrown to the side, bumping against a girl who gets pushed forward, landing into the arms of some other camper.
Aeri gasped and immediately bowed down in front of Yushi, uttering multiple apologies in an attempt to get forgiven. Yushi wordlessly stared at the girl, not knowing what to say though he was evidently annoyed at the collision. Couldn't she be more careful?
When it seemed like she wasn't getting any response from the boy, she peers back up, sending him a sheepish smile. "Look— I'm really sorry!"
"Sorry doesn't cut it, Cherry. You ruined my painting!" The Athena kid grumbled before standing up to head off somewhere behind the class.
Cherry? Aeri tilted her head at the sudden nickname though realized it must be because of her red hair.
Her gaze falls onto the boy and girl who seemed to be conversing and laughing with one another. Something in her clicked as she felt a sort of tingle run through her body. These two... go well together. She thought to herself.
