love tutorial || u.wakatoshi

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"project?" grandmother almost sounded surprised. both the teenagers looked at each other and back at the elder.

"why, i thought you'd be going out on a date you see? but i wanted to see the young lady myself so i offered this room to you instead." she explained, the strict lines on her face fading into softer sheepish ones.

"goshiki-san is my classmate and we got paired to work on this literature project together due next week, but my schedule's a little bit packed due to an upcoming important game so we decided we should work on it today." wakatoshi stated the truth.

"right, but misunderstood or not, we are grateful nonetheless." y/n clarified.

"well then, i better leave you two alone now so you could carry on with your school stuff." she stood and gracefully walked out the door.

after her footsteps became inaudible, y/n snickered. wakatoshi was puzzled yet again, "apologies. i didn't intend to misinform her like that."

she couldn't suppress her laughter this time, "what did you even tell her to make her think that?"

"i told her i'd be meeting a girl at a cafe by the mall." he confessed, scratching the back of his head, realizing just now how that must've sounded.

"of course she'd think it's a date, idiot! you couldn't just put meet and girl in a sentence and expect them not to think of it as a date." her stomach hurting at this point.

"what should i say then?"

"you could've said it was a friend, or classmate. and that we'd be working on our project," y/n suggests. "sometimes you're too honest, you become a liar."

"wouldn't i be lying if i said we're friends?" he asked.

"i don't know, would you?" y/n asked back, finally composed this time.

what are they anyway? all he knew is they are mere strangers in a classroom but meet up in the afternoons as tutors and tutees. besides that, he didn't know where to draw the line of acquaintances and friends.

"if you feel like it's a lie, then yes. but if you feel like it's true, then no." she simply smiled. is that really just the basis of it, if he feels like it? shouldn't there be a manual he could check to indicate friends from foes?

friends spend their weekends on one of their houses, right? friends hang out on each other's room and eat food prepared by their parents. some might even talk about their interests, tell each other's secrets, and maybe talk shit about other people. as simple as it may sound, it's a weird concept to ushijima.

all of this made him thought how he became friends with satori. it was simple really, they'd train together and satori would stick around asking him about random questions he didn't mind answering. sooner or later, he found himself being claimed as the guess monster's best friend and much to his surprise, he didn't mind either.

now looking at the nosy self-proclaimed love expert in front of him, he realized that after all the nagging and embarrassing questions she'd ask deep in the school library, he didn't mind her presence at all. now you might think that him not minding one's presence is not relevant but we must consider the fact that wakatoshi would never, not even over his own dead body, admit that he enjoys someones company. and he knew then that the answer he was looking for is no, he wouldn't be lying.

"enough of that. now that we have a clear idea what this story is about, we should start laying it out in a document where we'd have to put the book's details, synopsis, conflict, lessons, and etcetera, etcetera." y/n transformed back to her straight a's mode.

later that afternoon, after she'd exited the house's front doors, wakatoshi heard his grandmother behind him saying in a typical ushijima stern way, "i like that girl, bring her back here soon."

if only she knew this girl was the one helping her grandson get the girl of his dreams.