365 days | Satoru Gojo x OC

Day Twenty-Eight

ׂ╰┈➤28th september

Almost instantly, at the sound of Gojo's knuckles rapping on her bedroom door, she pulls it open, the widest smile she's worn in a while adorned on her glowing face.

Her dress spirals out as she spins in a small circle, her jeans dragging ever so slightly on her hard wooden floor.

"Dress and jeans?" Satoru smiles, his shaded eyes giving her outfit a good look up and down, to which her eyes mirror, glancing between his long and baggy denim shorts and his tight black vest that even she can admit clings tightly to all the right places.

"Yep! You like it, then? It's the outfit I've been told I look the best in." She resists doing another spin, noticing a glint of something sad in Satoru's eyes.

He doesn't have to hear her say their names to know it was their closest and best friends, Suguru and Komiki's opinions she's referring to.

With a gentle nod, he reassures her on her looks.

"You ready to go get spoiled yet, Natty?" Satoru smiles down at her as she nods, an eye roll added in completely unnecessarily. "Ugh, whatever, whatever. Yes, I am. Now, where's the boy?"

As if on cue, Yuji tumbles down the hallway, eventually landing right in front of his two elders.

With one glance at Yuji's blue swimming trunks and red Hawaiian shirt, Natty and Satoru burst out laughing, clutching onto each other for support at the sight.

Satoru is quickly the first to mock it lightheartedly. "We're going to an amusement park, not the beach!"

"I know! But I don't have any other summer clothes since I left them all at home and then I died—!" Gojo shoots him a warning look, but luckily Natsuki is preoccupied, grabbing a bag. "I'm not much of a fashion girl, so I don't know if this bag pairs well with this outfit..."

His eyes swell up with admiration and slight disappointment at her lack of confidence.

In all six of his eyes, she always looks more beautiful than anyone else. "You and I both know you look gorgeous, now come on."

Swallowing the thick phlegm in the back of her throat, she blushes before playfully retorting, leaning in closer to Satoru uncertainly, her face one of someone who had just witnessed something horrific.

"You'd have a much better chance of winning me over if you said it like Howl."

Taking her quip as a playful invitation, Satoru cups her hands and holds them against his chest, his eyes truthfully wide with love. "Natty! You're beautiful!"

Dropping her shaking hands, he plays it off as if it's a joke, but the way he turns his blushed cheeks away from her signifies to everyone but Natty that there wasn't an ounce of dishonesty in his words.

After a short hike to the bus stop and an even shorter wait for the bus to come, Natty finds herself seated beside Yuji, Satoru leaning over them, a protective shield against the others on the bus.

Avoiding the eyes of the masses, Edie turns to the only person eye-level with her. Someone who, despite their innocence, she can't help but have a weary gut feeling about. Someone who has a suspiciously positive outlook on life despite the scars evident on him.

"Yuji."

The whisper only just tickles his ear over the earache of the other passengers. A smile instantly slaps onto his face at the gained attention, Yuji's body turning fully to Natty. "Natsuki! You excited to go on the rollercoasters? I heard this new place has a human earthworm-based ride!"

"Eugh..." Natty can't control the disgusted groan that escapes her. "Sorry, that was rude. But... you really like that torture porn shit?"

"You know who you sound like?"