practice

the ice cream one

dunno what to put here haha

note: cringe 2019 writings only kind of edited, afab!reader x gojo satoru for the simps (myself included ;-;), reader is more forward than i'll ever be omg, but fr y'all; DO NOT INVITE SOME RANDOM DUDE YOU JUST MET TO YOUR HOUSE

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The most life-changing decision of your, um, life.

Cookies and cream or Belgian chocolate.

You leaned over the ice cream freezer trying to decide which of the flavours to choose, rubbing your hands together to warm them against the sudden blast of cold air from the freezer.

You see, your favourite flavour was out of stock, leaving you with vanilla and Belgian chocolate, both of which you liked, but not as much as your absolute favourite flavour.

Ugh, why is it out of stock? Just when I had the shittiest week in the history of weeks... I just want to be the personification of a sad lazy couch potato and I can't do that without GOOD ICE CREAM!
You whined in your head, not noticing the sound of the bell that meant the door of the store was opening.

You paid little attention to the figure that walked around you and stopped a few flavour rows down to examine the other flavours.

Your eyes slid to the side for a tiny peek, making out messy white hair covering his face, and a box of snacks tucked under one arm. From what you could see, he was slightly taller than you, and you could see by the fit of his black turtleneck that he was quite well built.
In short, he was quite attractive.

There's no way someone like that is single, you thought absentmindedly.

Your head turned a little further, while his free hand scratched the back of his head, electric blue eyes narrowing in the familiar weight of sleep deprivation, which (along with the fact that the snacks he was holding were also student budget) told you that he was most probably in university, same as you.

The stranger's brows suddenly furrowed and his head turned. You barely caught yourself from choking in embarrassment as you jumped back to your business. You stared at the ice cream choices with newfound concentration, aware of the stranger looking your way. His gaze lingered for a minute before moving back to his selections of ice cream.

Not wanting to be a moron and stay in the same awkward position as he'd found you in, you quickly grabbed the flavour closest to you and ran off towards self-checkout.

You didn't catch him smirking.

Your steps came to an abrupt stop, noticing that the male had somehow reached before you and was scanning his own items. Your pace slowed exponentially and you approached the counter next to his as quietly as you could, hoping he wouldn't notice you.

You snuck another look at him, thanking the gods for peripheral vision, admiring his relaxed concentration while he scanned his items. A tiny smirk adorned his lips and his eyes somehow seemed more alert than before.

"You'd tell me if there was something on my face, right?"

You squeaked, almost dropping the item in your hand at the sound of his voice. You turned your head away, trying to ignore him while praying that he was talking to anyone else but you.

"Yeah, I'm talking to you, ice cream girl."

Despite feeling your cheeks heat up, you turned back towards him.

"Sorry, I'm just spacing out a bit. I didn't mean to stare,", you told him, with a sudden burst of confidence.

"So you've had a long week too, huh?", he tilted his head towards your frozen snacks, "Is that the cure?"

"Yep", you said, popping the p, "this, and several hours of anime."

Now, why would you go and say that you strange woman, you berated yourself in your head.

His grin widened, amused by your obvious internal struggle, "Sounds like fun."

You were sure that he could practically hear your thoughts, so you tried to change the subject,
"What about you? You seem equipped for a party...?"

"Nope, just me, myself and I,", he suddenly raised an eyebrow, "You judging me or something?"

"No! I'm just trying to make conversation, I'm sorry if I offended you!", you went back to your flushed state, even bowing slightly.

"It's chill, don't worry about it,", a chuckle escaped his lips, "I'm Gojo Satoru by the way.", he said, removing his hand from his pocket and offering it to you.

You shook it, tentatively at first, but gradually more firm, and you realised that it had been a while since you had held someone's hand like this and felt this kind of warmth.

"(l/n)(y/n). Nice to meet you."

Awkward silence wriggled its way between both of you, leaving you to rack your brains for any conversation starters - you didn't want him to leave.

"Listen,", you blurted out unintentionally, cursing yourself when he looked at you, interest peaked, which made it harder for you to think, "Um...I- Since you and I are kinda in the same situation right now, would you... uh... Do you want to come over and hang out... with me?"

His eyes reverted back to their original state, an amused smirk forming on his face, "Rather forward, aren't you? What if I was a serial killer?"

You narrowed your eyes at him, "Well, if you don't want to come you can just say so, besides, I have a boatload of pepper spray bottles on me if you try anything funny..."

"Relax,", he chuckled and grabbed your boxes of ice cream, "I was going to ask you out too."

"Wait, really?!", at this point you could practically feel yourself turning red.

"Yeah,", he put his arm around your shoulders playfully, "you weren't the only one staring."

The whole time you walked with him, you were blushing furiously.

...

But not as furious as your overprotective roommate, Second Male Lead would be when he realised that not only had you taken his money to buy ice cream, you had also brought an unknown guy home.

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ahahah and there you have it

Second Male Lead only exists because I couldn't think of any names related to our male lead to give an overprotective roommate LOL

actually i'd written like 2 more oneshots but wattpad decided to die on me and didn't publish a single one and i had to write a new one so here we are 🤧

//repost bc wattpad was a cowardly lil cretin and deleted it (2020)