Hope's Love

Chapter Four

Tuesday December 26th 5:00pm

"Hey Naegg. Haven't seen you in a while." Oowada laughs. He was wearing his usual clothes, and a scarf.

"No. Well it's the holidays so what do you expect." Makoto replies, laughing.

"I guess." Mondo shrugs. "Was that Leon who was with you?" He asks, crossing his arms with a warming smile.

Makoto bites his bottom lip. "Well.......yeah. He asked me to help him with his homework, but he spilt hot chocolate everywhere and we both decided that we did enough today." The small male explains, tapping his hand. "Why?"

"Well maybe Leon told me something. But I can't tell you because it's apparently a 'bro secret'." Oowada scoffs.

"Wait what?" Makoto turns his head in confusion.

"I guess you will find out yourself soon. See you later Makoto." He waves, walking

Naegi stands confused as snowflakes fall onto his hair. "What was the bro secret?" He mutters to himself as he calls up a taxi. It was far too cold for him to be walking in snow this thick. It was up to his ankles. The phone doesn't ring on the other line, "Well I guess they're off, I'm just going to walk by myself." He puts in his headphones and plays a song that he once got recommended to. He puts in his earbuds and starts to play it.

Ten minutes later, in Leon's POV

Leon arrives at his apartment, seeing Ishimaru and remembering about the milk. "Shit." He says to himself as he walks in. "Hey Ki-." Before he could finish, Ishimaru interrupted.

"Where is the milk I requested?" He asks, standing up and his boots stomping onto the floor. "What did you do now?" Ishimaru says, stepping forward to Leon. This was the worst part of lying to Taka. He first believes it, then works it out as a lie. It sucked.

"Well if you really want to know......I was hanging out with Naegi." He mutters, embarrassed.

Ishimaru glances at him. "Did you need his help with the work, again?" The hall monitor asks.

Kuwata looks at him. "Yes." The baseball star sighs.

"Okay...." He says, a bit cautious. "What did you two d-."

"Can I tell you something Ishimaru?" Leon interrupts Taka, hugging onto a pillow. "But you have to keep it a secret."

"Well of course. That is what bros are for, and I am able to keep secrets, always!" Kiyotaka says, standing up and saluting with a bright smile.

"I may have a crush on Naegi." Leon mutters, blushing then looking away. God that felt so weird to say, he wasn't interested in boys, or was he. Gah! Too much stress.

Ishimaru glances at Kuwata with confusion. "Very funny Kuwata, now tell me what you were going to say." He jokes.

The baseball player glances up to Taka and stands up. "I was being serious, I think I like him." He says, putting his hand in front of his face, blushing.

"Wow.....you actually were being serious." Ishimaru says, tilting his head slightly. "I mean, why did you tell me this?" The hall monitor asks, trying to fix his uniform.

"Don't you understand bastard, you and Mondo are the perfect couple, how did you confess to him." Leon shouts in frustration.

"Well there are several ways that I can think of doing it, I first put a letter under his door, oh and I go-."

Before he could finish, Leon clapped his hands. "Perfect, we can meet up somewhere. Do you know any good places?" The baseball star glees.

"Well thinking of Naegi, you could meet up at a cafe, I'm not sure." Kiyotaka says, smiling.

"Perfect. Thanks Taka." Leon smiles, holding up a peace sign as he walks to his desk and starts to write.
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Makoto's POV

Naegi arrives at his apartment block, stomping his feet, trying to get the snow off of his boots, revealing a pattern on them. He walks up to his apartment and opens the door, walking in to see Hajime and Nagito, making out on his roomate's bed.

"Hey Hajime!" Makoto waves, tossing his jacket onto the growing pile under the coat hooks. Wow, Makoto should really clean that up. He makes a mental note of it and lies down on his bed, sighing with a smile

The two finally finished and smile at each other, Komaeda getting a blanket and tossing it onto Hinata.

"So.....how was the date?" Makoto asks, trying to start conversation while wrapping himself in a blanket and hugging onto a pillow.

"It was great, Nagito took me to the trampoline park, then we went to a chocolate shop, we got some for you." Hajime chirps, taking a small red box out of his orange, transparent backpack and handing it to Makoto.

Naegi takes the box and places it onto his bedside table, next to a couple of photos of him and his classmates.

"You know, Togami is hosting a new year's eve party. And we were planning on going, do you want to tag along, or bring a special lover." Komaeda teases, smirking while showing him a poster advertising the party. They were put up all around the school before the Christmas break, and Naegi never stopped to read it. To be honest, he was trying to avoid the party, but he could never say no to Komaeda, last time things didn't go well with him.

"Sure thing!" Makoto replies, after falling silent for a couple of seconds. "But I don't have a special someone, don't worry." He adds on, a little embarrassed.

Hajime glances up and smiles. "Just don't force love onto yourself." He says, getting up and walking to the kitchen. Hinata usually came around to hang about with Nagito, it because so often that he now acts like he lives there, neither Nagito or Makoto minded. The talentless male could make himself as much at home as possible.

He comes back in with a glass of orange juice, smiling. "It's getting quite late y'know." Hinata says, glancing at the clock, filling the room with the tick every second.

"It's only 7:00pm silly." Komaeda laughs, flicking Hajime's ahoge as he sits down. Makoto looks at the two and starts to think to himself. What if he finds someone like that one day? Who could it even be? When? Where? The lucky student shakes his head, trying to clear his mind. Hajime and Nagito were deep into conversation, talking about their classmates or something, he wasn't exactly sure. Makoto turns on his phone and starts to watch some sort of sketch, his mind was too fuzzy to think. His head starts to feel like it's spinning around as he falls asleep on his bed, arm hanging off the bed.

{sorry that this is short in plot, I'm trying to make my chapters longer, and I can only do these at night as day is dominated by school work. I really hope you enjoyed this chapter and please share. Also thanks for 100+ hirs on AO3}