Twinning Jealousy

Chapter 5: Notice

3rd POV:

It was another night shift for Karma. He was in his office and at his desk trying to figure out how to implement a newly passed law. This was the job of a bureaucrat. He loved his job and also hated it. It was what he wanted to be ever since junior high when he confided his reason to Koro-Sensei. Ever since he passed the national civil service exam and got the job, he had to be more on edge than usual. It was a job that he needed to tread carefully. As a result, he usually spent nights at the office working on jobs that his boss assigned him just to stress him. Karma didn't really mind it. It was just a way to prove to his boss that there's no way he could get rid of him from this job. In the end, he loved his job. It was now 12:00 a.m. and had been awake ever since seven in the morning, so of course he would be exhausted. Deep inside, he wished he could be with Okuda just to soothe his worries of work and life.

Tired, he decided to take a break from looking at the loads of paperwork in front of him. He took out his phone just to scroll through his photos. As he scrolled down his photos, he took quick glances at some of his photos. Some of the pictures included him and Nagisa at the premier Sonic Ninja 4: Emergence that was taken half a year ago, a selfie of him laughing with Asano spitting out his wasabi coffee in the background that was taken a bit more recently, a group photo of him, Nagisa, Kayano, Sugino, Okuda, and Kanzaki at one of Sugino's baseball games that was taken 8 months ago, a photo following the events of the baseball game at a night where it was a selfie of him with everyone else in Group 4 drunk in the background in Kayano's house, and even a quick and clear shot of Nagisa and Kayano kissing. Although he still kept their kiss photo from junior high, he had kept this newer photo of them kissing just to tease the couple whenever they got together. As he scrolled down more of his photos, he noticed it was a picture of him and Okuda cuddling and sleeping on the couch.

"I don't remember taking this photo," Karma questioned the source of the photo. Based on the date of the picture, it was saved two days after the night where everyone got drunk at Kayano's. He vaguely remembered that night. He did remember though that at that time him and Okuda weren't dating at the time. To his embarrassment, Nagisa and Kayano had gotten together before him and Okuda. The two did tell the whole class that they have been dating in secret for about a year and decided to tell the whole class about their relationship which made everyone upset for not being told about it. Back to him and Okuda's relationship, the two had gotten together only 7 months. He smiled at the memory of her love confession. Back then, he wasn't so busy with work and they used to hang out, but life isn't so easy. Now, they hardly get a chance to hang out since he's so busy with work. "I hate my job," Karma muttered with disappointment.

Ignoring his sadness, he looked back at the photo. The angle seemed to come from the floor and was a bit tilted. Karma then tried to recall the events of that night. He then remembered that it was Nagisa that sent him this photo.

"Kind of disappointed, he could have used this as blackmail, not that it would affect me," he snickered at his comment. "Though I am impressed that he took a clear photo." He was now analyzing the photo for any signs of romantic feelings from Okuda at the time. In this photo, it was pretty clear that Okuda was enjoying cuddling with the sleeping Karma. He smiled at the photo. Accidentally, he swiped right and realized that there was a video of that night. 'Probably a sloppy video,' Karma thought and decided to play the video.

The video opened with Nagisa, filming himself lying on the floor with Akari hugging him on his back. "Did I take the picture? I think ... I did," the drunk Nagisa questioned himself. "I think you did," the drunk Kayano softly said, still hugging him on his back. "Then why is there a red light," the drunk Nagisa asked his drunk girlfriend. "Red light ... ," Kayano asked slowly but widened her eyes in fear, "Wait! It's the paparazzi!" She then got up and dragged Nagisa up from the floor. "We need to go now! The paparazzi can't know we're dating! Let's go to my bedroom, it's the only safe place." She was now filled with drunken determination and had grabbed Nagisa and quickly led him to her bedroom. "Wait! What about my phone!" The two were getting farther from the phone which was presumed to be still on the ground. "They're watching, Nagisa! We can't let that happen!" The two were now out of sight from the camera's angle.