Hii first thing first congrats reaching many followers, I always love your content please keep doing what you are passionate about. Here's my request for your milestone event, I hope you will like it ! 💗
Shy girl ! Emma where she changes all her appearance and likings for her crush, Draken, to be satisfied
summary: (read the request)
pairing: draken x emma
characters: draken | ken ryuguji, emma sano
content: fluff, feelings
warnings: //
a/n: thank you so much for your sweet words (and for the song rec! omg, I loved it!). I had a lot of fun writing this, and I hope you'll appreciate it.💕
One's fears and insecurities lead to the most unimaginable nonsense. Emma is filled to the brim with those. And having a crush on Ken Ryuguji surely doesn't help.
Draken, Draken, Draken...
Draken is in her heart, he is in her thoughts, and in her dreams. He is in every page of her diary, in every song she listens to, and in the dark blue sky, among the stars she counts at night. Draken is everywhere.
Handsome and tall, caring and gentle, feral and strong, a daydream to the majority of her peers, both girls and boys.
«I will never stand a chance...» Sometimes she whispers that to herself, alone in the safe space of her room, where her dreams are big but reality hits hard.
Emma is so in love with him, sometimes she just stomps her feet and throws a tantrum in front of the mirror, out of frustration. Rejection has always been too high of a possibility, hence confessing her feelings is out of question. It would break her.
When they hang out together with the gang, or whenever Draken is at her place spending time with Mikey, she observes him and focuses on the smaller details. How he casually walks with his hands in his pockets, how the vein on his forehead gets visible whenever Mikey annoys him, how he smugly smiles talking about his bikes and his fights. By now, she knows what kind of music he likes, what kind of girls he admires, she even knows what kind of motorcycle parts and engines he wants to get his hands on.
«Maybe» she thinks out loud, «maybe there's a way I can win his heart.»
Headphones on, and play. The noisiest punk-rock song, of a band she heard him mention before, starts piercing her eardrums. One track, then two, and three, and four... Despite the unpleasant pangs in the pit of her stomach at the thunderous sounds of these albums, she goes on listening to them the whole night.
«Draken! What do you think about that one piece? They rocked it, right?»
«Huh?» He looks confused, and wary to a certain extent. But in the end he just hesitantly smiles. «It's good, I guess.»
Not the type of reaction she was hoping for, tho.
Shades of black on her eyelids, red lipgloss and leather jacket, she rushes to him one night, at the end of a Toman meeting. «Oi, Draken!»
«Who is th— Emma?» He gapes, blinking a little. But he doesn't look that positively impressed.
As they walk side by side, he is particularly quiet.
«Did you find those new spark plugs for Zephyr?»
He abruptly stops and frowns. «Since when do you know what a spark plug is and why do you care about Zephyr all of a sudden?»
A weird, uncomfortable feeling boils over in Emma's chest. But she nonetheless answers: «I've been surrounded by Shin and Mikey's bikes for ages. Of course I know what a spark plug is.»
It's starting to get on her nerves, the way all her efforts are just resolving in a string of failures.
«What is it that you're hiding there?» She asks, pointing at Draken's hand fidgeting with the pocket of his jacket.
«Come on!» She pokes at his arm, giggling. «What is it?»
«I said it's nothing!» He snaps and pulls away, far too irked.
Emma withdraws her hand, as her smile slowly dies on her lips.
«I'm sorry, Emma. It's just that—» He breaks off, and pulls a keychain out of his pocket. A small and fluffy teddy bear hangs from it, looking even tinier on the palm of his hand. «When I saw it, I thought you would like it. I'm not so sure about it anymore, and I feel stupid.»
Emma freezes and blushes, tears forming in her eyes. «I love it. Can— Can I still have it?»
«It doesn't suit your leather jacket.»
«It's not my leather jacket. I—»
«All these changes... Don't get me wrong, you look cool like that, and if you're doing this for yourself, then go on. But if, by any chance, you're doing this for me, then please, stop already.»
Emma turns her back on him, to hide the pain and all the feelings written all over her face. «You won't ever like me, will you?» She asks, her voice breaking and her tiny fists clenching.
«I like you more than I can tell and, as pretty as you are like this, I want you to know that my blushy and tender Emma, who hates on Zephyr and wouldn't ever say no to her cute world made of pink and teddy bears, is the Emma I am in love with. I'm so sorry I made you feel like you needed to change for me.»
Emma is too emotional and shy at the moment, and her heart is beating too fast to even think to face him.
«Emma? Would you please turn around or, you know, tell me I didn't just make a fool of myself? I feel stupid. I might die, right now...»
Emma feels stupid, too. Just as much as Draken. And she giggles knowing, tonight, that her love is everything but unrequited.
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