Fluff, tooth rotting fluff, shitty ending but I tried.
“You’re Emma’s friend, right?”
You look up from your phone and stare at the attractive blonde in front of you, doing a quick glance behind him, you notice the motorcycle. ‘So, this is her brother’ You think to yourself.
You quickly shove your phone into your pocket and mentally check if you grabbed everything. “Yup.”
He nods and you head over to his motorcycle, he hands you the spare helmet hanging on the handles and climbs on, he puts in the key as you climb on behind him. “Make sure to hold on, Emma won’t be happy if you get injured.” You roll your eyes and wrap your arms around him.
As he drives off the wind blows your hair back (or hood if you’re bald) you feel the breeze brush past you as you tighten your grip on his waist. Without even realizing it you lean in close to him resting your head on his back. You can feel him chuckle as he mumbles something about girls always getting scared and you are suddenly aware of how close you two are. You feel your cheeks heat up with a hot warmth that overtakes you, your heartbeat speeds up ever so slightly, but still enough for you to notice. ‘I can’t get flustered so easily like this,’ You think to yourself, ‘He’s my best friend's brother.’
Before you even realize it his wheels slow to a stop as you arrive at Sano's home. You look at it in awe, admiring the beauty of it before a sickly feeling hits you. Your stomach quakes, shuddering as you feel your throat tighten. You hurry off his bike, ripping off the helmet in a hurry, petrified at the thought of spilling your stomach continents into his clean helmet, as soon as you manage to take it off your body pulses and you spill onto the ground.
All of the sudden your legs tremble, you don't know why but you feel dizzy, as if you were going to fall. He seems to notice this and quickly comes to your side, stabilizing you, holding you close to him, like you’re in danger of some sorts. You wait there for a bit as he rubs your back assuringly, you’ve never heard Emma say that he was this affectionate before and it seems like a dream.
You slowly start to feel better and your legs regain their strength, once he is aware you’re ok he immediately apologizes. “I’m sorry Reader, I should've been more careful.” You can feel the tender look as he gazes at you, seemingly worried, as if he’d get in trouble for this.
You don't even get a chance to tell him that it wasn't his fault before Emma rushes out of the house, she almost knocks you over with the way she runs into your arms. She immediately showers you with concern and worry, truly caring about you before turning her attention to the blonde who seemed to try to run away. “Mikey! I told you to be careful with them!” She barks out. His eyes shift and he backs away carefully, like a scared cat. He glances at you for a second whilst looking pitiful, as if he was a kicked puppy. Your heart feels a twang, like you’ve been damaged and you feel sympathy for him.
But at the same time, seeing him look so docile stirs up something in you.
He's cute. Too cute. You feel your cheeks heat up once more and you shake your head as you laugh at the situation, you turn to Emma. “Don't worry Ems, I'm fine, let's just go inside! I'm so excited to stay the night.” You've never stayed the night before so this is going to be so fun!
Mikey follows you two inside as you head into Emma's room so set up your sleeping area, however you soon realize that there's no space on her floor to set up the futon, Emma then turns to you with a smile on her face, this feels planned. “Oh no! There's no space in here so I guess you'll have to sleep with Mikey, you don't have a problem with that right?” You can see Mikey's eyes widen as he starts to complain only to be shut up as Emma throws the futon set at him, effectively knocking him down onto the ground. To be honest you're not really comfortable staying in a guy's room, but…Emma's going to be in the room next door so, you'll be fine…right?
After a while you go into Emma's room where you left your bag and pull out your pajamas, for some reason you can't seem to find your top though, and surprisingly Emma's closet is empty?? Why would it be empty? You sigh and go to ask Mikey for a shirt. How embarrassing this is for you. Thankfully he says yes, and you don't seem to pay much attention to it but his ears are ever so slightly pink. You end up changing into the pajamas and go to look for Emma. However, you can't seem to find her anywhere. You end up finding a note on the fridge that reads,
“Have fun lovebirds! Don't do anything I wouldn't do!” -Love Emma
Seriously! She planned this from the beginning! However you don't want to have to ask Mikey to take you home, that'd be rude since he went and picked you up from school. But at the same time you don't want to be left alone with him! That's too embarrassing! You pace the kitchen for a while, trying to think of what to say and to do, and eventually Mikey walks in.
I walk out of my room and see them pacing the kitchen, do they look stressed? I don't really know why they're stressed but I should do something to make it better right? “Hey.” I call out to them, they immediately turn to look at me, I get the chance to look into their beautiful eyes again, maybe Emma was right and I do like them, but no, I can't like someone just because I watched them from afar sometimes, that's creepy and weird, plus, the boys matter more than anyone else…right?
You stare at Mikey in awkward silence, it's been like two minutes, why isn't he saying anything? You decide to not mention the note and smile at him. “What's up?”
He looks a bit startled that you talked to him, weird, since he said hey first.
“Oh, nothing, just wondering why you were pacing the kitchen.”
He sounds awkward, and forced, you feel kind of bad for him.
“Oh that? I was just figuring out what to eat, so I decided that it'd be better to cook something, probably something simple like curry.” That's a lie, you weren't thinking of that at all but you see the way his eyes lighten a bit and he looks excited.
You're sure that Emma said he hates cooking? Oh well, doesn't matter, help is help anyways. You two set up the pot and start to cut the vegetables, however, he seems to be paying more attention to you than the food, you don't want to say anything but it's making you self conscious, and kind of flustered, he's staring so intensely, like if he blinks you'll disappear.
“You have beautiful eyes”
It was so random, so shocking that you manage to cut yourself with the knife because you looked at him instead of the carrot, your fault to be honest but that's not important. His eyes widen the second the knife makes contact with your finger and he immediately pulls the knife away to put it on the counter. It happens in a blink, so fast you can't even process what's happening, but now you're in the bathroom as he cleans your cut with alcohol and wraps your finger with a bandage, you've never heard of him doing this for anyone…it's almost like. Like he has a crush on you. But that would never happen y'know? You're just Emma's friend, you've never even seen him before, I mean, yeah you've heard him sometimes and maybe you would talk to him when he answers the phone instead of Emma but, a crush? You'd have to be crazy!
Your finger is wrapped but he's still holding your hand, still staring into your eyes with such affection it feels fake. Why? You can't help but say it. “Why are you so nice to me?” You say, it's awkward and quiet.
He pauses, ear turning pink as he immediately looks away from you, staring at the ceiling like it owed him money. He mutters something out, it's quiet and delayed, like he's embarrassed to say it.
“Mikey I can't hear you when you say it like that.” For some reason you really want to know what he thinks, how he feels, and how he views you, you don't want to get your hopes up but, you've never had a guy like you before, and if it's someone as attractive and cool as Mikey? That'd be so nice.
“Because….” He says quietly, to be honest he's scared, too scared to tell you because he's never liked someone like this before, he's never dated either so even if you like him back he wouldn't know what to do, all he knows is that he likes everything about you. Your soft voice, your beautiful eyes, the way you smile when you see something you like and the way you treat your friends. It's perfect. “It's you…if it's you then, maybe it's not so hard.”
You don't know what he means by “it” being not so hard but, at the same time you completely understand him. It's like you're connected, you can just feel it, the emotions hidden behind those awkward words and maybe, just for today, those words are good enough.
