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writer | sunki enthusiast!

[stariikis]

ash ☆ ; she/her 📍singapore | infp-t | riki biased ^^

➶ ｡˚ ° alt accs ; @rikihqq @rikittens

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[stariikis]

Hii, could i be added to the taglist for “you in the rain”? <33

your writing is amazing!!

i am sorry i only just saw this....! i will add you PRONTO.

[stariikis]

hey !! im not sure if you’re still there on blr or not, but I wanted to pop in ><

hii, ur so sweet! idk how long ago you asked this, but, i'm here nowww thank you for checking up! i was just really busy with exams haha

[stariikis]

omg, i've been gone for soooo long! i'm so sorreh guys i had exams and they were brutal.. but now i'm back, and i'll slowly start updating again! i hope yall still rmb me........☺️

[ykleeknoww]

kpop recs

piwon

soul

purity and its presence in growth - @sxtvrns

animal crossing and alien noises <3 - @mini-mews

skz

bangchan

sunday, sunday, sunday - @astralis-ortus

So Whipped ~ BC - @dreamescapeswriting

lee know

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 - @dreamescapeswriting

Call my bluff, call you ‘babe’ ♡ Minho - @moonlinos

OT8

✧ ˚. you take their skzoo! - @hyunedew

enha-

heeseung

FALLING IN LOVE ACCIDENTALLY (OR NOT) (LHS - 이희승) - @flwrstqr

hopeless ☆ heeseung lee - @star-sim

jay

all i want is you | pjs - @j4ygyu

SAY YOU WON’T LET GO ᯓᡣ𐭩 | p.js - @juyuppang

﹙𝓲ssue﹚ㅤ:ㅤmeltingㅤ...ㅤ( 제이 ) - @boyfhee

too sweet ☆ jay park - @star-sim

jake

secret secret - @mingihttps

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY - @neos127

pinky ring / sim jaeyun - @songbirdseung

hello kitty meets batman (real not clickbait!) ☆ jake sim - @star-sim

sunghoon

박성훈 、PRETTY FACE - @boyfhee

박성훈 、COUPLE CODE - @boyfhee

❀﹐𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐖 - @leaderwonim

sunoo

doing skincare with sunoo! - @ghostiiess

espresso ☆ sunoo kim - @star-sim

jungwon

FALLING FOR MY MC! ౨ৎ y. jungwon - @mygnolia

riki

plushies and pouts ☆ riki nishimura - @star-sim

i missed you ! - @wintabite

colour your smile - @stariikis

𐙚 . 𝟔:𝟐𝟏 𝐩𝐦. — 西村力 . - @kairoot

sweater ☆ riki nishimura - @star-sim

æspa

karina

over her - @myouicieloz

[stariikis]

this is so sweet babes thank you so muchhhh too honoured 🥹

[stariikis]

a cruel summer with you...

synopsis ; you have always hated riki. he doesn't care about his grades and is only ever good at sports and dance. so why is it that he's gotten into the top class of the level? and why do you, for some reason, take an interest in him?

pairing ; sporty!nishimura riki x academic!reader genre ; one-sided rivalry to lovers, fluff, getting together, oneshot wc ; 2458 warnings ; light kissing

cruel summer, taylor swift

Every time you see the damned silhouette of Nishimura Riki down the hallway, adjacent to the grand doorway to the top class in the level, you start to physically convulse. There’s no end to the numerous ways he gets on your nerves. Maybe it’s the sly remarks he likes to make when he sees you stressing out over your grades. It could very well be the way he saunters into your classroom as if he’s one of the top students too. 

But no, all he has is being the well-known, all-rounded president of the dance club. His grades were decent enough for him to slip his way into the top class, and you have had a one-sided hatred towards him ever since. 

He parades around as if he’s the most popular boy in the whole school (he probably is), and every day without fail he’ll show up with a new racket, ball or the equipment of whatever his newest obsession is. However, what blows you off the most is the fact that, as your seatmate, he and his friends like to disturb you when you’re just trying to study. 

You would be pouring over your Biology textbooks, desperately trying to cram all sorts of structures into your head, and Riki would bring over his basketball friends. Jake and Heeseung, still in their dirt-scarred, rumpled jerseys, would tease you for just the hope of getting a perfect score for it. 

You could be buried deep in your self-made notes, trying to make sense of equations and funny symbols. Riki would stop Sunghoon on his way back to his seat, figure skates slung over his back before the famous skater’s practice. They would proceed to talk loudly about their plans for the next day. And all you could ever do would be to get out of your seat and leave. Of course, Riki never spared you a look as you left. Or that’s what you thought. 

Yang Jungwon and Kim Sunoo are two of Riki’s more bearable friends. They’re sweet and are close to some of your friends as well. But when they look over and shoot you glances that seem to have hidden messages you can’t decipher… you can only squirm uncomfortably.  

“Riki! Pay attention,” you scolded him one day before the Maths exam, pushing the textbook closer to him. He wouldn’t stop teasing you with insensitive jokes. Part of you wanted to storm up to your head teacher and beg for a seating plan change, but the other part of you was used to his insufferable antics. You just bore with the pain and tried to explain one more time. 

It was enough that you were spending precious time trying to tutor this hopeless boy, who could barely differentiate right from left if you asked him on the spot. But you also had to put up with everything you hated about him slowly turning into things that made you more than okay with his presence hovering over you like a guardian angel. 

The burning sensation of his eyes flickering upwards to look at you as you searched for the words to explain why 5x squared should be brought over to the other side of the equation. The oddly attractive way he clicked and unclicked his pen; a concentrated frown taking over his features as he hesitated to write his answer down. 

That was not all. You were trying to ignore the way his knee knocked slightly against yours as he turned back to his own desk with a short nod. Leaning over the worksheet-cluttered desk, he looked genuinely serious for once. It had been a long time since you saw him like this. Actually, it may have been your first time. 

His hair fell over his eyes as he continued to scribble over his textbook. 

Are you happy now? You asked yourself, as you watched him. He’s finally not trying to bother you, or distract you from your studies, or… 

He chewed on his lower lip, tilting his head to the side and staring at the question as if it would give him the answer he needed. At this, you shivered, because this side of Riki was so foreign to you. It was so unfamiliar that you did not feel comfortable. Because why would Riki, with a bunch of rowdy, carefree friends from his dance club, ever turn to a life of books? Even you, who broke down at the first glance of a C grade, had accepted that it’s a sad life. 

When Sunoo walked past your conjoined tables just a few minutes before the bell rang, he shot you a smug look. It sent a small shudder down your spine – something really was up that day. But as you did everything that happened in school, you ignored it and stood up promptly to lead the class in greeting the teachers. 

Now, although it’s an unknown concept to you, you and him are on the borderline definition of friends. You may have sworn deep inside your heart to hate him till the end of time, with his arrogant airs and his constant over-the-top quips. But beneath the careless exterior lays a young boy who just wants to appear older than he actually is. 

At eleven in the night, as you both burned the midnight oil studying for an exam the next day, he quietly confessed that more than anything, he just wanted to look cool. Like his Heeseung hyung who always seemed to ace anything he tried. Like his Jay hyung who was such an inspiration and influence to his style. Like his Jake, Sunghoon and Jungwon hyungs, who were pros in their own sports. Like his Sunoo hyung, who always knew just what to say and how to say it. 

And when you looked up from your messy notes, heart wrenching upon hearing these words coming from someone you hated for the longest time, you could only see hints of sadness dotting his eyes. 

The boy who had utterly ruined your first impression of him by bumping into you without apologising. In a haste to receive the football, he darted in front of you and had you sent to the nurse’s during your PE lesson. The next time you saw him after that was a shy peek of his head into the sick bay. The apology note he wrote was promptly torn up into a million pieces for the trash. 

This boy was struggling in his own ways. He wasn’t untidy and disorganised. He was trying his very hardest to manage all the pieces of work he had overdue and unfinished. The boy you believed used his popularity and luck to squeeze his way into the class. His hard work and efforts were and are still easily commendable. 

Perhaps it’s the reason why teachers are more lenient on him not submitting homework. Maybe it’s why they seem to give him special treatment after he returns from a competition, sometimes victorious and sometimes defeated. 

Today, it’s another late night call for both of your Chemistry exams tomorrow morning. On the other end of the call, Riki is silent – all you can hear are the scratches of graphite probably calculating some form of mass. You look up at your computer screen to check in on him, knowing that today he lost a match as the centre. It is probably the sportsman’s equivalent to failing a subject you normally excel at. 

A sigh leaves him every once in a while, and a hint of blue indicating sound coming from the call flickers in your periphery. At this rate, you can’t focus on your work. You’re scared to ask and at the same time you’re scared to stay quiet. 

“... Are you okay?” you ask tentatively, reaching out to adjust the volume. When Riki doesn’t answer for a few moments, your stomach twists into a knot so tight you feel like choking. 

“I’m fine,” he finally answers, quietly, so soft you can barely hear him. He doesn’t look up from his worksheets, but his shoulders remain slumped and he can’t even meet your eyes for a second. He’s clearly lying and as usual, going to cover it up with a jocular facade. 

“Oh my gosh, yn,” he mutters on cue, letting out a huff of forced laughter. “I think I’m going to fail if you don’t help me.” 

He’s trying to brush it off. You know. You’ve been in his shoes before, in a different situation and circumstance. And the feeling of being at the lowest of lowests is not a pleasant one. “Riki…”

The boy’s smile instantly fades and his gaze darts to the side. “Right. Sorry. Um, I didn’t play very well today.” 

There it is. “Let yourself have a break. You know that you’re doing your best, right?” 

Never in a million years would the you at the start of the year imagine that you would be uttering these words to your seatmate. Sincerely, and you truly mean it. You would never have thought your heart would ache to make his tattered and torn one whole. 

“Right.” With the weight of one word hanging over both your shoulders, you get the feeling that he has more to say that he ultimately never will. “Thanks.” 

You offer him a slight, sad smile in return. After a while of studying and comforting him, you shut off your lamp and bid him goodbye whilst telling him he probably needs to get some rest for tomorrow. The memory of him returning your smile boxily still lingers after you shut down your computer and leave your room. You hate him so much. You hate him for making you feel like you’re not alone in this world. You hate that you see yourself in him and that he makes you feel seen, validated, real…

The next day, you walk up to your seats at the back of the classroom. Surprisingly, Riki’s sitting there before you are, an unusual sight especially since he normally comes in hours late after games. He’s pouring over his own Chemistry notes, the first you’ve ever seen. His handwriting is messy in the pretty kind of way, lacing over the small pages. 

“Riki,” you call him softly, to get his attention. He looks up at you, eyes rounded cutely, and your heart does a small flutter. “Here, this is for you. Are you feeling better?” 

He blinks rapidly as you pull out a small goody bag filled with snacks and candies. And at the bottom, although he doesn’t see it yet, is a note that you’ve poured your heart and soul into. It sounds like a well-obscured confession, and maybe to him it may be, but it’s a thank you for being in my life. Thank you for being here even though I know you probably don’t want to.

Why does he look like he’s never been gifted anything before? His cheeks go red and he looks at you with the happiness of a toddler. Eyes shimmering in the dawn light, he grins. “Thank you.” 

For a moment, the empty classroom goes silent. With a quarter an hour to seven, your classmates are going to start coming in soon, to collectively mug and cry over Chemistry. So before that happens, you clap your hands and point at the bag. 

“Open it now! And read what’s inside!” You babble, taking a seat beside him. Your knees touch again, and he seems to be reading your whole face with his eyes alone, but the adrenaline has you fearless for once. 

He slowly begins to unfold the note you hid at the bottom, an uncertain and suspicious frown on his face. But underneath it, you just know his heart is beating as hard as yours is. As if the anticipation is contagious – or you’re simply an expert empath.

dear riki,

i hate you. 

yes, you read that right. i despise you with every fibre of my being. i can’t take your presence beside me in class, ticking me off with every smart remark you make in the middle of math. i can’t take the way you look at me with hopeless defeat or arrogant victory when you get back from any one of the many sports you play. i hate how talented you are, how cool you seem to me, how much you remind me of me when you tell me what’s on your mind. 

because i worked so hard to get into this class and worked so hard for a reputation of being the best student leader and the smartest girl in school. and you – you seemed not to work at all. you would walk into this classroom like you owned it. and i hated it. 

until i started to like it. 

i liked the way you smiled. i liked the way you teased me. i liked the way you rolled your eyes when you saw me fretting over physics yet again. what made me change my mind, you ask? well, a small glimpse into your life shows me you do work hard. you probably work twice as hard as i ever can and will. i like that. 

and as much as i never say it, i like you. 

When Riki’s eyes reach the bottom of the square-shaped paper, you see him start to tear like never before. It scares you to the core. You have never seen him so emotional. 

“You’re joking,” he laughs boyishly, running a hand through his hair and looking at you. Is this the first time you have seen his cheeks so rosy and vibrant, the first time you’ve seen his eyes squinted in such joy? “You are joking right now.”

“I’m not,” you smile back, “rea–” 

And he interrupts you by leaning in and kissing you, sweet and gentle and shy just like all the other times he’s ever interacted with you. He gets up from his seat and leans on the back of yours for support. You can feel his smile against your lips, genuine and real for the first time in forever. It feels new yet it feels like solace. 

“You’re the class president,” he whispers in the intimacy of both your gazes. So close yet so out of reach. His hands shake and he cradles the top of your head hesitantly. “and I’m the boy who does anything but study. Why me?”

You hum and shrug your shoulders. “You’re the sportiest boy I know, and all I ever do is study so I can be the top student. Right back at you.” 

The giggle Riki lets out before he leans in and kisses you again will remain forever engrained in your mind. 

“i love you, ain’t that the worst thing you’ve ever heard?”

thank you for reading! please please please do send me feedback and share your opinions! i would love to hear you guys in my asks n dms as well ;) have a good day everyone!

more of my works >

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dude???? why am i a bit batshit crazy

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Love your works!! Moot game!

Moots as Chocolates?

thanks baby! xo

white chocolate ; @suhiiiies-blog @rikizm @hwangism143 @ashtxrie

i feel like you guys are fun-loving and quirky (in a good way of course) and you are all also SUPER sweet.

dark chocolate ; @rikiws @yongbokified

classy and stylish with their own little kick to their personality. that's what i feel like you guys would be (i'd also classify myself as dark chocolate)

milk chocolate ; @sugariricookies @mishinurariki @sunrenity

bro?? yall are the sweetest of them all. your themes even match the vibe of milk chocolate

anyway fun fact, i sneeze when i eat chocolate

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ASH'S HEADCANON WORKS •˚ ༘₊·

LEGEND : reccs! 🡒 ★ | fluff! 🡒 ⚘ | angst! 🡒 ⛐

OT7

enhypen as your valentine ★ ⚘

enhypen as dangerous woman songs ⚘

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ASH'S JAKE WORKS *·°♪•

LEGEND : reccs! 🡒 ★ | fluff! 🡒 ⚘ | angst! 🡒 ⛐

FLUFFY FICS

wordle wars [highschool au] ★ ⚘

COMFORT FICS

maybe i lost myself ⚘ ⛐

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ASH'S HEESEUNG WORKS ༉‧₊˚.

LEGEND : reccs! 🡒 ★ | fluff! 🡒 ⚘ | angst! 🡒 ⛐

I'VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU!

gummy bears [highschool au] ★ ⚘

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ASH'S JUNGWON WORKS ੈ✩‧₊˚

LEGEND : reccs! 🡒 ★ | fluff! 🡒 ⚘ | angst! 🡒 ⛐

SITUATIONSHIP SERIES

engraving on my wrist ⚘

jungwon as your situationship ★ ⚘

GETTING TOGETHER

operation : be your boyfriend ⚘

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ASH'S SUNOO WORKS ｡.:*☆

LEGEND : reccs! 🡒 ★ | fluff! 🡒 ⚘ | angst! 🡒 ⛐

ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP FICS

tough case ⚘ ⛐

lucky girl [idolxnonidol] ⚘

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ASH'S NI-KI WORKS .｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ ﾟ

LEGEND : reccs! 🡒 ★ | fluff! 🡒 ⚘ | angst! 🡒 ⛐

CHAPTERED FICS

you in the rain (highschool au, frenemies to lovers) based on the Chinese Drama, 'When I Fly Towards You', in which you, a going-on-high-school English genius named Huang Yuting meets the Mathematics genius of the 10th grade, Nishimura Riki, underneath the rain.

FICS TO CRY TO

you turn it right around ⚘

i get the feeling that you're just holding on ⚘

perfect ⚘

ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP FICS

royal flush [roommates to lovers] ⚘

the muse [artistxmuse] ⚘

what's your ETA? [forced proximity] ★ ⚘

ni-ki as your study date ★ ⚘

colour your smile [artistxmuse] ⚘

trust yourself [idolxgf] ⚘ ⛐

LOVE CONFESSIONS

a cruel summer with you [highschool rivals to lovers] ★ ⚘

tell my fortune [first encounters] ⚘

[stariikis]

how do you guys have sm time omg i swear i keep forgetting this platform exists and some of u guys be acting like this is ur full-time job i'm envious

[stariikis]

:You have 1 voicemail in your inbox from: riri! Time: 30 secs

HIHI BB!! It's been a while I'm so sorry mootie🥲

How have you been though?!?!

RIRI. i missed you so much. i've been doing quite well :D exams haven't started yet so i'm not freaking out...

how are youuu? anything going on? and how do you find the comeback omg i love paranormal and brought the heat back. actually no i literally love everything i can't!!!

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BANGER.