90. “I don’t want to think about what I’d be like without you.”
The two were in their shared room, cuddling together and holding hands. After a series of shared kisses, very flirty comments, and jokes, Jared separated from his boyfriend with a thoughtful look on his face, looking out the window.
Satch noticed this and tilted his head slightly. “Is there something wrong?”
Jared shook his head, eyes widening. “No, no, nothing is wrong! I’m just...” His thoughtful look returned, and Satch waited patiently. Jared focused back onto Satch, and took a breath. “Well... I was thinking of how I met all of you. You guys showed me that I didn’t need to be perfect.”
“Mmmm.” Satch hummed, and Jared obviously was struck by Satch’s voice, his next words catching in his throat for a few seconds.
Jared managed to continue, “W-Well, that then led to... well, how you and I were roommates this year, and our relationship is just the most wonderful thing I’ve ever experienced.” He brushed a hand through his hair, causing a few sparkles to glint off the sunlight. “I...” Jared’s eyes became down again, obviously with him lost in thought.
Satch smiled. “Was it truly the most wonderful thing you’ve experienced?”
“Yes!” Jared nodded. “Absolutely! I just...” Jared bit his lip. “I don’t want to think about what I’d be like without you.”
“Well...” Satch drew his boyfriend close, kissing his forehead, “you won’t have to think about that when I’m right here, right?”
uhhhh how abt some mf asapix playing vidya games together
SORRY IF THIS IS OUT OF CHARACTER FOR ASA... I MIGHT’VE LOST MY TOUCH
The two of them glared at the screen, backs bent over controllers and fingers flying. Their eyes flicked
On the screen, A pink dragon-like creature slapped their tail into a woman in a blue crop top, who retaliated with a whip of energy, sending the pink dragon flying. The dragon started to flap their wings, but the woman jumped and sent a bomb their way, causing the dragon to throw an egg at the bomb to prevent it from exploding on them.
“Give up! I have more official experience!” Asa shouted, a smirk on her face. Pix only made a hissing sound, and her dragon gripped to the side of the stage.
No Suit Sammy ran towards Toshi, who clambered onto the stage and turned into a huge egg, with tiny little wings sprouting from it. No Suit Sammy hit the egg, and then ran in the other direction.
“Dear, this is a matter of PRIDE. I’m not going to give up!”
“Pix, you have 1 stock compared to my 3!”
“WATCH ME, LOGGY.”
Pix lost, but she did take No Suit Sammy to 1 stock before losing her last one! The two girlfriends sighed after the long game, and Pix clambered to turn the game off. She turned to her short-haired girlfriend and sat down right next to her, picking up a blanket. “That game’s really stressful. I’m feeling tired.”
“I’ll watch over ya.” Asa winked. “Get a good rest, Pix. I love you.”
Pix flushed slightly, but she leaned on Asa’s shoulder... and was out like a light.
Hana coughed, then rubbed at her eyes. She hated feeling sick. Hana felt like she was useless, and would always be useless, especially now that she was sitting in the nurse’s office. Nobody was going to willingly visit, especially since Creeps was-
The door slid open, and Hana shot up, then descended into more coughs. Whoever entered the room was worried at that, as the steps ran towards her bed. Hana managed to stop coughing when she saw Pix, her purple-haired girlfriend, carrying a lunch tray and some flowers.
“Wh-” another cough escaped Hana’s mouth, but Hana managed to shove that down in order to continue speaking, “What are you doing here? Y-You might get sick, Pix!”
“I don’t care.” Pix said, setting the tray on Hana’s lap, and placing the flowers on the stand next to Hana’s bed. “I care about you, and... well... I’m going to take care of you, okay?”
Hana stared, wide-eyed, and Pix, then back down at her tray as tears pricked at the back of her eyes. “Th-That’s okay...”
Pix placed her hand on Hana’s knee, with Hana’s lap being taken up by the food. “I don’t want you to be alone while you’re sick, okay? Eat up. You’ll need energy to fight the sickness.”
Hana picked up the spoon that was set on her tray, and opened up the meal that was set on it.
Chicken Noodle Soup...?
Hana looked over to Pix, who was starting to smile at Hana’s obviously confused expression. “It makes you feel better! That’s what my mom always said, anyway!”
Hana smiled over at Pix again, then down to her food. “Thank you Pix... for bringing me this, and for being here.”
34. “These stars are nothing compared to the ones I’ve seen in your eyes.”
It was Pix’s idea. The stars were beautiful, and she didn’t spend much time looking at them as a kid, so she might as well look at them now!
Pix brought the Nokemon blanket, and Jirard brought his Itty Bitty Kitty Blanket. The two overlapped the blankets, then lay down on them, the comforting fabric causing Pix to sigh happily.
The actual stargazing began then. Jirard pointed out the various star patterns in the sky, and Pix started to make hypothetical patterns out of the stars she could see. Pix started connecting another few groups of stars, then seemed to realize something and started to laugh. Jirard followed her movements of her hand before it collapsed onto her chest, and realized what she thought it looked like.
Jirard stopped laughing after Pix, and looked at her, laying on the blanket, hands on her chest and staring at the stars. It was a lull in the conversation of the stars, and Pix’s face seemed to relax back into one of a frown, and her eyes were half-lidded again.
Jirard looked back up at the stars, then back at her. “Pix.”
Pix looked over to him, and the frown turned into a slight smile. “Yes, Jirard?”
“I know we came out here just to look at these stars, but...” Jirard scooted a bit closer to Pix, and she sat up, green eyes curiously looking into Jirard’s own. “You know what? These stars are nothing compared to the ones I’ve seen in your eyes.”
Pix’s eyes widened, and a slight gasp escaped from her mouth. Her mouth then twisted back into a smile, and Jirard saw that she was holding back tears.
“Oh my god...” Pix mumbled, “I-I... Thank you for saying that!” She wiped at her eyes, then scooted close enough for their knees to meet. She leaned forward and wrapped her arms around his side, squeezing tight. Jirard hugged back, and they just stayed there for a while, with the stars glittering down on them.
This was the last time Mai could ever see Pix. Mai’s parents objected, very loudly, to their friendship, to their romance, and banned them from seeing each other, ever. They even contacted the school to make sure that they wouldn’t ever meet again.
So Pix was going to never eat in the cafeteria with the normal boots guys- who were also her friends- ever again.
Mai slunk through the night shadows, hand grazing the wall as a guide. She kept leaning against it, even as she reached the place where they would meet. Pix’s purple hair was spotted on the opposite side of the bricks Mai leaned against, and she walked forward. “...Pix?”
Pix looked to Mai, then dashed forward, colliding into Mai. “Mai, I’m so sorry,” Pix mumbled, squeezing the taller girl tight, “It’s my fault that our relationship got found out.”
“No, it was mine.”
“No, really! I made a comment about it at your family dinner, even after you told me not to-” Pix sniffed, trying to hold back tears, “-and now we can’t even see each other again... I don’t think...” Pix trailed off, starting to think.
Mai looked down, rubbing Pix’s head. “Don’t think what?”
“...I don’t think we can continue being girlfriends, even in secret.”
Mai froze. “Why?”
“Someone’s going to notice-” Pix waved around, “This, sooner or later, and knowing the school, they’re going to heavily patrol the area for years after we left, preventing other students from keeping their relationships secret, as well. Y-Y’know, I don’t want to be the cause of that.”
Mai’s face fell. “...That’s true, but... what if we don’t?”
“We will. I’m lucky I got Susan for a roommate again this year, but with anybody else, they would’ve reported it already.” Pix stepped away from Mai, green eyes looking away from her. “So... I think... I think we should break up.”
Mai made a noise. Pix looked at her with concern, then hurridly explained, “Not that we don’t love each other, I love you, but-” Pix looked sad again. “... i love you... but I don’t think all the time separated and coming back and separating again will be good for us.”
Mai mentally grabbed the words ‘i love you’ out of the air and into her mental box. She was going to remember this at night for the rest of her time at asagao. “...You’re right.” She admitted, looking away from Pix. “...So... break up time?”
“Break up.”
There was a silence in the air as the decision settled in, and Pix looked sad. She started stepping away, obviously thinking of something to say. “...Bye, Mai.”
“Bye, Pix. I love you.” Mai said back, and she spotted Pix tighten up briefly. Then, the shorter girl turned around and started to run away. Mai watched the dust settle after she did so, and headed back herself, sad frown on her face.
Mai remembered how sad Pix got after the first time a possible relationship was broken because of Mai or someone close to Mai... and now she was willingly causing it to herself?
Pix lay against the tree, her eyes shut and her sketchbook on her lap, slipping out. Hana leaned against Pix’s shoulder, holding her pink Gintendo 4DS in her own lap as she played a Nokemon game borrowed from Pix. They let the wind blow over them, settling little flowers onto the two’s hair and laps from the tree above.
Pix’s grip loosened from the sketchbook completely, and it slid off her lap. She leaned slightly toward’s Hana, now on her head due to Hana previously leaning on it. Her breathing slowed, gently like the breeze, and she murmured, “I...i love you, Hana...”
Hana flicked her eyes up from her game, looking over at Pix’s sleeping form. “Y...You do?”
Pix was already asleep, so she didn’t respond. Hana only smiled, and looked back to her game, blushing slightly. “... I love you too, Pix...”
Pix plopped some of the batter onto the pan, rubbing her hair back again. She grumbled something about hating having long hair, continuing to put more chocolate chip batter onto the pan. She quickly picked up the box for how long to cook the cookies for, her hair falling slightly over her face again.
God fucking-
Someone’s hands grabbed her hair, softly, and Pix jerked slightly at the surprise contact. Her boyfriend had found his way over to her, and he was now... putting her hair into a ponytail.
“A-Aren’t you supposed to be making some more of the batter?” Pix asked, surprise almost causing her to drop the box. She looked back at the cookie box, reading through the instructions.
“Well, I saw you were having a bit of trouble with your hair...” Jirard said, grabbing something off of his wrist and pulling it into Pix’s hair. He twisted the purple-and-brown hair into a ponytail, tightened it, then backed away. “There. You don’t have to keep pushing it back!”
Pix rubbing her hands over her now-open ears, feeling extremely grateful. She placed the box down, clicked on the oven a few times, then turned to Jirard. He looked curiously down at her, his face a light smile.
She stepped closer and wrapped her arms around him, squeezing tight.
“Jirard,” Pix mumbled, “I love you so much.”
Jirard made a small, surprised noise, which made Pix smile. He hugged her back, and whispered, “I... love you too.”
They separated to get back to the cookies, but Pix’s heart was pounding fast in her chest, and a slight ringing went through her ears.
They actually said it. Right after they started dating, too!
She was so going to rub this in Jared’s face later.
