it’s not on purpose, sam swears. he doesn’t even realize until he’s mid sunrise hike with misa, and huh they’ve been doing a lot of romantic shit lately, this whole off season really. dinner dates, and a spa trip, and picnics (ate in a park once), using the photo booth at that one boba place, and now sunrise hikes. it really really does look a certain way but when sam says anything misa just shrugs. completely unbothered that they’re doing couple activities, no girls in sight, no girls even on the fucking horizon! and so what if sam is a little sensitive about how he’s perceived, misa’s the weird well adjusted one when it comes to that. it’s fine if sam knows he’s being portrayed in a certain light, if he’s already on top of it and making it a joke, it’s another thing for it to sneak up on him like this. so absolutely no more sunrise hikes or any of this shit, sam’s not trying to look like that unknowingly.
a week goes by with no plans and misa doesn’t even text, he’s like that. it’s sort of embarrassing now that sam thinks about it, that it’s been sam pushing them to this point, but misa the one letting it happen. which is worse? the week goes by and sam hangs out with his brother, with his other friends, with misa when a group’s involved. and then misa texts, hey you free saturday?? heard the odyssey isn’t that scary :) it freaks sam the fuck out. the fact misa is reaching out, the fact it’s a movie date, the fact misa felt the need to clarify that the movie isn’t scary, the fact he sent a :) when he’s never ever sent one to sam before, like he’s worried something’s up.
srry already saw it. ur not missing out
misa texts a few more times, three times to be exact. are you going to schaef’s place tonight? we should hang sometime! and horrifyingly when r we running that hike back?? sam gives him cop out answers and then embarrassingly doesn’t post anything to his finsta for awhile because he doesn’t want to hurt misa’s feelings that he’s hanging out with other people. it’s like he’s ghosting a girl, but a girl he really cares about and wants to hang out with but can’t. they’ll be back thick as thieves next season anyways, the off season stuff was just getting too much.
it’s not like misa is rotting away on his own anyways. he has other friends, evident in the way misa is heavily featured in zayne’s overactive finsta. it’s different for them sam reasons, because zayne’s built different, built less delicately than sam wants to admit that he is. he can post breakfast with hubby, and you won’t believe what we did after this ;), and love of my life, under every photo of misa he wants. it’s different. the stuff with lardis, sam doesn’t understand as much.
sam does pop up at schaef’s get together and eyes the way lardis makes misa’s drink, and brushes off the patio seat for him, and then ruffles his hair gently. someone makes a shit joke going is he your pet or your girlfriend, lardo? misa laughs and lardis doesn’t. he raises his eyebrow and goes he’s mikey. it explains fuck all and dispels any of the humour around it. he should have said both and thrown out his hands all sleazy like, that’s what sam would have done. but nick lardis doesn’t take the easy exit, doesn’t turn it around. he kisses misa on the cheek when he’s had a little too much and then takes the side closest to the road when they walk down to their uber. sam watches and watches and fuck, can he do that? he’s not so sure.
misa posts lardis and zayne both on some hike, on main, with a cute little red love heart over their heads. zayne reposts with a 100 because he’s obnoxious. and lardis’ finsta, which sam is newly privy too post van camp, is him with his hand on misa’s cheek as he leans into him, nice cutesy story caption saying going in the scrapbook! sam’s gotta get his shit together, fuck.
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