#i feel like im witnessing a potential shinran fic developing right in front of my eyes HAHA

[meitanteisachi]

(long) personal post ahead!

Well technically this isn’t a personal post but it’s about two of my friends from the same circle (I’ll call them A and B) whom I just recently discovered are mutually into each other and I’m SO FREAKING HAPPY FOR THEM AND THEY REMIND ME OF SHINRAN. SERIOUSLY. 

They’re my block mates and before the pandemic (so like, timeline around late 2019 to early March this year?) we’d frequently hung out in the student council room (most of my friends are council members and I’m just literally leeching lmao), and at that time I could already see them being sweet, but I’ve always thought of it as friends kinda sweet since A had a gf while B is in casual relationships then.

Guy A is so. freaking. handsome. Like I wouldn’t deny it his face is gorgeous, magazine material and among the top 10 (top 5?) hotties in my grad school. He’s smart, but he can be obnoxious sometimes and makes dumb jokes but his humor grew on me (on everyone actually) so I was able to survive grad school with this idiot of a friend. 

Meanwhile girl B, my other friend, is timid and quiet for most people but is actually loud and crazy around us and has very dry humor (that may have been influenced by A) though overall she’s very sweet. She was also the council’s secretary.

This morning, I got to interact again with my block mates thru DMs (after xx months of being in my own little recluse of purely anime in my mind lmao) because council elections is coming up and A invited me to join his PR team as he’s running for Secretary (B’s previous position). So I joined and we made a grp DM for the whole team, some of my other friends in there including B, the head PR. While discussion was ongoing, A told me in a separate DM that if I get to notice some implications in the chat that he and B have a thing, I shall not mind it because they really do have a thing now. 

And me, being the clueless, oblivious beech that I am, reacted with ‘HAAAAAHHH??!?!>?’, ‘But I thought- You!- Hah!?! HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN GONE?!?’ (and he replied with blame it on your Naruto!! - lmaoo thank god for non-weeb friends who understand my isolation haha).

Anyway, what really got me about these two was how MUCH I WASN’T EXPECTING they’ll go down this route. After all they’re merely close friends and had each of their respective relationships prior (I learned, eventually, that A broke up with his gf last March, while B stopped with casual dating long before that).

I learned that B, being the more ‘quiet’ one, has admitted to my other friend that she did have a crush on A long before, but suppressed it because they’re merely friends and A had a gf. B said she admires A’s leadership - how he can pull a rough situation into something favorable, how he’s very calm and rational about facing crises, how he’s just so confident on the outside though deep down he might probably be panicking - but nonetheless, he’s still confident (very Shinichi IMO).

I also learned that A fell in love first. Before they got to admit their feelings for each other, A would visit B in her house and would invite two of my other friends in the guise of ‘hanging out’ but really, A and B just wanted to be together. A would also drive B to court hearings even though he lives far from her; would drop by her house even if it’s out of the way just say that he’s on the way to where he’s going. They go out on late night drives. And if asked if A likes B, A is straightforward about it, he’ll really say “I really really like her, what do I do about this” like god arent you two like two teenagers in love fuckkkk. 

But now it has come to this, A is so crazy about B. And B, I hope this is THE relationship for her. B has a particular type in a man, none of which A falls under. Her infatuation/love for A might be forreal this time. Who knows. But rn I’m squirmminngg.

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TLDR; Two of my friends are dating and they radiate Shin x Ran vibes and I cannot stop gushing about it (but not in front of their faces bc I dont want to freak them tf out so I’m just gonna rant everything here HAHAHA)