#idk this caught me off guard so bad
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LMAOOO SO THIS PICTURE IS FROM PT. 11 OF MY SOCIAL MEDIA TROJANS AU
and right now i was just scrolling through twitter minding my business and guess what showed up on my tl 😭
they’re twinsies your honour 😭
#the trojans social media au#idk this caught me off guard so bad#but maybe i’ve just given myself too much brainrot with this au#probably going to steal this tweet now for my au too LMAOOO#all for the game#aftg#the sunshine court#tsc#derek thomposon#lucas johnson
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tolkien (a studied linguist) and me (has taken their fair share of linguistic classes) staring at each other after the narrator casually drops that the hobbits just 'forgot' their languages and simply adopted the common speech as if that is a normal thing that happens out of the blue and isn't connected to at best cultural assimilation and at worst colonialism, imperialism, and oppression
#personal#lotr newsletter#lotr lb#love that you always find new stuff to think about with these books#like this is very easy to read over and simply accept bc it's such a small paragraph and also it's not presented as something super bad?#like i'm not saying the dunedain violently oppressed the hobbits and forced them to learn a new language or smth#but girl the implications...#like there certainly had to have been some kind of hierarchy so that the common speech had more prestige than whatever the hobbits spoke#bc they were multiple languages they were speaking!#like idk what it means rn but it's a fascinating choice to me that they forgot their languages except for a few words.#lmao maybe i'm also thinking too radically about this maybe it's not that deep. but it certainly caught me off guard reading hahaha#*closes the tabs on language death i had opened*
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went on a first date today and saw my last date ACROSS THE STREET AND SHE YELLS "HEY ZAN"
#that was crazy#lowkey knew we were in her area tho shld have been prepared#also wasnt rly sure if today was a date?#we held hands a small bit and slightly flirted but nothing crazy idk was first time meeting#i rly like them but maybe platonicly idek#where i live is so small#anyways blah blah blah this is cringe to post idc#i rly liked them tho i think we r gna go to a rave together in a few weeks!#i think i have only been truly in love once or twice#other relationships were kinda just attractiction/obsession/results from being love bombed#i wanna feel that true connection again#meeting another date possibly this weekend!#we have so much in common i have a feeling i may fall for them very hard#ok just ranting more but#today's date had a very similar face to one of my exes#didn't realize until seeing them in person#kinda caught me off guard a few times maybe another reason why i might wna keep things platonic w them#thqt ex was bad news lol
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A little aside but Foolish saying “I know I’m not the best with my emotions, but I really am sorry for your loss.” Actually got me a bit- like. Idk how to describe it but same, man. Same.
#idk if that was in character or not but it did strike a chord with me#I’m bad with emotions myself-#so it was just. idk. nice to hear ig???#sorry I have zero idea how to describe that#caught me off guard when he said that but it was nice#nebula rambles#foolishgamers#foosh :]
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boss just sat me down and basically asked what's wrong with me again
#i went home sick last friday and i guess someone said i did something wrong at work#when im 99% sure i didn't??#anyway. they also think I've been quieter lately#i feel bad. im mad because of the whole situation with my shitty coworker#but my boss slipped up and said 'we're friends - well. sorry. we're not /friends/ I'm your boss but -'#so clearly he views me as a friend but is trying to set professional boundaries#I just feel guilty#i don't even know why this is getting to me so much#i guess it feels like someone just listed off all of the things I'm doing wrong and pointed them out to me#and that paired with the fact that I was caught off guard by it#i hate being caught off guard#idk#anyway the apartment cat came over to hang out for a bit but she was distant#so the perceived rejection really hit me#i swear to god i don't realise how insane i am til i write all this out#anyway. i don't have any drugs left other than some random opioids#which is basically russian roulette#in terms of dosage because they're all wildly different#so I'll probably stay sober tonight#which is for the best :/#if I want to wake up on time to work tomorrow#it's not even anything. im mostly just trying to avoid my creepy shitty coworker#but i can't say that! so i guess everyone just thinks i hate them noe#now*#and they probably all secretly hate me#since he said that a few people have mentioned that I've been quieter lately#so I'm not even doing a good job putting up my ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ facade#which is like. my only skill and asset#anyway. time to think about dying and never eat again ig#mine
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Did not even look twice in Astarion's direction until that feeding scene and???? I fucking. let him kill me the first time and had to reload
Anyways,,, as you can imagine, I'm obsessed with him now
#Bg3#Bg3 spoilers I guess#It's very early#I hate how this caught me so off guard?#Several of the other options are way more my type idk why but I am down bad#Don't look at me
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Please tell me someone else has seen the transphobic chocolate commercial what the fuck
#not that I actually hope it’s widespread but it caught me off guard so much#when it started I thought it was trying to be funny#like haha ironic how the man is talking about womens day and the acting is bad lol#and then it just went sharply into transphobia like ???? why is that just allowed to be an ad on YouTube !#anyway idk anything about the law and I don’t care about Hershey#But I hope they sue him for using their name in his website name
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i've been getting emails from my university for months begging me to call their toll-free number for their alumni verification project so i finally did to make them stop emailing me and i thought it was just going to be like yes this is my address and phone number and whatever bye but this woman was fully interviewing me and i wasn't expecting to have to pull out my oscar worthy acting skills to bullshit redacted university at 12:30 pm on a saturday when i had just woken up. she was like "what's the story you tell people about your experience here" and i was like Well usually i tell people about my year abroad in england and she somehow was not familiar with the study abroad program and then shes asking me about professors who had an impact on me and i was like.....it's been years i don't remember hardly anyones name i was just trying to get a degree..........and then i bullshat something about how it helped me solidify my own beliefs because i was a non adventist on their shitty shitty adventist cult ass campus. and then she desperately wanted my permission to use the recording of that conversation in their project and i was like no <3 and then she was like you can get a sweatshirt and hardcover book and access to all these recordings for two payments of $299 where would you like it sent? and i was like. i wouldn't. ??????
#i really was not expecting a person to answer the phone on The Sabbath i was hoping for something automated. what the fuck was this#SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS?????#FOR NONSENSE?? idk why i'm surprised its not like theyre in the habit of producing things worth paying for#i think it was $600 i was kind of caught off guard by this whole thing it might have been $400#god they must be going bankrupt. i fucking hope so [redacted] university delenda est#dude i think you are looking for people who went outside and had friends in college and also who were adventist and wanted to go there not#i put so much effort into saying things besides “i had a bad time there and there were basically no upsides” and i dont know why i did that#i should have said it.#to be honest there were scarce few good professors who i genuinely liked and enjoyed but you bet your ass i forgot their names. sorry drs.#it was good practice for me saying no though because she was nice about it and i still said no instead of being a doormat#probably the best thing they ever did for me.#me
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dude idek what to do with myself rn.....
#the news caught me so off guard#i thought it was a hoax at first#i was hoping that it was fake or mistaken identity#he was too fucking young dude#its devastating that he went out the way that he did#he had clearly been deteriorating for years leading up to this#idk if he was ever offered help#idk if he refused the help or if he made attempts at getting better/sober#it would not surprise me if he was surrounded by yes-men and enablers#he clearly needed some serious help for a very long time#he turned into a shell of himself#I do not think he was a bad guy#i will never get excuse the stuff that he did#but i think he was extremely unwell and could have redeemed himself with the proper help#people underestimate how much drugs and alcohol or mental health issues can change a person#it can turn you into a horrible self destructing monster#unfortunately he never got better and never will#and its absolutely fucking heartbreaking dude#31 years old man....#he was only 31#he had a whole life ahead of him#he will never get to see his son grow up#idk how anyone is celebrating this mans death#he was not a bad person he was a hurt person who massively needed help#he hadn't been right mentally in years#unfortunate that no one was able to intervene before it got to this
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Love when media lets their main characters fail. And not the pathetic makes you want to wrap them in a blanket failure. But a failure borne through pain and suffering as they watch everything they were trying to protect crumble. A failure that hurts. A failure that feels hopeless. A failure that has them grit their teeth and push back tears as they desperately cling to hope that maybe, just maybe, if they try hard enough they can win
#man this season finale got me fucked bro#it's a literal children's show rated TV-Y7#but they do such a good job of showing things like self doubt and imposter syndrome. and even things like anxiety as a result of fear#one of the side characters straight up has ptsd and you don't really know until he has a flashback#and while he lost it against a bad guy. they show the pain and sadness he feels at succumbing the flashback so violently#idk. maybe this stuff caught me so off guard I'm thinking too deep#but like man. just man#shoulda known the finale would be insane when they had the reoccurring villain tear up and show fear when mc destroyed her big weapon#or when they straight implied that reoccurring villain's lackeys were fucking killed#like it's still a young kid's show so they bounce back p fast and lean into the exaggeration comedy#but they still had mc knowing he was fighting a losing battle and struggle through the terror of it#i think it's BECAUSE it's usually so light hearted and jokey that the seriousness hit so hard#kake scraps
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Is it just me or is weird when a straight guy says “all girls are a little gay” like huhhh????? Excuse me 🤨
#likeeee Ik he didn’t mean it a bad way but it just caught me off guard when ykkkk he’s fine with girls being gay and kissing cause wooo#straight dudes love to sexualize wlw but like he wouldn’t fucking say that about a guy#if a guy said yeah I’m straight but I like to kiss guys he would Immediently just call him gay#idk it weirded me out I did question him on it tho even tho this was indeed during graduation when they were calling everyone’s name so#to clarify we were not graduating but we’re in band and we have to play at graduation which is why we were there
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ranboo Did say fuck in that sorry boys vid right. or was it someone else
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worst thing i ever did in my life is come up with a special little au separate from my other good au so i could stick all my ideas that i had to ditch in that au but not because it was a bad idea or anything. because i got incredibly emotionally attached to the worse au and like even if it hadnt gotten pretty ooc at parts i never wouldve been able to write it because of some of the stuff i was including since it was literally like 80% stuff that made me say “hm i probably shouldnt write that not because its bad for the plot but because i cant do that to them” but thats still not even the bad part the bad part is that i made a playlist for it and i tried to partially limit it to songs someone could realistically rot in their room to during summer 2020 and because i was personally on tiktok during 2020 i included that song from 36 questions that everyone was using for a while. and unfortunately it actually genuinely fits the au too well for me to take it off so now every time i want to be mentally ill about my horrible au and i decide to listen to the playlist i made for it i get 36 questions jumpscared
#this isnt even my only playlist with a way-too-fitting 36 questions jumpscare#theres one on my olive playlist.#theres actually a bunch on this playlist that jumpscare me 9 times out of 10#lemon boy caught me WAY off guard a few minutes ago but again it actually kinda fits so i cant take it off#ive listened to that song maybe 3 times in the past year. i almost always skip it even on this playlist.#but somehow having to skip it actually adds something#anyways sorry for being cryptic abt my aus again#i do think it would be fun to show this playlist to someone and see if they can reconstruct any of the story#but it is genuinely one of the worst stories ive ever come up with#its not even like bad as a story its just. idk. like ive written and posted way worse but… i am simply not proud of this one!#quetzposting#for the record the original scrapped idea was having the pandemic still happen. it just got kinda weird from there
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today is so stressful to me. and it is only just about to be 12pm. i won't be in the clear until 3:18 (technically supposed to be 3:20).
#jk.txt#i probably wouldnt be so stressed if my coordinator hadnt emailed the superintendent#he doesnt email me to let me know if or when he'll be stopping by#so i'm anxious that i'm gonna be caught off guard#the kids arent being.....bad. they're quiet and doing their own thing. but they certainly arent doing what they're supposed to be doing#nor are they in their seats#idk. i think i'm gonna watch hamilton to pass the time since it's nearly 3 hours long. i probs wont be able to focus but it'll be something
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it’s actually funny how I can never actually be happy because all the things that make people happy put me on edge, including being happy
#whimsy whispers#I want to be loved but I’ll never believe people love me and panic when people do love me#niceness and kindness freaks me out because it doesn’t feel genuine or it feels like it’s because there’s a condition or something to be#owed in exchange#happiness itself scares me because I’m so used to any happiness I feel being short lived and almost immediately ruined#I can’t even be hopeful anymore because being hopeful only leads to your hopes being crushed#and there’s only so much of that you can deal with before you give up#I’m so a stupid broken person and I don’t know how to fix myself idk how to like function or live#life doesn’t feel worth living when you’ll never truly be happy#and the way everything is I don’t think I’ll ever be happy#outside of my own problems the world is so scary and like bad and doesn’t welcome happiness#made it four days without crying and falling into the pits of despair besties#it’s fine I’m in the room alone so I can cry as much as I want without being a bother to anyone#besties idk what even made me sad today#i think it is just that i ran out of stuff to do and the thoughts caught me off guard#cause I slept then I was too sick to like have thoughts then I made an iced coffee to replace human emotions and meals and started drawing#then I watched a kid for an hour or so then drew some more and then finished drawing and then there wasn’t anything else to do and I DIED#aka
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# tsukishima kei - perfect match
a/n: watch me suddenly appear out of nowhere after the school year has finally ended to post something!! i'm sure absolutely no one is surprised that tsukishima is the centre of this fic, but tbh idk how to feel about it (it's definitely longer than my usual ones but i didn't proofread it, so idk if the lenght is an advantage or not) but i hope you'll like it ^^ with school being over for the next two months i'll finally have time to write, so expect more works soon!!
summary: you and tsukishima decide to help your friends get together, but the plan is long forgotten when you realize what your own feelings are.
warnings: nothing really, canon yamayachi (my loves), some light swearing, bad writing
tsukishima kei did not expect any of his friends to bother him in the middle of the night. hell, he didn't even expect any of them to disturb his alone time at all. and yet at exactly 2.34 in the morning, right as he was about to turn off his currently binge watched tv show and go to sleep, he felt his phone buzzing on the nightstand.
his eyes focused on your name, written in white font on his phone screen, surely shocked by the sight.
'why are you calling me at 2 in the goddamn morni-'
'is yamaguchi interested in anyone?'
your question caught him off-guard even more than the call itself, his brows furrowing in a weirded-out look.
'if you're asking for yourself, i'm positive that he is not interested.'
tsukishima heard a sigh of annoyance on the other side of the call and could only imagine the exact look on your face in this very moment.
'well, thank god, because i'm not asking for myself.' you said. there were muffled sounds of someone preparing food in the background. 'i'm asking for yachi.'
the blonde boy smiled unconsciously.
'he does like her.' the boy stated, turning off his laptop as he put it back on the desk. 'so much so, in fact, that it can be kind of annoying sometimes.'
you squealed with excitement, a giggle leaving your mouth at tsukishima's remark.
'perfect! now, listen carefully.'
that singular phone call created an alliance between you and kei. an alliance with only one goal; getting your two best friends to finally confess to each other. to both of you, it was almost infuriating how blind they were; how they didn't notice just how obvious it was that they both shared the same feeling. constant blushing at as little as a mention of the other's name, the stolen glances, the very obvious pining - all of it seemed to be non-existent in the eyes of both yamaguchi and yachi.
but lucky for them, you had a plan.
his eyes lingered on you for a few seconds, as if awaiting a sign from you. tsukishima still thought of your 'master plan' as rather silly, but seeing the determination on your face, and the frown that appeared when he called your idea stupid was enough for him to sigh and go with it this once.
the four of you were currently occupied with studying for a math test coming up next week, everyone nose deep in their notebooks. well, everyone except for kei.
the boy cleared his throat almost theatrically, drawing the attention of the three of you.
'yamaguchi, i think i'll have to pass on the movies this weekend.' he said, the tone of his voice as lifeless as ever. 'akiteru insisted that i go to one of his games, so i guess you'll have to take someone else.'
the freckled boy looked a little troubled upon hearing the information. both you and tsukishima were well aware that the tickets to the cinema were already paid for; yamaguchi would definitely be sad if it all went to waste.
'well, i guess i can ask hina-'
'yachi, didn't you tell me last week that you wanted to go to the movies with someone?' you barged in before the boy could even finish his sentence, your friend freezing in her spot at the mention of a conversation you had not that long ago, cheeks flushed pink at the mere thought of going somewhere with yamaguchi one-on-one. 'maybe you'd fill in for tsukki?'
the girl glanced at you, panic in her eyes as an awkward silence filled the room, everyone waiting for her to answer. you gave her an encouraging smile, as if trying to non-verbally tell her to go for it, to use this as a chance to get closer to the boy she liked for so long.
'if yamaguchi doesn't mind...' she mumbled quietly, head turning to face the boy who was already shaking his head.
'of course i don't.' yamaguchi smiled, his small dimples showing up in the process.
you glanced over to look at tsukishima, a triumphant smile on your face as if you just won a volleyball tournament. his hair was slightly messy, and his glasses were sliding off his nose, two of the top buttons on his school uniform unbuttoned, showing a bit of his collarbones. surprisingly enough, the blonde boy smiled back; a small, quick smile that your eyes barely noticed. you had no idea what it was, but something about that singular smile made your heart beat faster.
don't. the main focus of this entire thing is to get yachi and yamaguchi together. not to think of tsukishima and how attractive he looks-
shit.
developing a crush on tsukishima kei was certainly not part of your plan.
at first, you tried ignoring it as much as you could, focusing solely on your friends and getting them to date. as time went on and yamaguchi and yachi started getting closer, you almost felt a sense of relief - you could finally stop spending so much time around tsukishima, which made your chances of getting over your stupid crush higher.
but it wasn't as easy as you thought. tsukishima was intelligent, pretty, and his snarky remarks and judgy personality actually drew you to him even more with each passing day. through the countless conversations and numerous phone calls, he proved himself to be more than just a salty, mean guy that everyone viewed him as.
'soon enough, they won't even need our help.' you mumbled to yourself as you opened your bento box, a smile on your face as you noticed your mom homemade onigiri inside. 'i don't know what i'll do with myself then.'
tsukishima scoffed, closing the textbook in front of him.
'maybe start focusing on your own love life for once.'
'hey! it's not my fault that i'm a good friend.' you stated, mouth full of food, as you looked up at your friend sitting on the opposite side of the table, looking through the tasks assigned for next week. 'besides, it's not like i'm the only one.'
tsukishima adjusted his glasses, looking up at you for a mere second before focusing back on his notebook.
'touché.'
'oh, come on.' you whined out, dissatisfied with the lack of response from the blonde boy. 'you won't miss this even a little bit?'
alright, maybe just a bit-
'no.' tsukishima stated firmly, fixing his posture as he highlighted one of the important sentences written down. you heard a bit of hesitation in his voice, and the few seconds of silence before hearing an answer couldn't help but make you wonder. you decided to ignore it this time - he was focused on something else right now, there was no need to disturb him.
'do you think yachi will like my outfit?'
tsukishima was sitting at the edge of his best friend's bed, mindlessly scrolling through his phone and occasionally looking up to see the twelfth - no, thirteenth shirt that yamaguchi has tried on already. the boy sighed, turning his device off.
'it's your first official date, i'm sure she doesn't mind what you wear.' he stated, gaining a frown from yamaguchi.
'you didn't answer my question.'
'alright, i think she'll like it.' the blonde haired boy said, reaching out for a bag of chips, opening it with a loud sound. 'but i'm sure she'll focus more on the date itself rather than what you're wearing.'
ever since announcing to their friends that they're going on their first official date, both yamaguchi and yachi were full of stress, constantly overthinking every little detail from their outfit to whether or not the date will go well or not. tsukishima found it rather comical - it was only a date after all. why stress over it so much? he never went on one, obviously, but he always thought that when the day came, he'd approach it calmly.
'do you have any tips on how to not freak out?' yamaguchi asked suddenly, catching his friend off-guard. 'during the date, i mean.'
'how can i know? i've never gone on one.'
the freckled boy looked at tsukishima, a confused expression on his face as he processed his words.
'oh.' he paused for a second, his voice quieter when he continued speaking. 'i thought you and y/n were, you know, a thing.'
huh?
to say tsukishima was shocked was an understatement. he genuinely had no idea what to say; he never even let a thought of you and him being more than friends, 'partners in crime', as you loved to say, slip through his mind. never did it occur to him that someone from the outside would see your relationship as being something more than a merely platonic one.
well, maybe there was something to it after all.
yamaguchi's words made him wonder - although he did find you annoying at times, it was only occasionally and to a very little degree. that in itself was very rare in tsukishima's eyes, as he found most of the people surrounding him at least normally annoying. you, on the other hand, were a completely different case. your jokes, no matter how awkward or downright cringe, made him crack a silent laugh more often than not, and every time he saw you smile, his lips uncontrollably curved up into a small, barely noticeable one themselves.
'oh, no, absolutely not.' the blonde blurted out after a long minute of silence, the tips of his ears turning a bright shade of red. 'there is not a single bone in my body that would want to date her. now get up idiot, or you'll be late to your date.'
the moment tsukishima opened his bedroom, after walking his friend to the bus stop, he immediately plopped down on his bed, phone in hand, instinctively opening messages to write to you. surprisingly enough, a message was already waiting for him.
'yachi almost cried because of how stressed she is T-T'
'do you think we should spy on them to make sure it all goes well?'
he found himself smiling at the words on his phone screen, quickly typing back an answer.
'do you really not have a life of your own?'
'idiot.'
only after a few minutes did he get a response from you.
'can i come over?? i'm bored :33'
a harmless message, one might think. in reality, tsukishima was freaking out at the mere thought of hanging out with you for a reason other than setting up your friends, his cheeks a light shade of pink as his eyes kept digging a hole through his phone.
you weren't any better than him - hands slightly shaky as you awaited a response for what felt like hours, but was actually just a few minutes. you had no idea what took over you; was it a sudden wave of bravery or rather an idiotic spontaneous choice to ask tsukishima that. but nonetheless, when you finally got the response, you felt ecstatic.
'alright.'
'bring some snacks.'
'kei, i think yamaguchi is he- oh, that's certainly a new face.'
you stood in front of the door with an awkward smile, facing tsukishima's older brother, akiteru, his eyes scanning you from head to toe. to say he was surprised was an understatement - he looked as if he'd seen a ghost. as if a friend that's not yamaguchi coming over to tsukishima's house was so out of the ordinary that it could become a national holiday.
'come in.' the younger male appeared in the back of the hall, an oversized dinosaur shirt and shorts on. his expression was softer than usual; not until he looked at his brother, whom he gave a sharp stare, signaling him to let you inside and don't make such a fuss about it.
you sat down on his bed, awkward silence filling up the room. not wanting to make the conversation about your friends as per usual, you slowly realized you don't know what to talk about, trying to think of something, anything, as you began unpacking your bag filled with snacks.
surprisingly enough, it was tsukishima who spoke up first.
'wanna watch a movie?' he asked, opening his drawer to pull out two bottles of soda, hidden there so that his brother doesn't devour all of them. 'unless it'll make you even more bored than you were before.'
'well, if you have a boring taste in movies-'
'says the one who looks like their favorite movie is mamma mia.' tsukishima scoffed under his breath, turning his laptop on and starting to search up movies. you looked at him, a dramatic expression as you pretended to be offended.
'and you look like you're about to mansplain the godfather to me.'
a short silence filled the room before you heard the blonde boy let out a short, muffled laugh at your comment.
'you couldn't be more wrong.' he sat down next to you, a small smile still on his face. 'i found it kind of boring, actually.'
'what do you like, then?'
'horror movies.' tsukishima stated, eyes focused on the screen. 'but tadashi gets easily scared, so i often don't have a chance to watch them.'
'same with me and yachi.' you said, unconsciously scooping a bit closer to the boy as you tried to get a better look at what he was searching up. 'i love them, but yachi jumps at every small scare on the screen. sometimes, she even gets scared when there's nothing happening at all.'
'they really do match each other.' he mumbled, putting the laptop on the bed as he pressed play on a movie he chose. his eyes quickly glanced your way to get a nod of approval on his choice.
'yeah, they do.'
and we could, too.
'are you and tsukishima dating?'
you almost spat out your drink, the words coming out of hinata's mouth catching you so off-guard you were close to choking.
the three of you, along with kageyama, were currently cleaning up after volleyball practice, the boys racing on who would clean more balls off of the floor.
'no, we're not.' you said in a clearly sad tone with an obvious hint of dissatisfaction in your voice. 'what the hell made you think that way?'
the orange haired boy stopped in his tracks, his signature smile disappearing for a minute as he got lost in his own thoughts.
'oh! i remember now.' he said after a short while, his grin coming back. 'yamaguchi told me that you two are close.'
'he did also mention that he seems happier around you.' kageyama added, joining the conversation. 'seeing tsukishima happy must be pretty scary.'
not really, you thought. but at the same time, what confused you more was what kageyama said right before.
he seems happier around you.
yamaguchi has been kei's friend for the longest time, so any of his observations must be true, or at least that's what you liked to believe. but would that mean that tsukishima kei, the salty, closed-off guy whom everyone finds intimidating could possibly like you? was there truly a possibility that he enjoyed spending time with you?
as you finished cleaning up the hall, saying your goodbyes to your two friends who ran off to practice volleyball somewhere else, a familiar, tall figure appeared in the doorframe, sharp eyes staring at you with an expression that you couldn't exactly decipher.
'want me to walk you home?' he asked, hands in his pockets. 'it's getting late.'
you looked at him, trying to hide the blush creeping up onto your cheeks before quickly nodding as an answer.
'sure, let's go.'
most of the walk was filled with silence on both parts, exactly as you expected. even though it might've felt awkward for some, you did enjoy his presence in itself enough that a conversation wasn't necessary.
the boy stopped in his tracks mid-way, reaching into his backpack and pulling out his phone and an old pair of white, wired earphones, showing them to you as a silent question of whether you wanted to listen to music with him or not. you agreed without a second thought, a small smile on your face as he put on one of his playlists.
'i really like this song.' you mumbled, eyes lighting up upon hearing the familiar melody. with both of you wearing the same set of headphones right now, you were practically forced to walk closer to each other - hands constantly brushing against one another, a faint blush on your face as you tried to ignore it and focus on the music.
tsukishima, on the other hand, couldn't shake away the thoughts roaming around his head. he felt as if what he was doing now was incredibly unlike him; and maybe it was. but for some reason, he didn't mind being like this around you. less cocky, sarcastic, mean and more... gentle.
he could feel his fingers brushing against yours from time to time, and it drove him crazy. should he go for it and play it off nonchalantly, or just ignore it? should he even make the first move or wait for you to do it?
before he was able to decide, tsukishima felt your hand reaching for his, heart rate immediately speeding up as your fingers shyly intertwined with his, looking the other way to hide your anxious expression.
his hand was much bigger than yours, but somehow it fit perfectly with yours. as if they were created solely to hold one another and nothing else. the plan to get your friends to be together was long forgotten by now - your mind was clouded with thoughts of tsukishima only, and little did you know that his wasn't any different.
you glanced his way only to find his eyes already on you, hiding his true feelings behind a nonchalant look. only now did you notice that the two of you were standing in front of your house, the boy adjusting his glasses as he waited to see what you'll do next.
'i guess i should go home now.' you mumbled, but you still didn't move an inch, hand not leaving his. 'see you tomorrow?'
his hand squeezed yours tightly before taking it away, an unusually warm and welcoming smile on his face.
'sure. see you tomorrow, idiot.'
but as you slowly made your way towards the door, tsukishima couldn't shake away the feeling in him, telling him to go for it. and as much as he tried to resist it, he just couldn't anymore.
'wait.’
before you could fully turn away, tsukishima kei's lips were already on yours, a sweet, long kiss that felt as if he was waiting to do it for years. his hand traveled to your waist and it didn't take long for you to react; lips moving swiftly with his, noses bumping into one another before you pulled away, a giggle escaping your mouth as you saw just how red tsukishima's face was.
‘don't laugh at me, moron.’ he said, immediately catching the reason for your laughter as he flicked you in the forehead. ‘your whole face is red, too.’
‘i didn't expect you to do this.’ you mumbled, eyes focused on his as you reached to hold his hand again. ‘didn't expect my feelings to be mutual, either.’
‘i'm glad we feel the same.’ his face leaned in closer to yours, a wave of confidence taking over him as he placed a short kiss on your forehead. ‘but i would still prefer to properly ask you out. if you'd say yes, that is.’
‘of course i would.’ you smiled, ‘i'd be stupid not to.’
‘should we bet on how long it takes the others to realize we're dating now?’ tsukishima smiled at you, eyes not leaving yours for even a spare second. you laughed at his idea, giving his hand a squeeze.
‘get ready to lose, kei.’
‘you wish.’
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