flashback from the previous chapter

I lie on my bed and I use my pillow to cover up my face.

"Do I actually like Second Place Kun~?"

"The time currently is 8 am, you have an hour and forty-five minutes to complete this math paper. You may begin now!" The teacher exclaimed as everyone in the examination hall instantly flipped open their exam paper without wasting a single second. Soon, the whole hall is filled with only the occasional sound of papers flipping and the clicking of pens. This paper is quite tough as the principal of their school wanted to test their standards at the start of the year so that the teachers will be able to understand their students level of knowledge and how they can teach their students so that they can score even better in future exams so of course, the sound of students sighing at the questions can also be heard. All students were stuck at questions here and there except for two people, one located at the most front of the classroom and the other at the most back of the classroom. The two students are both engrossed into the exam questions and are vigorously punching their numbers into their calculators and writing their answers down of their papers as fast as the speed of light.

"Time up! Please put down your pens and get ready to pass up your exam scripts!" The teacher said loudly, breaking the silence of the classroom but the tone of his voice makes it sound like he is saying his out of a daily routine. All the students suddenly seem to have dropped their pens out of their hands as they were being shocked by the teacher. Within a few minutes, the teacher went around to collect the scripts of paper and counted the number of scripts as all the students waited impatiently for this moment to end.

"All right everyone! You can leave the classroom right now to take a break. Make sure you return to the classroom for your usual lessons an hour later. Make sure to also not to be late or not you will be detention for it!" That last sentence from the teacher earned an eye roll from the redhead. He said been to too many detentions and suspension back then in junior high that it seems to be a norm to him.

"Akabane, don't you dare roll your eyes at me! Do not mean that you have a bad reputation back then in junior high means that we teachers will be allowed you to continue with such behaviour in high school!" The the teacher replied to his eye roll with just a glance at him, earning a minor a smirk from the redhead and a small laugh from Asano located at the nose of the teacher.

"Alright students, you may leave now!" the teacher finally dismissing the students as the students rushed out of the classroom at the speed of lightning and rushed out of the classroom to discuss the tough exam questions that they just encountered, leaving Karma and Asano as the only two left in the classroom.

"So how was the paper Second Place Kun~," Karma said with a smirk as he stayed put on his seat as Asano stood up to push in his chair to leave the classroom.

"It was fairly manageable." The strawberry blonde replied as he walked to the back of the classroom, right in front of Akabane's desk, placing a hand on his desk.

"We have an hour now. Want to go out of the school and chill?" Karma said in the most casual tone.

"Nope, I am not going to follow you out of school and then get dragged to I do not know where and end up with detention, in the end, thanks to you stupid." Asano scuffled as he prepares to walk out of the classroom.

"Oh come on, what is wrong going out with the delinquent to have some fun, student council president? I am so lonely~" the redhead said with a fake hint of sadness, trying to convince the strawberry blonde.

Asano turns back to look at the redhead after hearing that statement. With a sigh, Asano replied," Fine, I will go out of the school with you. But we need to come back in time! I did not go out with you because I want to get in trouble with you, but I want to know what you delinquent do in your stupid free time which is not studying."

"Deal," Karma replied calmly as he suddenly stood up, grabbed Asano by the hand and dragged him out of the classroom, down the corridors and out of the school with excitement expressed on his face. While the redhead was dragging the student council president down the corridor, the two caught many stares by students, ranging from all levels and classes.

"Great, they must be thinking about what the hell I am doing with the delinquent…" Asano thought in his mind as he looked up to catch a glance to see if the redhead seems to be bothered about this matter as much as he did. What caught Asano's attention was not the calm and chill face printed on the delinquent face, but that sense of excitement and pride that was glowing in his eyes, the fact that he was able to convince the student council president to break the rules and leave school ground, the fact that he can show the student council president what he usually does, the fact that the student council president wants to know more about the redhead on a more personal level instead of a rival to rival base relationship.

After many glares and stares that made the short trip from the classroom to the entrance of the school seem to take at least a century, they finally reached the entrance of the school. Karma was going to pull Asano past the school gate when Asano seems to be harder to pull and Asano was planted to the ground as he did not dare to past the gate out of the school ground, staring at the ground where the line drawing the school ground and the outside world. He never did something this bad before and if he does this, it will leave a stain on his perfect reputation.

Asano P.O.V

The pressure of the title of "Student council president" has put a major amount of pressure on me. At first, I was being myself, studying with my methods to prove my dad wrong and that enabled me to score almost perfect results and being part of the Big Five. Back then, when my ex-junior high school was taught by my father and his torturing methods, the only thing that the school was enforcing strongly was to be strong and not the weak overtake and the way to prove that in school is through grades and results. Due to my ability to score well, I suddenly seemed to be almost perfect in the eyes of many teachers and being a role model that should be looked up to in the eyes of my fellow peers, I was given the title of "Student council president". Since from that day on, even though I wanted to take a break and maybe be the causal me and relax, I cannot. Because I have been given that title and that title of being the student council president is a high title, a high order. Many teachers and students respect and admire me for being so "perfect" and of course, I needed to live up to their expectations, not being able to be myself. As time passes, the only thing that concerns me the most is not only my results but my reputation and what others think of me. I have forgotten what it is like to be myself when I wanted to. I have forgotten what it is like to be myself when I wanted to and now I am having the delinquent which can do anything and everything he wants, not caring a bit about his already stained reputation, wanting me to leave the school ground with him which is a major offence.

Lifting my head to see Akabane standing opposite of me with one of his hand in his pocket and the other hand still holding onto my arm. Karma has the most casual and carefree expression plastered on his face. Suddenly, a sense of realization hit me. I have longed for that sense of freedom, the feeling that I can be free and be myself. The fact that I probably agreed to go out of school ground with Karma was probably my brain telling me that I should finally allow myself to feel that sense of freedom once again, the feeling I yearned for, releasing all of the stress and pressure I am currently having, even if it is for a short while, it will be worth it.

Finally, taking a huge breath, I stepped out of the school ground. Suddenly, a wave of relief rushed through me as the cooling breeze carried my sweat away from my skin. It does feel good to be free...

"Wow Student council president, you sure took long. Thanks to you, we only leave with 45 minutes. What a waste of a good 15 minutes, do you know how much you can do with 15 minutes?!" Karma exclaimed which almost scared the daylight out of me. Looking at the redhead, I guiltily admitted with a very slight blush appearing on my face," Sorry...I never did such things before...this is all new to me..." Feeling that my face is heating up, I covered up my mouth with a hand to prevent Akabane from seeing the blush slowly turning more and more visible on my face as I desperately try to avoid eye contact.

Karma P.O.V

Even though Asano is fast in reacting, my eyes are faster as I saw that slight blush on his face, which is actually...cute...? I looked at Asano whose blush on his face seems to get more and more visible as he stands there and dies internally from embarrassment. Looking at my phone to check the time, crap! We only left 40 mins! Well, that is another 5 minutes gone, we are so behind time! Slowly approaching Asano, I gently pulled him down the walkway as I said," Come on, I know a good place where we can relax for the time being and get some good food before we go back to school! No worry, it is just a short 5-minute walk from the campus."

Asano P.O.V

Being dragged by Akabane down the walkway and into this small shop that seems to be isolated away from the busy streets of the city and the massive crowds that is far behind us. This walk does not seem like a five-minute walk to me all right. The small shop seems to be a small cafe which is only filled with few people that went into the shop and left the shop in a split second empty-handed. Is he trying to play a prank on me now...?

" I know what you are thinking but I promise it is good." Akabane's voice rings at my ear as he continues to drag me along without waiting for a second to at least get my opinion about this as he dragged me to the door of the shop.

Stupid boy...

" Karma? Is that you, my boy?" a voice fills the silence as the two boys turn around to see a middle-aged man with a gentle expression on his face looking at them.

" It is nice to see you once again," Karma replied with a calm voice as the old man gave Karma a pat on the head.

The two weird humans are just having their small little reunion, asking about how each other is doing while I just stand there like a dumbass without knowing what the hell is happening in front of him. How do these two know each other? How is this man and Akabane related? What the hell are they doing?!

It seems to be almost forever as the two humans have their little conversation when Akaabne finally seems to remember that he dragged me with him and that I may be confused as heck, he turned around to face me and said in a casual voice as if nothing happened, "Asano, this is my parent's friend named Kazuto Yujikawa, he took care of me when I was younger while my parents travelled overseas constantly." Then, he turned to face the man that he claimed to be called Kazuto Yujikawa and said, "This is the school rival I talked to you about. His name is called sec..."

"The name is Asano Gakushuu, you can call me Asano. It is nice to meet you." I butted in before Karma said my name is second place Kun and that will be an embarrassment to me. Karma's face seems to look like as if I slapped him on the face and it was the expression that I like to see.

"You sure he is not your boyfriend Karma~? You do not usually bring people over when you visit my place. Come on, you can tell me, I will not tell a single soul~" Mr Yujikawa said in a teasing voice which sounds like the type of voice that Karma talks in when he is teasing me. Now I see the resemblance...I wonder if Karma's father is also like this, or not, that will be a living nightmare...

"Does not mean that I am gay means that this idiot is my boyfriend you old man!" Karma hissed as he playfully whacked Mr Yujikawa on the back as the two of them started to bicker.

"Wait...you are gay?" I finally spoke in a confused tone as Karma and Mr Yujikawa stopped with their laughing and they turned to face me. Suddenly, Karma's playful face was replaced with a face of embarrassment as he quietly admitted," Ya I am..." A moment of silence occurred as the three of us stood there outside the shop, staring at each other as true idiots will do.

"Come on now, let's go inside and get you two settled in." Mr Yukikawa broke the silence as he opened the door and gestured both of us to enter.

Both of us took the signal and walked into the shop. As we stepped into the shop, the whole cafe seems to look very inviting and very welcoming. The whole place is brightly lit and very comfy with very comfortable looking chairs and little cushions with some of them having little pillows on it.

"You both make yourselves feel comfortable and I will go get some food for the both of you." Mr Yujikawa said in a cheerful tone since he got to see Karma again. Before I could protest on that, he disappeared behind the counter. I and Karma was just sitting at a table as each of us did our things, Karma on his phone playing games and me looking at my phone to check the time to ensure that we are not running late. It seems to be an exceptionally long time when only, in reality, we still have half an hour more to go before we need to return to class. Half an hour is quite a bit of time if they hurry. If the worst comes to worst and we are going to be late, I will just have to drag Akabane by the hand and drag him back to the school campus at breakneck speed as if their life depends on it.

"Keep your phones you two, especially you Karma! You never stop playing with your phone! Do you want to wear specs?" I turned to see Mr Yujikawa with two plates of food as he had this stern look on his face as he glared at karma, the type of look a father gives to his son when his son has done something wrong. He puts the two plates on the table, one plate in front of Karma and one plate in front of me. The plate looks stunning as if this is some gourmet restaurant and not some isolated cafe in the middle of nowhere. The food looks too good for me to be tempted to dig in, I just want to stare at that plate of food forever and I will already be satisfied.

"Don't worry, enjoy the food. As they always say, you eat with your eyes, first right?" Mr Yujikawa chuckled.

"Well then, thank you for the food," I said as I picked up the fork and spoon, spooned a spoonful of food and place that spoon into my mouth. Suddenly, a burst of flavours seems to have exploded in my mouth as the richness of the food filled my whole mouth. This is just the best thing I ever tasted in the world!

The whole time in the cafe was filled with warm conversations as the three of us were seated at that one spot and chat as if we were old friends that have not seen each other after a century and magically get to finally see each other again. With the scrumptious food and the warm, friendly conversation, I got to know more about Akabane and Mr Yujikawa even more. Mr Yujikawa always had a passion for cooking and is a self-taught cook. Sadly, his parents did not approve of his decision in wanting to persuade a job in the food industry as his parents claimed it is not a well-paying job. Despite that, he decided to go against his parent's wishes and went to culinary school to study how to cook and professionally present food. He got this little cafe two years ago and business for him has always been average but he hopes that one day, his cafe will be noticed by many.

After the meal, I stood up, took my wallet out of my pocket and wanted to pay for the meal as I took the cash out of my wallet, putting them into the palm of Mr Yujikawa and proceed to the toilet. When I returned from the toilet, I saw Karma and Mr Yujikawa standing up and saying their goodbyes.

"Let's go, idiot, we need to go back to school," Akabane said bluntly as he gestured me as we both walked out of the door and Mr Yujikawa waving back to us, saying he hopes to see again next time.

"You Idiot! We are late for half an hour!" I shrieked as I grabbed Karma's hand and dragged him on the way back to school at the speed of light. When Akabane and I reached the door of our classroom, the whole class and the teacher stared at us as if they saw a ghost. I honestly expected this. There is no way they will expect to see the student council president and the school's biggest delinquent together. And at a result of being late, Akabane and I ended up in detention. The teacher watching over the detention was shocked and his soul seems to have flown out of his body.

During the detention, I suddenly felt something out of my phone in my pocket as I shoved my hand into my pocket. Feeling the paper-like material in my pocket, I pulled it out to see the money I paid Mr Yujikawa for the food! There is a note with the cash as it wrote: No worry about paying, it is my treat! And there is his signature on it. This must the work of Mr Yujikawa and Karma. Mr Yujikawa rejected the money and wrote the note and Karma is the one that stuffed it into my pocket when my mind was in a mess as I was dragging him back to school. I glared at Akabane who had his head on the table, and he seems to be asleep. That stupid Akabane...

Looking at his softened facial features, my heart skipped a beat and my heart started to throb once again. Oh god, all my thoughts seem to have vanished, the only things I can think about now is Karma Akabane and my throbbing feelings for him…

I...am not straight.

I am probably bisexual...

All that hatred I felt towards Akabane all this time had changed, maybe I had always liked him, I do not know since when I started to like him, but these feelings are starting to surface.

Akabane...I think...no... I am quite sure that I am in love with you...

Karma P.O.V

Looking at Asano, I started to question myself.

Was this like a mini date or just a hangout?

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