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↳ "Friendship isn't friendship unless the care between you is mutual." ↲
⌠ Fracture ▯ Midnight City ⌡
Fᴀᴄᴇ Cʟᴀɪᴍ ◇ Yata Misaki - K Project
Dɪᴀʟᴏɢᴜᴇ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ◇ #9D0A0F ▯ Tʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ Cᴏʟᴏʀ ◇ #F16522
Racing back up the hill to campus, Satoshi slipped into Basic Mathematics just as the bell rang, sighing in relief as he took his seat. The teacher was already in the room and scolded him despite the fact he technically wasn't late, and the lesson started before he had a chance to say hello to Natsuki. Instead, he simply waved to the boy with a smile and began taking notes like usual. It wasn't long before Natsuki was fast asleep at his own desk.
A small piece of paper appeared on his desk from Hazuki, who sat behind Natsuki, and Satoshi ignored it in order to finish the line of notes he was writing. As soon as he found time he opened the note and read its contents. It's his birthday today? Maybe I should get him something... When the teacher's back was facing the class, Satoshi turned in his chair and sent Hazuki a thumbs up as thanks for the information. He spent the rest of class pondering over what kind of gift would suit Natsuki while trying to keep up with his math notes at the same time, both excited and confused.
Class ended with a loud chime and Satoshi waved to his two friends before trudging off to his next two classes. The second his school day ended, Satoshi was out the door, skating through the crowds of students and making his was downtown. He'd spent the last three hours deep in thought and had come up with two different occasions when he'd noticed Natsuki like something: the first being the previous year when he'd witnessed a classmate give the boy a box of mochi, and the other being a moment he'd heard Natsuki listening to mozart while fast asleep in the school library.
Satoshi stopped at a few places during his trip downtown - a sweets shop, craft store, music store, as well as the bookstore to purchase a couple books (one on wrapping presents and one on English poetry he'd been meaning to buy). After gathering said items, he returned to his apartment and was grateful that Natsuki still had a half hour of class left before he'd be returning home. Satoshi had quite a lot of difficulty in wrapping the gifts, which was understandable since he'd never wrapped a gift once in his life, but it all came out looking decent in the end, fortunately for him.
In the back of his mind, Satoshi was scolding himself for how cliche he was being, but the whole ordeal wouldn't stop being cliche even if he did want it to. After the gift was wrapped Sou carefully wrote 'Happy Birthday!' on the tag, along with his name so he could claim credit for the gift.
With the possibility of rain, Satoshi knew the gift would be destroyed if he left it on Natsuki's balcony, and instead opted to simply leave it in front of the boy's door. He still wanted to avoid confrontation. He set the wrapped gift in front of his neighbors door gently and slipped back into his apartment, taking a seat at his desk and starting his homework for the day. Satoshi silently wondered if any more threatening letters would come.