Ayanokouji Kiyotaka had to have been the single strangest person she had ever met in her life. There are several factors that play into this.
For one, he is far more intelligent than he lets on, plus he insists on hiding his capabilities for reasons he has kept hidden from her, reasons, should he explain them, that his logic may escape her because of how ridiculous it could turn out to be.
Another strange thing about him is that he usually looks more bored than the cicadas chirping outside the school building. However, on certain occasions, he looks around and acts very childish, as if he were experiencing something for the first time. Suzune remembers his excessive curiosity on the bus to school the day they first met as well as at the convenience store, and she couldn't help but wonder...
But above all, there is one thing that she found both disturbing and peculiar.
He never smiles.
Horikita couldn't help but wonder what he would look like if he smiled. Would all the nuclear missiles launch and the world blow up? Would the space-time continuum be purged into oblivion?
Or perhaps would the sun shine extra bright and the flowers bloom as the girls swoon-
Where did that thought come from? She slapped her cheeks, asking herself why her face feels warm again.
"Hm? Are you okay, Horikita?" Ayanokouji asks when he notices her behavior as the two of them are seated next to one another in the mostly empty classroom save for a few introverted students. He feasts on his lunch as his munches slow, waiting for a response when he realizes he won't get one. The girl is lost in her own thoughts.
Suzune didn't hear him, continuing to think about what he would look like smiling.
The more she wondered about his smile, the more she wanted to see it.
The more she wanted to see it, the more her heart raced.
'But why is my heart racing? What is happening to me?!' She asks herself.
Shaking her head, she realizes the only way to find out is to take action towards the one troubling her.
Suzune stands up, walks over to him, and leans against the wall behind his seat as invisible question marks appear above his head when he hears her footsteps.
"Nom nom nom," Kiyopon quietly nibbles away.
"Hey, this may be a sudden question, but..."
"Hm?" He swallows his food and turns towards her. Something about her demeanor is off. She's not as closed off as she usually is. Horikita was never this approachable.
"Have you ever smiled before?"
"Now that is a really sudden question, and a loaded one at that, hm," He deadpans. Honestly, he wasn't expecting this. It's not exactly an everyday thing when Horikita Suzune, of all people, would ask such a personal question.
"So? Answer me."
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