𝑣𝑖.𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔

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The two of you first start with playing a pinball machine that was superhero themed. You swiped the card filled with tokens and Seishiro went first. You watched him hit the ball up racking up points. You were stunned at how good he was doing, you could barely remember what you were supposed to do in a game of pinball.

When Seishiro finished his game the machine flashed brights lights as his score of 4800 displayed, an almost perfect score. "What the hell! How'd you do that?" You exclaimed bewildered at how good he did.

Seishiro just shrugged his shoulders mumbling an, "I don't know."

You blink up at him a few times dumbfounded before you take a seat in front of the machine. You desperately hit the walls to bounce the pin up and get more points. When your time ran out 3350 brightly displayed on the screen.

To your right you heard Seishiro huff out a laugh. You slowly turn yourself to face him attempting to seem pissed off but it was difficult to keep your smile repressed.

"How'd you do it? You cheated didn't you?" You say sarcastically pressing you lips tightly together to hide your smile.

"I'm just better than you I guess." He says simply.

"Yeah whatever, cheater." You roll your eyes with exaggeration crossing your arms. "Okay but can you beat me at Skee-Ball I think not."

"No I can beat you at that too."

You blink up at him opening your mouth exasperated. "Come on, come on, we're playing Skee-Ball now."

You get up from the Pinball machine smiling and you and Seishiro make your way to the Skee-Ball machines. After each of your rounds you thankfully won beating Seishiro. If you had lost you would have been livid.

Seishiro and yourself spent about an hour going through all the bright flashing games. With each passing minute you face was hurting more and more from smiling. From the past few weeks Seishiro and you hadn't spent this much alone time having fun like this.

You two walk to and from school together, have meals together, and even study together, but it hadn't been years since you two joked around teasing each other and spending time like this. It reminded you so much of the childhood memories you two made together. When you two would watch movies together and pretend to be the characters in the movie or adventures you two had exploring your neighborhood.

You couldn't help how your gaze lingered on Seishiro more than it had when you were kids. Every time you two hung out when you were kids everything was easy and fun. But now you were questioning everything you were saying and doing around him. Your heart raced more than it did as kids and more than it should. And you knew that.

You two decided to head out so you could still eat dinner at a relatively normal time. Before leaving you two took your card to see how many points you had racked up so you could get a prize.

"What do you want to get? We have a lot of tokens." You ask.

Seishiro looks back up at all the prizes you can pick from before looking back over to you. "I don't really care. You choose."

"You earned us most of our points so you just choose."

"Mm fine." Seishiro takes another moment to look up at the prizes before he walks over to the woman behind the counter. "Can I get one charm of Bonobono and one charm of Shimarisu." That lady hands him the two charms and Seishiro mutters a quick 'thank you.'

You softly smile as Seishiro walks back over to you presenting the two character charms. The character are from a manga you two were always reading together as kids. The two animals are good friends just as you two are. "Which one do you want?" Seishiro asks.

You ponder for a moment before speaking up. "Mm I'll take Shimarisu since I know Bonobono was your favorite."

"Honestly he still is. I still read the manga whenever I see a copy."

"Do you really?" You ask excitedly. "I don't know the last time I read it. I really should read it some more."

"I have a few volumes if you want to read them." Seishiro offers. You watch as he fixes the charm to attach and hang from his phone case.

"Well I don't have any homework tonight so mind if a borrow a copy."

Seishiro finishes attaching the charm to his phone and looks back up at you. It takes him a moment to respond to you before he hums in agreement.

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