Going up the stairs of the apartment, you wave at Hina telling her goodnight and she returns the gesture. You open the door to your suite with Mikey behind you. Taking off your shoes before closing the door, "What do you want to do?" You ask him.
"Got any DVDs?"
You both walk in, he takes a seat on the couch and you go into the kitchen. You walked to the couch, your arms full of snacks. You lay them on the coffee table in front of him. Crouching down to look at the DVD selection under your TV, you pick out three movies of different genres. You stood up and showed him. The blonde chuckles a bit, "How old are you? These are all from the 80s."
"All of these are whatever my mom left. Unless you wanna watch Doraemon," you say, hoping he wouldn't take the offer of watching a children's cartoon. Mikey pokes at one of the DVDs, "Let's watch that one." You turn the case over and it was a rom-com. You thought he'd pick the action movie. You shrug and put the two other DVDs away before inserting the disc into the player. You grab the remote and take a seat at the end of the couch, far from Mikey.
Clicking on the buttons of the remote to play the movie you hear patting noises and turn to the blonde. He was patting the area beside him, "You should come closer, I don't bite," he smiles.
You don't bite, but you sure can punch a guy to the point of bleeding, you joke to yourself thinking of the vision you saw first.
As you looked at him longer, you saw another vision:
He was on the rooftop of a building, his hair slicked back with the same dragon tattoo Draken has on his neck.
You shut your eyes. As you opened them again, Mikey was still patting, faster this time. You scootch a little closer but he was still patting, so you went to the area he was patting. When you did, he looked satisfied.
You were a little surprised by how he was acting. He seems so cold, even frightening or intimidating in the visions you saw. The movie was starting, interrupting your thought. You went to grab a canned drink while he grabbed one of the wrapped packages of taiyaki.
Seems like he really liked that fish-shaped snack, maybe he only wanted to come over for that...
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"That would never happen in real life," You comment, watching the movie. You take a sip of your drink and notice how quiet Mikey has been, you've watched more than half of the movie and he's been quiet, there's no way he's interested-
He's sleeping.
You can't even blame him, the movie so far was pretty generic. You don't know if you should wake him up or not. You look at him, his eyes shut and relaxed, some strands of hair on his face. Leaning in to move it away, you get a closer look at him. He was actually kind of handsome.
What if I kissed him?
You quickly turn away from him after that intrusive thought. You couldn't just kiss him, he was sleeping. Not to mention, you just met. That would be stupid to do, it's not like you actually have feelings for him or anything.
Since he was sleeping, you got up to go to your room to change into comfier clothes. You also bring your blanket. Going back to the couch, you put the blanket over the sleeping boy. Unknowingly, you smiled at him. Sitting back beside him, you grab a taiyaki and look at it.
"I can't believe you let a boy you just met stay over," you say in a high-pitched voice, moving the snack as if it was talking.
"I know! But he's kinda cute, so I'll let it slide," you reply to the fish, jokingly. You giggle to yourself realizing you're talking to a red bean-filled snack. You bite into it and lay back.
"Aw, you didn't let him have any more last words," you turn and Mikey was awake, your heads closer than ever. You jump and move a little further, "How much of that did you hear?" You stuttered. Mikey laughs and sits up a bit, the blanket now on his lap, "While Mr. Taiyaki was talking to you," he answers. You turn red, he heard you call him cute then.
Taking another bite you shift your head avoiding eye contact, "I was just joking around..." You say, trying to hide from him. You looked to the side and he was smirking. He knows you meant it.
Mikey looks over at the TV the movie still playing, he then looks at you, who was visibly bored. "I only picked this movie because I thought girls liked romance movies," he said, getting your attention, "I wanted to pick the action one." You were right earlier then.
"You wanna watch that instead? I've already seen this movie before," you say pointing at the other DVDs. "What's this movie even about?" He asked.
You think about what you've watched of it so far before speaking."Popular guy gets dared to date this quiet girl, blah blah blah, I've seen this movie a hundred times..." You say bored. Mikey looks at the TV curiously, "Who dares people to date? I would dare my friends to eat poop off the sidewalk," he said. You giggle a little bit but realize he's probably not joking.
"Because she's an 'outcast' for being too serious and mysterious," you reply, air-quoting the word outcast with your hands. Mikey still had a confused look on his face. "There's no way high school guys wouldn't dare something gross tho," he continues to question the dare part of the plot.
"Well, this high school guy is clearly arrogant," you reply, "The girl also seems pretty bland to me." Mikey laughs at your comment, you didn't know why he thought it was funny, you were serious. He watches the movie a bit, "She's kind of like you," he says.
I'm gonna punch him.
You glare at him, "Elaborate on that," you say, purposefully sounding intimidating. Mikey points at the TV and looks at you, "Look, she's reading! That's almost more boring than your hobby," he says, laughing in between his words. Crossing your arms together, you talk back to the boy, "Don't act like you don't read things."
"I like reading things with pictures," the blonde replies. You looked at him with one eyebrow raised, "What are you, 5?" Now he looked offended by your comment. Mikey began to cross his arms, you could tell he was mocking you. "I read mature manga with fighting and stuff, no 5-year-old reads those!" He protests, making you laugh at the fact he sounds even more like a child. You covered your mouth while laughing at him, he still had his arms crossed.
Suddenly, he pulls your wrist down from your mouth. While you were still laughing, he stared at you, you calmed down a bit and looked back at him. Mikey smiled, "I wanna see you smile more like that, so don't hide it."
You felt your face getting hot. He was just teasing you a while ago and now he wants to say things like that? He giggles at your reaction, "I'd like to see you make that face more too!" You glare at him, still blushing, "I'll make an extra effort to not be affected by your stupid words then," you protest.
He laughed and joked about how harsh you are. You were lying if you didn't think his laugh was adorable, contagious even, making you chuckle a bit. You got up to go to the DVD selection and picked up an action movie. "Let's just continue this movie, you already went pretty far," Mikey says as you look back at him.
"You sure?"
"Yeah."
Going back to sit beside him, you look at the blonde curiously, "Where was this energy at the cafe?" You asked. Mikey looks at you blankly before speaking, "I guess I just wanted to be alone with you."
With how nonchalantly he said that, it sounded like it didn't mean much. But for you, it made you have an unfamiliar feeling. Is this what it means to have butterflies in your stomach? Trying to think of something to distract you from this odd feeling, you reply to him.
"Wanted to be alone with me or the taiyaki?" You joked, causing him to chuckle.
"Hey, you're the one who was talking to the taiyaki!" Mikey teased.
"You were asleep, who else was I supposed to talk to!" You reply in defence.
After the embarrassment and awkwardness from earlier today, it felt like it didn't even exist with how comfortable you felt with him. You two were teasing each other like elementary school kids.
Finally calming down from the play-bullying and laughing, you faced your attention on the TV, the movie was close to finishing. While you were focused on that, Mikey was looking at you.
Chapter five, end.