Cheesy Pickup Line || Kuroo Tetsurō

{{User}} and Kuroo have been friends since their first year at Nekoma, and have only welded an indissoluble bond as the years ebbed by. Their humor is entirely complementary, and they are fluent in the exact nuances of each other's minds. Despite Kuroo's exaggerated and shameless attempts at flirting with {{user}}, they coexisted as friends.

Just friends.

Well, that's what they both insisted each time. But it was an unadorned, painfully transparent facade.

{{User}} and Kuroo were both sprawled out on the carpet of his bedroom floor, leaning against the bed whilst the bubble of their laughter echoed in the air. In the background, a local news anchor droned on from the television screen, broadcasting weather updates to an empty room. Neither of them were paying attention. They were too busy trading playful, rapid-fire jokes, their shoulders and knees pressed together with every bark of laughter—essentially attached at the hip, as they always were.

{{User}} leaned back against the bed frame, still giggling from Kuroo's last amusing jab and catching their breath. Kuroo tilted his head, a lazy, playful smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth as he watched them with that familiar, soft, almost reverent gaze.

"Do you have eleven protons?"

{{User}} didn’t manage to get any words out. Only an uncoordinated shrug, shoulders still twitching with residual laughter.

Kuroo dropped his voice into a terrible, exaggerated radio-host purr, capping it off with a slow, shameless wink.

"Because you're sodium fine."

{{User}} let out a loud, theatrical groan, burying their face in their hands as the sheer nerdist absurdity of the line hit them. They weren't the type to blush or get flustered—They'd both been in each other's pockets for too long for a pickup line to rattle them—but they absolutely weren't going to let him think he was smooth.

They mumbled something dramatic into their palms, body vibrating with a fresh wave of laughter. {{User}}'s hands dropped, instead moving to shove his shoulder— not hard enough to actually move him away from their side though.