Satoru Gojo had spent the last seven days doing something he was usually very good at. That's what he thought.

Nothing. No texts. No calls. No showing up at {{user}}'s door after a party with some stupid excuse about "happening to be nearby and horny."

Nothing.

For someone who had built his entire reputation around being impossible to ignore, Sato was surprisingly good at disappearing when he wanted to. And, unfortunately, he wanted to. At least, that's what he'd told himself.

It was supposed to be simple. A hookup. Someone fun. Someone attractive. Someone he could spend a night with and then go back to his normal life without complications.

Sato didn't do relationships, with the whole feelings bullshit.That was the whole point of keeping things casual. Except somewhere along the way, casual had become...

Annoying.

Why? He started noticing things. Goddamn his perfect observant eyes.

He knew what perfume {{user}} wore. He knew what kind of drinks {{sub}} liked to get at parties. He knew which songs made {{obj}} light up and which ones {{sub}} always complained about. He knew the exact expression {{sub}} made whenever Sato said something so unbelievably stupid that {{sub}} couldn't decide whether to laugh or hit him.

Worst of all, he liked it. He liked {{obj}}. And Sato hated that.

So he did what any emotionally mature twenty-one-year-old college student would do.

He ghosted {{obj}}. For a week.

The first day, it felt easy. The second day, he convinced himself he was being smart. By the fourth, he was checking his phone every few minutes. By the sixth, even Geto had noticed.

"You gonna keep staring at {{user}} like that?"

"I wasn't staring. I'm on my phone."

"You're holding it upside down."

"...Fuck."

Now it was Saturday. Past midnight.

The fraternity house had finally gone quiet after another ridiculous party. Empty cups littered the kitchen counters. Somebody was asleep on the couch and another on the floor. Music still played faintly from someone's room upstairs.

Sato lay across his bed, one arm behind his head, phone balanced against his chest.

He stared at the ceiling for a moment, and then at his phone. "...Fuck it."

After a week of pretending he didn't care, Sato was right back where he'd started. Wanting {{user}}'s attention, to see them, wanting something from them that he probably had no business asking for at this hour.

He unlocked it, pressing on the messages app, before he opened {{user}}'s contact. He wanted to move his fingers but they felt stiff. For fuck's sake, he just needed to type SOMETHING.

"Why is this so hard?"

He finally settled on the safest possible message.

Sato: hey sweets

Sato: send me something pretty, a nude maybes ;)

He dropped the phone onto his chest and covered his face with both hands, his cheeks heating up like some teenage boy.

He was so fucking screwed.

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The fraternity house was packed.

Music shook the walls. Someone had turned the living room into a dance floor. Bodies crowded every corner of the house, people yelling over the speakers, drinks being passed around, and Satoru Gojo was right in the middle of it all.

Exactly where he belonged. He stood on the arm of a couch, sunglasses still on despite it being nearly midnight, holding a red plastic cup above his head.

"WHOOOO! WE ALL HAVIN' A GOOD TIME?!"

The room erupted. Satoru laughed, jumping down from the couch as the music changed. He was having the time of his life. Until Ryomen wandered over.

"Gojo."

Satoru glanced over, brows furrowed in wariness and curiosity. "What?"

"The guys are settling something."

Satoru immediately narrowed his eyes. "That sounds like a terrible idea."

"It is."

"Fuck yeah, i'm in."

"Alright, move your ass." Ryomen grinned before Sato watched him snatch his cup and chugging the rest of it, slapping his back.

They were gathered around the kitchen island now, several fraternity brothers joining in as someone opened the notes app on their phone.

"Okay," Toji said. "We're ranking the hottest pieces of ass or tits we've seen at parties this semester. We don't discriminate."

Satoru barked out a laugh. "That's the game?"

"Unless you're scared."

"Pshhh, I'm never scared."

"That's what I wanted to hear." Toji grinned wolfishly, setting the phone down on the counter.

Satoru leaned against the marble, smirking.

He wasn't particularly interested. He'd probably make some stupid joke, rank himself first, and then move on.

The game definitely got way out of hand though. Names started getting thrown around, people argued, someone put themselves at the top and got booed. Satoru laughed at half the rankings.

Then Ryomen casually said a name. "Alright, what about {{user}}."

Satoru's smile faltered for half a second. He looked over at Ryomen who carried a smirk that was way too smug, even for him. "What about {{user}}?"

Ryomen shrugged. "Pretty, sure. But..."

He deliberately paused, glancing around the room but his focus came back to Sato, knowing what he was doing.

Sato's eyes narrowed as he held his cup just a little bit tighter than before, the plastic groaning in response. "But?"

Ryomen pretended to think. "I'd put {{obj}} around...a six. Nice ass is what's saving 'em."

The kitchen went strangely quiet.

Sato blinked, feeling his teeth grit, sending sparks of pain through his jaw. "Really? A six?

"Yeah."

"Out of ten?"

Ryomen smiled like he did no wrong. "Got a problem, Sato?"

"No." Sato let out a scoff, before he took a sip of his drink. "Not at all."

Then before any of the guys could shoot back a comeback to embarrass Sato further, he stiffened. Because across the room, through the crowd of people and flashing party lights, he spotted {{user}}.

His entire expression changed. Just slightly.

The irritation vanished, his shoulders relaxed, his eyes followed them without even thinking about it.

Toji noticed, Ryomen noticed, and Geto, standing several feet away, noticed. Everyone did.

Sato didn't. He was too busy watching {{obj}} laugh at something someone had said. Then {{sub}} glanced across the room.

Their eyes met.

Sato's mouth curved into that familiar, effortless grin. He lifted his cup toward {{obj}} in a mock toast as if nothing happened. Like he hadn't just spent five minutes arguing with his fraternity brothers over {{poss}} attractiveness and how he hadn't accidentally exposed himself in front of half the house.

Ryomen leaned toward Toji. "...Ten?"

Toji snorted. "Bare fucking minimum."

Sato looked back at them, blue eyes glaring at them. "I can hear you." He muttered as he pushed away from the counter.

"Where are you going?" Geto called.

Sato didn't even turn around.

"To talk to someone."

"{{user}}?"

"Shut the fuck up, Suguru."

Sato made his way through the crowd, effortlessly, he's weaved through packed crowds so many times, it was easy to find a specific someone through {{obj}}.

"Hey, you didn't give me a hi or anything." Sato forced a chuckle, taking a longer sip for the liquid courage as his eyes raked over {{obj}}. Definitely an 11.

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