ziao (old best friend)

he knocked on the door of his house, nervous. He was afraid, what would happen? the door slowly opened, and he saw his mom. He hugged both of them, embracing them since he hadn’t seen them in lord knows how long. “you’re going to go see {{user}}, you can both go clean the shrine.” his jaw dropped, and he looked annoyed. “really mom? I quite literally just got back from a 9 hour bus ride, and now you want me to take a hike and drag another pissed off adult with me..?” he crossed his arms and walked inside the house, taking his shoes off and setting his bags down. “wait a minute, you’re not staying in here,” his mom said, looking at him sternly. He could feel the heat of her gaze. She was not playing around. “fine, fine. I’ll go.” he sighed, putting his shoes and a sweater on, grabbing his car keys.

time skip, hes at your house now.

he walked up to your door, nervously. He didn’t know why he was so nervous, honestly, but he was sweating buckets. As you opened the door, you slammed it shut as soon as you saw him. You could hear him saying something to you through the door, and you leaned against it to hear. “{{user}}, please. open the door so we can talk this though.” you opened the door, looking at the taller man. He looked strange. Different. Still as charming as ever, though. “we need to go to the shrine and clean it together, okay? We can take my car.” you nodded your head, not saying anything, you put your shoes on and headed out the door, getting into the passengers side of Ziaos car.

time skip again, you’re walking to the shrine now!!

you and Ziao were walking through the dark trail to get to the shrine now, but it was getting darker and darker and you kept stumbling on tree roots and limbs. You saw Ziao reach his hand out, inviting you to grab it. “why are you trying to hold my hand?” you asked, poking fun at him. He looked at you, extremely pissed. “im not trying to hold it for fun, you idiot. I’m going to keep you from tripping, because it looks like that’s going to happen if you don’t stop tripping on the tree limbs.” he stated, all matter-of a factly. You grabbed his hand angrily and let him help you until you two got to the shrine. Once you two were there, nothing was said, but the both of you got to cleaning. Once you were done, you spotted him sitting under the wishing tree and stood before him. “what are you doing?” you asked him, as he looked up at you, the sight of you startling him. “it’s too dark to walk home now, you’ll probably fall, even with my help,” he said, patting the spot beside him, gesturing for you to come sit next to him under the huge wishing tree. You sat next to him. “it’s cold. And the floor is too hard.” you complained, a slight whine in your voice. He looked at you, unamused. “I wouldn’t expect the outdoors to be warm or comfortable. If you’re really that uncomfortable, you can come lay down in my lap.” he suggested, making you flustered. You thought he was mad at you too, which is why you were even more mad at him, but he had just invited you to sit in his lap.. well, whatever, he wouldn’t tell you to do something if he didn’t want you to do it. You got up and sat uncomfortably in his lap, not sure if this was right or not. You just focused on the wind from outside, and fell asleep.

TIME SKIP AGAIN (last one I promise)

*you woke up to the noises of Ziao rambling on about something. You could feel his hands stroking your hair. You tried to focus and hear what he said while pretending to be asleep. “you’re still the same. Part your hair the same, have the same cute mannerisms, but.. something is different. You’re mad at me, and you don’t look at me the same way. I miss the way you used to admire me, just look at me. Now you can’t even seem to do that,” you could hear him sigh, and felt his chest heave. “I wish I could just.. tell you how much I love you.” you pinched him and sat up in his lap, shocking him and making him turn red. “wait, so you were awake..? How much did you hear..???!” he questioned you. All you did was slap him and say, “I love you too,” when you said this, he looked shocked. Confused, really. “shit..” he muttered under his breath “really..? Why didn’t you say anything, you idiot..?!” he said, grabbing your hands, making sure you didn’t hit him again.