JUMP BUDDIES [Tendou Satori x Reader]

Chapter 6 - Similar Interest

"C/n! C/n!" I kept calling my cousin as he was walking with his friends inside the dorm.

"F/n," he responded.

"We'll get going," one of his friends told him and he gave them a nod as they took their leave.

"What do you want?" he asked. "Wait, what happened to you?" he asked as he noticed the stain on my clothes and my damp hair.

"C/n, am I beautiful?"

"What?"

"Tell me I'm beautiful!" I demanded as I grabbed his hand.

"And why would I do that, huh?!"

"Just say it!" I told him as I kept yanking his hand.

"Alright, alright! Geez... You're beautiful," he did what I asked of him. "There! I said it!"

"It's not the same..." I said as I let go of his hand.

"What is?"

Realizing that I actually said that out loud, I just responded, "N-Nothing..."

He suddenly grinned widely. "You know what. I think I actually got it," c/n told me.

"W-What is?"

"Nothing," he copied my answer.

I raised my eyebrow at him and he just laughed at my action.

"I most definitely will not tell you that I saw you and Tendou-san sneaked out of school earlier."

"What?!" I was surprised that we were actually caught by my cousin.

"I actually can't believe that my inexperienced older cousin sneaked out of school to have a date with his boyfriend," c/n was being cocky.

"H-He's not my boyfriend! He's my jump buddy!" I told him as I didn't know why was I getting embarrassed.

"Yeah, sure. Jump buddy," he was throwing salt with his tease. "He told you you're beautiful and you asked me to do the same to know if it had the same impact as he did."

"C-C/n!" I was getting more embarrassed as he read me like an open book.

"You like him, don't you?"

And that's where it hit me. Sure, I like Satori. He's cool, fun, nice and a good person. But in the sense of I like, like, like him...

"I don't know..." I responded out loud as I wasn't really sure of it, holding the arcade plushie a little bit tighter.

C/n paused for a second and dropped the subject.

The air has grown colder as the days went by. Students have started to feel excited as one of their most awaited time was coming near.

"Yay!!! Winter break is just around the corner!" Satori was pumped up as we were eating lunch together at the school cafeteria.

"It's just the first week of December, Satori. We still have few more weeks of school left," I rained on his parade.

"It'll just fly by before we even knew it," he responded. "Anyway, any plans for the upcoming break?"

"Hmm... Try guessing," I dared him.

"Hmm... You're thinking of going back home but you won't."

I replied with a correct-answer sound effect. "That's right! But why though?"

"Because you'll be binge watching the episodes of a Shounen Jump anime adaptation that you missed."

"What the---------- How did you know that?! Is this the true power of the Guess Monster?!" I was amazed as his answer was spot-on.