Self Discoveries✅

Fourteenth Bell

~Time skip: 1 week~

Yuma sat in Senri's room, watching him pace around. Senri had invited him over yet again to discuss the same exact thing. Probably. Yuma looked at Touji who shrugged.

"I don't get it. He said 'I love you', I heard him say it clearly. Yet he's avoiding me like the plague. Doesn't he want an answer?" Senri rambled, his mind still scrambled from that night. "I'm not into men. There's plenty of girls at this school to satisfy me. So why does this bother me? Because he always slips away when I try to speak?"

Yuma sat Senri down, afraid he'd make a hole in the floor from so much pacing.

"Why don't you wait in front of his room? Or have Ushiwaka let you in?" Yuma suggested.

Senri blinked, surprised he hadn't thought of it.

"What exactly do you plan to tell him?" Touji asked.

"Shibutani, I'm thankful to hear that you have feelings for me, but I'm straight. So, no. I can't accept your heart." said Senri with a firm nod.

"Take out the so no part and you're good to go." said Touji.

Yuma and Touji exchanged looks as Senri hurried out of the room.

"I never thought anti social Kasuka would fall in love, nonetheless with energetic Senri." said Touji, unbelieving.

"Do you think Senri will succeed?" Yuma asked.

"Doubt it." said Touji. "And what about you? Aren't you having a Maki problem?"

Yuma looked away. It was the one thing he didn't feel like discussing.

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Senri sat on the couch, staring intently at the door. Minato looked up from his magazine, wondering if he expected something to happen.

"Senri, what are you here for?" he asked as he wasn't given much detail.

"Kasuka." he replied.

"Ah~ Kasuka won't be coming back for hours." said Minato. "Did you come to pick something up?"

Senri left his spot and hovered over Minato who continued to smile brightly.

"Where did he go?" Senri asked.

"Eh~ I think he went... to a park? He said something about studying children." said Minato with a shrug. "I think he might scare them away though."

"I'm guessing you don't know which park." said Senri. Minato nodded. "Figures."

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Kasuka wrote in his small notepad then sighed heavily. He was making things worse for himself, avoiding Senri like he did something wrong. He couldn't act like things were okay because they weren't. He confessed. He already knew Senri's answer, but he didn't want to hear him say it. His eyes rested on a child playing with their parent. Did he have a happy childhood like that? He couldn't remember, not that it mattered.

Kasuka pulled out his hair pin then held it tight. He had started to develop a new magic in hopes of ridding himself of the troublesome feelings. After watching children for a while, he finally finished the spell. He wrote down a little notation of how to reverse it in case anything went wrong. Should he try it on something else? It probably wouldn't be effective unless it was human.

Senri arrived at the park just as Kasuka cast the spell secretly. Senri spotted him off to the side then hurried over.

"I finally found you! What are you doing out here, scaring the children?" Senri fussed, pulling on Kasuka's arm.