Teacher's Pet
tinyangl, 432 words
Kato Shigeaki/Tegoshi Yuya.
A/N: Another installment of the College!AU we randomly started writing. Technically, I had originally envisioned Shige and Tegoshi being room-mates, but I conveniently forgot that when I wrote this. Whoops. (Originally posted
here.)
Shige thinks it's a sad sad fact that he actually enjoys classes. Sure, he enjoys them because he likes learning. But a larger reason is that he finally gets away from his crazy floormates.
Except his Intro to Psychology class. That is the only class he has with one of them, and it's with one of the people he tries hard to dislike, but can't bring himself to because of understandable reasons.
"Ne, Shige. Do you have a pencil I can borrow?" Tegoshi asks, eyebrows furrowed as he's digging through his bag.
Shige wants to grumble, remind Tegoshi that they're not so friendly that he can just call Shige Shige. But he finds himself handing the younger boy a pencil instead, staying silent.
"Thanks, Shige!" Tegoshi practically coos, obviously relieved.
Shige can feel the twitch growing in his left eye as Tegoshi glows in front of him. "Why are you sitting so close, Tegoshi?" Shige asks, as Tegoshi presses against his side, yawning slightly.
"Because I wanna stay close!" Tegoshi giggles. "I barely see Shige outside of classes even though we live on the same floor. It's a way to get closer."
At this point, the professor throws a dirty look in Shige and Tegoshi's direction, although more in Shige's to his ire, but the professor keeps on teaching. Shige glowers, clutching his pencil tightly, but keeps in mind that he shouldn't break another one. "You see me enough as it is," Shige hisses underneath his breath, looking down at his notes and peeking up at the blackboard from underneath his eyelashes.
"It's not enough!" Tegoshi exclaims, half horrified at Shige's words. His entire body facing Shige by this point.
Shige shh-es him as best as he can, one eye still on their professor.
"You there!" The professor calls out, pointing at Tegoshi. "You seem to know what we're talking about, please explain."
Shige wants to instantly apologize, but Tegoshi goes, "Eh?" instantly. He blinks innocently at their professor, pointing at himself and waiting for him to confirm that he was talking to Tegoshi. When he does, Tegoshi starts repeating almost word for word just what the professor had said.
Shige's mouth drops open, as does pretty much everyone else in the room.
"Was that okay?" Tegoshi asks, looking concerned.
After the professor is able to pick his jaw off the floor, he nods and continues talking. Shige blinks in awe at Tegoshi who looks pleased with himself. There were some things that just couldn't be explained, Shige thinks as Tegoshi says a little mini "Yosh" and starts taking notes.
Shige takes down notes as well; he wasn't about to be beat by this little kid.