PART ONE: room-mates?
part 1: room mate?
Jun Matsumoto helps you pull your bags around the corner, but stops suddenly, and you collide hard into his back.
"ow..." you mutter, shaking your head quickly. you cast a quick glance at Kazuya, but he's staring hard at whatever made Jun stop. following his gaze, you see a boy with thick, short, dark hair giving Jun an extremely dirty look.
"what the hell do you want?" he asks dangerously. Jun glances around, and whispers something to Kazuya, who makes sure to put himself between the other boy and you. whats going on? you wonder.
"who's this, then?" the boy asks, finally seeing you, "fresh meat?"
"Ryo, don't try anything, please... we don't want Maki to be any more angry than normal," Kazuya pleads in a small voice.
the boy called Ryo bristles, muttering, "what does Maki have to do with anything?"
he storms off, shoving Kazuya out of the way. you catch him softly, your fingertips tingling softly on his shoulders. Kazuya casts a quick, thankful glance at you, before righting himself and your bag, and dragging it further down the hall. Jun is already around the corner, calling, "what is your room-number, any way?"
"oh, its...." you fumble, unfolding the hand-written letter; on the back, the number 115 is scrawled carelessly. "room 115?" you say quizzically.
Kazuya and Jun both stop in their tracks, turning their heads.
"one... fifteen?" they ask quietly, eyes as wide as saucers.
"is that bad?" you ask, returning their gaze.
kazuya starts quietly laughing, while Jun closes his eyes in slight agitation.
"115 is the room that Horikita Maki lives in... she's infamous for being... difficult. you saw that guy, how pissed off he was? he was her current love interest. evidently their last date didn't go well." Jun says simply.
Kamenashi picks up the bag he was carrying again easily, and goes for another bag, accidentally grazing your hand. his eyes dart to your face, before he pulls the bags ahead. Jun gives you an amused look.
"looks like somebody's.... interested..." he smirks, before taking your third bag in one hand, and the final bag in the other.
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you knock lightly on the door, while Jun tries to avoid staring straight at where he thinks Maki-san will be. a small voice calls "come in, please!" and you turn the knob softly.
"whats going on?" a thin, wiry girl with shoulder-length hair looks up at everyone in the doorway.
"Maki-san? hi.. i'm your new room-mate," you say, introducing yourself. she casts a quick glance at you, sizing you up, before getting up from her bed, where she was previously sitting cross-legged, reading a magazine.
"can i help you with your bags?" she asks sweetly, peering around the doorframe at Jun and Kazuya. Kazuya smiles back, and Jun puts up a hand in acknowledgement. Maki takes the two less heavy bags, and rolls them into the room, placing them delicately around the spare white bed. Jun takes the liberty of grabbing the last two bags, and rolls them in next to where Maki placed them. looking around the room a moment longer, he steps back out and waves to you, smiling happily. Kamenashi-kun stands in the doorway, robbed of a job thanks to Jun. finally realizing his usefulness, he calls out to you, "when you finish unpacking, come to the cafeteria, i'll show you around campus. bye!"
and with that, the two boys depart, leaving you and Maki in a soft, complete silence.