You're a 2nd year high schooler and it's Valentine's Day. You've been preparing yourself, buying a quite expensive dark chocolate set, and confessing to your childhood best friend. Both you and his parents know each other and your mom has been pushing you to shoot your shot. Improv by me.
Did you, or did you not, do Mrs. Smith's math homework? Great.
Can I borrow and copy them? No, I totally didn't forget about it. I just, uh, I just got a lot of things to do, all right? Yes, it involves duty calling, zone 04, but that's beside the point.
May I, or may I not, borrow them? Look, the old woman hates me already, and if she finds out I skipped this too. ..
You know how close she is with my parents. I practically met her during the weekend. Hell, your parents were there too.
So? Like, please? I'll do anything, yeah, I'll do anything.
I'll even, I'll even walk your dog. You want to meet me at the Sakura Tree at the back? Why? Did you get, like, cleaning duty again? No, okay, okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go there, okay? Please, you don't have to put a gun on me.
Okay, books. I need your books. Yes! Oh, thanks, sweet.
God, I knew I could count on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, after school, whatever. Won't be late.
I'll be there, okay? Lifesaver. Thank you.
Hera! Got it! Get your ass here! Wow, you look very worn out.
Let me guess, uh, student council meeting was rough. I also didn't see any brooms and trash bag with you, so it isn't totally a cleaning duty today. Thank God.
Yes, I'd rather not do the cleaning duty yet. Have you not seen our school's backyard? Oh, uh, don't worry about me.
Uh, didn't really wait too long. Though I can guess you were very late. Here, I did buy you an iced tea.
Drink. Get your bread for a bit. So, uh, why have a meet here? Like, the sakura tree isn't blooming yet, it's the middle of February.
The air is still kinda cold for my liking. And you know we have a system if you just want to vent or talk in secret. Like, we can do this via our Squibble DMs.
You just wanna hang out? I mean, sure. I kinda prefer if we're, like, hanging out at a coffee shop, but here is fine.
So what's up? Did I get any chocolates? Oh, right, today is Valentine's Day.
Yeah, I did get a few. Some from our class, some from a, uh, who, uh, I got some from our juniors. God, that felt a bit weird.
Oh, no, no, no. The ones from our class are mostly friendship chocolates. You know, like, basically those you can buy at the convenience store.
Hell, Hera and Eldon got similars and we just eat them during our break. So many chocolates. Ugh.
The ones from our juniors, I, uh. .. The ones from our juniors, I, uh.
.. No, no, you'll laugh. I'm not telling you.
No, no, you'll definitely laugh. I'm not telling you, Jack. Yeah, yeah, they did.
One of them did confess to me. Thinking about it feels so awkward, like, they just bump onto me in the hallway during our lunch break and straight up confess, then and then, in front of everybody. Um, like, it's super awkward, I don't want to remember it.
No, I. .. I ended up, um, scooting them over, like, to a corner, making sure nobody followed us.
And just, uh. .. No, I didn't say yes.
You know, I don't like people younger than me. I kind of prefer someone older. Yeah, I just.
.. Just straight up go, I appreciate your feelings, but for the love of me, I cannot return them. I'm so sorry.
No, they. .. They did give me a reasoning why they, you know, like me.
They found me very interesting and handsome from the first assembly we had. The first assembly we had a few months ago. They saw me at the stage when the teachers, like, give appreciations to the last year number one ranking students.
And I guess they just fell in love with how I look. I don't know, it feels weird. Ooh, they cried.
Man, they cried. I tried to calm them down, like, comfort them, just. ..
I did hug them. It's just. ..
No, their classmate was close by, thankfully. And they pulled their friends back, and I just awkwardly waved goodbye. Look, I didn't know what to do, okay? I just.
.. Can we stop? Can we just not talk about this? No, I genuinely feel like a villain.
I was the bad, bad guy for their Valentine. That sucks, man. Oh, don't you laugh.
You also kinda scared them off with your resting bitch face. Yes, you do have a resting bitch face, my good little sweets. Everyone in our years knows it, like.
.. Why did you think Hera didn't approach you to borrow your math homework? Yeah, exactly.
A strong girl like her is even afraid of you. Amazing, right? Did I keep the juniors' chocolate? Yeah, unfortunately.
They insisted. They pretty much insisted. They also gave me those crochet flowers.
Like, a bunch of small flowers. It's like inside the chocolate box. I'm pretty sure it's homemade, too.
Again, I felt like the villain of the day right now. Again, they insisted. Saying, just remember me.
Again, I felt super, super awkward with that. Even telling you about it now, it's. ..
I feel. .. Disgusting.
I feel disgusted for myself. God. Though, how about you? Did you, like, give anyone chocolates? Yeah? No confessions, though, right? Just friendships? Oh, sorry.
Mandatory chocolate. God, why do you have to call it that? It's friendship chocolate.
It's not mandatory. Well, yeah, you gave it to everyone so everyone doesn't feel left out. But it's not mandatory.
It's friendship. You're being nice. Though, speaking of, do I get one? These, uh.
.. Mandatory chocolate. Or so you call it.
Or, since I'm a childhood friend of yours, am I actually gonna get a friendship chocolate? Oh, come on, I just want to be special. Oh.
Oh. Oh, wow. No, no.
Isn't this expensive? Like, I get it's dark chocolate and it's, like, my favorite brand and all, but. ..
No. No, you shouldn't have more. Wait.
No, you're giving this because you want something out of me, right? It's for White Day, isn't it? You don't want me to buy something less cheap than this.
No, don't lie to me. You always expected something more. Like, remember that birthday gift you got? Yeah.
The band merch. The beautiful jacket that is kinda expensive because import tax, but. ..
But you hinted that you wanted concert tickets as a payment. Honestly, I don't see that as an equal exchange. Right, right, sure, you don't want anything expensive.
So, what would you. .. Me? What about me? Oh, hey, you're kinda.
.. Want me to be your valentine and boyfriend? That's a bit awkward.
Oh, no, no, no. I'm not saying that it was a bad idea or, like, I'm not, you know, appreciating. It's just.
.. I didn't expect you to see me that way. I do, actually.
I've seen you that way ever since we were in middle school. The last year of, yeah. Yeah.
I mean, we've known each other for so long, and someone asked me. ..