I sat back into the scratchy old school chair that had been pressing up against my lower back all day, and just gave up on fighting it and embraced it. "Hey, Botan! Get your loner ass over here, we're going out for lunch. Come with you, don't have a choice!" Looking over to see who called out my name, I had almost hoped it was Hina for some reason, but it turned out to be Nagato and Jiro, two of my closest friends, who also happened to be my only friends besides Hina.
Now, having to get up from the chair I had just given up to, I rolled my eyes at the two and reluctantly got up and walked to the back of the class to grab my bag. "You ready yet, sleeping beauty? By the way, things are looking, if we leave now, then we might not make it back for class, so HURRY UP!" Alright, Alright, I'm coming. I grabbed my bag, draped it across my shoulder, and walked out of school with the guys.
Jiro, don't you and Nagato ever get tired of playing this repeated game of cat and mouse with the server? I mean, it's kind of pervy, don't you think? The three boys had gone to their favorite restaurant near the school to pick up lunch, since the lunch at school wasn't the best, or at least Botan thought. "Hey Nagato get a load of this guy acting all high and mighty trying to belittle the lower less alpha males like me and you, for you're notion Botan we're empaths trying to find love in this world and to you it may come off as pervy and I guess also to the server… but that doesn't mean we should stop what do you say Nagato?" Nagato took his gaze off Jiro and refocused it on the server, and tears began to well up in his eyes. "You know, Botan, if we were just as tall as you with your slender yet muscular frame, maybe we wouldn't be subjugated to these lives of empaths, but alas, we don't have a harem of women such as yourself."
Nagato then proceeded to run out of the restaurant, sobbing about how he would never find love and was never to be seen again…
God, sometimes I just can't with you two dumbasses, I mean, harem, come on, you of all people should know I'm awful around women, Jiro.
"While that is true, my dear friend, you fail to remember one key detail." Jiro comedically nudged the glasses resting on his nose up to his eyes, causing a glare to flash in Botan's eyes. "YOU ALONE SEEM TO HAVE THE HINA INO IN YOUR GRASP. DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW JEALOUS WE ALL ARE?" Botan had ordered a black unsweetened tea, his favorite drink to be exact, and had been quietly sipping on it throughout his friend's whole fiasco until Jiro brought up Hina.
Blahhh WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT JIRO ME AND HINA ARE YOU CRAZY?! Every customer and worker in the restaurant shifted their attention to the loud and tall Botan, who was making a scene after becoming flustered by Jiro's suspicion. Realizing this, Botan immediately became ten times more flustered and urgently paid for the tea, then grabbed Jiro by the hand and ran out back to school. God, why do you always have to bring her up whenever we're talking about love? "Why do you say Botan? It's because she's undoubtedly the cutest, smartest-looking girl at Hokkaido High, I mean, what more could a guy dream of? She seems infatuated with you, but you seem to be the exact opposite." Just drop it already, alright? Let's change the subject, and oh, look over there.
Jiro chuckled to himself and dropped it only to see Botan pointing over to a bush on their walk back to school. "Oh my, I do seem to agree with you on changing the subject because look at what we found, isn't he just the cutest little guy ever?" Botan had pointed to a bush where it looked like a dog tail was sticking out, so the two walked forward to spread open the bush to find… "WHAT THE NAGATO YOU AREN'T THE CUTE LITTLE PUPPY I EXPECTED TO SEE. WHY ARE YOU WEARING A TAIL?!"
"Well, Jiro, there's a simple explanation," Nagato said confidently while on all fours in a bush, looking up at Jiro and Botan. "After being exiled due to Botan's cruel insight, I went walking back to class to not be late, which by the way we most definitely are by now," CRAP WE ARE WE GOTTA GO COMEON. As Botan attempted to run Nagato grabbed his pants leg and tugged forcing him to stay, "Not so fast there I wasn't done explaining why I'm dressed up as a cute lovable dog, see I was walking back to class and I had saw the most gorgeous woman and she happened to be walking this dog and giving it all sorts of love and then it hit me. WHY CAN'T I BE LIKE THE DOG AND GET LOVE FROM GORGEOUS WOMEN? THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S GENIUS!"
[silence…]
SMACK (Botan slapped Nagato in the face)
Come on, Jiro, let's go back to class. We can't be seen walking late with this perverted loser…
"I agree, let us go."
Walking swiftly back to school to avoid being seen with Nagato, the two entered their class a total of 15 minutes late. Upon arrival, they found that no one was in their home room, as it seemed there was a commotion going on outside in the quad.
"HINA INO, I LOVE YOU. PLEASE BE WITH ME!"