" 'Taking a break. Please do not disturb'." I read the sign that hung around Ishigami-kun's neck.

I guess he won't mind if I sit next to him for a while. I shouldn't make too much noise though, since I might wake him up from his break.

Sitting next to him, I took out the book that I have been reading for quite a while now. I borrowed this book from the library, so that I could improve on my vocabulary.

Improving my vocabulary will come in handy when I make the book of our memories.

The new paper smell of the book was strangely at odds with its old fashioned and battered leather cover, the gilded lettering faded and tatty.

It fell open with an avalanche of pages, their snowy whiteness bespeckled with a flurry of black ink in poetic lines tumbling down the page.

I quickly became immersed in the story, forgetting about my surroundings and sense of time.

Something heavy rested on my lap out of the blue which jolted me back into reality.

I let the book fall closed. It makes an exhausted sound, like a padded door shutting, by itself, at a distance like a puff of air.

The sound suggests the softness of the thin oniony pages, how they would feel under the fingers.

My eyes wandered to my lap to see a sleeping Ishigami-kun. He snored lightly as he laid his head on top of my lap.

What...what should I do?!

You can feel it, building like an unstoppable snowball in the pit of your stomach.

I cannot concentrate on anything else that I'm doing. I can't even move a single inch of my body.

The next step is my heart starting to beat harder and faster, adrenaline levels rise.

Blushing would have been no problem, but what I did was go as red as a beetroot and radiate heat like a hot pan.

You could have cooked a three course meal on my face. No one could have missed it. I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me whole.

I wished to 'do a Daphne' and drop through a scooby-doo style trap door in the floor.

I am not a fan of this situation, but I can't deny the fact that I sort of like it. I don't want to wake him up, so I guess I'll let him lay there until classes start again.

From deep inside my chest, through every cell of my body, the warmth welcomed me like an old friend.

But it was strange, because I never felt that way before. It kinda scared me, you know?

Feeling the cold slowly leaving my heart...all my life everything I once loved or cared about always left and broke me, tearing apart my soul bit by bit.

Maybe this once...I'll allow this...he is tired after all and I'm sure he stayed up all night playing video games or watching anime, he needs rest...so I won't mind this.

This is so embarrassing...

𝙸𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚒'𝚜 𝙿𝙾𝚅

Though my eyes are open I can't think of why; my heart is pounding, mind empty.

It's as if a hypodermic of adrenaline has been emptied into my carotid. I strain into the utter darkness, breathing rate beginning to steady.

So soft...I wanna go back to sleep. I'm still at school, right? Why do I feel like I'm on a luxury pillow right now?

"Are you awake, Ishigami-kun?" my eyes slightly looked down to see the skin of a human.

Realization had finally hit me after a few seconds of nothing but silence in the air.

I. Slept. On. L/n's. Lap.

It felt like someone had suddenly turned on an internal heater inside my system, and my pale skin slowly turned from a ghastly white to a shade of a ripe strawberry.

The warmth had now bloomed into a full blown, sweltering heat wave bursting through my pores and triggering the waterfalls in my eyes.

Too bad the water had dried up.

I started hyperventilating, and gasping for air and my heart finally started thumping again.

There was no rescue from this embarrassment. It was absolute. Torture. Utter humiliation.

The memory would be seared into my brain forever, ready to pop up and torment me again when I'm ever in a quiet moment.

L/n is so gonna hate me for this. And then she'll curse me to the day I die! I won't be able to bare that pain!!

"I'm so sorry, L/n!" I stood up and begged her for forgiveness multiple times. She stands up and approached my bowing figure.

"I-It's fine, I didn't really mind it. You should stop sacrificing your sleep." she advised before leaving.

She didn't slap me? Don't girls usually slap the guys if they laid their head on their lap? There's only one answer to those questions...

Y/n is truly a goddess!

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𝟹𝚛𝚍 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝙿𝙾𝚅

Nagisa's boyfriend decided to visit Shirogane for some love advice. Ishigami was about to leave, but was stopped by him and he told Ishigami that he should listen in on this as well.

The President, though quite inexperienced in the ABC's of Love, had previously managed to give advice that was so absurd and weird that it surprisingly worked out well for the couple.

However, this time around, Nagisa's boyfriend seemed to boast about about how well he spent his summer vacation with Nagisa instead of asking for advice.

This immediately annoyed Ishigami, since he only went out to the cafe with Y/n once and it wasn't even considered a date.

His humble bragging ends up irritating Ishigami and Shirogane who assumed that he had attained 'nirvana' in his relationship.

At this point, Nagisa too shows up in the student council room saying that she had something to discuss with Shinomiya.

"The two of us have matters ot attend to. Please take a seat and wait here." Ishigami announced.

"Oh, sure..." Nagisa answered. Ishigami and Shirogane leave the student council room and listened through the door.

What follows is typical high school behavior from the two of them who spy on the couple out of curiousity.

"Excuse me. Could you let us through please?" Shinomiya requested which made Shirogane gasp in surprise.

"What are you doing?" Y/n inquired.

"We're observing to see if they've already gone the whole way." Ishigami answered.

"What? Those two have gone that far?!" Fujiwara's cheeks heated up at the thought of that.

"One in three..." Y/n muttered.

"Where is this faraway place they've supposedly gone?" the innocent Shinomiya asked the two girls.

"In the current context, they're likely referring to a man and woman doing you-know-what!" Fujiwara whisper-yelled.

Shinomiya took a second before processing what Fujiwara had just told her. She turned to Y/n, who nodded to confirm what Fujiwara said.

"Interlocking fingers while holding hands! Well, what do you think?" Ishigami asked, turning to Shirogane.

"No, people do that much on the first date already!" Shirogane retorted.

"Huh? She kissed him! Oh my, she kissed him! Isn't this enough proof?" Fujiwara joined in on the spying.

"No, not yet! People already kiss by the third date!" Shirogane said. The third? That soon?

This man who had never gone on a date is the one saying such things as if he went on a date.

"He's kissing her on her neck!" Y/n exclaimed.

"That's straight up doing it in the present progressive tense!"

"Hey, don't squish me!"

"No, people do this much on their fourth date!"

"On which date do they start banging then?!" Ishigami yelled in a whisper.

"The fifth!" Shirogane exclaimed.

"Isn't that too early?! You've never went on a date!" Y/n stated.

Shinomiya faints as she can't take it anymore.

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"We made a dice board game at the Tabletop Games Club!" Fujiwara announced.

"You guys made it yourselves?" Ishigami asked.

"You place these cards in rows kind of like a Snakes and Ladders board." Fujiwara explained.

"That's sounds interesting." Y/n said.

"We called it The Game of Happy Life! Let's play it together!" Fujiwara suggested, being shut down by everyone.

"Don't be like that. It'd be very sad if no one played a game they put so much effort into." Ishigami stated.

"I agree." Y/n nodded her head, agreeing with Ishigami's statement.

"I-Ishigami...I had no idea you were in fact such a good person! I'm sorry for thinking that you were a cold, logical sociopath until now." Fujiwara cried.

"That's how you always viewed me? It's your fault for being an easy target though." Ishigami sighed while Y/n sweatdropped.

The superfluous rules set in the game by Fujiwara kicks out Ishigami out of the game quite early.

The game gets more out of hand Shinomiya and Y/n as they have to painstakingly witness Fujiwara and Shirogane get married and have kids.

"My ship..." Y/n mumbled.

Though it was just a game, Kaguya is visibly shaken by it in a very funny way, of course.

"I ended up having so many children!" Fujiwara exclaimed.

"You should calm down a little, President, you animal." Ishigami chuckled.

"It's not my fault!" Shirogane retorted.

"Oh, I got a magic card. What does that mean?" Y/n asked, turning to Fujiwara since she contributed to the game and should know more about it than the others.

"The magic card lets you revive a dead player. You are given the choice to let them live or to let them die." Fujiwara explained.

"I see...then I'm going to revive Ishigami-kun." Y/n decided. Just like that, Ishigami is back in the game.

"I stepped on marriage card. The closest player to me is..." Ishigami and I met each others' gazes.

"Oh my, Ishigami is getting married to Y/n! How lucky!" Fujiwara exclaimed.

However, as the board game progresses further, Fujiwara and Shirogane get a divorce and Shinomiya has to marry the President, making her all excited.

"Wait a minute. Shinomiya-senpai has the 'Androphobia' ca-" Y/n immediately covered Ishigami's mouth with her hand.

"Excuse my husband." Y/n pulled on his collar and brought him to the corner of the room.

"Don't ruin this! Kaguya-san and the President are getting married and there is no way I'm letting someone getting in the way." Y/n threatened.

"O-Of course." Ishigami nervously nodded, frightened by the sudden change in behavior.

And at last, the game reaches its conclusion.

Shinomiya ends up getting first while Y/n gets second. Third is Fujiwara and fourth is Shirogane. Ishigami scores last place since he kept getting unlucky cards.

"We ended up having 12 children..." Ishigami's nose began to bleed.

"You should calm down a little, Ishigami, you animal." Shirogane mocked.

Ishigami and Y/n give multiple advices to Fujiwara on how she could improve the game.

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𝚈/𝚗'𝚜 𝙿𝙾𝚅

"My birthday is the 1st of January. I was born on New Year's Day." Kaguya-san announced.

"You're like an alexandrite. Just like this gemstone, which bears the name of a monarch, you are a noble and proud person. Moreover, this gemstone possesses a most strange nature, as it suits between red and blue. Likewise, you too can be both a devil and an angel. Should you set aside you pride and instead be honest, you will surely find happiness."

That actually fits her very well. I don't really believe in stuff like this, but they're quite amusing to play around with.

"And your birthday, Fujiwara, is..."

"3rd of March, Girls' Day!"

"You are like a candleflame. The warmth you radiate as you illuminate your surroundings melts the ice bit by bit. It can be a symbol of devotion or love. Your wishes will come true should you continue to share your boundless love."

"Y/N-chan's birthday is the 24th of August..." Chika-san muttered, inputing the information into her phone.

"You have an enthusiastic and sometimes unpredictable nature. You are always searching for stability in life and for people who are just as hardworking and trustworthy as you are. Sometimes you may be perceived as way too reserved but this is your way of processing what is going on around you."

"Y/n reminds me of a cherry blossom." Kaguya-san mentioned.

"A cherry blossom? How so?" I asked.

"Cherry blossoms are ephemeral and ethereal. They are the gentlest of flowers, encouraging us to be inspired of the future and things to come, but also of tragedy, as their fleeting beauty is short lived and transient." she elaborated.

"Cherry blossom's energy is shy and delicate, quiet and gentle, but also overwhelmingly powerful and awe-inspiring when they come to bloom." Ishigami added.

"If you were to ask me, I think it suits you very well." Ishigami gave me a very tiny smile.

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