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You sat on a mat covered ground as you silently watched your marshmallow turn brown, the awkwardness making itself known to the both of you. 

Ran sat in silence as well, only glancing at you from time to time as he also roasted a marshmallow, literally. Normally, it wouldn't be so awkward but there is always an exception for everything.

"Your marshmallow is burning, dumbass..." you muttered while taking a cursory glance at him.

He cleared his throat as he muttered something incoherent while moving the marshmallow away from the fire. He waved it slightly into the air as an attempt to cool it off, looking at you as he did so.

You gently rolled the stick between your fingers as you grinned, seeing the marshmallow turning into the perfect shade of brown.

Ran removed his marshmallow from its stick, frowning at his poor excuse of a smore.

You noticed this as you cooled off your marshmallow, placing it in a small plate which contained other marshmallows as well, all roasted perfectly.

You huffed before offering him the plate to which he raised an eyebrow at.

He thought that you might want him to hold it hence he did.

"I'm offering you a damn smore. Now take one and give me my plate back." you snapped as he sniffed, picking one.

"Only one?" he asked as he placed the plate on the mat.

"How about zero?"

He frowned at the attitude, taking a sticky bite out of the marshmallow. His purple hues flicked in your direction as he saw how you looked like you were thinking deeply about something.

He wished Rindou didn't ditch the both of you and probably, it would've been much more enthusiastic... About as enthusiastic as it can get.

But no, Rindou left a few hours ago with his things, leaving the both of you in there with one tent and other personal belongings.

"So uh... How's she?" he trailed off as you only gave him the side-eye, raising an eyebrow.

"Who?" you asked, although you knew who he's talking about.

Your 'bestfriend' who had just ended things with him a week ago.

Yup. The great Haitani Ran had a break up with your bestfriend.

He frowned again as he took a cracker from the bag, placing the said bag right between the two of you.

"You know who I'm talking about, (Y/N)..." he trailed off with a sigh.

You only rolled your eyes at this, grabbing two crackers from the bag and placing a roasted marshmallow between.

"Well heck, Ran."

You couldn't believe how he's still stuck on thinking about her when clearly, she didn't give a single damn about him. You didn't have the heart to tell him that in the earlier days and it seemed to him and to Rindou that you were avoiding them.

Rindou called in the morning, inviting you to go camping with him and his brother as you gladly accepted.

Although you figured out that Ran must've wanted to talk to you about his ex...

"You really love her that much, huh?" you asked, grinning.

He only looked at you for a brief moment before looking at the dancing flame, the sight being as warm as it is.

"I never said that..." he mumbled, twirling a braid on his finger.

"It's quite obvious though."

A pout made its way to his face without his knowledge, although you found it cute at the moment.

Wait... What the hell?

He only responded with a low chuckle, his mind currently not in the right state.

"I'm just curious, why'd she break up with you all of a sudden?" you asked slowly, as if not wanting him to think you already knew.

"I don't know. Maybe it's because of something I did?" he mumbled, trying to remember what went wrong.

You facepalmed at this, already burning your so-called 'bestfriend' to the ground. How dare she hurt him this way.

You were friends with the brothers from way back when, and some hoe that proclaimed itself to be your 'friend' started bugging you ever since. She was one of Ran's admirers and you found that out after a few weeks of her hanging out with you.

Well, let's just say that she basically needed you just so she could get closer to Ran.

Of course, you were too blind to see it then and so was Rindou, apparently.

"Let me guess, she just called you out of the blue and told you she wanted to break up, right?" you asked again, offering him yet another roasted marshmallow.

He accepted it without anything to say as he just let out yet another sigh, his attention focused on the marshmallow.

"Yeah..." he hummed. "She never told me why... And  the funny thing is, she did it a day before our anniversary."

He only smiled at the thought as you murmured to yourself about having to prepare a funeral when you get back home.

"Look, why not forget about her? Like there are may other girls who'd die just to be with you, and here you are, stressing over someone whose basically in lala-land right now..."

He looked at you after your last statement as he lightly bit the inside of his cheek, his lazy eyes trailing towards the woods.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

It wasn't unusual for Ran to get sentimental in front of you but when he does, it only means he doesn't know what to do.

And truth be told, he was kinda confused.

"...I never wanted to tell you this but... She has a new boyfriend now." you admitted, fiddling with the stick you're holding.

He only glanced at you as he motioned for you to continue.

"I saw her with the new guy hanging out just a couple of weeks ago, right before the break up. I confronted her about it that afternoon and she said he was just a friend." you added as he payed attention to every word you said.

"...A friend, huh?" he murmured to himself as he placed a hand on his cheek, scratching lightly without any reason.

You only nodded as you offered him yet another smore.

"You now, the way you're being so disappointed right now just looks so painful to watch, Ran." you grinned at him as he smiled back, scratching his nape sheepishly.

"I know."

Nothing of you sat in silence as you thought of something to at least cheer him up, and that's when the idea of taking a mild revenge popped up in your mind.

You poked his side gently as you felt him flinch a little, making you chuckle a bit at this.

"Why not show her what she's missing? You know like make her regret that she played you." you proposed as he thought about it, but shaked his head nonetheless.

"Being with her is much regret than I wanted already. Besides, she could go fuck with her new bastard for all I care..." he trailed off as he scoffed,   looking somewhere.

You laughed at this as he looked at you weirdly, mentally asking you if you're fine.

"Woah, you sounded like a jealous bitch there for a moment. Affected much?" you joked as he half-heartedly grinned, his lazy eyes complimenting his features.

My, does Haitani Ran look breathtaking.

"Not really. I just was just curious, that's all." his gaze wandered off as he sighed, not even remembering how his ex looked like.

"Bro, trust me, you're way too good for her." you stated as a matter of fact as he only chuckled. "And besides, she ain't even much of a catch herself."

He laughed at this as he burnt yet another marshmallow with the other end of the stick still having a little flame.

"Man, you suck at this. Here, let me or you'll burn all of these precious babies." you muttered as you watched the bag of marshmallows away from his grasp.

"You're a precious baby." he whispered to himself which, thankfully, you hadn't heard.

Or so he thought.

"Oh, am I now? Just got up from a breakup and here you are, flirting your heart out. You're a real piece of work, you know that..?" you spoke as he responded with a light smile.

"Tell me (Y/N), you aren't joking when you proposed that revenge thingy, right?" he asked with a hint of hopefulness, looking at how you roasted the marshmallow.

"Nope. Never was. We both got played and I wasn't gonna let some dumbass bitch get away with it. I want revenge and I want a whole damn Titanic-sized ship of it, please." you replied as he popped another cracker in his mouth, biting on it with a loud 'crunch'.

You looked at him with an arched eyebrow as he shrugged, looking at you with a smug smirk.

"Well then, why not start on it?" he challenged as his purple orbs looked straight into your (e/c) ones.

"Sure. You got anything in mind?" you asked further as you had a hunch on what he would say, but decided to keep it to yourself.

For now.

"Yeah, actually. I might need you, and you might need me as well, though." he started as you held your breath waiting for what he was about to say.

"Shoot." you urged, your face showing all signs of seriousness.

"Why not make her jealous? I mean, the whole time she was with me, she practically looked green with envy everytime she sees us together." he spoke as his smile appeared again.

The light of the campfire lighted his handsome features perfectly, a nighttime Ran looking so damn near tempting.

"Are you sure that's what you want?" you asked, trying to make a point. "Falling in love with you is not that hard, Haitani."

He smirked in hearing this as the thought of you being with him made him feel giddy.

"Falling for you apparently ain't that hard too, (L/N)." he jeered as his face heated up a bit, something that never happened when he was with his ex.

Well, was she whiny? Yes. Did he love her? Probably. On second thought, probably not.

You giggled at him, the thought of roasting marshmallows in the open flame being left in the cold air.

"Then you want this whole thing to be fake, right?" you asked curiously, prepared to test him.

"It doesn't have to be. It can be as real as it can get, how about that?" he replied cheekily.

"Why real when it can be fake?" you joked, just to see his reaction.

"But why fake when it could be real though?" he stated, making you internally facepalm at him.

You looked at him skeptically, wondering if this was yet another game for him.

It maybe is. It maybe isn't.

"You sure you want me to be your new hoe, Ran?" you asked again as he scoffed. "You do know we're friends, right?"

"Correction, girlfriend." he spoke as he emphasized the last word, "And why not take the 'friends' thingy to another level? Let's say, lovers."

"There's no way out of this, am I right?" you asked as he nodded with a shit-eating grin.

"Glad you see it my way, babe." he snickered as he propped his hands behind him, leaning a bit.

"You're one smooth bastard, aren't ya?" you chuckled again as you thought about Rindou's face once he hears this.

"Mhmm. I am."

ᦔꪖꪀᧁ, 𝓽ꫝ𝓲𝘴 𝘬𝓲ꪀᦔꪖ ꪑꪖ𝘬ꫀ𝘴 ᠻꪮ𝘳 ꪖ ᧁꪮꪮᦔ ᠻꪖꪀᠻ𝓲ᥴ𝓽𝓲ꪮꪀ ᥇ꪮꪮ𝘬 ᥇ꪊ𝓽  ꪀꪮ.

Anyways, school's getting hectic as hell and I really appreciate the patience of the readers who requested.

Thank you!