The Unkissable Prince CH.2

The Unkissable Prince CH.2

I cant find it so ill post it again just in case

The past few weeks the cast had been working hard to make something they could be proud of, and they were proud of what they had accomplished so far as a group, but problems arise in individuals. Most of the actors were in their last year of high school and had other problems and worries this late in the school year. Lunch was one of the only times they could relax without having to do school work or production work. It was a time of fun relaxation, laughs and for some, it was a time to make new relationships or for some to evolve.

Denki and Shinsou had been working together during rehearsal almost every time the actors were given time to work on individual character work. Even though Denki was who Shinsou worked with the most, Denki was always disappointed when Shinsou worked with another actor. Now Shinsou was a part of the theater kid group, even during lunch. Currently, most of the students in the production were having lunch together and it was only the second week that Shinsou was a part of this lunch group and he had taken notice of something. For one he noticed the closeness of Tokoyami the actor playing Scully and Aoyama the french boy who played the french chef in the show, he assumed that they were together or were getting to that type of relationship. He also noticed that mina was ursal, not that she was naturally ursal but she constantly in character, basically method acting, and it scared most of the none theater people. What he took notice of most was how they treated Denki, for the most part, it was harmless jokes that could be taken the wrong way. What he was really unsure of was how Jiro treated him, her jokes were more insults than the others, half the time he couldn’t tell if she was even trying to joke about it. Shinsou could tell that Denkiwas affected by Jiro’s words, and he was too. Mostly because her insults were always about other’s feelings toward Denki. Things like

“Your so annoying, it makes people hate you.”

“It’s hard being around you when you are so stupid.”

"I still don’t how you landed the prince role when you the furthest thing from a prince .”

“It’s so hard to act like I’m in love with prince eric when you’re the one playing him.”

“I’m not surprised that you’ve never been in a relationship, I pray for your future partner.”

That last few ones were the ones that hurt Shinso because he was a part of Denkis prince Eric’s portrayal. The last one also struck a chord with him because he liked Denkieven before they become friends, he was almost hopelessly in love with Denkinow that they got to spend time together. Even though Jiro’s comments hurt both Denkiand Shinsou, neither of them was able to stand up to her. All Shinsou could do was find a way to comfort Denki when they were alone.

Later in the day after school now at rehearsal, once again Shinso was hoping from person to person helping them during their individual work. Denki was running over his lines, memorizing, blocking, and figuring out how to say each word, the way prince eric would. Shinso had taught him many acting tips in the past few weeks, it made Denki feel a little dumb because he had done acting for fun since he was little and he was only learning such things in his last year of high school. Denki sat and thought of tactics, a term, and a method that Shinso taught him. Basically, each line has at least one tactic, a tactic is an action verb that is aimed at the other characters in the show. For example, he used ‘to swoon Ariel’ quite a bit, swoon being the tactic and Ariel is who it is for. All the work he was doing made him think of Shinsou, and how Shinsou wasn’t working with him right now, it made him feel alone and jealous that he didn’t have the fluffy-haired boy’s attention. The director called for clean up which indicated the end of rehearsal, and Denki still hadn’t worked with Shinsou today, it disappointed him more than it should have.

Denki

I pack up my bag and script but stay seated in the chair I was in. I know that it’s time to go but I wasn’t ready to leave, not mentally at least. I watched as my ...our stage manager talked to our director, I have no clue what their conversations about but it’s not unusual for them to talk after rehearsal. I began to space out, still staring in their direction, I’m broken from this state when I notice both men looking at me, I panic a little because when two people are talking and looking at you it means that they’re talking about you, and I can only assume that their talking shit if it’s me they’re looking at. In my slightly panicked state, I didn’t realize that Yamada has left and that Shinso has started to approach me. I try to calm myself and get ready to stand up but before I could stand up I hear the amazing smooth voice of Shinso.

“Stay seated.”

Even though his tone wasn’t demanding or scary, I summited and was scared. I watched as he sets down something and pulls out another foldable chair, across from me and my chair. I couldn’t think of what to say or question but luckily I didn’t have to because he knew the answers to the questions I hadn’t even thought of yet

“I asked Yamada if I could work with you a little more today here because we didn’t get to.”

I nodded my head and took note of how awkward he knew that we were alone together. I guess he thinks I’m stupid because he went into more detail.

“He said yes, just no funny business and to lock up and that return the keys when I get home.”

He was less awkward now, he even rolled his eyes at the no funny business part. I assume that the shiny thing he put down was the keys to the auditorium. The most confusing part was the ‘return the keys when I get home’.

"Wait you live with Yamada?”

I yelled that a little loud and was a little too excited for that, it probably made him uncomfortable to be around a loud person like me.

"Yeah, he not my dad or anything. At least not biologically, he’s my foster parent, has been for the past 3 years but he hasn’t asked if I wanted to be adopted yet so I think he waiting till I turn 18 so he doesn’t have to deal with me.”

He laughs but I don’t think it’s very funny, because I don’t think it true, and Yamada isn’t like that. I hold my breath though, no one wants to hear my thoughts anyway, so I switch the subject.

"I was working on tactics today, hear let me show you!”

We worked for the next 30 minutes on different parts of the script, until we ended up on the wedding scene, the same scene that prince eric and ariel kiss. The atmosphere became weird between us, we weren’t acting or anything, just reading the lines and talking through different ideas. But the topic of kissing filled the air with awkwardness. But we had to continue with analyzing and discovering my character.

"I’ve been having trouble portraying Eric at this moment. It’s hard to show the love he feels for Ariel.”

I admitted to Shinso that love was hard to portray which is pretty embarrassing.

"I would try and draw out, or remember an experience for this scene, like your first kiss, or date, something romantic.”

Shinso suggested, I tried to rack my brain to find a replay that doesn’t include Shinso learning that I haven’t had my first kiss yet. But that’s what enders up coming out.

"I haven’t...”

"You haven’t ...what? Kissed someone? gone on date?”

Shinso sounds very shocked by this discovery. I just nodded my head not wanting to face him.

"But you’ve rehearsed this scene before, so you’ve kissed Jiro?”

I suddenly realize that every time Jiro and I have rehearsed that scene, Shinso isn’t in his chair, and when Yamada announced we would be doing stage kisses instead, Shinso hadn’t joined the club yet. Meaning that Shinso didn’t know about the stage kisses.

“No, she was uncomfortable with that so we opted for stage kisses, so I’ve never had a first kiss, not a romantic one or a fake one from Jiro.”

“Whats a stage kiss?”

I’m shocked, my stage manager doesn’t know what a stage kiss is. He knows all these other terms for acting but he doesn’t know about a basic stage kiss. Well, now I get to be the smart one.

"Well, it’s so that actors don’t have to kiss but it tricks the audience. Basically one of the actors grabs the other’s face and kisses their thumbs.”

I was feeling pretty smug about knowing something Shinsou didn’t. Until he spoke again.

“I don’t understand. Maybe I’ll understand better if you showed me.”

I cough out a little bit in shock, yeah sure it’s a stage kiss and I wouldn’t actually be kissing him, but the idea makes me nervous. It’s not like I don’t want to kiss him, stage kiss him, it’s the opposite, I’ve grown fond of him and might even say I have a crush on him. I know that I don’t have a shot with him or anyone for that matter but I can’t help but wish for more than a stage kiss. But if a stage kiss is the closest I'll get to being with Shinso I'll take it.

Without saying anything I get up from my chair and move towards Shinso, I place my hands on his face and then I lift my thumbs positioning them in front of his lips. they flout above his lips as I pause for a second, thinking about touching his lips with my thumbs, it’s still intimate in my mind, but his puzzled look makes me place my thumbs down on his lips. There soft, I would have expected chapped lips but this is a pleasant surprise. I close my eyes and kiss my own thumbs, I keep my lips there longer than I do when I stage kiss Jiro, but Shinso won’t know that. I pull away and open my eyes, to see Shinso smiling and almost laughing, then he begins to laugh. I began to feel insignificant and stupid again. I know I don’t have a shot with some as amazing as Shinso but that doesn’t mean I didn’t still hope that the stage kiss would lead to something more, and real.

“Sorry for laughing. You really haven’t had your first kiss.”

It’s that obvious to him, sure I told him but how can he tell how inexperienced I am from just a stage kiss.

“What’s that suppose to mean?”

I asked in a more rude tone than I meant to.

"Well you closed your eyes, like the whole time, and you were there longer than needed.”

“You’re supposed to close your eyes, right. That’s what they do in movies and like it’s bad if you open your eyes, or that’s what I’ve heard.”

Shinso nods at my statement but it seems to be in a teasing way.

“Wel that right but you make it seem like life or death, your eyes aren’t just closed there squeezed shut, and with simple kisses that the .. um … the stage kiss is replicating, it’s short. Cause in real life it would be a little awkward to put your lips against someone else’s without at least some lip movement.”

I find his corrections on my stage kiss annoying, and I don’t try to hide it in my voice.

"Oh, so your some sort of kissing expert?”

“I wouldn’t call myself that, but I’m more experienced than you.”

I become more annoyed because his voice changed and he became more smug

"Well, it’s not my fault I haven’t had my first kiss!”

I yell at him.

“Neither is it mine.”

“Yes, it is because anyone who hasn’t tried to kiss me is at fault!”

I blurt out without think of consequences, and when I look at Shinso and his smug, flirtatious face I know that there’s going to be consequences.

“So if I kiss you then I can be free from being blamed?”

I go wide-eyed, I can’t tell if he’s being serious. And if he is I don’t know if I want my first kiss to be under these circumstances. Oh, who am I kidding I was ready to have my first kiss be with Jiro for a play. I try to ask him how serious he is but it stumbles out in pieces.

“How ….uu. I ho-how seri-serious is your.. Uhh ...your ..proposal?”

I sound like a mess. I watch as Shinso stands up from his chair moving closer to me. His left hand rests on my cheek. Leans in and whispers...

“As serious as you want it to be.”

We stand and stay in this position until Shinsou whispers more...

“I’m asking if I can kiss you.”

“Yes!”

The yes that falls out of my mouth is too fast and too quiet but Shinsou heard it and leaned in. I don’t like to admit that I’m wrong but I was and Shinso is right. Without movement this is awkward. But then he snickers with his lips still on mine, that’s when I realize he wasn’t moving on purpose to prove his point. He begins to move, and I half expect it to become a french kiss but it doesn’t. I follow his lips movement hoping that I’m doing it correctly.

We eventually pull away, both our faces tinted pink with blush. I’m not used to silence so I try to fill it.

"Wow, where did all that confidence come from?”

Shinso was often not as flirty as he has been for the past 10 minutes.

“Don’t know, it happens more than you’d expect.”

His hand does that thing that I’ve read in teen romance stories, where it goes behind their neck. I can see the movement of hair and fingers and I assume that it’s some sort of nervous tick to play with his hair, it cute.

“So I think we did enough work for one day, so I guess it’s time to go home.”

I nodded and turn back to grab my stuff, I turn around and Shinsou is already ready to go, waiting for me, but he doesn’t seem to be annoyed like most people are when I take longer to get ready. He locks up the room and we walk to the exit together. When we get outside I turn to start walking home, Shinsou turns the other way but before I get too far he turns back and yells at me.

“Do you need a ride? People shouldn’t walk this late at night, I don’t mind giving you a ride. “

I turn around and yell back...

"I don’t want to get you in trouble for being home late.”

“I’d probably get more in trouble if I let you walked, that’s how my dads are, so come on.”

He waves me over and I jog over to him.

During the ride we don’t talk much, letting the radio fill the car, scaring off the awkward silence. I told him my address and he uses a GPS for direction instead of asking me every 2 minutes when to turn. So I was able to just watch him, and I never realized how attractive people can be while driving till now. Especially the one hand on the wheel, his right hand still on the shift even though it an automatic, his left hand on the wheel. The same hand that was on my cheek less than 20 minutes ago. The realization brings color back to my face, I begin to think about the kiss again. My thinking almost always leads to questions that make me insecure, and like always, I begin to question. Along with my brain answering with the most likely answer

Did I do it right? No.

Did he like it? No.

Does he regret it? Of course.

Was it just a moment thing? Yes.

Or does it have a deeper meaning? No.

Will it happen again? Never, don’t even get your hopes up.

Will we become more than friends? Idiot.

Did he hate it? How else is someone supposed to feel after kissing you?

Is Jiro right? Has she ever been wrong, no, and that hasn’t changed.

Will he stop being my friend? Probably and if not, it’s pity.

Why did he do it? To teach you, cause your a lonely idiot.

Does he like me? Not even a question, of course not, look at him, then yourself. He would never like you.

“Denki is this it?”

I’m broken from the negative thoughts. Shinso has already parked, I look out the window, and sure enough, it is my house.

“Yeah."

I step out and grab my stuff, I close the door, the window rolls down.

"Have a good day Denki.”

"Yeah, you to Shinso.”

I begin to walk away but he yells out a little more...

"Call me Hitoshi. Also, It wasn’t a moment thing, and I want to see where this leads.”

My back was turned the whole time he said talked, I stand there frozen in disbelief. It’s only when I hear his car drive away that I breathe again, my first breath also being a whisper of his name.

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

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I love the response you made to my suggestion! I always headcanoned Quest with having a soft spot for breeds named “dangerous” and wanting to give a pet a second chance so it was especially heartwarming

I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

I really enjoyed writing it, like these are now the pets ill always headcanon them with, I'm afraid I might add them in a fic forgetting they're not canon (other than Cat). And obviously, I agree about Quest's and " dangerous" breeds, and I also wanted to say a little more

quest is so proud of everything rain does he's is the proudest dog dad ever. he also spoils her so much it is ridiculous. he keeps her healthy like him but that doesn't mean she doesn't get a dog cake on her adoption day ( the day he took her in). and I wanted to add this in the fic but I already felt bad for writing so much about quest and rain but rain loves the rain, something the coffee shop told him when he meets her, cause he thought it was strange she wasn't taking cover under something, she just loves rain and puddles.

i love quest

Not me tearing up while writing a request. i love soft quest ugggggggg

im definitely getting carried away

Also my friend just complained to me that she's lonely because her friends don't have lunch with her.

And I now it wrong because she's allowed to feel that way but, I wish she wouldn't tell me that stuff

Because she still goes to the same school as her friends, same state, same town

While I had to move half way cross the country and still watch all my old friend post videos of them all hanging out

It hurts it really does, I'm just so tired of being all alone

hi im here for your matchup thingy! id like to request a double trouble with poly ending for mha if thats ok?

i use he/it pronouns, im a minor, im omni, my love language is touch, im a libra, im an ambivert and im very self conscious. i kin denki and the main thing i want in a relationship is just for everyone to be so incredibly loved and supported.

For my curse of choice event, I match you up with Mina and Kiri. With these two people, a relationship is bound to be healthy and for everyone to feel loved and supported as you wished.

For this story, you are in class 1-A and sit in Denki’s spot ( in front of Kiri and to the left of Mina, Denki sits in Mineta’s old spot if you care)

Also as an apology for taking so long I added a visual of the note.

Face forward, face forward, face forward. I turned my head to look at him for the third time today. I mean it was so hard to focus in class when he sits a mere three feet away, I just want to admire the beautiful, gorgeous, handsome, hot, pretty beautiful, gosh it’s just so attractive to me. I watch as it jots down notes and even such a simple task makes me swoon

To make things worse I watch as Kirishima taps its shoulder. They whisper to each other and my heart starts pumping faster. One crush is enough but two is just too much for me. I mean I know that I’m acting like a middle schooler but they’re both just so perfect.

I turn my head back to the front of the class to try and avoid blushing, my face is pink enough.

The rest of the day I notice that the two are watching me. Almost every time I turn to look at them they’re both looking at me or around me. And I don’t want to get my hopes up but, what other reason is there for staring at me other than that they like me… or they are talking about me behind my back. And as Kiri would say ‘we’re too manly for that. Gosh he is so cheesy why did I fall for him

During lunch, I notice that every time I look at them, they’re already looking at me and that they’re whispering, they both turn away when they see me looking, and I swear their faces changed color as well.

During class, I turned to admire it taking notes but instead it was writing on a long colorful thin piece of paper. I watched as he wrote something on it and then passed it to Kiri, who read it then started to fold it, but then Kirishima looked up at me, he stopped folding and hid the paper, he then tapped on its shoulder and pointed at me. This time I definitely saw the two blush, so I decided to save them the embarrassment by facing forward.

When the school day ended I was grabbing myself a snack and I once again spotted the two goofballs staring at me, or this time I saw them staring at my bag. I ignore it and head up to my room.

Later I take a break from studying to get more snacks. I see the two come inside, they look sad and disappointed, comforting each other, they don’t even see me as they walk to one of their rooms.

The next day they ignored me completely. They don’t even sit with our group at lunch. I try to talk to them, but they just ignore me. Even when I try to talk to them alone they still ignore me. But when I talk to Kirishima he does say one sentence that makes me wonder

“I’m sorry, it hurts too much to talk to you right now, but we'll be normal soon, just give us time.”

It didn’t make sense, he made it sound like I did something wrong but I don’t know what. I pondered the whole day what Kirishima meant. Did it have something to do with their disappointment from yesterday, was I responsible for those sad faces yesterday, I hope not.

When I get to my dorm room I pull out the items I need to work on homework. As I pull the last item out I notice a bright orange sticky note fall from it, I don’t use orange sticky notes. I picked up the note and recognized the handwriting or handwritings.

The note is a mix between the two goofballs. It reads

The picture reads: Hey, this is from your the two goofballs. Well, we hope to be yours.Kirishima and I both like you romantically. We know that it’s kind of strange for two people to like you so instead of asking you to circle yes or no we thought a proper discussion would be better ...because it’s abnormal. So if you are interested at all please meet us today outside the dorm rooms at 5, we’ll wait for an hour tops. If you don’t show up we’ll assume that you are not interested and we won’t talk about it ever again. Love, the goofballs-

God I’m so stupid they like me back and I blew it, I need to fix this.

The more time I spent with him the more I fell for it. And the more he talked about Mina the more I fell for her. Most people would be jealous of their crush liking someone else, but not me. That might be partly because I already know that he likes me just as much. We decided to start dating but for more than one reason we decided to not tell people yet. I’m fine with it, I’m fine with our relationship being behind closed doors, it gives me more time to hug him and cuddle with him.

One reason we are keeping our relationship quiet is because we want to talk to Mina and confess and see if she’s willing to be a part of our relationship in any way.

We came up with a plan, we would write her a note and ask her to meet up with us. And if we were lucky and she says yes we would give her a jar of paper stars full of sentences about how much we like her, and as a sort of anniversary present.

We worked for weeks folding and writing, we even got in trouble in class once. But it was worth it, just seeing his face so happy, thinking about the people he likes, and maybe she might get them and be just as happy.

It was the day of, after school, everything was set up all we had to do was wait. And we did, for an hour.

We stood outside waiting, the first five minutes were filled with excitement, then the following ten minutes were full of silent worrying, after that, we voiced our worries. It was hard to stand there and have worries and then see the person you love have the same disappointing worries. Eventually, it reached 6:05 and there was no pink person insight

“Love, I think she’s not coming.”

I put my hand on its back to try and comfort him, and maybe distract myself from my own disappointment.

“Maybe, maybe we can wait a little longer”

“ I think we should head in, we made it really clear that we would only wait an hour, and it’s been an hour and five minutes. Let’s head in, we still have homework to work on.”

I lightly pushed him toward the dorm building, staying behind him to ensure that he wouldn’t notice how sad I was too, I knew that it would only make it feel worse.

When we reached its room, we didn’t end up studying. As soon as we reached the room we both crashed on his bed, we held each other to help us with the rejection.

The next day we both decided that we needed some distance from Mina, for a little bit, to heal. But Mina doesn’t seem to take that well. As much as we try to avoid her she keeps trying to talk to us, it doesn’t make sense, she rejects us and doesn’t have the respect to let us heal, gosh it hurts.

Eventually, it became too much and though I wrote that we would never speak of it I just need her to leave me and it alone.

You and Eijirou sat in your dorm room silently doing homework, the two of you still sulking about the rejection. Every once and a while one of you would reach out your hand to the other for a comforting touch, every once and a while he would even bring your hand to his lips and softly kiss it, paired with a hushed ‘I love you’

Suddenly your room is no longer filled with silence, there was a jiggle of your door handle, and when it didn’t open because you locked it, the person knocked urgently on the door. You went to open the door, but as soon as the door was unlocked a flash of pink rushed into your room.

“I WANT TO BE WITH YOU TWO”

You recognized the voice before you were able to comprehend what was going on. You then heard your boyfriend talk back, he sounded stern yet disappointed at the same time

“We don’t want a pity date.”

You took note that Eijirou was avoiding eye contact with Mina, it wasn’t hard to understand why. You were pulled from your thoughts by Mina physically pulling you back to the center of the room where Eijirou was located. She held one of my wrists and one of Eijirou's

“ But it’s not, I’ve liked you both for a while. I swear, I found the note today, I’m so sorry, I like you two and… if the spot is still available I would like to be in a relationship with you.”

You looked at Eijirou for a sign, even though you want this you want Eijirou to be on board, and when you see tears building in his eyes, and the begging of one of his famous smiles, you know that he wants this too.

“You promise this isn’t out of pity, cause that wouldn’t be very manly”

Eijirou's voice is quivering while he specks, but he pushes through

“I promise, I like you two, and you know that I’m too manly for lies”

As soon as her sentence is over she’s tackled by Eijirou, her hand still on your wrist, resulting in all three of you falling on the bed. The three of you become comfortable, Mina eventually finds your hand and does the same Eijirou does, softly kissing the back of your hand, whispering above it

“You make me so happy”

She then turns to Eijirou, kissing his forward head, looking him in the eyes as she whispers

“You too, Kirishima”

Eijirou makes a sour face in response and for a second Mina becomes worried, the worry dissolves as Eijirou speaks

“Its Eijirou”

Mina smiles and pulls her partners closer, her partner doing the same until the three of you are squeezing each other. Eventually, the squeezing settles into a cuddle, the tiny bed barely holding all three, but that doesn’t cross your mind as you fall asleep with the ones you love.

Side note: Mina cry when she receives the jars of stars