[Not today almost feels safer. Akira doesn't want Shindou to divulge everything at once and then burn himself out on Akira, deciding the catharsis is over and done with and there's no more reason to let Akira shoulder his way in. They just talked their way through a thrilling game that carried the heat of hormones, and they just talked their way through wanting to be together, but what that means, exactly, still isn't entirely clear—whether they even mean the same thing at all... Akira's eyebrows dip back down, and then even a little lower. I wasn't upset, he wants to repeat, and he also wants to shake Shindou out of his uncertain stance. What do you think? But he leads Shindou out of the kifu room with a hand at his elbow, and he bows politely to the office attendant after keeping him for so long, and he pulls at Shindou, when they're at the subway station. He doesn't send Shindou onto that train until he's straightened Shindou's jacket, even if he does it with a frown. It's nurturing, but it's less nurturing than it is a reminder that Akira will hunt him down if necessary.
Thankfully, it isn't necessary. Akira is in his high school's library—books on Hangul and social studies to his left, and a literature textbook to his right—when he gets the buzz of Shindou's texts. Suddenly, detailing the day's teachings on civics doesn't feel important at all. He's been swimming in these things in order to keep his mind occupied, but now it doesn't even matter...
It's against the rules to text on your phone in the library. Akira keeps his back straight and fearless even when he sends:]
no subject
Thankfully, it isn't necessary. Akira is in his high school's library—books on Hangul and social studies to his left, and a literature textbook to his right—when he gets the buzz of Shindou's texts. Suddenly, detailing the day's teachings on civics doesn't feel important at all. He's been swimming in these things in order to keep his mind occupied, but now it doesn't even matter...
It's against the rules to text on your phone in the library. Akira keeps his back straight and fearless even when he sends:]
What he was thinking
Get any sleep?