Prompt: Number Generation/Prompt Selection- 20, Initial denial of feelings
There was nothing to talk about in her opinion about what she felt for Ira Gamagoori. He was a close friend who protected her when Ryuuko couldn't and seemed to be staring at her right now from across the room. She locked eyes with him for the briefest moment before moving her gaze to the floor, trying to control the sudden rush of blood to her cheeks. She shook her head and focused on her lunch, shoveling multiple mouthfuls of food and swallowing it all with minimal chewing. Her thoughts stayed at bay for a moment but the second the food hit her stomach, that tight feeling in her chest returned.
Nothing to talk about how she felt about him. He was a friend and nothing more. She didn't have romantic feelings for him neither did she want to go up to him in this restaurant, grab him by his collar and-
Nope. Nothing at all. Mako continued to eat her table-full of food without another look at her thoughts or at Gamagoori, who sat thirteen tables away in front of one of the windows showing the Tokyo Bay, talking with Sanageyama who was pointing at Ryuuko, who sat across from Mako.
"Mako, do you want that last eggroll?" Ryuuko asked, puling her out of her thoughts and back on her food.
"Of course!" Mako said, snatching the roll with her chopsticks before they started a war over it and plopped it into her mouth with a satisfied sound. Ryuuko eyed her suspiciously before she grabbed one of Mako's abandoned onigiri and nibbled at it.
"Why do you keep on looking over at Gamagoori, Mako?" Ryuuko asked, point-blank, making Mako choke slightly on the eggroll she was still in the process of swallowing. She made an emergency cough before swallowing all of the eggroll down and slumping on to her face, the table's cold metal top cooling down her blushing red face.
"I'm not, he's looking over at me so I think he wants something but I don't know!" Mako defended, looking up coyly at her friend. Ryuuko obviously wasn't buying it at all.
"Does someone have feelings for Gamagoori?" Ryuuko childishly responded, waving her chopsticks at Mako. Mako's cheeks puffed out in anger, her eyes brightening with determination.
"Not at all! Everyone knows that Gamagoori is forever tied to Lady Satsuki and I have you as an ultimate best friend. There is no room in either of us for mutual feelings or romantic butterflies in our stomachs. Besides, Gamagoori would never consider me for anything besides a friend and a rival. My answer is no, I do not!"
Ryuuko still looked at her like she was lying! Mako knew she didn't have feelings for him. Even as her insides seemed to scramble as she caught Gamagoori staring at her from her peripheral sights and watched his face turn red as he switched his staring spot and muttering possibly about how he got caught staring. She really didn't mind him staring, he should-
No other feelings. Nothing more then friendship. Nothing more then mild rivalry. There was nothing to say about what she felt for Ira Gamagoori, right?
…..Right?
