all warnings (flash-wrote under minutes after reading an unexpected prompt)

i.

"I love her like this: if she's sitting beside me and we are taking an important test, I'd totally give her all the correct answers and answer none for myself."

Ichigo snorts, he guesses some things are importanter than passing exams and education and career.

This is one of the talks that run on subways at 2 in the afternoon, and probably the least stupid of them. Ichigo thinks they are all worth shit, but he hears them anyway.

He stands in one of the slightly-filled (fortunately) train car predominantly occupied by men of various ages –something routinely for a college boy. He's a bright sight in towering height; wearing black pants and a white shirt with rolled-up long sleeves.

Girls are rarely seen in his part of the train. But he spots one in the middle of tall boys and middle-aged men.

Ichigo shifts in his position by the windows and bars, turning slightly to her and adjusting his backpack.

She carries kendo garments –strapped on her back- large and heavy and takes so much room. The tip of the bokken she carries stays upward, few inches higher than her height. And that prompts him: she's tiny, barely reaching his chest (if he were to stand beside her). Her hair in a ponytail and a loose bang between her eyes (and girls who wear their hair in a ponytail mean serious business) she wears a pale peach sundress and admittedly unnoticeable in her petite form.

There's a kendo dojo at the station right after his station.

Ichigo spends the rest of his train ride trying to calculate her weight (assumingly) and the weight of those things she carries and how the fuck could she carry that?

When the train arrives to his station, he walks out in long strides. And when he hears the familiar ding signaling the doors' closure, he looks back at the train.

There are 8.2 seconds before the doors close fully, and he stares directly at the girl during those 8.2 seconds.

(whereas she catches him but nonchalantly looks away and he's does not)


prompt: a research says it takes 8.2 seconds for men to "fall in love" (but i think it means "to be attracted")