"Hey, Natsuki." The call makes him look up from his reading of a new cooking magazine - Piyo-chan style cookies were in this issue! - to Sho across the room, who just looks kind of embarrassed and really like he doesn't want to be here.
"Yes, Sho-chan? Do you need help getting something down?"
That sets off a spark and Sho growls, yelling at Natsuki. "That was one time! And you ended up not helping at all!" He pauses, but there's still a bit of anger in his voice when he continues. "I don't need your help with anything like that, I just wanted to know if-"
"Sho-chan, can I ask you something?" It's abrupt and throws the other off balance, apparently, because he just looks at Natsuki and waits for him to continue with a frown. "Do you know why Tokiya asked Otoya if he'd like to sing together? He was asking me yesterday in class and I couldn't come up with an answer for him. Masato was asked something embarrassing by Ren, but he won't say what..."
Sho's frozen in his spot, not speaking a word, and Natsuki wonders if he's said something wrong.
"T-that's... Because... Arg, just forget it! Just- Just go back to doing whatever you were doing before and don't even think about trying out any of those recipies! I should've never accepted that stupid dare from Ren, even if we were all gonna do it..." The last part's a mutter by the time Sho's out the door, and Natsuki decides to ask him about it later.
