Prompt: Love Story
Every love story is different, Tomoki knew from experience. But he could easily say that from Miyu to Yoichi, he'd grown happier. Yoichi hadn't forced him into their relationship. Yoichi hadn't pestered him about nothing. Yoichi was the one he could spend the whole day with talking about his interests and not having to apologise for rambling because Yoichi would jump in with his own input every now and then instead of just sitting and pretending to listen to him. They once had a sleepover at Yoichi's place and spent the entire time talking about diving and reading different diving books and magazines and watching various diving movies.
It had been the best time.
Hiroya and Yoichi definitely didn't see eye to eye. One time back when their relationship first started, Hiroya had gotten riled up into an argument with his older brother stating how everything about the two of them was wrong and completely unnecessary. Tomoki had known his words weren't as true as they sounded, however he had still gotten caught up in defending himself until Ryo and even Reiji had come to his aid.
They'd been staying over for the afternoon when diving practice had been cut early due to some unexpected weather, and Ryo hadn't had basketball practice that day.
"I always said you and him would end up together eventually, ain't that right Reiji?" Ryo said with a smirk.
"Oh come off it, just because you admire someone so much doesn't always mean you fall in love with them" Tomoki tried defending himself. He was right to some extent.
"He has a point Ryo, but it was pretty obvious how you felt for Yoichi for quite some time. You wouldn't have done diving and met us if it hadn't been for him" Reiji rarely fully sided with either of his friends.
"Exactly! It was the diving that he introduced me too because he was so good at it when we were little, that's all there is to it. Falling in love with him just...just sorta happened" Tomoki's cheeks dusted themselves in a faint blush as he pouted and tried to avoid his friends' gazes, eventually opting to take a long sip from his drink nearby.
"Oh yeah because seeing at least ninety percent of his body without clothing on totally wasn't part of the package that got you tripping and falling, eh~?" Ryo said with a wink and nudged Reiji in the side with his elbow encouragingly.
"H-Hey! Th-That's so not true and you know it!" Tomoki protested, half-choking on his drink.
Ryo just cracked up into a fit of laughter with Tomoki trying to defend himself from such accusations, and Reiji just shook his head in mild disbelief at the two.