Still in time!

"What're you doing?", Nino asked, looking over Alya's shoulder. After their kinda-date a few days back they had agreed on meeting more often since they had gotten along quite well.

"I'm working.", she grumbled, her shoulders hunched and her legs folded beneath her des chair. Nino chuckled, looking down at her hands. Fabric? Wasn't that Mari's thing?

"And what're you working on?"

She huffed as she pricked herself yet again with the needle, then rolled her eyes.

"Christmas gift for Mari.", her short answer came back and he smiled, nodding.

"Mhm… And what will it be?"

She whipped around to him, taking him by surprise. Though, it was quite a surprise for her as well as her head bumped against his chest. They both jumped back before beginning to chuckle a bit.

"Weren't you mixing just now? What about that?"

Nino shrugged, coming closer again to skeptically eye the experiment on her desk.

"I'm finished. So, what's it gonna be? Or-… What should it be?"

She glanced back at her poor work and sighed.

"Well, it originally was supposed to be an attempt at making her a new purse. The old one is kinda worn out and I don't really think she wants to wear the one she made of the shirt her grandma brought her for her last birthday."

He hummed as he remembered.

"You mean it's not her color scheme?"

"Yep.", Alya agreed, then turned back to her work, "Well but the purse failed because of obvious reasons so now I'm making her a simple pencil case. That girl seriously has all her pencils on her desk. No wonder she constantly grabs the wrong one and loses them."

He laughed as he leant against her chair, putting his hands on her shoulders.

"So you're trying to make her a practical gift, huh?", that was so Alya. When she searched for a present she always had to make it practical. Alya giving necklaces? Or figurines? No, she always searched for the most practical, most logical gift. For his last birthday he had received a holder for his headphones since he had complained about them never having a real place. He had a relatively small desk, no case for them and so he had worn them around his neck most of the times. Now they had a place, thanks to her.

"Yeah, of course. I mean, what would she wanna do with something she doesn't even use? Okay, admittedly, I already bought a gift for her but I wanted to do something personal as well…", she sighed as she leant back against him, tilting her head up so she could meet his gaze, "Doesn't really work, though, huh?"

He furrowed his eyebrows and grabbed the piece of fabric she was struggling with. She had obviously taken her own as an example and it didn't exactly look bad, just-… Inexperienced. He would struggle just the same.

"Well, I think you just need to finish up the edges here, cut a bit of fabric down here and then you can turn it and it'll be a pencil case. Though… I have no idea how to connect a zipper to this…"

She shook her head, shrugging.

"I'm not doing a zipper because I dunno either. I'll do buttons, two."

He nodded, humming.

"With a hole in the other side or a snapper that you'll sew on as well?", he asked. She hummed, shrugging as she took the experiment from his hand again.

"Well, I dunno yet. But I was thinking maybe one button would do since it's so high and she can just wrap it around her pencils like that? Like, have a button on the back and-… And-… Then do that and-…"

Nino smirked as she focused on her theory again, walking back until he sat down on her bed. She was busy now so he could actually get to a bit of homework. Or-… Or he could ditch literature and look at her for a bit… Yeah, maybe he would just do that…

The boy laid on his side, hiding a little behind his opened laptop, putting in one earphone to still hear her but also be able to quietly listen to music. He clicked on Shuffle on one of his playlists and Ed Sheeran began singing. With a quick glance he confirmed it was 'Perfect'.

He smirked, looking up to the girl sitting on the desk.

Just perfect.

The soft sounds in his ear were fitting for the calm situation and he silently hummed along with the song, smiling when she sat up and straightened her back, in contrary to sitting hunched over like before.

His gaze only briefly travelled over her waistline before coming to a halt on the tip of her nose. He just loved her nose. Okay, he loved everything about her but her nose particularly. It was so tiny in comparison to his and he really wondered how it would feel to rub his against hers right before kissing her. With a dreamy smile he didn't even realize his perspective on her nose changing when she turned to him. She furrowed her eyebrows, her beautifully formed eyebrows and seemed to say something. And repeat it. Then she was suddenly in front of him.

The brush of her incredible scent washed over his nose as she softly pressed a hand against his forehead. He gulped as his ears slowly decided to function again.

"… I think you're heating up a little.", she finally concluded but he shook his head.

"N-Nah, I'm good!", he managed and grinned, "You go back to work on your gift! I was just-… Distracted… By the song."

She glanced down on his laptop and smiled as she saw the title.

"Wait, I'll just play music over my speakers. Give me your playlist? Yours are always the best."

He blushed as he quickly sent her a link.

"Cool! Thanks!"

He relaxed again until a crash sounded, quickly followed by her phone chiming up.

"Akuma attack!", she shouted and was already out of her room. He sighed as he sat up, shaking his head as the front door fell closed after her. Of course she didn't take a jacket with her. That was his job after all.

With another heavy sigh he got up, following her to take care she wouldn't break her neck.

Again.