"You look funny." Suna commented after a while. Cheeks flushed, Sakuno looked up at him and found him engrossed in his reading.
"You weren't even looking." She said with an unamused expression. Her study buddy dropped his book and turned to her, repeating,
"You look funny." To which Sakuno made a dry, mocking sound, then returned to her own studying. Unable to focus, she started watching Suna read, a pastime she unknowingly did.
"You're staring at me."
"You're not even looking!" Sakuno cried in disbelief, laughing when Suna looked up at her with a smirk.
"I am."
"Sure, you are now." She childishly scoffed, jokingly, as she looked away. After a while, she said, musing. "Ryoma's flying home tomorrow."
"I'm happy for you." Suna said amidst reading.
"You don't look it." Sakuno teased.
"How am I supposed to look, then?" Suna sighed, looking up from his book for the nth time that session.
"Like this." Sakuno laughed, acting out a clingy girlfriend pose. To which Suna's lips broke into a grin.
"I won't do that." He said, shaking his head, finding her silly, then returned to his book. "I am, though. I am happy for you."
With her expression softening into a genuine look of gratitude, Sakuno smiled at him warmly, uttering a simple, "Thanks." before returning to her reviewing.
The following day though, in the whole week Ryoma visited, Suna was rarely around.