"Believing in astrology has always been a priority for me, even when I'm not in high spirits. Seriously, who believes that one man can change me? But don't worry, it didn't work; I just feel attracted to him now."- Midorima Shintarou

Chapter 3: The Horoscope and the Bastard

"Stop being a fool Takao, that will never happen," said Midorima Shintarou pushing up his glasses.

"But why? You'll look so much cooler. You've been wearing those glasses for too long. Get contact lenses," Takao Kazunari retorted. Even knowing that his best friend's attitude was stubborn as a tree, Takao still urged him to switch his glasses for contact lenses. He'll look a lot cuter and cooler, he believed.

"Go to class, Takao. I am not changing my mind any time soon, so you might as well lay off."

"Lay off?! Shin-chan, I'm trying to help you not hurt you. Where do you get off telling me to lay off?! Son of a bitch, Shin-chan! I hate you!"

Midorima's face fell as he noticed the slight difference in his comrade's demeanor. Scary. "Takao…"

Unpredictably, Takao started shaking and his lips curled up in a smile. In an moment's notice, he burst out laughing like a maniac. "Ha ha ha! I can't believe you fell for that my friend! I would never call you a bitch, Shin-chan." He leaned over Midorima's desk and now they were face to face. Very close that others stared at them curiously. "Unless I was really angry. And guess what. About the whole contact lens thing -he tapped his friend's pair- I was kidding too. You really do fall for everything don't you?"

With Takao still near his face, the green haired man took a minute to think. "Well now that I think about it, I don't really have any control over that. It's just the way I was born, right?" He turned the page of his horoscope book and continued reading.

"Oh, whatever Shin-chan. See you at lunch time," Takao said, packing up his things and quickly ruffling Midorima's hair. As he exited stealthily, Midorima stuck his eyes on the book, remembering the adorable smile on his friend's face and his previous movement.

"Takao Kazunari, huh?" he muttered filing his prized possessions in his bag and taking out his appropriate text books as his teacher walked in. "Hmph, interesting dude. I might as well get used to him…"

~~Time Skip~~ Fourth Period-Takao's class

Takao tapped his fingers on his desk, glaring at the clock impatiently as he waited for it to strike 11:45. He couldn't wait until lunch time to meet with Midorima as they had promised. Time was going so slow, Takao thought the time might never come.

"Okay it's lunch time. You may leave… except you Kazunari-san," Hayate sensei said as the other students left the room happily. Takao's face dropped like a bomb as he sank in his chair, gasping for air. "Why? Why?!," he asked airily.

"Remember what you did to Yuhera-kun a week ago? Now it's time for you to pay the price. Oh, don't worry. You won't be leaving anytime soon, so you can cancel your DAMN date with Midorima-san!"

'Fuck', Takao cursed in his mind. He totally forgot about what happened last week with Furuya Yuhera (a fight, obviously) over homework. Then the fists came out. He wondered how in the hell he forgot even though he got emails from his teacher cramming his gmail inbox. 'Crap, I'm so sorry Shin-chan. Please don't get the wrong idea', he thought again grasping his hair and sitting up straight.

"But I'll be fair this time. Go tell him that you two will not be conversing today and that you're busy doing work."

"Can't I at least tell him the truth? I'm going to feel even worse if I don't."

"You are telling the truth. You WILL be doing work and an extra amount of homework. This way, I'm doing you a favor so you don't have any homework next week. Jackass!"

Takao straightened and folded his arms. "Did you just call me a jackass, Hayate-sensei? I think I didn't hear that correctly?"

Hayate-sensei shot him a perturbed and stern look as she said, "Go and come back. I don't have all day to wait for you, Mr. Antenna's drooping down." She slapped her ruler on her own large desk.

"Fine, fine," Takao drawled as he got up and sluggishly sauntered towards the door. When he was out of sight of that ridiculous excuse of a teacher, he sprinted down the hall at full speed. Unfortunately, he was a little too fast that he almost knocked down a girl walking by.

"Oops, sorry! Are you alright?! Are you hurt anywhere?" he asked nervously. Takao was never a big fan of hurting other people, especially girls. One experience was bad enough for him.

"Huh? Oh, I'm fine. Thanks for worrying about-"

The girl looked up while rubbing her head, only to be interrupted when she saw the boy who had bumped into her. Her face was suddenly expressed shock, and her face flushed bright red. She turned away, got up and picked up her bag.

"Sorry, but I have to go. Once again, thanks. S-see you l-later." And with that, she sped off, not caring to look back.

"She's weird…"Takao whispered to himself. "Ah, I forgot about Shin-chan," and he resumed running. A few minutes after, he was lucky enough to find a large hunched-over body covered in black kneeling on the ground. Next to it was a green frog. Obviously, Takao recognized him immediately.

"Hey! Shin-chan no baka!" he called playfully, waving his hands.

"Ready?" Midorima asked getting up from tying his shoelace. He took a deep breath and retrieved his lucky item for the day.

At that question, a knot formed in Takao's stomach. He couldn't face with the reality of his "perfect" plan backfiring. Still, this was his best friend he was talking to. There's no point in lying to someone who you're basically attached to… in a certain way more like it.

"Takao? You alright?"

"Uh, yeah. I'm alright. I'm very sorry Shin-chan but, I can't go with you. Hayate-sensei said that I had to stay with her because…"

"Because… what?" Midorima marched closer and combed Takao's hair back (holy shit! ^•^) with his taped fingers.

Takao looked up and took his friend's hand into his own. "Because I… got into a fight with Furuya Yuhera and now I have lunch detention for two days." A tear magically fell onto his cheek, but the green head pretended not to notice.

"Well, that's not much of a bad thing. It's only two days; it can't possibly be that harsh?"

"Heh, that's what you think. With this teacher as your detention supervisor, WELCOME TO HELL, people!" Takao exclaimed. "Well, I better be going now. But first…"

Takao moved in closer, pursed his lips and tiptoed until he was Midorima's height. Then, he flung his arms around his friend and that was the result of a big, friendly, and lovely hug. He didn't let go for a long time. Instead, he just seemed to melt into Midorima.

"I'm sorry Shin-chan. I'm sorry," Takao cried as a waterfall of tears flew down his face. Midorima partially didn't understand why his friend was weeping over something so trivial like this current situation. Using his hands, he pulled Takao away from him and looked at him straight in the eye.

"Takao, why are you crying? There's no need to. Just get it over with and you'll be fine. I don't see the matter with being held captive at lunch; I don't mind it."

Takao shook his head and said, "Because you've never been in detention before! Also, other than that, I don't want to spend all my free time with a teacher. I want to spend my time with you, Shin-chan… because I have feelings for you, that's why! Sorry."

A blast of mental wind blew past Midorima as he recalled what his best friend had just said. 'Feeings for you…' ran through his head again and again as he picked his eyes up from the floor. His eyes flew open in shock. Takao's face was ruined. His eyes were red and watery, and his lips seemed to twitch every moment. Takao was fidgeting with the collar of his black uniform and directed his sight to the ground.

"Okay," Midorima stated calmly.

Takao looked up and dazed off for a while. What had his friend just said? 'Okay'? Takao couldn't believe it. After all these years, kindergarten until now, high school, he had been extremely close to Midorima. They always went out on certain occasions, especially on each other's birthday. The Generation of Miracles would plan a surprise trip to any other country in the world. When they came back, Takao and Midorima would always spend the night alone away from everybody else. It was their little secret, more like it.

"What do you mean by okay? You just can't except that like that," Takao responded finally.

Midorima pushed up his glasses. "Who said so? I can except anything… that revolves around you, Takao. I don't care if I don't like you or not; let's just be together."

"Does that mean you like me? Not in friendship, but as in… as in… beyond friendship."

"Do you think I fall for everything? If you like me like that, I don't really see the problem with that. After all, I've been keeping a secret from you, Takao," Midorima said with a smirk on his face.

The slightest hint of hope appeared on Takao's face as his mouth opened a bit, his feet bouncing up and down. "Shin-chan, you, you dirty little bitch! Keeping secrets from me like that! What is it?!" Takao urged excitedly.

Midorima grasped his frog tightly in his hand and walked towards Takao. He leaned down and whispered into his ear his special secret. And with that, he turned around and walked away, heading towards the cafeteria.

Meanwhile, after hearing his comrade's news, he fell to the ground on his knees and cupped his hands to his face. As a result, he began to cry his soul out, like a monster anticipating to crawl out. He couldn't believe what Midorima had told him. It completely destroyed his pride like how the Twin Towers got smashed by planes.

"Eh? Oh shit, I forgot about Hayate-sensei! I took way too long to come back! She's gonna be pissed…" Takao quickly picked himself up, rubbed his eyes and started for the classroom he was previously in.

'But this time I'm the Tower, love is the plane, and Shin-chan is the savior,' Takao thought sadly.

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