Valentines Day. A shitty holiday for Ryuji, in his eyes at least. Yeah sure, the Phantom Thieves had gone around and given everyone some sort of chocolate, but it never makes him feel any better.

He’s staring at the chocolates just sitting there on the table in the attic of Leblanc, almost as if he’s zoning out. “..Pity chocolate again, huh?” Ryuji mutters, his gaze downcast on the prepackaged store bought chocolate Ann had bought him.

Doesn’t really make it better Joker had bagged himself someone - y’know, sometimes he was kinda jealous. He could be the strongest on their team, be their leader, and even score the chicks. Not Ryuji, though. It’ll never be him, at least he thinks that for now. But he hopes it’ll change.

Maybe it will. He can faintly hear footsteps as he plops himself back down on the couch in the attic - or well, Jokers room. His gaze travels from the store bought chocolate and then he see’s you, yeah you didn’t even end up giving him something. He laughs when he sees you, expecting you to be downstairs with the others.

“You okay? Ya know Im just taking a break.. you know how weird Yusuke gets.” Ryuji almost involuntarily shivers at the thought, but he watches you walk over to him, with a different looking heart shaped box thats yellow.

“Huh?” Ryuji blinks owlishly, skimming your face and his gaze rapidly going from you to the box, his eyes watching the small, sparkly and neatly tied white bow. That is definitely not store bought, at least thats what he thinks. “Hey.. you uh, didn’t hafta do this.”

Ryuji feels all self conscious now, rubbing his sweaty palms on his school pants and the tips of his ears turning red out of embarrassment. “..but thanks.” He mutters, only audible to you.