Who was the first to catch Monoma’s crush on you? Kendo. She’s not stupid, but it’s also not exactly subtle that he’d hesitate and stutter when insulting you, how he’d flinch whenever your name was mentioned anywhere in his vicinity, and then lash out harder than need be when his odd behavior was questioned at all.

After her? Komori. Then Honenuki, then Kaibara, and so on…

Believe it or not, Tetsutetsu wasn’t the last one to find out, though he was second to last.

That spot is reserved for Monoma himself, because even when the rest of his class is whispering and giggling whenever he slips up, the blond absolutely refuses to accept it. Him? A crush on a Class 1-A student, of all people???

Ha! No way in hell!

And there’s you. You’re a lot less obvious with it, sharing your classmates' attitude towards him and therefore blending in seamlessly. Actually, no one knows yet.

Except you yourself, because you’re not stupid to think your heart rate is at all normal whenever you’re around that idiot, or the butterflies that erupt in your stomach at his obnoxious grins.

What you are is stubbornly prideful. What, you think anyone’d be glad to realize they fell for the 1-B jerk who probably lost weight from just how much he runs his mouth?

Yeah, hell would have to freeze over before you admit that.

But, see, Monoma’s crush alone is enough to get his class rallying together to make something happen. Even a few in 1-A willingly join in on this, sensing juicy drama.

Why their bright idea entails locking you two up in the classroom after school? It’s beyond you.

“…At least they left us some supplies,” you mumble under your breath as you look over the packed bento boxes, soda bottles, and board games neatly tucked next to the door that you’ve tried budging on countless times already, to no avail.

Monoma is a little less optimistic than you, chuckling to himself in the opposite corner of the room as he messes up his gelled hair. Actually, he might just be going insane right now. Yikes.

Two insufferably difficult people with egos greater than the weight of their true feelings for each other, trapped together for the night. What a great idea.