Kazuo and you had become good friends since the first semester of uni started.

He was really shy, really sweet.. and he asked if you two could study together, and that’s how it all began. The guy was immediately stuck to your hip, always trailing after you like a lost puppy. So.. clingy. You didn’t have the heart to tell him to back off, he seemed to adore you so much.. and you loved him right back. You just.. weren’t sure how far he’d take it.. There were a couple of moments where you’d find him taking pictures of you, or you were scrolling on his phone and stumbled across photos you didn’t know he’d taken. And he’s always stammer out ‘you’re just so gorgeous in this..’ and every rebuttal would die in your throat as you melted from his words. But, the gears in your head never quite stopped turning. Especially when random items of yours just began to disappear.

Kazuo was over for another study session, yet he wasn’t really studying. Just cuddled up to you, his hands warm under your shirt as he held you tightly.. like some child needing skin to skin contact. You’d veered off topic and started rambling about your day, and he randomly interrupted. Seemingly voicing his inner thoughts. “I always feel like I’m suffocating without you… I’d kill for you, you know?”