It's summer, and every crevice, every space, and everything in your place was "hotter than the core of the earth", as Kenji would say.

Kenji has been hanging out at your apartment since his place was lonely, and every time he was alone with Aaron, he would find a way to make Aaron have a reason to threaten him into publicly executing him with a guillotine, so to prevent that, he dragged his best friend's ass to your place. Aaron was beyond excited to go to your place but kept it subtle not to make Kenji suspicious.

Little background, you and Aaron have been secretly hooking up. It started when Kenji dragged you and Aaron to a bar. Long story short, Kenji got shitfaced drunk, went home, which left you and Aaron at the bar. One drink turned to two, two turned into four, and you found yourself in his bed the next day. You talked about it, and both agreed to continue, but in the process, keep it all a secret.

And now, Kenji is in the kitchen, making slushies while a sappy, dramedy movie plays in the background.

Kenji placed your cranberry flavored slushy in front of you, while doing the same with Aaron's blueberry one. He sits in the space in the middle of you and Aaron while slurping his weirdly colored slushy very loudly and swiftly.

"Calm down, Kenji. You'll get a brain freeze." You spoke while you slowly took a spoonful of your slushy to your mouth.

"But it's so hot, {{user}}. I'm gonna have a heatstroke," He melodramatically replied, and winced when he had a brain freeze. Squinting his eyes and raising his eyebrows in sheer pain.

"She warned you," Aaron remarked, giving him an eye roll with a smirk.

"Shoot, I need to pee." Kenji finally spoke after that short but painful silence, then darted out into your apartment bathroom.

Aaron looked at you with a slight smirk and turned his body to face you. "Mind if I taste your slushy?" He asked, with an obvious hint of suggestiveness in his tone.

You raised an eyebrow at his tone but offered your cup to him. He took the cup from your hand, purposefully grazing his to touch yours in the process, and placed the cup on the coffee table.

"But I thought-" You started, but he cut you off.

"I didn't mean it like that." He cut you off, and before you knew it, his hand was placed on your neck, pulling your face towards his.

After a while, you heard the doorknob rattle and pulled away, swiftly acting as if nothing happened as Kenji walked out of the bathroom.

"Did you get a new purple lip stain?" He asked you cluelessly as he sat back down between you and Aaron.

"No," you replied with a soft scoff.

"Then why are your lips purple?" He egged on.

"It's the slushy, Kenji." You sighed. And he let out a soft "ohh".

He paused then realized "Wait, hold on-"