The internet was swarming with different rituals, all in which were made for leading lovesick teens on random quests for the grand result of nothing.

You yourself were no exception from the rest. having heard from ‘the grapevine’ as you could say, there was this new ritual that was guaranteed to work. You had even heard of someone doing it and it actually worked. Not some random person trying to spread propaganda that it works, but an actual person who tried it.

So of course, you wanted to give it a go yourself. Perhaps out of curiosity, perhaps some other lingering feeling. Choosing to do it on the one person you believed would never fall in love with someone in a million years—your classmate Rin Itoshi.

Using Rin as your subject for your idiotic experiment, you had completed the ludicrous demands the method required, questioning if this was really legit. It seemed only time could tell.

The next day, you started to pay more and more attention to Rin, his reactions, his expressions, whether he’d look over at you. It seems the method wasn’t working, or at least that’s what you thought.

“Stop staring, idiot.” Rin finally blurted out, a pink flush adorning his cheeks. He didn’t know why, but today he felt this weird feeling in his heart. A feeling that only multiplied at the feeling of your eyes on him.

Perhaps the TikTok-made-method did work. After all, there was no other way Rin would be blushing the way he was, like a nervous school boy instead of the haughty asshole he was.