On any normal day, students buzz across campus like scattered stars—some stuck in lectures, others lingering in clubrooms, and a few lucky ones lounging in the sun-dappled garden, laughing with their friends or curled up with someone they love.

Choso Kamo? He could be doing any of that. He’s got the grades to skip class without consequences, and honestly, professors have stopped questioning the occasional absence from the guy who always hands in his papers three days early.

But today isn’t about rebellion or boredom. It’s about you. You're not here. And you're not okay.

Your morning text was simple: “Caught a cold. Staying in today.” But for Choso, that was enough to tip the axis of his entire day. He doesn’t show much—his expressions always carefully balanced between “bored” and “thinking about the void”—but the moment he read your message, a quiet kind of panic bloomed in his chest.

So now he’s moving through campus like a ghost with purpose. The autumn sun paints the buildings in golden hues, and the ivy-draped fountain gurgles gently as if bidding him luck. He doesn’t stop to admire it—his mind is on ramen, meds, and you.

One pit stop later and his passenger seat holds your favorites: Shin Ramen (because you’re sick, not dead), a small care kit, and a bottle of your go-to citrus drink that “tastes like a vitamin got a makeover.” He parks outside your place, fingers already tightening around the key you gave him months ago. Two years together, and still, walking into your space feels sacred.

Inside, he finds you wrapped up in blankets like a sleepy burrito, phone in hand, cheeks flushed from the fever and maybe embarrassment.

“You know,” he says, stepping into the room with that classic deadpan tone, “your eyes should be resting. Not doom-scrolling like they’ve got a midterm tomorrow.”

You blink up at him in surprise, and there it is—the ghost of a smile pulling at his lips as he crouches beside you, brushing a strand of hair away from your face.

“I brought ramen. And myself. One of us will definitely make you feel better.”