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You never really knew the boy well, but to be frank, not everyone did either, he only had a close knit of friends, plus, he was the type to only speak when spoken to.
He gave off the impression of someone who liked to focus on their interests and hobbies, the type to not waste time partying like most kids at your school did. You admired that. He got good grades and he has a passion for dancing.
Your admiration for him ended up turning into a huge crush, you were always glancing at him, and whenever he would catch you he would only give you a smile in return. You wanted to get to know him better, but despite him literally sitting a row ahead and two seats to your left, he seemed so far away. He seemed like a stranger to you, you often wondered; ‘if he saw me in the streets would he even recognise me?’ You were sure that was the case, you weren’t the only girl to be caught staring at him, and you weren’t the only girl he smiled at.
Your feelings for him deepened ever more when your class voted you both to be captains. Doyoung, of course, got voted captain, and you, vice captain. It was both a nightmare and dream come true, you two would be able to look into each other’s eyes and discuss plans for any class excursions or what not, the nightmare part was you being scared of embarrassing yourself.
You would always make sure there would be nothing stuck in your teeth after every meal and after every snack, you stopped wearing laced shoes due to your fear of them suddenly being untied and you tripping, so you switched to Velcro shoes. You switched to hair clips to put your hair up due to your fear of the hair tie snapping in the middle of class, now that, that was a personal and unpleasant experience.
Despite you always being on edge, Doyoung always managed to let out a small smile whenever you turned your back towards him.
It was like any other normal school day except for the fact that the teacher had been absent and which led to you having a substitute. After a long day the substitute had put you and Doyoung upon the task of bringing the many boxes filled with folders into the staff room. As you and Doyoung rearranged the boxes from lightest to heaviest, Doyoung decided to break the silence.
“Sucks to be here after school hours, huh?” He smiled
It took you a while to register that he was talking to you and there was no one else in the room, you wanted to refrain yourself from embarrassing yourself, of course.
“Yeah, but it feels nice being able to help.” You cringed after that sentence left your mouth, you felt so embarrassed, you mentally facepalmed yourself, you wanted to just jump into any hole avail-
“Hey you don’t have to be so hard on yourself okay?” He smiled softly and put a gentle hand on your shoulder.
‘Huh?’ You has been snapped out of your mental scolding and now you had no idea on how to reply.
“I see the way you’re so cautious around everything or how you scold yourself sometimes, you just gotta relax, you know?”
He continued, “its all apart of life embarrassing yourself but the best part about it is that you can laugh at all the embarrassing things you’ve done.”
He started walking out of the room with you following behind him with boxes in both of your hands.
“Now you’ll be able to laugh at it all, so you know, I wouldn’t call them embarrassing when they’re really just memories in the disgui-“
“Wait your laces!”
It was too late, he had already tripped with the folders scattered around the floor, his cheeks tinted with a deep scarlet red. You put your box down and offered him a hand.
“You never saw me.”
You burst out in laughter with tears brimming your eyes, “what happened to the memories in disguise? Huh?”
He saw you in a light he had never seen you before, he saw you differently, he saw you, and felt like he knew you, he felt familiarity.
Haruto Watanabe, Celebrity!Au, Friends to lover with prompt 37.
I am so sorry that this took so long!! enjoy!
idk how I feel about this one :/ (not proof read!)
Haruto Watanabe - “Don’t You Want To Know How I Feel?” Friends to Lovers, Celebrity!AU
It all started off when you two got paired to host a radio show together, it was unexpected, but nonetheless you looked forward to it due to Haruto being a longtime friend of yours.
You two had first become friends when you both debuted around at the same time.
The two of you bumped into each other one day and instantly hit off from there. You were Haruto’s dear friend and he was yours, but the line of friendships and relationships is easily erased.
As the two of you grew older, attending award shows separately and watching each other’s performances and listening to each other’s songs, your mind became jumbled.
It had been years since the two of you had been friends and you had never really realised how much he had really grown until you almost slipped down the stairs of the radio studio. Haruto’s quick reflexes and strong arms prevented the nasty fall you had almost faced, but it didn’t prevent you starting to see him in a different light.
It had become hard to face him, you started to feel guilty. You began avoiding him to prevent your feelings towards him growing any stronger but due to your radio show together your plan failed.
Just like any other day you two attended your radio show and the topic of your radio show one day was ‘confessing to your first love’, you had callers all over the country calling in and telling their story of how they confessed.
“On the topic of first loves, why don’t we share our experiences?” Haruto read off the script stoic faced.
You felt your heart drop and your mouth go dry.
“Y/N, have you had your first love yet?” He spoke, it not being on the script at all.
You had to keep your composure, it wasn’t the first time Haruto was being a tease while the two of you were on air. But this time, it was different, the aura around him was different.
You reminisced how the two of you had grown, from teens to young adults, from rookies to respected seniors.
You were going to confess. Your company wouldn’t be happy with you but your heart would.
“Actually, I met my first love when I debuted. We had very similar schedules so we bumped into each other occasionally.” You spoke into the mic, avoiding eye contact with Haruto, but you felt his heavy stare.
“We hit off from there, and every time we would meet up we would always talk, and from there we would just meet up with each other in our spare time, if we could.”
“But we were young back then, but as we got older, and as I saw less of him and instead saw him through another lense, I realised that he wasn’t my friend but a man.”
Haruto’s heavy stare burned into you while you went on.
“So, I started to avoid him, I didn’t want to give up our friendship. I felt guilty that I felt this way, for falling for him and for avoiding him.” You spoke softly into the mic.
“What’s his name?” Haruto asked looking down, his bangs covering his eyes.
“Haruto.” You said looking at him.
Your manager and his gasped so loud that you heard it from outside.
“We’re going off air right now!” Your manager yelled.
You quickly got up from your chair, planning on leaving, trying to avoid facing Haruto after your abrupt confession on nationwide radio.
He stood up, and clasped his hand softly around your wrist, preventing you from leaving. You turned around to face him, tears in your eyes but a small smile and a faint blush on his face, he looked at you and smiled.
“Don’t you want to know how I feel?”