Charming smile #5: "Oh, are we at the making fun of each other part of our acquaintance already, Suwan-san? Squirrel." It's, uh. It's not great.

"Well, we don't have to be."

"Can't scare me. Give me your worst."

"If I were a squirrel I'd be offended."

"Oof, ouch."

"You'll catch me mangling kanji sooner or later."

"Careful, I've got a page of your notebook on me."

"Sooner, then."

Come on, this boy is totally gay, right, they're vibing here, these are some gay vibes. "Might keep you after school to go over your mistakes."

Well, he might be gay but that didn't land. "I have translation club."

That's fine, they can't all land. The recovery here is to show an interest.

"—translation club?"

"You have to be in some kind of club, that's mine. We translate things, mostly between Japanese and English but there's somebody who does German and somebody who does Chinese and two who do Korean."

"Huh. No one told me I had to join a club."

"Might be they make an exception if you're transferring in midyear? Or someone dropped the ball."

"Do you know who I'd ask?"

"No, sorry, I just got a form to fill out in the fall."

"Alright. I'll go bother someone about it later."

And with that they can return their attention to math class.

Yeah. And he shouldn't come off as too obsessive or clingy, boys don't like that, so he'll keep it cool for now.

They don't have the next couple classes together but then there's lunch!

Suwan-san isn't the only cute boy at school, and Yutaka's been hard at work (or hardly working, har har) getting them to like him, but unfortunately his hit rate is capped from above by the actual underlying rate of homosexuality in the base population, not to mention all of the closeted people around, so by lunch time he hasn't found a better target yet.

Is Suwan-san sitting with anyone?

He's not at an empty table but there is an empty seat next to him and he is not actively chatting with the people he's near.

What's the vibe, is he reading a book or does he have earbuds on or otherwise looks like he doesn't want to be disturbed?

He's got a book!

Yeah nah, people who are reading books do not want to be disturbed. He wants Suwan-san to like him, not think he's an annoying nuisance who keeps bugging him even when he clearly isn't up for it. He'll find some other people to sit with instead.