It didn't sound like you did especially, the vibe I get from 'caught in bed with a set of twins' is not really romantic in nature. I know you slept around. But I don't know what you should do about them having caught feelings.

I guess the best I can do is 'turn them down more gracefully and tactfully than I did last time', but like impulsive decisionmakers all over the world I am procrastinating reading that text by convincing myself that I should eat breakfast and maybe have some coffee and be properly awake before—that. Ugh, I should probably not reject them by text, that'd come off as really callous, and if I wait until the party—I'm not even sure I'm going to the party this time, I might be out with you dealing with witches—

Well, if you haven't read the text you aren't deciding what to do very informedly.

...I guess you're not wrong...

Fine, he'll look.

yo

heard you got a boyfriend

send pics

Oh, Akira, he says with a mental sigh before quoting the texts.

Well, do you want me to pose?

That makes him laugh out loud. I just realised I actually have no pictures of you so yes but I'm not sure I should actually send him any.

He is texted a selfie.

Would you if you didn't know the subtext that you have for time travel reasons?

His boyfriend is sooooooooooooooooooo pretty. Yutaka should take more pictures of him.

...maybe. There's a ton of subtext here that I have for non-time travel reasons, too, though.

Okay. Well, I have no social grace but if I'm guessing wildly and drawing entirely on literature tropes as a substitute for experience maybe in your shoes I'd... say something about it happening really suddenly?

Yeah probably. But he's also, ugh, he's hiding that it shook him because he thought I just didn't do the whole 'boyfriend' thing and that's why he never shot his shot, and he's still hoping that I'll laugh it off and tell him that the rumours are exaggerated and you're just another fling, and he's maybe hoping that at minimum you're so drop-dead gorgeous that it makes sense that I broke my streak for you, and he will be heartbroken if I tell him that I like you because of your personality.

That is a very awkward position to be in and I do not have the answers in my secret being right about everything book.

Yeah, I know. Sigh. I'll... figure it out.

He's a good guy. Akira. Toshiki is, too. They're good guys. Good people. They shouldn't get hung up on me.

yo

no can do

Literary criticism brain proposes setting them up with other people?? I have no idea if that would help at all or be actively counterproductive.

...no, that's honestly legit. I never tried setting people up before but I actually know this guy who'd work out great with Akira—how didn't I think of that before—Toshiki's a tougher nut to crack, though, he thought he was straight and I don't think he knows what he wants.

aww

then link me his ig

he doesn't use ig

wow

where did you find this guy

Is he not straight as in gay or not straight as in bi or don't you know?

He's not straight as in I sweet talked my way into his pants and now he is confused and upset and he never liked a guy before but he likes me and maybe that means he's bi maybe he's gay Akira is gay he doesn't know but everything is awful and upsetting and he can't handle this and and and. Or so I think.

Shimamoto High

Akira

how are you doing?

fine? except that you're sounding weird

what's up with you?

It sounds like possibly you should have resisted the siren lure of boinking twins.

I really should've! But I spent all of my teenage years thinking with my dick and it took literally dying to shake me out of it. Well, and you. You, and dying, and also you dying.

I would hug you if I were there.