"You like Yukio-kun, don't you?" there's a specific type of smile on Fumiya's face which screams just how confident and sure he is about his words.

"H-huh!?" Natsuki's eyes are wide, as much as she wants to hide the blush that is taking over her cheeks, she fails.

"It's kind of obvious, but I'm not sure, because it's you we're talking about!"  Fumiya shrugs, hands still folded in front of his chest.

"What do you mean?!" Natsuki sounds offended but Fumiya knows that she's just being dramatic.

"What I mean is..." Fumiya unfolds his hands and puts both of them on Natsuki's shoulder as he leans a little closer to speak further, "Do you like Yukio-kun or not?" he stares down at her wavering eyes.

he asks again by wiggling his brows when Natsuki doesn't reply.

She exhales, panicking from inside, but then suddenly, the sliding door opens just beside them.

"Suki-chan?" Taehyung pops his head out from the doorstep, "Is everything alright...?"

Fumiya's back is facing the door while Natsuki is hidden from Taehyung's sight because Fumiya is blocking his vision, his hands are still on Natsuki's shoulder.

"Oh? Yes, yes. Everything's alright." Natsuki quickly brushes Fumiya's hand off her shoulders and faces Taehyung.

"Of course," Fumiya again folds his hands, this time, he has a sly smile on his face, "but what happened to you, Yukio-kun? Why are you out here?"

"Uh, I thought there was some problem because you went out like that, so I came to check up on both of you." his eyes glance at Natsuki and Fumiya simultaneously.

"Oh," is all Natsuki utters after Taehyung's explanation.

"If everything's fine, then, let's head back inside." with that, Taehyung turns back and enters the classroom. Natsuki and Fumiya follow him closely from behind.

"Psst!" Fumiya whispers to Natsuki, "You do like him, right?"

"Oh god! Shut up, Fumiya-kun." Natsuki controls herself from yelling at him once again. She groans, not being able to deal with Fumiya's teasings now.

Just what is he doing?! Why is he suddenly so keen on teasing her like this?

"You know, you do when you are not denying." he sings, however, in a small voice.

"Argh!" she speeds up her steps and leaves him behind.

•~•~•

"Let's head back now, I'm tired." Jimin says in an exhausted voice. He sound as if he will collapse anytime soon.

They all are working really hard from the past two hours, after all!

"So true! I'm going to faint..." Natsuki joins him.

"Don't you worry, Suki-chan, Yukio-kun will be there to hold you and get you home if you faint," Fumiya turns his head towards Taehyung, "Isn't that right?" he asks and gets smacked on his arm by Natsuki right away.

"Sure, why not?" Taehyung laughs it off and Natsuki takes a breath of relief.

"You guys are too dramatic for your own good." Haruki is the one complaining.

"At least we can act to survive in the zombie apocalypse." Jimin sticks his tongue out at him and as a response, everyone erupts in laughter.

"Alright, alright! Everyone should head home now, it's already too late." Fumiya takes a moment to announces to the whole class and everybody starts cleaning up the mess they've created.

They still have to study the next day.

"Natsuki, do you want to see the pictures that I clicked?" Taehyung asks while packing up his bag.

"Sure!" she sounds enthusiastic.

"Can I join you too?" Fumiya butts in.

"Yes-"

"No, Fumiya-kun needs to take care of neko-chan. He is so busy, right?" Natsuki cuts Taehyung's words in between.

Natsuki knows that if Fumiya joins them, he will keep teasing her like he did all day long.

"I'm not that busy..."

"Yes, you are-" and she put a hand on his mouth to stop him from talking further.

Natsuki hears his muffled laugh through her hands but she couldn't care less and picks up her bag while still holding onto Fumiya.

"I'll meet you back at your home, alright? I'm leaving first with this dumb duckling." she smiles as Taehyung nods in acknowledgement and pulls Fumiya out of the classroom with herself.

"Were they always like this?" Taehyung wonders out aloud.

"Most of the times," Jimin answers, walking beside Taehyung as they leave the classroom too.

•~•~•

The day of the cultural festival rolled around in no time while they all were busy in preparations.

Today is Saturday.

Their classroom café is now almost ready to be revealed with minimal touch-ups left to be done.

Taehyung have already edited the short film for their digital screen display.

"Everyone must gather around here for the roll call." their homeroom teacher announces loudly.

"Have you checked the electricity supply for the display screen? Was it working properly?" Kaito, the one who is in charge of all the preparations after Fumiya, whispers to Emiko.

"Yes, it was working properly, but if the video has any problem, I'm supposed to go to Yukio-kun, right?" she whispers back because the teacher is present in the class.

"Why would you g-"

"Hey, be quiet!" Fumiya shuts them up as teachers starts calling out everyone's names.

After the teacher is done with the roll call, "You guys have done a great job, I must appreciate your hard work." he gives them a round of applause.

He was right! The classroom is now transformed in a very clam and cozy looking café.

The desks and chairs have all moved to the side and many of them have temporarily transferred to the next-door classroom, so that they can have enough space.

The black-board is decorated with colourful scribbles and a pretty-looking menu written on it.

The windows are closed open for ventilation and the curtains are tied neatly with pastel yellow ribbons attached to them. The classroom which was once plain and simple is now colourful because of them.

They have also stuck some ribbons at the ceiling as they dangle, fluttering because of the wind.

The sunlight filtering through the open windows makes the classroom lively and fresh. They have also set a cash counter where the teacher's table used to be, on the small stage in front of the black-board.

For the customers, the tables and chairs have all set up in the middle of the classroom. They have a cute theme to them and small decorations like flower vases and other things are there too.

When the sun will start to descend, they have decided to dim the lights and set up some faded yellow lights all around the classroom to make it look aesthetic.

They are supposed to work from nine in the morning to seven in the evening. It's going to be a tough work!

"Whoever is working as a waiter or helper and other staff today can enjoy the projects from other classrooms' tomorrow and the students who are free today will take their place so everyone can enjoy. Is that clear enough?"

"Yes, teach!"

And that's how their day started!

"Yukio-kun, are you taking pictures today as well?" Emiko takes her chance to talk to him.

Whenever he is alone, she snatches the chance.

"Not really! I have to work as an advertiser, remember?" he is polite.

"Alongside with me, remember?" Natsuki smiles at Emiko.

But Natsuki is always around to help her friend out!

"Oh, right!" Emiko has no choice but to smile and nod because she is not close enough to Taehyung to question anything.

"Shall we get to it!?" Natsuki asks Taehyung.

"Let's go!" to Natsuki's surprise, he sounds excited.

They all have created different handmade flyers for this day. It took a lot of time and effort to make them attractive and perfect.

Natsuki and Taehyung goes to Kaito who has all the flyers and takes a bunch of them before exiting the classroom.

"So," Natsuki starts, "Where do we go first? What should we visit?"

"Let's go to the entrance gate! It's the best place to advertise." Taehyung suggests. He sounds so innocent.

"What? No way!! It won't be fun to just stand there all day long..." Natsuki whines.

"But aren't we supposed to help and advertise the café by distributing the flyers?!"

"Meh! You're too innocent, Yukio, we can just go around the other stalls and classrooms while we're at it. It's alright! We don't have to stand in the sun all day at the entrance, you know? We can distribute as we visit the stalls."

"Are you sure?" Taehyung doesn't know much about these things.

"Of course, it will be fun! Let's start from the ground floor, shall we?" and that's how she drags him down the stairs.

"Woah! Is that a ghost house?" Taehyung reads a flyer posted on one of the school boards.

"O em gee! You're right, let's visit it in the evening when the sun is set." Natsuki almost jumps around.

"Aren't you scared?" a lone chuckle leaves his mouth.

"Me?! I'm never scared!" she scoffs, as if to show her bravery.

"We'll see that," he smirks, lips forming a perfect curve which compliments his face shape.

"W-whatever," she looks away.

Taehyung's face is too much of a perfection and people often can't take it, but for Natsuki it's a little different. She isn't looking away because of jealousy or any kind of bad feeling, she can't keep looking because if she does, it will be bad! Too bad for her heart.

"Okay, there is a ikebana and bonsai stall. Want to check it out?" Natsuki takes a look at the small pamphlet posted on the announcement board of school; the ones you see in every corridor wall.

"Do they?" it is clearly a shock to Taehyung. "How is it possible? Doesn't it take like, 30 years to grow a mature bonsai tree?"

He knows a little bit about ikebana flower arrangement and bonsai trees.

These things are related to traditional Japanese culture, their roots go deep into the old tradition of Japan.

"Oh, wait, it's said that the bonsai trees are artificial." he chuckles at his silliness after reading the details on the paper.

"Yes, and as you might know, the ikebana is a special form of flower arrangement in which there is a long upright stem of flower accompanied by other two shorter stems positioned in a kenzan." she stops when she sees confusion on his face.

"Um, kenzan is the flower holder. The spiky thing on which the flower is situated."

"Oh..." is all Taehyung says. "So, the students must have made them all by themselves. What about bonsai trees?"

"Maybe they started making them long ago? Wow, they must have worked really hard. We should definitely check it out!" she says and Taehyung agrees.

We should always appreciate when someone has worked really hard for doing something.

They check for the location of the stall on the pamphlet and make their way to the left.

"Welcome! What would you like to get?" a girl, most probably a year or two younger than them, welcomes them with a smile.

"Can we look around first?" Natsuki asks with the same sweet smile that the girl offered them. "Oh, and also, take this," she hands her a couple of flyers of their classroom café.

Killing two birds with one stone!

Taehyung almost chuckles at her idea of having fun while working.

"Yes, we will visit your café later tomorrow for sure!" the girl was sweet. "You guys can take a look around."

"Thank you!" they both enter inside and are met with a really pretty looking place.

Of course it is a classroom but it's full of artificial bonsai trees and ikebana flower sets.

The desks are all put together to create a huge table and the flowers are decorated on top of it. The bonsai trees are put on separate desks beside the windows. Some of them are on the huge table too. There are so many of them and all in different shapes.

"Wow!" Taehyung exclaims, not being able to hold it in. It's too beautiful to just look at quietly. "I want one of these in my room."

"Me too!" Natsuki agrees, eyes sparkling in awe.

"Hey, let's take a picture of you." Taehyung suddenly turns to her, pointing at the camera strap dangling from his neck.

She didn't even realise that Taehyung had the camera with him all this time.

"Oh?"

"Come on!" Taehyung pushes her towards the flowers so they are in the background of the picture.

"Make a peace sign!" Taehyung instructs.

Natsuki tries to smile while looking at Taehyung but it's just making her more and more nervous. She has never imagined being pictured by Taehyung.

"You're too stiff, Suki." he laughs at her awkward smile.

"I'm trying!" she blushes, embarrassed, and holds two of her fingers up beside her face in a V shape.

"That's like it," he looks through the viewfinder as a smile plays on his lips which makes Natsuki's stomach to become a butterfly forest as she stares at him.

He clicks the picture and then proceeds to take a look at it.

"Cute," he mumbles under his breath while looking at the camera screen.

"Huh?" what he doesn't realise is when Natsuki walked upto him!

Did she hear him?

"Uh-"

"Excuse me?" a voice saves him from answering the question.

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