chapter four
smile.
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𝖂𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 were the only time where you could rest without any troubles attaching themselves onto your skin. yet you still chose to spend your sunday at a mall, in an arcade where a new video game was debuted.

as a proud and dedicated horror fan, you had to try it out. you wanted to see if it had the scares of a piercing horror movie or a lenient chill.

so far so good.

the game was quite interesting— the lore especially, and the audio sounds with it's detailed screams and sound effects of pure hell.

completely drowning into the game, you lost track of time. it could have been a few hours or so, but you didn't know. until you finished the game and all its levels, you leaned back on your chair and spun around and around in victory.

a familiar presence was beside you, so you stopping and took a look at who it belonged to.

it was none other than itoshi rin.

he was playing the same horror video game as just did, completely indulging himself into the lore.

you wondered, had he been here all this time while you are obsessing over finishing the game? rin was on the last level, so you knew he didn't just sat down to start it.

you waited and watched until he defeated the final beast of the game, before letting out a glorious sigh of relief. you kept on waiting, until he glanced beside him.

"yo, itoshi-san!" you held a hand up as he kept on staring at you, before he shoot up from his seat and looked around in alert. "how the... why are you here?!"

"to play the horror game. it seems i've been beside you the whole time," nodding, you looked at his screen. "just two points below me. sick."

he felt his eyes twitched at your statement and rushed over to see your score, an irk mark on his forehead.

never has anyone ever beat rin in a horror game before. it was a shock that you out of everyone would beat him in said game genre.

"never knew you like horror games," he shook his head in disappointment of himself.

"always did," you stood up from your seat and stretched your body from the soreness of sitting so long. "are you busy for the rest of the day?"

rin raised a brow, confused at your question, "no, why?"

you slightly smirked and took his hands in yours, pulling him away from the horror video games section. "let's have fun together!"

a light hue of red painted his cheeks, going along with whenever you want to take him.

the both of you tried out various games together, either winning or losing against eachother in fields the both of you were good and bad in.

for the first time of knowing you all of rin's life, he saw the most magical sight to ever behold before his eyes. it was like an art piece that was painted by the hands of god.

you were smiling widely.

a hidden side of yours unknown by many. a simple gesture such as that could pull out despair from someone's life. it could save one from darkness, giving them the light they needed.

shivers ran down rin's spine when you were smiling, then laughed at the fun you were having.

unconsciously, the itoshi felt his own lips curving upward at the unknown feeling you gave him.

it was fun playing games with you and trying out different things with you. today was the most fun he had after the breakdown with his brother. he couldn't believe that he was smiling at all.

it was like a magnetic attraction from your smile that made him smile too.

when you saw him smiling too, you couldn't help but blushed at the sight of a child belonging to the darkness flashing a smile. it was an angelic sight.

your laughter and little giggles gave him butterflies that he never knew lived in his stomach, it was all to die for.

he wished you would smile more often, so much that it gave him a positive motivation.