꩜ ◞ PUBLIC DISPLAY OF IMPATIENCE
Gojo Satoru really wants to kiss you but he keeps getting cock (well, lip) blocked.
content ꩜ 1.9k words , fluff n slightly suggestice , university au , romcom stuff , no plot , kissing and making out , shameless flirting , established relationship , gojo learns delayed gratification , jaaonese equivalent of fratjo i guess
“Can you not stand so close?”
…Is the first thing you say when Gojō Satoru, 3.98 GPA in information science and economics, representative of PULSE, a.k.a. the Campus Event circle of your university—which is really just a circle that plans bang-for-buck end of semester blackout drunk on Friday parties—certified freak of hackatons, and much more importantly, your addicted to being unable to exercise restrain boyfriend, comes to your side after your shared probability elective. He’s standing right behind you, hands shoved in his jeans’ pockets looking so carefreely after finally being freed from the shackles of academia.
Satoru is faced with a dilemma.
It’s not really that uncommon for Satoru to stare at you constantly with an impatient little expression while standing too close for public decency. Over the several meet ups you’ve had at Sadaharu Aoki especially after you first started dating, Satoru has shown himself to be inexplicably not privy to your personal space. Not that you mind. But today, Gojō Satoru is stupidly needy.
Satoru huffs, clicking his tongue, moving his fingers like he’s tapping in the inside of his pockets.
You turn your head around, looking at him with the mild annoyance you’d have for a stray strand of hair sticking to your lip gloss. Despite this. you know exactly what he wants and you want it too. Satoru quirks a questioning eyebrow up, stepping away from you. The lecture hall is filled with the squeaks of shoes from above and someone says excuse me in the flattest tone as they brush by you. Everyone scatters out in hushed murmurs, either spewing about how grateful they are that class ended early or how horrible that worksheet you got was. Your friend’s eyebrows shoot up to accompany Satoru’s and his face churns into a knowing, disbelieving smile.
Shaking his head, he shoves his hands into his hoodie. “Anyway, did you get question four?” he asks.
“No,” you shake your head, glancing at Satoru. You tap on your thigh. Beside you, Satoru gives your friend—technically his too—a noncommittal grunt. You can’t decipher whether he’s saying yes or no.
“Bayes,” sighing, your classmate slumps down. You’re pretty much certain that your entire worksheet will bring your average down. It’s okay though, nobody got the worksheet correct anyway. You don’t really care all that much right now, you’re mostly preoccupied with something else. “And uh, you got whatever he said about the assignment next week?”
“…Oh,” you grimace, not having anything else to say. Waiting patiently, Satoru taps his foot on the ground in rhythmic four-by-four beats. Hands still shoved into his pockets, earbud in one ear, and looking usurpingly bored or impatient over something. You scratch your arm, thinking of what to say about the lecture that doesn’t make you sound like a complete idiot or totally uninterested. You force out something academic: “I think Professor Tanaka said—”
“…and apparently we need citations from—”
“Gojo?” your classmate calls out, face contorting into another amused expression. Satoru only lets out an inquiring hum, far too distracted on whatever it is to keep his eye. “You’ve been staring at her for like three minutes, dude.”
“…Have I?” he questions lowly, and entirely sarcastically. You sigh, giving your friend an apologetic yet ridiculing smile, entirely directed at your boyfriend. Despite this, you glance at the exit door yourself; Satoru’s eyes follow suit as if you have some secret language nobody else understands.
Eventually, you get back into rhythm and talk to your friend politely, enough that you don't need to think, but enough that they’re kept happy. Yet there’s only a small amount of time before you apologize and wave at him, dragging Satoru by the wrist.
“You have the patience of a toddler,” you shake your head, letting his wrist go with enough momentum for him to sway, smugly smiling at you. You don’t talk to many people when it comes to school and Satoru’s expecting this to be the end of this. You’ll go to a private place, maybe get a coffee at the café down the street then get back for another class. He spins his heel, regaining his balance. At that, your glare deepens and you step on his foot.
Satoru snorts, then hums. “Is it bad for me to wanna spend time with my girlfriend?”
“Yes,” you reply flatly, hand extending to grip at his forearm, lip accidentally catching between your teeth. “When you look like you’re timing everyone with a stopwatch,” you add reason. Satoru watches the small dent that forms when your teeth sink into the bottom lip and with the motion, Satoru slyly smiles. Your eye twitches. “Stop looking at me like that.”
“Wasn’t doing anything,” he lies, the smile worsening into a grin, eyes briefly flickering to your lips. It’s not much of a secret that Gojō Satoru is extensively into PDA. It’s also not a secret, especially to you, that he likes kissing a lot, even publicly. But still, Satoru still has the concept of shame, even if photos of him downing beer down from a keg circulated proudly on Instagram. As annoying as he is, your body betrays you either way. Your eyes avert from his face and heat crawls up your neck.
Satoru has been waiting since probability class. He steps into your space again.
Before he can do anything though, a voice crawls through the empty, spacious hallways of the campus building and you both turn around to the sound. One of his friends from his circle speed walks towards you. “Gojo!”
Satoru closes his eyes for exactly one second. He gives him an easygoing smile, and you realize now that it’s one of his friends from the economics department, Haibara or something. “Yeah?”
“You free Friday? PULSE still needs someone to call the venue,” he says, worried and sheepish little smile plastered on his face.
Satoru nods. You’ve realized not long ago that Satoru, while seemingly the most outlandish, most infamously popular person ever, with the reputation of a demon, is stupidly reliable. You simply observe the interaction, patiently waiting. “This morning.”
“You’re a lifesaver, dude,” Haibara says, expression washed with relief.
“No problem,” he says, eyes momentarily flickering towards you. Haibara nods at him, raising his fist up for a small fist bump; he turns towards you and gives a sheepish smile. You return it and he leaves right after. Satoru immediately turns back. “…Now.”
“I’ve been waiting since probability,” he cuts you off.
Before you can answer, someone else calls out your boyfriend’s surname with the urgency and enthusiasm of a high schooler. You snicker, which earns you a side-eye from Satoru. “Gojo!”
His smile doesn’t disappear, it just becomes painfully practiced, something you find stupidly hilarious because you know exactly why it’s like that. “…Yeah?”
“Did you send me the sponsorship spreadsheet?” his friends asks. He’s slightly panting, which you find abnormal because who runs in college hallways? You shake your head, making a small, private expression to yourself at the minuscule detail.
“I’ll send it tonight,” Satoru replies curtly, smile still not gone from his face. You understand his impatience, to be fair. You’re not that far off from being touchy yourself today. But sadly, your academics needed more attention than Satoru at that point so you weren’t very keen on kissing every second even if you did want to. You had rules and shame as well, more than Satoru.
“Mhm,” he airily waves to him. Silence. He waits until the person is actually gone. Satoru turns his body physically towards you for the upteenth time today, like muscle memory at this point.
“You sound oppressed,” you state simply.
Whining, Satoru grips at your wrist firmly, some way you believe is transferring his complaints towards you. You wait for whatever he wants to say next, tapping the tip of your shoe on the ground. He doesn’t say anything for a solid fifteen seconds and at this, you cross your arms. “Nobody has interrupted us for—” he glances at his watch, smirking, “thirty-two seconds.”
“You’re counting?” with a snicker, you lean against the wall. Out of curiosity, you glance towards the hallway behind Satoru then look behind your shoulder, finding nothing, no one in sight. Stupidly enough, you feel relief. Stupidly enough as well, you suddenly want Satoru to get on with that same thing you’ve been quietly postponing and refusing to let Satoru have for the past two hours.
“I’ve been suffering,” he corrects.
“You’re so dramatic,” you murmur, face turning disappointed. Satoru only hums at this, not disagreeing at all. Because who would disagree that the loudest and most unserious man on Earth isn’t dramatic?
Satoru mirrors your movements. With a simple lean, he lets gravity take over and his body lands on the surface of the reinforced concrete. His eyes go back down to your lips. “I’ve earned it.”
“I didn’t do anything,” he smiles, real and yet again sly this time.
“You’re thinking about it,” you insist. Satoru’s lips flick up into a cocky little simper and you have to avert your eyes again. Your gaze lands on the hallways once more
Satoru answers and for a moment you really think about the possibility and probability of someone walking in on you two flirting in a public place. You’re a statistics student. You can figure that out. “…Maybe.”
“We’re still in the hallway,” you mumble, knowing exactly what he wants from the seventh time he’s glanced at your lips.
“Exactly,” he nods, looking to his left to see if anyone’s there, then turning back towards you, stepping near you until your shoes touch. “High risk.”
“…That’s your argument?” you snort.
“Makes the reward better,” you hiss at his answer but your body betrays you. You turn to look at the corridor again and then the other way. Satoru doesn’t even make fun of you. “…Nobody?”
“Yeah?” he murmurs. Satoru’s already leaning in, but he stops. His body retreats and surveys the area once more and he blows air between his teeth. Eventually, growing tired of waiting, you grab his hoodie and tug him down.
Satoru takes it as the sign that it is. Man, was he waiting. At your pull, his lips immediately crash down onto yours and you find yourself squeaking out a sound you are entirely too ashamed of to admit to. “Dude,” you laugh out which he muffles with his mouth.
Your back hits the wall with a small thud and you let out a small whine of complaint against his mouth. Satoru simply presses deeper. Pure white silence fills the corridor with complete apathy and the only thing you can hear besides it is your lips smacking against his. His tongue brushes your bottom lip and your hand’s grip on his sweater tightens while you open your mouth to let him in. Air doesn’t seem like much of an issue to you; you separate anyway, panting with your mouths open and looking at each other like two people who had just made an objectively terrible decision and were already considering doing it again. When you want to join again, yet another voice echoes through the corridor.
“GOJŌ—“ the voice yells his surname, which has been said far too many times today, before it abruptly halts. “Christ!”
Both of you spring apart like you’ve committed tax fraud. Satoru instantly steps away from your vicinity, clearing his throat; but his friend had already turned around. “…Yeah?”
“Nevermind, just do your thing!”
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