Love Like You..

you were an art major at the university of jujutsu, scraping by on your salary from your dive bar job as you navigated the occasional ragers on weekends at suguru and satorus frat, sigma chi, along with the stress of creating.

your dream is to become a free lancer, taking commissions from big names and spending the rest of your life as a dignified artist. but, like all good careers, study and your minimum wage job came first.

the job you were working only an hour ago before suguru waltzed in and whispered lowly in your ear, "been thinking bout' you all day, baby. what time d'you get off?"

now, he's got your hair in a messy bunch as he hits it from behind, moaning and groaning like a fucking porn star. his cocks pushing the nastiest whines from your throat, but his pace never settles.

"fuckkk— you're a pro at takin' this dick, keep fluttering around me sweetheart, just like that." he pounds into you extra hard that time, letting you know exactly who has you wrapped around his finger.

he hovers over your body reeling with that hot afterglow, panting. the room now smells like his strong cologne and sex. he doesn’t rush to pull off of you, suguru never does that. instead, he stays there breathing steadily, his head dipped toward your shoulder.

“you good?” he asks, looking through your eyes deep into your head in that penetrating suguru way.

“yeah,” you say too breathless. you clear your throat and try again. “yeah– yeah. i’m good.”

he smiles contently and rolls off to the side, tugging you with him until you’re half draped over his big, bare, muscular chest. the bed creaks under the movement. his hand comes up to your back, the pad of his thumb pushing slow lines into the muscles.

it's moments like these when your mind starts to wonder why you feel so attached to this guy when all he really takes from you is sex, and all you get in return is an unstable sense of stability and a few party invites.

suguru lets out a stretch and a long groan, resting his chin in the top of your head as your tucked into his chest. “do you work tomorrow?”

“mhm, a morning shift,” you answer. “then gotta finish a com.”

“mm. that's rough, honey.”

honey..

you smile a little at that, even though he can’t see it. he always says that, like it’s a given that your life is busy and hard and worth acknowledging in his eyes. it’s stupid, but it matters to you and he knows that.

he gets a call from the bedside table, but hangs up the line immediately. that small gesture makes your brain go numb.

you hesitate, then speak before you can talk yourself out of having this conversation.

“hey, suguru?"

"hm?"

"you ever think about… i dunno. doing things differently?”

“different how?” he asks carefully, his massaging hand slowing down a tad.

you gulp. this is the line you've never crossed. the one you circle and circle and never, ever step over. “like… i don’t know. not sneaking around. not pretending this is just–"

“hey,” he cuts in gently, lifting your chin so you have to look at him. his expression isn’t unkind. if anything, that makes it worse. “you know where i’m at.”

you nod, even though your chest feels constricted. “i know.”

“i’m not looking for anything serious right now,” he says. it’s not mean. it’s not supposed to be dismissive in any way, shape or form, it’s just true. “i don’t want to give you the wrong idea, love."

then stop calling me that...

“i know,” you say instead, “i’m not asking for anything. i was just... thinking about it, i guess."

he watches you for a second, eyes searching your face like he’s checking for any excess damage. then he moves in and leaves a brief kiss on your forehead.

“you’re important to me,” he says. “you know that?"

you do, and you don’t. both at the same time somehow.

eventually, he falls asleep. you stay awake a little longer, staring at the ceiling, thinking about all the things you could never ask for from a man you'd been so indulged in.

~

monday's on campus were hot, long, and so, so boring.

you had a lecture on influences on modern art this morning, eugh.

you had your lecture materials and laptop tucked into your bag as you dragged your feet to the art block. the path curves around the science block, concrete stained and cracked from years of foot traffic. you slow your pace a little as you round the corner, adjusting your grip on your bag.

that’s when your wandering eyes land on a guy you'd never seen before.

he’s leaning against the wall just out of sight from the main path. his long brown hair shoved up into a messy man bun as the tattooed line across his nose stuck out starkly against his fair skin. he's toweringly tall, with baggy dark jeans held up with a leather diesel belt, campus 00's that'd seen better days, and a white beater adorning his muscular body. on his meaty arms, various detailed tattoos snake up and down in twisted patterns, with thick chained bracelets and leather studded cuffs wrapping around his wrists.

holy shit, this guy was your ever wet dream re-imagined.

his various face piercings and thing chain around his neck caught the morning sun as lyour steps slow down without you noticing.

this mysterious man isn’t alone. a guy you vaguely recognise from around campus stands off to the side yet still close, talking quickly with his eyes darting around. you look away instinctively, staring at your shoes, pretending you’re just another student late for class.

voices drift through the air, shoes scuff, then the other guy leaves in a hurry with his head head down.

when you glance back, the tall, grungey one is counting bills. a lot of them. he folds them without any sort of panic, then tucks them into his pocket like it’s nothing.

oh.

you look away again, heart jumping, suddenly very aware of how obvious you must seem. you tell yourself to keep walking. mind your business, you didn't see anything.

but when you pass the corner, you feel it. his eyes, all over you.

you risk a small glance over, and he’s looking at you openly, those brown irises almost choking you up. when your eyes meet, he smiles softly.

that was a surprise.

it isn’t suggestive in the gross way guys usually looked at you, it isn’t cocky or smug either. it’s warm and a little boyish like he’s amused yet slightly embarrassed by being caught, still, it's like he doesn’t mind it at all. like he thinks you’re cute for staring.

you rip your eyes away from the majestic looking boy and grab your bag tight.

you don’t look back at him, because you know you don't need to.

a guy like that stays engraved in your head for at least a week.

~

a few hours later, beta theta phi.

the house is weirdly quiet, everyone’s either in class, at the gym, or passed out somewhere upstairs.

the sun still burns hot as it squeezes its way through the blinds onto the leather couch choso's lounging in.

he’s got his legs spread and his boots planted flat on the floor, a thick stack of bills resting on his thigh. he counts slowly, he likes the feel of the paper, the weight of it, the reassurance that it’s all still there.

a cigarette sits loosely between his two fingers with white smoke floating upward as he exhales through his nose.

beta theta phi isn’t flashy by any means. the house isn’t huge or pristine, and to be honest, no one’s tryna pretend it is. it’s solid, very old money mixed with modern features. heavy, trusty furniture, scuffed floors, various trophies shoved onto wooden shelves without much care. it was a spot where loyalty mattered much more than appearance.

choso slots perfectly into this frat, like it was built from the ground up just for him.

he flicks through the last of the bills, taps the stack against his leg to even it out, then slips the money into a thick envelope. it joins two others already sitting on the coffee table. today was good. but when it came to choso, today was always good.

his brain start to wander, his mind flashing images of you this morning, your face all blushy and shy. he knows he only saw you for a few seconds, but he thought you were really cute.

he's knocked out of the day dream when the front door swings open and two rowdy brothers pour inside.

toji’s big booming voice wafts through the halls first, talking shit about something dumb with sukuna, who follows close behind. they've both got a towel draped over their shoulder, hair damp from the gym. they smell like sweat and cheap soap, muscles still tight from whatever they’d just put themselves through.

“yo,” toji says, spotting choso. “look at this guy. always sittin’ here so pretty.”

choso glances up, a corner of his mouth lifting. “yeah? ladies like pretty boys, js' look at gojo.”

"ain't that the truth, that guys drownin' in pussy." sukuna laughs.

they drop onto the couch beside him, the cushions dipping under their massive weight. sukuna reaches out, clasping choso’s hand in a quick dap. toji copies.

sukuna leans back, stretching his arms over the back of the couch. “you look relaxed.”

“that’s because i am,” choso replies, taking another drag before tapping ash into an empty can. “money’s good today.”

toji snorts. “when's it not?”

choso’s smile deepens, “that's true.”

toji eyes the envelopes on the table. “what’d you clear?”

“enough,” choso says easily. he doesn’t give numbers unless he feels like it. most of the time, he doesn’t.

sukuna whistles low anyway. “campus still eatin’ outta your hand, huh?” that gets a quiet chuckle out of him. “pretty much.”

it isn’t bragging, of course. choso was humble like that, it’s just fact.

everyone knows him. not in that loud, showy, gojo way, but in the way that keeps his name out of problems and his product moving cleanly throughout everyone's pockets. he doesn’t advertise his stuff, and he definitely doesn’t chase clients. people come to him because they trust him, because he never cuts corners, never shorts anyone, never brings problems back to his frat, to his brothers.

most of the frats on campus run through him. beta theta phi, obviously. but sigma chi too. alpha delta, kappa nu, even a few of the smaller houses that pretend they don’t need a plug until friday hits and everyone’s scrambling for grass no one bothered to get.

he keeps it all so organised and respectful, that’s why no one fucks with him.

he’s made more money than most people their age could even imagine. stacks on stacks tucked away, accounts spread out across multiple banks, investments already working for him while he lounges on a couch counting cash. he could’ve left school ages ago, perhaps disappeared to some holiday country and never looked back,

but he didn’t.

college is just so easy. it's nice and predictable, a cover as much as it is a choice. and beta theta phi gave him brothers who don’t ask questions they don’t need the answers to. he really liked that.

sukuna shifts, rolling his shoulders. “oh, speaking of sigma chi.”

choso glances at him. “hm?”

“they’re throwin’ some function this weekend,” sukuna says. “gojo was runnin’ his mouth in the locker room earlier. said we could all get free entry if you supply some dope.”

toji laughs. “classic.”

choso exhales smoke, considering it for half a second. “yeah. that’s fine.”

sukuna raises a brow. “that easy?”

“why not,” choso shrugs. “i can afford to lose a little.”

sukuna smiles. "it's a glow party, that rave kinda thing we never do because it gets too messy. so, gojo also wanted some molly, said he'd pay for that tho."

"done."

toji grins and leans over, clapping him on the back hard enough to jostle the envelopes. “fuckin’ legend.”

“seriously,” sukuna adds, nodding. “you’re so good to us.”

choso waves it off, already flicking ash again. “what can i say? i love you guys.”

toji lets out a loud laugh, leaning back so far the couch creaks under him. “listen to this guy.” he mocks, throwing his head back.

sukuna snorts, shaking his head. “shut up, toji. y' just mad he's not as emotionally immature as you are. love you too, cho."

choso rolls his eyes.

toji stretches, arms over his head, muscles pulling tight beneath his skin. “anyways, we’re grabbing food. you wanna tag along? i'll pay.”

choso opens his mouth to answer, then pauses. somethings been nagging at him, hell, might as well pick at these meat heads brains.

“hey,” he says instead.

they both look at him.

“you guys ever hear of a girl,” he starts to explain as his eyes float towards the window, “she's an art major, i think. always got a bag full of paints or something. looks like she wandered onto campus by accident.”

toji squints. “that’s… vague.”

sukuna tilts his head, thinking. “art major, huh?”

“yeah,” choso says. “real pretty, doesn’t look like she knows how hot she is.”

there’s a hum that comes from sukuna, then he snaps his fingers. “oh. her.”

choso’s attention sharpens up. “yeah?”

“[name],” sukuna says. “she’s always around sigma chi stuff. parties, events, whatever. went to high school with gojo and his friends, i’m pretty sure.”

toji nods. “yeah, i know who you mean. really nice girl.”

choso hums quietly, absorbing it. “friends with gojo,” he repeats.

“yeah, pretty much family, from what i hear,” sukuna shrugs. “why?”

“no reason,” choso says easily, already waving them off. “just curious.”

toji eyes him for a second longer, like he wants to push, then grins instead. “sure you are.”

they head for the door, laughter trailing behind them as it swings shut.

the house falls quiet again.

choso leans back into the couch, staring at the dangling light, the name turning over in his head.

“[name], huh?”

~

sigma chi looks like a cyberpunk futuristic fantasy with the amount of glowing neon paint smeared across everyone's bodies.

big blacklights are bolted into every corner of the room, splashing the walls and dancing bodies in radioactive colours.

paint splatters glow like constellations across bare arms and collarbones and the heavy hitting music penetrates every ear drum.

you’re stationed in the kitchen wearing a pretty, tight dress you almost didn't wear. it hugs you perfectly, so short gojo whistled when he saw you earlier. small lines of neon paint streak horizontally across your cheeks, you hadn’t planned on doing your makeup like this but of course, shoko insisted. her steady hand painted you up while you both giggled and tried to stay still.

right now, you’re posted up in the kitchen with her and that white haired idiot, plastic cups full of jungle juice sweating in your hands. it looks scarily neon aswell, which sorta freaks you out.

“this shit is gonna kill me,” shoko mutters, taking another sip anyway.

gojo laughs, throwing an arm over your shoulders and leaning his weight into you like he always does. “you say that every time.”

“because every time i’m right.”

you smile leaning into gojo. he trys to whisper something flirty in your ear but you shove his face away with a scoff and he fake pouts.

shoko nudges aaid with her elbow. “you got any molly?”

he grimaces. “not on me.”

you glance at him, curious. “but you said-”

“relax,” he grins. “choso’s bringing some.”

you blink. “who?”

they both look at eachother, then at you. "you don't know choso?" they say jointly.

before either of them can answer any further, scuffling near the doorway catches your eye.

your breath gets all hault up in your lungs, because its him.

the guy from earlier this week. he's tall even among the crowd of athletes, his black clothes look beautifully fitting for his vibe. neon paint traces a line across his nose, glowing exactly where that tattoo you'd seen had been. his eyebrow and nose piercings have been swapped out for neon pink rings that glow vibrantly in the backlight.

he looks so perfect it's almost nauseating.

he stalks straight up to gojo, and without a proper greeting, he throws an arm around his neck, pulling him in close like they’ve done this a bajillion times.

“took you long enough,” gojo laughs, slapping a hand against choso's chest.

the guy grins nice and wide, then shoves a bag full of weed into gojo’s arms like it’s nothing more than candy. “don’t get greedy.”

“you’re actually the best,” gojo beams.

shoko leans in close to you, whispering, “that’s choso.”

oh.

choso laughs with gojo shaking his pretty head, then reaches into his pocket again. this time, he pulls out a small baggie with five pink pills gleaming.

from beside you, shoko makes a tiny, triumphant sound. “yes!"

gojo fishes out cash and hands over four fifty dollar notes without counting. choso takes them, counts them, then stops for a sec. he plucks one back and presses it into gojo’s chest with a wink.

“hundred fifty,” he says. “consider it a favor.”

gojo looks like christmas came early. “i fucking love you.”

“yeah, yeah,” choso laughs.

they bump shoulders, laugh together for a few minutes, then step apart. gojo claps him on the arm. “enjoy the party, man.”

“always do.”

choso turns to leave, but then he stops.

because his dark, now completely blown out eyes catch on you.

you're fully exposed in your staring. for a small moment of time, he freezes still. like he didn’t expect to see you here, like the room had dropped out from under him.

then he laughs. awkward and quiet, scratching at the back of his neck.

you smile back shyly, it’s adorably small, but hell, it wacks him in the head like a brick.

he straightens a little, smile turning nervous in a way that doesn’t match his size or his nonchalant reputation. he looks like he’s about to say something. like he’s weighing his options, deciding if he should come over, if this is his moment.

you tilt your head, waiting for something to come of this, then,

“choso!” someone yells from across the room.

a guy with short dark hair and a pedo stache named shiu, a man you'd seen before hanging around toji.

choso glances back at you. then at shiu.

“c'mon, kamo!” shiu calls again, much louder this time.

choso exhales, running a hand through his hair. he gives you one last look and it's apologetic, almost regretful.

then he turns and disappears into the crowd.

you're a little confused, and sigh.

gojo sidles back up beside you, following your gaze. “damn.”

“what?” you ask.

he grins. “if i was gay, choso’s the first guy i'd crack.”

shoko rolls her eyes "if?"

~

some old zara larsson song keeps bumping over the speakers whether you’re into it or not, so you decide you might as well be in it.

you drain the rest of your cup and let shoko drag you back toward the living room where everyone's bodies are slotted together, neon paint streaking across skin every time someone brushes past. someone hands you another drink without asking and you take it, laughing when shoko raises her brows at you.

“c'mon girl, pace yourself,” she says.

“i amm,” you lie, sipping away.

you try to dance like usual, your hips moving with the beat, shoulders loose, smiling at people you barely know. a few guys spin you as some freshman's yelling over a group of girls, and someone else bumps into you and apologises with a drunken smile. it’s fun. it’s loud. it’s everything a party should be.

and still, your head just won't stop obsessive over that guy, over 'choso'.

you begrudgingly catch yourself scanning the room between songs, between laughs, between drinks.

it’s stupid! you don’t know him. you don’t know his major, his year, his anything.

you shake your head and take another drink.

then, just as you're about to flop into whatever leather couch is closest and contemplate your enter existence, big, firm hands snake around your waist.

you lean back into the man you know is behind you without second guessing yourself.

“there you are,” he murmurs near your ear.

you turn your head just enough to catch his pretty grin. “i've been here for ages, suguru.”

“yeah?” he says. “could’ve fooled me.”

his body pressed up against you flush as he grinds his hips into yours, his mouth kissing at your neck.

he wraps his forearms around your chest as you sway with the music. "you look so fucking good,” he adds, eyes dragging over you. “that dress is just... wow.” he grabs your ass briefly before laughing as you smack his hand away.

you laugh, tipping your head back against his shoulder. “you’re drunk.”

“a little,” he admits, then dips his head to your neck again.

you dance together, two bodies screaming sex appeal as others point and grin at your fluidity.

he murmurs your name into your neck, his perfectly straight teeth nipping at your skin again, and you forget about the neon paint and the blacklight, along with the mysterious man that had that soft smile.

you’re here now, with suguru.

after awhile of sex heavy music, it changes over to something geto doesn't like, so with one kiss to the bottom of your ear, he whispers, "come on, let’s go mingle a bit.” then pulls you over to your friends with an arm

“oh look, they're not upstairs yet,” gojo calls when he sees you. “thought you ditched us.”

geto just smirks, squeezing your side. “wouldn’t dream of it.”

yuki raises a brow, eyes flicking between the two of you. “you guys look cozy.”

“don’t we always?” you say lightly.

sukuna watches the two of you draw closer, and his mind drifts off to what choso had asked him the other day. he studies you for a second longer than necessary, his eyes sharp even through the fog of the party. then he straightens, arms crossing over his chest.

“so,” he says, blunt as ever. “are you two dating or what?”

oh, okay.

you feel choked up at his bluntness, caught off guard. before you can answer, you feel geto’s arm drop from around your waist.

he steps half a foot away.

“nah,” he says quickly, waving a hand like it’s nothing. “we’re just hooking up right now.”

just..

there’s a weird, awkward silence. gojo clears his throat. yuki looks away and sukuna sucks his lips in trying not to laugh, like he's noticed how bad that question was.

“right,” you say, forcing a smile. “yeah.”

geto doesn’t even spare you a glance.

yeah, this is too much. you were never good in awkward situations.

“i’m gonna go see what shoko's up to.”

you weren't going to see shoko, but you still step away, desperately needing some fresh air.

you push through the back door and onto the porch, whatever screeching drill music you'd assumed yuji put on fading behind you.

as you clicked the door shut, you swivel around and notice that you're not the only one on this porch.

the guy you'd learnt to be choso, leans against the metal railing just a few feet away, a burning blunt between his ringed fingers.

the glow from inside spills across his back, outlining him in soft purple light.

crap.

he hasn’t noticed you yet, you consider retreating, stepping back inside and pretending you didn’t see him. but, as you step back, your heel clips a large pot plant.

it rattles in its plant tray creating a ruckus.

“shit,” you hiss.

choso looks over his shoulder.

for a second, he seems surprised. then his mouth curves into a small, crooked smile.

“stalkin’ me now, hm?” he says teasingly.

gosh, how utterly pathetic could this night get.

"no- no! i was just- getting some air and i didn't know you were-"

you're cut off by his fond laugh, he's staring at your with half squinted eyes.

"don't worry, it's all good. m' only teasing."

his voice...

you hesitate, then breathe out a relived laugh with him. "i'll leave you to it then, m' sorry."

but before you can step back again, he chokes out a, "no, no. you should stay." it comes out louder than he'd planned, and you can tell by the way his next sentence comes much softer. "i don't mind company, y'know?" he rubs at his neck almost shyly.

laughing lightly at that, you slide into the spot next to him and grip the railing, your shoulder brushing against his.

he turns his body so he's facing you, then, holds out his veiny hand for you to grab. "choso, it's nice to finally meet you." he waits.

you humor him and let your smaller hand slip into his. "[name], it's nice to meet you too."

unexpectedly, he brings your hand up to his lips, looking you in the eye as he presses his lips to your delicate knuckles.

"pretty name for a pretty girl."

then he reaches up and brushes a loose strand of hair away from your cheek with the back of his fingers.

he's intoxicating. he's somehow so flirty while looking so shy. you wanna dissapear with him, something about the man was screaming at you to take him by the belt and let him take care of the rest.

but you know better. you really do.

this is choso. and sure, you'd only really become aware of him this past week, but he couldn't be good news. he was the campus plug, a guy with a reputation that trails behind him like smoke wherever he went. bad news wrapped in real good looks and his adorably shy chivalry. you shouldn’t barter into this, you really shouldn’t smile like you were as he smiled back, shouldn’t feel this pull towards him.

and yet, you let him wrap his pointer finger around yours as he stood leaning against the rail, keeping it there as he blew smoke into the sky.

"already so touchy? we just met, y'know." you quiz with a blushed out smile, wriggling the finger he has trapped on his own like a link.

"yeah," he turns to face you again, "but i already know i fuck with you. i like moving at a pace that feels right."

"and this 'feels right?'" you laugh.

"the right-est."

"huh." you reply, like it was a small yet significant revelation. you wriggle your finger again, but this time it's to hold his tighter, earning a smile from him.

"hope you don't have a boyfriend." he asks, looking down at you slyly.

"it's... complicated."

"so no, sweet."

"i-" he taps a finger to your lip.

"if you had a good man taking care of you, that answer wouldn't have any of that wishy washy bullshit. you don’t have a boyfriend, let's leave it at that."

"yes sir." you joke, and his pants tighten a lil.

somehow, you feel like you'd known this guy you only properly met ten minutes ago since freshman year, no, screw that, since grade school. he was conversing with you like how one might talk to their long term on again off again. it was captivating yet also terrifying.

he inches closer to you, "i wanna get to know you, [name], should stay out here for a while, hm?"

you nod, and that was that, you end up talking to him for hours.

“i’m kinda surprised i haven’t seen you around more. you’d think i would’ve noticed a guy like you.” you say halfway through your little moment. he lets out a soft laugh, glancing back toward the party through the glass door. “a guy like my? huh? yeah, nah. i don’t come to these much.”

“really?” you tilt your head. “but you and gojo seem close.”

“we hang out heaps,” he nods. “just not here. sigma chi gets too messy n' it's not really my scene.”

you hum in agreement. “fair.”

“what about you?” he asks. “you always here?”

“more than i should be,” you admit. “occupational hazard.”

that gets a grin out of him. “oh, so you work?”

"yeah, i work at a-" you're cut off,

"a bar?"

you blink. “how’d you know?”

he shrugs. “you’ve got the look.”

you laugh. “and what look is that?”

“like you can handle drunk guys without losing your mind.”

“barely,” you whisper under your breath. “i work at the sway bar, it's just off campus.”

“hm,” his brows lift. “might have to stop by sometime.”

you look up at him smiling. “i’d really like that.”

“what frat are you in?” you ask him next, and you grin at the way his face lights up.

"beta theta phi, with sukuna and toji, y'know them?"

“ahhh i see,” you smile. “yeah, i know them. i can totally see that.”

“see what?” he asks amused.

“you sorta just, match their vibe? i guess?”

he leans over to you, then, in a smooth motion he's bracing one arm on the railing behind you so your back would touch his chest if you leaned back. “and what vibe’s that exactly?”

you get choked up for a sec before grinning. “like, dark. kinda edgy.”

he lets go of a breathy laugh. “yeah? you into that? dark n’ edgy?”

your face blushes pink as you nod. “yeah, kinda.”

that seems to please him, because his smile is satisfied and content.

as you're talking about everything and nothing simultaneously, you slowly start to realise you haven’t thought about suguru once. not about how shitty he'd made you feel or the way he would probably be expecting you back inside and in his bed right about now.

your world has narrowed completely, honing in on the man beside you.

"i think you're really cool, [name]." he says from his spot behind you, his chest now fully hugging into your back as his arms have migrated from the pole to your waist. for some reason, where this would usually feel weird, too fast or sexual with most other men, it felt causal with him. like, instead of a rapey gesture meant to swoon you into bed, it was an action that felt so natural and grounding. you were definitely leaning into him.

"i'd hope so, you're kinda hugging me like we're a thing right now."

"would you be into that?" he speaks into your ear, his chin now pushing into the crook of your neck from behind.

"into what? us being a thing?"

"lowkey."

wow, you went from chasing a guy who would turn down being 'a thing' at every turn, to a man far more endearing suggesting it like it was an obvious want.

still, you had to be at least half cautious. "maybe."

he laughs at that, then lets his arms turn you around to face him.

"i'd love to take you out, ma. you're real funny, real sweet. my kinda girl, i can't lie to you."

this almost seems too good to be true. sure, a lotta guys ask you out, but none of them give off the same kinda vibe as choso. "y'sure you're not just saying that to sleep with me? you don’t have to go through all that hassle, you know, we can just-"

"no." he cuts you off, looking you deep in your eye. "i don't want that. i really do wanna see where this goes, okay? have ever since i saw you walking t' class on monday."

that makes you still, because he'd been thinking about you as much as you'd been thinking about him, from one little smile. if this wasn't some fated lovers arrangement then you didn't know what was.

you took in a soft breath before smiling, "sure, you can take me out."

you feel him smile against your skin, then he pulls away and you mourn the loss of body heat.

"perfect." he says, pulling out his phone, giving it to you gently. "if you really want this, put in your number. if you don’t , just spam the keypad and i'll figure it out later that you're not into me. no awkward shit."

he was perfect, god, he was perfect.

you grin and take it from him, putting your phone number in instantly under the name, [name] 💘.

~

he'd kept his promise.

around two days later, you'd had a shift at the bar from afternoon til late. you'd been working for around three hours when the door to the small, yet cozy establishment swings open, revealing a very well dressed choso.

he had a nice shirt and jeans that looked classier than the one he wore to the party, and fitting jewellery littering his every body part. he was a little overdressed for this dingy dive bar setting, but the low lighting complimented his aesthetic perfectly.

he greets the girl at the door kindly, before stalking up to the bar in which you stood behind. he smiles gently as he spots you.

"you really came, that's cute." you smile, wiping up a wet glass with a tea towel.

he takes a once over of your attire and smirks to himself before sliding into the stool, still somehow towering over you despite being sat. "i keep my promises, sweetheart. couldn't turn down seeing you looking this fine in you're little uniform."

that makes you blush a pretty pink, earning a soft chuckle from him as he scans the rack of bottles behind you. choso rarely drank heavy, but when he was in the mood, he'd always preferred the more expensive liquor.

"you guys have any jonny walker? the blue label?" he asks, trying his own hand at spotting the scotch on the rack.

"just ran out, the next one up from that would be some pappy bourbon, but you're looking at $120 a pour." you don't expect him to chose your most expensive bottle, the one only really old timers reach for, so you're preparing to grab for a bottle of beer in the fridge behind you.

"cool, i'll have that then." you almost choke.

"you uhm.. you sure?" you ask, incase this was some joke and you were gonna make a fool of yourself reaching for the top shelf for nothing.

"positive, hun." he smiles back.

you nod, then grab the step stool and reach for the golden liquor.

you pour it up and slide it over. he thanks you sweetly and takes a sip, nodding to himself like this was a good investment. as he drinks, you notice a silver ball of metal shooting through his tongue, a piercing there as well? imagine all the things he could do with that...

unaware of your less than appropriate internal thoughts, he folds a few fifties up and slips it into the chest pocket of your apron. "good recommendation, honey." these pet names were getting more and more bold, not that you minded.

"you're so welcome." you wink, earning an upwards twitch of his eyebrow in appreciation.

he's sitting in the spot many a men had before, all flirting and trying their luck with you. but with choso there, you felt engaged, you actually wanted to talk to him not just laugh and nod along like you cared for his useless conversation.

you quickly cashed in his money, he'd given you $200 so you pulled out his change, handing it out for him to take.

"no, no. that's your tip, pretty girl." he smiles, imitating your wink.

you're dumbfounded. "an $80 tip? we don’t- you don’t- tipping isn't even a thing here! please, take this back, i seriously can't take it, i-" he cuts you off with a wave of his hand.

"shh, you're such a sweet tender, you deserve a little get back."

he watches you fluster and fumble with the change like it’s the best thing he’s seen all night.

“hey,” choso says easily, leaning his forearms on the bar. “i promise i won’t miss it.”

you glance up at him, brows pinched. “that’s still a lot of money.”

“it’s not,” he replies, gentle yet firm. “and even if it was, i wanted to.”

you hesitate, then sigh, slipping the bills back into your apron like you’re conceding a battle you were never gonna win anyways. he smiles at that, pleased, like he enjoys when you finally let him do things for you.

“thank you,” you say quietly.

“anytime,” he answers. “that’s what i’m here for.”

he stays right there for the rest of the night,

he doesn’t drift off and he doesn’t get pulled into a loud conversation with anyone else.

he orders a few non alcoholic drink because he needs to drive. but the thing captivating his attention the most is you. his body stays angled toward you like it’s the most natural place for him to be.

you keep working, of course. wiping down glasses, taking orders, sliding beers down the bar. but every time you glance back at him, he’s already looking at you.

you’re aware of him the whole time. the way his eyes follow your body everywhere, the way he straightens when you come back, like he can’t help it.

he pulls out every conversational skill he'd ever learnt from collage and puts them all to work, trying his hardest to swoon you as best he can. he compliments you over and over, tells you you're such a good worker, slips tenners in your left pocket when you're distracted. he watches you exist like you were the most incredible, hard working being on earth, because to him? you were.

he talks to you when it gets quiet, he has you toppled over belly laughing at one point from across the bar as he tells you stories of his geeky high school days, or ones where his runs didn't go exactly as planned.

god, you’re hot.

that’s the thought looping in his head, over and over again until his cock feels a little too snug in his pants.

the apron. the way it sits so tightly around your waist. the way you lean forward when you laugh and the neckline of your top dips down to reveal your pretty cleavage. the way your hands move with such confidence even when the bar’s loud and messy. he’s seen a lot of girls. slept with some on occasion, none of them felt or looked like this. like you.

it’s annoying, honestly. quite distracting. he finds himself wondering what you smell like up close. would you smell differently to what you smelt like at the party? if it was just the two of you at the bar, would you speak to him soft and sultry like he'd imagined in his recent day dreams? everything about you allured him to such an agonising standard, he felt like grabbing you from behind the bar and driving you back to his off campus place, wrapping you up in his sheets and keeping you to himself, forever.

so we're weird stalkers now choso? perfect. he shook his head at the intrusive thought.

"you okay, choso?" you ask, suddenly right infront of him, pulling him from his you obsessed thoughts. "ah, yeah, y'know. just day dreaming' about my pretty little bar tender friend."

"oh, we're friends now?" you quiz, smirking at him, he laughs and rests his cheek in his palm. "oh, i wanna be much more than that, baby."

you know he said he wanted to see where this went, but fuck, you wanted him all up in you right now..

hours pass by quickly, just like that.

the flirty conversation flows so easily. you talk about different music, about how shit the school's schedule is. about dumb campus drama (mostly revolving around gojo, surprise surprise.) he tells you stories about sukuna and toji without saying too much, painting them as loud but loyal, which you can picture.

you catch yourself laughing more than usual. leaning close to him when he talks. forgetting to check the time.

once, though fleetingly, suguru crosses your mind. he’d texted earlier asking what time you finished, he’d probably expect you to come over after. you hadn't replied yet, wanting to make the decision of whether or not he deserved you later on. choso's little visit was really letting you know you made the right decision, because right now, there’s only him. his sexy, deep voice, his expression that never diped into that bored look you'd sometimes see on suguru, the way he was talking to you like anything you said was worth acutely listening to.

“you ever think about gettin’ outta here?” he asks eventually, gesturing vaguely around the bar.

“all the time,” you admit. “but it’s temporary. just until i finish my degree.”

“oh, shit yeah. you do art, right?”

“yes sir.”

his eyes light up. “that's sick, y'should show me.”

you breath out a laugh. “show you what?"

“your art,” he says. “you talk about it like it’s your whole world.”

it kind of is.

you’re about to answer when you both glance up at the clock mounted above the liquor shelf.

12:18.

you groan softly. “shit.”

he checks his phone. “damn. i’ve been here f' ages.”

“same,” you laugh. “i gotta close up soon.”

he stays and helps you clean up as best he can, then walks you out if the bar like the gentleman he is. you both begin your walk down the street where his car’s parked right by the curb, and your bus stop sits a little further down.

“you bussin’ it home?” he asks, surprised.

“yeah,” you shrug. “car’s not really in the budget.”

he nods, like he has to remind himself of that reality. not everyone lives lavishly off of drug money like he does.

you pull out your phone, opening the travel app, but choso notices how your pretty face falls.

“what's the matter?” he asks.

“all the buses are delayed,” you sigh. “road closures.”

you start to type something out, probably to see how long the delay is, when his hand grabs around your wrist.

it's not demanding or tight, no, it's like he's softly taking control.

“i’ll drive you,” he says.

“oh, wow, no! you've already done so much for me tonight, choso. you don’t have to,” you start. “i can walk, it’s not that far.”

he shakes his head. “no. get in the car.”

and you did, you let him open the door and usher you in, then say through his admittedly good playlist as the gps told him where to go. he was really pulling out all the cards, and it was making you hotter and hotter with each passing moment.

as you approached your apartment, you began getting antsy. you didn't want him to just drop you off and leave. you wanted him inside, both you and your apartment.

"here you go, sweets. safe and sound." he smiles, the door open as he stands outside his car letting you out.

“hey,” you say, looking up at him now that you're standing.

he looks at you attentively, like he too is expecting you to say something.

“do you wanna…” you trail off, letting your eyes do the rest of the sentence, falling over his chest, his arms, his hips.. “come inside for a bit?”

it's so utterly suggestive without you saying 'i wanna fuck' outright, and he seems to click on pretty fast.

he knows he told you at that party he wanted to see how things played out, preferably take you on a date before he even thought about fucking you, but shit, if you weren't looking at him with the widest, most eager eyes.

“yeah,” he says after copying you, looking at your body up and down. “i’d like that.”

he grins at the way you look away shyly.

he follows you up the steep steps, trying while heartedly not to stare straight at your ass. your apartment door clicks open, and you step aside to let him in.

the space is dark except for a lamp you flick on near the window.

choso stops dead in his tracks.

your apartments like an art critics wet dream. his eyes move rapidly over the hundreds of different works, some unfinished and some looking old. theres large canvases leaning up against every wall, pottery and clay dust on the coffee table, sketches and watercolored studies taped up wherever there was free space. the place feels so lived in, messy in a beautifully creative way, so full of you.

“holy shit,” he murmurs.

you smile, suddenly very shy at the fact you should've cleaned up abit. “it’s... uh, a lot."

“nah,” he says, stepping further in. “it’s sick."

he walks around carefully, he’s afraid to bump into something important to you. leans in close to a large canvas, squinting a little as he studies it.

“you like, actually made this?” he asks.

“sure did.”

he lets out a quiet incredulous laugh. “why the hell are you not, like, famous or some shit.”

you feel your tummy grow hotter at his praise. “i wish that was how it worked.”

“i’m serious,” he insists. “this is crazy good. like gallery typa shit.”

the way he says it, so sure, so utterly unfiltered, makes your legs feel weak and nimble, suguru rarely commented this much on your work. you hadn’t realised how much you wanted to hear that from someone until now.

he keeps going, pointing things out, asking questions, swearing under his breath when something 'really epic and cool' as he likes to put it, catches his eye.

“this one’s my favorite,” he says, gesturing to a piece tucked half behind the couch, it was a distorted portrait reminiscent of francis bacon. “it’s got an allure.”

you laugh. “you should have it.”

he whips his head over to you in the dim light, and raises his eyes like he's surprised. "really? you'd just give it away? it's so good, i mean-"

"not without compensation, of course." you tease, and you have to quickly grab his hand as he reaches into his pocket to grab for the wad of cash you know is in there.

"what are you-"

"not with money, choso..." you blink up at him feigning innocence, and the switch up from surprise to want is unfathomably quick.

you take his hand from its place in his pocket, and bring it up to cup your face, he follows suit and uses the other to pull your hips against his own.

"well, aren't you a little tease. i wanted to take you out first, y'know?"

"yeah? gonna deny me?" you poke, and the look of pure lust in his eyes tells you before he does,

"wouldn't dream of it." and he's on you, pulling you so close as his mouth works against yours feverishly, pulling surprised moans from your throat at how thorough he's being.

with a breathy sigh into the heated kiss, choso's hands pat their way down to the flesh of your ass, and knead at the fat in such an intoxicating way, it makes your skin bloom with goose bumps.

he's pushing his tongue into your mouth, the ball of metal pierced through his muscle clinking against your teeth as he explores you, your own tongue fighting back and forth for dominance.

you get the cue, the demand in his body language, the way he's growing desperate with each flick of tongue and grab of your ass.

you pull away with a click and push your forehead against his. "w-we should go to my room. now."

he smiles, his flushed cheeks turning upwards. you grab for his hand and guide him to your bedroom, pushing the door open quickly and pulling him inside.

he reconnects his lips to yours instantly, you reply by pulling at his fancy shirt, pawing at the collar until the first few buttons are loose.

he too starts tearing at your clothes, pulling the string of your apron loose, letting it fall to the floor, he makes sure the cash he'd slipped in earlier was still safe in the pockets before nudging it away to the side.

you wrangle is shirt off through messy kisses, and he's got yours unbuttoned to the hem.

"fuck, you're pretty." he sighs, pulling away to take in every inch of exposed abdomen and cleavage.

you smirk, then sit back slowly on the bed. he watches keenly, his pants becoming unbearably uncomfortable as you look at him with that lustful gaze.

you un-clip your bra letting it fall to the side to reveal your tits, and he drops to his knees at the foot of the bed in awe.

"jesus..." he almost chokes, his hands grabbing for the button of your work pants. he slips them off, eyes still fixated on the way you grab and knead at your boobs, the urge to wrestle you back onto the bed and fuck you stupid was becoming all but too much, but he had to restrain, opting to sweet talk you a bit before diving in.

"such pretty tits, baby. y'mind if i touch?" he borderline whines.

your wicked smile eggs him on, and he leans forward, taking the soft flesh into his hands.

you smile as he groans, then dip your hand down to his own belt buckle to help his cock spring free.

moaning as you do so, choso flushes a pretty red as his member slaps his lower abs, becoming shy at the fact you were staring so wide eyed at it.

did it look weird? was he not hard enough? fuck, he felt it. then again, he didn't have sex as often as anyone would assume.

his worries are stomped out when you cover your mouth with your hand, "that... that's fucking massive." you breath airily.

okay, good. that was good.

he smirks and stand up, shoving his pants the rest of the way down. in one smooth motion, he has you pushed down against the bed, your legs spread wide open, you let go of a trapped moan at the sudden manoeuvre.

he's inbetween your thighs in seconds, his face inches away from your pantie clad pussy.

"wanna taste you, baby, s' that okay?" he asks, panting heavily like this was the single most important question he'd ever ask. he takes note of how you nod so eagerly, hooking a finger into the waist band of your panties and pulling them off.

"all yours." you slur, and he wastes no time pressing that beautiful ball of pierced metal right up against your clit. all your fantasies were coming true, it seemed.

he laps at your folds, his mouth working magic on your needy hole. every moan that falls from your plush lips has him hitting that pleasure spot with a faster, more precise motion, trying his best to draw out those sexy little whimpers.

"good fucking girl, you're doing so well." he mumbles into the wetness, the vibration from his tone racking through your core.

"f-fuck! choso— i— i can't!" tears are welling up in your eyes at his unforgiving pace, his eyes clouding over with pleasure as he looks at you from down below.

"just focus, baby, come f'me, yeah? can you do that?" you reply with broken whines and choked up moans, your hands fisting into his hair as your hips grind up against his mouth.

you feel your peak building, growing and tightening so fast you clamp your thighs shut around his head.

he doesn't care that he can't breath, doesn't mind that his only purpose to you right now is to feel good, he want that, needs that.

he flicks at your clit in agonising little circles until you finally come undone all over his pretty, fucked out face.

he moans with you, kissing at your clit as you come down, slowing his pace as your breaths ease from rapid to regular.

"jesus, you uhm.. you really know how to eat a girl out." you breath shyly, hiding your face in the crook of your elbow as he moves up onto the bed, laying down next you with one arm propping up his head.

"you come so prettily, sweet thing. want me t' make you feel like that again?" he smiles, and that coil in your tummy you swear was gone had suddenly re-knotted.

"i- uh..." you're too shy to ask, but it's all you want, and he can tell.

"can i fuck you silly, pretty thing? would you like that?" he asks softly, his hands running up and down your naked, sweaty body.

he takes your arm away from your arms, then rolls over so he's pinning them down as his body hovers above yours.

"you like being told what to do, don't you? prefer being spoilt rather than taking the lead, hm?" he asks in a low tone. your eyes dart all around his face, a guilty sign that told him he was right on the money.

"perfect. just sit there and take me, honey. tell me if it's too much and i'll stop, moan loud if you want me to fuck you harder, m'kay?" he quizzes, your shyer eyes find his as you nod gently, "yes, please." you breath, and he goes right ahead.

his fingers slip into your sopping wet cunt and start to scissor you open, kissing the small gasps straight from your throat.

he rubs at your clit with his thumb, preparing you to take him in.

"y'think you can handle it, baby?" he pants, jerking at the base while his hands work you from the inside. you're bobbing your head up and down unevenly, a strangled yes juttering part your lips through noises of pleasure.

he removes his fingers with a wet pop, and lines himself up missionary with your dripping entrance, ready to slowly sink in until you're twitching with anticipation.

"relax honey, you can take it." and take it you did.

as his tip pushes past your hole with a deep groan from choso's lips, you bite down on your own at the sheer diameter. this was gonna be a stretch.

inch by tantalising inch, he's got you choking out jumbled praise and encouragement as your walls flutter deliciously around him.

"fuck, you're so tight, holy fuck–" he stammers as his tip finally presses against what he can assume is your cervix, based on how you're writhing beneath him.

"okay, baby. m' gonna —oh fuck— move."

you nod with your eyes squeezed shut and your hands gripping his biceps. "o-okay, cho."

that nickname makes him ten times harder, now he's bucking his hips deeper and deeper into your pussy with strangled groans. "keep callin' me that and i'll come right now—" he jokes through pants.

he continues abusing your puffy little hole, using you all up until you're a blabbering mess under this thumb.

"g'na— ohmygosh— i'm gonna come!" you cry, a tear slipping from your eye at the pleasure, choso leans down and kissses it away.

"c'mon honey, gimme one more, good girl, you can do it." he moans, picking up his

pumping pace.

you can't handel this any longer, he's dicking you down you so good, better than you'd ever felt before, you can't help but tighten up on his cock and spasm around it until he too is cumming straight into your cervix. bullseye.

you both go limp, your bones turning to mush after such intense sex.

yet, the second choso registers the way your body tenses, the way your breath sounds a little uneven from the discomfort of the sweat and other bodily fluid, he’s stood. he presses a little kiss to your shoulder first, then mutters something soft you barely catch before he slips out of bed.

“stay right there, baby,” he says, low and reassuring. “i got you.”

you hear drawers opening, the ensuite sink running. the quiet domestic sounds feel surreal after everything you'd just done with a guy you'd known for a week that somehow felt like years. when he comes back, he’s holding a damp cloth, warm from the tap. his expression has shifted completely, all that intensity replaced by a loving look of focus and care.

“okay,” he murmurs, sitting beside you. “gonna clean you up a bit, yeah?”

you nod, too loose to do much else.

he starts slowly with your legs, your stomach, your sides. he’s so incredibly careful, thorough without being clinical, like feeling clean and comfortable was his god given mission in this point in time. when he moves between your thighs, softly wiping through your sticky folds, you make a small whiney sound before you can stop yourself.

“hey,” he coos immediately, pausing. “s’okay. i know it’s sensitive.”

his voice is so gentle it almost hurts.

he keeps going, so much softer now while talking to you the whole time.

“you’re okay,” he murmurs. “i got you. just breathe for me.”

you whine quietly at the sensation, fingers curling into the sheets. he soothes you with words, with touch, like he knows exactly how close to the edge you still are.

“that’s it,” he says. “you’re doin’ so good. i know, i know. almost done.”

when he finishes up, he sets the cloth aside and immediately pulls you into him. you hadn’t actually realised how cold you felt until you’re pressed against his big chest, his massive arms wrapping around you without hesitation.

you tuck yourself into him snugly, like your body already knows where it belongs.

here, with him.

he rubs your back in slow passes, one hand sliding up to cradle the back of your head. your cheek rests against his dipping collarbone, his heartbeat steady under your ear.

“there you go,” he murmurs. “isn't that better.”

you let out a long breath.

he keeps talking, his calming post-sex voice like a lullaby.

“you were incredible tonight,” he says. “so fuckin’ good. y'hear me?”

you hum softly, too warm and pliant to argue.

“nah,” he continues, brushing your hair back with his fingers. “i mean it. you made me feel real good. i'm real lucky.”

your heart squishes together fondly. you think, distantly, about how no one’s ever done this before. not like this. not with this much loving intention.

you'd thought that was the perfect word to describe this situation; loving.

hell, you weren't really used to living. geto never stayed like this. he never once touched you like you were something to be taken care of after sex. moreso like his friend who happened to be in his bed (which was what it was.)

the thought flickers, brings with it a small pinch of guilt that you don't notice choso clocking. you and geto had agreed to only sleep with eachother, that it would be good to only sleep with a single person... you push away the thought.

after all, right now, choso’s here. his warmth, his voice, his hands. you don't see how he scans over your guilty expression like a lost kid.

“hey,” he murmurs when you look up at him. “you okay?”

“yeah,” you whisper. “just… really comfy.”

he smiles against your hair. “good. that’s the goal.”

he's brushing his long fingers through your hair, tapping his knuckles to a beat against your back, anything to try and keep you fully here with him. he didn't like that look of guilt in your face from before.

“i hope this didn’t mess anything up,” he adds quietly. “with that date i was talkin’ about.”

you move your head just enough to look up at him. his eyes are searching your face for any sign of regret.

“it didn’t,” you say. “not even a little.”

relief flickers across his beautiful features. “good,” he says. “’cause i really wanna take you out. do it right.”

you smile, nose brushing his chest. “i’d like that.”

he exhales, long and content, then pulls you closer.

“get some sleep,” he smiles. “i’ll be right here.”

your eyelids grow heavy faster than you expect. the steady motions of his hand through your hair, the sound of his breathing, the way he holds you like this is exactly where you’re meant to be.

just before you drift off, you feel his lips press softly to the top of your head.

you fall asleep like that, wrapped up in all of him, all of choso.

~

a few days later, beta theta phi.

choso's sitting in the kitchen, picking at a plate of food with a small smile on his usually calm, bare face.

you were a constant in his brain ever since he'd gone home from your apartment with that painting he 'earned' after the best sex of his life. (said painting is now strung up on his wall.) he'd never stopped thinking about you since that night.

your adorable little moans, the way you melted into him as he fucked you so deep, the way your pretty fucked out body moulded against his afterwards.

you were like crack and he was a hardcore crack head, feining for more of your attention.

as he thinks about stalking your instagram for the fourth time that day to see what you're up to, footsteps stomp down the hallway, heavy ones.

toji accends the stairs shirtless with his hair still damp like he’s just come out of the shower. sukuna follows behind like always, a towel draped over his shoulder, rummaging through a bag of chips before he even hits the kitchen proper. showering at the same time? gay ass guys, choso thought to himself.

“what the fuck,” toji says, stopping just short of the island. "why you look like that.”

choso looks up, brow lifting. “like what?”

“happy,” sukuna answers around a mouthful of chips. “it's weird."

toji snorts. “yeah, that’s new.”

choso rolls his eyes, but he doesn’t fight the smile this time. he grabs his plate, forks a big bite then shrugs it off like it’s nothing. “can’t a guy enjoy his food?”

“nah,” toji says, pulling out a chair and sitting backwards on it. “not you.”

sukuna leans against the counter opposite him with his arms crossed. “what’d you do. make bank today?”

choso shakes his head, chewing. “nah.”

“big sale?”

“nope.”

toji squints. “you finally get your dick wet again or something?”

that does it, choso coughs, nearly choking, then glares at him. “the fuck is wrong with you.”

sukuna laughs. “so that’s a yes.”

“shut up,” choso says quickly, pointing his fork at toji. “and don’t start.”

toji grins wider. “that's gotta be it. you’ve been walking around like you won the lottery all day.”

choso sighs. "yes, i'm seeing a girl.”

toji stops and sukuna freezes in the middle of a reach for another chip.

“…wait, actually,” sukuna says flatly.

choso smiles at the two boys and continues. “met her at that blacklight party. she’s really cute. we talked for hours, i visited her work, and i drover her home. you don't get the rest, but i’m taking her out this weekend.”

toji stares at him like he’s grown another head. “you?”

“yes,” choso says. “me.”

“you don’t talk to women,” sukuna says slowly.

choso scowls. “i talk to women.”

“no you don’t,” toji cuts in. “business doesn’t count.”

choso opens his mouth, then closes it. fine. maybe that’s fair.

toji leans back, eyes narrowing in thought. then something clicks. his expression shifts. “wait.”

choso looks at him.

“is this,” toji says, pointing vaguely, “the art girl you were askin’ about the other week?”

choso’s heart jumps. “yea-"

“nah,” sukuna interrupts, brows lifting. “can’t be.”

both of them turn to him.

sukuna tilts his head, casual. “she’s hookin’ up with geto right now.”

...wait... what?

choso goes dead still.

geto.

like, his friend geto?

the one who's always hanging around with him and gojo on tursdays? that geto?

the one he always calls when he needs help at the gym, that geto?

the guy who's one of his most regular buyers, that geto?

his mind latches onto the man instantly, and starts unraveling his entire being piece by agonising piece. he's tall, jacked as fuck, his hair's always smoothed and shiny to perfection, always tied back just right with no knots or bumps, he's got that sexy confident smile and endearing laugh that reels women in.

he's the kind of man who attracts literally anybody, hell, he'd heard even gojo had a thing for him in high school, gojo!

shit.

he thinks back to the porch. to the way you hesitated when he asked about a boyfriend. the way you said it was 'complicated' and how he’d brushed it off, convinced himself it was nothing serious. how he saw that flash of guilt spread across your face after you two had finished. how you’d smiled when he touched you, how easily you’d leaned into him like there wasn’t anyone else in your head at all.

geto.

holy fuck.

choso doesn’t say anything although the muscles in his neck were contracting with each clench of his teeth, eyes dropping to his plate like the answer’s written there. his appetite’s gone.

a week.

he’s been thinking about you for a week straight.

asking gojo questions about you when they hung out in class, 'm' just curious, man, she's a pretty girl.' leaving out the part where he was eight inches deep inside you just the other night. stalking every single one of your socials to the point he had your first few posts and username memorised.

and now this?

maybe that’s why gojo had looked at him funny. why he’d laughed a little too hard when choso asked if you were seeing anyone. maybe it wasn’t shock, god, maybe it was disbelief.

choso gulps.

toji watches him closely now. “that true?”

sukuna shrugs. “mhm, he told me at that same party you were talkin' bout'.”

...

“you good?” sukuna asks looking a little worried at the man's switch uo.

choso lifts his head up and that bare look finds its way back onto his face and sticks like a face hugger. “mhm.”

toji frowns. “you sure.”

“i’m sure,” choso says, setting his fork down. “it’s whatever.”

it isn’t. but he’s not about to unpack the, 'just found out the girl i'm lowkey falling head over heels in love with is also hooking up with my good friend,' pill right now.

he grabs his keys off the counter and reaches for his leather jacket. “got a few deliveries to run, see y'later."

sukuna opens his mouth because he really wants to say something else, then thinks better of it. toji just watches him go with sympathy laced through the coloured bands of his irises.

choso slips pre roll out of his pocket and lights it up, trying to rationalise all of this. he'd only met you around a week ago, it's not like you guys were a thing. sure, he'd fucked you better than he'd ever fucked anyone in his life, but he shouldn't be weird and insecure about this, he knows that. it's just, he's never really gone for this before. usually it was girls asking him out, of which he'd reject kindly because he was too busy doing anything else.

but with you, that random night out on the porch, it felt like there was a pull he couldn't just toss aside, he wanted you... and he thought he had you, especially after that intimate night.

geto’s on a come-when-you-can basis, might as well take care of that now and try ease up his racing thoughts. nothing like a good interrogation.

he flops down into his M2, engine turning over as his thoughts narrow to one thing, one task, he leaves suguru a voice message.

"yo, suguru, m' coming over."

~

choso kills the engine and sits there for a minute, his fingers resting on the steering wheel like grounding himself before stepping into situation he already knows he won’t enjoy.

he sighs, then steps outta the car, he’s halfway across the driveway when a happy, familiar voice cuts through the noise of the active fraternity, “yo.”

gojo’s jogging down the steps two at a time with his gym bag slung over one shoulder and his hair pushed back. he grins when he sees choso, big arms opening on instinct.

before choso can dodge it, gojo’s got him in a quick, bone-crushing hug.

“what’s up, man,” gojo says all smiley, pulling back. “you look busy.”

“yeah,” choso replies, already angling toward the door. “just droppin’ somethin’ off.”

gojo’s brows lift. “now?”

“mhm.”

gojo squints at him, like he’s clocking something off but hasn’t put his finger on it yet. “you headin’ to suguru’s?”

choso doesn’t slow down. “yeah.”

“uh,” gojo starts, glancing back at the stairs like he’s weighing whether to say something. “hey, maybe not the best time, think he's in the shower.”

but choso doesn't listen,

“cho,” gojo calls after him, louder now. “seriously, man, let's hang out first!"

choso doesn’t turn around. he takes the stairs with his heart climbing up into his throat with each step. by the time gojo gives up, he’s already at the top landing, moving down the hallway.

he stops in front of suguru’s door and knocks.

theres movement inside, the sound of water shutting off, then a drawer opening.

the door swings open.

suguru stands there in nothing but a towel hanging around his hips, his hair damp and loose around his shoulders, his skin still flushed from the heat of a shower. water beads along his collarbone and trails down the center of his chest. choso hated how good he looked.

his eyes fall all over sugurus body before he could stop it.

it’s dumb, after all, he’s seen suguru shirtless a hundred times. in locker rooms, during pool parties, it never mattered before, but now it does, because you’ve seen him like this. because you’ve touched this, because you've liked his annoyingly perfect body.

suguru notices choso's ogling and smirks, leaning one arm against the doorframe. “what,” he says lightly. “y’want a workout routine or somethin’?” choso forces a short laugh, “shut up.”

“mm,” suguru hums confused. he steps aside anyway, letting choso in.

suguru’s place is always so precise and neat. his beds always made, desk cleared, shoes lined up like they belong in a sneaker catalogue. it’s never bothered choso one way or another.

but today, he isn’t looking at any of that. his eyes move fast scanning without meaning to. the desk. the floor. the chair by the window. the bathroom door still cracked open, steam drifting out.

then the bedpost.

he spots a pop of pink fabric slung around the wood.. a pair of panties hangs loose around the corner of the frame, looking forgotten. they're pretty, they look your size, and they're unmistakably not suguru’s.

fuck.

suguru follows his line of sight, then sighs softly. “ah, ignore that. keep forgetting to deal with those.”

he reaches out and turns choso by the shoulder, forcing him to face him. suguru’s expression shifts, teasing gone, replaced with something more intent.

“what’s up with you,” he asks. “you’ve been actin’ weird as fuck, cho.”

choso gulps. for a second, he considers lying. saying nothin then walking out.

but he can't, so instead, he digs into his jacket and pulls out a small bag. he presses it into sugurus chest.

“four grams,” he says flatly.

suguru nods slowly, then looks down. “hm,” he mutters. “okay.”

he crosses the room, opens his dresser, and pulls out a few bills. counts them once, then twice, before handing them over.

“seventy-five,” he says. “we’re good?” choso takes it, nodding. “yeah.”

suguru studies him now, really studies him. “you didn’t come all the way over here just for that, normally we meet in the middle."

choso exhales through his nose. “i know.”

“so,” suguru prompts. “talk.” choso hesitates, he's not sure if he sounds insane or not, or if this is totally overstepping some unspoken boundaries, but he can't keep it in.

“are you sleepin’ with [name]?”

suguru coughs out in surprise, “…uh.” he leans back against his dresser, arms folding loosely. “yeah,” he says after a sec. “i am.”

choso nods once, like he'd expected it, “m'kay, are you dating her?"

suguru frowns. “what? no.”

“planning to?"

“no,” suguru repeats. “it’s just sex.” he tilts his head, curiosity creeping in. “why?" choso doesn’t answer right away. suguru narrows his eyes at him. “what, you into her or somethin’?”

“no,” choso says too quickly.

suguru huffs a laugh. “c’mon, man.”

choso’s voice edges colder. “i said no.”

“okay,” suguru says, hands lifting. “just askin’. ‘cause if you are, you should probably drop it.”

choso’s eyes snap up.

suguru keeps going, unaware of the turmoil writhing his friend. “just lookin' out for you, man. she’s really into me. like, a lot. wouldn’t be fair to either of you.”

the strong inside choso's heart break at the sound of that.

he scoffs. “you think so, huh?"

suguru blinks. “what’s that supposed to mean?"

“nothing,” choso mutters, already turning away. “was just curious.”

“cho—”

choso waves him off without looking back. “don’t worry about it.”

he opens the door, pauses just long enough to throw something over his shoulder, his voice very uncharacteristically cruel. “try not to confuse sex with somethin’ you don’t actually want.”

then he’s gone.

the door shuts with a dull thud.

suguru stands there, staring at the wood long after choso’s footsteps fade down the long hall.

his whole body feel shaky, like he'd just been stepped on. suguru did not like to be crossed like that.

he glances back at the bedpost. at the pink panties hanging there, the ones he teared off before fucking you dumb into his mattress... at the faint imprint you left on his space.

he frowns.

why does that bother him? he’s never cared before. he's told himself he couldn't commit to a relationship right now, that you being there for him was always just a mutual sex agreements. a good friends with benefits sitch. so why does the idea of someone else wanting you feel so incredibly wrong?

why does it feel like a rugs being pulled out from under him?

he exhales, runs a hand through his damp hair, then grabs his phone. you name pops up on his caller app and he hesitates only a second before calling.

“hey,” you answer, your voice isn't as excited to hear from him as it usually is... weird.

suguru smiles automatically. “hey, pretty.”

you don't giggle at that, or tease him back, you just hum through the receiver.

he frowns slightly. “what’re you up to?"

“just… home,” you say. “what’s up?"

“i was thinkin’,” he starts, leaning back on the bed. “maybe you come over tonight.” there’s a moment of silence and uncertainty that almost never came when it came to you.

“i dunno,” you say. “i’m kinda tired.”

that’s new.

suguru chuckles then lowers his voice. “c’mon, hun. i really need you.”

you sigh. “need me how?"

“badly,” he says, letting warmth creep in. “been thinkin’ about you all day.”

you dint reply instantly and he rushes in before you can pull away and reject him further. “i miss you,” he adds. “miss the way you feel. the way you look at me.”

“sugu—”

“baby,” he cuts in gently, “come over. yeah?”

he strings the pet names together, calls you sweet. calls you pretty. tells you he’s lonely. tells you he’s been wanting you.

he hears the shift in your breath before you speak again.

“…okay,” you say quietly.

his smile returns, very, very satisfied. “good girl.”

he hangs up, feeling way too good about the skill he has to persuade you. he thinks back on choso, how he'd learn a thing or two about threatening his arrangements.

~

you’re on your back in the long haired man's room before you can really register how you got there...

you feel so, so guilty. you didn't want to be here, but you felt awful for suguru, for fucking someone else when the agreement was to only fuck eachother, and talk about it if you were to screw someone else.

maybe that's why you caved into his pleas, you wanted to make it up to yourself, trying fix what felt like a horrible betrayal in your eyes.

sheets cold against your hot skin, suguru hovering over you, naked and sweaty like he belongs there, him, not choso.

"sugu, i— i wanna talk... there's something i should tell you," but you're cut off by his lips, his demanding, intoxicating lips... the ones working magic on helping you forget about your new friend.

you told yourself you weren't going to melt so easily into him when you got here, that you'd at least try your best to tell him about choso, how you're seriously reconsidering your little arrangement. but it seems he's got other plans, because his lounge is already halfway down your throat ripping lewd moans from your mouth.

he kisses you like he’s reminding himself that you're his. his girl to fuck, to claim without an actual title, not choso's.

his hands frame your face, pads of his thumbs brushing along your jawline as if he’s taking you back, he settles his weight between your legs, torso grinding up against your clothed pussy.

his lips kiss and suck against yours in a careful rhythm, coaxing rather than just taking. it isn’t frantic like he's panicked, no, it’s got a beautiful sense of reverence that drives you crazy and lulls away any former thought of taking accountability from your pretty little head. it's clear, even through your cloudy suguru filled haze, that he’s trying to prove a point to himself with every pass of his mouth on yours.

“fuck,” he murmurs softly into your mouth then your name.

his fingers dip down to your soaked panties, he presses his thumb harsh against your clit, pulling that one moan he knew meant he hit the perfect spot.

he shifts them to the side, then slams them deep into your gaping hole.

with every curl he's pulling such pretty groans from your throat, he doesn't care if his tendons begin to ache from how relentlessly he's bullying his thick fingers into your soft cunt, no, he's running you like this over and over if it meant hearing these addictive whimpers, ones he was causing, not choso.

he pumps them against your fluttering, gummy walls so tantalisingly slowly but so precise, it makes your eyes roll into the back of your head with pleasure. he wasn't as sweet as choso had been, he was rough and chasing that high with expert precision.

"such a pretty fucking girl. you're all mine, okay? you're all mine —shit—." his circles are relentless and binding, but that little monolog seemed to suddenly snap you out of whatever this was.

"suguru— fuck— please, stop it. we need to talk." he breaks away from latching onto your neck, then his thumb retracts as he sits up to look at you. this was what he didn't wanna do. talk about it.

he wanted you to get fucked, realise how good you had it with him, and forget about choso...

"what is it? hm?" he try's his best to stay calm but his distain slowly creeps up on him. "s' this about choso?" he quips.

what the fuck? how did he know?

suguru’s sitting up now, and you're pulling your skirt down over your lower half.

this wasn’t how you wanted him finding out but, “i don’t think i can keep doing this,” you say quietly.

his brows knit. “doing what.”

“this,” you gesture vaguely between you. “us. like this.”

...

he exhales through his nose. “you're serious?”

“yeah.”

his mouth tightens. “let me guess what.” he spits, and you tell him before he can further his sarcastic venture, “because i think wanna see choso.” suguru scoffs bitterly, he knew that was coming but he decides to pry further, “oh yeah? see him how?”

“like.. properly,” you say. “he asked me out. on like… a date. an actual one.”

his face contorts and stirs into disgust, then irritation. “you’re kidding.”

“I’m not.”

he scoffs, pushing off the bed and pacing, still half naked. “you barely know him, [name]!”

“i know,” you retort. “but he’s been so good to me, sugu, really good.”

“he’s bad news,” suguru seers. “you don’t need a no good loser like him. he has no prospects, no plan for the future, he's bad!"

your stomach sinks at the quips. “don't say that.”

“say what?" he bites, and you grow redder with anger, “talk about him like i'm so naive kid who doesn't know what i’m doing!"

he turns back to you, frustration spilling over now. “he’s a dealer. he sells drugs for a fucking living, that’s it! no goals, no future, he's sketchy as fuck.”

you shake your head. “that’s not fair.”

“it’s true.”

“you'd have no clue! you don't know anything about him.” you spit back, and he laughs meanly. “oh please. know him? he’s got the personality of a brick wall. what, he buy you drinks and suddenly he’s prince charming?"

your chest tightens. “he listens to me.”

that shuts him up for half a second.

you keep going, voice steadier now that you’ve started. “he shows up. he actually cares about what i have to say. he doesn’t treat me like something he picks up when he’s bored.”

his eyes flash. “that’s not what this is.”

“then what is it?" you ask. “because you’re the one who said it was just sex. over and over again.”

he runs a hand through his hair, agitation spilling from every pore on his smug face. inside his brain, it's a mix of conflicting feelings. suguru likes you, for real, he has ever since high school. not once had he ever thought he'd be with any other girl, just you. but college was for fun, for hookups and parties and no real commitments, so why would he pour more effort into you than he needed? why couldn't you just be his with no strings attached? he wanted you, he loved you, some might say. suguru was not ready to give you up this easily, you were his first.

the thought of you choosing someone else makes his lungs constrict and his brain fizzle and crack until his heart breaks apart at the valves.

“you don’t need choso,” he says again, trying to regain any sort of resemblance of control. “you’ve got me.”

you let out a bitter laugh. “no. i don’t.”

his gaze snaps to you. “what’s that supposed to mean?"

“you don’t get to say that,” you reply. “not when you won’t even call this what it is, you're a pathetic excuse for a man. if you're gonna tie me up like a dog and use me for sex, at least have the balls to let me know that's all i am to you."

he looks away as the veins in his neck pulsate and grow, part of him knows you’re right, but to be honest? part of him really just doesn’t care. he knows deep down he wants you more than that, why couldn't you understand?

“you’re just being weird because for once someone’s actually into me and you can scare them off.” you add, the words tumbling out now.

he wants to spill his guts, tell you all he really wants is you, that he's been enthralled with you ever since high school he's always just been far too immature to really commit, but instead, his eyes narrow. “that’s bullshit.”

“is it?" you challenge.

he opens his mouth, then closes it.

you sit straighter with your heart hammering. “i really like him, suguru. he treats me well. he’s a good person.”

something ugly flickers across his face. that hurt. you were supposed to be his, now you were telling him you really like another guy? you're his girl! you're his girl.

he laughs, low and cruel. “so that’s all it takes, huh? a promise of a date and suddenly you’re spreadin’ your legs like a whore?"

what the fuck? that's not what he wanted to say! he cringes at himself but it's too far gone, he can't put a lid on the rage that's bubbling over the edges of the pot that is his heart.

your breath leaves you in a hurried rush. “what— what did you just say.”

he doesn’t take it back immediately or rephrase, that's the worst part. “you heard me.”

your eyes sting but you try your best not to cry. “how do you even know about choso?” you bite.

his face goes all rigid. “i could tell.”

“tell what?"

“by the way you weren't keen." he says, then adds, "and he came by earlier.”

your stomach drops. “he came here?.”

“yeah,” suguru says. “asking about you.”

the petty realisation floods over you in a wave of rage. “so that’s why you called me." you laugh, gutted. “you didn’t want me. you wanted to get your get back, right?”

his temper flares. “don’t fucking twist this.” geto was usually level headed, even in the most heated of arguments, so you knew his anger was real here.

“you invited me over because your ego got bruised,” you say, voice rising. “not because you care about me or what i want."

“that’s not true.”

“then why did you just say that to me?"

he looks at you with eyes full of distain, “because i shouldn’t have ever let this get this far. you’re just someone i fuck sometimes. that’s it.”

oh.

you don’t cry at that nor do you yell. you just nod softly, like your body's finally understanding what your heart’s been screaming at you for so long.

“m'kay,” you say softly.

you stand, smoothing your skirt down and reaching for your shirt with hands that feel so far away. he watches intently, fuming, not realising the gravity of the bum ass, idiotic move he'd just pulled.

you grab your things without sparing him a single glance.

“wait,” he says, finally hearing the finality in your movement.

you pause at the door, then you step out and shut the it behind you with a soft click.

inside, suguru stands there for around a minute in silence. then, his legs give out and he drops onto the bed, elbows on his knees, head in his hands.

“fuck,” he whispers.

he stares at the floor, replaying every word he knew he should of never said. every look he flashed you when all he wanted to do was tell you how he actually felt, that he was wrong and he knew that, but he needed you all to himself. the way the pretty voice he'd always adored sounded when it broke.

he realises, too late, that he really does love you.

he was just too immature to keep you.

~

you needed to call choso.

sugurus number was blocked the second you got home to your apartment, an act you clearly should've done ages ago.

though, your minds not caught up on him anymore, no. it's running miles around choso.

two things were clear right now,

1. he knew about you and suguru.

2. he probably wasn't too happy about that.

and now suguru was out of the picture, you had to tell him the whole entire truth. that you'd gotten rid of him, that you were willing to put every ounce of yourself back into choso, if he'd let you.

you bite at your lip, contemplating if he'd even pick up if you were to dial. you had no way of knowing if he was turned off by all of this or if he'd still wanna give this whole thing a try.

one way to find out, you thought.

you scroll through your contacts until you find his name and hit call before you can overthink it. it rings far longer than you expect, and when he answers, his voice sounds tired, much quieter than usual. “hey.”

“hey,” you say, trying to keep your voice steady. “um. i know it’s late.”

“you’re fine,” he says. there’s a pause. “what’s up." it's not much of a question rather a statement he has to say to be polite.

you gulp nervously. “there’s something i really need to talk to you about. like, in person.”

another moment of silence that stretches abit longer this time round.

“okay,” he says softly. “i’m in the middle of a run right now.” your heart dips, then lifts when he continues. “i can come by after. if that’s alright.”

relief spreads through you, “yeah. that’s perfect. thank you.”

“i’ll be there as soon as i’m done,” he adds.

“drive safe,” you say.

.

on his end, choso leans back against the seat of his car, his phone still in hand. he sighs to himself, he already knows how this goes.

he’s had around a day to imagine it. an entire day of replaying everything in his mind, of telling himself not to get too attached to this amazing girl he'd sworn on.

in his head, you’re going to sit him down and say you had fun while it lasted, but you’re choosing to fuck with suguru. you’re going to say you’re sorry. you’re going to say it was complicated and now it’s clearer.

he grips the steering wheel and exhales slowly. he finishes the delivery on autopilot, exchanges empty words he barely hears, his mind is clearly somewhere else.

by the time he pulls up outside your building, his chest feels so incredibly heavy.

he sits there for a while, staring at the entrance, telling himself to keep it together, telling himself he’ll be fine no matter what you say.

he steps out of the car and walks up to your door, he lifts his hand to knock, and the door opens before his knuckles touch the wood.

you’re standing there with damp hair from a shower and a serious look on your otherwise adorable face.

you just look at each other, and no one talks.

he doesn't expect you to, but you step forward softly, then gently wrap your arms around his torso.

it’s sort of on instinct, it’s need, and it’s a big relief. he too wraps his arms around your back, pulling you closer to try ease the tension in his soul.

“hey,” he murmurs.

“hi,” you say back into his shoulder.

you pull away and move aside, he walks in, glancing around with widened eyes, your apartment still pulls at his attention even now. it all feels so clearly you. he forces himself to focus when you gesture to the couch.

he sits, hands resting on his knees. shoulders squared. ready for this horrible rejection..

you sit beside him, not too close, not far either, you take a moment before you speak.

“i’m really sorry,” you say softly. “about suguru. about him getting involved with us at all.”

his eyes are darting around nervously but he's still honed in on what you have to say.

“i didn’t mean for him to make you feel weird or uncomfortable,” you continue. “and i didn’t mean to keep things from you.”

you look forlornly down at your hands. “i blocked him today.”

he shoots his head up in surprise, cute.

“i should’ve been honest from the start,” you say. “we had this on and off thing. nothing serious. but meeting you changed that for me.”

you look up at hum, “i like you. a lot. and if you’re still into me, i’d really like to start clean with you. no stupid secrets.”

he looks at you back tenderly, watching over your every feature.

“you’re the coolest guy i’ve ever met,” you add with a small laugh. “and i don’t wanna mess this up.”

for a second he just stares at you. then he smiles, it's big and goofy, and so so bright.

“yeah,” he says, sort of laughing. “yeah. i’m really happy you picked me.”

your heart jumps.

before you can reply, his metal clad hand comes up to your cheek pulling you in closer to his lips, he then kisses you softly.

it’s beautifully gentle and ever so slightly desperate. he's leaving small open pecks like each one's it's own form of praise and forgiveness.

your hands curl into his shirt, grounding yourself in the feeling of him here. choosing you, and staying.

when you pull back, your forehead rests against his. you smile wide, you’re glad you closed one door to open this one.

"so, about that date."

~

the two weeks you'd spent dating choso kamo was seriously the best time of you life.

you wake up in choso’s apartment much more than your own now. his place is fancy, it sits high up in one of those off campus complexes that cost more than they look like they should.

he's got the nice polished concrete floors, floor to ceiling windows with automatic blinds, furniture that fits his dark yet aesthetic so well.

right now you’re tucked into his side on the couch with your legs all tangled together, your heads resting against his chest while the city glows outside the window and he sifts his fingers through your hair. you'd both just come down from a night full of intense loving, choso eating you out for a good hour before completely ruining you just as he had the previous night. now, there was food on the way as he massaged your lowkey back lovingly.

"you okay, honey?"

"more than okay. cho,"

"god, keep calling me that and i'll take you for round three."

this is how it’s been, consistently.he takes you in the most lovely dates, expensive dinners where he never lets you see the bill. not once. you did try at first, bless your soul, fumbling for your wallet, making jokes about splitting it, insisting you could handle yourself. and every time, he shut it down with the same calm tone.

"i got it, sweetheart."

no argument or anything, no crazy big ego. just a nice fact that he could take care of you without blinking.

he takes you to places you’d never, ever pick on your own. spots where the menus only have triple digest beside each item. he watches your face when the food comes out, in awe watching your beautiful eyes light up. he always asks if you like it with a big smile, and he always remembers what you order. when you say you like a certain dessert, what do you know? it shows up again on your door step a few nights later after you tell him you had a rough shift at work.

he never makes you feel small about your money, or lack there of. that’s the part that gets you the most. when you joke about being broke, he doesn’t laugh at you. he just nods like it’s another bit of information about you, not a flaw. when you mention rent stress or art supplies you still need for class, (never with the intention of milking him for money) he listens very intently. a few days later, those things stop being problems. there's an envelope left on your kitchen counter, a new set of brushes delivered to your door. him shrugging it off when you ask.

"you don’t have to worry about that, honey. that’s my job now."

"but i— it's to much money, cho, i shouldn't—" he always shuts you up with a deep kiss.

he comes to the sway bar a lot now, too. he slides onto a stool and waits for you to notice him with a small smile. he's always dressed well and never sloppy. he orders one drink, sometimes only non alcoholic, and stays for hours on end. at the end he tips you like a rich man, which is what he was.

he laughed when you'd try and shove it back at him. he'd lean down and tell you to stop being stubborn.

"i like taking care of you."

it’s not just a suave line, you can tell. he looks so pleased every time you finally accept it.

he drives you straight home after shifts even when it’s late, he says the bus is no place for a girl as cute as you to be that late at night, hell, he even contemplates buying you your own car just to put his mind at ease, then decides it might be just a bit too early in the relationship for that..

every night you don’t have work, he's either taken you out or you're crashing at his place, tonight's no different. you're dressed in one of his oversized paris texas shirts after a few hours of sex, and he's got you sat up in his lap caressing your hips.

dating him feels nice and calm. there's no guessing, absolutely no waiting for texts that never come. he checks in with you without hovering and always tells you where he is. he plans things, actual plans. a museum date because you mentioned a new exhibit in passing, a drive out of the city just to watch the sun drop behind the hills and star gaze without the suffocating light pollution. late night food runs where he lets you talk about nothing and everything while he listens to your every word.

he treats you like you’re worth effort, every single day.

on the couch, he moves around then reaches for the fluffy throw blanket draped over the armrest, pulling it over both of you. he smiles down at you fondly.

"you're so fucking pretty, y'know that?"

"mhm, you only tell me that every day." you smile back, and he laughs, tickling your ribs for the attitude.

you giggle into his chest as you smack the muscle, begging him to stop.

after he's teased you enough, he pressed a kiss to your forehead and smiles into your skin.

"baby." he pulls away and looks you in the eye waiting for you to reply.

"yesss?"

"sukuna's having a birthday party at our frat. i think sigma chi's invited aswell. can you come?" he asks kindly, stroking your head lightly. you nod as soon as he says it, happy to tag along to any function he was going to.

"good. i wanna show you off a little." he announces, slapping your ass half heartedly.

you roll your eyes, but your face is flushed a pretty pink. he laughs, squeezes you once more, then leans back into the couch.

choso has never felt more content than he did right now. he never thought he'd be one for sappy relationships, but for you? god, he'd do this in every lifetime, you were utterly perfect for him.

only thing left is to show everyone else that, too.

~

sukuna’s birthday is exactly what you expect and still somehow more? there's like, literally five beer pong tables lined up in the back yard alone like this was some sorta tournament rather than a birthday bash.

"yeah, he's really into beer pong. it's fitting, i guess." choso laughs

the house infront of you is loud before you can even step inside. sukuna's favourite music flows out the open door, cups are raised and swaying or abandoned on any flat surface. there are, inexplicably, five more beer pong tables set up in different corners of the main living room.

choso’s hand stays firm at your lower back as he guides you inside, the pretty little dress he'd bought you fit exactly how he said it would. it's nice and snug around your ass, and it's short enough to make his eyes widen when you walked out of the bedroom earlier. the expensive designer shoes he'd gotten you still feel new under your feet. you’d protested, of course, told him he didn’t have to do all this, but he told you he wanted to. just like with any other thing he'd gotten you in the past three weeks.

you clock the way a few heads turn as you pass by, and smile to yourself at how good it feels to be on his arm. little did you know, this was his plan all along, to have you looking all sexy and all his as a final fuck you to the guy he knew would be here tonight. choso didn't fight with losers like him, but he could definitely put his money where his mouth was (literally) and show off a little.

“there they are,” gojo’s voice cuts through choso's slightly possessive thoughts.

he’s smiling so wide as he steps up to you two, his freakishly long arms opening wide preparing for your poor boyfriend. choso barely has time to brace before gojo crashes into him, hugging him hard enough to rock them both back a step.

“happy birthday to sukuna, i guess,” gojo says, then pulls back, eyes sliding straight to you.

he looks you over once, it's quick but not rude, then he smiles softly. proud, almost.

“you look really good,” he says, leaning down like he’s about to tell you a secret. his voice gets slightly bashful. “and i’m really glad you finally ended up with someone who treats you right. even if it meant dropping my best friend.”

there’s no judgment in it or awkwardness, just pure honesty.

you laugh quietly and hug him, arms wrapping around his middle. gojo squeezes you back solidly, you're content with his nothing about this changed how much he cares about you.

toji is right behind him with his meaty arms crossed and his eyes observing. he looks choso up and down first, then his sues land on you.

“damn,” he says flatly. “she's a looker.”

choso exhales through his nose a little irritated.

toji smirks, clearly pleased with himself.

“that’s my girlfriend,” choso says calmly. he's good at keeping his emotions in check. plus, it was toji, this idiot wouldn't know any better.

toji pauses, then nods once. “shit, i forget [name]'s the chick you were getting all giddy over. good job." he says, and claps choso on the shoulder before offering his hand. they dap each other up and choso smirks triumphantly.

“c’mon,” choso says, fingers curling around your wrist. “gotta see the birthday boy.”

he guides you through the littered bodies as gojo and toji trail behind you, the beer pong table nearest the back is surrounded by people yelling over a close game. sukuna is there, his pink spiky hair all wet and damp with sweat, roaring with laughter as he cooks shiu and sinks the final cup. (no one thought he was gonna loose, but they all cheer regardless)

you spot suguru at the same time he spots you.

he’s standing just off to the side with nanami and shiu, he spots your arm wrapped around choso's and you swear to god you see his eye physically twitch in distain.

you giggle softly at the sight, and choso pulls you into him tighter, staring the man dead in the eye as he squeezes your waist. what a sexy asshole.

sukuna turns when he hears choso’s coming over, his already large grin spreading wider. “there he i!" he bellows. he always got overly cheery when he was inebriated.

sukuna swallows choso in a big hug and the dark haired boy claps him twice on the back. "god, haven't seen you in ages man! where y'been?" sukuna questions, choso just rubs his neck bashfully and cocks his thumb to point at you. "keeping the missus looked after, y'know how it is."

sukuna's eyes fall onto you and he's surprised. he thinks back to when choso was asking about you that first time and then to when he'd stormed off when he'd told him you were sleeping with suguru. a small proud smile falls over his lips. he always disliked geto anyway, the righteous asshole.

“happy birthday,” choso says. “you're old as hell now.”

“shut up,” sukuna laughs. then drags his attention back to you as you step in for a side hug, very quick and polite. “happy birthday, ryomen." you smile, and he scruffels up your hair fondly.

he glances back at choso, then leans in and mutters, "good pull,” he says quietly. “glad you could wrangle her away.”

choso chuckles, pleased.

you can feel suguru’s stare as shiu and nanami fall back into another game of beer pong without even looking back at the guy. although, it doesn't matter. choso's still making a show of pulling you into him every chance he gets, which you can tell is really ticking suguru off.

sukuna wipes his hands on his jeans as he pulls his attention away from shiu and nanami and back to choso. “you better not of gotten me anything, cho.”

choso just smiles and reaches into his pocket, pulling out a small credit card shaped gift wrapped in neat paper. he hands it over casually.

sukuna sighs with half a smile. “you didn’t have get me shit, man.”

“js' open it.”

toji and gojo lean in from their spots either side of you and choso. sukuna peels it open, eyes scanning the card once, then his mouth drops open.

“no fucking way.”

he looks up, stunned. “this is real?”

“mhm. two years,” choso says. “a membership for that fancy gym yer' always whining about.”

sukuna lets out a sound that’s between a laugh and disbelief. “what the actual fuck.”

he pulls choso into another, much tighter hug. “thank you, brother, seriously.”

choso pats his back. “no problem, i love you, remember?” he says, the inside joke making both sukuna and toji chuckle.

then, like it’s nothing, choso reaches back into his pocket and pulls out another card. hands it to toji.

toji freezes. “what’s this.”

“part of his gift,” choso says. “don’t want him training alone.”

toji stares at the card. then at sukuna. then back at choso.

“you’re fucking insane,” gojo says, laughing.

toji exhales a sharp laugh and grips choso’s shoulder. “i appreciate it, man, seriously. holy shit.”

sukuna looks between them, clearly overwhelmed, then clears his throat and tries to play it off. “alright, alright. enough with the heartfelt shit.”

but his grin doesn’t drop one bit.

you watch it all from choso’s side, chest warm in a way that has nothing to do with the noise or the crowd. this is him, he's so generous without making it a big show. loyal without asking for any kind of back credit. he's a solid man in a way that makes everyone around him relax and naturally lean into him.

choso glances down at you and catches you looking.

“you good, honey?" he asks quietly.

you nod, smiling up at him. “yeah. i’m really good.”

his lips curve into the kindest of smiles as he kisses your tenderly on your head, careful to not mess up your makeup.

off to the side, suguru looks away in disgust having witnessed that little interaction.

'read it and weep.' choso thinks to himself.

but he was far from done, one more little display and he'd be satisfied.

so, later on when everyone was a little drinker on the punch shoko had 'accidentally' poured four bottles of vodka in, he has you pressed up against a wall away from the main hustle and bustle, yet up close to where he knew suguru was lounging around.

"cho, people are gonna see!" you squeal, but his hands don’t stop grabbing at the curve of your ass and pushing you harder against the wall.

"good, want them to see." he coos, latching onto your throat and sucking at it softly.

despite your pleas, you were very into this. your boyfriend wasn't always this needy so this show was really doing it for you. you let him claim your throat in bright, blooming hickeys and groaned as he hooked his lips onto yours, shoving his tongue down your throat.

the exchange is heated and passionate, any on looker could tell this was a moment shared between two people who loved eachother deeply, exactly what he was going for.

from behind him, sukuna and toji catch wind of you two and let go of broken cheers, making choso smile into your lips. they both joke about 'not knowing choso has this in him,' which made a few of his other friends add onto the mantra of playful encouragement.

he's living for the way your cheeks heat, the way the attentions making you all hot and bothered. but most of all, he's high off the fact that when he peeks behind him through an open eye, he sees suguru angrily stand from his spot on the couch, and storm outta the house.

mission accomplished.

A/N this is not proofread at all 💔 going back to my roots and writing choso look at me go 🙂‍↕️ i hope you guys enjoy the lil smau yayy

“What was that baby?” He whispers, warm breath hitting the sensitive skin of your neck. You gurgle out a response—Its useless. His arms are wrapped comfortably around your neck preventing you from speaking. His hips piston into you, cock twitching inside your heat. He groans tighting his arms, You cry out something ugly and he coos. A nasty grin spreading across his handsome features “Oh I know baby…I know..” But he dosent know. How could he when hes fucking you so good?

You feel his chest rumble against your back with a deep laugh “Fuck—But ykno ‘M not stoppin. need you baby.” He makes sure to get close to your ear groaning every word, knowing what it does to you. To hear him beg. “Need you so so bad, g’nna let me have it right?” and what choice do you have?

You nod weakly hands scrambling to his thighs scratching and digging your nails into the soft skin. He lets your neck go, holding you just by the shoulder. This position somehow gives him more freedom Hips slamming harder than before, you shriek in pleasure, warmth milking your boyfriend. shamelessly biting your lip until it bleeds. “Shit baby, hnngh fuck you feel so good, ohh ohhyes.” He cries, rolling his head back in pleasure. Your heat tightens around him, sucking every last drop of pre-cum from his flushed mushroom tip. His stomach churns in pleasure.

His eyes peer down to where the two of you meet, slick and sweat drips down his legs. He spits out profanities before shoving you face first into the pillows, gripping your hips with a force you know will leave bruises. You whine, tears threatening to fall down your spit ridden face. your hands scramble for the sheets knuckles turning pale from the sheer force. Your eyes cross, a lewd moan dripping from your swollen lips or at least thats what you think you’re doing. your head is nothing but mush as his cock stretches you open leaving you helpless.

“Cant understand you with yer head in the clouds like that baby~” He teases, pushing his weight atop you. His thighs tremble and shake as your heat continues to milk him, earning a rather pathetic whimper from him. Your boyfriend face flushes before digging his head into your shoulder to hide. “Haa-h hear what you do to me baby? Fuck hear this shit?” His hips slow into a grind, rotating them to make sure you feel every inch and stretch of his thick cock.

“ooohh!!”You cry, tears dropping your reddened face legs kicking and shaking as his cock pushes impossibly deeper. Your hole lets out embarrassingly wet noises in response, “Hear how fucking dumb you get over my cock baby, huh?” He rambles licking right behind your ear. Everything is a blur for you, tears and snott cover your face. Your Sweet boyfriend quickly flips you over, lifting one of your leg over his shoulder. Earning another lewd whine from you—he slides back in with ease. you sigh with delight, you missed the warmth.

He presses his forehead to yours making sure to keep eye contact as his girthy cock kisses your insides, cum and spit squelching and mixing into one. His repositions himself so that his leaky tip hits the rough surface of your insides. Your hands fly to his shoulders and back, tossing your head back against the ruined sheets. his dick is too thick, all 8inchs stretch you out so much you can feel it in your throat. He makes it hard to breathe when he fucks like this. “hnggg-nggg” you shake your head in protest, the tight rope you’ve been holding onto for so long threatening to slip from your grasp “ss’soo goood!!” you cry out.

Slippery hands push and fight against your sweet boyfriend. Which earns you nothing more than a wicked grin as his own hands slap yours away. In one swift move he pins them over your head. “Take this dick like the dumb slut I know you are” He spits, eyes rolling to the back of his head, completely drunk off you and honestly? Its all you can do at this point, legs nothing more than putty in his sturdy and rough hands.

“Dont cum yet—“ Your sweet boyfriend could be so cruel sometimes. You whine in protest—attempting to plea your case. Your so close, pleasuring steming from head to toe. your attempts rendered useless as he fucks every word out of you. “Dont try that cryin shit with me.” He groans, cock throbbing inside of your disgustingly wet heat, pre-cum pours from his tip. But he dosent seem fazed, if anything his eyes darken more. Hips thrusting into you as the same speed as before

“cmon baby, you want it? bark for me.” He smirks, cocky and sensitive. Legs still shaking from the way your heat wraps around him and you, stupid, cockdrunk you. Do it. In between choked out moans of his name “a-rafff hnngh” Your Sweet cruel boyfriend beams, laughing “Oh thats my baby~ so obedient” He starts to peppers kisses along your collar bone and the crevice of your chest. One hand tweaking and pulling at your sensitive nipple while the other holds your own hands back.

“cum f’me—Cum on your boyfriends dick baby~ make me proud honey~” His hips angle upward, pressing down on the bulge in your stomach. you howl, crying out his name “ohhhfffuck!hnngh” orgasam wrecking you completely. He smiles chasing his own orgasm “Thats it baby, milk me. milk me cmon—Make me fuckin’cum you Slut. ugh oh ffucj—“ His hands grip at your nipples and hips, cum pouring inside you.

His cock is pressing comfortably inside you as it throbs and twitches, some of it accidentally slipping out of you. After a beat he hums, pressing a warm kiss against your shoulder “sorry…haah..needed you..” he mumbles drawing circles against your stomach. He slides out carefully, letting your legs rest.

“Warm bath and take out?” He really is the sweetest isnt he?

Now, the first time had been rather a shock—to both you and the flutter of attendants who’d happened upon the parchment. You certainly didn’t have any close acquaintances nor prospects entertained whom were so dedicated to deliver a letter at the splinter of daybreak (and a brief interrogation of your personal ladies-in-waiting showed that they’d seen nothing of who’d been slipping you notes at night). 

It had to be someone from the palace, however - if they managed to deliver these letters so frequently and so easily.

Though most nobles sent their correspondences upon dishes of pure silver, with an attendant from their court that would recount every detail of your reaction to them later. But this one had no staff attached to it, no emblem, no name. No identity in the very least.

Nothing but slanted, slightly trembling words as if the writer’s hand had been caught in an inescapable tremor the entire time. And the flower.

Every morning, once you excitedly unfurled the little pink ribbon that tied the letter up, a small yellow daffodil would fall from inside. As if a piece of the early morning sunlight, plucked from the skies, placed in your hands, you’d roll the stem between your fingers as you read through the letter.

Each word more tantalizing than the last.

You’d tried to spend the night awake on several occasions, of course, to catch this romantic culprit in the act. But the only thing that served you was a few hours of sleep, and a thoroughly cranky elocution teacher once you kept nodding off during class - and no admirer, evidently. And yet you’d still awoken to the neatly tied-up parchment in the morning. 

Like a phantom in the night.

The letter was the first sign of daybreak itself.

When that scheme had found itself utterly useless, you’d taken to warning your personal knights stationed outside your royal chamber - certainly not to get your admirer caught, rather to find out just a morsel of information about them. A morsel.

Yuji and Nobara had been rightfully horrified, though you’d insisted that whoever this was meant no harm! 

You suspected that your admirer snuck into your room in the few minutes between the knights changing their stations: Yuji and Nobara would be set firmly outside until midnight, and any dark hours past that would have your doorstep occupied by knights Choso and Yaga. Two of the most trusted knights in all the kingdom, with all the accolades to prove it.

And it certainly helped that Choso had been your personal knight for the past two years - though you’d been friends for far longer than that. Always at your side, always staring down nobles that overstepped, always offering his hand out to you when a step was too steep.

He was your rock. He is.

He’d been one of the court advisor’s sons, your age. You remember being a young royal unaware (or perhaps uncaring) of the duties that loomed for you in the horizon; spending summer mornings playing tag with Choso and a few of the other children in the palace, and winter nights breezing through books and time like sand—just the two of you in that grandiose library. His father resided in a modest estate not too far off from the palace, and Choso cried every time he had to say goodbye to you. Every single day.

You grew the most close with Choso.

And once he had come of age, he’d promptly signed up to become a knight. 

Through training and nutrition plans, and battles and scars, Choso had climbed up the ranks faster than any other you’ve ever seen. Though he was still as tender-hearted as you remembered him - he’d shed a few tears the day he was assigned to a brief battle on the outskirts of the kingdom. Away from you.

But you’d simply wiped away his tears and cooed in a low voice that your elocution lessons hadn’t taught you to—come back to me soon, Cho.

And he had.

The battle with the Zenins had ended, and Choso Kamo had returned as the kingdom’s most celebrated warrior. It’s whispered to this day amongst the palace staff how he’d kicked off his saddle in town, run past all the bubbling celebrations- straight to the royal palace where he’d waded past the congratulating courts and straight to you—

All in platonic friendship, of course.

Of course.

But you suppose it didn’t help quell the rumors when Choso rejected your father, the King’s, offers of estates and riches. Of lifetimes of luxury. He’d stood before the royal court and bowed his head, having only one request of the monarch: to be your personal knight. Forevermore until he breathes.

And how could one say no to the turning point of the battle?

And thus, he’d become your knight. Yours.

You suppose it was around this time that the letters had started, too…

You clutch this morning’s letter to your chest and breathe in the smell of fresh ink, leather, and the faintest hint of summer vanilla that dripped off of the page. It was always this scent that followed your admirer’s ardent declarations, and soon enough every time you passed the gardens or poked at a vanilla dessert, you couldn’t help but think of him. 

A knock interrupts your thoughts and you startle.

Pushing the letter carefully underneath your pillow, “Come in.”

The towering double doors of your bedroom had small gilded swirls on it, which, if you stepped back, melded together to form an image that looked like the clouds above. Frothing and tumbling and swirling. Heaven itself. How oddly poetic that through these gates of heaven would walk in Choso Kamo, his knight’s armor catching the rays of morning sunlight.

His visor was pushed up to reveal his face.

His features were sharp and handsome.

His doe-like brown eyes were the envy of the courts.

He looks at you in your thin nightgown and flushes- “Y-your Highness—!”

Choso’s armor clanks and clutters as he hurries to turn away from you, and soon enough you find yourself staring at the knight’s broad back. Chiselled after so many years of training. Bringing a hand up to your lips you have to stifle a giggle at the sheer contrast- “My dearest knight, does it disgust you to gaze upon me like so?”

“Th-the furthest thing from it, Your Highness.” He sputters, and you swear you catch the back of his neck - just the slightest slit you could see between his armor plates - burning bright red. Blushing.

“Do you believe me of unsound character, then?” You challenge, “Do you believe me a harl-”

“Bear not the thought!”

“Then turn.”

He does—barely. Just enough degrees that you can see his handsome side profile, and he can stare at you through his peripheral vision- though that, too, is largely obscured by his helmet. “Forgive me…” Choso gulps. “-but the mere sight of you is not suited to be gazed upon by this lowly knight, my princess.”

“You have been within ames-ace of Yaga for far too long.” You tut.

But you’re still reaching for the gold-laced robe draped over the edge of your bed - your attendants had placed it there last night. Choso was always the first to greet you in the morning.

And it’s only once he’s completely sure that the robe now covered the beautiful angles and curves of your body, that is obscured from him what is Eve’s most beautiful apple, does he turn to face you. Only to find that he had spent so long mustering up the courage, that you’d already dipped underneath your pillow and pulled out-

“Yet another letter, Your Highness?” Choso queries, and you nod. 

It was requisite that such an occurrence must be shared with your personal knight - most of all, your friend. And you didn’t feel the need to hide it from Choso as you did with your parents—perhaps because you knew his duty was to you, above all. You above the crown. “Oh, you shan’t believe it- today they wrote the most romantic line about how their heart beats simply to count their time beside me—”

Choso gives a jerky nod, “And the flower?”

“As always.” You’re pinching the little flower where it had been laid safely on top of your decadent pillow, showing it to him.

Your best friend takes one look at it and breaks out into an almost…relieved smile. “I see- he really is a stubborn old fool, isn’t he?”

“Oh, don’t call him a fool.” You huff. Turning away with your flower, “I think he’s just lovely.”

“Suppose he is a fool?” Choso probes, “Suppose he isn’t of great wits- would you still think he’s lovely?”

You furrow your brows at him, “But, of course. Intelligence cannot be measured by how many dusty books you read. Despite that, I believe that one would be of rather sound wits should they wish to compose letters this beautiful.”

There’s a pause. “Then suppose he isn’t rather pleasant to look at?”

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” You counter stubbornly. “I think that I should find them quite beautiful either way.”

“Then suppose he’s a commoner?”

“That is the last thing I would fuss about-”

“But what if he’s a…” Choso starts- and as you wait for him to finish—he shakes his head. Giving you a light bow, “I apologize for getting carried by the conversation, Your Highness. I have just been reminded of my orders to urge you into prompt preparation to receive some very special guests today. I have summoned your ladies-in-waiting, they are stationed at the third royal baths.”

“Guests?” You ask. The palace always did have a constant flow of royals and nobles and merchants and people of the public going in and out, and rarely did you have to make a personal accompaniment with them. “What special guests may we—”

It’s then that you look at your calendar of quarter days: social days and tutoring days, and a day circled in rouge.

Today.

“Ah…”

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Dearest gentle reader, 

Royal gossip has always been the lifeblood of the Ton—particularly this year, with the debut of our Royal Highness, the princess, this social season. Rumors have been a-swirling for quite some time now, speculation about just which eligible gentleman will be lucky enough to win over the beautiful royal’s hand in marriage: perhaps a fair noble, perhaps the richest merchant of the land, perhaps a prince from a far-away land. The possibilities are endless!

Our dignified royal family has always been rather private about such matters regarding their princess, but today this humble writer is here to put these whispers to rest, my dear reader.

My most trust-worthy sources inform me of a royal fleet that has docked in our harbor early in the morrow—a fleet with none other than the Zenin family insignia upon its flag!

Now, before you fear another military skirmish with the ever-ruthless Zenin family, gentle reader, let me assure you that my insiders state this royal visitation to not be an act of warfare. Rather…of romance.

Some claim an age-long betrothal, some claim a political marriage in the works.

The cauldron of curiosity bubbles even further once you learn that the Zenin family, including His Highness Naoya Zenin, shall be paying a royal visit to the palace today! And some members of the royal knights claim they shall take extra precaution, and that Her Highness’s personal guard - a handsome young knight by the name of Choso Kamo - is to be with her at all times. Ooo la la!

It will certainly make it difficult for either Prince Naoya nor any other…admirer to get close to the princess (the palace walls talk, gentle reader, and some of my sources claim the presence of a second interest in Her Highness’s life—secret letters being hand-delivered every single night!) 

But that is neither here nor there, and your writer is certainly not planning a visit to the royal dungeons in the near future!

Yours Truly,

Lady Whistledown.

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“—such a beautiful garden-” Naoya’s lip curls as he looks out of the tall, sun-lit window at the rolling field below. Your parents barely have enough time to open their mouths in response before he continues, “-but of course, ours is much larger. Second only to our stables and the incredible militia grounds that we have-”

Everyone in the meeting hall closes their mouth, quenches their hope for speaking at least for the next twenty-five minutes.

You learn within the first few moments of meeting him that Naoya Zenin liked hearing his own voice, and any time he wasn’t, he was replaying his own voice over and over inside his head. You also learn that you don’t like him in the slightest.

Which makes being betrothed to him all the more difficult.

It had been a political alliance- or so your father had briefed you one night several months ago. Calling you into his office, holding your hand, he had let you cry on his shoulder for the first time in years that night.

To unite two people who had been locked in a bloody border war for far too long - that was your duty.

And this marriage was the key.

It had been long enough to let the finality of it sink in, and not nearly as long enough for it not to sting. Still. It hurt like a hot iron embedded in your heart once you had to curtsey for the prince. 

He had barely bowed back.

And now the two royal families - as well as several esteemed members of your council - were spread out in the grand meeting hall. Watching as the blond-haired royal turned his nose up at the plate of intricate desserts offered to him by a male attendant—he flicks his hand at the boy and orders the woman standing beside him to do it.

The woman being no one else but the most talented healer in all the land. 

Shoko Ieri looks ready to stab him with her scalpel.

“Compensating.” A low whisper sounds from behind you.

You don’t have to turn to know that it’s Choso- but you do anyway. And your heart flutters just a little as you spy his warm brown eyes through the gaps of his visor, “Pardon?”

He repeats, “Compensating.” Nodding towards Naoya who had now roped your mother into a spiel about his armory.

“—we boast the largest swords in the entire world, you see.” Naoya was bragging in his grating tone, and your poor mother could only nod. “The best- the biggest. Any old cod can claim that size doesn’t matter and yet our biggest swords are-”

You can’t help it - you catch Choso’s eye and you both have to force yourselves from bursting into a fit of chuckles.

Both turning into each other.

Your hand clutching Choso’s arm for support.

Choso’s gentle hum of laughter breezing the top of your head.

Only too late do you realize that everyone in the room had their eyes turned to you - each in varying degrees of horror at the proximity between a princess and her knight. Except for Shoko who had gone from glowering at the prince to looking somewhat…knowing.

Damn you, Shoko—you’re half-heartedly cursing her out in your head as you straighten up. Trying not to flinch as Choso follows and takes a step backwards to stand behind you.

As a knight is told to be.

You can’t see the expression on Choso’s face nor his demeanour, but what you do know is the familiar creaking of metal as your best friend sags in on himself. Almost shielding himself from the world underneath all that armor. 

Perhaps from it.

You notice that he always did so whenever someone in court made his place known: whenever they flickered their eyes between the two of you, whenever they pushed their noble sons to greet you, whenever they questioned just why a knight was allowed to even look at the princess like so.

He took it all to heart. Crumpled it up inside, and in doing so he crumpled that beating thing as well.

You wanted to say something—but you knew you couldn’t.

And, of course, it’s Naoya who speaks first. “Hmm, once we are wed then I shall have to make sure that such a thing is not repeated.”

“There is no such thing to speak of.” You speak through a grit smile.

“So you say—” He takes a bite of a puff pastry and places it back on the golden plating, “-but as your husband, it is I who shall have the final say.”

Yell strangled in your throat, you take a step forward-

Only for your father to sense the growing tension and ease his way in, “So is that to say a royal wedding might be on the horizon?”

Naoya takes his sweet time answering, “Well…” Looking straight at you as he contemplates, he wipes off a bit of leftover vanilla cream from the edge of his lip and flicks it. “That is what I’m saying, Your Majesty.”

Your father claps his hands heartily, “Send for the wedding preparations right away—! Oh, and draft the announcement for the-”

But you don’t hear a single word.

It feels numb.

It feels like something’s buzzing inside of your head.

You’re unsteady on your feet until a cold metallic hand reaches out and clasps hold of you.

You know it’s Choso and you do not let go.

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Your heart aches at the letter you receive on the morning afterwards: the morning of the official announcement.

“My dearest princess, cry not.

Cry not—for a single drop of your tears is worth more than all the raindrops in heaven, all the rays of sunlight kissing the Earth, and all the beats of my heart. 

It has been running rattle-brained, foolishly wild, these past few hours as I stagger upon the thought that I may lose you. Not that this lowly admirer had you in the first place, my dearest princess, you must forgive me for my presumption. But in every little way in which you are mine, I gain to lose you still.

Cry not for a man that should not cry for you, my dearest princess. Cry not for a man that cries for you still.

And I…above all I am a selfish man. I am a selfish man—utterly selfish—and should all the world’s laws be up to me, then you and I, should you wish it, would have been married four summers past.

Alas, I am overruled.”

You’re dressed for the public.

And once you’re escorted to the royal balcony where all palace announcements are conducted, you look up from the ground just in time to see Yuji catch Choso’s eye. The long-haired man behind you shakes his head.

Though you’re not quite sure what it means, it somehow makes you feel all the more worse.

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Dearest gentle reader, 

Though it is not in good manners for a lady to gasconade, allow this writer here to tell you that I had proclaimed so—a royal wedding is forthcoming!

You have read that right, dear reader!

Don your best silks and gather your best florals, for soon her Royal Highness, the princess, shall be wed to Prince Naoya Zenin. According to what was proclaimed at the most recent palace announcement, a grand wedding is to take place in a week’s time, immediate after the Royal Diamond Ball, to celebrate the union. Though experts speculate that this marriage is likely of political origins rather than the heart-fluttering romance that some think, one thing is for certan—His Highness, Naoya Zenin, certainly seemed to take the affair in stride.

Witnesses to the official announcement claim that the prince simply couldn’t keep the smile off of his face at the thought of his beautiful new bride (though others claim that it’s due to his imminent rise to the throne thereafter, as he isn’t the first heir to the Zenin Family—however, you didn’t hear that from me, dear reader!)

Others at the site were more entranced by none other than the princess’s trusty personal knight - Choso Kamo was expectedly standing guard beside Her Highness. But what caught the attention of eagle-eyed onlookers was rather the…expression upon his handsome face.

You could not pay me to name a more heart-broken man, dear reader! You could not!

Perhaps this is an omen of how the wedding preparations are being handled behind the curtains? Perhaps this is an omen of…something more?

This writer has a personal inkling about the reasons as to why knight Choso might have looked at Her Highness with nothing less than sorrow (did somebody say tears in his eyes?) 

And amongst this roulette of wishful men I know you’re asking me—but Lady Whistledown, what of the princess’s secret admirer? 

Well—you’ll be happy to know that I come with reliable insight that the secret delivery of love letters has yet to cease! Yes, gentle reader, this particular admirer seems quite passionate in their affections. Even going so far as to send one just after the announcement. Should the letters have yet to halt now, one can only imagine whether they shall stop even after the royal wedding.

The prince. The admirer. The knight (perhaps?) How can one choose?!

Yours Truly,

Lady Whistledown.

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“Big brother-”

“No-”

“Big brother, I simply state that-”

“Quiet, Yuji.” 

Choso’s tone comes out harder than he’d intended, and his chest clenches at the wounded look in the younger boy’s eyes. Without wasting a single second, and without looking to see if anyone was nearby, he’s lunging forwards and embracing the boy into his arms.

Holding him just as he had when they were children and the pink-haired one would fall and bruise himself- though the only one that feels bruised right now is Choso.

It had been a week since the wedding announcement.

And all preparations had been in full swing: enough so that between all the dress-fittings, and the flower-pickings, and the guest-greetings, Choso hadn’t even had the time to exchange a proper conversation with you. Not that he was in the place to - especially not anymore.

Tonight was the Royal Diamond Ball of the season, where one Diamond shall be picked, always taking place inside the palace.

Except, this time, it had doubled in both extravagance and guest-list due to the simple fact that tonight was also the grand ball before your wedding. Tomorrow morning you would walk down the aisle in a dress of white.

Tomorrow morning you will be another’s wife.

He hugs his younger brother tight, “Yuji, I apologize for my brash words-”

“You have nothing to apologize for.” Yuji finally breaks the hug, “I was simply careless with my own words.”

“You were not-”

“I just don’t understand why you can’t be happy- why both of you can’t be happy. Together.” He looks away, eyes filling with tears he knows wouldn’t encompass even the tiniest fraction of what his brother has shed over this very reason. “It’s just not fair.”

“Some things…some things are meant to be the way they are.” Choso stares ahead at the gilded hallway spread out before him, “We must simply persist.”

Yuji looks as though he wants to say something more- but at that very moment, the doors to your royal chamber are opening. The two knights had been stationed there until you were fussed-over and all dolled-up for the Royal Diamond Ball tonight - the last as an unwed princess. The last before you were bound to Naoya Zenin.

And looking at you now, Choso thinks that it would’ve been worth it to cut down the wedding and all its procession for you.

Because there wasn’t a word to describe you.

The soft champagne of the taffeta draped over your shoulders and puffed up fashionably at your arms, cascading down in a waterfall of expensive silks up to your ankles. Following were glistening pearls that only brought out the beauty of the dress - your beauty - wrung at the edges of your hem and necklines. Delicate bracelets where your hands were gloved. A singular diamond hanging from your neck. And of course—your tiara.

It weighed heavily on your head.

Your ladies-in-waiting had dabbed on a bit of glittering rouge on your lips.

It was all that Choso could stare at.

You weren’t just bound to be the Diamond of the season, you were a diamond from the night sky. And he’s still trying to find a word to describe you that he knows wouldn’t come close, not even in a hundred of his l—

“Choso?” You cock your head gently at him. Trying not to bite down on your lower lip in nervousness and smear your attendants’ hard work, “Is something the matter-”

“Enchanting.” He blurts out- but that wasn’t enough. Would never be enough.

You look at him with slightly widened eyes, and he wouldn’t take the word back anyway. He looks at you and says in a more firm tone, “You look enchanting, my princess.”

You try - and fail - to bite back a smile—and ultimately end up swatting him on his armored chest. “Enchanting? Do not think that flattery shall stop me from forcing you into a dance tonight.”

“Ah—foiled again!” He dramatically looks to the skies.

“Fool.” You joking strike him again - Choso had dressed up for the occasion as well. His armor had been polished until it shined like a mirror, reflecting your own two ogling eyes back at you. Even the hilt of his blade looked deathly sharp.

He’d pushed his visor up and that gave you a glimpse of those two doe-like eyes, chestnut brown and warm. He was staring at you in a way that made you squirm.

Though Lady Whistledown’s society papers tended to use pretty prose, what they hadn’t lied about was this. Just how handsome he was.

“P-perhaps we ought to make our entrance.” You say.

And he nods in understanding, “We ought to—” But, what Choso realizes, is that he doesn’t understand at all.

And his breath hitches as you clutch onto his right arm with both hands. Attaching yourself against his side- how he wished he could feel the warmth of your body through his armor-

“These shoes are far too tall.” You fail to meet his eyes, “Forgive me, but if I could use a bit of support until-”

“Anything you want, my princess.” He breathes.

Your actual entrance into the grand ball is a blur - you’ve attended far too many of these in far too short a time before. It’s the crunch of velvet carpet underneath your too-tall shoes, and the strangely burning sensation of all eyes being directed at you. 

At the way you were still holding onto Choso.

You distance yourself from him silently, and he falls in step behind you. The master of ceremonies announces your name even though everyone here already knows it. The staircase is never-ending and unrelenting, each step louder than the thundering of your heartbeat, a staccato of what feels like your own unravelling.

You’re slightly off-kilter as you reach the end- before a hand shoots out to help you.

You grasp onto the man’s calloused hand gratefully, looking up to realize that it was Yaga. 

“Watch your step, Your Highness.” He helps you stand and wade through the crowd. As the head knight, Yaga had the freedom to forgo the armor tonight. It was a strong navy blue, nearly the entire chest of it covered in numerous medals and colors - warning off keen-eyed nobles from nearing. 

You catch sight of Naoya surrounded by ladies-in-wait by the feast-

Yaga’s voice breaks through, “What is it that’s on your mind, Your Highness?”

“Nothing.” You answer instantly, “It’s just- it must be pre-wedding jitters.”

“I see…” He looks at you intensely, and you feel as though he can see right through you. Know right through what you’re really feeling. “Then in that case, all is well, correct?”

“Correct.”

He almost smiles, “And you are ready to be wed to His Highness Naoya, correct?”

“C-correct.”

“And you shall be thinking of a certain knight- or a certain admirer on the altar, correct?”

“Correct-” You falter, “Excuse me?”

“Ah—it seems the orchestra is commencing.” Yaga looks into the distance where the violin players had started easing in soft trills, as if music itself had waited for your arrival. “Now, my back is certainly too weathered for such dances- but I shall hold you with me no longer, Your Highness.” He turns to you and gives you a gentle smile, “Go—have your first dance.”

You almost plead, “But with who?” Naoya was still…occupied with all the court ladies- not that you would ever in a million years want to dance with Naoya Zenin in the first place-

“Whoever your heart may desire.” Yaga interrupts your thoughts, letting go of your hand- though not before pressing in something delicate and flat into it. He looks somewhere behind you—“A letter, asked of me to hand to you. I only implore that you stay as true to your heart, as he is to you.”

As Yaga disappears into the crowd starting to twirl in their tulle skirts—you open that little piece of paper up.

A short message.

“My dearest princess,

Steps behind you, a vision I do not deserve to see. 

The most enchanting girl in the world to me.”

Enchanting.

The paper nearly falls out of your hand, and you can only look behind you - to where Choso Kamo was refusing to meet your eyes. His metallic visor was down and you couldn’t help but step closer.

Uncaring what they say as you’re reaching out and fastening it upwards- “Is this your penmanship, my dearest knight?”

He does not answer.

“Do you think I look enchanting, my dearest knight?”

He does not answer.

“Does your heart beat solely for me, my dearest knight?”

He does not answer.

“Do you not wish for me to be married—” At that, he flinches like a wounded animal. And you already know that he most certainly won’t be answering that question. Which is why you’re answering instead, “For I feel much the same towards you.”

He snaps his head up, glittering brown eyes pleading down at you. He breathes…“Of which sentiment?”

You smile, “All of it.”

“A-and the marriage-” Choso takes a jerky step towards you, his armor creaking like the weight of dungeon chains. “The alliance-”

“May I have this first dance?” You simply reach your hand out.

And as the music crescendos, he takes your hand and presses a kiss to the back of your head. Letting you lead into a golden floor.

Gasps deafen the ballroom music.

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The Ton was a-flutter and a-ripe with scandal as you spent your first dance at the Royal Diamond ball with your knight instead of your betrothed. At least, that’s what you imagine - the truth is that you’d been too entranced with Choso Kamo to even pay attention.

He’d held you gently - so gently - as though his large hands could break you at any given moment. 

And Choso had never let his eyes stray from your figure as he twirled you around the ballroom. He would have cared about the whispered- he should have…but how could he when he had the most enchanting girl in the world in his arms?

Too soon- your dance was cut short by an arm on Choso’s shoulder. Stopping him.

You’d both turned to face Naoya Zenin, furious spit lining the edges of his lips. He had barked out a formal order for the knight to step aside and hand him your dance- and though Choso’s hand had gone to his sword…

You’d shaken your head at him.

It was a half-dance with Naoya (of which you’d excused yourself feigning networking duties) and a hastened walk to the edge of the ballroom. Right where Choso Kamo was attempting to blend into the gilded ballroom.

You’d nodded discreetly at him and he already knew—

With Yaga suddenly causing a commotion- accidentally spilling his red wine on Lady Mei Mei’s dress, no one had noticed the two of you slipping out after the second dance. Before the Diamond was announced.

He followed you silently, two steps behind as a knight should, all the way up to your royal bedroom.

It was only once you’d reached your towering double doors that you took Choso by hand- all but dragging the handsome knight inside. And though he’d squawked in surprise, you’d merely looked at your best friend with determined eyes.

“Take me, Choso.”

He gasps. His shudders.

He was going to ruin the princess.

CLANK!

CLANK!

CLANK!

CLANK!

Choso’s heavy armor fell to the ground—

CLANK!

The last of it before the knight scoops his strong arms underneath your legs and hoists you up into that princess carry you’ve read about in every fairy tale. Choso walks you gently over to the expansive bed, before setting you down and laying you all flat—

“Why’re you by the foot of the bed, Cho?” You’re huffing down at the man who was now pressed against the mahogany bedframe. He had his knees down on the soft carpet, kneeled at your feet. Grabbing onto one of Choso’s toned arms - still in a gauzy white poet’s shirt that had been worn underneath his armor - you attempt futilely to pull him upwards. “Come lay with me.”

Looking away with a blush. “Why…have you really not the faintest idea, my dearest princess?” Hearing those words from his mouth sends shivers down your spine. 

He looks at you with dark, half-lidded eyes. Hands spreading your thighs apart and sliding down the sides of your legs. Beneath those customary layers of silk. Choso’s hands keep roaming, and there’s a sudden rush of heat pulsing down to your core once you register his fingertips scraping the edge of your undergarments. 

Mouth falling slightly agape.

“I-It’s only customary to give the lady a kiss before the dance—”

You’re gasping as your brain registers the innuendo- but not before Choso dips his mouth down and gives your cunt a looooong kiss through your sodden panties. Open-mouthed and hot.

He draaaaags the tip of his tongue down your slit n’ tastes you for the first time. Letting a single droplet of your syrupy slick end up splashin’ on his tongue- and he fucking moans. Loud.

Just so husky and attractive that it makes your body buck up into him without even realizing.

And it’s all that Choso needs to let go of his inhibitions. It’s all that he needs to hold both your wrangling thighs down and press himself even deeper against your aroused cunt. Nose-deep. Chest heaving in such guttural puffs.

It’s as if the knight didn’t even need to breathe as long as he could reach deeper against your sopping slit. So wet that he’s feeling your puffy pussylips through the fabric of your underwear- he slashes his tongue between your folds and makes you rut-

“Wh-what is this feeling…ngh.” Unable to help but pipe up in a shrill tone, you struggle to keep your hand pressed against your noisy mouth.

And he doesn’t even answer.

He can’t.

He’s lurching his mouth back and forth at a frenzied pace—crazed. Licking his tongue all over the inches of your cunt he could reach, rubbin’ his ridged tastebuds up and down the swollen outer part of your pussy. 

You were just so damn soaked that it almost felt as if there was no barrier between your pussy and his ravenous mouth at all. Gaping even wider open and heavily kissing your pussy, he was almost thrusting his face against your sensitive cunt-

“Choso-” You gasp, your breaths all dampened. Hands weaving through his long brown hair for dear life. “Choso oh heavens—”

It was just too enchanting how your voice broke on the very last syllable of your sentence. And Choso can’t deny that it makes something carnal deep inside him twitch- “My dearest princess.”

“O-oh…” And you certainly didn’t expect his murmuring tone to send vibrations running up your spine like that.

Breathy. “Is that good, my dearest princess?” Choso’s mouth waters at the way his words only seem to make you splosh out in even more slick—gushing. It trickles greedily down either side of his mouth like two slick rivulates. And you can’t help but snap your head down and think that he looked utterly drunk - gaze half-lidded, lips puffy and red, forehead beading with sweat from his movements. Kissing. “My dearest princess.” Heaving. “My dearest princess.”

“P—please—” You’re trilling out, your head falling into the pillows behind you. “Choso, heavens, I beg of you to c-catch your breath-”

“And yet does it feel good, princess?”

That broken lil’ sentence of his punctuated by the most sloppy slash between your pussylips- smearin’ them apart and accurately pinpointing your clit. With the flexible tip of his tongue he presses inwards against that soft spot and makes you see stars.

Sends your hips rutting furiously against his pretty face, and your moans roaring. “Damn—fuck.” His cock throbs at the way he’d made such a poised, perfect princess break her demeanor. Swear- shit, he really was ruining you. “Fuck, yes- mmm, it feels so good.”

“Feels so good…what?” He’s rasping out.

And you have to blink through your film of tears down at him- “What?” He was now creating a rhythmic mwah of his lips down upon your clit - just lick upon lingering liiiiiick to drive you absolutely wild. 

“It feels so good—” He’s groaning out straight into your cunt, already knowing that you’d be left all tender with his voice And just then you feel two pointed canines snag against your throbbing nub and almost…bite. “-who?”

“Choso—” So that was what he wanted all along? To have you hiccup and squeal his name as he draaaagged his lips from corner to corner of your leaky crevice and lapped up every ounce you gave? To have you absolutely shattered- “Choso-”

“Yeeees?” Alternating between snagging his honed canines down your clit n’ suckling on it.

Like his most favorite candy from the feast downstairs- and yet, you’d be the sweetest dessert out of them all. He was making out with your pussy just like it, too. “Choso- fuck, Choso I didn’t have the daftest idea that you could ever—mmm, it just feels too good.”

“Feels good?” He’s gutturally gasping, teeth scraping through your panties and creating little tears. Wrapping his pink lips ‘round your clit and hollowing his cheeks out of sheer force- “This feels good?”

“Yes-”

Nibblin’ his pearly whites down on your undergarments and tearing it down your slit. Swipin’ his tongue back and forth- “This feels—good-”

“Yes.” You gurgle out. It’s more and more. 

It’s just the pinkish tip of his tongue that was proddin’ at your bundle of nerves. He slips it into a tiny hole town through your silken undergarments- and it’s enough to make your hips cleanly arch off the mattress. “Ch-Chosoooo—” 

Choso’s darkened eyes flap wider open- “Suppose that feels even better, my dearest princess?”

And all he really wanted to do was make you numb with pleasure.

All he really wanted to do was slobber his mouth across that sweetened cunt of yours until he couldn’t even breathe- he’d be satisfied by the fact.

And Choso isn’t even thinking twice before he’s weighing down on one of the tears in your panties - something that he’d done with his very own mouth. Now his crowned fingertips were pushing against the delicate fabric and making it rip-rip-riiiiiiiiiip—!

Not even all the way through.

Just enough for two of Choso’s rightly thick fingers to seep through your undergarments and kiss your hole dead-on.

You flinch as he’s spreading your entrance with the most lecherous slurp! The knobbled ends of his digits pushing aside both your pussylips and simply aiming for that cutely leaking hole- how in heavens were you this wet? This tantalizing?

Tasty.

Choso reaches his slick-gazed fingers out of your cunt and raises it up to his vision - glimmering in the pale moonlight with all your candied liquids - he doesn’t hesitate before plopping them straight into his mouth. His eyes roll to the back of his skull and Choso moans as he tastes you- 

“S-shoooo good—” 

Fuck, was he slurring his words?

You’re raising up onto your elbows to question him, “Choso, did you just-”

But Choso doesn’t seem to hear- Choso doesn’t even seem to have anything running through his mind right now except for you and your pretty pussy. You and your pretty pussy.

You and your pretty pussy that gapes just as he pumps a few inches of his fingers inside - cunt getting glossed in your clingy slick once he squeezes his way inside. He’s feeling for the way your sopping wet walls glue to him like adhesive- stopping him briefly in his tracks before Choso’s stickin’ a thumb on top of your clit and making you take him.

“C’mon-” He hisses between clenched canines, brows furrowing down in concentration. “C’mon c’mon—it feels good. Doesn’t it, princess?”

“It does-” Hiccuping - trying and failing to buck your hips up for more. But the only thing you’re doing is succeeding in having Choso slip a hand up to grab your waist, pinning your body down to the squeaky mattress with such ease.

Your knight’s keeping your body on a damn leash while he fucks out a slooooow and sensual tempo between your legs. Just the fatness of each finger roverin’ deeper spots inside your walls, you swear you can feel out every single stretch. “Easy there, princess.” He knew his princess’s body better, it seems. “It feels good, doesn’t it?”

“It does but—fuck.” And just then Choso’s hooking his fingers in an incredible way that leaves your legs weak. Plumply pushing against one bunch of your nerves and sending shockwaves up to your brain. “Fuck, I want more, Choso.”

“Patience, Your Highness.” Choso spits out- literally. A dangling ribbon of saliva that clings onto your pussylips n’ makes it easier for the first inch or two of his digits to slip inside.

“But Choso—”

“Patience.” He hums, low vibrations. The space between your legs lets out the most lecherous loud squelches as he’s probin’ in and out. Watching as your swollen pussylips stretch out aaaaaaaall wide open- 

He curls his lengthy digits against the velvety roof of your cunt. Making you just twitch, he’s grinning his slick-lipped grin. “I know you’re all needy right now, princess. But you need to learn to take it loooong and slow—” Emphasizing it by dragging his puffy digits along your walls and scissoring them multiple times. “-like that, see? That feels good, hm?”

“It does, but…” You pout.

Choso’s long lashes quiver, eyes widening slightly. “But?” Slightly crazed.

“But I want- hck!” Further pushing your slobberin’ cunt against his features, you’re dragging your most sensitive bits along his faces and shivering as it grazes his prominent nose. Desperately yowling, “But I want more-”

“Then command it.”

You snap your eyes open, “P-pardon?”

“Then command it.” But it still doesn’t sound real in your ears- ringing with pressure from his fingers slipping in and out. Hitting almost every spot you wanted him to—almost. He latches his mouth ‘round your clit once more and- he doesn’t suck. No.

Choso’s sinking his teeth into that perfect lil’ nub and draaaaagging it right out a centimeter or two until you scream. Fluttering his pretty lashes, “Aren’t you the princess, my dear?” Barely even waiting for your answer before your cunt squelches with a third one of his fingers- “Aren’t I your knight? Go on—command me.”

“P-please-” And Choso gnaws his teeth down even more meanly to stop you from using your royal manners. Until all you can do is bend your spine into the perfect curvature and puuush- grabbing onto his sweaty locks with absolutely no mercy. “Choso, I order you to go harder.”

His cock has never been harder. 

He’s not even giving you a warning before thwacking! a strike with three globular fingertips, all the way at the very gooey bottom of your pussy. Rasping. “Harder?”

“Faster.” You barely gasp. “Choso, I-I order you-”

“Faster?” As if the only thing he can do when he’s so focused on fucking your pussy in harsh, thumpin’ hammers is that mantra of your words. “What else? What else, my liege?”

“Leige…” Bouncing your hips up, up, up—you might be too gone on his perfectly girthy fingers to realize the way you were swervin’ your waist to and fro. Just letting his lengthy fingers navigate the slick maze inside of you, plump fingertips spearheading inside like a spotlight and curving against every spot. 

But Choso notices.

Of course, he notices.

He’s noticed every single thing about you, silent and stoic at your footsteps, for years. Always looking. Always admiring from afar—and he knows when you want something. “What else do you wish for, my princess? What else makes your pussy- hngh, feel good?” 

“I want you to h-hit that one spot-” You’re blubbering through your constant tears. Moving your hips just to the side so that his curvaceous fingers were nearing where you wanted him the most. “So close—oh.”

“Never tell me to do anything twice, Your Highness.” He mutters, tone shot. “I’m always at your service.”

And he was.

And he was shovin’ his fingers - almost thickened with how long they’d been inside you - straight against that bundle of your nerves. Against that crevice you’d heard dubbed as your g-spot from that scandalous literature hidden away at the back of the library…

And when Choso had found that particular spot, he was hitting it like a madman—

Once. Twice. Thrice.

The way he’d memorized just where it was and mapped out every single inch of space inside you was dizzying. The way he’d leave a few sultry split-seconds to twirl his bulbous fingertips against your g-spot before reeling back and thud-thud-thudding. “It feels good, right?”

He was back to that familiar mantra and it was sending zaps of power down your spine to realize just how breathy he sounded. Just how smoky. Just how shattered.

Choso was eating you out like he was going crazy with every lick up your weepin’ pussy crevice. Uuuuup and down and fightin’ against his very own fingers to stick the edge of his tongue inside your quivering hole. “It feels so-” You’re gripping onto the strands of his hair stupidly, “So good-” Tears freely flowing down your cheek with just how many times he was mercilessly forcing his way against your sweetest spots. Your most favorite. “So good- so good- sooo good—”

You smack your hips up in a sloppy drag down Choso’s face and he moans. 

“Choso, you’re just the best—”

And that? Those particular words are just about enough to make his red-hot, achingly hard erection pulse once. Twice.

Beading out a silky trickle of cum that darkens his thick pants.

Before he’s frankly quite sure that he might be on the verge of cumming- and such a valiant knight could never cum before his lovely princess, now, could he? Not daring to be so selfish, Choso heightens the pleasure and pressure until his tongue looked like nothing but a strawberry-pink blur lickin’ into every nook and cranny of yours. Slap-slap-slapping down on your clit.

And his fingers were fucking into you so hard- so ruthlessly. Viciously banging your g-spot like a constant bullseye and Choso was an expert at archery. Didn’t you know?

He doesn’t slow down - doesn’t dare to - even once your drenched walls start convulsing around him in a staccato. Even once you open your mouth in a soundless scream.

Even once you start to cum—

And Choso had never smiled wider in his entire life than he does right now with his lips glued to your pussy. Salivating. Tongue strokin’ your clit through every peak of your high- “C-cumming, Choso.” You pant out tearily. “And I can’t seem to stop…”

“You don’t have to.” Right on cue he bangs a roughened thrust just against your g-spot. Leaving you throbbing and aching for more.

And everything ‘more’ that you want - Choso’s more than happy to give.

Your loyal knight elongating your wave of bliss with his slick fingers. The perfect amount of thickness to stretch your walls but also leave you keening at his rapid pace- he pinpoints each tender point of your orgasm and thrashes against your nerves right at that exact moment.

Again.

And again and again.

And again—until your high makes you see white-hot stars behind your closed eyelids. Planting sloppy drags down his face right in synchronization, “Any longer and I don’t believe I shall cum any more, Choso.”

“As long as it feels goooood, princess.” He gurgles out, “Heh, so good that your body can’t cum anymore.”

“I-I don’t believe it works like- fuck.” Lips soiled with tears and saliva. Glazed. Doesn’t matter how much you’re running your voicebox ragged, because Choso doesn’t even slow down- not even when he’s fucked you through your orgasm and letting it taper out into mere tingles.

Shots of power. Vulgar strokes barely even starting to falter as you begin to feel so utterly raw n’ overstimulated. “But Choso, I want…”

“Hmmmm?”

He sounds so gone on your pussy that you know merely asking nicely won’t make Choso latch off. Experimentally, you’re tugging on his sweat-drenched bangs and he doesn’t even budge-

“Choso Kamo.” You’re starting out, struggling to keep your voice steady. And yet at the tone of your voice, Choso flinches as though he already knows- “As your princess, I order you to just fuck me already.”

He takes a few seconds to detach from your pussy.

Pulling away his sticky slick-glazed lips with a superior squeeelch! And Choso stares up at you with dark, half-lidded eyes. “As you wish, Your Highness.” 

His ruined voice sends shivers across every inch of your body.

A body that he’s now plastering his hands onto and all but tearing through your soft layers- like butter underneath his strong hands. He’s ripping your silken gown straight through the middle, “I shall summon the tailor first thing tomorrow morning.” Choso grunts, already reading that expression on your face. “Worry not- your next dress shall be white, my princess.”

“Wh-white…” You breathe out, feeling light-headed at the implication.

Before you know it, all Choso has unhooked your half-corset and left you all exposed for him. For him to ravenously sweep his eyes down. For him to gaze upon every inch of you and gulp- was his mouth watering just at the sight of you naked?

But you’re not left too long to ponder upon the thought before Choso starts shrugging off his gauzy shirt and trousers. He’s letting the buttons pop open—pop! pop! pop! And displaying such a firm chest chiselled with prominent pecs, further down along were naturally ripped abs and the most sensual happy trail.

All dark and slightly unruly where it dips juuuust below his pants hemline.

Choso flattens his thumb against those golden buttons and lets himself spring free- and oh. 

Oh.

You have to bite back a gasp out of sheer manners, though it should be rather obvious that you were ogling him. All about seven or eight inches of him- maybe more. Definitely more.

The cutest blushin’ pink at his tip, growing slightly more pale towards the base.

Glistening shaft. Heavy balls. He’s decorated with more veins than you might’ve imagined from him, and he’s so hard that each time they twitch his erection flinches in mid air. Fuck…Choso’s just so long and rock-hard that his puckered pink tip jumps upwards and smears a swipe of glistening sap across his abs. It glares at you like a smirk, and Choso sleazes out a smile right back. 

Letting his head fall backwards once he gives his long cock a good pump.

“Oh…” He’s swearing underneath his breath, edging in closer on two capped knees. Those meaty thighs of his were just irresistible - all meaty and milky and flexing.

The slight muscles in his legs twitch as he inches closer to you on the bed. Cornering you against the headboard, Chose wields his swollen tip cloooose between your legs- kissin’ your puffy pussylips. Just a single swipe. “Fuck.”

And that’s all it takes for Choso Kamo to break on your pussy.

Head hanging downwards. Long locks covering his face. The entirety of his body fucking lurching- he’s messily creaming down your slit with copious amounts of cum.

Scorchin’ hot and sticking to you like adhesive.

It dribbless between your folds and enters your hole just the sliiiightest bit - already enough to start sploshin’ inside you and make you feel stuffed to the brim. You’re squirming at the unfamiliar sensation—and what does Choso do?

He’s reeling his hips back and rutting against you like a damn animal.

Unable to control himself. Merely pushing his fat cockhead between your pussylips and shoving- he groans at the way he couldn’t even fit the honed point of his very honed tip inside. 

Just sliding lecherously past your pussylips and rubbin’ his veiny shaft down your front. 

The only thing that that’s doing is grazing your clit and driving the man on top of you absolutely wild. He’s huffing through a pout as he looks down, “I want- ngh, I want to make it feel good for you, my princess. But it just won’t seem to fit.” Without much warning, he’s slithering his right hand down and scissoring open your snug hole. “Does this pretty pussy need me to s-stretch her out even more?”

“Oh—maybe.” You blubber out, looking at him through a heady gaze. “Choso…it’s my first time.”

And he knows he should expect it- fuck, he’s been at your side through every second of every day after you’ve come of age. He should already know by now. 

His lips part, “Oh.”

“And I suspect it’s your first time, too?”

“It is…” Choso looks away bashfully, “My apologies, Your Highness, that I’m not experienced enough to perhaps give you the pleasure that you deserve-”

“Cho?”

He immediately shuts himself up, “Mhm?”

But instead of answering- you’re grabbing ahold of one of Choso’s muscular deltoids. It was just so plush and flexed as you moved him beneath you - flipping your positions over until his back hit the decadent mattress. And you’re clamoring on top of his slender hips, only slightly wobbly with the aftermath of your previous high.

All of Choso’s ivory sap dripped down your inner thighs and tried to glue them together. It was a treacly sheen that slid down his rock-hard abs.

And you’re gliding on top of him- draaaagging your swollen pussylips down his veiny shaft. A whimper lets out of your lips as his flared silt catches on your folds, “F-fuck—Cho, the court ladies told me about this particular position called, ahem- riding.”

He’s looking up at you with wide, heart-shaped eyes. 

And your veins bubbled with molten embarrassment and need, “I’m going to ride you now, alright?”

“Yes-”

“Yes…what?”

Choso breaks out into the most sinful grin you think you’ve ever seen on him- “Yes, my liege.”

And that’s all it takes for you to perk your hips up just a lil’ bit and let Choso’s round orifice trace the outer rim of your hole. Just getting your body trained to the size - and even that is enough to make the man beneath you squirm.

To make him blush. To make him gasp.

To make him reach both quivering hands up and dig them into the globes of your ass- he’s jolting as though fighting with himself over letting you take your agonizing pace or humpin’ up into you like an animal.

Crying out—“Please. I need you so f-fucking bad.” 

And you can pinpoint the exact moment that Choso’s husky voice breaks - all because you’re swerving your hips down and taking a gooood three or so inches of his fattened cock. Red-hot. Throbbing all the way deep inside of you.

The stretch was just so incredible that you’re seeing pure white- a primal moan ripping from your throat at the way he molded to your walls. Almost as if he was made for you.

He’s giving his first spurt of milky precum against your velvety channel, it drips down to your entrance and makes you twitch at the sensation.

Choso Kamo was ruining you from the inside and he wasn’t even trying yet.

Yet you’re still gasping- clawing onto his shoulders and then eventually down to his cushion-like pecs. Providing a firm hold for you as you’re trying to keep yourself balanced. Your mind muddled-

“Does- does it feel good yet, my princess?” Almost in the distance, you can hear Choso’s words echoing. They seem to rattle inside your emptied brain right now. “Does- does it- fuuuck—because it feels like heaven to me.”

“Shit, it feels so…” Your jaw drops agape, running out of words. Having him intruding at your innards like this wasn’t necessarily unpleasant- in fact, when he slightly rutted and rubbed against a few particular spots it almost felt unreal…

You’re keeping a firm grip on him and lightly bouncing your hips down - short, sloppy thrusts that give off a slurp! every time.

And Choso was giving off the prettiest little whimper every time you swallowed his solid tip. Just about two or three inches. “F-feels good?” He’s begging. Tears crinkle on the edges of his eyelids, and his lips wobble ever-so-slightly. “Feels good, right? Am I making my princess feel good?”

“So good.” You manage to gasp out. “Shit, I have yet to feel such pleasure with my fingers…”

“Being held at a degree higher than the fingers of my princess—?” He couldn’t believe it himself. And almost as though to confirm, Choso’s reaching over and lifting your dominant hand off of his pectoral. He brings it up to his mouth and gives it a long kiss, “Y-you cannot be serious.” Breathing in, as if to breathe in your essence. “The hands of my princess…”

Your jaw drops as his own does - opening wide enough to slip as few of your fingers inside and suck. “You’re more of a lecher than your innocent demeanour- ngh, lets on.”

“Only for you, Your Highness.”

And with your never-ending vulgar strokes, you’d managed to bully about half of Choso’s erection inside of you. It was a girth thick enough to stretch out hidden nooks n’ crannies inside you that you didn’t even know you had, and the perfect length to already be throbbin’ away by your g-spot…

You swivel your hips lightly enough to let his tip graze your most favorite spot- and you can’t help but fucking shake at the burst of sensations.

He’s hissing at the way you clench, “Oh, please-” Head falling backwards into the pillow in a dizzy haze. “D-does that little…squeeze mean it feels good?”

“Yes-” You gasp, “And it also means I ache for you more.”

Your best friend gulps, “Where?”

And it doesn’t take long for you to maneuver one of his calloused palms off of your hips and down to your stomach. Where it felt like he was so big that you could feel him from the outside—Choso presses down as he sinks in. “Here.” 

That was almost enough to make him cum.

But Choso had already cum earlier - and it wasn’t a matter of not being able to stuff your pussy full all over again. He’s sure he could cream himself dry on your pussy. It was more so the fact that, in order to make up for it, he needed to make you cum at least twice more before finally finishing off himself.

One taste of your cunt clenchin’ around him and he’s feeling a tear slip down his cheek.

Almost subconsciously - body moving before mind - Choso arches off the comforter to probe his blushin’ tip deep inside you. “Shit- you just reached so deep, Cho.”

“Would you like me to take over, Your Highness?” Oh—how he loved the way that title rolled off of his tongue when he fucked you. His lowly body marking out your insides-

And he’d known you for so long by now.

He knew everything about you: every like, every dislike, every tell about your body. And he already knows from the hazy look in your peripherals that you’d been growing tired, thighs twitching any time you tried to messily bounce down on his cock.

Which is why one of Choso’s large hands cup your ass and start to help you fuck back into him- his muscules flexing mouth-wateringly every time he did so. Deeper and deeper. “Come on, my princess.” The hand on your stomach lifts off and glides down your pussy’s slit. Perfectly finding and pressing down on your knobbly clit - so sensitive. “Come on- fuck, let this loyal knight of yours make you feel good.”

“But the thing is…” You whimper out, head dropping down to look at the space between your legs. Like this, the size difference between your puckered hole and Choso’s thick cock. Growing even thicker before your very eyes. “-you’re just so damn big, Choso. Will it even fit?”

“I can make it fit.” He answers readily, as though the answer had already been on the tip of his tongue. For years, actually - all those long nights since becoming your personal knight. With only his hand and the image of you. He knows he’s fucking pathetic. 

But he can’t bring himself to regret a single moment anyway. Because it’s only with that imaginary practice that he’s swervin’ his hips up to yours in slightly circular motions. “I can do anything for you.” 

“Anything?”

He gasps out, “Anything for you, Your Highness.”

With his tongue stuck between his teeth, he’s crossing his brows and focusing on simply sensually fitting his cock inside. Uuuup with that big stretch.

Your head knocks backwards, “Ch-Choso—” Never been stretched like this before. 

And then again with those rovering pushes.

“Choso.”

And again.

“Fuck-”

Choso wasn’t even answering any more - just couldn’t. He had his mind focused solely on one thing, and that was to pump all his generous inches inside you, which might be easier said than done considering how the longer he spent in contact with your pussy…the more pussydrunk he seemed to be becoming.

Until he was all but babbling—gasping, tearing up, fighting against the carnal resistance, holding onto you hard enough to leave nail marks all down your body. He was shovelling his ruddied cockhead with a thwack! against the very bottom of your pussy. 

Bottomed-out. 

You collapse down onto his chiselled chest with a strangled scream, feeling the metaphorical pop! of both your cherries. As well as the squirt of precum emptied out against your cervix-

The last thing you’re feeling before Choso’s leaving your entrance all sore.

Before he’s drilling up into you like a crazed man.

Fucking up into you with honed, deep thrusts - all the way from the globular edge of his shaft and then doooown until your clit scratches on the tufts of black hair at his base. He’s whacking your g-spot and then skidding right down until his puckered tip meets your womb. Rapid. Ravenous.

The bed creaks from the sheer pace of his movements, mingling with the shrill noises that you were letting out yourself. “So this is what it feels like- oh.”

Choso drags his right thumb down your pussy’s slit- that dewy spot of your clit being the perfect target for him to press down on. “This is what it feels like—” There’s such a dreamy quality to his words, languid and slightly slurred. “It feels like absolute heaven j-just-”

“Just?” You look up at your knight when he trails off.

Not expecting him to break out into the most sleazy smile. “Just having my innocence taken by the princess.” He says it in a way that sends shives down your spine - firm and possessive.

And even more possessive was the way that Choso thereafter clings a hold onto your waist and pulls you down to him. His abs shifting underneath you as he presses a kiss to your bitten lips—as he spits a wad of his saliva between them. “Taking the princess’s innocence- the whole kingdom should know that I r-ruined their perfectly innocent princess.” He’s gasping out, lost in the feeling of his entire engorged inches being suctioned by your walls. “That I made her- hah, pussy mine.”

“Choso—” Your eyes blow wide in shock and pleasure.

Because just then the hand teasin’ at your clit decides to jump straight to pinching right there. 

It makes you twitch on top of him.

The pit of your stomach fizzling with something that feels good-

“Oh, but fear not, Your Highness.” He continues as if he isn’t just driving you wild. Ruining your insides with the constant, rhythmic squelching of his large cockhed—pushing and pushing. And pushing. 

Choso stares up at you with a half-lidded gaze - direct eye contact even when he’s craning upwards to bite down on your left nipple. Dark lashes fluttering, “For every part of me is likewise yours.”

“Every part?” You shudder.

“Every part.” In emphasis, his cock throbs furiously inside you. 

Succeeding in swervin’ in each glittering droplet of precum and slick and seed back in. He groans, “And you know you can ride this lowly knight as much as you want- as hard as you want.”

“I…” Your mouth feels as parched as a desert, “I would like that, my knight.”

Leaning slightly back on the bed, he’s letting you take more control. “Ride me- ride me dry, princess.” Just so achingly needy for you that you could almost taste it.

His salted-caramel taste sizzling at the back of your throat- his vanilla scent filling up your every other sense. You could now fit the pace to whatever you liked, “Sh-shit-” To whatever massaging rubs against your bundled nerves. “Shit—it’s almost t-too much. Impossible to believe.”

“Yeah? Feels good, doesn’t it?” Choso’s on board with his hand planted underneath your ass. Using a singular hand, he’s manhandling your hips up and down—up and down. Jerking you almost like a ragdoll down his incredible size, he lets every drop of his drivelling precum get sucked dry by your cute cunt. “Feels good riding your m-most loyal knight? Feels good making such a mess of me—oh?”

“It does.” You’re so stupid on his cock by now that you simply have to confess. “I—fuck, I must be true- it does.”

“Good.” Spittle drools down one edge of his lips. Choso Kamo wanted to be used. 

He wasn’t letting you even bounce your hips away for a mere millisecond- always chasing the back of your pussy with his cockhead. He hisses, “Feels good just- fuck, being fucked by the very man sworn to protect you, hm? Feels good knowing that all those years I’ve wanted this- all this time, I’ve imagined it like some pervert—” Choso casts a glance around the grand room, “All the nights I was here. All the days I spent watching you. Feels good knowing that I would’ve died just for a taste of your sweet cunt, huh?”

Thumb faster n’ faster on your clit.

“Feels good knowing that I shan’t ever in this life, nor any others, even so much as look at another?”

And another one of his rugged hands lifts up from your thighs to cup your cheek - he lets you hold your own chasing your high. Slurping and swallowing his fat cock between your legs intensely, as Choso wipes away a stray tear cascading down your cheek.

“Feels good knowing that you have bewitched me—you and this damn- pretty pussy.”

“Yes-” You’re whimpering out loud enough for it to echo across these four gilded walls. Your mind being a complete mess. “Yes, yes, yes—and I’m gonna…”

“Fuck.”

He’s feeling it before you do once you finally crash into your high.

It’s your second of the night, and just because you’re slightly overstimulated from it doesn’t mean that Choso’s about to slow down. Instead, he’s drilling into you with achingly needy strikes - all vicious pumps against the spot of your nerves, and then nicely sliding down the back of your cervix. Over and over.

A long overarching wave of your orgasm- “Ch-Choso.” One that leaves your body limp and helpless to the way he crushes you against his beating chest. “Need you to cum inside, Choso.”

You’re pleasing up at him in a way that’s irresistible.

“Let your climax at least settle, impatient princess.” He’s lightly chuckling. Increasing his ministrations on your poor clit - only elongating your zaps of pleasure.

Until he seemed to be numbing your body completely with so many sensations, all bubbling through your veins and pouring out in the form of your sweetened slick. “But I want it.” You huff. “What if that was an order?”

“Oh, you really are my spoiled princess. Even after I’ve already given you m-my cock and two orgasms…and my heart.” He’s echoing out in a parched tone. Increasing and increasing the sheer amount of pleasure he was giving you - until it you’re been fucked considerably past the twinges of your high.

Straight into another.

And it seemed to be exactly what Choso was waiting for- before he’s throwing his head back and cumming right in unison with you. “Fuuuuck- take it all.” Words trembling. “Take it all, my dearest princess, take it all from your knight.”

And you can feel him empty it out inside you.

His heavy balls twitching with the looong stripes of sap he was flooding out, they splosh against each of your crevices. Pumped deeper inside with every thrust. The smell of his arousal just twitches something dark and carnal within you- and you’re pushing your face into the crook of his neck. Inhaling that soft vanilla accent.

So in contrast with the pelvis slamming against yours, hard enough that his skin starts to redden. The sheer force of it is enough to make you flinch back - and enough for him to hold onto your body in any way he can and pin you down to his front.

Unable to escape, you can only whine at the way he fucks you through his high. “Oh my…” Your mouth starts to water. No novel or scandal sheet had ever described this before. “Ch-Choso you’re the best.”

And you swear that only makes him cum harder.

So much of it that it begins to trickle out of your hole almost immediately- something that Choso certainly couldn’t have. 

So he swipes his thumb down from your clit and starts swabbin’ those wads back inside.

“I ache for you.” He’s whimpering out, big bulbous tears glimmering on the edges of his lashes. His pink lips jut out into what almost looks like a pout, “My dearest princess, I ache for you-” Followed by the sharp inhale of breath once he grazes over your clit once more. “-so much so that it’s leaking out.”

“I ache for you, too, Choso. So much.” 

“Hah…not as much as I do for you.” As if the petering out of his ribbony white cum had ultimately brought back an inkling of his rationality again. “Though for a lowly knight to be so forward-”

You’re leaning down and wiping away the tears from his handsome cheeks. “Choso…you would never be undeserving of me.” It’s the firm tone that makes him freeze, snapping his head to you with sheeny eyes. “In fact, I could argue that it is I who does not deserve y-”

Choso doesn’t let you finish that sentence.

He’s kissing you long and sound.

And as he smiles against your lips, you decide that you have a long conversation to be had with your father at daybreak.

As heir to the throne.

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.

There is a celebration in the bejeweled chapel that morning.

Though not of a wedding, rather…a coronation.

With the promise of a wedding.

And as you sit upon your velvet throne, the crown jewels balanced heavily on your head and your hands, you feel the folded-up piece of paper tucked away in your locket. Humming.

You catch Choso’s eye, closest amongst the row of knights at attention.

You wink.

He smiles.

Yuji shoots you a thumbs up.

Yaga watches the scene and smiles a slight smile.

Shoko could not have looked more smug.

And Naoya? Though the Zenin family was happy to attend, one such prince was pointedly not invited. Nor would he be claiming any thrones any time soon.

As the ceremony continues, the letter pulses with delight-

“My dearest princess,

I love you. I love you. I love you.

Your dearest knight.”

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Dearest gentle reader,

Church bells are a-toll—though not for a royal wedding (though be patient, and we shall see the very same soon)—for it’s a royal coronation!

Her Highness, the princess, both shocked and scandalized the Ton at the Royal Diamond Ball last night by attending to her first dance with none other than…her personal knight. Yes, Sir Choso Kamo was chosen personally by the daring royal to be the gentleman that sweeps her off of her feet (on the dance floor). 

And query any ogling noble at the ball that night, and should they find the time between plucking the flies out of their mouth, then all shall confirm that the young couple was rather…scandalously close. Though keeping to his hands confined to places the Ton would approve of, it was rather evident that the way the princess and her knight looked at each other was ripped straight from a fairy tale. The romance!

And just as any good fairy tale should have an obvious villain, this writer’s insiders claim that Prince Naoya Zenin was certainly not happy with the incident. 

Though you must forgive this dear writer if my memory of such dudgeon royal guests is far from perfect. For I was far too occupied with the later…disappearance of Her Highness.

And most conveniently, her knight, as well.

The princess was most certainly not present as she was dubbed the Diamond of the season, nor would she have been able to keep her eyes (or hand) away from Sir Choso long enough to notice. You read that right, dear reader, the Ton has positively been fanning themselves all morning at the juicy details being whispered down palace halls.

My trusted sources claim that the princess and her knight had been locked up in her royal bed chambers…all night. And though the contents of what they may have gotten up to inside this chamber is all speculation, late-night patrol down the palace halls claim they heard the most…peculiar noises emanating from the princess’s bedroom.

All. Night. Long.

Though, of course, Her Highness’s ultimate return to the ball long past the Diamond announcement is a source of many rumors—this eagle-eyed writer would like to point out something else entirely.

Bite marks. Unsteady gait.

Glowing.

Perhaps all coincidence, of course, that Sir Choso Kamo had donned his knight’s armor and hidden any of his own marks from view. It is undeniable that the princess had been carrying evidence of a knight—my apologies, I meant night well-spent!

And perhaps most damning of all might be the fact that - after a terse discussion with His Majesty, the King, as my sources say - an announcement was made at the very cusp end of the ball.

Of the princess’s coronation as Queen tomorrow, and of Sir Choso Kamo’s induction as King Consort. He shall henceforth and forevermore be known as King Consort Choso Kamo, Duke of Kamo Estate. 

And lastly, of a summer wedding, due on the horizon. (Sources also claim something else due…a bundle of joy perhaps between the young couple.)

But that is enough of speculation—oh, what was that? 

I can hear your cries, gentle reader, I can hear them! Worry not, this writer is yet to forget a single detail of the most succulent gossip from the Ton - I already foresee your queries about what happened to Her Majesty’s secret admirer then.

I believe you shall be delighted to know that my insider tells me that…the very secret admirer you speak of is now King Consort. What a romantic twist to the tale!

Now as Prince Naoya fumes and my readers rejoice, excuse me while I dry my tears and pick out my best summer arrangements for this royal wedding—for you know that this writer must always be on the scene!

We wish the happy royal couple all the best with their preparations!

Yours Truly,

Lady Whistledown.

A/N. Any guesses on who Lady Whistledown might just be??

you were an art major at the university of jujutsu, scraping by on your salary from your dive bar job as you navigated the occasional ragers on weekends at suguru and satorus frat, sigma chi, along with the stress of creating.

your dream is to become a free lancer, taking commissions from big names and spending the rest of your life as a dignified artist. but, like all good careers, study and your minimum wage job came first.

the job you were working only an hour ago before suguru waltzed in and whispered lowly in your ear, "been thinking bout' you all day, baby. what time d'you get off?"

now, he's got your hair in a messy bunch as he hits it from behind, moaning and groaning like a fucking porn star. his cocks pushing the nastiest whines from your throat, but his pace never settles.

"fuckkk— you're a pro at takin' this dick, keep fluttering around me sweetheart, just like that." he pounds into you extra hard that time, letting you know exactly who has you wrapped around his finger.

he hovers over your body reeling with that hot afterglow, panting. the room now smells like his strong cologne and sex. he doesn’t rush to pull off of you, suguru never does that. instead, he stays there breathing steadily, his head dipped toward your shoulder.

“you good?” he asks, looking through your eyes deep into your head in that penetrating suguru way.

“yeah,” you say too breathless. you clear your throat and try again. “yeah– yeah. i’m good.”

he smiles contently and rolls off to the side, tugging you with him until you’re half draped over his big, bare, muscular chest. the bed creaks under the movement. his hand comes up to your back, the pad of his thumb pushing slow lines into the muscles.

it's moments like these when your mind starts to wonder why you feel so attached to this guy when all he really takes from you is sex, and all you get in return is an unstable sense of stability and a few party invites.

suguru lets out a stretch and a long groan, resting his chin in the top of your head as your tucked into his chest. “do you work tomorrow?”

“mhm, a morning shift,” you answer. “then gotta finish a com.”

“mm. that's rough, honey.”

honey..

you smile a little at that, even though he can’t see it. he always says that, like it’s a given that your life is busy and hard and worth acknowledging in his eyes. it’s stupid, but it matters to you and he knows that.

he gets a call from the bedside table, but hangs up the line immediately. that small gesture makes your brain go numb.

you hesitate, then speak before you can talk yourself out of having this conversation.

“hey, suguru?"

"hm?"

"you ever think about… i dunno. doing things differently?”

“different how?” he asks carefully, his massaging hand slowing down a tad.

you gulp. this is the line you've never crossed. the one you circle and circle and never, ever step over. “like… i don’t know. not sneaking around. not pretending this is just–"

“hey,” he cuts in gently, lifting your chin so you have to look at him. his expression isn’t unkind. if anything, that makes it worse. “you know where i’m at.”

you nod, even though your chest feels constricted. “i know.”

“i’m not looking for anything serious right now,” he says. it’s not mean. it’s not supposed to be dismissive in any way, shape or form, it’s just true. “i don’t want to give you the wrong idea, love."

then stop calling me that...

“i know,” you say instead, “i’m not asking for anything. i was just... thinking about it, i guess."

he watches you for a second, eyes searching your face like he’s checking for any excess damage. then he moves in and leaves a brief kiss on your forehead.

“you’re important to me,” he says. “you know that?"

you do, and you don’t. both at the same time somehow.

eventually, he falls asleep. you stay awake a little longer, staring at the ceiling, thinking about all the things you could never ask for from a man you'd been so indulged in.

~

monday's on campus were hot, long, and so, so boring.

you had a lecture on influences on modern art this morning, eugh.

you had your lecture materials and laptop tucked into your bag as you dragged your feet to the art block. the path curves around the science block, concrete stained and cracked from years of foot traffic. you slow your pace a little as you round the corner, adjusting your grip on your bag.

that’s when your wandering eyes land on a guy you'd never seen before.

he’s leaning against the wall just out of sight from the main path. his long brown hair shoved up into a messy man bun as the tattooed line across his nose stuck out starkly against his fair skin. he's toweringly tall, with baggy dark jeans held up with a leather diesel belt, campus 00's that'd seen better days, and a white beater adorning his muscular body. on his meaty arms, various detailed tattoos snake up and down in twisted patterns, with thick chained bracelets and leather studded cuffs wrapping around his wrists.

holy shit, this guy was your ever wet dream re-imagined.

his various face piercings and thing chain around his neck caught the morning sun as lyour steps slow down without you noticing.

this mysterious man isn’t alone. a guy you vaguely recognise from around campus stands off to the side yet still close, talking quickly with his eyes darting around. you look away instinctively, staring at your shoes, pretending you’re just another student late for class.

voices drift through the air, shoes scuff, then the other guy leaves in a hurry with his head head down.

when you glance back, the tall, grungey one is counting bills. a lot of them. he folds them without any sort of panic, then tucks them into his pocket like it’s nothing.

oh.

you look away again, heart jumping, suddenly very aware of how obvious you must seem. you tell yourself to keep walking. mind your business, you didn't see anything.

but when you pass the corner, you feel it. his eyes, all over you.

you risk a small glance over, and he’s looking at you openly, those brown irises almost choking you up. when your eyes meet, he smiles softly.

that was a surprise.

it isn’t suggestive in the gross way guys usually looked at you, it isn’t cocky or smug either. it’s warm and a little boyish like he’s amused yet slightly embarrassed by being caught, still, it's like he doesn’t mind it at all. like he thinks you’re cute for staring.

you rip your eyes away from the majestic looking boy and grab your bag tight.

you don’t look back at him, because you know you don't need to.

a guy like that stays engraved in your head for at least a week.

~

a few hours later, beta theta phi.

the house is weirdly quiet, everyone’s either in class, at the gym, or passed out somewhere upstairs.

the sun still burns hot as it squeezes its way through the blinds onto the leather couch choso's lounging in.

he’s got his legs spread and his boots planted flat on the floor, a thick stack of bills resting on his thigh. he counts slowly, he likes the feel of the paper, the weight of it, the reassurance that it’s all still there.

a cigarette sits loosely between his two fingers with white smoke floating upward as he exhales through his nose.

beta theta phi isn’t flashy by any means. the house isn’t huge or pristine, and to be honest, no one’s tryna pretend it is. it’s solid, very old money mixed with modern features. heavy, trusty furniture, scuffed floors, various trophies shoved onto wooden shelves without much care. it was a spot where loyalty mattered much more than appearance.

choso slots perfectly into this frat, like it was built from the ground up just for him.

he flicks through the last of the bills, taps the stack against his leg to even it out, then slips the money into a thick envelope. it joins two others already sitting on the coffee table. today was good. but when it came to choso, today was always good.

his brain start to wander, his mind flashing images of you this morning, your face all blushy and shy. he knows he only saw you for a few seconds, but he thought you were really cute.

he's knocked out of the day dream when the front door swings open and two rowdy brothers pour inside.

toji’s big booming voice wafts through the halls first, talking shit about something dumb with sukuna, who follows close behind. they've both got a towel draped over their shoulder, hair damp from the gym. they smell like sweat and cheap soap, muscles still tight from whatever they’d just put themselves through.

“yo,” toji says, spotting choso. “look at this guy. always sittin’ here so pretty.”

choso glances up, a corner of his mouth lifting. “yeah? ladies like pretty boys, js' look at gojo.”

"ain't that the truth, that guys drownin' in pussy." sukuna laughs.

they drop onto the couch beside him, the cushions dipping under their massive weight. sukuna reaches out, clasping choso’s hand in a quick dap. toji copies.

sukuna leans back, stretching his arms over the back of the couch. “you look relaxed.”

“that’s because i am,” choso replies, taking another drag before tapping ash into an empty can. “money’s good today.”

toji snorts. “when's it not?”

choso’s smile deepens, “that's true.”

toji eyes the envelopes on the table. “what’d you clear?”

“enough,” choso says easily. he doesn’t give numbers unless he feels like it. most of the time, he doesn’t.

sukuna whistles low anyway. “campus still eatin’ outta your hand, huh?” that gets a quiet chuckle out of him. “pretty much.”

it isn’t bragging, of course. choso was humble like that, it’s just fact.

everyone knows him. not in that loud, showy, gojo way, but in the way that keeps his name out of problems and his product moving cleanly throughout everyone's pockets. he doesn’t advertise his stuff, and he definitely doesn’t chase clients. people come to him because they trust him, because he never cuts corners, never shorts anyone, never brings problems back to his frat, to his brothers.

most of the frats on campus run through him. beta theta phi, obviously. but sigma chi too. alpha delta, kappa nu, even a few of the smaller houses that pretend they don’t need a plug until friday hits and everyone’s scrambling for grass no one bothered to get.

he keeps it all so organised and respectful, that’s why no one fucks with him.

he’s made more money than most people their age could even imagine. stacks on stacks tucked away, accounts spread out across multiple banks, investments already working for him while he lounges on a couch counting cash. he could’ve left school ages ago, perhaps disappeared to some holiday country and never looked back,

but he didn’t.

college is just so easy. it's nice and predictable, a cover as much as it is a choice. and beta theta phi gave him brothers who don’t ask questions they don’t need the answers to. he really liked that.

sukuna shifts, rolling his shoulders. “oh, speaking of sigma chi.”

choso glances at him. “hm?”

“they’re throwin’ some function this weekend,” sukuna says. “gojo was runnin’ his mouth in the locker room earlier. said we could all get free entry if you supply some dope.”

toji laughs. “classic.”

choso exhales smoke, considering it for half a second. “yeah. that’s fine.”

sukuna raises a brow. “that easy?”

“why not,” choso shrugs. “i can afford to lose a little.”

sukuna smiles. "it's a glow party, that rave kinda thing we never do because it gets too messy. so, gojo also wanted some molly, said he'd pay for that tho."

"done."

toji grins and leans over, clapping him on the back hard enough to jostle the envelopes. “fuckin’ legend.”

“seriously,” sukuna adds, nodding. “you’re so good to us.”

choso waves it off, already flicking ash again. “what can i say? i love you guys.”

toji lets out a loud laugh, leaning back so far the couch creaks under him. “listen to this guy.” he mocks, throwing his head back.

sukuna snorts, shaking his head. “shut up, toji. y' just mad he's not as emotionally immature as you are. love you too, cho."

choso rolls his eyes.

toji stretches, arms over his head, muscles pulling tight beneath his skin. “anyways, we’re grabbing food. you wanna tag along? i'll pay.”

choso opens his mouth to answer, then pauses. somethings been nagging at him, hell, might as well pick at these meat heads brains.

“hey,” he says instead.

they both look at him.

“you guys ever hear of a girl,” he starts to explain as his eyes float towards the window, “she's an art major, i think. always got a bag full of paints or something. looks like she wandered onto campus by accident.”

toji squints. “that’s… vague.”

sukuna tilts his head, thinking. “art major, huh?”

“yeah,” choso says. “real pretty, doesn’t look like she knows how hot she is.”

there’s a hum that comes from sukuna, then he snaps his fingers. “oh. her.”

choso’s attention sharpens up. “yeah?”

“[name],” sukuna says. “she’s always around sigma chi stuff. parties, events, whatever. went to high school with gojo and his friends, i’m pretty sure.”

toji nods. “yeah, i know who you mean. really nice girl.”

choso hums quietly, absorbing it. “friends with gojo,” he repeats.

“yeah, pretty much family, from what i hear,” sukuna shrugs. “why?”

“no reason,” choso says easily, already waving them off. “just curious.”

toji eyes him for a second longer, like he wants to push, then grins instead. “sure you are.”

they head for the door, laughter trailing behind them as it swings shut.

the house falls quiet again.

choso leans back into the couch, staring at the dangling light, the name turning over in his head.

“[name], huh?”

~

sigma chi looks like a cyberpunk futuristic fantasy with the amount of glowing neon paint smeared across everyone's bodies.

big blacklights are bolted into every corner of the room, splashing the walls and dancing bodies in radioactive colours.

paint splatters glow like constellations across bare arms and collarbones and the heavy hitting music penetrates every ear drum.

you’re stationed in the kitchen wearing a pretty, tight dress you almost didn't wear. it hugs you perfectly, so short gojo whistled when he saw you earlier. small lines of neon paint streak horizontally across your cheeks, you hadn’t planned on doing your makeup like this but of course, shoko insisted. her steady hand painted you up while you both giggled and tried to stay still.

right now, you’re posted up in the kitchen with her and that white haired idiot, plastic cups full of jungle juice sweating in your hands. it looks scarily neon aswell, which sorta freaks you out.

“this shit is gonna kill me,” shoko mutters, taking another sip anyway.

gojo laughs, throwing an arm over your shoulders and leaning his weight into you like he always does. “you say that every time.”

“because every time i’m right.”

you smile leaning into gojo. he trys to whisper something flirty in your ear but you shove his face away with a scoff and he fake pouts.

shoko nudges aaid with her elbow. “you got any molly?”

he grimaces. “not on me.”

you glance at him, curious. “but you said-”

“relax,” he grins. “choso’s bringing some.”

you blink. “who?”

they both look at eachother, then at you. "you don't know choso?" they say jointly.

before either of them can answer any further, scuffling near the doorway catches your eye.

your breath gets all hault up in your lungs, because its him.

the guy from earlier this week. he's tall even among the crowd of athletes, his black clothes look beautifully fitting for his vibe. neon paint traces a line across his nose, glowing exactly where that tattoo you'd seen had been. his eyebrow and nose piercings have been swapped out for neon pink rings that glow vibrantly in the backlight.

he looks so perfect it's almost nauseating.

he stalks straight up to gojo, and without a proper greeting, he throws an arm around his neck, pulling him in close like they’ve done this a bajillion times.

“took you long enough,” gojo laughs, slapping a hand against choso's chest.

the guy grins nice and wide, then shoves a bag full of weed into gojo’s arms like it’s nothing more than candy. “don’t get greedy.”

“you’re actually the best,” gojo beams.

shoko leans in close to you, whispering, “that’s choso.”

oh.

choso laughs with gojo shaking his pretty head, then reaches into his pocket again. this time, he pulls out a small baggie with five pink pills gleaming.

from beside you, shoko makes a tiny, triumphant sound. “yes!"

gojo fishes out cash and hands over four fifty dollar notes without counting. choso takes them, counts them, then stops for a sec. he plucks one back and presses it into gojo’s chest with a wink.

“hundred fifty,” he says. “consider it a favor.”

gojo looks like christmas came early. “i fucking love you.”

“yeah, yeah,” choso laughs.

they bump shoulders, laugh together for a few minutes, then step apart. gojo claps him on the arm. “enjoy the party, man.”

“always do.”

choso turns to leave, but then he stops.

because his dark, now completely blown out eyes catch on you.

you're fully exposed in your staring. for a small moment of time, he freezes still. like he didn’t expect to see you here, like the room had dropped out from under him.

then he laughs. awkward and quiet, scratching at the back of his neck.

you smile back shyly, it’s adorably small, but hell, it wacks him in the head like a brick.

he straightens a little, smile turning nervous in a way that doesn’t match his size or his nonchalant reputation. he looks like he’s about to say something. like he’s weighing his options, deciding if he should come over, if this is his moment.

you tilt your head, waiting for something to come of this, then,

“choso!” someone yells from across the room.

a guy with short dark hair and a pedo stache named shiu, a man you'd seen before hanging around toji.

choso glances back at you. then at shiu.

“c'mon, kamo!” shiu calls again, much louder this time.

choso exhales, running a hand through his hair. he gives you one last look and it's apologetic, almost regretful.

then he turns and disappears into the crowd.

you're a little confused, and sigh.

gojo sidles back up beside you, following your gaze. “damn.”

“what?” you ask.

he grins. “if i was gay, choso’s the first guy i'd crack.”

shoko rolls her eyes "if?"

~

some old zara larsson song keeps bumping over the speakers whether you’re into it or not, so you decide you might as well be in it.

you drain the rest of your cup and let shoko drag you back toward the living room where everyone's bodies are slotted together, neon paint streaking across skin every time someone brushes past. someone hands you another drink without asking and you take it, laughing when shoko raises her brows at you.

“c'mon girl, pace yourself,” she says.

“i amm,” you lie, sipping away.

you try to dance like usual, your hips moving with the beat, shoulders loose, smiling at people you barely know. a few guys spin you as some freshman's yelling over a group of girls, and someone else bumps into you and apologises with a drunken smile. it’s fun. it’s loud. it’s everything a party should be.

and still, your head just won't stop obsessive over that guy, over 'choso'.

you begrudgingly catch yourself scanning the room between songs, between laughs, between drinks.

it’s stupid! you don’t know him. you don’t know his major, his year, his anything.

you shake your head and take another drink.

then, just as you're about to flop into whatever leather couch is closest and contemplate your enter existence, big, firm hands snake around your waist.

you lean back into the man you know is behind you without second guessing yourself.

“there you are,” he murmurs near your ear.

you turn your head just enough to catch his pretty grin. “i've been here for ages, suguru.”

“yeah?” he says. “could’ve fooled me.”

his body pressed up against you flush as he grinds his hips into yours, his mouth kissing at your neck.

he wraps his forearms around your chest as you sway with the music. "you look so fucking good,” he adds, eyes dragging over you. “that dress is just... wow.” he grabs your ass briefly before laughing as you smack his hand away.

you laugh, tipping your head back against his shoulder. “you’re drunk.”

“a little,” he admits, then dips his head to your neck again.

you dance together, two bodies screaming sex appeal as others point and grin at your fluidity.

he murmurs your name into your neck, his perfectly straight teeth nipping at your skin again, and you forget about the neon paint and the blacklight, along with the mysterious man that had that soft smile.

you’re here now, with suguru.

after awhile of sex heavy music, it changes over to something geto doesn't like, so with one kiss to the bottom of your ear, he whispers, "come on, let’s go mingle a bit.” then pulls you over to your friends with an arm

“oh look, they're not upstairs yet,” gojo calls when he sees you. “thought you ditched us.”

geto just smirks, squeezing your side. “wouldn’t dream of it.”

yuki raises a brow, eyes flicking between the two of you. “you guys look cozy.”

“don’t we always?” you say lightly.

sukuna watches the two of you draw closer, and his mind drifts off to what choso had asked him the other day. he studies you for a second longer than necessary, his eyes sharp even through the fog of the party. then he straightens, arms crossing over his chest.

“so,” he says, blunt as ever. “are you two dating or what?”

oh, okay.

you feel choked up at his bluntness, caught off guard. before you can answer, you feel geto’s arm drop from around your waist.

he steps half a foot away.

“nah,” he says quickly, waving a hand like it’s nothing. “we’re just hooking up right now.”

just..

there’s a weird, awkward silence. gojo clears his throat. yuki looks away and sukuna sucks his lips in trying not to laugh, like he's noticed how bad that question was.

“right,” you say, forcing a smile. “yeah.”

geto doesn’t even spare you a glance.

yeah, this is too much. you were never good in awkward situations.

“i’m gonna go see what shoko's up to.”

you weren't going to see shoko, but you still step away, desperately needing some fresh air.

you push through the back door and onto the porch, whatever screeching drill music you'd assumed yuji put on fading behind you.

as you clicked the door shut, you swivel around and notice that you're not the only one on this porch.

the guy you'd learnt to be choso, leans against the metal railing just a few feet away, a burning blunt between his ringed fingers.

the glow from inside spills across his back, outlining him in soft purple light.

crap.

he hasn’t noticed you yet, you consider retreating, stepping back inside and pretending you didn’t see him. but, as you step back, your heel clips a large pot plant.

it rattles in its plant tray creating a ruckus.

“shit,” you hiss.

choso looks over his shoulder.

for a second, he seems surprised. then his mouth curves into a small, crooked smile.

“stalkin’ me now, hm?” he says teasingly.

gosh, how utterly pathetic could this night get.

"no- no! i was just- getting some air and i didn't know you were-"

you're cut off by his fond laugh, he's staring at your with half squinted eyes.

"don't worry, it's all good. m' only teasing."

his voice...

you hesitate, then breathe out a relived laugh with him. "i'll leave you to it then, m' sorry."

but before you can step back again, he chokes out a, "no, no. you should stay." it comes out louder than he'd planned, and you can tell by the way his next sentence comes much softer. "i don't mind company, y'know?" he rubs at his neck almost shyly.

laughing lightly at that, you slide into the spot next to him and grip the railing, your shoulder brushing against his.

he turns his body so he's facing you, then, holds out his veiny hand for you to grab. "choso, it's nice to finally meet you." he waits.

you humor him and let your smaller hand slip into his. "[name], it's nice to meet you too."

unexpectedly, he brings your hand up to his lips, looking you in the eye as he presses his lips to your delicate knuckles.

"pretty name for a pretty girl."

then he reaches up and brushes a loose strand of hair away from your cheek with the back of his fingers.

he's intoxicating. he's somehow so flirty while looking so shy. you wanna dissapear with him, something about the man was screaming at you to take him by the belt and let him take care of the rest.

but you know better. you really do.

this is choso. and sure, you'd only really become aware of him this past week, but he couldn't be good news. he was the campus plug, a guy with a reputation that trails behind him like smoke wherever he went. bad news wrapped in real good looks and his adorably shy chivalry. you shouldn’t barter into this, you really shouldn’t smile like you were as he smiled back, shouldn’t feel this pull towards him.

and yet, you let him wrap his pointer finger around yours as he stood leaning against the rail, keeping it there as he blew smoke into the sky.

"already so touchy? we just met, y'know." you quiz with a blushed out smile, wriggling the finger he has trapped on his own like a link.

"yeah," he turns to face you again, "but i already know i fuck with you. i like moving at a pace that feels right."

"and this 'feels right?'" you laugh.

"the right-est."

"huh." you reply, like it was a small yet significant revelation. you wriggle your finger again, but this time it's to hold his tighter, earning a smile from him.

"hope you don't have a boyfriend." he asks, looking down at you slyly.

"it's... complicated."

"so no, sweet."

"i-" he taps a finger to your lip.

"if you had a good man taking care of you, that answer wouldn't have any of that wishy washy bullshit. you don’t have a boyfriend, let's leave it at that."

"yes sir." you joke, and his pants tighten a lil.

somehow, you feel like you'd known this guy you only properly met ten minutes ago since freshman year, no, screw that, since grade school. he was conversing with you like how one might talk to their long term on again off again. it was captivating yet also terrifying.

he inches closer to you, "i wanna get to know you, [name], should stay out here for a while, hm?"

you nod, and that was that, you end up talking to him for hours.

“i’m kinda surprised i haven’t seen you around more. you’d think i would’ve noticed a guy like you.” you say halfway through your little moment. he lets out a soft laugh, glancing back toward the party through the glass door. “a guy like my? huh? yeah, nah. i don’t come to these much.”

“really?” you tilt your head. “but you and gojo seem close.”

“we hang out heaps,” he nods. “just not here. sigma chi gets too messy n' it's not really my scene.”

you hum in agreement. “fair.”

“what about you?” he asks. “you always here?”

“more than i should be,” you admit. “occupational hazard.”

that gets a grin out of him. “oh, so you work?”

"yeah, i work at a-" you're cut off,

"a bar?"

you blink. “how’d you know?”

he shrugs. “you’ve got the look.”

you laugh. “and what look is that?”

“like you can handle drunk guys without losing your mind.”

“barely,” you whisper under your breath. “i work at the sway bar, it's just off campus.”

“hm,” his brows lift. “might have to stop by sometime.”

you look up at him smiling. “i’d really like that.”

“what frat are you in?” you ask him next, and you grin at the way his face lights up.

"beta theta phi, with sukuna and toji, y'know them?"

“ahhh i see,” you smile. “yeah, i know them. i can totally see that.”

“see what?” he asks amused.

“you sorta just, match their vibe? i guess?”

he leans over to you, then, in a smooth motion he's bracing one arm on the railing behind you so your back would touch his chest if you leaned back. “and what vibe’s that exactly?”

you get choked up for a sec before grinning. “like, dark. kinda edgy.”

he lets go of a breathy laugh. “yeah? you into that? dark n’ edgy?”

your face blushes pink as you nod. “yeah, kinda.”

that seems to please him, because his smile is satisfied and content.

as you're talking about everything and nothing simultaneously, you slowly start to realise you haven’t thought about suguru once. not about how shitty he'd made you feel or the way he would probably be expecting you back inside and in his bed right about now.

your world has narrowed completely, honing in on the man beside you.

"i think you're really cool, [name]." he says from his spot behind you, his chest now fully hugging into your back as his arms have migrated from the pole to your waist. for some reason, where this would usually feel weird, too fast or sexual with most other men, it felt causal with him. like, instead of a rapey gesture meant to swoon you into bed, it was an action that felt so natural and grounding. you were definitely leaning into him.

"i'd hope so, you're kinda hugging me like we're a thing right now."

"would you be into that?" he speaks into your ear, his chin now pushing into the crook of your neck from behind.

"into what? us being a thing?"

"lowkey."

wow, you went from chasing a guy who would turn down being 'a thing' at every turn, to a man far more endearing suggesting it like it was an obvious want.

still, you had to be at least half cautious. "maybe."

he laughs at that, then lets his arms turn you around to face him.

"i'd love to take you out, ma. you're real funny, real sweet. my kinda girl, i can't lie to you."

this almost seems too good to be true. sure, a lotta guys ask you out, but none of them give off the same kinda vibe as choso. "y'sure you're not just saying that to sleep with me? you don’t have to go through all that hassle, you know, we can just-"

"no." he cuts you off, looking you deep in your eye. "i don't want that. i really do wanna see where this goes, okay? have ever since i saw you walking t' class on monday."

that makes you still, because he'd been thinking about you as much as you'd been thinking about him, from one little smile. if this wasn't some fated lovers arrangement then you didn't know what was.

you took in a soft breath before smiling, "sure, you can take me out."

you feel him smile against your skin, then he pulls away and you mourn the loss of body heat.

"perfect." he says, pulling out his phone, giving it to you gently. "if you really want this, put in your number. if you don’t , just spam the keypad and i'll figure it out later that you're not into me. no awkward shit."

he was perfect, god, he was perfect.

you grin and take it from him, putting your phone number in instantly under the name, [name] 💘.

~

he'd kept his promise.

around two days later, you'd had a shift at the bar from afternoon til late. you'd been working for around three hours when the door to the small, yet cozy establishment swings open, revealing a very well dressed choso.

he had a nice shirt and jeans that looked classier than the one he wore to the party, and fitting jewellery littering his every body part. he was a little overdressed for this dingy dive bar setting, but the low lighting complimented his aesthetic perfectly.

he greets the girl at the door kindly, before stalking up to the bar in which you stood behind. he smiles gently as he spots you.

"you really came, that's cute." you smile, wiping up a wet glass with a tea towel.

he takes a once over of your attire and smirks to himself before sliding into the stool, still somehow towering over you despite being sat. "i keep my promises, sweetheart. couldn't turn down seeing you looking this fine in you're little uniform."

that makes you blush a pretty pink, earning a soft chuckle from him as he scans the rack of bottles behind you. choso rarely drank heavy, but when he was in the mood, he'd always preferred the more expensive liquor.

"you guys have any jonny walker? the blue label?" he asks, trying his own hand at spotting the scotch on the rack.

"just ran out, the next one up from that would be some pappy bourbon, but you're looking at $120 a pour." you don't expect him to chose your most expensive bottle, the one only really old timers reach for, so you're preparing to grab for a bottle of beer in the fridge behind you.

"cool, i'll have that then." you almost choke.

"you uhm.. you sure?" you ask, incase this was some joke and you were gonna make a fool of yourself reaching for the top shelf for nothing.

"positive, hun." he smiles back.

you nod, then grab the step stool and reach for the golden liquor.

you pour it up and slide it over. he thanks you sweetly and takes a sip, nodding to himself like this was a good investment. as he drinks, you notice a silver ball of metal shooting through his tongue, a piercing there as well? imagine all the things he could do with that...

unaware of your less than appropriate internal thoughts, he folds a few fifties up and slips it into the chest pocket of your apron. "good recommendation, honey." these pet names were getting more and more bold, not that you minded.

"you're so welcome." you wink, earning an upwards twitch of his eyebrow in appreciation.

he's sitting in the spot many a men had before, all flirting and trying their luck with you. but with choso there, you felt engaged, you actually wanted to talk to him not just laugh and nod along like you cared for his useless conversation.

you quickly cashed in his money, he'd given you $200 so you pulled out his change, handing it out for him to take.

"no, no. that's your tip, pretty girl." he smiles, imitating your wink.

you're dumbfounded. "an $80 tip? we don’t- you don’t- tipping isn't even a thing here! please, take this back, i seriously can't take it, i-" he cuts you off with a wave of his hand.

"shh, you're such a sweet tender, you deserve a little get back."

he watches you fluster and fumble with the change like it’s the best thing he’s seen all night.

“hey,” choso says easily, leaning his forearms on the bar. “i promise i won’t miss it.”

you glance up at him, brows pinched. “that’s still a lot of money.”

“it’s not,” he replies, gentle yet firm. “and even if it was, i wanted to.”

you hesitate, then sigh, slipping the bills back into your apron like you’re conceding a battle you were never gonna win anyways. he smiles at that, pleased, like he enjoys when you finally let him do things for you.

“thank you,” you say quietly.

“anytime,” he answers. “that’s what i’m here for.”

he stays right there for the rest of the night,

he doesn’t drift off and he doesn’t get pulled into a loud conversation with anyone else.

he orders a few non alcoholic drink because he needs to drive. but the thing captivating his attention the most is you. his body stays angled toward you like it’s the most natural place for him to be.

you keep working, of course. wiping down glasses, taking orders, sliding beers down the bar. but every time you glance back at him, he’s already looking at you.

you’re aware of him the whole time. the way his eyes follow your body everywhere, the way he straightens when you come back, like he can’t help it.

he pulls out every conversational skill he'd ever learnt from collage and puts them all to work, trying his hardest to swoon you as best he can. he compliments you over and over, tells you you're such a good worker, slips tenners in your left pocket when you're distracted. he watches you exist like you were the most incredible, hard working being on earth, because to him? you were.

he talks to you when it gets quiet, he has you toppled over belly laughing at one point from across the bar as he tells you stories of his geeky high school days, or ones where his runs didn't go exactly as planned.

god, you’re hot.

that’s the thought looping in his head, over and over again until his cock feels a little too snug in his pants.

the apron. the way it sits so tightly around your waist. the way you lean forward when you laugh and the neckline of your top dips down to reveal your pretty cleavage. the way your hands move with such confidence even when the bar’s loud and messy. he’s seen a lot of girls. slept with some on occasion, none of them felt or looked like this. like you.

it’s annoying, honestly. quite distracting. he finds himself wondering what you smell like up close. would you smell differently to what you smelt like at the party? if it was just the two of you at the bar, would you speak to him soft and sultry like he'd imagined in his recent day dreams? everything about you allured him to such an agonising standard, he felt like grabbing you from behind the bar and driving you back to his off campus place, wrapping you up in his sheets and keeping you to himself, forever.

so we're weird stalkers now choso? perfect. he shook his head at the intrusive thought.

"you okay, choso?" you ask, suddenly right infront of him, pulling him from his you obsessed thoughts. "ah, yeah, y'know. just day dreaming' about my pretty little bar tender friend."

"oh, we're friends now?" you quiz, smirking at him, he laughs and rests his cheek in his palm. "oh, i wanna be much more than that, baby."

you know he said he wanted to see where this went, but fuck, you wanted him all up in you right now..

hours pass by quickly, just like that.

the flirty conversation flows so easily. you talk about different music, about how shit the school's schedule is. about dumb campus drama (mostly revolving around gojo, surprise surprise.) he tells you stories about sukuna and toji without saying too much, painting them as loud but loyal, which you can picture.

you catch yourself laughing more than usual. leaning close to him when he talks. forgetting to check the time.

once, though fleetingly, suguru crosses your mind. he’d texted earlier asking what time you finished, he’d probably expect you to come over after. you hadn't replied yet, wanting to make the decision of whether or not he deserved you later on. choso's little visit was really letting you know you made the right decision, because right now, there’s only him. his sexy, deep voice, his expression that never diped into that bored look you'd sometimes see on suguru, the way he was talking to you like anything you said was worth acutely listening to.

“you ever think about gettin’ outta here?” he asks eventually, gesturing vaguely around the bar.

“all the time,” you admit. “but it’s temporary. just until i finish my degree.”

“oh, shit yeah. you do art, right?”

“yes sir.”

his eyes light up. “that's sick, y'should show me.”

you breath out a laugh. “show you what?"

“your art,” he says. “you talk about it like it’s your whole world.”

it kind of is.

you’re about to answer when you both glance up at the clock mounted above the liquor shelf.

12:18.

you groan softly. “shit.”

he checks his phone. “damn. i’ve been here f' ages.”

“same,” you laugh. “i gotta close up soon.”

he stays and helps you clean up as best he can, then walks you out if the bar like the gentleman he is. you both begin your walk down the street where his car’s parked right by the curb, and your bus stop sits a little further down.

“you bussin’ it home?” he asks, surprised.

“yeah,” you shrug. “car’s not really in the budget.”

he nods, like he has to remind himself of that reality. not everyone lives lavishly off of drug money like he does.

you pull out your phone, opening the travel app, but choso notices how your pretty face falls.

“what's the matter?” he asks.

“all the buses are delayed,” you sigh. “road closures.”

you start to type something out, probably to see how long the delay is, when his hand grabs around your wrist.

it's not demanding or tight, no, it's like he's softly taking control.

“i’ll drive you,” he says.

“oh, wow, no! you've already done so much for me tonight, choso. you don’t have to,” you start. “i can walk, it’s not that far.”

he shakes his head. “no. get in the car.”

and you did, you let him open the door and usher you in, then say through his admittedly good playlist as the gps told him where to go. he was really pulling out all the cards, and it was making you hotter and hotter with each passing moment.

as you approached your apartment, you began getting antsy. you didn't want him to just drop you off and leave. you wanted him inside, both you and your apartment.

"here you go, sweets. safe and sound." he smiles, the door open as he stands outside his car letting you out.

“hey,” you say, looking up at him now that you're standing.

he looks at you attentively, like he too is expecting you to say something.

“do you wanna…” you trail off, letting your eyes do the rest of the sentence, falling over his chest, his arms, his hips.. “come inside for a bit?”

it's so utterly suggestive without you saying 'i wanna fuck' outright, and he seems to click on pretty fast.

he knows he told you at that party he wanted to see how things played out, preferably take you on a date before he even thought about fucking you, but shit, if you weren't looking at him with the widest, most eager eyes.

“yeah,” he says after copying you, looking at your body up and down. “i’d like that.”

he grins at the way you look away shyly.

he follows you up the steep steps, trying while heartedly not to stare straight at your ass. your apartment door clicks open, and you step aside to let him in.

the space is dark except for a lamp you flick on near the window.

choso stops dead in his tracks.

your apartments like an art critics wet dream. his eyes move rapidly over the hundreds of different works, some unfinished and some looking old. theres large canvases leaning up against every wall, pottery and clay dust on the coffee table, sketches and watercolored studies taped up wherever there was free space. the place feels so lived in, messy in a beautifully creative way, so full of you.

“holy shit,” he murmurs.

you smile, suddenly very shy at the fact you should've cleaned up abit. “it’s... uh, a lot."

“nah,” he says, stepping further in. “it’s sick."

he walks around carefully, he’s afraid to bump into something important to you. leans in close to a large canvas, squinting a little as he studies it.

“you like, actually made this?” he asks.

“sure did.”

he lets out a quiet incredulous laugh. “why the hell are you not, like, famous or some shit.”

you feel your tummy grow hotter at his praise. “i wish that was how it worked.”

“i’m serious,” he insists. “this is crazy good. like gallery typa shit.”

the way he says it, so sure, so utterly unfiltered, makes your legs feel weak and nimble, suguru rarely commented this much on your work. you hadn’t realised how much you wanted to hear that from someone until now.

he keeps going, pointing things out, asking questions, swearing under his breath when something 'really epic and cool' as he likes to put it, catches his eye.

“this one’s my favorite,” he says, gesturing to a piece tucked half behind the couch, it was a distorted portrait reminiscent of francis bacon. “it’s got an allure.”

you laugh. “you should have it.”

he whips his head over to you in the dim light, and raises his eyes like he's surprised. "really? you'd just give it away? it's so good, i mean-"

"not without compensation, of course." you tease, and you have to quickly grab his hand as he reaches into his pocket to grab for the wad of cash you know is in there.

"what are you-"

"not with money, choso..." you blink up at him feigning innocence, and the switch up from surprise to want is unfathomably quick.

you take his hand from its place in his pocket, and bring it up to cup your face, he follows suit and uses the other to pull your hips against his own.

"well, aren't you a little tease. i wanted to take you out first, y'know?"

"yeah? gonna deny me?" you poke, and the look of pure lust in his eyes tells you before he does,

"wouldn't dream of it." and he's on you, pulling you so close as his mouth works against yours feverishly, pulling surprised moans from your throat at how thorough he's being.

with a breathy sigh into the heated kiss, choso's hands pat their way down to the flesh of your ass, and knead at the fat in such an intoxicating way, it makes your skin bloom with goose bumps.

he's pushing his tongue into your mouth, the ball of metal pierced through his muscle clinking against your teeth as he explores you, your own tongue fighting back and forth for dominance.

you get the cue, the demand in his body language, the way he's growing desperate with each flick of tongue and grab of your ass.

you pull away with a click and push your forehead against his. "w-we should go to my room. now."

he smiles, his flushed cheeks turning upwards. you grab for his hand and guide him to your bedroom, pushing the door open quickly and pulling him inside.

he reconnects his lips to yours instantly, you reply by pulling at his fancy shirt, pawing at the collar until the first few buttons are loose.

he too starts tearing at your clothes, pulling the string of your apron loose, letting it fall to the floor, he makes sure the cash he'd slipped in earlier was still safe in the pockets before nudging it away to the side.

you wrangle is shirt off through messy kisses, and he's got yours unbuttoned to the hem.

"fuck, you're pretty." he sighs, pulling away to take in every inch of exposed abdomen and cleavage.

you smirk, then sit back slowly on the bed. he watches keenly, his pants becoming unbearably uncomfortable as you look at him with that lustful gaze.

you un-clip your bra letting it fall to the side to reveal your tits, and he drops to his knees at the foot of the bed in awe.

"jesus..." he almost chokes, his hands grabbing for the button of your work pants. he slips them off, eyes still fixated on the way you grab and knead at your boobs, the urge to wrestle you back onto the bed and fuck you stupid was becoming all but too much, but he had to restrain, opting to sweet talk you a bit before diving in.

"such pretty tits, baby. y'mind if i touch?" he borderline whines.

your wicked smile eggs him on, and he leans forward, taking the soft flesh into his hands.

you smile as he groans, then dip your hand down to his own belt buckle to help his cock spring free.

moaning as you do so, choso flushes a pretty red as his member slaps his lower abs, becoming shy at the fact you were staring so wide eyed at it.

did it look weird? was he not hard enough? fuck, he felt it. then again, he didn't have sex as often as anyone would assume.

his worries are stomped out when you cover your mouth with your hand, "that... that's fucking massive." you breath airily.

okay, good. that was good.

he smirks and stand up, shoving his pants the rest of the way down. in one smooth motion, he has you pushed down against the bed, your legs spread wide open, you let go of a trapped moan at the sudden manoeuvre.

he's inbetween your thighs in seconds, his face inches away from your pantie clad pussy.

"wanna taste you, baby, s' that okay?" he asks, panting heavily like this was the single most important question he'd ever ask. he takes note of how you nod so eagerly, hooking a finger into the waist band of your panties and pulling them off.

"all yours." you slur, and he wastes no time pressing that beautiful ball of pierced metal right up against your clit. all your fantasies were coming true, it seemed.

he laps at your folds, his mouth working magic on your needy hole. every moan that falls from your plush lips has him hitting that pleasure spot with a faster, more precise motion, trying his best to draw out those sexy little whimpers.

"good fucking girl, you're doing so well." he mumbles into the wetness, the vibration from his tone racking through your core.

"f-fuck! choso— i— i can't!" tears are welling up in your eyes at his unforgiving pace, his eyes clouding over with pleasure as he looks at you from down below.

"just focus, baby, come f'me, yeah? can you do that?" you reply with broken whines and choked up moans, your hands fisting into his hair as your hips grind up against his mouth.

you feel your peak building, growing and tightening so fast you clamp your thighs shut around his head.

he doesn't care that he can't breath, doesn't mind that his only purpose to you right now is to feel good, he want that, needs that.

he flicks at your clit in agonising little circles until you finally come undone all over his pretty, fucked out face.

he moans with you, kissing at your clit as you come down, slowing his pace as your breaths ease from rapid to regular.

"jesus, you uhm.. you really know how to eat a girl out." you breath shyly, hiding your face in the crook of your elbow as he moves up onto the bed, laying down next you with one arm propping up his head.

"you come so prettily, sweet thing. want me t' make you feel like that again?" he smiles, and that coil in your tummy you swear was gone had suddenly re-knotted.

"i- uh..." you're too shy to ask, but it's all you want, and he can tell.

"can i fuck you silly, pretty thing? would you like that?" he asks softly, his hands running up and down your naked, sweaty body.

he takes your arm away from your arms, then rolls over so he's pinning them down as his body hovers above yours.

"you like being told what to do, don't you? prefer being spoilt rather than taking the lead, hm?" he asks in a low tone. your eyes dart all around his face, a guilty sign that told him he was right on the money.

"perfect. just sit there and take me, honey. tell me if it's too much and i'll stop, moan loud if you want me to fuck you harder, m'kay?" he quizzes, your shyer eyes find his as you nod gently, "yes, please." you breath, and he goes right ahead.

his fingers slip into your sopping wet cunt and start to scissor you open, kissing the small gasps straight from your throat.

he rubs at your clit with his thumb, preparing you to take him in.

"y'think you can handle it, baby?" he pants, jerking at the base while his hands work you from the inside. you're bobbing your head up and down unevenly, a strangled yes juttering part your lips through noises of pleasure.

he removes his fingers with a wet pop, and lines himself up missionary with your dripping entrance, ready to slowly sink in until you're twitching with anticipation.

"relax honey, you can take it." and take it you did.

as his tip pushes past your hole with a deep groan from choso's lips, you bite down on your own at the sheer diameter. this was gonna be a stretch.

inch by tantalising inch, he's got you choking out jumbled praise and encouragement as your walls flutter deliciously around him.

"fuck, you're so tight, holy fuck–" he stammers as his tip finally presses against what he can assume is your cervix, based on how you're writhing beneath him.

"okay, baby. m' gonna —oh fuck— move."

you nod with your eyes squeezed shut and your hands gripping his biceps. "o-okay, cho."

that nickname makes him ten times harder, now he's bucking his hips deeper and deeper into your pussy with strangled groans. "keep callin' me that and i'll come right now—" he jokes through pants.

he continues abusing your puffy little hole, using you all up until you're a blabbering mess under this thumb.

"g'na— ohmygosh— i'm gonna come!" you cry, a tear slipping from your eye at the pleasure, choso leans down and kissses it away.

"c'mon honey, gimme one more, good girl, you can do it." he moans, picking up his

pumping pace.

you can't handel this any longer, he's dicking you down you so good, better than you'd ever felt before, you can't help but tighten up on his cock and spasm around it until he too is cumming straight into your cervix. bullseye.

you both go limp, your bones turning to mush after such intense sex.

yet, the second choso registers the way your body tenses, the way your breath sounds a little uneven from the discomfort of the sweat and other bodily fluid, he’s stood. he presses a little kiss to your shoulder first, then mutters something soft you barely catch before he slips out of bed.

“stay right there, baby,” he says, low and reassuring. “i got you.”

you hear drawers opening, the ensuite sink running. the quiet domestic sounds feel surreal after everything you'd just done with a guy you'd known for a week that somehow felt like years. when he comes back, he’s holding a damp cloth, warm from the tap. his expression has shifted completely, all that intensity replaced by a loving look of focus and care.

“okay,” he murmurs, sitting beside you. “gonna clean you up a bit, yeah?”

you nod, too loose to do much else.

he starts slowly with your legs, your stomach, your sides. he’s so incredibly careful, thorough without being clinical, like feeling clean and comfortable was his god given mission in this point in time. when he moves between your thighs, softly wiping through your sticky folds, you make a small whiney sound before you can stop yourself.

“hey,” he coos immediately, pausing. “s’okay. i know it’s sensitive.”

his voice is so gentle it almost hurts.

he keeps going, so much softer now while talking to you the whole time.

“you’re okay,” he murmurs. “i got you. just breathe for me.”

you whine quietly at the sensation, fingers curling into the sheets. he soothes you with words, with touch, like he knows exactly how close to the edge you still are.

“that’s it,” he says. “you’re doin’ so good. i know, i know. almost done.”

when he finishes up, he sets the cloth aside and immediately pulls you into him. you hadn’t actually realised how cold you felt until you’re pressed against his big chest, his massive arms wrapping around you without hesitation.

you tuck yourself into him snugly, like your body already knows where it belongs.

here, with him.

he rubs your back in slow passes, one hand sliding up to cradle the back of your head. your cheek rests against his dipping collarbone, his heartbeat steady under your ear.

“there you go,” he murmurs. “isn't that better.”

you let out a long breath.

he keeps talking, his calming post-sex voice like a lullaby.

“you were incredible tonight,” he says. “so fuckin’ good. y'hear me?”

you hum softly, too warm and pliant to argue.

“nah,” he continues, brushing your hair back with his fingers. “i mean it. you made me feel real good. i'm real lucky.”

your heart squishes together fondly. you think, distantly, about how no one’s ever done this before. not like this. not with this much loving intention.

you'd thought that was the perfect word to describe this situation; loving.

hell, you weren't really used to living. geto never stayed like this. he never once touched you like you were something to be taken care of after sex. moreso like his friend who happened to be in his bed (which was what it was.)

the thought flickers, brings with it a small pinch of guilt that you don't notice choso clocking. you and geto had agreed to only sleep with eachother, that it would be good to only sleep with a single person... you push away the thought.

after all, right now, choso’s here. his warmth, his voice, his hands. you don't see how he scans over your guilty expression like a lost kid.

“hey,” he murmurs when you look up at him. “you okay?”

“yeah,” you whisper. “just… really comfy.”

he smiles against your hair. “good. that’s the goal.”

he's brushing his long fingers through your hair, tapping his knuckles to a beat against your back, anything to try and keep you fully here with him. he didn't like that look of guilt in your face from before.

“i hope this didn’t mess anything up,” he adds quietly. “with that date i was talkin’ about.”

you move your head just enough to look up at him. his eyes are searching your face for any sign of regret.

“it didn’t,” you say. “not even a little.”

relief flickers across his beautiful features. “good,” he says. “’cause i really wanna take you out. do it right.”

you smile, nose brushing his chest. “i’d like that.”

he exhales, long and content, then pulls you closer.

“get some sleep,” he smiles. “i’ll be right here.”

your eyelids grow heavy faster than you expect. the steady motions of his hand through your hair, the sound of his breathing, the way he holds you like this is exactly where you’re meant to be.

just before you drift off, you feel his lips press softly to the top of your head.

you fall asleep like that, wrapped up in all of him, all of choso.

~

a few days later, beta theta phi.

choso's sitting in the kitchen, picking at a plate of food with a small smile on his usually calm, bare face.

you were a constant in his brain ever since he'd gone home from your apartment with that painting he 'earned' after the best sex of his life. (said painting is now strung up on his wall.) he'd never stopped thinking about you since that night.

your adorable little moans, the way you melted into him as he fucked you so deep, the way your pretty fucked out body moulded against his afterwards.

you were like crack and he was a hardcore crack head, feining for more of your attention.

as he thinks about stalking your instagram for the fourth time that day to see what you're up to, footsteps stomp down the hallway, heavy ones.

toji accends the stairs shirtless with his hair still damp like he’s just come out of the shower. sukuna follows behind like always, a towel draped over his shoulder, rummaging through a bag of chips before he even hits the kitchen proper. showering at the same time? gay ass guys, choso thought to himself.

“what the fuck,” toji says, stopping just short of the island. "why you look like that.”

choso looks up, brow lifting. “like what?”

“happy,” sukuna answers around a mouthful of chips. “it's weird."

toji snorts. “yeah, that’s new.”

choso rolls his eyes, but he doesn’t fight the smile this time. he grabs his plate, forks a big bite then shrugs it off like it’s nothing. “can’t a guy enjoy his food?”

“nah,” toji says, pulling out a chair and sitting backwards on it. “not you.”

sukuna leans against the counter opposite him with his arms crossed. “what’d you do. make bank today?”

choso shakes his head, chewing. “nah.”

“big sale?”

“nope.”

toji squints. “you finally get your dick wet again or something?”

that does it, choso coughs, nearly choking, then glares at him. “the fuck is wrong with you.”

sukuna laughs. “so that’s a yes.”

“shut up,” choso says quickly, pointing his fork at toji. “and don’t start.”

toji grins wider. “that's gotta be it. you’ve been walking around like you won the lottery all day.”

choso sighs. "yes, i'm seeing a girl.”

toji stops and sukuna freezes in the middle of a reach for another chip.

“…wait, actually,” sukuna says flatly.

choso smiles at the two boys and continues. “met her at that blacklight party. she’s really cute. we talked for hours, i visited her work, and i drover her home. you don't get the rest, but i’m taking her out this weekend.”

toji stares at him like he’s grown another head. “you?”

“yes,” choso says. “me.”

“you don’t talk to women,” sukuna says slowly.

choso scowls. “i talk to women.”

“no you don’t,” toji cuts in. “business doesn’t count.”

choso opens his mouth, then closes it. fine. maybe that’s fair.

toji leans back, eyes narrowing in thought. then something clicks. his expression shifts. “wait.”

choso looks at him.

“is this,” toji says, pointing vaguely, “the art girl you were askin’ about the other week?”

choso’s heart jumps. “yea-"

“nah,” sukuna interrupts, brows lifting. “can’t be.”

both of them turn to him.

sukuna tilts his head, casual. “she’s hookin’ up with geto right now.”

...wait... what?

choso goes dead still.

geto.

like, his friend geto?

the one who's always hanging around with him and gojo on tursdays? that geto?

the one he always calls when he needs help at the gym, that geto?

the guy who's one of his most regular buyers, that geto?

his mind latches onto the man instantly, and starts unraveling his entire being piece by agonising piece. he's tall, jacked as fuck, his hair's always smoothed and shiny to perfection, always tied back just right with no knots or bumps, he's got that sexy confident smile and endearing laugh that reels women in.

he's the kind of man who attracts literally anybody, hell, he'd heard even gojo had a thing for him in high school, gojo!

shit.

he thinks back to the porch. to the way you hesitated when he asked about a boyfriend. the way you said it was 'complicated' and how he’d brushed it off, convinced himself it was nothing serious. how he saw that flash of guilt spread across your face after you two had finished. how you’d smiled when he touched you, how easily you’d leaned into him like there wasn’t anyone else in your head at all.

geto.

holy fuck.

choso doesn’t say anything although the muscles in his neck were contracting with each clench of his teeth, eyes dropping to his plate like the answer’s written there. his appetite’s gone.

a week.

he’s been thinking about you for a week straight.

asking gojo questions about you when they hung out in class, 'm' just curious, man, she's a pretty girl.' leaving out the part where he was eight inches deep inside you just the other night. stalking every single one of your socials to the point he had your first few posts and username memorised.

and now this?

maybe that’s why gojo had looked at him funny. why he’d laughed a little too hard when choso asked if you were seeing anyone. maybe it wasn’t shock, god, maybe it was disbelief.

choso gulps.

toji watches him closely now. “that true?”

sukuna shrugs. “mhm, he told me at that same party you were talkin' bout'.”

...

“you good?” sukuna asks looking a little worried at the man's switch uo.

choso lifts his head up and that bare look finds its way back onto his face and sticks like a face hugger. “mhm.”

toji frowns. “you sure.”

“i’m sure,” choso says, setting his fork down. “it’s whatever.”

it isn’t. but he’s not about to unpack the, 'just found out the girl i'm lowkey falling head over heels in love with is also hooking up with my good friend,' pill right now.

he grabs his keys off the counter and reaches for his leather jacket. “got a few deliveries to run, see y'later."

sukuna opens his mouth because he really wants to say something else, then thinks better of it. toji just watches him go with sympathy laced through the coloured bands of his irises.

choso slips pre roll out of his pocket and lights it up, trying to rationalise all of this. he'd only met you around a week ago, it's not like you guys were a thing. sure, he'd fucked you better than he'd ever fucked anyone in his life, but he shouldn't be weird and insecure about this, he knows that. it's just, he's never really gone for this before. usually it was girls asking him out, of which he'd reject kindly because he was too busy doing anything else.

but with you, that random night out on the porch, it felt like there was a pull he couldn't just toss aside, he wanted you... and he thought he had you, especially after that intimate night.

geto’s on a come-when-you-can basis, might as well take care of that now and try ease up his racing thoughts. nothing like a good interrogation.

he flops down into his M2, engine turning over as his thoughts narrow to one thing, one task, he leaves suguru a voice message.

"yo, suguru, m' coming over."

~

choso kills the engine and sits there for a minute, his fingers resting on the steering wheel like grounding himself before stepping into situation he already knows he won’t enjoy.

he sighs, then steps outta the car, he’s halfway across the driveway when a happy, familiar voice cuts through the noise of the active fraternity, “yo.”

gojo’s jogging down the steps two at a time with his gym bag slung over one shoulder and his hair pushed back. he grins when he sees choso, big arms opening on instinct.

before choso can dodge it, gojo’s got him in a quick, bone-crushing hug.

“what’s up, man,” gojo says all smiley, pulling back. “you look busy.”

“yeah,” choso replies, already angling toward the door. “just droppin’ somethin’ off.”

gojo’s brows lift. “now?”

“mhm.”

gojo squints at him, like he’s clocking something off but hasn’t put his finger on it yet. “you headin’ to suguru’s?”

choso doesn’t slow down. “yeah.”

“uh,” gojo starts, glancing back at the stairs like he’s weighing whether to say something. “hey, maybe not the best time, think he's in the shower.”

but choso doesn't listen,

“cho,” gojo calls after him, louder now. “seriously, man, let's hang out first!"

choso doesn’t turn around. he takes the stairs with his heart climbing up into his throat with each step. by the time gojo gives up, he’s already at the top landing, moving down the hallway.

he stops in front of suguru’s door and knocks.

theres movement inside, the sound of water shutting off, then a drawer opening.

the door swings open.

suguru stands there in nothing but a towel hanging around his hips, his hair damp and loose around his shoulders, his skin still flushed from the heat of a shower. water beads along his collarbone and trails down the center of his chest. choso hated how good he looked.

his eyes fall all over sugurus body before he could stop it.

it’s dumb, after all, he’s seen suguru shirtless a hundred times. in locker rooms, during pool parties, it never mattered before, but now it does, because you’ve seen him like this. because you’ve touched this, because you've liked his annoyingly perfect body.

suguru notices choso's ogling and smirks, leaning one arm against the doorframe. “what,” he says lightly. “y’want a workout routine or somethin’?” choso forces a short laugh, “shut up.”

“mm,” suguru hums confused. he steps aside anyway, letting choso in.

suguru’s place is always so precise and neat. his beds always made, desk cleared, shoes lined up like they belong in a sneaker catalogue. it’s never bothered choso one way or another.

but today, he isn’t looking at any of that. his eyes move fast scanning without meaning to. the desk. the floor. the chair by the window. the bathroom door still cracked open, steam drifting out.

then the bedpost.

he spots a pop of pink fabric slung around the wood.. a pair of panties hangs loose around the corner of the frame, looking forgotten. they're pretty, they look your size, and they're unmistakably not suguru’s.

fuck.

suguru follows his line of sight, then sighs softly. “ah, ignore that. keep forgetting to deal with those.”

he reaches out and turns choso by the shoulder, forcing him to face him. suguru’s expression shifts, teasing gone, replaced with something more intent.

“what’s up with you,” he asks. “you’ve been actin’ weird as fuck, cho.”

choso gulps. for a second, he considers lying. saying nothin then walking out.

but he can't, so instead, he digs into his jacket and pulls out a small bag. he presses it into sugurus chest.

“four grams,” he says flatly.

suguru nods slowly, then looks down. “hm,” he mutters. “okay.”

he crosses the room, opens his dresser, and pulls out a few bills. counts them once, then twice, before handing them over.

“seventy-five,” he says. “we’re good?” choso takes it, nodding. “yeah.”

suguru studies him now, really studies him. “you didn’t come all the way over here just for that, normally we meet in the middle."

choso exhales through his nose. “i know.”

“so,” suguru prompts. “talk.” choso hesitates, he's not sure if he sounds insane or not, or if this is totally overstepping some unspoken boundaries, but he can't keep it in.

“are you sleepin’ with [name]?”

suguru coughs out in surprise, “…uh.” he leans back against his dresser, arms folding loosely. “yeah,” he says after a sec. “i am.”

choso nods once, like he'd expected it, “m'kay, are you dating her?"

suguru frowns. “what? no.”

“planning to?"

“no,” suguru repeats. “it’s just sex.” he tilts his head, curiosity creeping in. “why?" choso doesn’t answer right away. suguru narrows his eyes at him. “what, you into her or somethin’?”

“no,” choso says too quickly.

suguru huffs a laugh. “c’mon, man.”

choso’s voice edges colder. “i said no.”

“okay,” suguru says, hands lifting. “just askin’. ‘cause if you are, you should probably drop it.”

choso’s eyes snap up.

suguru keeps going, unaware of the turmoil writhing his friend. “just lookin' out for you, man. she’s really into me. like, a lot. wouldn’t be fair to either of you.”

the strong inside choso's heart break at the sound of that.

he scoffs. “you think so, huh?"

suguru blinks. “what’s that supposed to mean?"

“nothing,” choso mutters, already turning away. “was just curious.”

“cho—”

choso waves him off without looking back. “don’t worry about it.”

he opens the door, pauses just long enough to throw something over his shoulder, his voice very uncharacteristically cruel. “try not to confuse sex with somethin’ you don’t actually want.”

then he’s gone.

the door shuts with a dull thud.

suguru stands there, staring at the wood long after choso’s footsteps fade down the long hall.

his whole body feel shaky, like he'd just been stepped on. suguru did not like to be crossed like that.

he glances back at the bedpost. at the pink panties hanging there, the ones he teared off before fucking you dumb into his mattress... at the faint imprint you left on his space.

he frowns.

why does that bother him? he’s never cared before. he's told himself he couldn't commit to a relationship right now, that you being there for him was always just a mutual sex agreements. a good friends with benefits sitch. so why does the idea of someone else wanting you feel so incredibly wrong?

why does it feel like a rugs being pulled out from under him?

he exhales, runs a hand through his damp hair, then grabs his phone. you name pops up on his caller app and he hesitates only a second before calling.

“hey,” you answer, your voice isn't as excited to hear from him as it usually is... weird.

suguru smiles automatically. “hey, pretty.”

you don't giggle at that, or tease him back, you just hum through the receiver.

he frowns slightly. “what’re you up to?"

“just… home,” you say. “what’s up?"

“i was thinkin’,” he starts, leaning back on the bed. “maybe you come over tonight.” there’s a moment of silence and uncertainty that almost never came when it came to you.

“i dunno,” you say. “i’m kinda tired.”

that’s new.

suguru chuckles then lowers his voice. “c’mon, hun. i really need you.”

you sigh. “need me how?"

“badly,” he says, letting warmth creep in. “been thinkin’ about you all day.”

you dint reply instantly and he rushes in before you can pull away and reject him further. “i miss you,” he adds. “miss the way you feel. the way you look at me.”

“sugu—”

“baby,” he cuts in gently, “come over. yeah?”

he strings the pet names together, calls you sweet. calls you pretty. tells you he’s lonely. tells you he’s been wanting you.

he hears the shift in your breath before you speak again.

“…okay,” you say quietly.

his smile returns, very, very satisfied. “good girl.”

he hangs up, feeling way too good about the skill he has to persuade you. he thinks back on choso, how he'd learn a thing or two about threatening his arrangements.

~

you’re on your back in the long haired man's room before you can really register how you got there...

you feel so, so guilty. you didn't want to be here, but you felt awful for suguru, for fucking someone else when the agreement was to only fuck eachother, and talk about it if you were to screw someone else.

maybe that's why you caved into his pleas, you wanted to make it up to yourself, trying fix what felt like a horrible betrayal in your eyes.

sheets cold against your hot skin, suguru hovering over you, naked and sweaty like he belongs there, him, not choso.

"sugu, i— i wanna talk... there's something i should tell you," but you're cut off by his lips, his demanding, intoxicating lips... the ones working magic on helping you forget about your new friend.

you told yourself you weren't going to melt so easily into him when you got here, that you'd at least try your best to tell him about choso, how you're seriously reconsidering your little arrangement. but it seems he's got other plans, because his lounge is already halfway down your throat ripping lewd moans from your mouth.

he kisses you like he’s reminding himself that you're his. his girl to fuck, to claim without an actual title, not choso's.

his hands frame your face, pads of his thumbs brushing along your jawline as if he’s taking you back, he settles his weight between your legs, torso grinding up against your clothed pussy.

his lips kiss and suck against yours in a careful rhythm, coaxing rather than just taking. it isn’t frantic like he's panicked, no, it’s got a beautiful sense of reverence that drives you crazy and lulls away any former thought of taking accountability from your pretty little head. it's clear, even through your cloudy suguru filled haze, that he’s trying to prove a point to himself with every pass of his mouth on yours.

“fuck,” he murmurs softly into your mouth then your name.

his fingers dip down to your soaked panties, he presses his thumb harsh against your clit, pulling that one moan he knew meant he hit the perfect spot.

he shifts them to the side, then slams them deep into your gaping hole.

with every curl he's pulling such pretty groans from your throat, he doesn't care if his tendons begin to ache from how relentlessly he's bullying his thick fingers into your soft cunt, no, he's running you like this over and over if it meant hearing these addictive whimpers, ones he was causing, not choso.

he pumps them against your fluttering, gummy walls so tantalisingly slowly but so precise, it makes your eyes roll into the back of your head with pleasure. he wasn't as sweet as choso had been, he was rough and chasing that high with expert precision.

"such a pretty fucking girl. you're all mine, okay? you're all mine —shit—." his circles are relentless and binding, but that little monolog seemed to suddenly snap you out of whatever this was.

"suguru— fuck— please, stop it. we need to talk." he breaks away from latching onto your neck, then his thumb retracts as he sits up to look at you. this was what he didn't wanna do. talk about it.

he wanted you to get fucked, realise how good you had it with him, and forget about choso...

"what is it? hm?" he try's his best to stay calm but his distain slowly creeps up on him. "s' this about choso?" he quips.

what the fuck? how did he know?

suguru’s sitting up now, and you're pulling your skirt down over your lower half.

this wasn’t how you wanted him finding out but, “i don’t think i can keep doing this,” you say quietly.

his brows knit. “doing what.”

“this,” you gesture vaguely between you. “us. like this.”

...

he exhales through his nose. “you're serious?”

“yeah.”

his mouth tightens. “let me guess what.” he spits, and you tell him before he can further his sarcastic venture, “because i think wanna see choso.” suguru scoffs bitterly, he knew that was coming but he decides to pry further, “oh yeah? see him how?”

“like.. properly,” you say. “he asked me out. on like… a date. an actual one.”

his face contorts and stirs into disgust, then irritation. “you’re kidding.”

“I’m not.”

he scoffs, pushing off the bed and pacing, still half naked. “you barely know him, [name]!”

“i know,” you retort. “but he’s been so good to me, sugu, really good.”

“he’s bad news,” suguru seers. “you don’t need a no good loser like him. he has no prospects, no plan for the future, he's bad!"

your stomach sinks at the quips. “don't say that.”

“say what?" he bites, and you grow redder with anger, “talk about him like i'm so naive kid who doesn't know what i’m doing!"

he turns back to you, frustration spilling over now. “he’s a dealer. he sells drugs for a fucking living, that’s it! no goals, no future, he's sketchy as fuck.”

you shake your head. “that’s not fair.”

“it’s true.”

“you'd have no clue! you don't know anything about him.” you spit back, and he laughs meanly. “oh please. know him? he’s got the personality of a brick wall. what, he buy you drinks and suddenly he’s prince charming?"

your chest tightens. “he listens to me.”

that shuts him up for half a second.

you keep going, voice steadier now that you’ve started. “he shows up. he actually cares about what i have to say. he doesn’t treat me like something he picks up when he’s bored.”

his eyes flash. “that’s not what this is.”

“then what is it?" you ask. “because you’re the one who said it was just sex. over and over again.”

he runs a hand through his hair, agitation spilling from every pore on his smug face. inside his brain, it's a mix of conflicting feelings. suguru likes you, for real, he has ever since high school. not once had he ever thought he'd be with any other girl, just you. but college was for fun, for hookups and parties and no real commitments, so why would he pour more effort into you than he needed? why couldn't you just be his with no strings attached? he wanted you, he loved you, some might say. suguru was not ready to give you up this easily, you were his first.

the thought of you choosing someone else makes his lungs constrict and his brain fizzle and crack until his heart breaks apart at the valves.

“you don’t need choso,” he says again, trying to regain any sort of resemblance of control. “you’ve got me.”

you let out a bitter laugh. “no. i don’t.”

his gaze snaps to you. “what’s that supposed to mean?"

“you don’t get to say that,” you reply. “not when you won’t even call this what it is, you're a pathetic excuse for a man. if you're gonna tie me up like a dog and use me for sex, at least have the balls to let me know that's all i am to you."

he looks away as the veins in his neck pulsate and grow, part of him knows you’re right, but to be honest? part of him really just doesn’t care. he knows deep down he wants you more than that, why couldn't you understand?

“you’re just being weird because for once someone’s actually into me and you can scare them off.” you add, the words tumbling out now.

he wants to spill his guts, tell you all he really wants is you, that he's been enthralled with you ever since high school he's always just been far too immature to really commit, but instead, his eyes narrow. “that’s bullshit.”

“is it?" you challenge.

he opens his mouth, then closes it.

you sit straighter with your heart hammering. “i really like him, suguru. he treats me well. he’s a good person.”

something ugly flickers across his face. that hurt. you were supposed to be his, now you were telling him you really like another guy? you're his girl! you're his girl.

he laughs, low and cruel. “so that’s all it takes, huh? a promise of a date and suddenly you’re spreadin’ your legs like a whore?"

what the fuck? that's not what he wanted to say! he cringes at himself but it's too far gone, he can't put a lid on the rage that's bubbling over the edges of the pot that is his heart.

your breath leaves you in a hurried rush. “what— what did you just say.”

he doesn’t take it back immediately or rephrase, that's the worst part. “you heard me.”

your eyes sting but you try your best not to cry. “how do you even know about choso?” you bite.

his face goes all rigid. “i could tell.”

“tell what?"

“by the way you weren't keen." he says, then adds, "and he came by earlier.”

your stomach drops. “he came here?.”

“yeah,” suguru says. “asking about you.”

the petty realisation floods over you in a wave of rage. “so that’s why you called me." you laugh, gutted. “you didn’t want me. you wanted to get your get back, right?”

his temper flares. “don’t fucking twist this.” geto was usually level headed, even in the most heated of arguments, so you knew his anger was real here.

“you invited me over because your ego got bruised,” you say, voice rising. “not because you care about me or what i want."

“that’s not true.”

“then why did you just say that to me?"

he looks at you with eyes full of distain, “because i shouldn’t have ever let this get this far. you’re just someone i fuck sometimes. that’s it.”

oh.

you don’t cry at that nor do you yell. you just nod softly, like your body's finally understanding what your heart’s been screaming at you for so long.

“m'kay,” you say softly.

you stand, smoothing your skirt down and reaching for your shirt with hands that feel so far away. he watches intently, fuming, not realising the gravity of the bum ass, idiotic move he'd just pulled.

you grab your things without sparing him a single glance.

“wait,” he says, finally hearing the finality in your movement.

you pause at the door, then you step out and shut the it behind you with a soft click.

inside, suguru stands there for around a minute in silence. then, his legs give out and he drops onto the bed, elbows on his knees, head in his hands.

“fuck,” he whispers.

he stares at the floor, replaying every word he knew he should of never said. every look he flashed you when all he wanted to do was tell you how he actually felt, that he was wrong and he knew that, but he needed you all to himself. the way the pretty voice he'd always adored sounded when it broke.

he realises, too late, that he really does love you.

he was just too immature to keep you.

~

you needed to call choso.

sugurus number was blocked the second you got home to your apartment, an act you clearly should've done ages ago.

though, your minds not caught up on him anymore, no. it's running miles around choso.

two things were clear right now,

1. he knew about you and suguru.

2. he probably wasn't too happy about that.

and now suguru was out of the picture, you had to tell him the whole entire truth. that you'd gotten rid of him, that you were willing to put every ounce of yourself back into choso, if he'd let you.

you bite at your lip, contemplating if he'd even pick up if you were to dial. you had no way of knowing if he was turned off by all of this or if he'd still wanna give this whole thing a try.

one way to find out, you thought.

you scroll through your contacts until you find his name and hit call before you can overthink it. it rings far longer than you expect, and when he answers, his voice sounds tired, much quieter than usual. “hey.”

“hey,” you say, trying to keep your voice steady. “um. i know it’s late.”

“you’re fine,” he says. there’s a pause. “what’s up." it's not much of a question rather a statement he has to say to be polite.

you gulp nervously. “there’s something i really need to talk to you about. like, in person.”

another moment of silence that stretches abit longer this time round.

“okay,” he says softly. “i’m in the middle of a run right now.” your heart dips, then lifts when he continues. “i can come by after. if that’s alright.”

relief spreads through you, “yeah. that’s perfect. thank you.”

“i’ll be there as soon as i’m done,” he adds.

“drive safe,” you say.

.

on his end, choso leans back against the seat of his car, his phone still in hand. he sighs to himself, he already knows how this goes.

he’s had around a day to imagine it. an entire day of replaying everything in his mind, of telling himself not to get too attached to this amazing girl he'd sworn on.

in his head, you’re going to sit him down and say you had fun while it lasted, but you’re choosing to fuck with suguru. you’re going to say you’re sorry. you’re going to say it was complicated and now it’s clearer.

he grips the steering wheel and exhales slowly. he finishes the delivery on autopilot, exchanges empty words he barely hears, his mind is clearly somewhere else.

by the time he pulls up outside your building, his chest feels so incredibly heavy.

he sits there for a while, staring at the entrance, telling himself to keep it together, telling himself he’ll be fine no matter what you say.

he steps out of the car and walks up to your door, he lifts his hand to knock, and the door opens before his knuckles touch the wood.

you’re standing there with damp hair from a shower and a serious look on your otherwise adorable face.

you just look at each other, and no one talks.

he doesn't expect you to, but you step forward softly, then gently wrap your arms around his torso.

it’s sort of on instinct, it’s need, and it’s a big relief. he too wraps his arms around your back, pulling you closer to try ease the tension in his soul.

“hey,” he murmurs.

“hi,” you say back into his shoulder.

you pull away and move aside, he walks in, glancing around with widened eyes, your apartment still pulls at his attention even now. it all feels so clearly you. he forces himself to focus when you gesture to the couch.

he sits, hands resting on his knees. shoulders squared. ready for this horrible rejection..

you sit beside him, not too close, not far either, you take a moment before you speak.

“i’m really sorry,” you say softly. “about suguru. about him getting involved with us at all.”

his eyes are darting around nervously but he's still honed in on what you have to say.

“i didn’t mean for him to make you feel weird or uncomfortable,” you continue. “and i didn’t mean to keep things from you.”

you look forlornly down at your hands. “i blocked him today.”

he shoots his head up in surprise, cute.

“i should’ve been honest from the start,” you say. “we had this on and off thing. nothing serious. but meeting you changed that for me.”

you look up at hum, “i like you. a lot. and if you’re still into me, i’d really like to start clean with you. no stupid secrets.”

he looks at you back tenderly, watching over your every feature.

“you’re the coolest guy i’ve ever met,” you add with a small laugh. “and i don’t wanna mess this up.”

for a second he just stares at you. then he smiles, it's big and goofy, and so so bright.

“yeah,” he says, sort of laughing. “yeah. i’m really happy you picked me.”

your heart jumps.

before you can reply, his metal clad hand comes up to your cheek pulling you in closer to his lips, he then kisses you softly.

it’s beautifully gentle and ever so slightly desperate. he's leaving small open pecks like each one's it's own form of praise and forgiveness.

your hands curl into his shirt, grounding yourself in the feeling of him here. choosing you, and staying.

when you pull back, your forehead rests against his. you smile wide, you’re glad you closed one door to open this one.

"so, about that date."

~

the two weeks you'd spent dating choso kamo was seriously the best time of you life.

you wake up in choso’s apartment much more than your own now. his place is fancy, it sits high up in one of those off campus complexes that cost more than they look like they should.

he's got the nice polished concrete floors, floor to ceiling windows with automatic blinds, furniture that fits his dark yet aesthetic so well.

right now you’re tucked into his side on the couch with your legs all tangled together, your heads resting against his chest while the city glows outside the window and he sifts his fingers through your hair. you'd both just come down from a night full of intense loving, choso eating you out for a good hour before completely ruining you just as he had the previous night. now, there was food on the way as he massaged your lowkey back lovingly.

"you okay, honey?"

"more than okay. cho,"

"god, keep calling me that and i'll take you for round three."

this is how it’s been, consistently.he takes you in the most lovely dates, expensive dinners where he never lets you see the bill. not once. you did try at first, bless your soul, fumbling for your wallet, making jokes about splitting it, insisting you could handle yourself. and every time, he shut it down with the same calm tone.

"i got it, sweetheart."

no argument or anything, no crazy big ego. just a nice fact that he could take care of you without blinking.

he takes you to places you’d never, ever pick on your own. spots where the menus only have triple digest beside each item. he watches your face when the food comes out, in awe watching your beautiful eyes light up. he always asks if you like it with a big smile, and he always remembers what you order. when you say you like a certain dessert, what do you know? it shows up again on your door step a few nights later after you tell him you had a rough shift at work.

he never makes you feel small about your money, or lack there of. that’s the part that gets you the most. when you joke about being broke, he doesn’t laugh at you. he just nods like it’s another bit of information about you, not a flaw. when you mention rent stress or art supplies you still need for class, (never with the intention of milking him for money) he listens very intently. a few days later, those things stop being problems. there's an envelope left on your kitchen counter, a new set of brushes delivered to your door. him shrugging it off when you ask.

"you don’t have to worry about that, honey. that’s my job now."

"but i— it's to much money, cho, i shouldn't—" he always shuts you up with a deep kiss.

he comes to the sway bar a lot now, too. he slides onto a stool and waits for you to notice him with a small smile. he's always dressed well and never sloppy. he orders one drink, sometimes only non alcoholic, and stays for hours on end. at the end he tips you like a rich man, which is what he was.

he laughed when you'd try and shove it back at him. he'd lean down and tell you to stop being stubborn.

"i like taking care of you."

it’s not just a suave line, you can tell. he looks so pleased every time you finally accept it.

he drives you straight home after shifts even when it’s late, he says the bus is no place for a girl as cute as you to be that late at night, hell, he even contemplates buying you your own car just to put his mind at ease, then decides it might be just a bit too early in the relationship for that..

every night you don’t have work, he's either taken you out or you're crashing at his place, tonight's no different. you're dressed in one of his oversized paris texas shirts after a few hours of sex, and he's got you sat up in his lap caressing your hips.

dating him feels nice and calm. there's no guessing, absolutely no waiting for texts that never come. he checks in with you without hovering and always tells you where he is. he plans things, actual plans. a museum date because you mentioned a new exhibit in passing, a drive out of the city just to watch the sun drop behind the hills and star gaze without the suffocating light pollution. late night food runs where he lets you talk about nothing and everything while he listens to your every word.

he treats you like you’re worth effort, every single day.

on the couch, he moves around then reaches for the fluffy throw blanket draped over the armrest, pulling it over both of you. he smiles down at you fondly.

"you're so fucking pretty, y'know that?"

"mhm, you only tell me that every day." you smile back, and he laughs, tickling your ribs for the attitude.

you giggle into his chest as you smack the muscle, begging him to stop.

after he's teased you enough, he pressed a kiss to your forehead and smiles into your skin.

"baby." he pulls away and looks you in the eye waiting for you to reply.

"yesss?"

"sukuna's having a birthday party at our frat. i think sigma chi's invited aswell. can you come?" he asks kindly, stroking your head lightly. you nod as soon as he says it, happy to tag along to any function he was going to.

"good. i wanna show you off a little." he announces, slapping your ass half heartedly.

you roll your eyes, but your face is flushed a pretty pink. he laughs, squeezes you once more, then leans back into the couch.

choso has never felt more content than he did right now. he never thought he'd be one for sappy relationships, but for you? god, he'd do this in every lifetime, you were utterly perfect for him.

only thing left is to show everyone else that, too.

~

sukuna’s birthday is exactly what you expect and still somehow more? there's like, literally five beer pong tables lined up in the back yard alone like this was some sorta tournament rather than a birthday bash.

"yeah, he's really into beer pong. it's fitting, i guess." choso laughs

the house infront of you is loud before you can even step inside. sukuna's favourite music flows out the open door, cups are raised and swaying or abandoned on any flat surface. there are, inexplicably, five more beer pong tables set up in different corners of the main living room.

choso’s hand stays firm at your lower back as he guides you inside, the pretty little dress he'd bought you fit exactly how he said it would. it's nice and snug around your ass, and it's short enough to make his eyes widen when you walked out of the bedroom earlier. the expensive designer shoes he'd gotten you still feel new under your feet. you’d protested, of course, told him he didn’t have to do all this, but he told you he wanted to. just like with any other thing he'd gotten you in the past three weeks.

you clock the way a few heads turn as you pass by, and smile to yourself at how good it feels to be on his arm. little did you know, this was his plan all along, to have you looking all sexy and all his as a final fuck you to the guy he knew would be here tonight. choso didn't fight with losers like him, but he could definitely put his money where his mouth was (literally) and show off a little.

“there they are,” gojo’s voice cuts through choso's slightly possessive thoughts.

he’s smiling so wide as he steps up to you two, his freakishly long arms opening wide preparing for your poor boyfriend. choso barely has time to brace before gojo crashes into him, hugging him hard enough to rock them both back a step.

“happy birthday to sukuna, i guess,” gojo says, then pulls back, eyes sliding straight to you.

he looks you over once, it's quick but not rude, then he smiles softly. proud, almost.

“you look really good,” he says, leaning down like he’s about to tell you a secret. his voice gets slightly bashful. “and i’m really glad you finally ended up with someone who treats you right. even if it meant dropping my best friend.”

there’s no judgment in it or awkwardness, just pure honesty.

you laugh quietly and hug him, arms wrapping around his middle. gojo squeezes you back solidly, you're content with his nothing about this changed how much he cares about you.

toji is right behind him with his meaty arms crossed and his eyes observing. he looks choso up and down first, then his sues land on you.

“damn,” he says flatly. “she's a looker.”

choso exhales through his nose a little irritated.

toji smirks, clearly pleased with himself.

“that’s my girlfriend,” choso says calmly. he's good at keeping his emotions in check. plus, it was toji, this idiot wouldn't know any better.

toji pauses, then nods once. “shit, i forget [name]'s the chick you were getting all giddy over. good job." he says, and claps choso on the shoulder before offering his hand. they dap each other up and choso smirks triumphantly.

“c’mon,” choso says, fingers curling around your wrist. “gotta see the birthday boy.”

he guides you through the littered bodies as gojo and toji trail behind you, the beer pong table nearest the back is surrounded by people yelling over a close game. sukuna is there, his pink spiky hair all wet and damp with sweat, roaring with laughter as he cooks shiu and sinks the final cup. (no one thought he was gonna loose, but they all cheer regardless)

you spot suguru at the same time he spots you.

he’s standing just off to the side with nanami and shiu, he spots your arm wrapped around choso's and you swear to god you see his eye physically twitch in distain.

you giggle softly at the sight, and choso pulls you into him tighter, staring the man dead in the eye as he squeezes your waist. what a sexy asshole.

sukuna turns when he hears choso’s coming over, his already large grin spreading wider. “there he i!" he bellows. he always got overly cheery when he was inebriated.

sukuna swallows choso in a big hug and the dark haired boy claps him twice on the back. "god, haven't seen you in ages man! where y'been?" sukuna questions, choso just rubs his neck bashfully and cocks his thumb to point at you. "keeping the missus looked after, y'know how it is."

sukuna's eyes fall onto you and he's surprised. he thinks back to when choso was asking about you that first time and then to when he'd stormed off when he'd told him you were sleeping with suguru. a small proud smile falls over his lips. he always disliked geto anyway, the righteous asshole.

“happy birthday,” choso says. “you're old as hell now.”

“shut up,” sukuna laughs. then drags his attention back to you as you step in for a side hug, very quick and polite. “happy birthday, ryomen." you smile, and he scruffels up your hair fondly.

he glances back at choso, then leans in and mutters, "good pull,” he says quietly. “glad you could wrangle her away.”

choso chuckles, pleased.

you can feel suguru’s stare as shiu and nanami fall back into another game of beer pong without even looking back at the guy. although, it doesn't matter. choso's still making a show of pulling you into him every chance he gets, which you can tell is really ticking suguru off.

sukuna wipes his hands on his jeans as he pulls his attention away from shiu and nanami and back to choso. “you better not of gotten me anything, cho.”

choso just smiles and reaches into his pocket, pulling out a small credit card shaped gift wrapped in neat paper. he hands it over casually.

sukuna sighs with half a smile. “you didn’t have get me shit, man.”

“js' open it.”

toji and gojo lean in from their spots either side of you and choso. sukuna peels it open, eyes scanning the card once, then his mouth drops open.

“no fucking way.”

he looks up, stunned. “this is real?”

“mhm. two years,” choso says. “a membership for that fancy gym yer' always whining about.”

sukuna lets out a sound that’s between a laugh and disbelief. “what the actual fuck.”

he pulls choso into another, much tighter hug. “thank you, brother, seriously.”

choso pats his back. “no problem, i love you, remember?” he says, the inside joke making both sukuna and toji chuckle.

then, like it’s nothing, choso reaches back into his pocket and pulls out another card. hands it to toji.

toji freezes. “what’s this.”

“part of his gift,” choso says. “don’t want him training alone.”

toji stares at the card. then at sukuna. then back at choso.

“you’re fucking insane,” gojo says, laughing.

toji exhales a sharp laugh and grips choso’s shoulder. “i appreciate it, man, seriously. holy shit.”

sukuna looks between them, clearly overwhelmed, then clears his throat and tries to play it off. “alright, alright. enough with the heartfelt shit.”

but his grin doesn’t drop one bit.

you watch it all from choso’s side, chest warm in a way that has nothing to do with the noise or the crowd. this is him, he's so generous without making it a big show. loyal without asking for any kind of back credit. he's a solid man in a way that makes everyone around him relax and naturally lean into him.

choso glances down at you and catches you looking.

“you good, honey?" he asks quietly.

you nod, smiling up at him. “yeah. i’m really good.”

his lips curve into the kindest of smiles as he kisses your tenderly on your head, careful to not mess up your makeup.

off to the side, suguru looks away in disgust having witnessed that little interaction.

'read it and weep.' choso thinks to himself.

but he was far from done, one more little display and he'd be satisfied.

so, later on when everyone was a little drinker on the punch shoko had 'accidentally' poured four bottles of vodka in, he has you pressed up against a wall away from the main hustle and bustle, yet up close to where he knew suguru was lounging around.

"cho, people are gonna see!" you squeal, but his hands don’t stop grabbing at the curve of your ass and pushing you harder against the wall.

"good, want them to see." he coos, latching onto your throat and sucking at it softly.

despite your pleas, you were very into this. your boyfriend wasn't always this needy so this show was really doing it for you. you let him claim your throat in bright, blooming hickeys and groaned as he hooked his lips onto yours, shoving his tongue down your throat.

the exchange is heated and passionate, any on looker could tell this was a moment shared between two people who loved eachother deeply, exactly what he was going for.

from behind him, sukuna and toji catch wind of you two and let go of broken cheers, making choso smile into your lips. they both joke about 'not knowing choso has this in him,' which made a few of his other friends add onto the mantra of playful encouragement.

he's living for the way your cheeks heat, the way the attentions making you all hot and bothered. but most of all, he's high off the fact that when he peeks behind him through an open eye, he sees suguru angrily stand from his spot on the couch, and storm outta the house.

mission accomplished.

A/N this is not proofread at all 💔 going back to my roots and writing choso look at me go 🙂‍↕️ i hope you guys enjoy the lil smau yayy