(Requested by Tsubaki3698)

INTJ (male) x INTP (female)

Amina scowls at the guy standing in front of her.

“Welcome back to Webford University,” he says, smirking. “It’s great to see you again, Amina.”

“Shut up, Nicodemus,” she drawls, rolling her eyes. "There is no point in welcoming me when we both clearly know that my debate team and I are here for a competition. And we plan to kick ass." 

Nico scoffs. "Amina, your out-of-bound confidence amuses me at times. I would understand though since that is the only thing holding you up.”

Mina utters in disbelief, “Your head is as bloated as it is ever before.”

“At least it means that I have more information to refute your argument in our debate later,” he snarkily retaliates.

"Oh, yeah?" Mina raises an eyebrow, testing him as she takes a step closer to him. “Bite me."

Nico feels taken aback and looks at the girl weirdly. "Excuse me? No, thank you." 

Mina feels that Nico did not take her message likely. What did she say wrong? She was simply riling him up.

He shakes his head, still appalled. Nico checks the time on his wristwatch then clears his throat. “Whether you still choose to bite me or not, I suggest that we should prepare for the match in an hour.”

“Nicodemus,” Mina begins but is interrupted by Nico’s hand raised in front of her face.

“Amina, I think you should go back to where your teammates are, as well.”

Mina could only blink for he has rendered her speechless. “I-I see…” she musters to say.

“Go.” he juts his head toward the direction leading to the university cafeteria. “I passed by your teammates on my way here. I’ll see you on the other side, making sure you lose.”

Mina lets out a soft laugh and playfully slaps his arm. “Let’s leave it to the adjudicator. It’s not going to be a clean fight.”

Nico manages to smile back at her even if it looks hardened. He places a hand on her shoulder. “Go,” he urges her. “It’s nice to see you again.”

“You, too.” Mina wanted to deny it, but his words made her heart flutter. They do not even mean anything special! Of course, a frenemy from high school would say that. Mina and Nico were close friends and rivals in high school as they both vied for valedictorian. In the end, it was Nico who got the award while Mina got salutatorian.

Nico left first, stiffly waving at her before turning his back to walk to wherever he was planning to go. 

Mina decides to head back to the cafeteria and spots her two teammates sitting at one of the tables at the side. 

One of them spots the girl. “Mina! Come here!” she beckons her. 

“Anne,” Mina yells in a whisper, rushing to the table while avoiding some of the students’ looks at her due to Anne’s loud voice. Upon sitting on a free seat beside her teammate, she continues, “This is not our territory. Don’t go around shouting like that again.” 

Anne dismisses Mina’s claim, sighing nonchalantly. “You worry too much. Just because our I.D. lanyards display Nayashi University’s seal and name, it doesn’t mean that we can’t act like normal university students.”

“Anne, don’t get too ahead of yourself,” their other teammate strictly warns her while writing down further notes they could use for the topic of the debate later. 

“Thank you, Edith,” Mina utters, throwing a smile at her third teammate.

“I’m just stating facts here,” Edith replies, turning to a new page in her notebook. “No need to thank me.”

“I see where you’re coming from, Edith,” Anne says, “But you have to know that most here do not care. And,” she drawls, throwing a teasing glance at Mina, “you know about this girl’s crush on her frenemy.”

“Anne!” Mina hisses, widening her eyes as she glares at her teammate.

“What? Edith and I know it! You act too shy as if you don’t know how to flirt. How was it, by the way? Did you say any of the words or lines I’ve been trying to teach you?”

“I said ‘bite me.’ He did not look pleased or even aroused the slightest,” Mina mutters, dejected.

“Mina!” Anne slaps the arm of her friend. “Of course he would have acted that way because you say that at bars or clubs!”

Realization dawns on Mina. “Oh,” she breathes out, her face falling. 
 
Anne sighs, rubbing her forehead. “Look,” she starts after a while, “you may have panicked or something like that. I would understand. I mean, who wouldn’t like a smart guy like him?”

Mina stutter, “I-I mean...we were rivals but somewhat friends before-”

“Hey, Nayashi girls!” A loud voice interrupts Mina. The three girls face the direction where the voice came from and Anne is the first to greet the person.

“Rich!” she exclaims and beckons him over. Just as he reaches their table, Anne continues, “Great to see you! Are you ready for later?”

Rich takes the free seat across from Mina then answers, “Ready to beat you at the debate? Hell, yes.” He turns to Edith then greets her, “Hey, Edith. I’m sure you’re in the zone with studying now.”

Edith mutters, her eyes still on her notes, “If you know that, then why are you talking to me?”

“It’s great to see you, too, then.” Rich laughs then meet Mina’s gaze as he greets her next, “Hey, Mina.”

“H-Hi.”

“Nico told me that you were here so...I came as fast as I could. You know, a healthy competition happens if you’re friends with the opposing team as well.”

Mina smiles and chuckles. “Really?”

Rich nods. “Especially if the opposing team is cute.” He winks at her which causes Mina to blush and place some strands of her hair behind her ear. 

“I-Is Nicodemus planning to come here?”

“Yeah,” he answers then leans closer to her, “but I made sure to get a head-start if you know what I mean.”

Anne, watching the two interact, throws a look at Edith then rolls her eyes. Sometimes she cannot believe that her friend is that dense when it comes to flirting with the wrong person.

“Oh!” Rich exclaims and brings out his phone from his pocket. “I have something to show you.” He presses on an app displayed on the screen before showing it to Mina. “Some of my classmates and I are developing this new search engine. Check it out!”

Mina rests one hand on top of his as the other starts swiping through the app, her smile grows wider as she gets more intrigued with the features and design of the app. “Rich, this is exciting!”

“I know right? We hope to place this in the app store by the end of the year.”

“Count me in as one of the first people to download it,” Mina says.

“And that is why I find you amazing, Mina.”

“Amina? Rich? What’s going on here?” Both students jump in their seats out of shock and it’s Mina who looks up first to see Nico looking at the both of them. She cannot read the expression on his face. He looks mad and stern, yet confused at the same time.

“Nico? Dude, it’s just the app I’m developing,” Rich explains.

“Is that so, Rich?” Nico crosses his arms.

Anne butts in, greeting him, “Hey, Nico!”

“Hey,” he merely utters back before setting his attention on the two again. “Rich, is that what you mean by ‘just to say hi to the girls’?”

“Nicodemus,” Mina starts, “Rich is just showing me this new app. It’s really cool. You can place anything on the search bar and-”

“And it directs you to categories of the topic you placed. Like Google,” he rudely cuts her off. "I don't see how you find that remarkable, nevertheless entertaining."

Rich could only stare at him, stunned. “Ouch.”

Mina furrows her eyebrows out of anger. “Nicodemus? That was such a low-blow.”

Nico shakes his head. “Whatever,” he spits out and saunters away from the table, leaving the cafeteria. 

Mina gets to her feet. “Excuse me,” she tells everyone at the table and immediately follows after Nico. She rushes to catch up to him who was walking away at a fast pace.

“Nicodemus?” she shouts, not minding the students by the hallway who were starting to look at her weirdly. “Nicodemus! Nico!”

Nico halts and turns around to look at Mina. “You never call me Nico.”

Mina stops in front of him to catch her breath. “What the hell, Nicodemus?” she utters in disbelief. 

“You never call me Nico,” he repeats.

“And you never act that daft! What’s wrong with you?”

“Oh come on, Amina.” Nico chuckles ruefully. “You’re smart to know what that was back there.”

“What? Me and Rich?”

“He was flirting with you!” he points out.

“And why does that matter to you?” she argues, “So what if he was flirting with me? You were the one who was acting irrationally back there.”

“It’s because it maddened me,” he retaliates.

“It was as if you were jealous or something. Nicodemus, you are not like that.” Mina’s eyes suddenly widen as the guy goes closer to her.

“And what if I was?” he whispers, looking down at her. “Would there be a problem with that?”

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Some positive traits of INTJ: confident, independent, open-minded

Some positive traits of INTP: observant, ingenious, laid-back