"You're such a dork!" the redheaded boy playfully tugs on his neighbour's pigtails. She blushes with a pout.

"Don't tease me Mikoto!" she pouts. "You're a dork too!"

"Not as dorky as you though, my dear." the charming yet silly boy pokes his tongue out at the brunette.

"Shut up!" she blushes, bouncing the basketball at his face.

Mikoto is so alarmed that he falls onto his butt, causing the girl to laugh.

"Hey! Miyoko, you're mean!" Mikoto pouts.

"Gotta go now, see you later, dork!" Miyoko waves.

"Bye Miyoko!" Mikoto waves. "You're a much bigger dorm, bouncing up and down theatrically, as if that's how people run."

Mikoto scoffs, trying to immitate his next door neighbour's movements, only to trip over his laces and fall flat on his face.

~(^v^)~

"Ha! Look at you!" Mikoto laughs, jumping around with shrieks of laughter.

"Stop laughing Mikoto!"

"Kawaii megane brace face, aren't you." Mikoto teases.

"Shut up!" Miyoko pouts with a blushing face. "The braces will be off before we start High School!"

"And what about the specs?" the taller boy enquires, poking Miyoko's nose. "Boop." he winks.

"I'll get contact lenses! And then no boy will be able to resist me!" Miyoko declares, spinning on her toes like a ballet dancer.

Mikoto starts to laugh, hands on his sides as he gasps for air.

"Cocky, are we? Baka." Mikoto scoffs.

"Shut up!" the shorter brunette shoves her next door neighbour.

"Well you don't exactly strike me as the sort of girl who will have guys fawning over her."

"Rude!" Miyoko pouts. "Anyway! I wasn't TALKING about sex appeal."

"Clearly...OOF!"

"You deserved that, Mikoto." Miyoko smirks. "I'm not intending to draw boys in with my sex appeal, more like the cuteness factor!" she spins on her toes again.

"That hurt, b-baka." his face is red, maybe he's blushing or maybe it's from the punch that Miyoko delivered to her neighbour's cheek.

~(^v^)~

"This is what?" Mikoto takes the manga from Miyoko's hands as they sit together on the train.

"A manga." Miyoko folds her arms.

"Shoujo, eh?" Mikoto winks, making his awkward neighbour blush.

"Yes, and actually!" Miyoko swipes the book from Mikoto's hands. "you remind me of the protagonist."

The brunette beams when she watches the flustered redhead try to regain his cool and conjure up a decent response.

"Me? REALLY!" Mikoto's eyes shine. Miyoko rolls her eyes, is that the best he can do?

"Yeah!" Miyoko enthuses. "It's like Yumeno-sensei watches you and feeds your behaviour into the drawings and words from the protagonist."

"I knew it!" Mikoto spins on his toes, like Miyoko always used to in middle school.

"I KNEW I would be the dashing princely male lead!" Mikoto declares, making the whole carriage stare at them. Miyoko and Mikoto sit down, blushing violently. It is Miyoko who regains her cool before Mikoto.

"I ACTUALLY meant the female lead." Miyoko sniggers. "Just a lovable dork." she elbows her next door neighbour.

"How adorable, Miyo-chan called me lovable!" Mikoto teases.

"A-a-adorable?" Miyoko stammers.

"Adorable?" Mikoto's eyes are wide. "...Heh, I called you a dork, baka."

"A dork? That sounds nothing like adorable?" Miyoko tilts her head like a puppy.

"Fine!" Mikoto sulks. "I called you a-DORK-able!"

Adorkable? Nice. Miyoko fights a blush at this newly found word. It sounds way to complimentery to be anything but a compliment.