pslplz | Futureverse

Marui finishes his ice cream cone and drops the wrapper into the next trash can as he walks up the front steps to the mall and checks his watch. It's just about right for the time he should be meeting his date. 2:30 today, west entrance, at the fountain, male date is all he knows. The mall is pretty casual for a date, so he's dressed down to a nice pair of khaki shorts and a white knit polo shirt with a clean pair of tennis shoes.

He doesn't really need to go blind to snag someone to spend a Sunday afternoon with, especially with the kind of sex appeal being a professional athlete afforded someone, but it's a special request from his cousin, and the fact is it's very hard to say no to her sad puppy face. Not that he'd really tried to, but anyway.

At any rate, he's here now, and trying to determine whether he's the first one. He pops a piece of green apple bubble gum into his mouth and glances around the fountain area for anyone who looks similarly in search of company.

Since when does Akaya need help with his dating life? Never, that’s when. Certainly not from his own brother. He’s only just starting to get to know Jae-ha again and has no idea whether his taste in dating partners can be trusted. But being a rising rock star makes spontaneous meetings almost impossible. Akaya is never sure if people want him because of the fame or out of genuine interest. Finding someone to fuck or fawn over him is easy, but it’s mostly shallow fluff, boring. This is the only reason why he’s here today, because the curiosity has gotten the better of him. And besides, if Jae-ha has hooked him up with an asshole, he gets to punch him in the face later.

Akaya approaches the fountain with a casual gait, scanning the crowd for the likely guy. He doesn’t have much to go by, except that he’s supposed to be around the same age and “cute.” Clearly he’s not here yet, because the only single guy standing around the fountain is none other than…

“Marui Senpai?”

He cocks his head to the side, smiling with a touch of surprise. “Hey! How long has it been?”

Hearing that familiar voice, Marui turns and instantly breaks a grin of delight.

"Well isn't it Akaya? Funny meeting you here. Been at least six months, hasn't it? What a busy season. How've you been?"

He feels a rush of nostalgia for their school days seeing Akaya here. Naturally, he thinks of Yukimura, too, but he fully expects to hear about him too soon enough. For the moment, the fact he's supposed to be looking for a date is forgotten.

“Mostly been in the studio, cutting a new album,” Akaya says with a casual grin. He doesn’t mention throwing himself into his work since his latest break-up with Yukimura. It’s not the kind of thing he feels like launching into after seeing an old friend. Especially one who is also friends with the ex. (Though maybe Akaya is darkly curious whether Marui’s heard anything from Yukimura…)

“What about you?”

"I just finished Wimbledon. I'm on a short break before heading to North America for the Canadian Open and U.S. Open. They're only two weeks apart, so I'm going on a food tour in between." He winks.

"That album gonna be anything I can pick up in stores soon? Those plane rides are pretty long without good music."

Futureverse

[flashback] A Blind Date

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