#13 | narrowed eyes once soft

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you walked into the gym and audibly sighed when you saw barou in the middle of the room as always. scrubbing the floor with a mop so hard you were worried an earthquake would erupt.

you rubbed your fingers together and went to go pick up a broom from the storage room.

you stopped dead in your tracks.

your eyes grazed over to the spot where the two of you once laid. when you were stuck with one another in that locked, crammed compartment.

you gulped back the saliva brimming in the back of your throat.

resting your head on his shoulder. his voice. his gruff and aggressive voice was once soft at that certain moment. his eyes examining yours like you were the last person on earth. his head resting on top of yours and trapping you like a─

"y/n! hello?!"

barou snapped in your face, his sleek red eyes narrowing at your dazed gaze.

narrowed eyes that looked at you completely differently yesterday.

your eyes widened at the tight proximity; his face was just mere inches away from accidentally brushing up against yours.

you sucked in a shaky breath and composed yourself. you narrowed your eyes back at him as if you were challenging him.

"what?"

"you spaced out. thought you died or something." his voice came out raspy. but quiet. something barou shouei was not known for.

he clicked his tongue and did a full 360─retreating back to the mop resting on the wall by the benches.

quite nonchalant for how close he was to you just a minute ago.

you stood there, mouth agape a little. you exhaled through your nose and grabbed the broom you had completely discarded from your mind.

you tried to ignore the pace of your beating heart.

you walked over to where barou was. your broom clutched in your hand with a steel grip due to your racing nerves.

"barou."

his gaze turned from his mop to you. eyes tracing your figure and face.

"what." he grunted. his hostile voice was just as normal as always.

but there was a tint of softness. like he was scared you were going to slip away if he spoke any higher than he was right now.

"you said we were gonna go bowling." you then paused and exhaled. "but i don't know what time. what bowling place. hell, i don't even have your phone number."

you rested your hands at your sides. they twitched every so often due to how barou's built form stood in front of you. towering over you like you were a small insect about to get smashed in his path.

he let out a sharp sigh and turned his face away from your vision.

he began to dig in his pocket for a couple seconds and then grabbed his phone. waving it in the air like it was a feather. 

your eyes fell on his arms. his hands. his enormous hands gripping the phone with such ease you wondered how they would feel around your ne─

what the hell were you thinking?

your eyes tore from his hands to his sharp eyes on his icy glare. you hadn't even noticed his extended arm urging to take the phone from his hands.

you extended your own arm and took it from his grasp. fingers brushing against each other's by accident and sending electric jolts throughout your body.

you discarded your arm and typed in your information and handed it back to the bulky man in front of you.

"i'll text you the details." he spoke, then stuffed his phone back in his pocket and went back to ignoring your existence.

you grabbed the broom and began sweeping. trying to surpass your thoughts about the broody male.

you failed immensely.

you got a good look at the male. his looks were enough to set a fire in a wet land. but his personality weighed it all down.

you rubbed a hand down your face and groaned under your breathe.

curse the world for making barou so unbearably hot.