Valentine
Author: Aki
Focus: Osric, Oroka
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Of course it's short. It's a ficlet. That's a baby fic!
Osric hated Valentine's Day with a passion. The halls of the school would waft that delicious smell that was so much like paradise on earth. But he would never get any chocolate. Never, in the entire time that he had been in Japan had he received chocolate.
Grumbling down the hall, he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and saw it was his "friend" Oroka, "What is it--"
He saw that she was refusing to look at him, but she was holding a bag to him. She held it out like it was a piece of trash that she hoped he would throw away for her. But he recognized the smell instantly and had to control himself: she had made him chocolate.
"Take it." She snarled and shook the bag to make sure he knew it was there.
He held his hands up to grab it, only to have her drop it into them. She then stormed off past him red from either embarrassment or fury. All the while, Oroka avoided looking at him.
When he ate the chocolate it was extremely bitter. It seemed like Oroka had used vinegar instead of milk, or something. Despite its taste, Osric gobbled it up like it was the best chocolate he had ever eaten. In fact, it was the best thing he had eaten in a while.
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Osric grinned at Oroka in Computer Programming class. She still refused to look at him, "Oroka, why'd you give me chocolate?"
She was stolidly silent.
"Were you trying to tell me something?"
"Shut up."
"Hey Oroka."
"What do you want?"
"...your chocolate is delicious." He swooped in and kissed her on the cheek.
She shoved him across the room in his office chair, but he was cracking up so hard that it didn't matter. Valentine's Day had redeemed itself in his eyes.
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