Yuukei Yesterday

You stared at Kwan. Your eyes widen with terror. It's the next day and you were feeling way better than yesterday. Luka had left after some time, leaving you all alone in your house once again. It wasn't until your parents came home that you had woken up, only to fall back to sleep in your room. Kwan had just finished telling you about the conversation your half-asleep self had with Luka. 

"I said... what now..." You gazed down at your lap, replaying what you can remember from yesterday. Luka came over. He took care of me. We watched the news about Oblivio. I took my meds and started to feel sleepy. He put me to sleep on the couch and... "Oh god. My life is over!!"

"Don't be so dramatic now" Kwan sighed. 

"I told him ''!"

"But he took that as a friendship way"

"I told him I'm dating Ruben!!!!"

"Such a shame that you can't just die and reincarnate like me, huh"

"AGH!"

"(y/n)?" You heard your mom call from downstairs. "Is everything alright?"

"I want to die!"

"You can't die before going to school" She laughed.

"Oh god. School!" You turned to Kwan. "What am I going to do? He's going to ask questions. What do I say? I outed Ruben and Manu to Luka as well! I'm such a terrible -"

You stopped talking when you felt a light flaming wing slap your cheek. It didn't burn, it just stung a little. Kwan placed her wings on your cheeks, pushing them together to shut your mouth. Her red eyes glared at you. "I'll tell you what you're going to do. You're going to text your friends and Ruben about how you accidentally blurted the truth to Luka, and you're going to make up this random story as a cover-up, and you are going to go to school and face Luka head-on. You got that?!"

"Yush" You managed to speak.

"Good. Now go!" Kwan let go of you and you quickly went to your phone. You did what the small kwami told you to do. It was no shocker to you that not only did your friends scold you, but tease you as well. You didn't exactly want to go to school but you knew there was no way you're parents were going to let you skip another day. Especially when you seem to be getting over your sickness.

"Please. Can you just kill me now?" You mumbled to Kwan, who was staring at you from your bag. You were standing just in front of the school. 

"Yo!" You jumped, almost tripping over yourself. That voice. Turning around, you spotted Luka. He was smiling his casual smile at you. 

"L-Luka!" You stuttered, rubbing your hand behind your neck.

"You seem to be better today" He observed. You looked completely refreshed, minus the fact that you looked nervous about something. 

"Y-Yeah. That soup and sleep did me good" You internally cursed yourself for having your voice squeak. 

"Listen, I want to ask you about something" Luka's smiling expression turned more serious. Oh no. He's going to ask now, huh. You're not ready for this. Can't you just disappear for an entire week?

"Sure. What up?" God, (y/n), can you sound any more awkward?

"It's about you and Ruben." Oh no. Luka's teal blue eyes gazed down to the side. "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it, but you mentioned that the two of you aren't dating. Mind if I know what happened between the two of you?"

"Uh. Um." You could feel your heartbeat against your chest. Looking into Luka's eyes, you froze. He looked at you with full concern. Does he feel betrayed about you not telling him? Is he worried that it was a bad break-up or something? What if he knew you lied? Taking in a deep breath, you ripped your gaze from him. "Nothing bad happened. We just felt like us dating wasn't a good match. We only dated as a sort of experiment, I guess? I - uh - sort of figured that he wasn't - um - totally into me, so I... so we just decided to go back to being friends"

"That's good to hear" Luka let out a sigh of relief. His smile reappeared on his face. You blushed when you felt his hand ruffle your hair a bit. "I was afraid you got hurt or something and I needed to punch him like I did when we were in middle school."

"You're not mad that I didn't tell you first?" You shyly looked up at him. 

"Of course not" He moved his hands to rest on your shoulder. "I'm sure you were going to tell me at your own time. I'm sorry about it not working out"

"It's no big deal" You chuckled, turning your gaze onto the ground. "Turns out, I had someone else on my mind too"

What am I saying? Stop talking, (y/n). Stop now. Abort. Abort. This is how the whole Ruben thing started anyway. What am I thinking? You are an idiot!

"Oh?" His smile turned into a smirk. You couldn't help but smile at the reaction he gave. He wrapped his arm around your shoulders, leading you inside the building. "Well, this new guy is going to have to get past me first"

A light laugh escaped your lips. "Oh, I don't know. I think he might be able to just surpass you on my 'Favorite Person List'."

"I'm afraid that as the remaining number one champion, I'm going to be accepting that challenge." Luka winked at you. "Can't have anyone stealing my favorite girl from me, now can I?"

"You mean that?" You bit your bottom lip, silently hoping this wasn't a dream. Luka seems to be happy about you not dating Ruben and sort of flirting back with you. 

"With my whole heart" He let go of your shoulders. "You've been my muse since I picked up a guitar, so how can you not be? Which reminds me, I still have a song with your name on it. Maybe we can work on it over the weekend?"

"Of course" You smiled. "But don't you have Kitty Section practice?"

"Yeah, but you know how I always make time for you" He tapped your nose.

"You're too sweet to me" You held back your blush, mumbling, "You're not like this with Grace"

"You're the only one I'm like this with" Luka chuckled. You looked at him with wide eyes, feeling embarrassed that he heard you. You were going to say something but he had placed his index finger on your lips, signaling you to stay quiet. A smirk formed itself on his lips as he winked at you. "But don't tell anyone. It might ruin my reputation"

There's no way for that to happen. You thought. And how you such a natural flirt?! Luka's phone vibrated, grabbing his attention and cutting your conversation with him. He looked at it and began to take small steps toward the school's exit. "I gotta go. Juleka told me that she has something to show me. Catch you in class?"

You nodded your head. He smiled at you, placing a small kiss on your forehead. "I'm glad you're feeling better. Text me if you need me" 

You watched Luka leave your sight and disappear amid students. You're sure that your face must have been flushing like a tomato, but you didn't care. Luka just kissed your forehead! You hadn't even noticed the rest of your friends walking up to you. Grace looked at her friends before waving her hand in front of your face. "Hello? Earth to (y/n)?"

"I think... Luka and I... were just flirting" You turned to your friends. "I must be crazy, right? I mean, he likes Marinette. There's no way he could have been flirting with me. He only sees me as a friend, as another sister. But... But when I told me about me and Ruben not being together, he seemed... sort of happy. Then I just sort of went on autopilot and told him I liked someone, and we somehow kind of - I don't know - started flirting? Wait, but I don't really know if that was flirting. What do you think? Did you see?"

"Wow." Lucien's eyes widen. "First your texts, and now this. Your morning seems more eventful than mine"

"I might be wrong though, right?" You glanced at each of them. "Marinette is the girl he likes"

"That is true," Calixte nodded his head. "But what if he's slowly realizing his feelings toward you? He seemed kinda upset when he heard that you were dating Ruben"

"Do you think I should confess my feelings to him?" I turned to Grace. 

"It could still be too early for that" She rubbed her hand on my shoulder. "Maybe if you continue giving him subtle hints that you like him, he could come around"

"Subtle hints..."

"I know!" We all turned to Calixte. He had a wide grin on his face. "You can sing him something! I have a friend in the showbiz life, and he's currently working with Bob Roth and XY on new music. He said that they're having a contest to find new artists out there. I'm sure Kitty Section would enter and win with their uniqueness and talent. And when they perform on live t.v., I can pull a few strings to get you to play as an opening act! I mean, it's not exactly subtle, but you can just not put his name or anything of the sort to make it sound like a regular love song"

You and your friends looked at Calixte with shocked expressions. Since all of you were staying silent, Calixte thought that his idea was probably stupid. But when all of you engulfed him in a bear hug, he began to rethink that idea.

"Never thought I'd say this," Lucien sighed. "But Cal, you are a genius"

"I know" Calixte smiled.