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The color blue has always been associated with sadness. Solitude and melancholy attached to it, adding more negativity. Even with every complementing color out there, it was still simply sad.
Depressive. Alone in its emotion, a dying flower.
Another simple blue daisy amongst the field of blue daisies. Unnoticed by the beautiful cherry blossoms.
It was a rainy afternoon, cold and slightly dark from the dense clouds covering the sky. The band had canceled practice for the day, as Yone had to help Alune with band affairs. Kayn and Ezreal were out somewhere committing crimes or playing Just Danc e in the living room. K’sante was in charge of laundry. Aphelios took the chance from the cancellation and reworked on lyrics.
Despite basically having a free day today, it was best to keep things working so Yone wasn’t dealing with much stress. Someone has to do it after all.
Sett giggled audibly as he sat in his bed. Seemingly typing away on his phone from what Aphelios could determine based on hearing. The beanie wearing one did always enable phone sounds when he was awake. Always making Aphelios roll his eyes, half annoyed by the constant pinging of messages.
The noise continued, and it reached a point where Aphelios had to pause in his work to look at the other. Giving him a half glare.
Usually, Aphelios only needed to look back at Sett and the other would immediately know Phel was looking at him. That’s something that happened a lot even while growing up. But now, Sett just continued to look at his phone. Smiling and giggling a little as the ping noises continued.
Phel frowned, now curious as to who Sett was talking to so much. To the point of making the pack of muscles giggle like a schoolgirl.
Glancing back around his desk, he grabbed a small plushie. Throwing it at Sett, watching it bounce off his face. Making him jump a little.
“Ack! Phel! What?!”
Aphelios grinned slightly, amused by his face. Signing at the other
‘Who are you texting?’
“Ah” He looked down at his phone then back at Aphelios. The blue one could immediately tell just how hard Sett began to blush. Like, blush a deep red.
There were immediate alarm sounds going off in Aphelios’ head. But he didn’t let that show. Signing again. ‘You’re red.’
“Ah…hahah Am I?” Sett chuckled awkwardly, taking off his beanie and brushing his hair back. He looked nervous.
Aphelios hadn’t seen Sett like this before, at least not in the time he’s been around Sett that he remembered. Then it dawned on him.
‘Are you talking to a girl?’
Sett stared at the other, immediately confirming what Aphelios had asked.
“How’d you know?”
Aphelios sighed. ‘Bold guess’
“Man… you know me too much,” Sett chuckled, shaking his head. “But yeah… I’m talking to a girl I met the other day at the gym”
Aphelios continued to look at the other, taking in all the details he could. How he blushed, how he avoided his eyes. Definitely the look of a man who’s been pierced by the arrow of love.
“Want to know about it?” Sett asked curiously, seeing just how intensely Aphelios was looking at him.
The blue one quickly nodded, now wanting to know everything about this girl.
“So it happened by chance, K’sante and I were finishing up a routine. I was heading to get some water from the fountain, when I bumped into this girl. She spilled water all over me bro, and I was just drenched. She apologized profusely and I was just laughing the whole time, cuz I was thirsty y’know! It was funny that I got drenched for being literally thirsty. So I told her it was okay and I tried to calm her down”
This surely sounds like something that would happen to Sett…
Aphelios couldn’t help but think, imagining the situation. But as he listened to the story, he felt a slight weight on his mind.
Though not letting it consume him for the moment, he continued to hear the other out.
“But even with telling her it was okay, she continued to apologize and asked how she could make it up to me. So I said she could make it up to me however she wanted.”
Aphelios made the mhm noise.
“Dude, it's the first time this shit happens to me. Let me be! Anyway, she asked for my phone and I gave it to her. Then K’sante came by and I said my goodbyes. But later, she texted me and we started talkin. She’s a regular at the gym apparently! N very funny too.”
The blue one stared at the other for a few seconds longer, all before chuckling slowly. Immediately making Sett burst with more blush and poking Aphelios’ arm.
“Don’t make fun of me!”
Aphelios smiled, shaking his head. Having trouble signing briefly from how much he was just laughing.
‘you got played.’
“Huh? Played?”
‘This sounds too convenient to be an accident.’ As he finished signing that bit, Aphelios raised a brow at him.
Aphelios knew Sett wasn’t that stupid, he couldn’t be. But as silence reigned between them, it got harder to contain his giggles. Especially with how crimson red Sett got at the realization.
“Oi! Sett! It’s your turn with dinner!!”
K’sante’s voice yelled out from outside the room, making Phel and Sett look in the direction of the door.
“Ah?! Shit my bad okay! I’ll do it now!” Sett got up, taking his phone with him. But not before looking at Aphelios. “Well uh… keep talking later?”
Phel gave him a nod, watching as Sett left the room.
Returning to his desk, Aphelios did his best to return to his workflow from earlier. Typing away on his keyboard and working on lyrics to pass along to Ezreal for check up. But as he did, his mind circled back to what was said. To how Sett looked while texting the girl he mentioned.
How happy he looked.
Has Aphelios ever seen him happy like that before? No immediate memory came to mind, then again he hadn’t been sleeping well the past couple of nights. Pulling a page out of Yone’s book and drinking coffee to a concerning degree.
It had to be, he was probably overthinking.
But why did Aphelios still have this odd weight on his mind?
A bad feeling at the mention of Sett talking to someone?
He wasn’t sure, and by now he was blanking out. Realizing only after that he had been pressing the ENTER key on his keyboard repeatedly.