JUMPSCARE
PAIRING: Bokuto Kōtarō/Reader
CONTENT: established relationship, kisses
WORD COUNT: 1.2k
BOKUTO: hey hey open ur window PRONTO i need to tell u something STAT
YOU: what
BOKUTO: love of my life what part of that do you not understand I’M. OUTSIDE
YOU: WHAT
Sure enough, there’s a knock on your window and, after you haphazardly kick off your blankets and crawl over to the window and yank open the curtains, you find yourself face-to-face with a hideous, glowing, white face that resembles something you might have seen in your nightmares once. Before you can scream, however, a hand reaches up and pulls the scary face off to reveal another face underneath it, one that you recognise all too well.
You scream anyway.
“Bokuto Kōtarō?!” you screech, loud enough for him to hear through the glass. Your boyfriend just beams and nods in a manner that is too relaxed for your liking considering the horrific sight you just witnessed, and then he motions with his finger for you to open the window.
You do so with shaky hands that contrast your sharp glare directed toward him. Once there’s no longer a glass barrier separating the two of you, Bokuto is swift to lean in for a chaste kiss. Not that you’re complaining, but you feel like there are some things you should unpack first before you start romancing and all.
First and foremost: whatever thing you just saw a couple of moments ago.
You glower at him as soon as he pulls away. “Kou—“
“Why do you look so surprised?” he asks, sounding mildly confused. “I texted you I was outside, didn’t I?”
“I know that,” you hiss. “I just wasn’t expecting you to wear whatever that— that thing was. Actually,” you pause and crane your neck out the window like a giraffe to stare at the offensive object in his hands, narrowing your eyes at it suspiciously, “what is that?”
“This?” He sets it down on the windowsill in the space between your hands, front facing up for you to see better. It looks like an ordinary ski mask, except a design has been embedded into the fabric beneath the hole where the eyes are supposed to be, neatly sewn in the shape of a wide toothy smile that reminds you of something out of a horror movie. “It’s a ski mask. You know, like a, uh— what’s it called. Bald cap. Ah, no… that doesn’t seem right. Bala…clad? Hm…”
You purse your lips as his monologue continues on for another moment or two before the realisation clicks and he snaps his fingers.
“Balaclava,” he declares proudly, like he’s just made a profound discovery. Even puffs his chest out and places his hands on his hips for the full effect. “Keeps my face warm from the cold.”
“Uh-huh,” you say eloquently, not bothering to comment on how ugly the design is, and then you peer over the edge of the windowsill and nearly evaporate at the sight of his attire: a t-shirt for some band you don’t recognise, regular old pajama pants, and flip-flops (and no socks either, dogs out and everything for everyone in the neighbourhood to witness!). Definitely not suitable for the dangerously low temperatures right now.
Hurriedly, you wrap your hands around his frigid ass arm and begin pulling him through the window… or at least try to. He laughs at your feeble attempts, placing his also very cold hand over both of yours fondly. Glaring at him, you aren’t sure what’s so funny about you trying to save your boyfriend from freezing to death.
“What’re you doing?”
“Get inside my room,” you command instead of answering, though you think it gets your point across just as well. You jab in the direction of your room with your thumb for emphasis.
“Wow, okay, uhm.” The corners of his lips curl up into a smirk, and in an overtly bashful manner, he gazes up at you through his eyelashes. “At least take me out to dinner first.”
Actually, on second thought, maybe he can freeze for all you care. You resist the urge to shut the window, close the curtains, and go back to sleep.
“Stop roleplaying like I’ve just asked for your hand in marriage or something. Just get in here.”
He visibly perks up at your words. You think that if he was a dog, his tail would be wagging right now. “Marriage?”
“Kōtarō,” you emphasise. “I’m serious, it is so cold outside.”
“Yeah, I know that. But I’ve got a bala-whatchamacallit to keep me warm, y’know.”
“It’s counterintuitive when you’re wearing flip-flops and short sleeves!”
“Alright, alright, fine,” he grumbles. Much to your relief, he swings a leg over the windowsill, making sure to push the curtain aside first so that his foot doesn’t somehow get caught in it like the last time he snuck into your room this way (he shudders in embarrassment at the memory every now and then), before hoisting himself through and tumbling onto the floor of your bedroom with a grunt. Before he even has the chance to compose himself, you drop a weighted blanket onto him without warning for no other reason than for your own short-lived entertainment.
“[Y/N], what the hell,” you hear his muffled voice exclaim as he thrashes around for a few seconds, and then his head pokes out from under the blanket with a pouty expression, “I almost suffocated!”
“Ha-ha.”
“This is no laughing matter!”
You ignore his words, opting to shut the window before plopping down onto the floor right next to him. Wordlessly, Bokuto takes the opportunity to shift his head onto your lap, allowing you to card your fingers through his hair while his eyes flutter shut.
You spare a glance at his relaxed face, squinting your eyes as if it’ll magically improve your vision in the darkness of your room. His face is fully flushed from the cold with the tips of his ears practically vermillion, so much that it almost makes you want to scold him again for not dressing for the weather. An obnoxious shadow eclipses his profile, though you can distinguish the vague shapes illuminated by the moonlight that outline his cheekbones, his nose, and his lips.
He opens his eyes; you catch sight of a twinkle in them as he reaches up and places a hand against your cheek in an affectionate manner. (You think you could sit like this forever, just you and him, if the universe allowed it.)
“Hey,” you start softly, “what was so important that you had to come here and tell me to my face?”
“Huh.”
“When you texted me. You intelligently said, and I quote, ‘Open your window, pronto. I need to tell you something, stat.’”
“Oh. Yeah,” he says more to himself as an afterthought. You blink, a second of silence passes, and then he shrugs. “All I wanted was to spend some more time with you, that’s all. I didn’t really need to tell you anything.”
Before you can interject, he adds, “Except, I love you.”
You try to contain your smile, but Bokuto’s is contagious. “You’re so cheesy.”
Nevertheless, when he leans forward to capture you in yet another sweet kiss — and this time, you find it a little more romantic without the sight of his horror movie-esque ski mask preceding it — you can’t find it in yourself to be mad at him in the slightest.
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