Feelings and the Past

It was a Monday. Yukito hated Mondays, but realistically, who doesn't? It's the start of the week, which means work.
Anyways, that day, Ishigami was - as usual - on the bus to the cafe. He was looking at his phone, which was open to the picture he had taken of Yukito before.

'That Yukito... what's up with him anyways?' he thought.
He had been feeling different after that day in that park. Like he was more energetic than usual.
'Why does he look like... no, he doesn't actually. He and Misao look completely different! So then, why—'

*Pssssss*

"Ah, that's my stop," Ishigami said to himself before leaving the bus - which was quick, since he always stood at the front.

***

Later, at around 10A.M., Ishigami was making a sauce.
'Ah, I need sumac for this,' he thought. But as he was reaching for it, Yukito - who had been reaching for the salt at the same time - accidentally brushed his hand against Ishigami's.
"Uh- wh-" Yukito stuttered. He practically did a triple take.
"Keep working," Ishigami said simply and kept working, as if he wasn't mentally doing a triple take as well - which he was.

The day went on as always, but near the end of the work day, Ishigami and Yukito - again - accidentally brushed each other's hands, this time because they were both trying to reach for the same spoon. For some reason.
"Ah- Uhh sorry," Yukito said before getting a different spoon. It may have seemed minuscule to someone watching this, but for the two of them, it really was the opposite of minuscule. It was quite a big deal, for some reason, especially for Yukito. Such a big deal, in fact, that Yukito was going to try again. He was going to try to say...

The Thing.

***

After work, at 5P.M., Ishigami was planning to just go home and chill. But then Yukito went over to him.
"Hey, Ishigami?" he asked. "Uhm, I know this may be random but like... uhh..."
"Yes?" Ishigami said. "What is-"
Yukito then suddenly grabbed Ishigami's hand.
"Will you come with me to a karaoke bar????" he almost screamed.

Ishigami just stared at him for a few seconds.
"O-OK, but can you let go of my hand, please...?" he said awkwardly.
"Ah, right, sorry about that," Yukito said before letting go of Ishigami's hand.
'Perfect, I'll ask him at the karaoke bar,' Yukito thought. 'I'll ask him if he'd be OK with dating me!'

***

When the two got to the karaoke bar - it was around 5:30P.M. - Yukito got them a private room. Before going in, though, Yukito bumped into Maria and her girlfriend, Lily Smith, who also where going to that karaoke bar.
"Oh, Yukito!!" Maria waved.
"Maria!!" Yukito waved back and went over to her.
"Oh yeah, Ishigami," Yukito said, turning around. "This is Maria, she's a friend of mine. And this is her girlfriend Lily!"
Yukito motioned to the two women who waved.

"Nice to meet you," Ishigami said in his usual tone. Not mad, but calm.
Maria nodded and grinned, brushing a bit of her wavy brown hair aside. "Nice to meet you, too! Yukito was actually tell me about you after he got that job at the cafe."
"I see," Ishigami said. "And you're Lily?"
"Yep," Lily said, shaking Ishigami's hand. "Nice to meet you!"

After the mini meeting with Maria and Lily, Yukito and Ishigami went to their private room. Yukito was the one who sang most while they were there, but Ishigami did sing one song with Yukito. It was a duet, so he technically had no choice, but he didn't seem upset about singing with Yukito.

Anyways, at around 7P.M., it was time for the two to part and go to their respective homes.
"That was fun, Ishi," Yukito said with a grin. "Oh, I mean, Ishigami. Sorry about that, hehe."
"No, it's fine," Ishigami said.

'Is he like Misao?'

"Ah, looks like my bus is gonna be here soon," Yukito said, looking at his phone.
"The 7:15 bus?" Ishigami asked.
"Yeah, that one," Yukito answered. "Are you gonna take it too?"
"Yeah," Ishigami replied.

'No, he's genuine.'

"Oh, cool! We take the same bus even from the karaoke bar, hehe~" Yukito said.

'Yeah, for sure, this is genuine.'

*Tssssssss*

"Ah, the bus is here," Yukito said before getting on. Ishigami also got on.

'For sureー but it's too good to be true...'

'No wait, Misao was always trying to follow me or avoid me... he's not doing either of those.'

'He's truly polite, not just nice.'

'I think I was rightー'

*Tssssssss*

"Oh, this is my stop," Yukito said. "See you tomorrow, Ishigami!"
"W- Oh, yeah. See you," Ishigami said and waved slightly.

'He actually is different, then.'

'I think I should ask him... I should ask him if he would date me.'

'Maybe not that forwardly, but I should still try.'

'Maybe this time...'

***

Meanwhile, when Yukito got home...

"I FORGOT TO ASK HIIIIIM" he screamed.