<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/8/87/Ad9aede37b498447ed5080ba13058e80.gif)</div>Name: Naoki Mizushima (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=262851.msg13011915#msg13011915)<br/>Time:  Just before school<br/>Location: Auditorium<br/>Tagging: Noticing all the traps in passing - particularly AJ<br/>Notes: Kind of out of it<br/><hr/><br/>Naoki wasn't really paying attention to anything. He'd been tuning out his rowdy companions and hardly realized he continued looking at the other boy. But look he did; his untethered gaze kept sliding back to AJ's easy grace and that brilliant silver hair. When AJ leaned back and locked eyes with him it was like he suddenly became aware of what he was doing. He sat back in his seat, startled. The peace sign and the whispered greeting relaxed him some, and though his cheeks flushed a bit he did manage to give the pretty boy a bit of a sheepish smile back.<br/><br/>The redhead felt pretty silly and was inwardly scolding himself for just randomly staring at the other guy. It seemed like a pretty rude thing to do. He followed Akira's gaze over to the athletes nearby and raised his eyebrows, nodding in agreement about their behavior. His blush grew a bit deeper when AJ gave his silent invitation but he managed to play it off pretty cool. The Headmaster was approaching the podium so Naoki gave a bit of a helpless shrug the gray-haired boy's way as if it couldn't be helped and he had to stay where he was.<br/><br/>The truth was Naoki had no idea what their interaction meant. He knew so little of AJ and felt so awkward about that exchange. He was silently thankful to have the staff's boring speeches to distract him for the time being. He physically seemed to give their words his entire attention but his mind was elsewhere occupied. When at last the headmaster directed the students toward the lists at the front of the room, he stretched in his seat as others began moving out of theirs. He deliberately avoided looking back at the pretty gray-haired boy then. He had his hands in his pockets and made a slow path over to read what his assignment was as if he was simply bored and wanted to just get it over with. Actually he was quite nervous and as far from his nonchalant appearance as could almost possibly be.<br/><br/>