Send a ✺ for my muse’s reaction to yours hitting mine out of anger.
He wasn’t quite sure why he didn’t expect it ———
with their record it should’ve been a given that at one point,
one of them was going to snap.
( getting under each other’s skin, pissing each other off, the competitive streak that Rin seemed to stir in him that nobody else had ever managed to succeed in doing )
The problem was that Haruka hadn’t expected it. He hadn’t seen it coming, despite common sense seemingly stating that he should’ve — but he hadn’t. Even when the words that had brought the angered reaction left his mouth he couldn’t of ever expected it. And the moment he felt the force hit him, causing his head to snap to the side, reddened skin flaring on the swell of his cheeks - the moment the stinging sensation began to settle in and burn and allowed the reality of what happened to settle alongside it ( with the promise of a bruise that was bound to appear ) ——
Haru’s breath had caught in his throat from the shock of it.

Normally passive eyes were widened, giving away the emotions that he would’ve casually hidden away from speculative eyes if it were anything other than what this was; but this one in particular was hard to hide. Shoving was one thing——— but this was…
Different. ( this wasn’t them… but maybe he had deserved it. )
❝ Sorry. ❞
The words left him after a couple beats of silence, the shock that had been so evident on his face now hidden behind a mask of nothingness - the face that most had become used to when it came to Haruka Nanase. The mask made it seem like nothing was a big deal — and if his heart happened to be beating a bit faster than normal, shocked adrenaline still coursing through his body and causing a tension to arise - Haru didn’t bother to acknowledge that either.