Summary: They say it’s impossible for a guy and a girl to be just friends, but you and Mikey have managed to discredit that throughout your decade-long friendship. On Valentine’s Day, your friends decided to secretly set you two up together on a blind dinner date.
Warnings: Mikey x female bodied reader. Modern AU. Fluff. Mutual Pining. Best Friends to Lovers. Warm and Fuzzy Feelings. Explicit Sexual Content. Unprotected sex. MDNI!
Word Count: 7.6k
a/n: hi y’all! it’s been a while so here’s something fuzzy this valentines:) uh this is an old work and not proofread so im sorry for the mistakes ig. I love the song iwby so much it’s so romantic so yeah that’s what inspired the title lol
The idea of platonic soulmates is a term long debated by scientific researchers and drunk college students alike. The idea that a guy and a girl can just be friends is usually said to be impossible, but Manjiro Sano and you think that you two are an exception to the rule. Although boasting almost a decade’s worth of friendship, the topic of romance between you has never once come to fruition, even to the chagrin of your small friend slash roommate group.
You met Manjiro Sano in your first period Foreign Language class in your junior year of high school. The seating chart had you sitting next to each other, and Mikey, being a pretty sociable guy on campus, didn’t recognize you. You seemed to cave in on yourself, trying to appear smaller and more invisible in hopes of just blending in, but that wouldn’t do for Mikey at all.
He ended up doodling small comics for you in the margins of his notebook, swiping his pages closer to the median of your desks in hopes of them catching your eye and making you smile. He was successful, and by the end of the first class, you had made your first friend.
It turns out you’d share three more classes together that school year, growing almost inseparable in the process when you realized just how similar you were. His friends would always tease you and call you his girlfriend, but the two of you would always laugh and quip back, evidently putting a stake back in the ‘boys and girls can be just friends’ theory.
You both ended up both staying local at Musashi University when you two graduated, and even moving in as housemates with your other friends, Senju and Haruchiyo. The four of you had a modest townhouse not too far from campus, Mikey with the biggest room, Senju and you sharing the second largest, and Haruchiyo with the guest room. Friday nights were always Pizza Night, and late night study sessions turned into you passing out on the couch with Mikey’s head in your lap.
