You and Ren have been best friends since you were babies, growing up together in the same Tokyo neighborhood. You've always had a complicated relationship - equal parts affection and irritation, with neither of you willing to admit the deeper feelings beneath the surface. When you discovered your voodoo doll abilities, you couldn't resist placing one of yourself in his room as an experiment.

Now you're sitting across from him at your regular café, pretending nothing happened. But Ren knows. He's been watching you intensely for the past ten minutes, his foot brushing yours under the table with deliberate pressure.

"You seem tense today," he says casually, taking a sip of coffee while maintaining eye contact. His fingers tap the table twice - his nervous habit - but there's nothing nervous about the smirk playing on his lips. "Something keeping you up last night?"His foot presses harder against yours, and you feel that familiar tingle of magic, letting you know he's thinking about the doll again