i don't i don't give a fuck bitch
It hasn't been long since everything returned to normal in Morioh. Jotaro and Joseph had left, their town was scrubbed clean of any everyday villains, and Josuke had his friends friends and school. It was so normal and completely bizarre after living through those hectic months chasing Kira. The biggest thing he had to worry about now was the math test he hadn't studied for staring him in the face. He countered the dreaded test by staring question one right in the face. This teacher was a devil for including this many questions that required being graphed.
He could have studied with Koichi or Jotaro if the latter was still in town. Even that old man Joseph had been helpful once or twice with English before he had left. Josuke couldn't help but frown. Had he gotten that reliant on those guys? It was a good thing that everything was calm enough for them to leave. Even if it meant everything went back to being boring too. No... He couldn't say that either. Koichi and Okuyasu were still around and did he ever have friends as close as them before the whole fiasco? He definitely didn't. He'd just have to come up with an adventure for them to go on himself after class. Something a lot more exciting than algebra. Tap, tap, tap. His mind was officially wandering, tapping his mechanical pencil against his desk rather than doing his work.
So much so, in fact, that his chin nearly slips off his propped up hand when the teacher calls out five more minutes. What? That had to be a lie! In a panic he shoots a look left and right at all his nearly finished classmates. He can't do this in time-
"Psst!" Josuke practically bores holes into the side of Okuyasu's head with his desperate look. In a definitely not quiet enough whisper he beseeches his dear friend, "Dude, what's number one?!" It's not his finest moment but Koichi was way too far for whispers to work.
He could have studied with Koichi or Jotaro if the latter was still in town. Even that old man Joseph had been helpful once or twice with English before he had left. Josuke couldn't help but frown. Had he gotten that reliant on those guys? It was a good thing that everything was calm enough for them to leave. Even if it meant everything went back to being boring too. No... He couldn't say that either. Koichi and Okuyasu were still around and did he ever have friends as close as them before the whole fiasco? He definitely didn't. He'd just have to come up with an adventure for them to go on himself after class. Something a lot more exciting than algebra. Tap, tap, tap. His mind was officially wandering, tapping his mechanical pencil against his desk rather than doing his work.
So much so, in fact, that his chin nearly slips off his propped up hand when the teacher calls out five more minutes. What? That had to be a lie! In a panic he shoots a look left and right at all his nearly finished classmates. He can't do this in time-
"Psst!" Josuke practically bores holes into the side of Okuyasu's head with his desperate look. In a definitely not quiet enough whisper he beseeches his dear friend, "Dude, what's number one?!" It's not his finest moment but Koichi was way too far for whispers to work.

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The smug look finally drives the intent home and Josuke cannot believe. He snaps his hand back against his chest, expression completely mystified. You help a guy with his homework near daily and he won't let you cheat off his test every once in a while. That hurts deep, bro. Emotional turmoil or not he is running out of time and Josuke breaks eye contact to busy himself with throwing numbers onto the page. He would still get a 0, that's for certain, but the paper wouldn't be blank at least. Maybe he could pretend like it was thrown in the incinerator trash pile by accident later before his mom got a chance to see it.
He was going to have a nice chat with Okuyasu during break though. He had some explaining to do.
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After a couple seconds of picking up his pencil and playing with it - it's balanced on his nose at this point - his gaze slides over to Josuke and his suffering like none of that just happened.
"Dude," he whispers out the corner of his mouth, choosing now to be subtle. "Did you say something? Wait until lunch, man."
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All too quickly the last minute ends and the teacher calls pencils down. Defeated, Josuke hands the abyssal paper over and face plants onto his desk. You know it's important when he doesn't even care about squishing his pompadour. There's a whine of pain coming from this wounded animal as the teacher announces the end of class.
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When class ends he stands, scooting out into the aisle between seats to lean on Josuke's desk and peer down at him. He gives Josuke a couple seconds before he starts to nudge him to sit up. Come on, dude. Lunch. Let's go.
you're welcome it was warranted
"You owe me a pudding." That is the only way he is going to forgive him. Even if the ice cream is brought he will not budge on this. He was having a crisis before about the state of his life and then you stabbed him in the back of his feelings.
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He's the stingy one. What happened to Mr. Big Spender?
"I'll think about it if you hurry up, dude," he adds because of course he does, not that he can afford a pudding with the pitiful few yen he has on him right now. He nudges Josuke again to convey to him that they don't have all day to go get lunch and eat it, so come on.
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More importantly than any future pudding? Where the hell are they going to eat right now. It's going to be his treat anyway but he's still going to ask what Okuyasu wants since it's a given they aren't going to the cafeteria. Most of the animosity is gone from his voice since he has appeased himself with the pudding deal when he asks, "Where do you want to go?"
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That is marginally more important than the whole debate, after all. He fishes in his pocket for the not-ice-cream money he didn't bother to put back in his wallet before, counting it on his palm again. "I only have, like, 200 yen."
He pauses, then frowns. Why is lunch so hard to get all the time-- "I don't even have enough money for chicken nuggets, Josuke."
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This is the level of generosity he will only show Okuyasu.
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So, "Let's split something. I'm gonna starve if I have to survive on bread for the rest of the day, man!"
Stingy or no, he trusts Josuke to not take back this lunch offer (while there's a pudding at stake), so he quickly recounts his 200 yen to be sure it's really enough and then drops the coins into Josuke's hand. He's making that desolate, I-Will-Really-Starve face as he does this; it's up to Josuke to actually make a purchase before Okuyasu veers off into desserts.
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Instead! Food. Josuke is staring at the array of lunches since it's obviously going to be his choice in the end. Privilege of the one paying and all. Well, since Okuyasu mentioned chicken earlier... He grabs one of the fried chicken and shows off his choice by waving it back and forth with a goofy smile. "Lucky! It's a special!" he isn't bankrupting himself over food, they can actually afford a drink from a vending machine afterwards!
So with that boon he walks over to the counter to pay and let the worker heat up the food for them.