Her confession

"What was her name again..?" Kenma caught himself wondering as he gave a sideways glance at the petite girl sitting next to him in class. "I feel like I've seen her before."

He observed her carefully and silently like a cat studying a helpless mouse before it would pounce. But Kenma wouldn't pounce on her, no. He was much too shy to even say a simple hello. Besides, it wasn't like she was interested in him or anything.

"Don't forget to do your homework. Have a nice weekend, everyone." The teacher smiled and left the class.

Students began to stand and put their things away, excitedly chatting to each other about their plans for the weekend. Kenma took his PSP out and turned it on, slinging his bag over his shoulder as he readied himself to leave the room. "U-Um..!" A nervous voice directed at him made him flinch in surprise. Turning his head to look at the source of the voice, he saw it was the girl that sat next to him.

A short silence awkwardly hung in the air as he waited for her to say something. The girl, on the other hand, seemed to be blushing and stuttering for words to come out of her mouth. Kenma tilted his head, wondering what she was trying to tell him.

"C-C-Could you m-meet me a-after your pr-practice, K-K-Ko...Kozu-Kozume...-kun..?" She finally managed to say after what seemed like forever.

Kenma raised his eyebrows in surprise, a faint shade of pink made its way to his cheeks as he shyly nodded. The girl smiled when she saw he agreed to her request, and dipped her head low in a grateful bow, before running away and leaving Kenma standing alone in the room speechless.

He didn't even notice that Kuroo was already outside the door waiting for him. But the third year didn't want to interrupt so he waited patiently for them to finish their talk. After all, it was rare for people to try and make a conversation with his best friend, and vice versa. Especially the female specie.

"So, Kenma, who was the girl?" Kuroo asked him while they walked to the gymnasium for their after school practices. "She's really cute~"

Kenma huffed in response to his teasing tone, muttering a reply saying that it was just a girl from his class. However Kuroo wasn't satisfied with just that answer, so he flashed his usual smirk and gently elbowed his best friend.

"Come on, Kenma, spill it. You like her, right?" He teased.

"No, I don't." Kenma automatically said.

"You do."

"I don't."

"You do."

"I don't."

"..."

"..."

"You do."

"I don't."

The duo made it to the gym and went off to change their uniforms. Practice went well except for the fact that Kuroo blurted out to the team that their usually quiet setter had an admirer. To which Yamamoto reacted depressingly as he got on his hands and knees, sulking in the corner of the room.

"How come Kenma gets an admirer and I don't? I bet she's cute too..." He muttered dejectedly.

"I never said it was a girl." Kuroo replied, waving his hand for their ace to rejoin the group.

"So Kenma has a guy admirer?" He asked curiously.

"No, she's a girl."

Cue the dark clouds hovering over the wing spiker's head. Lev laughed at his upperclassman and commented about how miserable he looked.

"Lev, shut up." Kenma told him with a sigh.

Their coaches dismissed them after practice and closed the gym. The volleyball players changed out of their sweaty clothes and back to their school uniforms, all the while asking Kenma about the girl he was going to meet with. "How tall is she??" Lev happened to ask him. "Does it matter?" Yaku scoffed.

The group walked towards the school entrance as they talked while Kenma played on his PSP. Kai suddenly stopped at the gate, causing everyone to halt in their step and follow his gaze. "Can we help you with something?" He asked.

There, sitting next to the gate, was a small girl playing with a street cat. If it weren't for her uniform, he would have mistaken her as a junior high student.

The girl immediately stood up when she heard someone speak. "O-Oh! I-I was ju-just waiting for..." Her eyes darted around nervously until it was met with golden cat-like ones. "Ko-Kozume-kun!!"

Everyone looked at Kenma as she mentioned his name. The pudding head awkwardly looked away, not really knowing what to do. Kuroo grinned and started shoving his teammates along. "Alright, let's give them a little space. Kenma, I'll wait over there." He pointed just a few meters away from the school. "Ok?"

"Yeah... Sure..." Kenma replied uneasily and narrowed his eyes at him.

When the team left the two alone, they kind of just stood there in silence. Kenma resumed playing his game while he waited for her to speak. "Kozume...-kun," she began, her voice shaking noticeably. "I, um, well I... You see... I wanted to... To tell you..."

Kenma paused his game and glanced up at her. She was fidgeting with something behind her back. Something red and flat. When her eyes caught him staring at it, she gulped and shoved it into his hands. "I-I LIKE YOU!!!" She unintentionally yelled. "PLEASE ACCEPT THIS!!"

He blinked once. Twice. Thrice.

"Wait, what..?" He thought in disbelief and looked at the red envelope, his expression remaining stoic and unchanging despite the numerous emotions attacking him.

"I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO LIKE ME BACK BUT I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU!" The girl kept saying in a loud voice. Then, after realizing that she was practically screaming at him, her face turned a crimson red before sputtering out an embarrassed "I'm sorry".

"So...yeah... That's what I wanted to say..." She mumbled. "So...umm... BYE!!!"

"Huh?" By the time Kenma looked up again, she was already running away at full speed.