His feelings

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To: Kozume Kenma
From: Kamiya Yume

Good morning, Kenma! I miss you ♡

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To: Kozume Kenma
From: Kamiya Yume

How is practice going? Are you having any fun?

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To: Kozume Kenma
From: Kamiya Yume

I want to see you soon...

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"Kenma, we're gonna beat you in the next game!" A rather loud orange-haired boy declared with confidence.

"We'll see..." Kenma simply nodded, still playing on his game console.

"HINATA, HURRY UP AND GET OVER HERE!" The dark-haired setter of the Karasuno volleyball team yelled angrily.

Kenma frowned at the loud shoutings of his friend's teammates. Not that he hated them or anything, they were just a bit too rowdy sometimes.

The Nekoma High team had won 2 games already and Hinata kept asking for a rematch. His determination to beat them seemed to fuel him as he didn't seem even the least bit tired. Kenma watched as the hyperactive ball of sunshine got hit on the head by his partner.

"They're as loud as ever," Kuroo smirked.

"I guess..." He shrugged and continued mashing the buttons on his PSP. His eyes would unconsciously glance at the black phone sitting next to him on the bench before looking back at his game.

Kuroo grinned widely and picked up the phone, making Kenma pause the game and look up at his best friend with curiosity. "She hasn't texted yet?" The ravenette mused. Turning on the device, he looked over at the pudding head. "Or were you waiting for her to call?"

The question caught him off-guard and Kenma had to look away, hoping that his hair would cover the light blush on his cheeks.

Yume's last message to him was from the other night and she hasn't sent one since they went to Miyagi Prefecture for their practice match against their rivals. That was around two days ago.

It was a little strange, even pathetic in his eyes, that he wanted to hear the familiar chime of his smartphone go off. He was never going to admit it, especially when Kuroo was around to hear, but he loved the encouraging messages Yume sent him everyday. It's only been more or less a week since they started going out, but he quickly got used to her affection through text messages.

"Why don't you give her a call then?" Lev suggested to him yesterday during their morning run.

It was clear to everyone on the team that he missed her. Which sounded ridiculous to Kenma since he barely knew the girl. Did they ever talk about themselves? He didn't recall ever talking to her about her personal life. Actually, he could barely recall just talking to her in general. Most of their conversations consisted of Yume talking and Kenma just listening to her while playing his games.

"Did she get tired of me then?" Kenma wondered. "Is she going to ask for a break-up when we see each other in school?"

At the thought of a break-up, he began to inwardly panic and sleep seemed impossible for the pudding head. He searched around his bed for his phone and turned it on, squinting his eyes from the brightness of the screen in the dark room.

He scrolled through his contacts, finding her name and hovered his thumb over the call button. "What if she's asleep? What time does she sleep anyway?" He wondered and wondered to himself, debating whether or not he was going to call her at this ungodly hour.

As Kenma argued with himself back and forth, his hand loosened its grip and he dropped his phone. A loud beep sounded when it hit him square in the face, followed by a low ringing sound. His eyes widened in alarm and he quickly picked up his phone to try and end the call, but froze when he saw that she answered.

"Hello?"

"..................Hello.................." Kenma replied, praying that she couldn't hear his heart.

"Huh...?...That voice..." Yume suddenly gasped as she realized. "K-Kenma..! Sorry, I didn't think you would call so I never thought it was you. I didn't check the caller ID either.."

"Ah, that's... Well..." He struggled to find the right words but couldn't seem to come up with any. He silently cursed himself and his inability to hold one measly conversation.

"Um... Yeah... So, uhh, why'd you call? It's nearly midnight so I thought you would be sleeping by now..." She said, mumbling the last part.

Kenma could hear a different emotion in her voice as she spoke to him. He stayed quiet for a short while. Yume stayed quiet too, not wanting to rush him into talking. After nearly 5 minutes passed, she broke the silence.

"Kenma..? Are you still there??"

He hummed in response. "I was just...wondering what you were thinking about..."

"What I am thinking about??" She repeated, sounding very surprised.

"Mm-hmm... You never sent me a single message while I was away in Miyagi during our practice match with Karasuno....." He sighed a little, then rolled over to his stomach. "Did I do something...that made you mad at me?"

"W-What?! Of course not!! Kenma, you haven't done anything wrong! I just--"

"...Just?"

Yume fell silent on the other line. But Kenma could still hear her breathing, which meant that she was still on the call. He waited patiently for her to speak up.

It was already minutes passed midnight but he didn't care. He wanted to know what was going on.

"I just......." She began nervously. "I....didn't want to.....bother you....."

"...Huh?" He blinked, shocked. "Bother me? You're never bothering me though."

"Oh, uhh, s-sorry.. I just realized a few days ago that I text you waaay too much. I kinda thought that maybe you would get annoyed by them." She sighed loudly. "I was trying to hold back a bit. But I always end up typing something to you."

"I see... I'm kind of relieved to hear that..." He confessed shyly. "Not that I hated your messages...or anything like that... I was just wondering if you were tired of me already since you hadn't texted in a while."

"Ehh? So Kenma wonders about those kinds of things too???" She gasped.

"Why do you sound so surprised?" He pouted.

"Ah, sorry. Haha, I just didn't think of you as the type to worry about those things, Kenma!" She laughed. "I thought I was the only one who worries about that."

"...Idiot..." He huffed.

"Hehe~ Let's go to sleep now, ok? We can talk about it tomorrow." She said. "Good night, Kenma~"

"Ah. Yeah. Good night."

"I love you~"

Kenma blushed. He grabbed the edge of his blanket and pulled it over his head. Before Yume had a chance to hang up the call, he whispered back

"I love you...too."