Ame’s POV

I instantly pulled back after realizing we were kissing for a while now. What just happened? Why did I suddenly kiss him? What on earth was I thinking? Was I just emotionally unstable on why I did that? No… I did that because… I… --“Amei-chan, what’s wrong?” my thoughts were interrupted when Teppei saw the flustered look on my face. I touched my lips. He was my first….

My eyes came in contact with his and I didn’t know what to say. I mean… in otome games, normally after kissing scenes they never show what happens after. They’ll just skip until the next day were the couple are all lovey dovey and holding hands and crap like that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let’s not think about me being deredere with this… deredere.

“S-Sorry about that!” I gushed, hiding the embarrassment on my face as I turned away. I can feel my cheeks heat up, but why? I… I never felt like this since I parted ways with Kotan… I mean, Kotaro. “I-I, I need to find Kyo, so excuse me…” my stuttering wasn’t helping me hide the fact that bothered about what happened. I freaking kiss the guy for Pete’s sake and I don’t even know what the relationship between us is. Are we dating? No. Does he like me? Yes. (Love, actually) Do I return the same feelings? I don’t know. That’s why I’m not hurrying things up, I’m afraid to love again.

I left Teppei there who still had his eyes glued on my back. Now I feel bad for leaving him like that, I mean… he comforted me and all and I just abandon him in a sudden… maybe I should go back? But… I don’t know how to act around him anymore. I’m confused. Ghh! That doesn’t matter right now! My main focus is to find Kyo! Damn it, where is she?! And dinners about to be served, Coach and the others will eventually look for us… should I just talk to Kyo after dinner?

But I bet she wouldn’t eat after all that happened….

I have to find her before that! I wouldn’t want to eat dinner feeling guilty. I lose my appetite.

Damn it, where could she be? She must be in a place where I couldn’t find her. Which is… anywhere. I get lost easily. So then—“Ame-senpai”

“Kya!” I jumped with a squeal after hearing a faint whisper behind me; sending chills down my spine. I turned around to see it was Tetsuya. Damn it, this is the first time he startled me. “Tetsuya…” I say before grabbing hold of his head, crushing it slowly while giving him my scariest death glare. “Do that again and it’ll be your last” he trembled when he saw me get angry and uttered an apology. I let go of him eventually and sighed. “What do you want? Scary me like that isn’t funny you know…”

“I followed you all the way here to talk to you” was his reply. I ceased my eyebrows together then he continued. “I wanted to approach you earlier at the court but it seems you and Kiyoshi-senpai, are talking about something there and afterwards…” my eyes widened upon hearing Tetsuya’s words as he told me what he saw. H-He saw what happened?! Then why—

“Why the heck did you just stood there and watch?!” I grabbed his head again, and had the full urge to squeeze it until it pops. You know, like in yandere animes and uh… yeah.

“G-Gomenasai… i-itai, senpai…” he struggled under my tight grip which I loosen up afterwards.

I huffed, looking away from him, a hint of blush forming on my cheeks as I asked: “Where’s Kyo?” I had a demanding tone towards him. I just want to know where my sister is, okay?

“She’s probably in her room” he answered. Oh stupid me, why didn’t I think of that? “I tried talking to her earlier but she didn’t budge to open her door…” Tetsuya looked sad, as his head went down, his icy blue eyes staring at the floor. I patted his head.

“Don’t worry about her, I’ll handle this” I assured and walk passes him. I paused to ask him a question which caught him off guard. “Do you like my sister?”

I guess I shouldn’t have asked that because he countered it with a question too. “Do you like Kiyoshi-senpai?” This guy… he’s got me. I flinched and looked away, blushing a bit and stomped my way to Kyo’s room which is… where?

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I finally got to her room after several loops around the area. How big is this training camp? I never find my own way! Damn this place… or is it because I suck at navigation? If I was the explorer the King of Spain had ordered to explore the whole world, the scientific revolution of that period wouldn’t evolve. Okay, stop it Ame. Stop talking shitty stuff about what you’ve learned in History. Now’s not the time to think about scientific discoveries of lands.

I let out a deep breath and raised my knuckles towards Kyo’s door to knock. I didn’t. I was nervous. If Olaf was here he’d be wondering if I know how to knock with the time I’m spending in front of Kyo’s door right now. Gh… it’s now or never. “Hey, Kyo—” I finally knocked when someone spoke from beside me.

“Ame-ne?”

“Kya!” I looked over to my side to see Kyo looking at me startled. Wait, isn’t she inside? I pointed at the door with a baffled look on my face. “A-Aren’t you supposed to be here?”

“Huh?” she also looked confused and looked at the door. “I went outside to get some fresh air”

“But Tetsuya…” KUROKO TETSUYA! I WILL GET YOU!

Steam escaped from my head as I felt anger rush into me, towards Tetsuya. That phantom! I’m sure his disappearance won’t be an illusion anymore! But first, I should do what I came here for. “Ne, Kyo” I called her the reason for her to flinch. I don’t what to say to her but… “I’m sorry…” I apologized. “It was my mistake for talking about Yoite, I mean, oka-san like that. And I’m sorry for yelling at you…” … “Also, Teppei knows about what happened to me… and why I’m like this… he understands…”

“Uh” Kyo looked shocked at first as her eyes softened. I understand why. She knows it was a hard time for me. She understands me. I smiled at her softly. “It’s okay Kyo, I finally got the chance to squeeze all the pain in my heart” I held my heart. “And it was all because of him… he helped me…” I didn’t know why, but a smile was forming on my lips, at the thought of him. Normally, it was hard for me to smile. But now, it’s like nothing’s holding me back; it was easy.

“Ame-ne” Kyo took my other hand and smiled at me. “I’m glad you finally got to lift the weight of your chest. I hope you live happily from now on” those words made me happy as I hugged her.

“Thank you… Kyo…” I mumbled with a ruffled voice as I buried my face onto her shoulders. “Wait, so do you forgive me?”

“Baka, Ame-ne. of course I do” Kyo smiled and I mirrored her gesture. “Let’s go eat dinner” she pulled me to the cafeteria where the rest of the team were waiting for us. Their face show a sign of relief that I and Kyo were okay now as Kyo and I sat between Shun and Tetsuya. Teppei was just across the table…

“Oh, you two are good now, that’s great” Coach smiled at us as I nodded. The stoned expression returned to my face. I’m still not used to smile to other people rather than Kyo and… Kyo only. What, she’s my sister. I nodded and exchanged glances with Teppei. Our eyes locked and I immediately look away, avoiding his gaze. I feel awkward. Very awkward.

“Are you okay?” Kyo asked me so I just nodded my head and tried to entertain myself with Shun’s jokes. But it was a bad idea…

“The other day I held the door open for a clown. I thought it was a nice jester” he gave me a smile with a sparkle appearing behind his face. I sweat dropped and frowned at him.

“That joke gave me cancer” I commented and turn away before he could reply another joke regarding cancer. I leaned my face on the table while waiting for the food to arrive and locked gaze with Teppei again. What’s up with the eye contact all of a sudden? My cheeks heated up so I just turned to Tetsuya who gave me a suspicious look. He gave a glance to Teppei then back at me.

I gave him a warning glare which he avoided by drinking his tea. This Tetsuya is really gonna get it. I let out an annoyed pout—which I always did when I was a kid. It somehow returned to me as a trait—Kyo saw it and chuckled.

“What are you pouting about now? You look like a grumpy duck” she giggled as all heads turned to me.

All of the boys saw it and they started to stare at me like I’m some moe idol or a kawaii loli. I-I’m not! Stupid idiots. I got ready to tackle the nearest perverted to me but Kyo pulled me back at my seat. Dang it. I pouted even more making them more dazed and add the sparkles around their heads. It’s weird that they’re like that when they’re actually scared off me. Weird. But you know what’s weird? The thing Teppei told me all of a sudden when he saw me pout.

“Amei-chan, are you asking for another kiss with that pout?” his joke made all of us surprised and silent. But he suddenly let out a laugh. “Just kidding” he ruffled my hair.

I suddenly felt annoyed and irritated. Well, what’s new? How dare he play with me like that?! W-What’s this feeling I can’t understand? But whatever it is, it’s annoying the hell out of me! And it’s all because of this idiot! “IDIOT!” I smacked his head.

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