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cherry blossoms were falling. they were softly moving in a gust of wind; indicating that spring was making itself present.

your eyes were following every single pink dot that you could catch in your mind, there were more interesting things to do with your time but for now, this was better than listening to the dull-tone of the teacher who was droning on about atoms and nuclei.

something about numbers and mass. 

whatever the teacher was talking about, it was of irrelevance to you. you knew that when exam season came you around, you were capable of learning everything you needed to know from textbooks and somehow you always got the grades. 

this most definitely annoyed your friends and peers but sucks to be them i guess. it wasn't your fault that it was a fool-proof plan that tended to work.

"(y/n), (y/n)!"

a sudden shout from the teacher quickly brought your attention back to reality as well the sniggers which had arisen in the room. they felt a little too loud for your liking.

wanting the ground to swallow you whole, you contracted into yourself. wishing for the wooden chair to magically take you away to some faraway land.

aside from a little humiliation from being caught daydreaming - the rest of the lesson continued quite smoothly. you had decided that it was probably best to actually pay attention. although, your definition of 'paying attention' was spending the majority of the lesson making the title of your notes far too fancy thus rendering them useless.

yes, you did the titles with pastel highlighters and were you ashamed of that? no, because it meant that your notes looked aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

almost piercing the clock with your strong gaze, you watched as the second hand steadily ticked its way into a new minute. with every minute passing, you were praying for the chirp of the bell which would save you from the hell of the classroom.

like it had heard your thoughts, the bell gave a satisfying, loud ring.

a smile etched onto your face as you knew it meant that the lesson was now over.

the end couldn't have come quicker.

"(y/n)!"

you heard your name being called for the second time that day however, this time it was in a far more endearing tone than the previous time.

"argh,"

a squeal escaped your mouth as the delightful face of your close friend, the ever-charming ken hikari, came face to face with yours and barely left any room for you to breathe.

"made you jump," 

hikari laughed as she pulled away. she was blatantly enjoying your startled reaction.

"shut up, i'm just tired, you won't get me next time," you retorted back.

you were not going to let yourself be targeted this easily, especially not by your best friend who clearly thrived off of your suffering.

"yeah right, i'll believe it when i see it,"

your friend rolled her eyes so far back, you thought they would permanently remain there, not that you would complain if they did.

she instantly saw past your lies, you get far too scared at anything remotely unexpected. 

you cleared your throat rather loudly in the hopes of changing the subject to something else.

"i'm guessing you came because it's lunch," you said.

it wasn't unusual for hikari to come to your classroom because it was the norm that you guys, as the best friends you are, went to lunch together every day. it had been that way since the start of primary school and neither of you guys could imagine doing anything else.

hikari confirmed your statement by giving a noise of agreement as you both made your way to open doors of the classroom. this revealed a large bustle of noise which was also known as the school corridors.

without saying anything, you both came to the agreement that the two of you would hurry to the dining hall as quickly as possible because if you were not the first ones there, to put it simply, the food would be disgusting.

admittedly you were not paying much attention whilst running as food was the only thing consuming your mind. that was until you heard a thud of a person landing rather harshly onto the wooden planks of the floor.

upon the realisation they had collided with you, your eyes widened and you turned around in an attempt to apologise profusely. however, the person you crashed with never got to hear this apology because as soon as you turned around, you saw, who you assumed was the victim, them speeding off in the opposite direction.

you had seen that it was a male, rather tall and in a white tracksuit with light blue detailing all over. you made a mental note to try and find him later and apologise then when he was not hurrying off somewhere.

"(y/n)! hurry up we need to get there!"

it seemed like your name was being a called a lot today for whatever reason.

catching up with hikari, you entered the dining hall, panting slightly with hands on your knees trying to get your breath back.

after skimming the room, you and hikari looked at each other knowingly with smirks.

you were the first ones to arrive at the dining hall which meant you had hit jackpot on the lunch food.

just as you were about to walk in, the line of students forming behind you, a flow of familiar tracksuits walked right in front of you. clearly cutting the line.

"hey!" you yelled.

your hard work of running was not about to be put to waste.

a brown-haired man turned around with a smirk on his face which you immediately deemed as annoying.

"do you have something to say to me?"

even his voice was annoying, you decided.

"i do actually, we were first so get your cheating butts to the back of the line,"

you had a surge of confidence which had come out of nowhere, you shocked yourself but hearing the deafening silence from the students, all confidence was lost.

they all just stood there gawking in awe of your sudden outburst albeit they were afraid as they wondered what was going to happen next. it was an unspoken rule among the students that you would just let these group of guys do whatever they wanted without questioning them.

you had not gotten that memo.

"what did you just say to me?" there was a cutting edge in his voice.

a look of shock fell on the brown-haired man's face. His smirk fell quicker than flies would drop dead. He had never been spoken to like that before.

"i said, get your butts to the back of the queue." 

teeth were gritted as you hated repeating yourself.

you felt his eyes linger on your face for slightly too long, almost making you uncomfortable.

Then out of nowhere, he clapped his hands together as an epiphany had hit him.

"you're the girl that knocked me over in the corridor earlier,"

his arm was outstretched, pointing at you accusingly.

"i don't know what you-"

but then you properly looked at him,

he was tall, had the same brown hair and he had the same tracksuit. this was most definitely the person you had crashed into.  

your cheeks flushed a beetroot red from remembering the recent events, you were embarrassed.

"i said sorry," you quickly responded,

but all you got as a response was a deep chuckle.

"sorry isn't going to heal the injury from the fall,"

slowly he started to pull up his shirt,

instinctively you averted your eyes not wanting to see anything however, this made him laugh even more and louder than before. 

shyly you turned your head for some unknown reason.

only to be met with a nasty-looking, purple and blue bruise which had formed on his rib cage. surely you didn't do that?

bewildered from the shock, you stood still, rooted in your place whilst the group of men proceeded into the dining hall first as a sign of victory.

you had just lost this battle.

"hey it's okay, we will still be getting the fresh food, who cares if they pushed in front. We have nothing to prove."

hikari said this in an attempt to reassure you and cheer you up but knowing your personality, you weren't going to let this go easily. 

instead, she grabbed trays for the both of you and you murmured thanks when she passed one to you, not wanting to say much more. 

the sullen look on your face had passed but now you were filled with anger.

no one gets in the way of you and your food.

this is when you changed your promise to yourself,

"whoever you are, you no longer deserve my apology, I've already said sorry but now i'm never going to forget this. No matter what, i'm going to get back at you."

whatever it took, no matter how long it took or how stupid it may have seemed, you were most certainly going to get revenge.

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kicking off the story with a long one hehe

if you couldn't tell the brown-haired dude is oikawa btw 

hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter, i'll try update as much as possible since i have far too much free time because of quarantine. 

hope you guys are safe and have a great week :) 

-serai