■Y/N's POV■

I'm currently walking with Akane to the school building.

Akane: I can't believe he just legit asked you to accompany him looking for shoes, after bluntly rejected you...

Y/N: it's alright Akane... I mean it'll help me to act normal around him...

Akane: This isn't even normal Y/N...

I look at my feet at what Akane said. It's not normal, Wakatoshi never even once asked me to come with him anywhere. I'll always ask him to let me come with him.

But yesterday he asked me to go with him this weekend. His eyes, they look down, and troubled.

Y/N: maybe... something is wrong... he seems down when I saw him last night...

Akane: and you still going to stay around him like that even though you said you're trying to move on?

My heart clenches when I heard that. Yes, I know I said I need to avoid him to forget him, but I think he looks troubled.

Y/N: I just... want to make sure that Wakatoshi is alright...

Akane pats my head making me look up at her.

Y/N: Can't believe how soft your heart is... especially for him... I just hope, you didn't get hurt again.

Akane and I partway as she heads to the opposite hallway. I walk into the class and see Hisui kun waving at me.

Touma: Morning Chair mate chan~

Y/N: good morning Hisui kun

I place my bag on my desk and sit down on my chair.

Touma: why the long face?

Y/N: uh? Nothing... do I look not okay?

Hisui kun laughs at me and pats my head.

Touma: your appearance is totally okay...

Y/N: it's not what I mean Hisui kun!!

I become embarrassed, but Hisui kun makes my mind a little at ease. And now I'm chuckling with him.

Touma: so, you're close to the volleyball club member?

Y/N: ah... um... I'm Wakatoshi's childhood friend... and uh, I used to come to their practice... and games too...

Touma: so why not anymore?

Hisui kun stares at me, waiting for my answer.

Y/N: I... uh just don't want to distract him... Wakatoshi, has a dream he wants to achieve...

Touma: hmm... if it's me, the only thing that will distract me if you're around is how attractive you are~

Y/N: Hisui kun stop with that embarrassing remarks, please...

Hisui kun laughs again, I could feel my face heating up. But then again, that's not what distracting Wakatoshi. My presence could probably bothersome for him. My heart clenches.

Touma: hey!

I look up to Hisui kun, he didn't look at me but I know he's talking to me.

Touma: wanna come to my practice instead?

Hisui kun is in the basketball club and the current captain. I'm sure he's a good player. Well, I don't have any club too, but it'll be awkward if I'm alone.

Y/N: um, okay, but can Akane come?

Touma: oh... your friend from class two?  yes. I could show off my skill to more peoples.

Touma is really cheerful and confident. His image is so different from Wakatoshi's. But even so, even if Wakatoshi is a quiet person, I still am happy when I'm around him before.

The image of Wakatoshi when he practices flashes through my head.

How's his practice going?

■3rd Person POV■

Y/N, Akane, and Touma are walking to the basketball gym, when they cross paths with Ushijima, Tendo, Semi, and Ohira.

Y/N: Wakatoshi...

Ushijima stares at his childhood friend as the smaller girl is standing between her friends. Ushijima glances at Touma who happily smiles and waves at him.

Ushijima: where are you heading to?

Y/N was about to answer Ushijima's question when Akane did it first.

Akane: Y/N wants to watch how cool Hisui is on the court when he plays basketball...

Y/N looks at Akane and Touma whistles playfully. Ushijima flinches at the answer and watches as Y/N's face becomes flushed.

Y/N looks up to see Ushijima's face, and she was surprised. Ushijima looks a little down. Y/N was about to ask if something is wrong, but Akane grasps her hand and pulls her toward the basketball gym.

Akane: now now we can't make the captain late for his practice.

Y/N looks back at Ushijima before looking to her front as Akane pulls her with her. Ushijima watches as Y/N back getting further again from him.

Touma: well, I'm honored to have her watch me play... I like her presence...

Ushijima glances at Touma and so does the basketball captain. The two stared for a minute before Touma leaves the spot to head to the gym.

Tendo: that's definitely a declaration of war~ what would you do U-shi-ji-ma?

Ushijima turns his back on Tendo and continues his walk to the gym.

Ushijima: we're gonna be late...

Semi, Ohira, and Tendo watch as their captain walks ahead of them.

Semi: Ushijima is so dense... even to his own feelings

Ohira: does his head really only occupied with volleyball?

Tendo: nope, I could tell that he's hella pissed... The eagle is loyal to his mate after all... and pretty territorial...

■Ushijima's POV■

The practice is over, and at this time, when my head is not on the court nor the ball, it travels to Y/N. This afternoon seeing her hanging with the basketball captain and going to watch him practice, I don't like it.

I walk to the dorm with Tendo, Semi, and Ohira. And we meet with Y/N and her friends again. So the basketball team just finished as well.

Ohira: you guys just finished too, Hisui?

Touma: yeah, the coach is pretty strict... after all, there'll be tournaments in two months.

I stare at Y/N and she looks up at me and smiles.

Y/N: good work, Wakatoshi...

I could feel that my heart beating rapidly. It's been months since the last time I heard her tells me those words. But of course, she won't be giving me those words, because I'm the one who pushed her away.

We all walk together, but I can't help but see how Y/N being close with Hisui. I avert my gaze down at my feet, don't want to catch a glimpse of their interactions.

Just then I see a pair of shoes in front of me, and I look up to see Y/N's worried face.

Y/N: Wakatoshi... are you okay? You... don't look well...

Why is she still looking after me after what I did?

Akane: huh? He doesn't look not w- hmpf

Tendo covers Akane's mouth

Tendo: yes L/N chan, actually Wakatoshi is not feeling well~ maybe you can take him to the clinic

Akane: why would she do it? Why not you gu-

Y/N: wanna go to the clinic? I'll come with you

I look at Tendo who's smirks at me.

Ushijima: yes...

Tendo: well okay, the rest let's go back to our dorms.

I watch as Tendo takes the other to leave us. But my eyes caught as Hisui stares at Y/N, and then our eyes meet. Those are the eyes that I tend to see during a match, the eyes of my opponent.

Y/N: Wakatoshi, come on...

Y/N was turning around and about to walks to where the clinic is when I caught her wrist. Y/N looks back at me and stares.

Y/N: Wakatoshi?

Her face, those big round eyes, everything about her, I just want to see them all.

Ushijima: I'm... not well... but I'm not sick...

Y/N tilts her head a little, confusion written on her face. It's not just her, even I'm confused right now by my own self.

Y/N: it's anything wrong Wakatoshi? Are you okay?

Why didn't I realize it earlier? Seeing her worried for me makes me calm. All this time, when she's around, it's not a distraction, I just want to check whether she's still there. And now I couldn't see her when I practice, it was the real distraction.

Ushijima: I'm... distracted...

Y/N's eyes are widened.

Ushijima: I can't feel your presence during practice... and that, got me distracted instead...

Y/N: Wakatoshi...

I become weird... she makes me weird...

Ushijima: please... come to see me practice... I need your presence...

Yes, her presence...

They're something that could make me calm...

I need her presence...

I need her around me...