Honestly, thank you all so so much for 200K !! prepare for a rant at the vv end ( feel free to skip it ofc ) and thank you for reading <33

I've been thinking about writing this chapter since that time I very subtly foreshadowed it in chapter 2 of this book, and now I finally did it because you guys have gotten me all the way to 200K reading

p.s. i didn't want to spoil anything for anime onlys so this doesn't follow the manga, so even though this chapter contains a timeskip kageyama isn't doing what he does in the manga

please don't spoil things for anime onlys, and i hope you enjoy reading babes 🥺❤️

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"good night tobio, i love you." you said over the screen.

"love you too (f/n). sleep well." he told you. "drink warm milk if you can't sleep, okay?"

"yessir! now go to sleep." you hung up on skype and closed your laptop over and blinked a few times.

you and kageyama had been dating for almost 5 years now, but for the past 2 years he hadn't been able to make it back to miyagi for your anniversary. ever since he went to college abroad, he'd gotten busier but he still made time for you, even if that meant sleepless nights staying up to call you.

this year, he couldn't make it either. that was okay, though. he promised to call you all night and that was fine by you. he always visited of course, every vacation he got he'd return to japan to see you, your grandma and any previous members of the volleyball team who happened to be in the area.

still, you wished you could spend your 5 year anniversary with kageyama face to face but you knew he couldn't ditch his studies and run to you.

during the days leading to your anniversary, you heard less and less from kageyama and you were beginning to worry. the two of you had made it through almost 5 years, was it going to end here? go downhill? you didn't want it to.

hinata seemed to get more secretive around you and sneak messages to people when you weren't looking which only really added to your paranoia.

yukio was the only one who came to your comfort, and she visited frequently and took you outside to go shopping or on walks or to karaoke and grab dinner.

your grandma too, cheered you up by making special dishes for lunch and dinner whenever you were home and you were eternally grateful for her.

but that didn't stop you from worrying and overthinking at night before you could catch some sleep. kageyama always told you that he was too busy to call you, but promised he'd do so on your anniversary with him.

the day finally came, and you even woke up early to freshen up in order to call your boyfriend, but he hadn't been active in hours.

"last active at 3 am? he said he couldn't call me and was busy but he was up until 3 am. ok then." you scoffed and tossed your phone to the bed.

your phone pinged and you immediately leaped after it, but it was just a notification from yukio asking if you wanted to get a manicure with her.

you stared at your phone, hoping kageyama would appear online any given second, but when he didn't, you called yukio and told her you were coming.

"i told you to dress cute." yukio pouted when you met up.

"what's wrong with my sweatpants." you huffed defensively and she gave up.

"nothing at all sweetheart, you look great i promise. but don't say i didn't warn you."

"warn me for what?"

"oh, nothing!" she said, sounding oddly cheerful for someone who's best friend was moping about possibly getting dumped on her anniversary.

you spent the day getting your nails done, then your hair and makeup, and yukio tried to get you to buy new clothes with her but you clung to the comfort of your sweatpants and hoodie and refused.

eventually, yukio allowed you to call it a day and head home. "i wanna come too though." she insisted, and since you didn't have any plans for the day other than cry over the fact that your boyfriend had forgotten your one year anniversary and not even seen any of your texts despite you messaging him once every hours, you shrugged and agreed to let her come to your house. she was the only one who could put up with your moping anyway.

"yo, (f/n)."

"hm?"

"you're sure you don't wanna wear something, i don't know, hotter before you set foot inside your house?" yukio suggested.

"i'm only going to be at home, why would i dress up?" you frowned.

the two of your reached your doorstep and yukio sighed. "i tried to tell you many times (f/n), but you're lucky you look cute no matter what. now go on, step inside." she ushered you.

her behaviour all day was odd, but now in particular she was smiling from ear to ear and in all honesty you were worried about whatever she had planned.

you pushed your front door open but you were met with silent and pitch black. "grandma? i'm home." you called, but got no response.

"yukio what's going on?"

"you'll see." she beamed and encouraged you to go further.

you turned on the lights in he living room and you were immediately met with the whole karasuno team from when you and kageyama were first years, kenji, and your grandma all aggressively decorating the room. your eyes landed on kageyama, who, in seeing you forgot to hold on to the balloon which flew away from his lips and deflated.

"what is- what the hell is going on?"

"uh- surprise?" hinata offered when no one else spoke up.

"yukio, you were supposed to keep her outside until it was 7 pm!" kenji scolded.

"hinata said it was until 17:00 so i got confused!" she defended and kageyama turned to hinata.

"boke! hinata boke!"

you were still puzzled and very overwhelmed in seeing all your friends from high school in one place. "wait. seriously, what is happening?"

"oh, kageyama was going to pr—"

your grandma whacked the back of hinata's head and put a finger to her lips. "let him do the talking." she mumbled.

you turned to kageyama once again and instead of beginning with words, he stepped towards you and bent down on my knee. your eyes widened when you realised what was about to happen.

"tobio..."

he gave you a lopsided grin, reached into his pocket and held out a ring. "i prepared a speech for this but now i forgot everything." he warned. "so this might not make any sense at all. but let me begin by saying i love you. i love everything about you. i love that you're patient with me and kind, that you're supportive of me and i love how stupid you can be. i love you for having meltdowns over tiktok dances, and for being understanding of my career choice, i love you for staying with me to this very day. i love you for loving me, even though i can be difficult and stubborn, i love you and your morning voice even if you say you sound gross. i love you for picking up my calls are 5 am when i missed you. i love you for everything you've done for me and (f/n), i love you for being an absolute dumbass."

"tobio—"

"no wait. i need to finish or i'll forget what else i have to say." he insisted.

"okay okay, go on." you smiled even while you felt yourself tearing up.

"no you threw me off, i don't know what i was going to say anymore." he panicked, causing you to chuckle.

"you're perfect, tobio."

"(f/n), i'm sorry that this is such a mess. the room was supposed to be ready and i was supposed to be in a suit and we were going to have cake and god, i'm so bad at organising things. everyone offered to help but i wanted to as much of it on my own as i could've but it all backfired and—"

you pulled kageyama up to his feet and tip toed in order to kiss him. "i told you, you're perfect. this. everything here. it's perfect." you assured him.

"i never even got to ask you the most important question." he pouted.

"hm?"

"(f/n), would you like to spend the rest of your life with a dumbass like me?"

"i—"

"and before you say no, i just want to remind you that this dumbass will love you forever. very much." he added.

"idiot. what makes you think i'd say no? of course i want to spend the rest of my life with you!" you exclaimed and threw your arms around him, to which he froze up for a minute but hugged you back tightly when he realised you said yes.

everyone around you was cheering and congratulating you, but you couldn't even see them properly to thank them since your eyes decided to become a waterfall. "(f/n), give me your hand." kageyama said softly. you did as he told and he slipped on the ring to your ring finger and a huge smile spread across both your faces.

"hey tobio, you know what the best part about this whole thing is?" you whispered.

"what is it?"

"i get to be related to someone as pretty as your mom. we're both gonna be mrs. kageyama!" you fan girled and kageyama held his hand out.

"i want my ring back." he stated.

"what? no way! no takebacks." you laughed and stuck your tongue out at him.

"how old are you, 5?" he scoffed.

"shut up, you love me."

"well there's one thing i can't disagree on."

your smile only widened. "no take backs on that either, milk boy."

"i wouldn't dream of it, choco milk."

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ayyyy rant time!! here goes—

this book made it much further than i ever thought it would. i'm not proud of all of it, there's so much i would change if i were to rewrite it but there's no time and i'm working on multiple other fics too, and i don't want to dwell on this too much

all i know is, i've improved from it. i can see my own progress when o read this book which i wrote a year and a bit ago, compared to the books i'm writing now and that's what makes me proud.

When I was writing this book last summer, I was nervous about coming back to wattpad and I was pretty certain this book would get maybe a 100 reads and stop there. But it grew?? And I was happy yes of course but also very confused?? I didn't see it coming and I didn't understand why any of you were reading but I appreciated it either way

I celebrated in my room with a bag of crisps and a bottle of Coca Cola and had a dance party with just me and my younger brother when I reached 1K.

My brother said we'd celebrate again if I hit 5K, but both of us procrastinated and even when I hit 10K we didn't do anything other than cheer for a bit and move on.
But I'm still grateful to my brother who, despite being annoying and a dumbass, supported me and my book and hyped me up even without knowing anything about the story because I wouldn't tell him. He's probably my biggest supporter and hater, so I can't ask for much more than that.

The day it hit 15K was really important to me,, I was having a horrible time emotionally and nothing could cheer me up even thought I was around my friends but when I saw my readers and all you wonderful commenters I smiled. Literally when everything sucked absolute ass, your support was all that kept me going.

This book hit 25K on the first day of my mid term exams so I couldn't celebrate but it was my only motivation to study hard and return to wattpad quickly and proudly when my exams were over and I did

I never thought I'd hit 50K but that happened too?? So my lazy ass made an 'extra' chapter to thank you all.

I did the same when I hit 100K, even though it was a few days late because ya girl here is a lazy ass, I wrote another chapter

I think this is going to be the final chapter in this book. As much as I'd like to keep writing, I'd feel like I'm dragging this on for too long. I have my attachment to this book but i have to let go of it at some point, and now seems like a good time.

Thank you all so so much from the very bottom of my heart for staying with me until the end, this chapter is for all of you guys who waited patiently while my dumb ass wouldn't update <33

And if you stayed to read my rant, thank you. I love you all very much, please take care of yourselves, mwah !!

and i'll say this for the very last time while i get the chance ;

stay fabulous babes xoxo