This isn't how it was supposed to be. This isn't how the story goes. It's prince meets princess, right? Boy meets girl? A yay for straight relationships, with happily ever afters in far far away land? As far as he knew, making out with your ace pitcher wasn't part of the picture. He didn't mean to, he didn't know what he was doing, it just sort of… happened.
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What led up to this? He couldn't remember. Here he was, kissing his own clean-up hitter, full on the mouth, tongue and all. This wasn't supposed to happen, like ever! He was team captain, for Christ's sakes! What sort of captain made out with their clean-up hitter? This was wrong, really wrong, even if he was a great kisser…
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A few hours earlier
"Welcome to our non-denominational, snow-themed winter celebration!" said a hyped-up Tajima. Hanai was already regretting bringing coke instead of the sugar-free, caffeine-free sprite that probably would have lessened the effect on his friend's system.
"You know, you can just call it Christmas, I don't really care." He said to Tajima. Even though his family didn't celebrate the American holiday, that didn't mean the rest of the team had to make an exception.
"Hey guys. Merry Christmas!" Abe walked in, and close behind him was of course Mihashi. Both held presents for the White Elephant gift exchange.
"M-m-mer-r-y Ch-Christm-mas!" stumbled Mihashi, trying to get into the holiday spirit.
"Merry Christmas!" Said the rest of the team.
"Hey, Azzy, come help me put the gifts on this table!" Tajima started transporting gifts.
"Tajima! I told you not to call me that!" Hanai blushed right up to his ears at hearing the annoying little nickname. He should never have told him his first name at all.
"Oh, you're such a spoil-sport! Just help me out over here, ok… Azusa?"
"Tajima!"
Abe left them to battle it out, laying down his present on the table. Mihashi was still staring, though, and a worried look had crossed his face. Abe, seeing this, tried his best to make a consoling comment- something he knew he wasn't very good at.
"Mihashi, they're fine. Tajima's just playin' around, so stop worrying, and try to have some fun!"
The Ace pitcher flinched. 'God', Abe thought, 'I can't tell if I was too hard on him, or if he's just being a baby! I guess I better back off, though'. Even if Mihashi was overreacting, Abe didn't want him to feel uncomfortable or scared. It was Christmas after all!
Just then the redhead surprised him, expression changing almost instantly from intimidated to genuinely smiling. "O-okay, A-Abe-kun."
Abe turned away as his heart started beating a little faster than he would have liked. For some reason, Mihashi's smiles always made his chest beat harder, and blood rush uncontrollably up to his cheeks.
No- it wasn't just for some reason. In fact, the catcher knew exactly what was making him act like this, even though he'd told himself to just ignore these facts. For over a year now, Abe had had a crush on the little Pitcher. Mihashi of course had no idea, but he was worried that the team would start finding out- or that, worse, they already had.
He was distracted when Mihashi asked how he could help. "Uh, yeah. Could you get the star for the tree? It's in that box over there."
Despite his efforts at finding something else to distract him, Abe couldn't help but stare as Mihashi bent over. 'Crap!' he thought. Quickly looking away, he cursed at himself. If things like this kept happening he'd get a hard-on, and THAT would be fun to explain to the guys.
He made a mental note not to let Mihashi help with putting up ornaments.