Disclaimer : I do not own Kuroko no Basket and knb's characters. However, the possible other characters are mine and come from my own head.
! : I am not a native english speaker, but I tried my best to write this text (: and I really hope you'll enjoy that story :)
1.
We all know what it means, what will happen. We learnt it from books, movies or even from life. When a boy asks for you, everybody has an idea of what he wants, and when he asks you to meet him after school in a private place, people have no doubt about what will happen. Funny how when you are in the situation, you lost your knowledge. Maybe I was too busy trying to know from where I know him when he asks for me, and when I got it, the meeting was set. It's at this moment I remembered what all of that could mean, what could happen.
« Sakisaka-san, I like you. Please go out with me. »
I'm sorry, what ? In that private place near the gymnasium, I can hear the boys' voice running after a ball, but I feel awfully alone. I know that situation, I can't stop reading it in mangas. But I don't remember what happens next; my mind went blank. I look at him and see that he's nervous, and I understand why. It's because it's my turn to talk, to answer to his courage. I suddenly feel heavy. I don't really know him and until today, he was more like a poster I saw every day because I'd to pass next to its wall. He was familiar, but I couldn't say a single word about him. He wasn't supposed to leave his wall for me. That sounds probably mean, but it's my answer. I don't like him. And now, I have to reply and I don't remember how they do in books to reject someone. Is there a sentence for that ?
« I'm very touched by your feelings, but I can't accept them. I'm sorry, I said after a silence. »
It sounded good, I hope. If my memory is restored, this boy should now go away and sadly become "the boy I rejected". We won't talk anymore, exactly like we used to. It was the end of this story.
« Why ? he asked suddenly.
– Huh ? I can't hide my surprise.
– Why don't you want to go out with me ? Is there something in me… »
Someone said : "Loving you without knowing you is difficult. Knowing you without loving you is impossible." I don't know him, so it seems deeply difficult to go out with him just like that. I can't consider the second sentence because I barely know his name. How could I simply go out with him ?
I don't want to date him, but I don't know how to say it to him – or at least in a nice way. However, I know an escape, how to reject him and have no problems. After all, if you want to fight love, use love.
« I… I like someone else.
– Who ? »
Really ? That's definitive : I don't like him. Thank you for your respect of my private life ! I love no one, but fortunately, Teikou has some boys that girls love with no hope to hear the three words, eight letters from them. That part of my lie is almost too easy.
« I like Kise Ryouta. »
I have to admit it : Kise-kun is handsome. I can understand girls love him, but I don't. It seems to me that he has a great capacity of changing girls into chicks, and I like being a human. In addition, he's a little too flashy between his hair and his job as a model. He looks like that guy who wants to attract girls, but feels too high to love one of them. He was probably boastful.
Eyes down, I don't have a real problem playing the shy girl, the ashamed one who revealed the name of the boy she loved. Actually, being ashamed of my lie, I feel like that girl, but in another way. I just hope he will leave me alone now.
I finally look up to the boy and I frowned. He isn't looking at me. Is it too much for him to handle ? Or is he trying to understand what I've just said ? He knows he can't do anything against Kise. Or is there something else ?
I froze when I understand that his eyes aren't empty. He is… Is he staring at something behind me ? Slowly and trying to be brave, I turned to face Kise Ryouta himself. I stopped breathing. Why is he here ? Did he hear something ? His eyes seem to answer me. If I understand right, he finds funny that situation, or is he trying to understand what is happening ?
« Bad timing or good timing ? I wonder, he said with a little smile.»
His smile a little bit shy on his lips, a simple-minded expression on his face, he was faking the embarrassment – or I felt it in this way. But I'm really confused. He heard a lot and I don't know what to say. I'm going to get rejected right after rejecting that boy. Awesome, what a great day.
« And you are… ? he asked, his eyes always interested. »
Although I know he's talking to me, I look at the other boy, lost. I was wrong. Kise doesn't turn the girls into chicks; he turns them into mouse like he just did with me. And I don't feel like Jerry in front of Tom. I'm more like a mouse in front of a big cat.
« Inori Sakisaka, the boy answered, surprised like me. »
I nodded, thinking I forgot a lot of things today like speaking. I feel terribly uncomfortable that Kise heard our conversation and thought I like him. Right now, I can just dream of leaving Teikou forever and never see Kise and that boy again. Is that possible ? Maybe I could go to America or in a place where my name would be weird.
« Inori-chan ? »
Kise tried my name in a familiar way. In that beautiful day, I froze again. What will happen to me ? He walked towards me and before I could do anything, he took my hands in his.
« Take care of me.
– Ha ? »
I'm very grateful that boy is here to speak for me because I can't say a single word. What's going on ? Isn't it the sentence for… I don't understand a single thing. I barely heard that boy who sounds like a curse, is finally going away, but I perfectly see Kise's face : he seems to enjoy the situation, deeply. Is he playing me ? joking ? or is he… serious ?
« See you tomorrow, Inori-chan. »
I'm not sure I answered him. It is not my first day in this school and I have been living here since my birth. Despite that, I feel like a fish on Mars; desperate, lost and not sure to be in the right place.
Did I miss something ? or maybe I don't want to understand what just happened.