Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, or anything mentioned in the story. This story is loosely based on Lahdolphin's "Geeks in love", I stress the word "loosely".

Note: they are having a conversation on the phone, and what Niou says is in italics, while what Marui says is in bold italics. (I'm such a copycat and I know it, ah whatever…)

Note ll: according to my sister, this chapter sucked, so I decided to redo a part of it, also cause I'm not really sure how to write the next chapter yet.

Marui always believed that they would be a team all the way until University, always part of the famous Rikkai tennis club. The fact was that he was 17, taken, 5 feet 6 and definitely not in the tennis club.

He had quit the tennis club and became vice-president of the student council (being with Niou had really screwed his mind. Who was he, Yagyuu?); Yagyuu had also quit the club in order to focus on his important job - president of the student council; Jackal had returned to Brazil, in search of his beloved instructor; Sanada returned to the kendo club, where he became buchou; Yanagi had felt so guilty of leaving his best friend, Inui Sadaharu that he abandoned them altogether, attending Seigaku High instead; Yukimura and Kirihara were the only ones who continued playing tennis, becoming buchou and fukubuchou in their second year. Niou? Well he too resigned in order to join the famous drama club (drama clubs are always famous, aren't they?)

But of course it wasn't that simple. For one, Marui decided to quit tennis because he was no Yukimura, so he tried to find something else. Somehow, he ended up joining student council. Yagyuu became the student council president shortly after his second year, which obviously wasn't easy. Jackal was at Brazil and nobody had heard from him from a while, they only knew that he was still playing tennis. Sanada's parents gave him a "talk" during his first year which led to his departure of the tennis club. Yanagi had to convince his parents in order to attend Seigaku, who were furious about his decision. Yukimura and Kirihara faced difficulties at the tennis club regarding their upperclassmen, and the coach (who was fired); and Niou never really liked drama that much, well at least at first he didn't.

Marui's relationship with Niou had changed during the years; they weren't a "perfect couple", their relationship was far from being perfect, but it worked. Sure it wasn't as sweet and they didn't spend as much time together, but they were still a couple. That counts for something, right?

"..."

"Marui! You there?" Niou asked all of a sudden.

"Huh? Yeah, what's up? "

"You spaced out for a second." Now wasn't that obvious.

"Sorry. I guess I'm just really tired these days."Marui was getting sort of annoyed.

"Anyways, do you want to come over tonight?"Niou always expected Marui to go over to his house while he always said he was busy when Marui asked him.

"Why? Is there anything special?"

"Ya, I got a new movie, apparently it's pretty good."

"Which movie is that?"

"It's called "the inception", I think it's about dreams or something. I've ordered pizza too. Are you going to come or not?"

"I'd love to, but I just remembered I can't...Yagyuu made me do all this paperwork."Marui replied with a bit of sarcasm.

"Can't you quit the job?"Niou sounded pissed.

"Well you're the one who blew me off last night for that stupid play."

"Come on, you know I love Midsummer Night's Dream, it's my favourite play."

"I'll come if you help me with the paperwork."

"Nuh-uh, no way."

"Jerk."

"Fine, have it your way, I'll just have to play the game myself."

"What game? I thought we were watching a movie."

"Ya, but I also got a game. The new fifth generation Pokémon game on DS. I bought it yesterday."

"You're trying to trick me. That game hasn't even come out yet!"

"Let's just say that I have my ways."

"What the hell Niou, that doesn't even make sense."

"Technically, I make sense, you're the one who doesn't make sense."

"Technically, you're an asshole."

"Technically, you're being stupid."

"Technically, I hate you." With that, Marui hung up the phone.

"Love ya too." Niou muttered.

We'd like to thank everybody who reviewed for this fic. So, thank you to frejahimitsu, xCinnanomxSwirlx, Lahdolphin, GIGIbunny, lokica, kelsiemofe, asif, ABC's, Coco96, Tezzino and everybody who read this story =). (Now I feel better since my new year's resolution was to thank people a lot more, so…THANK YOU!)

A/N: I love "technically" conversations; I have them all the time with my friends. By Chantal and Noel, all comments are welcome.

Also, today is September 11, so R.I.P. please!