The rain fell steadily around you, its thick water drops falling to the ground and adding to the lake of puddles that laid throughout the street before you.
You watched in silence as the rain hung and fell from the edge of the umbrella that stretched above you, stopping the sudden downpour from drenching you through to your bones.
You shifted a bit on your feet, feeling your shoulder brush up lightly against the one who saved you from the sudden storm, the lean muscles in his arm contracting out of reflex from your sudden touch. You glanced up at him for just a moment, before bringing your [e/c] eyes back out to the road before you, your eyes catching onto the red brake lights of the cars that drove by.
The soft rain and the hum of the cars that drove by were the only sounds that could be heard between the two of you. The silence, although seemingly never ending, was everything but uncomfortable.
Oddly enough, the few but recently occurring times you interacted with the boy next to you, were all highlighted by a sudden, comforting silence.
It was almost as if you two had your own personal wavelength that you easily found the other on – there was no need to voice any thought because somehow, you both already knew.
And you were thankful for that.
You glanced down at your feet, the water puddles growing around them before you finally decided to speak, a soft smile pulling at the corner of your lips.
"You don't have to wait with me, Kuroo," You offered quietly, looking up at the volleyball captain with a silent expectation of him taking his leave. "My bus should be here any minute."
But you secretly wanted him to wait with you, to feel the light warmth that radiated off of his person and onto you despite the cool air that you were surrounded by.
You saw him raise his shoulders in a slight shrug, his thumb and forefinger nimbly spinning the black handle of the umbrella, causing droplets of water to fly off its edges.
"Who would I be to let a lady wait out in the rain like that?" He asked, grinning as he looked down at you from the corner of his eyes. "What kind of guy do you think I am?"
Your smile grew as you looked up at him, before bringing your gaze back down. "Thank you," you offered in a voice that was almost drowned out by the rain.
"Don't mention it, [y/n]," He said, his grin ringing clearly through his words. "Nothing for me to be thanked for."
A few more moments of the warm silence passed as the sky grew darker and darker with the setting of the sun behind the thick storm clouds. You could feel the quick change in the air, and let out a quiet shaky breath as you drew more into yourself, glancing down from the end of the street where you hoped to see your bus coming from.
Hearing the quiet puff of air, Kuroo glanced down at you, feeling as his lips slowly pulled back into a genuine smile. He brought his gaze back up as he began to lean in a bit towards you until your shoulder was pressed lightly into his arm. He stayed there, the warmth that flowed from his body easily replacing the cold air that took reign of yours.
You quickly relaxed into the contact, feeling yourself inch closer to him as you possibly could.
You silently relished in the subtle heat, thankful he decided to wait with you at the corner of the road in the rain.
Thankful that it was his fieriness that kept away the cold.