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The lockers were quiet and lifeless, everyone had mostly left, except for a black haired boy who was sitting down on a bench, lost in his own thoughts. Sousuke sighed softly, gently touching his shoulder as he recalled what happened after they lost the relay race to iwatobi swim team.

20 minutes earlier

Sousuke watched as the iwatobi swim team jumped and cheered with joy since they just won the relay race and were going to nationals. But Sousuke didn't really care about that anymore, slowly he turned his head to the side, looking at his best friend Rin who was right beside him again, they finally got to swim together once more, and in the end that was all that mattered to Sousuke.

Rin smiled as he watched the other team, mostly smiling at a certain blue eyed boy. Sousuke smoldered from Haru to Rin. He wasn't quite sure what kind of relationship they had and frankly he didn't like it, after all, he was in love with Rin. Rin just continued to admire the boy from afar, finally speaking up to his friend who was right next to him. "You know, I'm glad Haru won our race, I'm not ready yet..."

Sousuke tilted his head in confusion, what was Rin talking about? What was he not ready for yet? Going to nationals? Cause he's pretty sure they were..."What are you talking about?" Rin just looked up and smiled. He nudged his head towards Haru, who was still busy wearing his poker face as his friends hugged him to death. "I'm talking about Haru, the moment I win a race against him I'm going to tell Haru something I've wanted to tell him ever since I first saw him when I came back from Australia."

The taller boy of the two looked down at his friend in confusion as he quirked an eyebrow and smoldered at his friend. "What?" Rin gave Sousuke a big toothy grin, making all of his shark teeth visible.

"I love him."

Back to present

He groaned at remembering how painful it was to hear those words come from Rin, even though he knew Rin didn't know about his feelings for him, it still hurt to know that those feelings would never be returned. And then right after that he just talked about how much he loved Haru, and how he exactly he was going to tell him, oh where their first date would be if Haru agreed to go out with him, talk about kicking a man while he's down, huh?

But what could Sousuke do? Rin was his best friend/exlove now and if he was happy then so should he, right? Again Sousuke sighed, only this time it was strained, like he couldn't breath. He rubbed the back of his head with his bad arm, wincing at the pain. Guess he would just move on with his life and pretend he didn't have feelings for Rin...

"Does it hurt, Yamazaki-kun?" Sousuke nearly jumped out of his seat as he turned his head to the side, seeing a brown haired and green eyed boy there. It was that one kid from the iwatobi team, what was his name again, Mako? Mako Tachibanana?

The boy was slightly bent over, looking at poor Sousuke with such an honest expression that screamed pure worry. It was...kind of cute actually...Sousuke glared at the boy, even though he had no real reason to, he just felt like he should. "What's it to you, dork? Aren't you that kid who was on Haru's team of weirdos? What are you doing being all chummy with your enemy?"

Said weirdo just smiled, but the look of worry still there on his face. "Yeah, I'm one of Haru's best friends, my name's Makoto Tachibana!" Oh so it was Makoto? "And I know it's not my place to speak up but you looked like you were in a lot of pain during our swim meet. I was worried that you might be dying of pain somewhere." Huh, dying of pain? What an understatement.

Sousuke ran a hand through his hair, mumbling that he was fine, along with other things like "It's just a bruise," or "It's not even that bad." Makoto just smiled, listening to his rant, nodding his head as if agreeing with Sousuke. Sousuke slightly pouted, he didn't know this kid, never even once spoke to him and the guy was just being all nice to him. What was the point in that? They already won the tournament so there's no need to kiss up to the other team...

Makoto smiled softly, warm like the sun on a cold winter day, making Sousuke swallow, hard. His mouth felt dry, his hands getting all clammy, why? What the hell was wrong with him, the guy was only smiling after all. Soon Makoto started talking, pulling something out of his bag at the same time in a happy sort of tone, Sousuke's mind didn't even catch up any of the words Makoto was saying until the boy was holding something out for him that oddly looked like a chocolate bar.

"I know it's not much, but when I was little, I would eat chocolate to keep our mind of the pain! So here!" Makoto smiled earnestly, holding out the Chocolate bar for Sousuke to take, who slowly took the candy bar out of the boys hand. They stood there in silence for a moment, it was a bit awkward with Makoto smiling like an idiot and Sousuke glaring at him at the corner of his eye, until an alarm suddenly went off, making the whole room seem normal and cheerful then it did a while ago.

Makoto quickly brought the watch up to his face, gasping at the time. "Oh man, I have to go or they'll leave me behind!" The brown haired boy turned around, about to bolt off as fast as he swam, but quickly turned his head back to Sousuke with a big smile that made his heart stop. "Get better soon so we can all swim together again!" And with that, Makoto left the room, leaving behind a startled Sousuke.

Slowly Sousuke looked down at the chocolate bar in his hands, a small smile playing on his lips as a small blush gave way on his face. Makoto Tachibana, Huh? Quietly, the young man brought the candy bar up to his face, leaning it against his forehead. Closing his eyes, Sousuke listened to the sound of his heart beat, beating faster and faster at the thought of the sweet and kind boy. He felt like his heartbeat was so loud that if someone were to come into the locker rooms they would hear it.

Man what a day, first the guy he likes tells him that he's in love with somebody else, and then a brown haired beauty easily picks up and fixes all the broken pieces left behind. Just his luck that he traded one swimming idiot for another.

((I DON'T THINK I'LL CONTINUE THIS BUT IF I DO ASDFGHJKL~! DON'T HATE ME! SOUMAKO HAS NOT INTERACTED YET! I'm DESPERATE!))