I have no idea how this came to be. It was brain-fart, one of those silent-but-deadly ones.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and A Summer's Love, although I'm as clueless as Shin as to why Grey-san was with Yoshina-san when he just told Mikiri-san that he loved her
If Wakana hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she would probably have never believed it; Shin Seijuro halfway through a humble paperback version of 'A Summer's Love'. The copy was well-used; its spine was riddled with breaks and the bottom left corner of the first page was stained with ink. Wakana knew that the first page was stained with ink because she had been the one to spill it there during her second year of middle school.
"Ah…Shin-kun?"
The footballer looked up at her with a blank expression, "it is strange, now I have started to read I don't want to put it down." Shin frowned in confusion.
"Erm…"
"What is the hour?"
"It's three o'clock Shin-kun, the after-school training session is about to start," Wakana informed him gently.
Shin's eyes widened slightly in surprise, "I see," then he frowned and looked down at the book in front of him. If she hadn't have known the linebacker better Wakana might have said the look was almost of longing, "but I wish to know why Grey-san was with Yoshina-san when he just told Mikiri-san that he loved her."
Ok maybe she didn't know Shin as well as she thought she did.
"Ah well, that's because he was set-up by Shou…"
Shin frowned, "Set-up? How?"
"Err… you kind of have to read it…"
"Oh," Shin replied disappointedly.
"Ah, Shin-kun, have you been here since morning practice?"
"I have."
Wakana felt her eyes widen, "oh…"
"Perhaps I will be able to finish this after practice?"
Y-yeah, you can take it home and read it there if you want," Wakana offered, still feeling a little shell-shocked.
"Thank you," the linebacker stood and pushed the book into her hands with a bow, "I shall now start my warm up."
"O-ok…" Wakana replied. She watched the broad-shouldered, romance-novel-reading American footballer stride purposely from the room and wondered what other wonders the world held.
I am truely sorry. THough if it serves as any consolation I did give Shin's characterisation a proper funeral, with lillies and everything.