It was faint but she could still hear it as clear as anything. It was coming from a door outside, Lisa followed the sound to the gymnasium and stood at the door in complete awe. The boy's volleyball team was practicing rotations. There was a short orange haired boy who looked like he was playing middle blocker and an extremely angry looking guy as setter. They were nothing like she had ever seen in her life. The speed and precision of the toss was incredible, followed by the amazing hit by the orange haired boy.
All of the sudden the ball was hurtling towards her with amazing speed. At first she was surprised, but that feeling was soon replaced by excitement. Dropping her backpack, and getting in a position to receive but, she missed. It hit her right arm and knocked her backwards."Even here I suck at receives." Lisa thought to herself. She could hear the setter yelling at the orange haired boy, who argued back but suddenly went quiet.
Lisa didn't know how long she had sat there for but it must have been a long time because eventually the shortest guy (who was probably the libero) noticed she was there. Lisa recognized him, he was in her class, he was the guy who perked up when she said volleyball!
"Hey guys look! It's the American girl that I told you about!" He said to the others. Almost instantly everyone looked at the door. Lisa didn't know what to do. Should she run away? Introduce herself?
"Who's good at english?" One of them asked.
" Tsukishima! Suga! You're both in the advanced english class! One of you should go." Another said.
"Just because I get good grades doesn't mean I'm good at speaking!" One said. It went on for a few more minutes until one of them yelled louder and finally one of them approached her.
"Hi! Are you Ok?" He asked. He had silvery blonde hair and cheery eyes. Lisa instantly felt more comfortable, he had a very approachable, comforting vibe to him.
"Um, yeah I just, I suck at receiving." She replied, . The boy smiled.
"So you play volleyball?" He asked, he reached out his hand to Lisa to help her up. She took it and got back on her feet. The team watched their setter speak to the mysterious american girl. They went on to speak for a few minutes before introducing themselves.
"My name is Sugawara Koushi, but in english it is Koushi Sugawara, yes?" He asked. Lisa nodded.
"I'm Lisa Miller." She told him. Sugawara Koushi nodded and walked over to the rest of the team, he turned his head and signaled for her to come over. Lisa did as he said. She walked over shyly and stood by his side not really knowing what to do.
Lisa looked at the shortest boy for a minute, she was one hundred percent sure that he was in her class, but she didn't know his name. He smiled at her and Lisa smiled back.
"Guys, this is Lisa. She's American and she's in Nishinoya's class." Sugawara Koushi introduced Lisa to the entire team. There was one boy who had bright red hair (who looked vaguely familiar) who was very excited and tried to ask her questions but failed due to his very evident lack of English speaking skills. His name was Hinata Shoyou and he was a first year. There were three other first years, Kageyama Tobio, Yamaguchi Tadashi and (the only first year who could carry a conversation with Lisa) Tsukishima Kei. He was the translator for the others and he didn't look happy about it.
"Ask her if she plays volleyball in America." Hinata Shoyou said to the very tall and annoyed first year. He sighed and turned to Lisa.
" He would like to know if you play volleyball." He said to Lisa, she nodded excitedly. Lisa took out her sheet and looked for the phrase "I play middle blocker" and said it in broken Japanese.
The look of pure happiness and excitement on Hinata's face at that moment was like no other Lisa had ever seen in her life. He started asking Tsukishima endless questions but the last one seemed to interest everyone, including Tsukishima.
"Ask her how tall she is" Hinata said to Tsukishima, he translated and the whole team looked at her waiting for an answer. Lisa blushed, she knew that she was tall for her age but in Japan, she might as well been a giant.
"I don't know in centimeters but I'm five feet and ten inches." Lisa said in English. Tsukishima nodded and translated. Lisa put her head down shyly. She had noticed that she was taller than Sugawara and almost as tall as Kageyama but she didn't know who matched her height.
"THAT'S SO COOL! I wish I was that tall" Hinata yelled. Lisa looked up and saw that no one was laughing, they looked surprised.
"Tanaka, go stand next to Miller-san" The captain said, Tanaka did as was told and Daichi had them stand back to back.
"She's just a little bit taller than you are, but I think Miller-san is about 177 cm." Daichi said.
"Must be an American thing, to have tall girls." Nishinoya said to everyone. Lisa didn't know what they were saying and thought about asking Tsukishima for help but then decided to ask Sugawara instead.
"Oh, nothing really. Just about your height." He told her. Lisa raised her eyebrows, what did her height have to do with anything? Suga noticed her confused face and told her not to worry about it.