The bell rang, 6th period math is finally over!

Kyo happily zoomed out of the door before her teacher, Ms. Rendericksin, gives another boring lecture of the "Art of Math".

She scrambled out of the door as other students hurriedly passed by; she headed straight for the gym, where Chaz was. On her way there, a group of girls were busy chatting and giving their flirtatious looks at the boys that were passing by.

To her surprise, Chiharu was there.

"Chiharu!" one of the girl's voices from the group was yelling out, trying to get his attention.

He paid no attention and continued playing basketball with the other guys. Not knowing where Chaz was, she sat down on one of the blue benches and watched.

She saw the ball go up in the air and landed in the other guy's hand, just then Chiharu, out of no where gets the ball. The girls nearby were cheering, "WHEEE, GO CHIHARU!" "SHOW THEM WHAT YOU GOT!"

Kyo rolled her eyes, and when she glanced back to Chiharu's direction, Kensuke shot a three from half-court. The girls cheered and he gave them a wink. Ok, so maybe he wasn't lying about being the three-point king.

They started to play again, when she noticed Chaz, he came in as substitute and played for some guy named Hamaya. As usual, Chaz chased the ball, like a puppy, ok, more like a tiger and his prey.

She decided to lay down a bit and wait for a while till Chaz would wake her up and tell her it's time to go home. She sighed, it was just going to be them, alone. She looked at the clear, blue sky and looked at the fluffy white clouds. She watched the birds fly so freely and disappearing into the never-ending sky.

She closed her eyes and her mind floated, into endless dream.

"Kyo…."

"mmm.." Kyo mumbled, refusing to get up.

"If you don't get up, I'm going to kick you off the bench, shrimp." Chiharu's annoying voice was flowing in her ear.

Kyo got up quickly, who knows he might actually do that. She rubbed the sleepiness out of her eyes and yawned.

"How long was I asleep?"

"When the game was over, around two hours passed." He was wearing his black jersey, and he had sweat coming down his face. He shook it off and pulled out a water-bottle from his bag and started gulping down the water.

"What are you looking at, shrimp?" He said, wiping his sweat with a towel. She was looking at him for a while and felt herself turn a little bit red, as she was caught in the moment.

She turned away and looked at the empty basketball court,"Nothing."

"Why do you always do that?" Now, he was standing in front of her and giving her a frown.

"Always do what?" She was now looking in her direction, just not at his cool-gray eyes.

"You close up."

Ok, that made her look up, and his face was unimpressionable, but his cool-gray eyes were into hers.

"I..don't do that." Her lips trembled a bit, but she controlled her voice. It's like he understood her, but just not yet.

"Kyo—"

"What do you mean I don't open up? You're the one that does that!" She yelled at him, now standing up. His face lit up and he bit back a smile and instead gave her another frown.

"What makes you think I do that?—He gulped down more water, and wiped up the sweat remaining on his forehead-"With every ounce of anger I have, I use it on you."

She was glaring at him, that just made his frown into a smirk.

She didn't like it.

"Whatever." She picked up her backpack and was heading for the gym.

"Wait, Kyo."

"I have to go, Chiharu, play-date with me some other time." She responded and somehow her backpack was feeling a little bit lighter as she walked.

"Kyo."

She continued to ignore him.

"Shrimp!"

Still the silent treatment.

"KYO!"

Having enough, she finally turned and,"OW!"

Something hit her forehead and it hurt. Her head was throbbing when she looked at the figure in front of her.

"Your backpack was open, and here—giving her things to her---"the rest on trailing behind me"—he pointed.

Without a single word, she put her things in her backpack, and he helped picked up the other things left behind.

As he turned to leave," Later, Shrimp."

Ok, now she felt guilty. She might as well tell him, after all he wasn't that annoying.

"Wait, Chiharu!" She dropped her backpack and went up to him. Surprised, he stopped and stared at her, his gray eyes trailing over hers.

"Thanks." She said shyly and looked down. When she looked up, he was smiling. A real smile.

"Yeah, well, next time, zip up your backpack, I don't want to have to pick up after you, Shrimp." Chiharu mumbled and gave her his favorite frown.

"Oh, shut up." She left him and grabbed her things and went walking to the direction of the gym. When she was walking, she turned around.

He disappeared to the other building. She sighed and rubbed her forehead.

He's ok, I guess.

After spending a few hours at home, she took out her journal from under her bed mattress. Only place where Chaz never looks.

The journal was special, not because her mom gave it to her. It held so many memories; it became a part of her.

Dear Journal,

First day of school was …how can you describe school? It's nice at school and I met a few people, most of them are Chaz's friends. Of course, I actually met someone with my gender, Sakura. She's cool, nice and shy. Though I think she likes Imai, but I might be wrong. Chiharu is the jerk I met at school, he's evil, mean, sarcastic, a loser, thinks he's all that, he has angry hair, and he has grey-cool eyes.

She paused, she just realized that all she ever did was write even more sentences about Chiharu. Ok, something is wrong with me. She closed her journal and hid it back under her mattress. She sat on her bed and closed her eyes, lying down.

Then….

"KYO!" Chaz's screeching voice echoed from downstairs.

Hearing her name, she jumped off her bed and went downstairs.

She peeked and her mouth was gaping open. The whole freaking basketball team was in their living room. She noticed Chaz right away, he was laughing and snickering. Weirdo.

"Boo."

Startled, she jumped not without a loud, "GASP!"

She opened her eyes and saw that it was Kensuke. He had a surprised look on his face, but he was still smiling at her.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He said, shrugging.

"Oh, no, it's fine, you just surprised me." She still felt her heart beating, but it was regaining its normal pace.

She noticed him still looking at her, so she made a move to go to the kitchen. He followed her.

"You want something to drink?" She requested, grabbing some lemonade from the refrigerator. Ice cool, lemonade!

He looked around and got his attention back at her," No, thanks, I already drank 3 bottles of water."

"Ok, then." She began to drink the sweet lemonade drink. The taste is both sweet, yet very seducing.

"Hey, Kyo.."

She put down her lemonade drink and turned her attention to Kensuke, who was standing there, holding the portrait.

"Oh, that's my mom." She responded, and took the portrait out of his hands, and held it to her chest. She felt a lump of tears form in the back of eyelids.

"She's beautiful, like you." He gently whispered to her and she found herself looking at him.

"She is." She put down the portrait and touched it gently with her fingertips. He took her fingertips, forcing her to look at him.

He pulled her into his arms, at first she stiffened. He just held on, and she relaxed.

He let go after a while and smiled at her.

"Better?" He was smiling at her.

She nodded, shyly and felt someone watching them.

She turned and saw Chiharu. Standing the whole time, in kitchen.

"Hey Chiharu." Kensuke called out, Chiharu nodded. He has an unexpressionable look on his face, his eyes were looking at her.

"Um, hey Chiharu." She greeted, normally.

There was some tension going on with his look of disapproval and her look of trying to be normal. Kensuke excused himself and exited out the kitchen.

Trying again,"Hi, Chiharu."

This time he did move, but he didn't answer. He walked up to her and she was backing up against the wall now. She turned and looked up at his gray eyes.

"..Is something wrong, Chiharu?" She suddenly whispered and her eyes met his.

After a few minutes, he finally spoke.

"Nothing." He pulled back from her, his grey eyes leaving hers. He walked out of the kitchen.

Finally she could breathe, and this time her heart was beating quickly.

She felt dizzy and leaned against the wall. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath.

She was falling for him.