Chapter 4

"What do you want, Yamazaki?"

"It's been a while, Nanase. I saw your relay at regionals last year."

"You're out here now?"

"As it happens. What you guys did was really idiotic, though. You even dragged Rin into it."

"What is it you want to say?"

"I would never have made him do something like that and as for Kei. Oh Kei. Do you even consider yourselves in a relationship?"

"What do you mean?"

"Don't ever get in Rin's way again and you should decide whether you want to be completely committed to Kei or not because she could do a whole lot better than you."

"What's up?" I asked Haru. He stood in front of me as gave me his signature stare before opening his mouth and asking me a question that completely threw me off my guard.

"Are you happy?"

"Huh?"

"Are you happy?"

"Of course I am. Where is this coming from?"

"Are you happy with us?"

"Haru…"

"Are you?"

"Yes I am. Are you?" He gave me a chaste nod to answer my question. "Where is this coming from?"

"Nowhere."

"Well it didn't pop out of thin air." I explained.

"Goodnight, Kei."

"What? You're going to ask me that and then just go home?" I asked him. He took a step towards me and placed a soft kiss on my forehead.

"Goodnight, Kei." He said one more time before turning around and walking home. I huffed and turned around on my heel and stomped into my house.

I stood beside Gou and watched as all the teams lined up to begin their relay. The Swimming Club hadn't received any new members yet, but we were all positive that if the swimming club won this relay then they would gain more positive attention.

"The time has come at last for Iwatobi High's famed club-versus-club relay race! The competitors are the tennis club, the basketball club, the rugby club, the kendo club, the judo club, and the swim club! Which club will emerge victorious? Get ready to start!"

I watched Haru and waited for the sound of the signalling gun to go off. When it did my breath was caught in my throat as I watched Haru run. His form was perfect and he looked to beautiful running, but he was missing the most important element when it comes to running – speed.

"Could it be that Nanase-senpai's actually pretty slow on land?" Gou's friend asked aloud.

"He definitely was not made for running, that's for sure." I sighed as I saw him get to Makoto in last place. As soon as Makoto received the kickboard he began to gain speed quickly and pushed past the other runners.

"That's amazing! We're in third!" Gou's friend cheered.

"That's Makoto-senpai's power sprinting!" Gou stated.

"Unlike Haru, Makoto is actually fast on land." I commented.

However, as soon as Makoto passed the kickboard to Nagisa is sliped out of his fingers and bounced on the ground a few times before Nagisa quickly grabbed the kickboard and began to run with it. Because of this the swim club was back in last place and the blonde had to sprint in order to catch up with everyone else.

"We were so close. If only they hadn't dropped the kickboard." Gou's friend commented.

"It's not over yet." Gou said.

"Huh?"

"Gou's right. We have a ex-track star on the swim team and he can run…he can run fast." I stated. As soon as Nagisa passed the kickboard to Rei the blue haired boy began to run at full speed towards the finish line and in first place. "That's our Rei." I smiled to myself as Gou and her friend began to jump together out of celebration.

"So no new members, huh?" I asked as Makoto, Haru and I began to walk home together.

"Not a single one." Makoto sighed.

"But at least the pool is open now! So you guys can swim again." I pointed out the obvious to the two swimmers.

"That's true too. Oh and Rei was trying to learn how to do the other strokes today."

"Really? How did that go?"

"He still needs to practice some more."

"Well I'm sure he'll get it soon. It just takes some practice. What do you think, Haru?" The blue-eyed boy looked at me with a blank stare before looking forward again.

"I think being good at one stroke is good enough." A small smile crept onto my lips as I looked at him.

"That's so like you, Haru."

I was sitting in class working on my essay when I noticed that my phone had vibrated in my bag. I sneakily pulled my phone out of my bag and looked at the text message that light up my screen.

Do you want to grab dinner with me tonight?

I looked a little confused as I stared at the screen in front of me. I had never pinned Sosuke the kind of guy to want to go out for dinner, but I saw no harm in the idea of having lunch with a good friend of mine, so I quickly typed back a reply and sent it.

"Hey, Kei." I looked over to my right to see Makoto looking at me.

"Yes?"

"Can you do me a favour?"

"Anything."

"Well…Rei has been acting really weird the past few days and I was wondering if you could talk to him. You always manage to get people to open up."

"Haru mentioned something. He runs away after practice, right?" I recalled what Haru had told me the other night as he made his mackerel.

"Gou thinks that he's in a secret relationship and that he's the type to be weakened by it instead of being strengthen by it like Haru."

"Haru is strengthened by love?" My eyebrow raised at such an odd concept that they had come up with earlier. "But we haven't even said-"

"Of course he's strengthened by it. I don't think he realizes it, but he swims for you too, Kei."

"Huh?"

"I don't know how to explain it…it just feels like that." Makoto said lightly as he looked away from me. I was going to say something, but then Makoto looked back at me and continued to talk, "So can you talk to Rei for us, please?"

"I'll give it a shot, but I can't promise anything." I smiled at him.

"Thanks Kei! You're the best!" I dramatically flipped my hair as I batted my eyelashes at him.

"I know."

I was walking down the hallway towards my next class when I spotted a familiar glasses wearing boy walking towards me. His face was inside of the book that was in his hand, so I took this opportunity to stand in front of him, so he would bump into me slightly.

"I'm very sorry, oh Kei-san!"

"Hey Rei."

"Are you headed to class?"

"I am, but I wanted to ask you something."

"Of course, what can I do for you?"

"Well everyone is really worried about you recently."

"Why?"

"Because apparently you keep disappearing after practice to go run a few errands and you're being very mysterious I heard."

"Wh-what? Oh no, it's just a few things for my mom. It's nothing to concern yourself with." My eyes narrowed in on Rei as I noticed how he looked a little flustered.

"Are you lying to me?"

"Wh-What?" I leaned a little closer to him as I tried to intimidate him.

"I don't like liars, Rei." I saw him swallow the lump in his throat as he began to pull at the collar of his shirt. His eyes frantically began to look around the hallway – probably trying to find someone to save him.

"I have to get to class. I'll see you later. Bye Kei!" He yelled as he used his track and field skills and ran away from me. As I watched his retreating form I sighed and turned around to head to my next class.

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