Chapter 4: That's what Friends are For

Me and Midorikawa went our separate ways to our classes but I couldn't get that name out of my head…

"MasaKawa…" I said quietly to myself.

A note was then passed onto my desk. I opened it and it was from Tenma.

Are those rumours true?

I quickly wrote back and we carried this conversation on for the next ten minutes until a hand smacked down on my desk.

"Kariya, what is this?" Sensei said taking away the paper that me and Tenma had been writing on.

"Err…" I said trying to think of something until a knock came at the door.

"Come in"

The teacher from the classroom down the hall came in holding Midorikawa by the arm.

"Sorry to bother you but could you take Midorikawa here for the rest of the day? He was shooting spit balls in class" The teacher said.

"I told you it wasn't me!" Midorikawa said back.

"Hush, you were caught red handed!" The teacher snapped.

"Of course we will take him" Sensei replied as the other teacher took their leave. "Ok Midorikawa was it? Your first job is to read out this note some of our students were passing round" He said handing Midorikawa the note.

"Ahh so it isn't just my class filled with troublemakers" He said cheekily

"Just read the note to the class" Sensei said giving me a quick glare.

Midorikawa sighed and began to read the note.

"Are those rumours true?

What rumours?

The whole Masaka-" He paused.

"Well?" Sensei said.

"…I don't want to read it…." Midorikawa said looking down.

"I'll read it Sensei!" Said a girl I recognised from the MasaKawa group.

He then snatched the paper from Midorikawa and handed it to the girl. Midorikawa came over to me.

"How much did you read?" I whispered to her

"As far as I read out, as soon as I heard MasaKawa I stopped…" She replied

The girl then began to read out the note.

"Are those rumours true?

What rumours?

The whole Masakawa thing?"

The girl then smirked and closed her eyes.

"Oh that, yes its true!

So you do like Midorikawa-kun?!

Yes I'm deeply in love with him!"

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I WROTE!" I out shouted in shock.

"Yes it is!" The girl replied.

"You weren't even looking at the note!"

"K-Kariya…" Midorikawa said looking at me in confusion.

"I swear I didn't write that! She made it up! Give me it!" I said trying to snatch the note from the girl but she shoved it in her mouth and ate it.

"You have no proof!" She said sticking her tongue out.

"Y-You!" I said raising my fist getting ready to punch her when another hand grabbed my fist. I turned around to find Midorikawa with a rather serious face.

"Kariya it's not worth it" He said still with a light grasp on my fist.

"But-"

"I know, girls are annoying what have I been telling you" He said giving me a quick smile.

I loosened my fist and put my arm down. I looked at the class to see everyone staring at me in shock. I ran out of the classroom and down the hall until I found the boys toilets. I rushed into one of the cubicles and put my head in my hands.

"Why did I do that?" I said quietly to myself

The door then creaked open slowly and I held my breath wondering who it was.

"Kariya? You in here?"

It was Midorikawa.

I continued holding my breath not wanting him to find me but he came up to the door of the cubicle I was in and stood there.

"Kairya open the door"

I stayed silent.

"Open it or I will break it down"

I reached out and slowly opened the door knowing that if I didn't he probably would break down the door.

"You ok?" He said looking at me.

"…I promise I didn't write any of that, it was all lies" I said still looking down.

"I know"

"Y-You do?" I said looking up.

"I trust you and if you say you didn't write it then I believe you"

"Midorikawa…" I said feeling slightly better.

"That what friends are for right?" He said giving me another smile.

I began to chuckle.

"What?" He asked.

"You have a cute smile" I replied still chuckling.

"W-What do you mean?!" He said covering his mouth.

"When you smile properly it makes you look girly"

"Yea I know that, why do you think I never smile?!" He said blushing slightly.

"Haha sorry, it's a nice smile" I said smiling at him.

"Heh at least I don't have a smile that makes me look like a baby" He said cheekily

"I-I don't!"

"Hehe little baby Masaki"

"Oy don't call me that! Or I might throw you back into the pit of fangirls!"

"Aww you wouldn't do that" He said chuckling

"What makes you think I wouldn't?"

"Because you love me remember?" He said cheekily

"I-I do not! I thought you said you trusted me!"

"I do but now that you're saying I have a cute smile and stuff I'm not so sure…"

"Oh give up!" I said giving him a slight punch on the arm which he returned.

The bell then rang beginning lunch break.

"Ladies first" I said holding the door open.

"Ah no I should respect my elders" Midorikawa said

"How do you know if I'm older? When's your birthday?"

"Twenty-fourth of January" He replied.

"Oh so your birthday was only a couple of weeks ago…but yea I'm older"

"Well off you go grandpa, don't want to miss your bingo now do you?" Midorikawa said cheekily.

"Fine, you win this one" I said walking out the door with him following.

When lunch break ended me and Midorikawa began heading back to class.

"Well I'll see you after school" I said waving him off.

"What do you mean idiot?" He said cheekily.

"Eh?"

"I'm in your class for the rest of the day remember?"

"Oh yea my bad, come on" I said letting him catch up

It turned out that we had P.E next so we all headed for the changing rooms and quickly got dressed and went into the gym.

"Ok so we have a very special guest today, meet Mr. Tokomaku" Said Sensei as a tall middle aged man with jet black hair stepped up.

"Hello everyone. So I'm here to test an app that my company have design. This app randomly chooses a sport and we wanted to test it on a class. And just to spice things up a little, the winner or winning team will receive this special addition skate board!"

He then held up a shiny black and blue jet streamed skate board.

"Whoa…" I said in amazement.

"You skate board Kariya?" Midorikawa asked me.

"Yea and that is one cool sake board, I gotta win it!"

"Ok now if you teacher would be so kind to test our app" He said holding out his tablet and Sensei pressed the button.

"And the sport is...rhythmic gymnastics!"

"WHAAATTT?!" Everyone exclaimed.

"Well there goes my skate board…" I said.

"Ok, ok to make this a little easier you will get ten minutes to prepare your routine to a random song" he said pressing another button on his tablet.

Everyone then got into a space and began practicing.

"Hey good luck Masaki!" Midorikawa shouted to me.

"You're the one going to need luck! This is the higher level class, I mean, do you even know what rhythmic gymnastics is?" I said secretly not actually knowing what it was.

"Yea it's like dancing but adding a few cartwheels and stuff here and there" He said before walking off.

I had no idea what to do and it seemed that almost no one else did either. Everyone except a few who were completely failing was just sitting down and Midorikawa was lying on the floor. Before I knew it the ten minutes was up.

"Ok everyone gather round!" Said the man directing us where to sit leaving a large rectangle in the middle. "So you don't have to compete if you don't want to but it means you won't win the skate board. So who wants to go first?"

Some guys who were really over confident decided to take part each of them getting a different song varying from Call me Maybe to Good Feeling. They were all absolutely rubbish.

"Is that it? No one else is brave enough to take part? Well in that case the winner is…"

"I do it…" Said a voice from the back. It was Midorikawa.

"Good on you son! Come into the middle! Ok your song is…" He said pressing the button "Kiss Britney's Boyfriend!" ((If you don't know this song then search it up! It's kind of a remix thing))

As he walked up I imagined how funny this would be but at the same time I couldn't help but feel kind of bad…what if he failed? And with all the grief he's been getting lately…

The music soon started…

"One, two, three, four…"

What I saw next was incredible. Midorikawa was all over the place, one minute dancing like a pro the next doing flips and moves I had never even seen. He kept his eyes closed the whole time, him mind solely on the rhythm. It was amazing how flexible he was and when the song ended everything went silent. Soon enough the hall was filled with claps and cheers from both the class and some girls that had walked into the hall to see what had been going on.

"I think we have our winner!" The man said handing Midorikawa the skate board and lifting his arm up in the air as everyone cheered. Midorikawa didn't seem to care much about the cheers and as soon as he could came over to me.

"Here" He said handing me the skate board.

"B-But you won it!" I said in protest.

"So? I can't skate and you really wanted it. I only went up there to get it for you"

"Midorikawa…" I said staring at the skate board.

He then flicked my forehead.

"Owww!"

"Just take the damn thing and stop acting so sentimental" He said to me.

I took the skate board from him "Thanks…"