FASH: The good times start in the chapter, good times, good times... Anyways, thanks for the reviews so far! (Hugs)
The day had progressed rather well and as he promised after school Sena went over to Mamori's, worksheets in tow. She sounded a lot better than this morning and told him that she'd probably be able to go to school tomorrow before shooing him away, not wanting her germs to rub off on him.
So Sena made his way over to the flower shop, casually asking the girl at the counter, who was idly flipping through a fashion magazine, what the meaning of Camellias were. He hadn't expect such a violent reaction.
She had slammed her hands on the desk, posture rigid as she stared at him with wide eyes. "Could it possibly be..." She began, practically shaking. "That you're the person that really hot guy got all the Camellia's for yesterday?!"
She looked, well, really scary, so Sena waved his hands in front of his face. "No, no, no! It's just my friend is sick, and I wanted to get her something to cheer her up." The girl in front of him slumped down, as if to say, 'oh, is that it' before speaking again in a very bored tone of voice.
"Well, pink Camellias basically mean 'I'm longing for you', blue means 'you're a flame in my heart, red, which is the only type we have right now because we haven't got out shipment yet, means 'unpretending excellence', and white ones mean 'you're adorable.' As you may be able to tell, none of these are really good to give to someone who's just a friend." She said dryly and Sena nodded, cheeks going red. "Well, uh, what would you suggest?"
"Well, there's Freesia, which means innocents, trust and friendship, or you could just go with the Rose, a yellow one, for friendship." Sena nodded and after a long period of what he hoped seemed like careful consideration he bought a long stemmed yellow rose so that he wouldn't seem too suspicious.
'I'll give it to Mamori-neesan tomorrow, she likes roses, I'm sure she'll like it.' He thought happily as he put it in the vase with the Camellias. 'But still, I wonder who got me these flowers, and if they knew what they meant when they got them.' Sena blushed. 'And the girl said that the person who took all the Camellias was a really hot guy...' He blushed harder. 'Maybe it's someone from school and they decided to tell me their feelings in the language of flowers because they saw that their notes just confused me.' He smiled a bit, joking to himself. 'Or maybe they're from two completely different people and I have two secret admirers.' He chuckled a bit before taking out his own homework.
The next morning there was an early practice, so Sena had brought the rose with him, only to find out that Mamori could come to practice because she had a discipline committee meeting, and he was getting a couple strange looks from his teammates for holding a rose, he was even sure he had heard Toganou ask: "Sena doesn't have a girlfriend, right?"
Luckily sooner enough no one bothered to wonder over why Sena had a flower because Hiruma decided that he'd fire a couple of shots off outside the clubroom to help motivate the team into changing quicker.
And so, since Mamori wasn't there, Sena spent all of morning training recording lap times, accuracy rates and other such things and filing them, like a secretary normally would if he wasn't secretly the team's ace.
The first several periods ran smoothly, even though he was sure he could hear his name being mentioned every once in a while by the Huh Huh Brothers behind him. 'They're probably discussing what a ludicrous thought it is that I, Kobayakawa Sena, have a girlfriend.'
During lunch he had gone to Mamori's home room, only to be told by a couple of her classmates that she was in the library doing a research assignment. Not only would it be near impossible to find Mamori in the library, she knew like the back of her hand and Sena had only been in there once, but he wasn't going to bother her while she was doing homework.
So Sena trudged through the day counting the hours, then the minutes, then the seconds until school was over in his head, sighing in relief when the ball rang and quickly gathering up his books and dashing to the exit Mamori usually used.
People in his home room class had been giving him strange looks every once in a while, probably thinking along the same lines as Toganou, he doesn't have a girlfriend right, or maybe they just thought he was weird, either way all that mattered is that school was out and he could already spot Mamori with two of her female friends slowly walking off the school grounds.
"Mamori-neesan!" Sena shouted as he ran up to the brunette who had paused and turned around with a small smile on her face.
"Hi Sena, what is it that you need?" She asked sweetly, even though her voice still sounded a bit rough and Sena held the flower out in front of him. "This is for you." She smiled wider and took it, giving him a small peck on the forehead in thanks. "Do you want to walk home together?" She asked and Sena shook his head. "I still have to categorize some pictures that I took at the past practice game, have a good weekend!" He waved goodbye and made his way to the clubhouse.
He wasn't even five step from the door though when he felt hands on his sides and his world spun around, when he opened his eyes again all he could see was a very familiar shade of blue.
'Shin-san's carrying me over his shoulder, like a sack of potatoes.'
