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Who knew what he saw in my eyes before I had run from him, but he didn't chase after me, didn't apologize, and didn't even spare me a second thought before he turned to greet his fans who were squealing over how great Oikawa-sama was.

The strangest thing was, I felt betrayed. But I had no right to feel that way. Although I had known of Oikawa for years, I had never really known him. And he had never known me. But I thought that he would at least show me a small amount of respect instead of playing with me.

I think the part about this whole experience with Oikawa was that I didn't know why he started bothering with me now. He had had thousands of chances to talk to me, and he chose now to do so?

He could have made sure I was okay at the game and then left it at that. It would have just been another one of the few times he had said something to me and then not spoken to me for ages. I would have forgotten about him the same way I had before.

But this time had felt different. He had sought me out after the game, and then again today to spend the entire lunch period with me.

I walked into the classroom to find that, thankfully, Rei's detention was over. She pestered me about how mean I was to leave her like I had, but I wasn't paying her much attention as I shoveled the rest of my lunch into my face before class started again.

Just before the teacher started talking, she hissed at me, "You're going to tell me what happened at lunch later!"

I shook my head, but smiled anyway. Of course I would tell her. She drove me up the wall sometimes, but Rei was still my best friend and I should have known she wouldn't miss that something had thrown me off balance. Even when she was ranting about her own problems, Rei somehow never seemed to miss mine.

After class, Rei grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the school. I stayed mostly quiet, trying to work out why I was so confused and kind of hurt. I let Rei guide me home, and one we had settled ourselves in my room, she pulled a pillow into her lap and faced me.

"Spill."

With that once command, words came tumbling out of my mouth, making no sense to me but somehow Rei was able to translate. Unfortunately, her response was less than sympathetic.

"You're such an idiot."

I stared at her, then slumped over. "I know. The only think I don't know is why I'm acting so stupid! I mean, I've gone to school with him for almost all of my life, and we've hardly ever spoken. Now he talks to me twice and I turn into a complete moron!"

Rei nodded sagely. "Oikawa-san has that effect on people. Mostly girls, but there have been rumors about guys falling over him too."

I laughed half-heartedly.

"Poor Mi-chan," Rei patted my head. "I think you have it the worst of all of us. You're in denial."

My eyes shot up to meet hers. "Denial?"

"Yes," Rei nodded again. "You say you've known Oikawa-san for ages. I think you've liked him for a lot longer than you let yourself think."

"But I don't like him!" I exclaimed. "Sure, he's pretty, but I hardly know him! I can't like him if I don't know him!"

"Okay, then you're attracted to him," Rei tried to concede.

I thought about that for a second. "I suppose. On the surface, what's there not to be attracted to? Like I said, he's pretty. He's also tall, athletic, an amazing setter, and he knows he's good looking so he's confident. But he's a big flirt, hardly ever serious about anything besides volleyball, and kind of an egotistical jerk apparently."

"Yep, he is gorgeous," Rei commented, apparently having missed the last part of my musings.

"Do you like him?" I wondered.

"Sure," she responded. "But more like the way I like a celebrity. I'd never see a future with him; we're too different. Not enough in common I guess." Here she smiled evilly. "I could never spend an entire lunch period with him playing volleyball and hardly talking."

"Shut up!" I squealed and smacked her with a pillow. "Not helping!"

"Okay, okay," she laughed. "If you want help, I'd say forget about him."

"Seriously?"

"Well, yeah. He came up to you twice, then flirted with other girls and let you walk away. He's not worth your time. Unless all he actually wanted was to be your friend. Guys are a weird bunch. Tell you what, don't worry about him. If he approaches you again, then you can decide if you want to turn him down and ignore all chances of being his friend, or maybe more. But clearly you have more dignity and respect for him and yourself than most of his fangirls. Ultimately it's up to you."

I shook my head. "That was remarkably unhelpful." But despite Rei's advice not being helpful, I did feel better. My mind was no longer confused about Oikawa and I no longer felt like I was drowning in emotions. Sometimes being a teenage girl sucked.

Rei ignored my comment. "Now, if you're done moping about a boy, can we please talk about something important? Like how you abandoned me in detention to go on a date!"

"Rei!" I shouted. "Detention was your fault! And it was not a date!"

Rei cackled and rolled around on my bed as I continued to admonish her.

The next day I tried to relax, but I still found myself tense and looking over my shoulder on my way to school, before class, and during the breaks, but there was no sign of Oikawa all day. By the time the final bell rang, I released a sigh and at the same time tried to squash the slight feeling of disappointment that he hadn't sought me out.

"Mi-chan, I'll meet you by the gate after club!" Rei called as she ran to the school's pool. She had only been practicing twice a week so that she could walk home with me right after class on most days. So on the days she did practice, I waited after class for her to walk home.

"Okay!" I agreed. I tightened my grip on my bag and walked more slowly to the gym. When the boot finally came off, I was going to be spending every afternoon practicing. That way Rei could do the same with swimming. It was very nice of her to take so much time out from her favorite sport to walk with me and make sure I got home safely.

"Hiya, Minami-san!"

And I've left off on a mysterious person looking for Mi-chan! Whoever could it be... Please let me know what you like, want to see in future, or constructive criticism. I'd like to make this story more interesting!

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