Sakuno sighed as finally, she came to her class. It turned out that the Tennis Prince is one of her classmates.
"Just like the old times eh?"she thought as a tiny smile appeared on her face.
After a while, a man in his 40's entered the room. He has a clean haircut , wears a blue-striped polo with matching brown slacks and carries a big blue notebook with several books. That man is a university introducing himself,he started on discussing. For the entire school hours, Sakuno listened attentively to the professors while Ryoma was always seen by Sakuno (when she tries to catch a glimpse of him ) as a sleepy-head during classes. Sakuno's little glimpses of Ryoma on his seat may not be known by the Prince, but a certain blonde-haired boy who considers Ryoma as a rival.
Kevin Smith, Ryoma's former opponent in the Goodwill Games is now his close friend in America. Since Ryoma is not the type to start a conversation or to be friendly with everyone, it's Kevin who always talks and accompanies Ryoma everywhere. Now, they're studying in thesame university and she saw the shy brunette girl with Ryoma. Ryoma never talks about his friends in Japan, that's why he's gotten a little curious seeing Ryoma with an unknown girl loitering in the campus.
Kevin was indeed curiosed so that's why at their lunch break, he immediately approached Ryoma who was still in his seat, sleeping.
"Ryoma" Kevin said as he shook Ryoma's shoulder, attempting to wake him up. Kevin didn't failed because Ryoma stirred and is now half-asleep looking at him with an annoyed face that seems like saying, "No one ruins my sleep" .
"What is it?" Ryoma asked impatiently
"Who's the brunette girl with you earlier?" Kevin asked
"Ryuzaki? What about her?" Ryoma said as he raised an eyebrow.
"Well, who is she exactly? I haven't seen her before, could it be that...that she's your girlfriend back then? " Kevin smirked as he teased.
Ryoma just let Kevin tease and tease him because he never cares about what that 'idiot Kevin' ( what Ryoma calls Kevin) says for he actually doesn't care.
"Ryoma!~" a short, pink-haired girl called.
" Kate! Quit being so noisy!" Kevin said irritated as Kate spanked him on the head.
"Ow!"
"Serves you right ,loud-mouthed idiot !"
"Serves you right, granny" Kevin mocked as he caressed his painful head that Kate spanked.
"KEVIN!" Kate yelled angrily as she ran after Kevin who is now hiding behind Ryoma who yawned.
The two kept on arguing on their way to the cafeteria to eat lunch when Kevin pointed on under the tree where the brunette, known as Ryuzaki Sakuno ate her bento alone.
"Ryoma, it's that girl, right?" Kevin asked
"Ah! she's the girl from before" Kate stated. Seeing the brunette girl somewhat made Kate and Kevin's arguing temporarily stop.
"Ryoma, let's go to her" Kevin said
"What for?" Ryoma asked. Annoyed.
"Well, I think... She's lonely...and-" Kevin said, intending to say that She was Ryoma's girlfriend before to tease Ryoma but she was interrupted by Kate's statement.
"Yieeee! Kevin likes her~" Kate teased
"No, I don't! " Kevin stated.
"Kevin,likes her~" Kate's tease became a chant that she kept on chanting just to tease Kevin.
"Ryoma, stop your girlfriend" Kevin said to Ryoma, but he just ignored him.
"By the way, let's go now to her, I'm eager to know what Kevin's type for a girl is" Kate said suppressing a giggle.
The three of them went to the tree and Kate immediately greeted Sakuno.
"Hi, Sakuno! Remember me?" Kate said smiling to a sitting Sakuno who looked up to her.
How could she not remember? It's Ryoma's girlfriend. Of course, she'll know that girl.
"K-Konnichiwa, Kate-san" she said as she smiled in reply
"By the way, this is Kevin Smith. I'm sure you know him, he's the one Ryoma played with in the Goodwill Games before" Kate stated to Sakuno as she sat on Sakuno's side and examined her bento
"Ne, what's that?"Kate said, pointing on the octopus-shaped sausage in Sakuno's bento
"A-Ah! This? It's just an octopus shaped sausage. Want some?" Sakuno offered
"Kevin, Ryoma, Let's eat with her..Please?" Kate said putting a puppy-eyes display to Kevin and Ryoma
"Okay,okay. That's okay with you, right?" Kevin said impatiently as he asked Ryoma who just put on a 'whatever' look on his face.
Kate then, decided that she and Ryoma would buy Kevin's lunch together with theirs' so that Kevin could have a little more time, alone with Sakuno. When the two left, an awkward silence enveloped the atmosphere. But since, Kevin has his own plan, he managed to break the deafening silence by asking Sakuno...
"You like him, right?"
Kevin asked as Sakuno's cheeks started to redden...
"What will I do? If I say it to him...Kate-san might know and maybe will be furious with me having a crush on her boyfriend...And Ryoma-kun! If he was going to know that secret then I would die of embarassment!... Yes...That's it, I will deny it!" Sakuno thought as she replied
"N-NO! W-What are y-you t-talking about K-Kevin-kun? I-I have n-no feelings f-for R-Ryoma-kun" Sakuno stuttered defensively. She is waiting for Kevin to realize her lying, because she, herself knows that it is quite noticeable that she did have feelings for the Tennis Prince, but instead, she saw Kevin laughing.
"Hahahahahaha!" Kevin laughed as Sakuno felt her ears becoming red also, because of embarassment.
"W-What's s-so funny, K-Kevin-kun?" Sakuno asked
"Nothing, I just had this idea that probably, since Middle School, you had developed this feeling for him." Kevin said as he stopped laughing but started to smirk at Sakuno.
"H-How did you kno-I mean, What a-are you talking about, Kevin-kun?" Sakuno said defensively. She can't possibly say it to Kevin, "I can't possibly tell him that, he's Ryoma-kun's closest friend here" she thought
"There's nothing wrong in falling for him" Kevin stated.
"Huh?" was Sakuno's only reply
"I mean, there's no such thing as Ryoma-Kate relationship. It's just Kate who insisted on calling herself Ryoma's girlfriend because she's head-over-heels on him and she don't want any girl to be close to Ryoma aside from her" Kevin confessed
"E-Eh?!" Sakuno reacted in disbelief
"I know right that she's an idiot on saying that to others, but since it doesn't matter to Ryoma, I also played along with her scheme." Kevin said as he stood up.
"Ryoma is truly a dense-headed idiot" he sighed as he looked away from Sakuno
"And also her... She's also a dense-headed idiot" Kevin muttered under his breath as he looked at Kate, who was waving to them, carrying their food along with Ryoma who yawned lazily.
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