Suzumi Pov

Man, test week sure knows how to make you feel a roller coaster of emotions. One moment, you feel on top of the world, thinking you might just become the next Einstein. The next, it all comes crashing down.

This is basically how I felt every other test. Math? Easy. History? Absolutely terrible. Geography? Call me Columbus, I nailed that test. Then the next test would make sure to figuratively sucker punch me to the ground again. Safe to say, I was more than happy to leave that week behind me.

Finally, it had come. After a full week of late-night studying, rehearsing and test-making, the last day had come.

I leaned my chin on my hand, staring into the abyss ahead of me as I tried to recall what "P= V x I" meant. I didn't dare look anywhere else, knowing that looking around me was a sure way to be accused of cheating. In a stroke of genius I remembered, and jotted down the equation with a little smug smile. Looks like the option of a future as the next Einstein was back on the table again.

The bell rang, startling me out of my thoughts. I'd finished ahead of time and was just dozing off, the lack of sleep finally catching up to me. Around me I heard quiet, but joyous cheers and the rustling of paper as everyone passed their answer sheets to the front. After they'd all been collected, the teacher gave the OK for us all to leave.

I waited a while, until the majority of my classmates left the classroom. Then I got up and made my way into the hallway, looking for Chi-chan, who had been taking her test in the classroom next door. I spotted her and together, we started walking towards the gym, where the we would all meet up again.

The last time I'd properly spoken to any of them was a week ago. We had all been doing our own studying and stressing, so the only communication we'd had was via our group chat.

'How do you think you did?' I asked the petite manager.

She frowned and scrunched her nose. 'Can't say it went too well. How about you?'

'I'm feeling pretty good about this one. But watch me say this and completely and utterly fail, so knock on wood.' I said and rapped my fingers against a wooden doorframe.

We chatted some more until we got to an intersection in the hallways. Chi-chan halted and pointed towards the left.

'You go on ahead, I've got some stuff to discuss with the coach about the new training schedule.'

'You sure you don't want me to wait?' I asked.

She smiled and nodded. 'Yeah, I'm sure. Coach can talk for ages if he really wants to.'

'Alright then, see you later!' I said and waved her off.

Then I kept walking towards my destination. When I entered the gym, I saw only Oikawa, who was laying on his back and tossing a ball into the air.

'Hey Kawa, where are the others?'

The setter caught the ball with practiced ease and sat upright. 'They said they had to do something. That they'd be right back.' He glanced behind me, 'Where's Chi-chan?'

'She had to talk to coach, about you guys' new training schedule.' I said as I took off my shoes. After I did that I padded over to him and plodded down next to him. 'Sounds like you guys are in for one hell of a time.'

'Don't remind me, I can already feel my muscles aching at the thought.' He whined.

We waited around for a while, just catching up and telling each other how we think we did on the tests. Oikawa seemed to be unreasonably confident, which rubbed off on me eventually. Maybe I didn't do as bad as I thought.

'They're really taking a long time, aren't they?' I said.

Oikawa reached out to his bag and fished his phone out of the main compartment. One look at it and he started mumbling profusely about plans and how those dumbasses never seemed to stick to them.

'Oh? A plan?' I pried, hoping to get some intel about the plan that somehow involved me. 'Color me intrigued.'

Oikawa swiftly placed his phone into his bag again before he turned to me. 'It's not that interesting really, the four of us just wanted to get some extra practice in, that's all.'

I narrowed my eyes at him, I didn't fully believe that. When it seemed like he wasn't going to add anything to that statement, I relented. Fine then, let him keep his secrets… for now.

'Well, I doubt I'll be a good substitute for them, but I've gotten better at passing the ball back and forth. If you'd like, we could do that for a bit.' I said excitedly, standing up.

'Yeah, think you can take me on?' He said with a devilish grin, following my example and getting up as well.

'You just watch me, I've been practicing in secret. I'm taking you down!'

Oikawa Pov

I had to hand it to her, with these impossible to receive passes she had, she could give a lot of teams a run for their money. I don't know what it was, the angle or the rotation of the ball, but I was breaking a sweat out here. When I saw that she could return the ball just fine, I wanted to give her some harder passes. However, she was making me run all over the place, just trying to send the ball back to her, let alone form an attack of my own.

Her little triumphant smile was both adorable and infuriating.

Nevertheless I persisted. We had both dropped the ball an equal amount of times, giving us a tie. We continued on for maybe ten more minutes. At that point I finally managed to give a pass that was fairly difficult to receive. She gave it her all by running after it, but fortunately for me, she didn't make it on time.

The blonde grumbled for a while about how it wasn't fair before she gave in and declared me the winner.

'Well? Do I get a prize?' I asked while we caught our breath, sitting against the cool gym walls.

'A prize? I didn't know we were fighting for a prize.' She said as she yawned.

'I decided just now, so give it to me.'

The girl beside me weighed her options in silence, while I enjoyed her various facial expressions. Some were more pleasant than others, but at one point I saw a furious blush travel across her cheeks. I could only imagine what was on her mind in that moment. Hopefully good things.

Then her face lit up and she pulled her bag close to her. The blonde reached into her bag and retrieved a Tupperware container.

'I almost forgot!' She exclaimed and turned to me, 'My mom told me to give you these. They're milk bread. She bought it for you, but since you haven't come over in a while, she said I should hand them to you at school. You can have this as your prize!'

'That's so sweet, be sure to thank her for me.'

'You can thank her yourself the next time you come over.' She said with a sweet smile.

We lapsed into a comfortable silence as I ate the milk bread. Not all of it of course.

Only most of it.

Somewhere down the line, Suzumi fell asleep. I should have seen it coming, as her yawns were getting more and more frequent as time went on. What I didn't see coming, was that she'd fall asleep on my shoulder.

You know that feeling when a cat falls asleep on you? Where you feel like you have to wait until the cat wakes up? Because waking it up is wrong on all fundamental levels. That's what I was feeling right now.

I saw no issue in letting her sleep for a bit more, though. I knew for a fact that the other four weren't coming back for a good bit.

The only sounds that could be heard besides her gentle breathing were the soft ticking of the clock mounted on the wall and the faint chattering of students. It felt so peaceful.

I shifted around a bit to get myself in a comfortable position and leaned my head against the blonde's, feeling drowsy.

Maybe I'd take a little nap too.

Hello everyone!

Let me address the elephant in the room real quick. I know I'm a day late, sorry about that. I had some stuff to take care of over the weekend and writing completely slipped my mind.

I made this chapter a bit longer to make up for it~

I really hope you enjoyed it! I think the 'falling asleep on the other' cliché is so cute, I couldn't help myself haha.

Suzumi is literally me when I make tests. I either feel really good about it, or absolutely terrible. No in-between.

As per usual, a ginormous thank you for the positively lovely review. Oikawa is gonna meddle a lot btw, don't you even worry about it lol.