"CHUUYOU!" Bokuto shouted as he opened the room of class 3-7. He was excitedly waving his papers while beaming at Chuuyou's direction.
'Damn it. Why do they always barge in my classroom? Can't they just peacefully wait outside or something?' Chuuyou thought as she stood up. Her other classmate ignored the commotion, far too used to Eri's barging in that another person doing it isn't new to them.
'Good thing it's already our break anyways'
'Well, I can never get angry at that face.'
"Look! I passed everything!" Bokuto shoved the papers to Chuuyou.
"I told you kou!" A smile unconsciously formed into Chuuyou's face as she looked at Bokuto's scores.
"That sleepover was effective after all!" Bokuto laughed. He draped his arm on Chuuyou's shoulder while dragging her to the cafeteria.
"Yeah but I don't wanna do it again..." Chuuyou said, a murderous look replaced her previous smiling face.
"Komi is still mad at you and Yukie?" Bokuto laughed. He removed his arm from its previous position and patted her back.
"The bastard already got this revenge. Can you tell him later that he's a bitch? Oh, and Konoha too I guess…" Chuuyou said in a murderous tone. Bokuto sweat dropped at her expression.
"Sure. I'll tell him!" He laughed as they continued walking to the cafeteria.
· ─────── · ─────── ·
Chuuyou stabbed the carrot in her plate as she glared at Komi on the other side of the cafeteria. Komi returned the glare while also stabbing a food in his plate. Tsukiko, having been tired of the exchange of glares, stood up and whacked the back of Chuuyou's head.
"What the fuck, Kiko?" Chuuyou glared at her, but Tsukiko had a great unhinged expression.
"Stop that. You're scaring some of the students." Sure enough, some students in the line of sight of Komi and Chuuyou's glares looked frightened. Some even finished eating fast and left already. Chuuyou tried to argue with Tsukiko by staring (glaring) at her. Tsukiko won.
"But Kiko. Look at him!" Chuuyou whined while pointing at Komi, who looked a little smug for winning their little staring contest.
"He's gloating. You think I could get away with dumping his body on the Han river?" Chuuyou seriously asked. Takara and Eri facepalmed at this.
"Jeez Chuu, what did you even do to him? I swear you two didn't even know each other last week? And now it's like you two are sworn enemies?" Eri asked while glancing back and forth between them. Chuuyou sighed.
"You remember last weekend that we had a group study at Washio's house? Well, I might have pranked him along with Yukie-chan, their other manag-" Eri interrupted her.
"So you're the one who messed with him in the first place?" She asked with a deadpan expression.
"Yeah but he got his revenge after! He and Konoha hid a bag of beetles on my desk last Monday! They did the same with Yukie-chan!" Chuuyou huffed. She decided to eat the poor, mutilated carrot.
"How the hell?" Takara muttered but she was ignored.
"After that, we got back at them by replacing their shampoos with neon pink hair dye. I got the supplies and Yukie-chan did the changing last Tuesday." Chuuyou decided to take a bite of her food before continuing.
"Then I thought they were finally apologizing because they gave us cookies yesterday, ya know? But the cookies used salt instead of sugar and raisins!" Chuuyou dramatically slammed her hands on the table. Some students in the other tables turned at them in fright.
"Can you imagine? They gave us fucking raisins!" Her eye twitched at the thought.
"You're mad at the raisins but not at the salted cookies?" Eri asked hesitantly. Chuuyou glared at her.
"OF COURSE!" She declared with a huff. Tsukiko shaked her head in disappointment and astonishment.
"I could never get you sometimes." Eri said, deciding that she's already done with Chuuyou's antics.
"Just don't look at him. He'll go away on his own." Tsukiko muttered while glancing at Komi.
"Let's talk about something better, okay guys?" Takara, the voice of reason in their group, tried to calm Chuuyou down.
"Yes please. How about the band tournament that we joined?" Eri followed, desperate to change the topic evident in her voice. Tsukiko returned back to her seat once she noticed that Chuuyou had already calmed down.
"It's 1 more day before Sunday already. I think I'm a bit nervous if I'm being honest." Eri said. She propped her elbows to the table before sighing.
"Yeah me too actually. And this ain't even our first competition." Takara said dejectedly. Tsukiko looked at Chuuyou to ask her.
"Oh don't be nervous guys!" Chuuyou cheerfully said, doing a 180 from her attitude earlier.
"That really helps! Thank you! The solution to not being nervous is to stop being nervous!" Eri sarcastically said while clapping her hands. Chuuyou pouted at that.
"Rude. But I mean, you guys did well on our practices right? So be confident that you can pull that off in our performance." The others started staring at her without saying something. Their stares made Chuuyou feel uncomfortable.
"You know, I question your sanity sometimes because of the dumb shit you usually do but when you say stuff like that..." Tsukiko didn't finish whatever she was saying.
"Chuuyou's weird. Let's all end it at that" Eri then stood up from her seat. The others agreed to her statement before standing up too.
"Honestly guys fuck you."
· ─────── · ─────── ·
tired24/7 | 4:57
Kouu! I won't be walking home with you today
Bokuto slightly pouted at the message he received earlier. He placed the water bottle to his side before typing his reply
hyperowl | 5:36
Aww. But why?
tired24/7 | 5:40
The competition will be in Sunday so we're trying to hash out as much practice as we can
hyperowl | 5:41
Fine : Goodluck on your practice.
tired24/7 | 5:41
You too Kou :
Kou returned his cellphone in his bag. He had an unreadable expression on his face while looking quiet.
"Hey Akaashi" He called the setter, who was a bit weirded out for his calm tone instead of the usual loud one.
"Yes?"
"I feel a little weird." Bokuto confessed.
"Like... Sick weird?" Akaashi asked him in a worried tone. Bokuto glanced around, making sure that it's only the both of them before talking.
"No like, weird weird?" This confused Akaashi more, so he only stared at him.
"I can't explain it, but not exactly a bad kinda weird?" He continued as if he was asking.
"...when did you start feeling... er, weird, Bokuto-san?" Akaashi tensely asked.
"Hmm, well I don't really know when it started. But usually, when I'm with Chuuyou?" Akaashi calmed at that.
"Don't worry Bokuto-san, you'll live!" Akaashi said with a small laugh. He actually smiled and started patting Bokuto's back gently before walking away.
"Akaashi?" Bokuto tried to call Akaashi back.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" Bokuto shouted, but Akaashi ignored him and didn't stop walking away.
"OI!"
· ─────── · ─────── ·
Meanwhile, Chuuyou stared at her phone after receiving Bokuto's last message. She sighed as she placed it in her pocket before she prepared her guitar. Eri, who came back from paying the cashier in the rental music studio they frequent to, casually dropped her stuff next to Chuuyou. Takara and Tsukiko were a bit later than them from being held back in the school. The two of them went ahead to make sure they can have a room.
"You okay?" She asked in a slightly worried tone.
"...yeah."
"Nah-uh. I don't think you're okay there." Eri insisted. Chuuyou sighed again before inwardly debating if she want to say something or no.
"Well, I'm not really sure? I just feel a little disappointed that I won't be walking home with Kou later..." She admitted. Eri processed this before laughing.
"Oh Chuu, you're really dense!" She continued laughing hard after saying that.
"What does that even mean..." Chuuyou pouted but Eri just laughed harder, even doubling over the floor because of laughing too much.
"I hope you choke on your own saliva, Eri."
· ─────── · ─────── ·
When Akaashi joined Fukurodani's Volleyball club last year, he never really got along with his fellow first years. He was a quiet person and he preferred to mind his own business, so he never talked to them unless they were speaking to him first. It was Bokuto who first talked to him and befriended him. Well, he did join Fukurodani because of Bokuto, but he doesn't need to hear that.
Anyways, It was Bokuto who befriended him first, and started hanging out with him. By association, the other second years (or now third years) also started hanging out with him till he ended being friends with them too. Even his friends from other school like Kuroo and Kenma, he knew from Bokuto.
'It's going to be hard for me once they graduate.' Akaashi thought sadly while looking at Bokuto and Konoha, who was teasing Komi about something. He said his goodbyes before stepping out of the subway train. Komi, who was previously sitting on the opposite side of Akaashi, swiftly moved seats and sat in the seat Akaashi was sitting on before.
"By the way, why aren't you walking with Chuuyou today?" Konoha asked Bokuto curiously. Ever since they met, they started walking on their way to school and their home. They sometimes take the subway too with them if they feel like it, but that rarely happens.
"She has band practice." Bokuto shrugged.
"Like the school band? How did she hang out with us everyday if she had a club?" Komi asked.
"No, not the school band. She and her friends formed one." Konoha answered in place of Bokuto. Komi leaned in interest and was about to ask something but the train stopped. He looked at the window and saw that it was his stop already. He sighed before saying his byes to them and left the train.
"Anyways!" Washio said while looking at them. "What do Ishi play in their band?"
"She's the main vocalist and she sometimes uses the electric guitar. Her friend, Miura Eri, is the bass guitarist. Asano Tsukiko is the drummer and Matsuura Takara is the keyboard." Bokuto answered.
"Their genre? "
"They mainly play city pop."
"She doesn't look like the city pop kind of person if i'm being honest…" Konoha muttered before clapping his hands. "But I quite like their band name. It's Aesir. Speaking of Ishi… Why did you two decide to walk instead of taking the subway everyday? I wanted to ask you two but I keep forgetting" Washio sweatdropped at Konoha sheepish admittance but he didn't say anything. He was also curious as to why theft decided to walk. It's at least 45 minutes walk from Bokuto's house to the school compared to the 15 minute subway ride. Excent when it's during rush hours. If it's rush hour, it's usually a 15 minute ride and an hour of waiting for a subway.
"We just like to walk." Bokuto shrugged while looking at the window.
"Are you sure there's no other reason?" Konoha smirked while wiggling his eyebrows. It weirded Bokuto and the others, so they didnt say anything else about it.
"No." Konoha was about to add something but Bokuto suddenly stood up. He looked at the window and cursed when he noticed that it's near their stop already.
"Damn it. This is our stop. See you next week, Washio." Konoha dragged Bokuto out of the subway while he was waving dramatically at Washio. THey soon parted ways at their usual spot in the park before they walked alone to their respective homes.