Kageyama reached the gym 30 minutes early, hoping he would have a change to talk to Hinata before everything. As usual, he ran multiple scenarios in his head, each one increasing his nervousness by a tenfold.

The team came in and there was no sign of Hinata yet. Suddenly, Daichi announced that he might not come in today, having spoken to his mom. They were discussing today's rotation without him.
Kageyama tried his hardest to listen in, although he wanted nothing but to be alone right now, either to scream and beat himself up, or to run all the way to Hinata's house. "C'mon, you're not skipping as well!" Daichi gave him an angry look and Kageyama shrugged at being dragged along to practice, unwillingly.

Kageyama was not doing so great, in the first set, sending tosses that were way too fast, scoffing when the spikers couldn't hit them.

Why is he not coming? What is he planning? He's the one who said he liked me. Was I imagining it, reading too much into it? Does he not like me in *that* way? But he let me kiss him. What the fuck is that dumbass thinking? He caught himself thinking all that in less than 5 seconds, his thoughts running 1000 miles per hour and he glared at the ball in his hands, squeezing it.

"KAGEYAMA! SERVE DAMN IT!" Tanaka yelled and Kageyama snapped out of it, throwing an angry look, hitting a home run, on the top floor of the gym. "My bad" he whispered, looking down not very convincing.

"Hey-erm, Kageyama. If you wanna talk about something, we're here for you, you know that?" Asahi tried his best to reach out to him.

"Huh?" Kageyama lifted his head and glared at him.

"Ah- it's just that, how do I put this, you're always so spot on and today you're, erm, missing a lot..."

"Maybe we should talk about how you should spike my fucking tosses better then!" Kageyama yelled, out of breath and then immediately bowed down to apologize, since clearly Asahi did not deserve any of that. No it's my fault. Not good. Not this again, you fucking idiot. "I'm really sorry."

The player substitution whistle blew and he saw Suga at the edge of the court.

"Don't take this the wrong way. It's clear that something's wrong and I just want you to clear your head before-" Coach Ukai tried his best to explain the situation.

"It's fine. I'm going to get some air." Kageyama interrupted him already heading outside the gym. He heard a whistle again and the match continued, the sound fading away in the background.

He started roaming around the school grounds, heading for the park that they were in last night, almost instinctively. He entered the park, through the door this time and walked around lost in his thoughts. Fucking damn it. I knew this would happen again. I remember the first time he saved me from drowning in my own thoughts, just by saying he'll always be there. It sort of etched in my brain that he always will. Where is he now? Was I too selfish to believe that? Couldn't I be happy with just that? Why did I have to fall for him?

"Kageyama?" Kageyama's eyes flung open and a shiver went down his spine. He turned his head around and saw Hinata sitting on the ground, in the same place he found him the night before.

"You're...here?" he blinked in surprise.

"Sorry I missed our practice, my head hurt like hell and I had these images in my head I couldn't piece together."

Images? "Wait, then what are you doing here?" Crap, what does he remember?

"I dunno, maybe it was a dream, but I felt like coming here would help me remember?" Hinata scratched his head, smiling and slightly embarrassed, inspecting him up and down.

"Ngh, what?" Kageyama felt odd being stared at so intensely and assumed a defensive position.

"Kageyama, were we, erm, here last night?"

Kageyama felt his heartrate increasing. "What do you mean dumbass? You were drunk and I took you home, that's it. Be grateful!" he let out in one breath, barely able to look at him.

"Ah is that what happened? Nothing else?" Hinata tilted his head, staring deeply into his eyes now.

"Not that I know of!" He looked away. Is this better? Should I tell him? Do I let him remember on his own? Maybe we can forget the whole thing and go back to how it was. Aah, but I still wanna confess and let everything out. But if I go through him missing out like that again when he remembers, I won't be able to-.

"OI! Earth to Kageyama!" Hinata got up and slapped his back." It's suspicious that you're thinking so much. Are you ok?"

"Hmpf." He turned his head and scoffed just as Hinata kissed his cheek, lifting himself up on his tiptoes, almost like in a trance, trying to reenact what happened.

"What the fuck-" Kageyama took a step back. Is he deliberately trying to kill me? Because he will.

"I definitely remember doing this last night! Why did I do that? Something definitely happened afterwards."

"Can't you just think about all this in your own head? Like a normal person?" Just like I wreck my brain about every little thing concerning you.

"That's not healthy, bakageyama. I wanna talk about it."

Then fucking remember and tell me you like me again. "Let's go to the gym, they're probably worried."

"Oh yea! Wait a minute. Why are you here, Kageyama? Didn't you go to practice?"

Aaaa stop pushing at me or I'll push you against a tree and make out with you again God that felt so good. He felt blood rushing through his whole body and butterflies in his stomach. "I had to take a break." Kageyama said, in a non-convincing way and Hinata blinked, surprised. "Aaanyway, race you to school?"

"You're on!"

They started running glaring at each other. Hinata could swear Kageyama was smiling underneath the funny grimaces and cold look that he was trying his hardest to put up unsuccessfully. Hinata's mind roamed as well, trying to keep up with the recent events, he felt like staring at Kageyama as they ran would help him remember. He's so pretty. I feel like I've said this before. He caught himself thinking.

They reached the gym falling down, panting heavily. "Yuss! I won. Hope you didn't let me win, Kageyama-kun?" Hinata teased him.

"Why the fuck would I ever do that, dumbass?"

"With you liking me and all." He grinned and Kageyama stared at him feeling his heart stop. "C'mon let's practice. I feel bad for skipping out so long."

"WAIT!" He grabbed Hinata's wrist, looking away and stuttering on his words. "Tomorrow. My house. I'll be home alone! I want to hear your answer and I need to properly say shit like this, you know, dumbass."

"It's a deal. Now, please just toss to me." Hinata smiled at him, his smile beaming even brighter in the sunlight.

"Always!" Kageyama smiled back, in the purest way he could as they ran inside the gym.