Love at Greater Heights

Chapter 3

DISCLAIMER: I do not own PoT

AN: Sorry for this chapter being ultra-late, i was sick one week and after that I just couldn't find the time. Sorry! I will try to make the other chapters regular. Hope you enjoy; do review!

"He was present!" I sputtered.

"Yeah, don't be disappointed, Chitose-san is a bit unpredictable," said the orange-haired senpai, as she walked away shooting me a sympathetic smile.

"But I've never lost a bet in my life," I said.

"Sorry about convincing you to go for 'absent'" said Zaizen.

"It wasn't your fault," I said, brushing him off, even though it was partially his fault. I knew I should have gone with my instincts. My instincts which have never ever failed me, why didn't I trust them? Oh yeah, because the tensai, Zaizen Hikaru told me assured me of the blue-haired giant's absence.

But it wasn't exactly Zaizen-san's fault either. Chitose-senpai had told him that he was taking his sister skating. So, technically it was all his Chitose-senpai's fault. I mean, first of all who asked him to present so rarely that people would actually bet on his absence. Who even does that, it's not natural. Just wait till I finally meet him. I would give him a piece of my mind

"Anyway, there's nothing you can do about," said Yuki in her usual no-nonsense way breaking my train of thought "Now, come on, let's go eat some lunch, unless you want to starve the whole day,"

The three of us (Zaizen, Yumi, and I) followed Yuki back to the classroom, with me still wallowing in utter despair and rage at Chitose-senpai, while Yumi was happily lecturing Zaizen about how cheaters will never win while Zaizen pretended to listen adding a grunt of approval here and there.

I honestly attempted to pay attention during classes, but it's kind of hard to care about what provoked the French Revolution or how to find the root of a polynomial when you're wallowing in misery.

As soon as I heard the final bell, I jumped up. Never before have I been so ready to go home and drown my misery by devouring a giant tub of ice-cream or cupcakes or both...yes I am glutton for sweets, it's one of my defining traits.

"Akira-chan, are you in a hurry to get home?" Yumi asked, in a voice that clearly stated that she hoped I wasn't.

"A bit, yeah," I said truthfully, I remembered okaa-san had went to the shops yesterday and bought two jumbo size trays of cupcakes. I would just have to buy loads of ice-cream and my pity party would be perfect.

Yumi's face fell "Oh, that's sad," she said, a sad look on her face.

I instantly felt guilty, Yumi rarely asked me for any favours, plus I suppose my pity part could wait for a bit. "Well, I'm not that busy, it can wait."

Yumi didn't look convinced "Are you sure?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'm really okay, I just needed to go to the supermarket, it can wait, what is it?"

Yumi's face and relaxed "Well, Hikaru (Zaizen) asked me to come for his practice today, and it is so boring to just sit there watching them, in the beginning it's okay but after a while, it's a so boring. I usually ask Yuki-chan but she said she has loads of work to do for tomorrow which is sad, so she couldn't. So, I was wondering if you could come."

"Yeah, sure," I said. Watching tennis club practice didn't sound very interesting but it was always fun to talk to Yuki, she always had the weirdest yet interesting things to talk about.

At tennis practice...

Yumi and I had first paid attention to practice, and then we both pretty much lost interest and started a much more interesting conversation about koala bears. It was at that moment I spotted the blue-haired giant who was the cause for my misery.

"Hey Tooyama-chan, Kurosaki-san!" He greeted as he walked towards us, a grin on his face which I suppose is present on almost every Shitenhouji student's face (Zaizen and Yuki excluded)

"Hey, Chitose-san!" Yumi said happily.

"Wait a minute, how do you know me?" I asked, one eyebrow raised.

"Who doesn't know you? The famed giant of second year, though now that I see you close up, you aren't really that tall."

I swear if I was in an anime this would be the part my veins pop out of my forehead. First, this guy makes me lose a bet and now he was insulting my height. I got up, drawing myself to full height.

"I am very tall naturally," I said in my most intimidating voice which to be honest isn't that intimidating considering I'm as intimidating as a pink butterfly sitting on a marshmallow. "Unlike you, the only reason you appear tall is because of your hair"

He raised an eyebrow, a smirk on his face "Oh really, I'll have you know sans hair I'm 6 feet 4 and ΒΌ inches, what about you?"

"6 feet 3 inches" I said in a small voice. Chitose's smirk widened. I quickly defended myself "But I'm tall person as for you, the zoo called they want you back in your cage by 9."

A small laughed escaped Chitose as his smirk grew larger. He opened his mouth to say something but before he could speak someone ran up to us saying "Chitose-san, Ise-sensai wants to see you immediately."

Chitose turned to the guy. "Yeah, I'm coming," Chitose said. He turned to me with a grin "We can continue this conversation later," he said, proceeding to walk away towards the main school building.

"Well, that was certainly an interesting conversation," stated Yumi.

I shot her a grin, even though I was annoyed I had to admit even I found the conversation amusing.

"Tennis practice got over during your conversation, See you later Akira-chan, bye! Thank you" chirped Yumi as she walked away, probably to find Zaizen.

I walked out of school ready to hit the bakery to buy the goods necessary for cheering-up. As I thought about the day, even though I would never admit in public, I had to admit that the conversation with Chitose without even meaning to somehow cheered me up a lot more than all the cupcakes and tubs of ice-cream in the world.

AN: Hopefully the next chapter will be up soon :P