Ryoma broke apart from Jennifer aggressively, pushing her away, wiping his mouth and panting. Jennifer was laughing. "What's up, can't take it anymore?" She walked towards Ryoma, ignoring his resistance, and tugged on his shirt.

Ryoma grabbed Jennifer's hands away from his shirt. "I think someone saw us."

Jennifer turned around. "Oh, the door is opened. But no one will come here, Ryoma, nobody knows this place."

Ryoma stared at the door. He was sure that he saw a person. It was swift and short, but his eyes never betrayed him.

But who? Jennifer was right, no one knows of this room, even if they knew, they won't know how to get in here, so it was impossible for anybody to come in here. The only people who knew were Jennifer and the rest of the team. The others were out of the competition, so they would not come here at all, unless they actually took the trouble to come watch him, which were unlikely. He knew how the others hated him.

Wait, Kevin would come watch him.

Darn him. He must have accepted a bribery from one of his fans and brought her here. Che.

He's going to hit his roommate with a racket when he gets back.

"Stop it, Jennifer, please." Ryoma pleaded as Jennifer's hands were unbuttoning his shirt. "I need to rest for tomorrow's practice."

"Okay, then." The beautiful woman pouted. "Just one more kiss." When she saw how much Ryoma was resisting. "Come on, one more kiss. I'll let you end early in tomorrow's training."

Ryoma groaned as his manager pulled him up for a kiss.

"Goodbye, have a nice rest!" Jennifer said, finally leaving. "Oh by the way." She pulled out a ring from her hands. "This is from your father. I don't want it." She threw it to the young boy and left.

Ryoma caught it. His father was so pathetic. He brought it up close to his face and examined it. The ring was small, but really shiny. It was totally transparent, and it reflected the light all over the room. Ryoma wiped it and smiled. Sakuno would look great on this.

He took out a pink paper with Sakuno's phone number written on it and wrapped it around the ring. One more year, one more year of the contract and he could finally call Sakuno. Three years, it had been three years since he saw Sakuno, and he missed Sakuno, a lot. He did not show his emotions to anyone, only to Kevin, which was inevitable since they were roommates. Slowly and carefully, he put the ring in his pocket.

Ryoma hated this contract. Why did he signed it in the firs place? It's tiresome, it's torturing, it drained away all of his privacy, it's plain horid. The manager of this team was crazy too. Absolutely fanatic. The coach was hundred times worse than Ryuzaki sensei + Inui sempai.

And the fans. Ryoma would rather have a thousand Tomoka. Those horrible, retarded, despicable fans, making up fanfiction about him liking people which he did not even know, when all his life he had only loved Sakuno, and Sakuno only.

He sighed. Too bad, he signed the contract. Just one more year and he could get out of this living hell, and finally see Sakuno.

XxXxX

Sakuno had always dreaded this. She had always feared that Ryoma might not like her. Ryoma had always ignored her, giving her the cold shoulders. Yet she had always held a hope, a small pahetic ray of hope that Ryoma had liked her.

Now, she had to face her fears, the reality. Ryoma did not like her. He was too popular. In high school Sakuno could tell that the whole class were desperately trying to get his attention. She had too many competitors, and she did not stand out. All she ever did was to stand quietly outside the court, silently cheering for him. Of course Ryoma would not notice her. She did not even try to dress up or shout like what Tomo-chan did. Now looking at it, there's no way Ryoma could possibly have liked her. Ryoma...

Maybe she should just give up on Ryoma. It's no use wasting the whole life for someone. Sakuno had already wasted half of her life away. It's time to start anew.

"Kevin, please tell me, where are we going?" She asked the excited blond.

They were on the bus now, heading towards God-and-Kevin-know-where.

Kevin winked. "Somewhere fun. You'll know when we get there."

Sakuno pouted, and blushed when Kevin laughed.

Kevin was a really nice person. He's charismatic, he talks a lot and is able to get you talking along with him as well. He's considerate about the way people would feel, and he smiles a lot. He's completely different from Ryoma, and he's likeable. It was...more comfortable being with Kevin.

"We're here." Kevin announced. He led Sakuno out of the bus, and Sakuno was hit with a big sign with big prints: Disneyland.

Sakuno stared, mouth agape.

"How about staying here for 4 days to finish all the rides here?"

"Are you crazy?" Sakuno laughed. She had never felt so excited before. Well, she had always wanted to go Disneyland. "School starts next week!"

"Three days to prepare is more than enough. Come on, I have two free tickets to Disneyland anyway, I've always wanted to come here. Now's the chance, will you come with me?"

Sakuno blushed, and nodded.

"Great!" Kevin grinned widely, tugging Sakuno towards the ticket office.

XxXxX

Kevin slumped on his bed, contented at today's event. The hotel had nice bed...

Kevin actually wanted to share a room with Sakuno, but Sakuno declined profusely, blushing so deep that Kevin had to stop requesting or else Sakuno's face would burst. But at least their rooms were linked together with a door.

Sigh, Sakuno was a really great girl. Once you get her to open up, she talks a lot. Her favourite band was Linkin Park, she loves Britney Spears songs, she longed to learn the guitar and she loved dark chocolates. She finds kiddyy rides sweet, and squeals at every cute item. She screams a lot in thrill rides, and will subconsciously hug Kevin in horror rides. Kevin still remembered the smell of her hair, and the warmth of her body. She's a really fun girl to be with.

He stared at his phone. This is such a wonderful girl. He's not allowing Ryoma to break her heart. Ryoma's going to explain his behaviour for kissing a girl right after a match!

"Yo Ryoma."

"What do you want, Kevin?" Ryoma sounded tired.

There was a slight pause for Kevin to take a deep breath, then...

"I'm going to whack your head wih a racket!" "I'm going to whack your head wih a racket!" They shouted together at the same time.

"What?" Kevin was confused. "Why do you want to whack me?"

"For bringing a fan into our secret basement."

"It's not a secret basement, it's just a locker room..."

"It's the only place the fans won't bother me after a match and now you brought a fan over we can't enjoy our privacy anymore. She'll tell everyone and soon our locker room will be filled with screaming fangirls." Ryoma said all those calmly and with a single breath.

"Tell me who and why did you kiss in our secret basement?" Kevin asked, ignoring Ryoma.

"Right, so the fan told you that? Soon she's going to tell the whole world..." Ryoma was pissed, Kevin could tell. He was talking a lot more than usual.

"Just tell me who and why did you kiss!" Kevin said, equally pissed.

There was silence.

"Jennifer."

"What?"

"You don't have to shout at the phone, Kevin."

"What were you trying to do, kissing our team mananger? I didn't know that you liked older women."

"I do not like older women."

"Then why did you kiss her."

"I didn't. She pulled me for a kiss."

"And you didn't resist."

"I was too tired to fight. My opponent was a tough guy."

"And you let her kiss you."

"For a while."

Kevin clenched his fists. 'For a while' broke Sakuno's heart. 'For a while' made Sakuno so depressed that she cried on the bus silently, only truly smiling when they reached Disneyland.

"My turn to interrogate. Why did you bring that fan over?"

"She was someone you know."

"Who?"

Kevin opened his mouth to answer, and hesitated. He wanted to keep Sakuno to himself. Telling Ryoma about Sakuno would make Ryoma come and reconcile, and Sakuno would disappear from his life. But he should not keep this away from Ryoma, Ryoma was his friend.

It's just for four days. Kevin would tell him after he had his fun in this four days with Sakuno. After all, Ryoma did something horrible to Sakuno, and Sakuno would not want to face Ryoma for now. Take it as a punishment for Ryoma.

"Well?"

"I...It's no one. I've been tricked."

"Che, you're so gullible. For a moment I thought Sakuno had come back."

Kevin was immediately filled with guilt. He decided to change the topic. "When did the relationship start?"

"With Jennifer?"

"Yeah."

"Three months ago. After she broke up with Daryl." [A/N: Another member in the team.]

"Daryl? What is... is Jennifer dating everyone in the team?"

"Not sure. I think only the regulars."

"Wow, another reason for me not to join the regulars." Kevin gulped. The first reason was the way they trained the regulars. Kevin had saw how late Ryoma came home everyday, how the coach shouted mercilessly at them everyday during training. Kevin had witness the punishment they gave for not being up to expectations, and how little break they spared them. Kevin shuddered at the thought of it.

"Che, coward."

"Coward? Hey I can't stand kissing someone I don't even like."

"Hn. I don't like it either. But it helped me earned an early release from training tomorrow."

"The others will hate you for that."

"I don't care. By the way I'm changing phone number again. Some fan figured out my phone number. Text you when I get it."

"Sure, bye."

Ryoma hanged up without saying goodbye. What a rude child. Kevin stared at his phone. Sakuno was here with him, and he did not tell Ryoma. He liked Sakuno, and now he wanted her all to himself, when Ryoma longed for her the whole three years.

"I'm such a horrible person!" Kevin threw a pillow over his head and covered his face.

XxXxX

End of chapter! Hoped you liked it. Do you want me to include details from the disneyland next chapter, and see exactly how they progressed? If not I'll just skim through the whole part and show more of the others.

Hopefully you liked this chapter and the conversation isn't too boring for you, and that you understood my story so far. Any enquiries feel free to ask. Reviews!